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Oh this is gonna be interesting

BudmanTX said:

Oh this is gonna be interesting

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Pentagon Adds 40 Armored Patrol Boats to Latest Ukraine Military Aid Package

doublejj said:

Pentagon Adds 40 Armored Patrol Boats to Latest Ukraine Military Aid Package
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Pentagon Adds 40 Armored Patrol Boats to Latest Ukraine Military Aid Package - USNI News

The United States will send 40 armored riverine boats to Ukraine as part of the latest assistance package. The riverine boats are part of a $400 million aid package announced Friday. It’s the second time the U.S. is sending riverine boats to Ukraine as part of ongoing assistance in response to...

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Sammy ain't alone the UK and others have been sending similar craft and the Germans gave them a shitload of bridging equipment.

If they landed where reported, the Russians have largely left the area south of Kherson city and their artillery across the river could flank the Russians coming to oppose them. Looks like they could transport those Humvees and dune buggies with Javelins that can take on tanks and could move along the shore of the river under their guns and drones on the other side. This will mean the Russians could get it from both ends at once, west and east, if they attack further east as expected, it will force the Russians to keep forces in the exteme west, when they will be needed elsewhere. These guys working their way up the south side of the river bank under the cover of their guns could go all the way to the dam, being supplied and reinforced continuously on their advance from across the river as they take and secure bridgeheads. Meanwhile a massive attack driving to the sea of Azov and Metropol on the eastern end will tie down the Russians and force them east to meet it.

There is still no rail traffic over the damaged Kerch bridge and the costal rail line further east is under Ukrainian fire control already.

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Pentagon Adds 40 Armored Patrol Boats to Latest Ukraine Military Aid Package
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Pentagon Adds 40 Armored Patrol Boats to Latest Ukraine Military Aid Package - USNI News

The United States will send 40 armored riverine boats to Ukraine as part of the latest assistance package. The riverine boats are part of a $400 million aid package announced Friday. It’s the second time the U.S. is sending riverine boats to Ukraine as part of ongoing assistance in response to...

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This is really getting interesting, oh this is gonna be good

The Russians have turned the captured city of Melitopol (Zaporizhzhia Oblast) and its vicinities into a solid military base

Source: Ivan Fedorov, the Mayor of Melitopol, on Telegram

Quote: "The Ruscists have turned the captured Melitopol and Melitopol district into a solid military base.

Just over the last week:

• Convoys of invaders arrive in Melitopol both from Kherson and from the temporarily occupied city of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
• Fortifications are being built around the perimeter of Melitopol.
• Military personnel settle in occupied homes, schools and kindergartens. Military equipment is placed in residential areas.
• Civilians are prohibited from approaching the vicinities of Melitopol.
• Buses with residents of self-proclaimed DNR [Donetsk People’s Republic] were delivered to Melitopol’s school No.22 today. Grad multiple rocket launch systems were placed in the courtyard of the educational institution.
• In the village of Plodorodne, Kadyrovites [soldiers from the Chechen Republic who fight as a part of the Russian Armed Forces – ed.] are operating; they have hung flags with the image of their leader everywhere.
• In Mykhailivka and Zarichne settlements, searches are being conducted; the invaders check the houses and ask if there are any men [hiding].
• In the Pryazovsk, Novovasylivka and Olexandrivka communities, they break into empty houses and occupy them.
• In Kyrylivka, they settled in captured recreation centres.
• In the village of Sheliugy near Kyrylivka, they drove on tanks, settled in a kindergarten and blocked access to the forestry."

Mount up boys !

BudmanTX said:

This is really getting interesting, oh this is gonna be good

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I think we are gonna see some fancy tactics and strategy as they work their way along the riverbank being continuously supplied and reinforced by the river. Drones and artillery across the river will cover them as they go, and it will be HIMARs o'clock for any large force sent to deal with them. Boats and light vehicles can do it until they can get a pontoon across and use the Russian sections they damaged too. Boats can allow them to leapfrog along the river bank too and drones can scout the way. These kinds of boats can be transported by rail from Europe and for all we know they could have been building Higgins boats, WW2 tech is good enough for this job. You can even make landing craft from ferroconcrete, chicken wire, rebar and cement, it's been done.

