I don't have time to make notes on this tonight, but here is the latest Speak the Truth episode. Sorry everyone.



ETA: By the way, I love when Rob shows the elevation maps. It really helps make sense of some movements and/or lackthereof.

Putin still sacrificing working class Russians in the name of holy conquest. Jesus likes human sacrifice, right? I must have missed that day of Sunday school.

It's over a month since Vladimir Putin announced Russia's "partial mobilisation", but the chaos has by no means stopped

Local TV in the city of Oryol reports that dozens of Uzbek migrant workers at a waste processing plant have received call-up papers to fight in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/1vBQhDnVug

— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) October 27, 2022

Edit: The poster discovered they made an error and deleted the Tweet. See sclaff's post a few down from mine.

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 28 October 2022

Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t.co/OGqWfuBLL0

🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/yNo37EBZo9

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) October 28, 2022

Rossticus said:

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Putin still sacrificing working class Russians in the name of holy conquest. Jesus likes human sacrifice, right? I must have missed that day of Sunday school.

It's over a month since Vladimir Putin announced Russia's "partial mobilisation", but the chaos has by no means stopped

Local TV in the city of Oryol reports that dozens of Uzbek migrant workers at a waste processing plant have received call-up papers to fight in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/1vBQhDnVug

— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) October 27, 2022

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Other than surrendering what choices does he have? If they can't train and outfit the migrant working class with all their determination and resolve, you think the middle or upper class stands a chance?

Though I made a clear statement after my initial tweet I noticed that many didn't ready it. I will not have a viral tweet of myself online when it is misleading. Deleted it and new map. pic.twitter.com/fjATD9uovM

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) October 28, 2022

I'm aware of the reality. Just commenting on the degree of pompous hypocrisy this thing has reached with Russia's ever escalating invocation of religion as justification.

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Russian Defense Minister Shoigu reported to Putin that 82 000 mobilised men have been already sent to Ukraine, 218000 are trained at firing ranges

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https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/28-october-russian-defense-minister-shoigu-reported-to-putin

Take it with a grain of salt.

Hooray! Russian Twitter bots and troll farms are back!! Lol.

And there you go..

"Russian Duma allowed the unblocking of Twitter in the Russian Federation after the acquisition of the social network by Elon Musk

This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Andrey Svintsov."

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) October 28, 2022

MouthBQ98 said:

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I'm going to guess they've been VPN distributed for a long time now so the origin is difficult to track.

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I'm sure. I just think its funny.

Nebenzya reports: American combat mosquitoes are in Ukraine already!

Probably through Lend-Lease?

It will be a little boring in the UN without Nebenzya... pic.twitter.com/1SnlpFjGPu

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 28, 2022

I hope they come to regret this decision too late.

Interesting piece about the fate of the Russian corps once stationed in Kaliningrad. DEAD

Waffledynamics said:

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Russian Defense Minister Shoigu reported to Putin that 82 000 mobilised men have been already sent to Ukraine, 218000 are trained at firing ranges

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https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/28-october-russian-defense-minister-shoigu-reported-to-putin

Take it with a grain of salt.

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All 218k successfully completed three bursts from a rifle and they get their marksmanship badge.

bonfarr said:

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Waffledynamics said:

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Russian Defense Minister Shoigu reported to Putin that 82 000 mobilised men have been already sent to Ukraine, 218000 are trained at firing ranges

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https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/28-october-russian-defense-minister-shoigu-reported-to-putin

Take it with a grain of salt.

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All 218k successfully completed three bursts from a rifle and they get their marksmanship badge.

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Exactly as prescribed in the training manual.

/Clancy

The full extent of Russian innovation

Belarus just invented the cope bucket to 'protect' MBTs against munitions fitted with IR seekers 🇧🇾

This is real.

I'm not joking. pic.twitter.com/VIEwl9MJYA

— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) October 27, 2022

BattleGrackle said:

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The full extent of Russian innovation

Belarus just invented the cope bucket to 'protect' MBTs against munitions fitted with IR seekers 🇧🇾

This is real.

I'm not joking. pic.twitter.com/VIEwl9MJYA

— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) October 27, 2022

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The cage doesn't do anything for AT missile defense but would it offer any protection from the mortar rounds being dropped by UAVs?

