No. Poland won't get rolled up by either Russia or Germany. They would punch either or both in the nose so hard they would run crying to the UN. Nos eastern block countries would be right along with them. Not 1914 or 1930's lightweights anymoreAgBQ-00 said:
Is this what 1914 and '35-'39 felt like?
Slovakia’s President’s message to Russia:
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) April 26, 2022
“You justify your invasion by talking about ‘liberation” How were you intending to ‘liberate’ Tatiana from Irpin, killed by a Russian grenade together with her two children? Or Olena from Hostomel, raped by one of you in a car?”
Dmitri Medvedev recently taunted Europe by saying it would not last a week without Russian gas
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) April 26, 2022
Gazprom is testing that premise with gas supply cutoffs to Poland and Bulgaria
Get an old copy of Inside Europe by John Gunther from the late 1930's to see what Europe felt like in the lead-up to WWII. Gunther was an American reporter who travelled everywhere, talked to people high and low, and captured what things were like in very readable form. From what I remember (haven't read it in awhile), Europe felt pretty much like a bomb waiting to explode, and everyone knew that something big was coming. The book went through many editions, being revised as events changed.AgBQ-00 said:
Is this what 1914 and '35-'39 felt like?
CondensedFoggyAggie said:Ulysses90 said:Quote:
I would think most artillery systems require the same general maintenance, just like an IC engine requires the same lubrication between ford and chevy.
My experience was with the older M198 guns but generally speaking, almost all the serious maintenance problems with tube artillery center on the recoil mechanisms and calibration of the fire control alignmnet.
The recoil and elevation mechanisms rely on hydraulics and pneumatics to absorb the recoil and assist in raising, lowering, and traversing the tube. The seals are the most common point of failure. The M198 used 1650psi nitrogen in the equilibrators to make it possible to use a hand crank to levatethe 9000 pound tube. The M777 is a lot lighter but it probably as a lot of hydraulic seals that can go bad.
They US should be providing lots of spare seals, hydraulic fluid, and gas cylinders (if the M777 is similar to the M198).
Thank you for the info.
Curious, would someone with a similar background and experience as you be highly in demand in the Ukraine with all these NATO artillery pieces, some of it a bit dated, rolling in? Could you immediately operate some of this stuff given a team that spoke some English?
The May 9th Victory Parade which was sent to take place in the Capital of Transnistria has been Cancelled and the Internal Affairs Ministry has announced that Checkpoints will begin to be set up by Law Enforcement and Military Officials around the Region to “Enhance Security”. pic.twitter.com/Aka7nnGIxO
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 26, 2022
Military and Security Forces are beginning to set up Barricades and Checkpoints in Major Cities around the Moldavian Region of Transnistria, including this Concrete Barricade outside of the Capital city of Tiraspol. pic.twitter.com/9ArI9G1kbS
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 26, 2022
💪Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s railway company, restores railway infrastructure in Kyiv region #StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/YyX7mYGZvq
— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) April 26, 2022
Heappey refers to logistics lines, fuel supplies and ammunition depots that aid Russia's offensive operations on Ukraine. Crucially, Heappey says he would not necessarily be opposed to the use of British arms deliveries to Ukraine for this purpose. https://t.co/LyrlSxCSbG
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) April 26, 2022
Here's hoping that Victory Parade is placed on a permanent hold.Rossticus said:The May 9th Victory Parade which was sent to take place in the Capital of Transnistria has been Cancelled and the Internal Affairs Ministry has announced that Checkpoints will begin to be set up by Law Enforcement and Military Officials around the Region to “Enhance Security”. pic.twitter.com/Aka7nnGIxO
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 26, 2022Military and Security Forces are beginning to set up Barricades and Checkpoints in Major Cities around the Moldavian Region of Transnistria, including this Concrete Barricade outside of the Capital city of Tiraspol. pic.twitter.com/9ArI9G1kbS
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 26, 2022
Absolutely favourite photo of the past two months. This monument was put up by Soviet regime in my hometown Kyiv to show friendship between Russia and Ukraine. How awkward for them now. Ukraine getting rid of fascist and imperialist Russian legacy like a boss 💪 pic.twitter.com/Rbm3i82apy
— 🇺🇦 Валерія Voshchevska (@Val_Voshchevska) April 26, 2022
.... the same damn neighborhood.😆
— CrowdSource Rescue (@cs_rescue) April 26, 2022
Not just in Texas, but in the same city in TX, and not just same city, but the same neighborhood as one of the CSR volunteers going over next!
Universe has a funny way of working. 😉🙏❤️ pic.twitter.com/kdrYTF3nrW
Russia is already in trouble. If the rest of Europe figures out how to do without Russian oil and gas, they are well and truly ****ed. And Putin won't last 2 weeks.Rossticus said:Dmitri Medvedev recently taunted Europe by saying it would not last a week without Russian gas
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) April 26, 2022
Gazprom is testing that premise with gas supply cutoffs to Poland and Bulgaria
"Gas might be expensive, but freedom is priceless."
