Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Russia’s military had lacked the equipment and technology necessary to win, but pledged to increase funding for the war.


Um.. what?!

How much of Russian conventional military equipment is left after a year of Putin squandering everything?
Tanks, artillery, heck even artillery shells and fighter jet bombs?

i'm shocked that his military didnt freeze and starve to death during this winter.
 
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An urgent meeting of officers, collaborators etc, East side of Dnipro, Kherson.

Building was hit by HIMARS and destroyed.

Merry fuckin Christmas ya Russkies!



My guess is Kellyanne and her employers won't be too happy about this!


This has been a theme since the first day of the war - invading a country with millions of connected smart phones is a fuck up of epic proportions. Russians will never have a way to address this beyond brutality - which only strengthens the resistance.
 
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kage69

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That video will be really inspiring to the other Russian troops who see it. /S

It will also be VERY inspiring to the Ukrainian soldiers who see it.

Idk. It seems that way to us, but to the poor bastards who have seen comrades falling back get gunned down by their own side, also the whole execution by sledgehammer thing, might be small potatoes served with a side of welcome to the party pal. The ones who haven't been fleeing, the ones spending their time dodging shells and drones while drinking from puddles, they'd probably want to do some of the kicking there themselves. The need to punish the ones they feel have betrayed Russia and it's agenda, by resistance or ineptitude, that's been a prevalent theme with the orcs since Day 1 too.

It's the home audience in Russia that needs to see this stuff. Embarrassing battlefield prospects that continue to dwindle and exposing the abuse of Russians by their own side; could lead to Putin expiring from a sudden gust of gravity, or maybe a polonium supplement added to his cancer meds. At the very least it could help the sabotage campaign.
 
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That video will be really inspiring to the other Russian troops who see it. /S

It will also be VERY inspiring to the Ukrainian soldiers who see it.


Lack of motivation by the Russian troops against the highly motivated UKR troops is a huge deal when it comes down to laying one's life on the line for a cause. The Russian leadership is at a definite disadvantage in this regard. Putin is relying on a pack of lies to convince his troops that they should die for his cause while the Ukrainians are dealing with the fact that it's a do or die national existential threat they're fighting against. The Russians using money as motivation will only go so far.

Don't know what type of psy ops the Ukrainians are waging against Putin's unwilling soldiers but it must be a key part of their war plans.
 

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So that was what all the scuttlebutt about heavy equipment manufacturing being up and running in the Ural. LOL! I was thinking they were actually doing reburbs on tanks, APCs, etc. Russia is a third world country at this point.

Welding a giant steel plate over the radiator is also the kind of top tier Russian design work that we’d expect.
 
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Someone needs to answer that Sarmat music video with one about these steel plated trucks. It should feature a chorus shivering in their underwear because they don't have uniforms.
Special guest appearances by medics who won't treat infected wounded, and rubber ERA.
 

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He doesnt care of what the world thinks of him or his 'special op' but rather his own ppl. All propaganda is directed inwards rather than outwards.

This is not really true. A significant amount of the propaganda is directed squarely at western civilians. He needs public support to wane in the west so they’re trying to convince our dumber compatriots of a variety of things to end support like:

Ukraine are Nazis/not a real country/deep state puppets

Russian victory is inevitable, Western economies are collapsing

Russia will nuke the west if we don’t stop meddling in their affairs

and it goes on.
 

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This is not really true. A significant amount of the propaganda is directed squarely at western civilians. He needs public support to wane in the west so they’re trying to convince our dumber compatriots of a variety of things to end support like:

Ukraine are Nazis/not a real country/deep state puppets

Russian victory is inevitable, Western economies are collapsing

Russia will nuke the west if we don’t stop meddling in their affairs

and it goes on.
Yes you are right to a degree, but his most critical propaganda targets are his own ppl as they pose the greatest threat to his continuity. Esp when anti-Putin sentiment gets too vocal or spreads too widely, his own closest allies may see opportunity to make a move on him.
 
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So that was what all the scuttlebutt about heavy equipment manufacturing being up and running in the Ural. LOL! I was thinking they were actually doing reburbs on tanks, APCs, etc. Russia is a third world country at this point.

3rd world country with nukes.. pretty much like a chimpanzee juggling grenades.

If we're smart, we have to make sure Russia never has the might to attack anyone else ever again.
 
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More weight = the need for more horsepower = the need for more strength in the drivetrain, suspension, frame, tires etc. = more weight = the need for more horsepower, to what end will the cycle get out of hand. Sooner or later the trade-offs will find equilibrium and what was a weighted down underpowered vehicle will look nothing like what the innovator originally had in mind.

The German's WWII era Tiger II comes to mind where the disadvantages overcame whatever superiority it was the designers thought that overweight mobile bunker would provide to the Panzer Waffe.
 
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People have been saying India is making a mistake embracing Russia and now comes proof…importation of those damn lethal Russian windows. Serves ‘em right. ;)

Perfect time for China to take advantage.. The west has proven all that Russian military hardware is useless!
 

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Perfect time for China to take advantage.. The west has proven all that Russian military hardware is useless!


I'm thinking it's also proven that China's weaponry and military doctrine, of which mimics Russia's to some extent is, at some level just as vulnerable to the west's advanced tech. It would seem to me Putin's failures have shown the Chinese that relying on a strategy that involves heavy reliance on a micromanaged central command structure and overwhelming their enemies with sheer numbers is not going to work anymore.
 
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New York Times lead article at the moment concerning Ukraine determination that Russia's already gone all out in its ability to attack Ukraine with conventional weapons (and that they won't use nuclear weapons) and that it makes total sense to attack deep into Russia. US position is that if they do so with weaponry they develop and not US supplied armaments, it's not a problem. This link should work for 2 weeks, i.e. until Jan. 9, 2023:


Here’s what we know:
A drone attack over Engels air base, the latest behind Russian lines, suggests that the allure of curtailing Moscow’s missile capabilities at home outweighs any concern of escalation, analysts say.