Comments by "Reecom98" (@reecom9884) on "The Sun" channel.

  1. Down the center of the street where the rainwater and sewer lines are indicates that explosives gases had accumulated and detonated over pressurizing the sewer line. In modern sewer systems, manholes covers would shoot upward to release the pressure like a pressure relief valve on a hot water heater.
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  2. You can see the large amount of secondary explosions and ammunition going off shooting into the night sky. The Ukrainian military definitely had hit a Russian ammunition depot, unlike the Russian military when they hit a civilian shopping mall saying it was storing Ukrainian ammunition with civilians walking around the shopping mall.
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  3. The Russians talk tough against NATO, but they couldn’t fight against a much weaker neighbor right across their own border even with a surprise invasion.
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  4. South Korea's weapon system are compatible to NATO standards for interoperability since South Korea has been operating with the United States in a mutual defense agreement.
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  5. Running into an abandon destroyed house and concentrating your soldiers in one spot against cannon fire is like standing under a very tall tree in a meadow in a thunder storm.
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  6. The US missile is designed to hit next to the ship and explode underwater. The underwater explosion creates a huge gas bubble that collapses and causes a pressure differential in the water and breaks the back of any ship. Like the famous RAF 617 squadron, the “Dam Busters”, using a small explosive charge and water pressure to destroy the German Dams in WW2.
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  7. For the retreating Russian soldiers, the ammunition took up too much space in their stolen vehicles and they couldn’t fit it between the stolen washing machine or vodka bottles so they just left it.
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  8. The Ukrainian armorer is taking apart a 40 mm grenade and threw away the low velocity power cartridge that launches the grenade. He removed the gold colored fuse cap from the fuse assembly and drilled a hole and inserted a white colored rod to hit the fuse igniter to detonate the grenade at a lower force when dropped from the drone instead of being fired from a grenade launcher and added 3D printed plastic case and fins. Necessity is the mother of inventions.
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  9. It looks like the Soviet era BMP-2 was taken out of Russia’s long term storage by the amount of rust. They had to replace the engine and transmission just to drive it out of storage. They drove out of long term storage, drove it to the railroad depot, drove it to the front line, and then abandoning it; accounting for the 26 hrs runtime on the engine.
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  10. The Ukrainians used “Shock and Awe” attack on the Russian trench line. They used fast moving wheeled Humvees, instead of tracked APCs or IFVs, to quickly cover open ground quicker right up to the Russian trench line without having any preparatory mortar or artillery fire to suppress the Russian fire in the open field and warn them of an attack.
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  11. Weaponised drones have become an essential weapon. A Russian Beriev A-50 (code name: Mainstay) Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) cost of about $330 Million was heavily damaged by two weaponised drones in an airbase in Belarus. “Russian military aircraft blown up near Minsk…” 27 Feb 2023 Reuters.
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  12. In the horror movies the victim picks up the phone and realizes the killer is in the house. The Russian BMP fires its cannon and the dismounted soldiers shoot around the perimeter, not realizing the threat is from above. It’s like a horror movie for the Russians.
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  13. The Ukrainian drone operator must have been a billiards player; he banked his shots perfectly to fall into the dugout by hitting off the edge and into the holes.
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  14. It looked like a kill, but it was not miles away. The center of the cross hairs was directly on the target. There was no sight adjustment used to compensate for the horizontal deviation of the projectile trajectory from the intended point of impact due to wind drift or Coriolis effect by using the wind marker or the bullet drop elevation marker.
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  15. Its a Russian cultural thing that is hard to overcome even with the truth.
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  16. Even at a Ukrainian soldier‘s funeral the Russian Orthodox Church priest shows no empathy for the fallen soldier, just hatred.
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  17. The Ukrainians are using manual analog technology developed in WW2 to counter the Iranian Kamikaze drones. The circular rings on the front sight are calculated for speed, range, and altitude of the flying drones to allow the gunner to lead his bullets.
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  18. In the UK in 1993, 10-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables abducted, tortured, and murdered two-year-old James Bulger. They kicked, stamped, and threw things at him, and finally dropped an iron bar on his head. Somethings never change over time.
