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[heydude6]

Dear God. That level of of self-delusion makes me want to vomit. Your friend is a much more compassionate person than I am. I find hosting my own family to be insufferable, can’t imagine what he must be going through.

[Strongpoint]

Dear God. That level of of self-delusion makes me want to vomit. Your friend is a much more compassionate person than I am. I find hosting my own family to be insufferable, can’t imagine what he must be going through.

You don't kick traumatized people with children out. While I may be facepalming at people like this, trying to fix rationality of people with such a fresh and powerful PTSD is not the best way to go.

[Starver]

(... from Junior Reporter thread, with a hint of Out Of Context-ness)

Seems like you'd have to be really bad at your job for you to be able to bomb one of your own planes.

On the contrary. It was the Ghost Of Kiev being that good!

[Strongpoint]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law that increases the age limit for signing a contract for military service to 50 years.


Special Military Operation is going according to the plan.

[EuchreJack]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law that increases the age limit for signing a contract for military service to 50 years.


Special Military Operation is going according to the plan.

Way to discriminate against the WW2 vets!

[scriver]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law that increases the age limit for signing a contract for military service to 50 years.


Special Military Operation is going according to the plan.

You wouldn't happen to know what the previous age limit was?

[Strongpoint]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law that increases the age limit for signing a contract for military service to 50 years.


Special Military Operation is going according to the plan.

You wouldn't happen to know what the previous age limit was?

40

[scriver]

So basically they've used up two generation's worth of their "military contract service" pool already.

[Strongpoint]

So basically they've used up two generation's worth of their "military contract service" pool already.

Used up is a loud word, it is more of a hidden unofficial mobilization. But they did lose quite a few. Ukrainian claim is that Russia has lost 30K KIA

It may be exaggerated but here is a (Ukrainian) telegram channel with confirmed Russian KIAs mentioned in Russian media and\or social networks. That list has a prooflink for each one. And that list has 2919 names in it.

[EuchreJack]

It is also entirely possible that far less people are willing to sign a "Contract for Military Service" now that there is a war where the chance of dying is higher than average.

[Lord Shonus]

The biggest thing the change does is bring the veterans of their earlier wars into eligiblity.


In theory, this could improve the performance of their forces. In reality, those vets are probably rusty as hell, and thenfact that Russia's scraped through the bottom of the barrel amd is nowmdeploying T-62 tanks is likely to offset any gains

As for why that model is significant, it not only carries a worse gun, optics, and electronics, but the armor is plainmsteel instead of the composites used in later tanks. Where you need a heavy ATGM to take out a -72, almost any amtivehicle weapon in the NATO or Ukranian inventory will  take care of a -62. The cheap and ubiquitous AT4 - a very portable one-shot rocket that is onky supposed to be used against light vehicles - will punch right through thenthickest part.

[Strongpoint]

The biggest thing the change does is bring the veterans of their earlier wars into eligiblity.

Competent veterans of the earlier wars are either already in the army or among Wagner mercenaries. It is more like a way to save money by utilizing Russian men before their retirement.

[King Zultan]

When do we get to the part of the war where they start throwing everyone that's alive at the war?

[hector13]

It’s a special military operation so they won’t/can’t do that. They are training conscripts though, so maybe around mid-Summer you’ll get all of them sent over. Or before as part of their training of things continue to go poorly.

[Strongpoint]

I think that the current Russian strategy is rather obvious - grab as much territory as possible before midsummer, then go full defensive enjoying the fact that Ukraine can't level its own cities in the counterattack.

They are actively digging up in Southern Ukraine and bring tons of obsolete equipment like T-62 tanks and D-20 howitzers to achieve this goal