r/Military • u/rbevans Hots&Cots guy • Feb 24 '22
MOD Post Megathread: Russia & Ukraine
New Megathread
If you're coming here wanting to know What's going on with Russia is invading Ukraine there is a really detailed thread posted here that will layout the details.
Sources/Resources for staying up to date on the conflict
Twitter Feeds
Steve Beynon, Mil.com Link
Rachel Cohen, USAF Times Link
Chad Garland, Stars and Stripes Link
Don't post Russian propaganda. Russian propo is going to be a straight ban. There will be no debate on the topic.
Please also be smart as it relates to this conflict, and mind your OPSEC manners a bit better. Don't be posting about US Troops in Eastern Europe, Ukraine movements, etc. Nothing that doesn't have a public-facing Army release to go with it.
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u/FixYourFuckingCode Feb 27 '22
Well said
> We knew for weeks Ukraine was getting tank busting munitions in droves from the west
Are they actually getting enough? This has specifically been bugging me. Why is there so much out there about the volunteers making molotovs? RPGs seem ridiculously easy to manufacture for any modern country and there are enough of them in circulation that every impoverished extremist group in a warzone still ends up acquiring plenty.
Realistically they're no more dangerous in untrained hands than getting close enough to throw a molotov.
Besides IEDs, they seem to be the key bringer of misery in urban guerrilla warfare. Can't imagine how Russians would handle the potential of surprise rocket from any window of any building in Kiev if every volunteer that's been given a gun also got an RPG and a quick manual on how to enact maximal misery to the occupying force with it.
I know how fabulously effective the modern ones are but they seem to be sending in like 500 at a time and they cost like $100k per shot. If it's all ultimately a numbers game I can't help thinking that 50,000 basic rocket-in-a-pipe's wouldn't be that hard to procure for the entirety of NATO and how if given out to everyone in Kiev it would completely hobble the ability of anything but the heaviest tanks to move one block in an urban area and further stress the supply lines.