[Caucasus] Israel is blaming Armenia, Iran and Russia for the current escalation in the conflict between it and Azerbaijan

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/alI29

More cope about western vehicles getting owned by mines in a buisness insider article by some dipshit called Ryan Pickelhead

Some of Ukraine's Western-made vehicles are getting 'killed' on the battlefield, but it's not as much of a win for Russia's forces as it was. By Ryan Pickrell

It's the usual spiel about superior western technology, interior slavic brainpan regarding human life with as much value as blades of grass because Russians grow like weeds, cope over the fact western vehicles keep getting knocked out of service doesn't actually mean they're destroyed

Honestly reminds me of the Nazi Kraut cope where their superior nazi tanks kept getting knocked out - or broke down because they can't build tanks for shit - and had to get hauled back to repair facilities with it getting to a point there were more shit needed to be repaired than they could actually field towards the end of the war. like @Tervell@hexbear.net has mentioned priorly, your fancy lad tanks ain't shit if it costs too much to field.

To Train Ukrainian Troops, the Danish Military Had To Borrow Leopard 1 Tanks From Three Museums Is this one of those times where someone is too stupid to notice this just makes them look bad or something or maybe they're completely embracing the shitty clickbait farm, write whatever nonsense, as long as it gets enough outrage then job well done.

These craggy Danish veterans formed the training cadre and, reinforced by some retired Danish tankers who volunteered to return to government service, set up shop at the Klietz training ground west of Berlin. They were joined by German instructors who had experience on German army engineering vehicles, which share the Leopard 1’s chassis.

The Ukrainian trainees began arriving in May. According to a Danish military release, the Danes assumed responsibility for the first phase of their training—the basic stuff. The Germans took over for the second phase. Translators and contractors from German industry assist both phases.

Having hired instructors, the consortium also needed vehicles for the trainees to practice on. While the Germans have made use of their turretless training vehicles—which previously trained drivers of engineering vehicles—the final stages of instruction, including gunnery, require combat-capable tanks.

Again, the Leopard 1A5’s age posed a problem. Most of the tanks actually belonged to German firm Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft—and had been sitting in a warehouse for two decades. They needed refurbishment.

So the consortium asked for help ... from Danish museums. Apparently the handful of Leopard 1A5s on display in museums were in better condition than were the nearly 100 in storage. Three museums lent the consortium six working tanks “so that the training of the Ukrainians could begin immediately,” the Danish military stated.

Four months later, workers at German tank-maker Rheinmetall are turning over refurbished—practically new-looking—Leopard 1A5s at an accelerating rate. -Ten are in Ukraine, while others have joined the museum tanks in Klietz in order to bolster the training effort.

Yes "accelerating rate" lol. They really, really look down on their readers don't they? Wow amazing out of 100 tanks in storage they managed to get 10 after almost 6 months.

"How do we make a terribly embarrassing story something actualy heartwarming about something something democracy and freedom?"

"Ah yes lets... checks notes repeatedly make the point that the shit consortium promised almost 200 tanks but most of them are in fact in such bad condition they're literally worse than actual existing museum pieces."

So archive is still fucking up for me on both the .is link and the .ph link so I'll still be posting raw links.

From: https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/09/05/russian-unimpressed-us-bradleys/?expand_article=1

"Russian Engineers Unimpressed by Captured US-Made Bradleys" by Joe Saballa

Russian engineers decoding captured Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) in Ukraine were unimpressed by the features and capabilities of the US-made armored vehicles.

Roman Khromov, Russia’s deputy executive director for state defense procurement and military-technical cooperation, told state-run RIA Novosti that the country carried out a “full-scale study” of the samples captured in the Northern Military District.

The examination reportedly found that the American Bradley is not an analog of Moscow’s BMP-3.

For the record I've also heard U.S soldiers and officials shit-talk BMPs and said anything Russia made is not an analog of the Bradley because the Bradley won in every conflict its been in (they were talking about Iraq and Israel lmao)

According to Khromov, the US-made vehicles are “significantly inferior” to the Russian IFVs in firepower, mobility, maintenance, and ease of use.

The Russian engineers claimed that the BMP-3 can overcome water obstacles while moving – a capability that the BAE Systems vehicles “cannot do” without prior preparation.

They also said electronic components are a weak point of the American IFVs, and a failure can cause the armored vehicles to completely lose their ability to fire.

Detailed Comparison

BAE Systems’ Bradley IFV is a lightly armored, fully tracked military vehicle that provides soldiers with added mobility, firepower, and protection from artillery and small-arms fire.

It features the latest digitized electronics for improved situational awareness, network connectivity, and communication within the US Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Team.

Also known as a Kampfgruppe

Russia’s BMP-3, meanwhile, is described as an amphibious vehicle that can engage armored ground and air targets while stationary, on the move, or afloat.

Insert Pentagon Wars movie quote here

It is equipped with an automated fire control system and a 100-millimeter gun.

According to Russian military expert Alexey Leonkov, the weapon mounted on the Bradley is less powerful than the gun installed on the Russian vehicles.

He further stated that their anti-tank capabilities are completely different, suggesting the Russian vehicle is better than the US-made vehicles, which only have two TOW-2 anti-tank missile systems.

Insert another Pentagon Wars movie quote here

Also twitter image from the article here showing an image of a bunch of Russians posing in front of a captured in pristine condition Bradley thanking Zelenskyy for his gifts.

https://twitter.com/JohnEdgarCarter/status/1679040072006483970?s=20

Captured Bradleys

In June, Russia announced that it had captured several Western-supplied Leopard tanks and Bradley IFVs in Ukraine.

Dutch open-source analysis website Oryx, which monitors losses in the ongoing Ukraine war, said at least 52 M2A2 Bradleys have been destroyed or captured since the highly-scrutinized counter-offensive began.

Some military observers even described Ukraine as a graveyard for the American fighting vehicles.

The article finishes out with a YTvideo showing off the Bradley in a positive light so you can at least get a general idea of how they look, sound, and act in the field. Also I'm not responsible for any psychological damage you get from reading YouTube comments

Fears of peace talks with Putin rise amid US squabbling - The Hill

Putin and a young physicist from Sarov came up with a formula for the ideal wife

The formula for finding an ideal wife was unexpectedly deduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin and a graduate student at the branch of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Maxim Vyalkov. At a meeting with young scientists in Sarov, the issue of searching for dark matter in the Universe and neutrinos - chargeless particles with extremely low mass, the study of which makes it possible to detect effects beyond the standard physical model of the world - was discussed. But the dialogue unexpectedly turned to the formula for finding the ideal wife.

I could swear somebody posted a list of Ukrainian forced "conscriptions" in the past few days, but I can't find it anywhere. Does someone have a link?