Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Sky News"
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Weird. A Russian secretary in the Foreign Ministry said in the early 2000s that Putin was going to take Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, etc. Putin’s goals were re-expansion of the Russian empire to its “rightful territories”.
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Finns have been training actively in CQM, rifle/pistol/sniper marksmanship, and many other military disciplines for a long time now. As to switching shoulders, one of the senior training Det NCOs in The Unit conducted numerous After-Action interviews with operators who had deployed to Iraq to ask them about how well shooting from the opposite shoulder training worked for them downrange. All of them said they never used it, and just leaned over a bit with their strong shoulder. Many of the drills and techniques they were doing got invalidated in actual combat, and they refined their training accordingly.
I went over there in 2005 and worked with their Sniper Community from then until 2016. I thought I would be showing them all kinds of things I learned from all my Sniper Training and experience from 10 years of active duty in the US, including 3 different Scout Sniper Platoons, LRS, SOTIC MTT, etc. They were way ahead of the power curve, already using doppler Radar ballistic data for Lapua’s projectiles, no longer using old G1 drag models, extremely competent in that skill set.
FiAF pilots are among the best in the world, but extremely quiet about anything they do. Finland likes to be silent and underestimated.
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@fordhouse8b And only 1/3 of Lend-Lease was revealed publicly.
For the Winter War, Finland primarily flew Fokker D.XXI fighters, which were cloth-covered, and still humiliated the Russians in air combat.
After the Winter War, the US sold obsolete Brewster fighters to Finland that didn't have good performance compared to the emerging 1940s fighters.
Finland de-navalized them, which lightened them up, increasing their performance, and used them along with other aircraft to attrit the Russian Air Force with kill ratios that would make the Israelis blush.
Now Finland has been receiving US support with F/A-18C/D Hornets since May 1992, to include various upgrades, missiles, and special weapons even ahead of some of our closest allies (JASSM).
JASSM is a stealth cruise missile with very long range. It gives Finland the capacity to defend in depth, meaning attacks on Finland result in key targets in Russia being hit.
The problem is Russian propaganda will tell Russian people that they are under attack from the fascist Finns, without ever explaining their unprovoked attacks on Finland.
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