Saturday, January 21, 2023

UK supplied S-61 Sea Kings are operating in Ukraine

Wow. Do they still have the anti-sub gear installed? Weird if they do. I thought they'd be getting the "Junglies" version used by the Royal Marines.
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Open Comment Post. 21 Jan 23

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SOUTHCOM Commanding Officer let the game out the bag! WAR IS A RACKET!!!

Was told long ago and the statement is standing the test of time. FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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Friday, January 20, 2023

Former US Navy SEAL killed in Bakhmut

 

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Tanzanian killed in Ukraine: We told him not to go

 via BBC

One says they last heard from him in October when he had said he had agreed to sign up with the Russian mercenary group Wagner.

"Nemes informed me and some other family members about joining Wagner, and we advised him not to," the family member, who did not want to give their name, tells the BBC.

But for the young man, who relatives describe as polite, God-fearing and supportive, there was an offer that was hard to resist.

The family says that Tarimo, who had ambitions to be an MP with the opposition Chadema party, had been in Moscow as an ICT master's student at the Russian Technological University. But he was then imprisoned some time after January 2021 for what were described as drugs-related offences.

Last year, he was enticed with a deal: sign up and be pardoned or stay in prison.

"He said he would join to free himself," the relative says.

This case echoes that of 23-year-old Zambian student Lemekhani Nyirenda, who had also been in prison in Russia and died last year fighting with Wagner.

Zambian Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo told parliament that he had been informed about how prisoners could be pardoned if they agreed to fight.

Last September, Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin was seen in leaked footage outlining the rules of fighting, such as no deserting or sexual contact with Ukrainian women, and then giving the prisoners five minutes to decide if they want to sign up.

Tarimo's family has learnt that he died at the end of October while on a combat mission in Ukraine with Wagner.

"We last communicated with him on 17 October, when he was already a member of Wagner.

"We then got information in December from his friends over his death," which according to media reports, was a result of Ukrainian artillery fire.

The Federal News Agency, a Russian broadcaster used by Mr Prigozhin to boost his group's reputation, has published a video of what it said was Tarimo's memorial service in a chapel in the town of Goryachiy Klyuch. It reported that he had died on 24 October near Bakhmut, the scene of intense fighting in recent months.

Russia's state-owned domestic news agency, Ria Novosti, interviewed someone who said he had fought alongside Tarimo. He said the Tanzanian had died while trying to help a wounded soldier.

The Federal News Agency says that Tarimo was awarded a posthumous medal "for courage" by the Wagner Group.

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Noble talked about "blacks to the front" and I've seen pics of blacks in Russia but never really believed any of it.

This is truly a mind fuck.

A black dude in Russia, gets arrested on drug charges, is offered a chance to fight for WAGNER! An organization with strong Nazi roots?

Just plain wow.

War makes strange allies and enemies.

Along the same lines.

It just dawned on me that except for the fighting being contained, on an economic/social/industrial front this is already a major regional war.

The longer it drags the greater the chance for this to broaden.


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Notice that we've gotten almost NO reporting on the fighting in Ukraine? Now Zelensky calls for F-16s and longer ranged missiles. Things must be going sideways...

Not many might be paying attention but the last we heard of the fighting in Ukraine, WAGNER Mercs had taken a city, the Ukrainians denied and then everything went silent. Next we see a sudden influx of new arms packages. The US is sending Bradleys, Strykers, Avengers, more MLRS etc...the Germans Marders, and the rest of the allies chipping in big time too.

We don't have any visibility on the fighting but things must be going sideways for the Ukrainians.

Unfortunately a majority of the readers on this blog have been trained by the MSM to automatically discount Russian sources of information but I can state two things because I DO MONITOR there sites.

1.  The Russians are advancing...not fast, not in a blitzkrieg/Thunder Run fashion but they are advancing.

2.  They're getting ready to launch a big offensive.

Why do I say all this?

Because things are about to get spicy in Ukraine.  We've seen the combat pause (such as it is) but now we're about to see things dramatically heat up.
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Open Comment Post. 20 Jan 23

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Happy Rabbit Year?

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Republic of South Africa announces exercises with Russian & Chinese Navies...

Interesting. If China and/or Russia get their claws into S. Africa then the continent is wide open. More importantly they control the maritime space around the Horn Of Africa. Is this a play at shaping the battlefield for the upcoming war?
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Everyone wants Leopard MBTs for Ukraine but they're not gonna be 2A7s...they're gonna be 2A4 or 2A5s. Kurds were popping the turrets off those in Syria...

The Turks have already experienced the bad that comes with the Leopard MBT (2A5 version?). Modern anti-tank weapons pop the turrets, maybe as bad as the turrets on Russian vehicles were popped. Send Leopards to Ukraine and that tank is dead as formidable battle beast for the rest of eternity.

Everyone that builds armor built it with a bias toward one side of the iron triangle.  Either biased toward armor or mobility (most commonly because firepower is basically standardized now), that how things are measured.

The Brits were biased heavily towards the armor side and the Challenger was able to take an absolutely CRAZY amount of hits and keep its crew safe.

We Americans tried to balance it out and I personally believe that the Abrams is the best balance of all factors.

Onto the Leopard.  The Leopard is maneuver warfare excellence. Its fast...fast almost beyond reason, but that agility comes with a price and that price is its not a heavily armored beast like the other two in this comparison.

If Germany sends Leopards then it will be a public relations disaster.
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