If ya wanna build a wood gasifier to run a generator Uncle Sam can tell ya how, in this case FEMA, the US army has a huge data base with manuals on everything imaginable online for free. If a Ukrainian can read English, they can make these and a variety of DIY woodstoves from scrap laying around. It can get ya through the winter and can run a generator if no fuel is to be found or is too expensive. These uses pellets most use regular wool and produce charcoal which can be used to fuel them when the gas is driven off.

Here is a guy who built one from FEMA plans. Not exactly ecofriendly, but it is meant for an emergency.


Amazing homemade gasifier uses wood pellets to run generator -- renewable alternative energy video
2,266,505 views Mar 16, 2013
Gasifier uses wood pellets to create flammable mixture that a generator can run on without gasoline. This video shows how it was constructed, how it works, and how to use it from start to finish. Great project for anyone looking for alternative energy or wanting to live off the grid.

Just for some clarification -- I mention a rheostat that I ordered; I ordered a 25w 20 ohm rheostat. That rheostat will effectively give me the control to adjust the voltage to the blower motor from 12v down to nearly 0v

Belaruski Hajun, an independent Belarusian military monitoring media outlet has reported that they received photo proof that a Russian MiG-31K interceptor jet, which was flying over Belarus, escorted with a fighter jet, conducted a training flight while carrying a X-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile.

Hopefully this isn’t a “ Kherson “ training mission.

If you wanna see an example of Russian bots and trolling check this Twitter search on ukraine. They've been going nuts with FTX disinformation for a last couple of days, the volume is staggering and expect to see it on foxnews. There is no twitter access in Russia and Elon isn't doing much to clean it up.

Good Job Komrade Elon - VLAD

Today’s funny ….



Russia has banned the traffic of vessels that have not been loaded in Russia through the Kerch Strait.

Source: Russian state-owned news agency TASS, citing a source in the Ministry of Transport of Turkey

Details: Russia has banned the traffic of vessels loaded outside the Russian Federation through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov.

Propagandists were informed about this in the Directorate-General of Maritime Affairs under the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey.

Why this is important: Perhaps, the Russians are afraid of another explosion of the Kerch Bridge.

*insert laughter.

Grain can become ” explosive “ …… hmmmmm

Budzbuddha said:

Belaruski Hajun, an independent Belarusian military monitoring media outlet has reported that they received photo proof that a Russian MiG-31K interceptor jet, which was flying over Belarus, escorted with a fighter jet, conducted a training flight while carrying a X-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile.

Hopefully this isn’t a “ Kherson “ training mission.

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The numbers don’t add up. Weapon mass 2000 kg, warhead mass 500 kg, solid fuel, optimistically 1400 kg and a claimed range of 2000 km and speed of 4 km/s. That mass fraction of solid fuel won’t generate those numbers unless they’re using something weird and probably toxic like beryllium fuel.

Some are said to have been used in this theater. They haven’t been game-changers.

Budzbuddha said:

Today’s funny ….

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Russia has banned the traffic of vessels that have not been loaded in Russia through the Kerch Strait.

Source: Russian state-owned news agency TASS, citing a source in the Ministry of Transport of Turkey

Details: Russia has banned the traffic of vessels loaded outside the Russian Federation through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov.

Propagandists were informed about this in the Directorate-General of Maritime Affairs under the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey.

Why this is important: Perhaps, the Russians are afraid of another explosion of the Kerch Bridge.

*insert laughter.

Grain can become ” explosive “ …… hmmmmm

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the dreaded thermobaguette flour-air explosive

cannabineer said:

the dreaded thermobaguette flour-air explosive

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Obviously the orcs missed the class on condensed High Explosives …..

Bury some large bale bags loaded with RDX / Hexogen deep in the grain hold ….. ferry thru and oopsie.

Budzbuddha said:

Obviously the orcs missed the class on condensed High Explosives …..

Bury some large bale bags loaded with RDX / Hexogen deep in the grain hold ….. ferry thru and oopsie.

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What keeps me from daydreaming about such things is that the crew of the grain ships aren’t combatants.

Waiting for Ukraine to borrow a scene right out of Apocalypse Now ….. Ride of the Valkyries