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  19. Banksy's perfect satire on Putin, who is a black belt in judo. Putin forgot that in judo, it's not the age or size of your opponent but his skill and commitment.
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  20. In combat you try not to lose control by getting angry. The Russian soldier got angry at the Ukrainian sniper and stood fully silhouetted getting ready to fire an RPG at night with only the crude iron sight against a sniper with a night scope. He barely fired the RPG before getting hit.
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  21. Like my mum always says; “When you leave the house close the door!”
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  22. Wagner took over a year of heavy fighting in Bakhmut to gain a few meters and they drove into Russian in mere hours without resistance.
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  23. The purpose of a recon is gather intelligence on the enemy’s location and strengths in a given area. You use stealth to probe the location and the enemy’s fire kill zones, without revealing yourself to the enemy. In WW2 they would some times do a provoking recon by firing small weapons on the possible enemy location and have them fire back revealing their lines of fire. When an enemy is doing a recon on your position, you hold your fire to prevent them from knowing your company size and weapons location. You wait until they come close to your position where you can wipe them out without them reporting back. The Russian recon team was poorly trained, walking in an open field trail and walking upright and silhouetted against the tree line.
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  24. By the size of the explosion and accuracy, the Ukrainians are using the Revolver 860 combat drone dropping up to eight 60 mm mortar shells donated to them from Taiwan late last year. It can fly for 40 minutes up to 20 km with a load of eight 60 mm mortar shells. It can be customized to carry heavier mortars (81 mm or 120 mm) but at a reduced range and time.
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  25. The Russians are using assault guns (AK) and machine guns (PKM) with iron sights for aiming at night using the ship’s search light to locate the sea drones. The Ukrainian “Kamikaze” sea drones travels at 90 kph, carries an 850 kg bomb, is low in the water and is painted black for a night attack; it’s no wonder that the Russians couldn't hit any thing!
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  26. For the Russian military just hitting the ground in Ukrainian territory is counting as hitting the target. In the video there was nothing there but empty hedge row with a road. And one high precision missile hit an empty field.
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  27. It looks like a Russian live fire training exercise. The Russian lightly armored fighting vehicles and dismounted troops firing their anti-tank weapons are lined up in a row normally done during a live fire field training exercise, to make sure no one is in the line of fire. The Russian soldier next to the soldier firing the RPG has a white armband and white patch on his helmet normally indicating a range safety officer for the training excise.
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  28. On one had if it was an accident, it shows poor design, maintenance, training, and leadership. The Moskva was sailing in a storm and not in active firing mode, so there was a very slim chance for a fire to start in a weapon magazine. On the other hand, if the Ukrainian Neptune cruise missile, which was developed by Ukraine, struck the Moskva during a storm and the Moskva was unable to detect or defend it’s self, it shows badly on the Russian navy. If the Russian missile cruiser Moskva sinks by either an accidental fire in the ship’s magazine or by a hit by Ukraine’s Neptune cruise missile, which was developed by Ukraine, it’s a devastating blow to Russia. The Russian reported that the entire crew was evacuated from the warship. Why evacuate the entire crew? Why no damage control team left on board to keep the ship from sinking and maintaining a tow watch for the tugboats’ towlines? The only reason to totally abandon ship is because the warship is in immediate danger of capsizing and sinking.
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  29. The Russian convict soldier is 57 and given a military contract to leave prison if he fights in Ukraine. He gets to Ukraine kills his comrades and runs away. Sounds like a harden convict who is out for himself and figured his chances of surviving is better as a POW then surviving his military contract and be given a pardon to return to Russia.
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  30. The HIMARS were not aimed to strike a key bridge support to take down the whole bridge, but targeted for the bridge deck. The precision of the HIMARS missiles allowed the bridge decking to be targeted in a checkerboard hit pattern. This weakens the bridge to prevent heavy military traffic (tanks, armored vehicles and transport trucks), but allows lighter civilian vehicle traffic (cars and trucks) to still be able to use the bridge.
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  31. In a war, equipment losses are expected. The Western equipment is designed to save the lives of soldiers, military equipment can be easily replaced;it takes at least 18 years for a soldier to grow up and be trained to fight.
