Russia & Ukraine

The Ukrainian defense is actually pretty impressive considering we assess Russia committed nearly three-quarters of its military to invading Ukraine. The Ukrainians seriously took on the bulk of Russian forces.

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UsualName said:
All of those tank units couldn’t be more happy to be leaving and not be burnt alive in a fiery hellscape brought to them by Ukrainian soldiers with western weapons.
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Quite so indeed.

I read an interview with a marine AFG vet in The Atlantic, and he said that in afg he was always envious of the guys in the tanks because they were protected from all the small arms fire and snipers etc. But he is volunteer fighting in the Ukraine now and says that the opposite is the case there, that with the javelins, no way he would want to be sitting in a Russian tank there.

The other informative thing he said is -that although the Ukrainians notoriously lack night vision in adequate amounts anyway- that the javelin firing/launching set-up has best in the world night vision built into its sighting system- such that the soldiers are able to decouple that and use just the night vision piece for other operations. It's a beautiful thing, although the Russians may not agree.
 
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