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It's an inert training projectile (blue) re-mounted on expended brass (empty). Most anyone who passed through the A-10 community got one as a farewell gift of some sort, usually engraved.

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Correct. It's a empty/spent casing holding a PGU-15/B TP (Target Practice) projectile.

There's also:
PGU-14/B API (Armor Piercing Incendiary) (DU - depleted uranium)
PGU-13/B HEI (High Explosive Incendiary)

Britain potentially giving Ukraine Harpoons

ABATTBQ11 said:

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Britain potentially giving Ukraine Harpoons

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Which type?

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#Ukraine: Footage from #Mariupol showing a Ukrainian BTR-4E APC attacking two Russian T-72 tanks from the rear with a 30mm cannon. Apparently, both tanks received serious damage. pic.twitter.com/7ecGv5AwkK

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 7, 2022

Are some of those rounds deflecting off? Is that what we are seeing?

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That is how you build a fire under somebody's ass!

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Tracer rounds bouncing off. The other 4 of 5 or whatever ratio didnt. Nice.

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#Ukraine: Footage from #Mariupol showing a Ukrainian BTR-4E APC attacking two Russian T-72 tanks from the rear with a 30mm cannon. Apparently, both tanks received serious damage. pic.twitter.com/7ecGv5AwkK

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 7, 2022

Are some of those rounds deflecting off? Is that what we are seeing?

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That is how you build a fire under somebody's ass!

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Tracer rounds bouncing off. The other 4 of 5 or whatever ratio didnt. Nice.

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Maybe. It appeared you could see the impacts of the rounds that missed and I only saw it on tracer rounds.

Israel's inclusion on this list is interesting. If it's an official mutual defense alliance then you basically have the building blocks to avoid a lot of extraneous NATO politics by working directly with those countries who have resources and not the LoL poors. Also presents possibilities with regard to Israel if it is a true defensive alliance. Possibilities are intriguing.

Interviewed by Habertürk, President Zelensky states that 7 countries are ready to issue security guarantees for Ukraine would there be a peace treaty:

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 7, 2022

Russia using MLRS with thermite incendiary munitions again, this time to bombard Popasna. As bad if not worse than white phosphorus. https://t.co/F3ge25RNdv

— Jimmy (@JimmySecUK) April 7, 2022

Russia is planning to destroy #Ukraine by making it unlivable. For over 40 days, Russian forces deliberately targeted critical energy infrastructure, from power plants to oil, fuel and gas production and distribution. The map shows targets as of last week. /1 pic.twitter.com/tix9YuFAH8

— Mattia Nelles (@mattia_n) April 7, 2022

Politico: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delays tank delivery to Ukraine.

According to people familiar with the deliberations, Scholz is delaying a final decision over whether to give Ukraine around 100 tanks to fight Russia, despite pressure from several other top officials.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 7, 2022

30 miles west of Luhansk, barely inside the Luhansk region?

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Israel's inclusion on this list is interesting. If it's an official mutual defense alliance then you basically have the building blocks to avoid a lot of extraneous NATO politics by working directly with those countries who have resources and not the LoL poors. Also presents possibilities with regard to Israel if it is a true defensive alliance. Possibilities are intriguing.

Interviewed by Habertürk, President Zelensky states that 7 countries are ready to issue security guarantees for Ukraine would there be a peace treaty:

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 7, 2022

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Both Israeli and turkey on the same side is no small accomplishment.

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I imagine not every round has a tracer on it but I could be wrong. The rear hull armor is only going to be an inch or two thick at most so HEAT or APFSDS could penetrate and kill the engine or start a fire, disabling the vehicle.

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SOP for the USA is every 5th round is a tracer. I have heard of some countries doing anywhere from 3-6

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For machine guns yes, for larger slow firing cannon it is not. It's all or nothing generally speaking. The cannons on APCs are not spray and pray but are treated as single shot weapons. Similar to our own 30s and 25s which every round has a tracer component.

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Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel way back in 1949. They work together on defense projects extensively.

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Their relationship has fallen quite a ways down. They aren't on good terms now.

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Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel way back in 1949. They work together on defense projects extensively.

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Yeah, but Erdogan has taken Turkey away from the secularism enforced by the Turkish military and has embraced Islam. Lately, Turkey has not been a friend of Israel to the degree they have in the past.

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Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel way back in 1949. They work together on defense projects extensively.

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They used to under Ozal when Turkey was still proud of its secularist heritage. Not so much since the Islamist Erdoan took power.

"Ukrainian bomb technicians discovered the device, called the POM-3, last week near the eastern city of Kharkiv, according to Human Rights Watch, a leading human rights group, which has reviewed photos provided by Ukraine’s military." 5/https://t.co/v2ssZ02Vsl pic.twitter.com/zp8SGcFUEi

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) April 8, 2022

A land mine that can detect when people walk nearby. Russians are pure evil.

A few factors to consider with Turkey. It borders Georgia, Armenia, and Bulgaria, all former Soviet bloc countries. It owns the Bosporus so peace in the Black Sea is very important to its economy. Georgia and now Ukraine, just across the Black Sea, have been invaded by Russia in the last ten years. And Turkey has some large pipelines from the Caucasus and Middle East either existing or planned. Last, if Russia is making this a holy war on behalf of an increasingly muscular and expansionist Eastern Orthodoxy, and Turkey is increasingly Islamic, they have religious reasons to fear or hamper Russia.

That's economy, security, and religion. Any one of those can make for strange bedfellows, and Turkey has always been a little hard to predict in that respect, even back hundreds of years.

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Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel way back in 1949. They work together on defense projects extensively.

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Their relationship has fallen quite a ways down. They aren't on good terms now.

