I remember reading my dad’s old notebooks and aide memoires as a kid. He was RE EOD way back when for a bit, grew up mostly in germany when he went armoured. Learnt a lot about the things that went bang from him, but I was more interested in the armour if I was honest.
I've lots of RE mates. When I served the EOD responsibilities were complex. RE lead on mines and enemy air delivered weapons. Navy clearance divers did everything below the high water mark. RAF did 'friendly' air delivered weapons, airfield clearance and downed aircraft. We (RLC and RAOC before them) led on anything home made (IEDs) and land service items (grenades, artillery ammo, mortars etc). These days things are more joint and there is more crossover between cap badges and services.
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@Alpin, there's a surprising number of potentially helpful 'books' on the internet. Mind boggles!
but a Tory MP has used Parliamentary privilege to name London lawyers working on behalf of Russian oligarchs and the Russian regime.
Naming them is stepping things up but there are several tories who have been campaigning against the misuse of the courts in the past. Not least because a former tory MP Charlotte Leslie is currently being taken to court by a tory donor Mohamed Amersi after some infighting.
Private Eye cover it from time to time and those law firms dont come across well even accepting Private Eye has a certain bias (the side about Carter-Ruck being mispronounced seems a tribute to the eyes nickname).
One possible reason for Russia’s slow advance in some areas may be down to the use of cheap Chines commercial civilian radios:
Used to have radios not unlike those for a while at work. They were crap, barely intelligible communication a quarter of a mile away, actually, it was impossible to contact someone you could see the other end of the main site, it was easier to shout!
There's some good audio of their comms, civilians are using off the shelf scanners to listen in and disrupt their them.
I'm sure if you have a google you'll find them, some have subs. I found it fascinating, I expected them to have secure comms.
I had a cap gun, cowboy hat and bow'n'arrow.
Just call me Field Marshall.
At ease.
argee
Full MemberA lot of Call of Duty tactics being recited as the way ahead, lets hope Ukrainians are up to speed on the latest tactics for CoD and Battlefield!
Definitely NSFW but this made me laugh, turns out that even actual war is exactly like an online game voice chat when the soldiers find an open channel
Get a bid in early or use a bid sniper?
I've emailed a question ? Asking if there are any holes in it.
Fair play to the C4 news presenter for essentially telling the Russian MP to FO after her bleeding heart story.
Should have asked her what she thinks it will be like living under the new latest version of Stalin.
Asking if there are any holes in it.
And I know it says cash on collection only, but would you deliver it to Hartlepool?
At the risk of sounding like I have to check under the bed every night to see if Putin is hiding there, I think he’s been moving all the pieces into place for a long time.
Blokeuptheroad, I was a wheelbarrow technician for 321 back in 2003. Best posting I ever had.
Just spent 2 hrs walking around Thursley Common with an ex colleague. He reminded me that 2 weeks ago that I said "pootin would have nothing to gain from invading so I can't see it." He disagreed.
At the end of the walk the only thing we agreed on was that all the recruits that were patrolling about the common had better kit than we did.......
You'll need a crew, I'm happy to put up a van to drive over a pick it up. Game?
I had a cap gun, cowboy hat and bow’n’arrow.
Blokeuptheroad, I was a wheelbarrow technician for 321 back in 2003. Best posting I ever had.
I did many postings in 321, as a no 2 and an operator. Well before your time though! I created a fair bit of work for the wheelbarrow techs. I started on the Mk 7b and finished on the 8b. Cutlass was just coming in.
Just to sorta lighten things a teeny bit, there’s a clip just surfaced of our favourite Ukrainian President taking a call from Angela Merkel about Ukraine’s application to join the EU:
I loved working on it to be fair and spent most of my time just driving between the dets getting fed bacon sandwiches by you lot. I think it was guilt because of the state they ended up in! Got me away from a mechanised Bn for 6 months and i wore uniform twice. Once for my arrival interview and the other for my end of tour interview!
The poster who slated the thread asking how anyone can even begin to say that they have any knowledge of the subject has hopefully learnt a lesson.
STW actually does have some qualified/ or even experts on here in about every subject you can think of!
That doesn't include me,I might add.
Just watching the latest news. Looks like Kherson (important port) may be gone, but not entirely clear. Kharkiv holding out, for the moment. Mariupol sounds appalling with mass civilian casualties. Some odd things though - the Kyiv convoy seems to be stuck, and the Russians don’t seem to be making much progress in Luhansk and Donetsk which seems surprising, although maybe the defences were better prepared having been at war for 8 years.
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The poster who slated the thread asking how anyone can even begin to say that they have any knowledge of the subject has hopefully learnt a lesson.STW actually does have some qualified/ or even experts on here in about every subject you can think of!
That doesn’t include me,I might add.
I'd take that with a pinch of salt, there's a lot of folk who know stuff relevant to this, but in relation to this actual invasion, i think there's few on the planet who understand what the hell is going on and for why, a lot of it just defies military doctrine, tactics and common sense!
moab - yep, that's me!
I reported it - also if anyone clicked on the link to see what it was, you should delete your recent browsing data so it's off your computer just to be safe.
That's armed conflict in a nutshell.
a lot of it just defies military doctrine, tactics and common sense!
Tango with Putin, half way through on BBC FOUR now, is worth a watch on iPlayer.
Luhansk and Donetsk
Thanks to Russia's efforts in liberating these provinces, around 500,000 normal Ukrainians have at least some military experience/training/skills. Ukraine still has conscription and the majority of these conscripts have been active in defending these provinces.