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  32. The Russian soldiers were casually walking down the street in a war zone like they were strolling down Red Square making it so easy for the Ukrainian drone hunters to see where they were going.
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  33. KARMA!
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  34. The scary part of this is this wasn’t a hurricane or typhoon, but a heavy seasonal rain. If it had been a hurricane or typhoon the TV weather reporters would have warned the people of the impending disaster. The TV weather reporters warned of very heavy rain, which most people believed that it wouldn’t be so bad. Global Warming made a normal seasonal rain much worse!
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  35. The video showed the Leopard Training Center of 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade of General Stanislaw Maczek in Świętoszów, Poland. The Leopard training center has simulator training with computer generated combat scenarios that will be encountered in the battlefield with motion control in a Leopard tank compartment like fighter pilots do in flight training simulator.
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  36. Calling the Russian air base Engels-2 for the strategic nuclear carrying supersonic Blackjack bombers a high-security base after being attacked by slow flying propeller driven Ukrainian “Kamikaze” drone that sounds like a flying “Moped” is an oxymoron!
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  37. The first Russian soldier knew that there was a drone overhead and ran through the kill zone before the drone operator could call in a mortar strike. He was halfway through the kill zone before the drone operator could detect movement and zoom in. The second group of Russian soldiers actually slowed down to a walk in the kill zone, allowing the Ukrainian mortar to fire one lucky round in the known targeting coordinates.
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  38. The Russians couldn't detect the drone flying overhead from the Tor-M2DT which is an air defense system?
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  39. It's like a Russian slaughterhouse advertising for "Fresh Meat" to volunteer to walk in.
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  40. Before the HIMARS reached Ukraine, the Russian military propagandist boasted that their state of the art air defense systems (S-300, S400) would be able to detect them at long distances and shoot them down. It looks like the countries that bought the S-300 and S-400 air defense systems should ask for their money back.
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  41. The F-16 has been in production almost for fifty years and is in the air force inventory of more than two dozen countries. There are about a dozen countries with multiple squadrons of F-16 able to give some of their F-16s to Ukraine. The former Eastern Block countries that are now part of NATO have very few Soviet era fighters left to give to Ukraine and are equip with F-16 or other Western made fighter jets.
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  42. The BTR-82 was on a suicide run going against the M2A2 Bradley IVF!
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  43. The Russian mobilized conscript “Cannon Fodder” in the armored vehicles was caught between a minefield being cleared by a single tank with a mine plow and cluster munitions dropping on them. If they drove off the path they hit a mine, if the stayed they will be hit by a cluster bomb; most of them got out of their armored vehicles and ran for their lives.
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  44. Another training video by the Russian MOD. There is no indication of any artillery craters or any signs of a battle front line. The attack helicopters were firing short-range unguided rockets.
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  45. The Russian tourists in the Crimean Peninsular were told if they want to return to Russia they would have to drive through the combat zone along the Sea of Azov north to the land bridge back to Russia; a fun summer holiday.
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  46. If a killer invaded your home and asked for ceasefire to take a smoke break, what idiot would agree to it?
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  47. You can see the NATO training the Ukrainian Bradley IFV crew was taught. The Bradley IFV was firing and moving back and forth. It’s harder to hit a moving target in limited visibility. By moving, even back and forth while firing, it makes it harder for the Russians to hit you if they try to fire an ATGM at your muzzle flashes.
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  48. The Russian military isn't even ready for Ukrainian drones attacks!
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  49. The signs point to Russian mobilized soldiers setting the HQ on fire, not wanting to be “Cannon Fodder“. If it was done by Ukrainian sabotage, they would have planted explosives to cause the most damage in the shortest time before leaving. The fire appears to have been set with some sort of flammable liquid, which has happen in Russia before at recruitment buildings.
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  50. The Russian A-50 early warning aircraft and the IL-22 communication plane were flying in safe airspace over the Sea of Azov out of range of anti-aircraft system. The American Patriot missile systems contains three large equipment trailers, the detection radar, the command center and the missile launcher. Each of these is bulky and hard to move. The Ukrainians moved these bulky systems up to the front lines without being detected and then disassemble them and moved them out of harms way. The most modern Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system is incapable of doing this and the Patriot system is from the 1986 era.
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