— Business Ukraine mag (@Biz_Ukraine_Mag) April 26, 2022
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas pic.twitter.com/Nsa444Saet
they are going to do without, there is no magic wand too replace hydrocarbon energy. No wind mills or solar panels can replace the BTU produced by natural gas. No other pipelines, They have nothing but hot air.deddog said:Russia is already in trouble. If the rest of Europe figures out how to do without Russian oil and gas, they are well and truly ****ed. And Putin won't last 2 weeks.Rossticus said:Dmitri Medvedev recently taunted Europe by saying it would not last a week without Russian gas
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) April 26, 2022
Gazprom is testing that premise with gas supply cutoffs to Poland and Bulgaria
I think the main barrier is offloading and storage facilities in Europe (particularly Germany), not the availability of transport capacity.Ag97 said:
If our intelligence agencies are worth their weight in salt, they should have had a pretty good idea months ago that the Russian buildup was likely to turn into an invasion. If they briefed the President and congressional leaders as such, those leaders should have been making contingency plans that included how to sell Europe NG to give them another option other than Russian supplies.
Converting current maritime assets to NG transport ships or fastracking production of new NG transports should have been a priority. Maybe it was and they are working on it and we just don't know but if not, somebody needs their ass kicked between their ears.
I'm no engineer, but I would think land based storage facilities would be fairly simple to design and build? Germans are known for their ingenuity, maybe they need to take some of their global warming brainpower and redirect it to NG storage problems so they don't freeze their butts off next winter.txags92 said:I think the main barrier is offloading and storage facilities in Europe (particularly Germany), not the availability of transport capacity.Ag97 said:
If our intelligence agencies are worth their weight in salt, they should have had a pretty good idea months ago that the Russian buildup was likely to turn into an invasion. If they briefed the President and congressional leaders as such, those leaders should have been making contingency plans that included how to sell Europe NG to give them another option other than Russian supplies.
Converting current maritime assets to NG transport ships or fastracking production of new NG transports should have been a priority. Maybe it was and they are working on it and we just don't know but if not, somebody needs their ass kicked between their ears.
Natural gas storage isn't like storing crude. An undergrad could design crude tanks but the spherical natural gas tanks are a bit more complex to design and manufacture.Ag97 said:I'm no engineer, but I would think land based storage facilities would be fairly simple to design and build? Germans are known for their ingenuity, maybe they need to take some of their global warming brainpower and redirect it to NG storage problems so they freeze their butts off next winter.txags92 said:I think the main barrier is offloading and storage facilities in Europe (particularly Germany), not the availability of transport capacity.Ag97 said:
If our intelligence agencies are worth their weight in salt, they should have had a pretty good idea months ago that the Russian buildup was likely to turn into an invasion. If they briefed the President and congressional leaders as such, those leaders should have been making contingency plans that included how to sell Europe NG to give them another option other than Russian supplies.
Converting current maritime assets to NG transport ships or fastracking production of new NG transports should have been a priority. Maybe it was and they are working on it and we just don't know but if not, somebody needs their ass kicked between their ears.
You can lead a horse to water...but Germany was dead set on getting their gas from Russia, and until this invasion, our senior leadership was dead set on helping them. Without getting too off course into politics, we warned the Germans that relying on Russia for gas was a bad strategy, and that Nord Stream II would only make it worse. Germany went all in on it, and our current leadership gave it the green light. If they had listened to the leadership we previously had telling them what a bad idea it was to be in bed with Putin for their gas supplies, they would have already built a bunch of terminals and would be using gas from the Eagleford right now.. Instead of overseeing the genocide of a sovereign country, Putin would be trying to find two nickels to rub together while he dreamed of a Soviet resurgence as soon as he found a way to make money off of his relationship with the Chinese.Ag97 said:I'm no engineer, but I would think land based storage facilities would be fairly simple to design and build? Germans are known for their ingenuity, maybe they need to take some of their global warming brainpower and redirect it to NG storage problems so they freeze their butts off next winter.txags92 said:I think the main barrier is offloading and storage facilities in Europe (particularly Germany), not the availability of transport capacity.Ag97 said:
If our intelligence agencies are worth their weight in salt, they should have had a pretty good idea months ago that the Russian buildup was likely to turn into an invasion. If they briefed the President and congressional leaders as such, those leaders should have been making contingency plans that included how to sell Europe NG to give them another option other than Russian supplies.
Converting current maritime assets to NG transport ships or fastracking production of new NG transports should have been a priority. Maybe it was and they are working on it and we just don't know but if not, somebody needs their ass kicked between their ears.