I reported it – also if anyone clicked on the link to see what it was, you should delete your recent browsing data so it’s off your computer just to be safe.
Oh great, the post, not just the link has been removed. So when the knock comes I can't even show them it was a post on here with a non-obvious link to explain why it's on my browsing history at GCHQ
What tyres for Guantanamo?
Oh great, the post, not just the link has been removed. So when the knock comes I can’t even show them it was a post on here with a non-obvious link to explain why it’s on my browsing history at GCHQ
What tyres for Guantanamo?
What did I miss? I've no idea what Moly is referring to ...
^^I didn't see it but I'm guessing it's a certain handbook that is illegal and loved by terrorists or freedom fighter on a budget....
What, I never said anything.
Can I report my own post saying I reported it and then this one talking about it?
I shared a house with a guy who had a photocopy of it. I wanted to see it so he let me borrow it. I sat down with it one night and thought 'wtf do I want to read this for?' so I gave it straight back.
And no, GCHQ spies, I can't remember his surname and weirdly not even the address I lived at (I remember all the others). I wish I did remember it though cos he was a decent mate at the time.
Regarding the AC, pretty sure that the original banning never took into account the internet and it’s ability to let anyone who’s interested find a copy if they really wanted to, and those who do will almost certainly have it by know. Genie, bottle, etc.
I posted a link to a famous book used by anarchists to create anarchy.
In my defense, I left the UK long before the book was banned in the UK.
Russia MREs with Feb 2015 use by dates
I know most of it is sealed and I'm using a bottle chilli oil I found which is dated 2009 and I haven't died yet but even so
molgrips
And no, GCHQ spies, I can’t remember his surname and weirdly not even the address I lived at (I remember all the others). I wish I did remember it though cos he was a decent mate at the time.
Yeah, yeah, they've heard the amnesia defence loads of times.😉
He’s gone several steps beyond that and:
a) Giving away somewhere between £1.5 and £3 billion
b) Calling it a war (which won’t go down well at home).
OK so reading up a bit more on Abramovich, I'm going to back down a little here... I'm sure the decision to walk away from $2Bn of loans is probably the smallest of his worries right now, and whether or not I believe the line about it "never being about the business" and that it was always about his "passion for the club", something else has cropped up...
Abramovich was born and grew up in Russia, but ethnically he is half Ukrainian (his mother's side), and has lots of family still in Ukraine...
I am detecting the world's largest dose of buyers remorse going on right now, with his decision to ally himself quite so unilaterally (albeit very quietly so as to be plausibly deniable to the outside world) to Putin for the last 2 and a half decades, the man who is now remorselessly bombing many of his friends and relatives, probably consuming him right as we speak!
They’ve not been seizing, they’ve been freezing assets.
Yes apologies, wrong terminology, I definitely meant to say freezing...
Abramovich is the dead cat.
It's those in to the UK who enabled him and his ilk to corrupt our country that need holding to account.
Dear GCHQ
we're both technically mtbers, and thus share interests but please don't make me share a cell with Molgrips.
I shared a house with a guy who had a photocopy of it
I'd a mate who had the book itself. I read it a couple of times, but tbh most of the pics looked too amateur to be serious. Obviously not thinking back now.
Alpin is currently scrubbing his computer with bleach 😆 😆
Russia MREs with Feb 2015 use by dates
I know most of it is sealed and I’m using a bottle chilli oil I found which is dated 2009 and I haven’t died yet but even so.
I think you'll be fine.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA/videos
Current 2021 Ukrainian rations.
He eats rations going back decades. Actually eats stuff 50 years out of date 😯
There are probably current GCHQ workers on the thread, there are a lot of 'em and definitely a few are cyclists (the ones I met were more mad "oh what a lovely dual carriageway!" road cyclists than MTB-ers tho). They will be the ones saying they do a dull office job...
If or, hopefully, when this is over what lessons will be learned and policies adopted to prevent thus happening again?
This rams home the truth of...absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Putin is the living embodiment of that.
There's been much talk about Abramovich - why does his yacht have a military grade air defence system and a submarine capable of 50 mtr submersion?
That's got to be for Putin, not a footie club owner.
I see that Usmanov's £600mill yacht has been impounded in Germany; predictably he's making noises about it being illegal, damaging to his reputation, intending to fight this yadda yadda.
There are probably current GCHQ workers on the thread
One of my classmates at school, I learned a few years back, was recruited by GCHQ as an analyst, to my immense surprise. He was retired by 50, or so I believe. All right for some.
They’ve not been seizing, they’ve been freezing assets.
Not in this case, they’re not…
I see that Usmanov’s £600mill yacht has been impounded in Germany; predictably he’s making noises about it being illegal, damaging to his reputation
Seeing quite a few reports now about more shoulder launched missiles, both anti tank and anti aircraft, arriving in the country. If they can get them to the right places I’m sure they will make a real difference. Reports of a cruise missile being downed by Ukrainian air defences in Kyiv, so they are at least partially operational.
Not sure if the Russians are holding back. Also a lot of speculation that only a tiny proportion of their tanks have been committed.
If the Russians were hoping for this to be over in a week then they have got it badly wrong. Will it be over in 5 or 6 weeks though? Seems unlikely on the evidence so far.
Tango with Putin, half way through on BBC FOUR now, is worth a watch on iPlayer.
Media is totally controlled by the govt but I hope they will be able to continue.
Russia has just began its own forever war but as well as losing personnel day in day out to a ruthless, well motivated enemy they will also be suffering on the home front from sanctions.
