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Ukraine War in Ukraine
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Yokel
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Tricky1982
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Shoigu plucking figures out of thin air...
Yeah, I followed that - I think he is genuine but, imo was taking a lot of credit for Lviv Kitchen as their very public face. He's doing his own thing now.
To quote peachy carnehan in the man who would be king: They’re savages here, one and all.
Mr_Fingerz
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BTR 60 refits.
Spray paint over rust.
EDIT- These are apparantly Ukrainian vehicles, but I sincerely hope that they won't go near the front line.
Spray paint over rust.
EDIT- These are apparantly Ukrainian vehicles, but I sincerely hope that they won't go near the front line.
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This is an issue we have had when supplying stuff to similar organisations if a single person is shown as having overall control financially we have to tread carefully, due diligence and some degree of vetting required. Sad to say there have been a couple of occasions where " organisations" have failed testing, this sort of thing is still rife in UKr .
As a slight divergence, be aware those jolly nice tee shirts, keyrings and other war related souvenirs and merchandise may not be as they seem , some origination from other places than Ukraine .
Having said that there is genuine stuff out there , you just need to do you research , shipping by Ukrposhta ( and you sometimes get some nice stamps ) is very good as is DHL and the subbies they use.
As ever there are people still wishing to profit from others misery and suffering.
I have seen a mock up of a WW1 trench (at the Cloth Hall museum in Ypres I think) which showed the level of planning and engineering that went into the management of water in trenches, and more so in dugouts.
The basic system was an inverse wooden A frame, the bottom (or top of the A) on the floor of the trench. The arms of the A (or V) were used to hold back the revetment of the sides of the trench, allowing for the inevitable slump in wet soil. Planking was laid along the crossbar of the A so that water drained naturally below it and with any luck the planking was at least out of the water. The void at the bottom could also be used for laying drain pipes connected to pumps.
The big problem of course is that obviously water flows downhill, and a lot of effort was put into pumping systems to try and ensure as far as possible that the water pumped out of one trench didn't simply fill the next one. Dugouts were an even bigger problem and had all sorts of complex gravel filled sumps and soakaways to try and make them usable.
Lots of lessons to learn again I think.
Tedsson
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Potemkin APCs.
I doubt if any of the others will be upgraded to the same level - seating, computer screens etc.
The one shown is the “showrooom model”.
The Sov squaddies will get the model “fitted for, and with, rust”.
Trench construction, and trench living, are both more complex than the Russians seem capable of. Some useful imagery here.
Life in the trenches of the First World War - The Long, Long Trail
What were the trenches? Although most of us think primarily of the Great War in terms of life and death in the […]
www.longlongtrail.co.uk
They seem to have replaced barbed wire with minefields, but the discipline of trench routine and troop rotation seems beyond them.
It's not the spraypainted hull.
It's the corroded deck and transmission.