Maybe an inept Russian battalion commander74OA said:Particularly as Ukraine has given its citizens an app to quickly report locations of Russian forces and which correlates the individual reports to help provide an overall intel picture.Waffledynamics said:It amazes me that whoever is in that car can just drive right past those tanks with nothing happening to them.CondensedFoggyAggie said:⚠️📽️ Russian tank column south of Izyum. This is where the main effort of the Russian military will be.#Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #war #Putin #Ukraine️war pic.twitter.com/DyMUz1jFjK
— GeoInsider (@InsiderGeo) April 26, 2022
Russian armor is still incoming, may you get them all with zero losses, Ukraine.
Germany has plenty of natural gas storage capacity. What it doesn't have is the ability to re-gasify LNG for storage in those facilities.Ag97 said:I'm no engineer, but I would think land based storage facilities would be fairly simple to design and build? Germans are known for their ingenuity, maybe they need to take some of their global warming brainpower and redirect it to NG storage problems so they don't freeze their butts off next winter.txags92 said:I think the main barrier is offloading and storage facilities in Europe (particularly Germany), not the availability of transport capacity.Ag97 said:
If our intelligence agencies are worth their weight in salt, they should have had a pretty good idea months ago that the Russian buildup was likely to turn into an invasion. If they briefed the President and congressional leaders as such, those leaders should have been making contingency plans that included how to sell Europe NG to give them another option other than Russian supplies.
Converting current maritime assets to NG transport ships or fastracking production of new NG transports should have been a priority. Maybe it was and they are working on it and we just don't know but if not, somebody needs their ass kicked between their ears.
Russian Su-25 fleeing (damaged) as a Ukrainian Su-25 is chasing after it reportedly after a dog fight in the skies of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/rearRbFiTh
— CaucasusWarReport (@Caucasuswar) April 26, 2022
Did he eject his burning drop tanks? Is that the explosion on the fleeing Su-25?MeatDr said:Russian Su-25 fleeing (damaged) as a Ukrainian Su-25 is chasing after it reportedly after a dog fight in the skies of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/rearRbFiTh
— CaucasusWarReport (@Caucasuswar) April 26, 2022
Thanks, aven't seen that.GAC06 said:
Flares. And it's much more likely it's just a section leaving together and the chase, damage, and dogfight are made up
💪Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s railway company, restores railway infrastructure in Kyiv region #StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/YyX7mYGZvq
— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) April 26, 2022
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As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike, prompting Ukraine to move air defenses and aircraft out of harm's way, current and former U.S. officials told NBC News.
That near real-time intelligence-sharing also paved the way for Ukraine to shoot down a Russian transport plane carrying hundreds of troops in the early days of the war, the officials say, helping repel a Russian assault on a key airport near Kyiv.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council said, "We are regularly providing detailed, timely intelligence to the Ukrainians on the battlefield to help them defend their country against Russian aggression and will continue to do so."
Ukraine continues to move air defenses and aircraft nearly every day with the help of American intelligence, which is one reason Russia has not been able to establish air dominance. In some cases, Ukraine moved the targeted air defense systems or planes just in time, the officials said.
"The Russian military has literally been cratering empty fields where air defenses were once set up," one U.S. official said. "It has had an enormous impact on the Russian military's ability on the ground."
While U.S.-Ukrainian cooperation had been building since Russia seized Crimea in 2014, the Biden administration shifted into high gear in the weeks before the Russian invasion, when a U.S. military team visited to assess the state of Ukraine's air defenses. The Americans provided Ukraine with detailed advice about how to disperse their air defense systems, a move that U.S. officials say helped Ukraine prevent Russia from seizing control of the skies.
Ukrainian forces have used specific coordinates shared by the U.S. to direct fire on Russian positions and aircraft, current and former officials tell NBC News.
Any salt domes over there to store natural gas in? As in Mt. Belvieu Tx. And several others nearby.lb3 said:Natural gas storage isn't like storing crude. An undergrad could design crude tanks but the spherical natural gas tanks are a bit more complex to design and manufacture.Ag97 said:I'm no engineer, but I would think land based storage facilities would be fairly simple to design and build? Germans are known for their ingenuity, maybe they need to take some of their global warming brainpower and redirect it to NG storage problems so they freeze their butts off next winter.txags92 said:I think the main barrier is offloading and storage facilities in Europe (particularly Germany), not the availability of transport capacity.Ag97 said:
If our intelligence agencies are worth their weight in salt, they should have had a pretty good idea months ago that the Russian buildup was likely to turn into an invasion. If they briefed the President and congressional leaders as such, those leaders should have been making contingency plans that included how to sell Europe NG to give them another option other than Russian supplies.
Converting current maritime assets to NG transport ships or fastracking production of new NG transports should have been a priority. Maybe it was and they are working on it and we just don't know but if not, somebody needs their ass kicked between their ears.
