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Don, dont want to screw your thread up, move it out if it doesn't belong here or in your thread.Food for thought and some observations.So I hear rumblings of things stirring in the this region, I'm a hardware person on many levels. On thing I have noticed the equipment that is being captured by Ukraine forces, a real spread some of the new AK12, Mosins with WW2 optics, lots and lots of AK74 mostly typical Soviet equipment a few M4/AR platforms . One thing I have NOT seen at least on the AK12's is ZERO optics, laser, ETC I do have some real eyes over there right now and they have seen the same thing. Which brings me to this point, I think the Russian troops in the Ukraine now are cannon fodder IMO none of the equipment is the "good" stuff which bring up a question or maybe Putin's strategy, burn up the Ukraine's limited resources and once thats depleted send in the top line units to clean it up.Now I never though Putin would of pushed in as far as he has, anything can happen in the next few weeks but I know the Russians have good equipment but I dont see it turning up with the captured units.
Quote from: wilsonphil on March 15, 2022, 06:44:42 PMDon, dont want to screw your thread up, move it out if it doesn't belong here or in your thread.Food for thought and some observations.So I hear rumblings of things stirring in the this region, I'm a hardware person on many levels. On thing I have noticed the equipment that is being captured by Ukraine forces, a real spread some of the new AK12, Mosins with WW2 optics, lots and lots of AK74 mostly typical Soviet equipment a few M4/AR platforms . One thing I have NOT seen at least on the AK12's is ZERO optics, laser, ETC I do have some real eyes over there right now and they have seen the same thing. Which brings me to this point, I think the Russian troops in the Ukraine now are cannon fodder IMO none of the equipment is the "good" stuff which bring up a question or maybe Putin's strategy, burn up the Ukraine's limited resources and once thats depleted send in the top line units to clean it up.Now I never though Putin would of pushed in as far as he has, anything can happen in the next few weeks but I know the Russians have good equipment but I dont see it turning up with the captured units. ...And they seem to have a lack of night vision equipment.Most of the equipment in this invasion is very seasoned, I agree. BTR-50 and BTR-60 from the 1970's. BMP's at least have the new gun but old chassis. T-72 and T-64 also way old. That truck mounted 40-tube rocket launcher, the BM-21 is late 1960's. I would have thought some of the rocket tubes would have rust holes in them by now.Bigger picture is look at the tactics. Pretty much getting to be close to a total fail. This Army is not one that we couldn't put to bed so fast their head would spin. Poor leadership, dumb, like really dumb tactics. Leaving a convoy parked on a road for a week. Had they done that against us, I'd wager 75% of those vehicles would have been destroyed. When you stop, you disperse. And you move at proper interval, like 100 meters between vehicles, not all parked together. That makes for one big juicy target that anyone in my army would have taken advantage of.No, I agree, this is not what I would have expected from this fearful russian bear. They are more like high school boy scouts than well trained troops.Not sure how this plays out. I personally am just waiting to hear the "N" word. I think we have backed Putin into a corner so far he now is in a fight for his personal survival. A man with little to lose is a dangerous man!