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You are correct, I hadn't realized the shift since 2010ish.

Syria and the Kurds is a complicated issue for Russia, Turkey, and Israel.

The most recent and perhaps influential issue was the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020. Turkey hates Armenians maybe more than Kurds. Russia backed Armenia, Turkey backed Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan won using a lot of the same drone tactics Ukraine is using.

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Russia is planning to destroy #Ukraine by making it unlivable. For over 40 days, Russian forces deliberately targeted critical energy infrastructure, from power plants to oil, fuel and gas production and distribution. The map shows targets as of last week. /1 pic.twitter.com/tix9YuFAH8

— Mattia Nelles (@mattia_n) April 7, 2022

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Kinda par for the course in war if we're being honest.

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He's pleading for weapons. He's saying he can't find more 7.62 magazines, which I find crazy. Going into battle with only 3 mags and one grenade. Dude wants to fight. Arm him.

Give us some fucking weapons please. We will not win with trash weapons . We need m-16’s M-4’s , ACOG’s , red dots, ammunition, ammunition, ammunition, javelins, fucking old AT-4s I know are probably in some storage unit. Frag grenades, and if not… may as well bring Body bags pic.twitter.com/Zy4ujI4oX3

— James Vasquez (@jmvasquez1974) April 8, 2022

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I mean, I get it, but he signed up to go fight for a notoriously corrupt former Soviet state that's the poorest in Europe. What exactly did he expect?

Matches the SWIR data from today's Landsat-9 pass over Mariupol. Much of the fighting seems clustered around the southwest and the port.https://t.co/EkiVcKVGst

— Mac Kramer (@CascadiaMac) April 7, 2022

Full thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1512081319701884939.html

MYKOLA: „I took off my address plate because some friends told me that they have some lists. I don’t know where they got this lists from. They came 6 times for me. My nephew is in the UA army and the sister of my wife is doing her service. They came to arrest me 6 times.

— Paul Ronzheimer (@ronzheimer) April 7, 2022

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A land mine that can detect when people walk nearby. Russians are pure evil.

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Tactically, it's a useful weapon when retreating. Slows down the advance of the Ukrainians. We all know that the Ruskies don't give a **** about collateral damage or lives.

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Full thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1512081319701884939.html

MYKOLA: „I took off my address plate because some friends told me that they have some lists. I don’t know where they got this lists from. They came 6 times for me. My nephew is in the UA army and the sister of my wife is doing her service. They came to arrest me 6 times.

— Paul Ronzheimer (@ronzheimer) April 7, 2022

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From Russian Ukrainians no doubt.

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He's pleading for weapons. He's saying he can't find more 7.62 magazines, which I find crazy. Going into battle with only 3 mags and one grenade. Dude wants to fight. Arm him.

Give us some fucking weapons please. We will not win with trash weapons . We need m-16’s M-4’s , ACOG’s , red dots, ammunition, ammunition, ammunition, javelins, fucking old AT-4s I know are probably in some storage unit. Frag grenades, and if not… may as well bring Body bags pic.twitter.com/Zy4ujI4oX3

— James Vasquez (@jmvasquez1974) April 8, 2022

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I mean, I get it, but he signed up to go fight for a notoriously corrupt former Soviet state that's the poorest in Europe. What exactly did he expect?

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I do't think he expected much more from the Ukranians. He does expect more from the West.
Cynical, but the fact is, that Americans/Westerner dying in Ukraine actually helps the Ukrainian cause

Dozens feared dead and more than 100 wounded after missile strike on railway station used to evacuate civilians in Ukraine https://t.co/6iNHGPR2kJ

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 8, 2022

Another angle of the Tochka-U missile used in today railway station attack, with the words "For the (our) Children" written on the side. These are guided missiles, it's hard to see that this wasn't a deliberate attack on a known evacuation site. pic.twitter.com/K22FO0BGu8

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) April 8, 2022

Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles were loaded onto a C-17 at RAAF Base Amberley today for delivery to Ukraine 🇺🇦

The Australian Government is gifting 20 Bushmasters, including two ambulances, to the Government of Ukraine to aid the response to Russia’s illegal aggression. pic.twitter.com/dwfPTsNMbq

— Joint Operations Command (@hqjoc) April 8, 2022

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Taking the start of this list from BattleGrackle, I'm starting a diplomat AND EMBASSY STAFF expulsion cumulative post. I welcome corrections.

Total diplomats expelled to date as of this post: 433

Belgium - 21 (Mar 29), 19 (Apr 5)
Bulgaria - 10 (Mar 18)
Czech Republic - 1 (Mar 29)
Denmark - 15 (Apr 5)
Estonia - 3 (Mar 18), 14 (Apr 5)
France - 35 (Apr 4)
Germany - 40 (Apr 4)
Greece - 12 (Apr 6)
Italy - 30 (Apr 5)
Ireland - 4 (Mar 29)
Japan - 8 (Apr 8)
Latvia - 3* (Mar 18), 13 (Apr 5)
Lithuania - 4* (Mar 18), ambassador also expelled (Apr 4)
Montenegro - 1 (Apr 4)
Netherlands - 17 (Mar 29)
North Macedonia - 5 (Mar 28)
Norway - 3 (Apr 6)
Poland - 45 (Mar 23)
Portugal - 10 (Apr 5)
Romania - 10 (Apr 5)
Slovakia - 3 (Mar 14), 35 (Mar 31)
Slovenia - 33 (Apr 5)
Spain - 25 (Apr 5)
Sweden - 3 (Apr 5)
USA - 12 (Feb 28)

* In March a joint statement from Baltic states was released that 10 diplomats were being expelled, 7 between Lithuania and Latvia

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Japan expelled 8 diplomats today.