Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 16 February 2023
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) February 16, 2023
Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t.co/oVN5aUDUXM
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/BvgPBloC3j
#Ukraine likely still has a window of opportunity to initiate large-scale counteroffensives over the next few months. Its ability to do so likely rests heavily on the speed and scale at which the West provides it the necessary materiel, particularly tanks & armored vehicles. https://t.co/PEXljB8XXw
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) February 16, 2023
BREAKING: Ukrainian officials say Russia has again pummeled the country with a barrage of missiles, firing a combination of 36 cruise and other missiles and losing at least 16 of them to Ukrainian air defense batteries. https://t.co/kzIhDJHkRT
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 16, 2023
NATO's Secretary-General @jensstoltenberg said the alliance's defense ministers who gathered in Brussels had agreed on a need to expand industrial capacity for producing munitions. https://t.co/1uQSEOoscA
— DW News (@dwnews) February 16, 2023
Keir Starmer visits Kyiv to emphasise Labour’s backing for Ukraine https://t.co/OtadGKgn5q
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 16, 2023
#UPDATE Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said Thursday his country was "committed to the sovereignty" of Ukraine during the first visit by an Israeli minister to the war-torn nation since the Russian invasion began nearly a year ago.https://t.co/B2z6DBIhqc
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) February 16, 2023
Russia plans to cut its oil production by 500,000 barrels per day starting in March, or about 5% of total current output, in retaliation to Western price caps and embargoes on its exports of crude oil and refined oil products. https://t.co/r4LFLxVuvg
— DW News (@dwnews) February 16, 2023
Ukrainian minelaying operations in the east. pic.twitter.com/EDqxpnX1Is
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 16, 2023
5 comments:
Um, I've never laid mines before, but it seems that tossing them off a truck - onto a pile of other mines - wouldn't be the way to do it.
AND,
THEN,
BLAMMO,
R,
Hahaha holy shit that video. Even if the comments saying its safe and advisable given the conditions I don't know if I have it in me to trust a landmine that much!
Now I understand why their tank tracks on dirt roads are closely followed by other vehicles. The pathfinder triggers the mine.
The type of mine in that video comes in two parts . The fuze and the mine body. Without the fuze , those mines can take a lot of abuse.
The bad thing about these little monsters is that they are the gift that keeps on giving.
An engineer will tell you that Planning and installing a mine field is supposed to be a task of precision. You just don't just put those things in the ground and walk away.
But that is probably exactly what they are doing.
Even if it is done right and you make a Mine Field card and submit it up to HQ, many times the field is forgotten because the unit was moved and trashed the records or the guys who installed it got killed or shipped somewhere else.
Then once lost and forgotten,.......it waits.
Bottom line. These things are nasty and can end up killing your kids or grand kids 3-10 years from now once the war is long over.
who's the poor bastard who has to dig hole in frozen ground? probably the troops they had to drag off the street kicking a screaming.
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