• BombOmOm
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      148 months ago

      It’s a Soviet APC. The picture here is an aerial shot of a Russian soldier in battle staring at the BTR he escaped from after it was driven into a lake by accident.

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        98 months ago

        And it looks exactly one of the “crocodile grabs antelope drinking from stream” videos

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      Someone else posted a link for you, but there is a bit more as well.

      BTRs & IFVs are horrendously under-armored for the minefields that are in Ukraine right now. It’s why we are seeing group party pictures like this:

      TBH, you need something like an MRAP to handle mines especially since there are reports of double and triple-stack mines out there. (It doesn’t stop Russian command from just yeeting out 5 or 6 BTRs at a time.)

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        It doesn’t stop Russian command from just yeeting out 5 or 6 BTRs at a time.

        Ethnic minorities are disposable. There’s a reason why they even have two separate words for “Russian”: one for ethnic Russians and one for everyone else.

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          And that is what confuses me. At least Wagner had the decency to send their prisoner conscripts as targets to locate artillery positions. They were “disposable”, but they had a function.

          Here? Nada. No function. They point to a group of men and tell them to go clear a minefield the manual way. So, they do what they have to do and try and get a chance against the mines but they soon realize that armor doesn’t work very well if you are sitting on it.

          Fuckin’ insanity.

          • @[email protected]
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            38 months ago

            This is how they have operated for centuries. They literally don’t know how to do tactics in any other way than “throw meat at it”

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      Please for the love of the gods and all that is fuzzy, don’t treat “AI” like some sort of search engine. You absolutely can’t trust a fucking word they output because of their propensity to hallucinate (ie. make shit the fuck).

      The fact alone that whatever fucking woo-woo LLM you asked couldn’t give you an answer for what BTR could mean should already tell you something