Maybe.


The question is, what does burning the barrel do?

AgLA06 said:

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Maybe.


The question is, what does burning the barrel do?

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That is not the barrel. The barrel is sticking out the other end. That is just a pipe with a fire pot hanging off the end. I presume they are erroneously thinking it would fool the seeker head of a missile during it's terminal pop up maneuver into thinking the heat of the pot is the heat from the tank's diesel engine.

Ahh.....

I was on my phone and couldn't see that. My bad.

Seems like they'd be giving themselves away just as much as it would hope to confuse.

They don't understand the seekers are more sophisticated and aren't looking for the hottest object. They are looking for a size and shape in the IR spectrum because IR isn't easily screened by smoke or netting or bushes or other visual clutter. The more advanced ones can distinguish between vehicle types and even locations on said vehicles to target.

The cages can help against smaller dropped or simple rocket heat shaped charge type warheads by stand-off detonation.

bonfarr said:

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BattleGrackle said:

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The full extent of Russian innovation

Belarus just invented the cope bucket to 'protect' MBTs against munitions fitted with IR seekers 🇧🇾

This is real.

I'm not joking. pic.twitter.com/VIEwl9MJYA

— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) October 27, 2022

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The cage doesn't do anything for AT missile defense but would it offer any protection from the mortar rounds being dropped by UAVs?

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Most dedicated antitank weapons have two charges. The first to defeat reactive armor and the second, a shape charge to send a plasma jet to penetrate the steel armor of the vehicle.

The cope cages were an attempt to get the shape charge to trigger at an increased distance from the armor and become ineffective. It obviously hasn't worked well.

I'm not sure it will have much effect against direct hits from artillery. Perhaps we'll find out.

ETA. We all laughed at the rubber filled 'reactive armor'. But my reading suggests that rubber does have some benefits against those plasma jets. As the leading edge of the plasma jet burns a hole in the rubber, the rubber expands and impinges on more of the jet. The hope being that there isn't enough of the jut remaining by the time it reaches the steel. Again, it hasn't helped the Russians yet.

lb3 said:

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bonfarr said:

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BattleGrackle said:

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The full extent of Russian innovation

Belarus just invented the cope bucket to 'protect' MBTs against munitions fitted with IR seekers 🇧🇾

This is real.

I'm not joking. pic.twitter.com/VIEwl9MJYA

— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) October 27, 2022

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The cage doesn't do anything for AT missile defense but would it offer any protection from the mortar rounds being dropped by UAVs?

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Most dedicated antitank weapons have two charges. The first to defeat reactive armor and the second, a shape charge to send a plasma jet to penetrate the steel armor of the vehicle.

The cope cages were an attempt to get the shape charge to trigger at an increased distance from the armor and become ineffective. It obviously hasn't worked well.

I'm not sure it will have much effect against direct hits from artillery. Perhaps we'll find out.

ETA. We all laughed at the rubber filled 'reactive armor'. But my reading suggests that rubber does have some benefits against those plasma jets. As the leading edge of the plasma jet burns a hole in the rubber, the rubber expands and impinges on more of the jet. The hope being that there isn't enough of the jut remaining by the time it reaches the steel. Again, it hasn't helped the Russians yet.

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I think the point was that in the USA or any modern army

they are using ERA explosive reactive armor, not rubber.

Waffledynamics said:

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As of the evening of October 28, the road between Svatove and Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast is under full fire control of the Ukrainian military.
This information was confirmed by the spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Serhiy Cherevatyi.

— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) October 28, 2022

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let's see how the Russkies retreat from Svatove in the middle of a muddy morass within the cornfields

Build It said:

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Heard some rumors today. People aren't to happy about the cables being cut. Kaliningrad and the Baltic Fleet could have some accidents soon.

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I would just cut all hardwired communications between Kaliningrad and Russia in response and not cause any accidents on their subs.

Make they use ham radios to place their shipping orders.

Meanwhile in Russia: top pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov (who is Jewish) and his guest Yevgeny Satanovsky (who is an atheist) vehemently agree with Ramzan Kadyrov (a Muslim) that Russia is engaged in jihad against Ukraine and the West as a whole. Mind-numbing nonsense. pic.twitter.com/OPjct69LRL

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 28, 2022