After over one year of Western equipment being tested in Ukraine, which proved to be good or bad?
I guess you can argue that Starstreak didn't make it while the old Stingers are still reliable anti-air assets.
After over one year of Western equipment being tested in Ukraine, which proved to be good or bad?
I guess you can argue that Starstreak didn't make it while the old Stingers are still reliable anti-air assets.
Have ukies even received starsteak in any quantity? I’ve seen multiple martlet shoot downs but no confirmed SS
a few dozens systems with an unknown numbers of munition.
Perfect track record basically
dis homie saved my new year btw, heard them working all night
t. ukrainian
based
People were saying Ukraine doesn't need Gepards when Germany announced to send them last year.
Still amazed as to just how useful these things turned out to be. I could have sworn it would basically just be there and be kinda 'ok', but instead it's been clearing the skies of drones and missiles pretty damn well.
Same here. I'm Brazilian and nobody here placed much faith in those when we purchased them from Germany. This is truly good news.
They were designed for shooting down slow low flying proyectiles and planes. And that's basically all Russia has. So of course they rock. If Ukraine was fighting a country that uses modern planes and missiles, meaning a NATO country, the Gepard would be completely insufficient for anything outside of drones. But thankfully for Ukraine, cou
ntries outside of NATO and specially Russia have yet to catch up there, so that bad boy can go dumbass hunting to its hearts content.
The Gepard always was a great system. The only reason the Germs canned it and the development of its successor was because of budgetary constraints. If they hadn't bled the Bundeswehr dry for the past 30 years we'd have a lot more Gepards or a similar toy available today
its all so tiresome, I just want Germany to be powerful, but CDU and SPD have sadly destroyed that dream
Must be an absolute blast to operate one of these
>American weapons: work well
>European weapons: work well (but only 30 were available)
EXPAL is quite happy with the field tests and their market segment of cheap ,rugged and light AT weapons.
Panzerfaust is beloved by the Ukrainians
panzerfäust was made for blowing up russians
panzerfäust blew up russians
panzerfäust 3 was made for blowing up russians
panzerfäust 3 is blowing up russians
all hail das panzerfäust
But what happened to panzerfaust 2
Acht, panzerfaust 2...
You see... Panzerfaust was ze Panzerfaust 30 Klein.
then ze panzerfaust 30.
then ze panzerfaust 60.
then ze panzerfaust 100.
then ze panzerfaust 150.
then ze panzerfaust 250....
Then ve lost war.... bad times.
Panzerfaust 2 was Panzerfaust 44, ze Leicht Panzerfaust.
We use for 30 years, from 60's to 90's...
It vas ok.
So the Panzerfaust 1 was the Panzerfaust 30 small.... the REAL panzerfaust 2 was the Panzerfaust 30.... and technically the Panzerfaust 2 and 3 are closer to the Panzerfaust 7 and 8?
Nein. Panzerfaust is panzerfaust, panzerfaust 44 is panzerfaust 2, and panzerfaust 3 ict panzedfaust 3.
30 klein to 250 are all panzerfaust original.
Literally no footage of it being used. And they only got a handful, so they probably have none left.
>Literally no footage of it being used.
What makes that a valid metric? There is hardly any footage relative to the total amount of combat and weapons used.
God only knows how many mobiks had to die for this fricker to finally get his hands on an AT4 and he can't even shoot it correctly
Gepards turned to still be able to do the job they were designed for like half a century ago perfectly and with some upgrades they actually didn't just retain their value but gained additional value on the battlefield due to the onset of drones.
Armored vehicles and tanks from nearly a century ago are still useful as well (don't tell warriortard that that includes the 3-round mag carrying british one).
Trenches, something modern armies increasingly moved away from, have proven their value too (means grunts will probably have to dig a lot more again in the future).
Mines and minefields, simple as they are, also make clear impacts.
I've seen videos of ukrainian soldiers reviewing it and explaining how to use it, you should be able to just look it up on on youtube. They seem to like it a lot as it deletes an entire half of the most modern Russian tanks even if it hits the front. The aftermath of those hits is documented as well.
Might be another case like the Gepard where the German government asked Ukraine not to film that shit.
Tanks come to mind here, careful in the glass house.
I have been thinking about this lately but what kind of impact do these weapons have one the russian society?you get the usual himars cope where they claim a himars kill but show some random truck and now they are placing bounties on leopard tanks.can I expect more butthurt once these are deployed since it will mean that another generation of vatniks is getting rolled over by german tanks?
Yes. Our grandchildren will argue with vatniks online over this war and the tanks will be an extremely distorted issue.
cant wait for the threads.I really want to see solojows reaction to this and the tiberium grade cope that he will try to spin.
You have to be careful to not learn the wrong lessons here. Ukraine"s situation, being a small infantry heavy army invaded by a larger mechanized neighbor, isn't something we're going to see all that often (especially when it comes to any conflicts the US would be involved in).
lmao, what just happened here? did he get knocked on his ass from the backblast?
the tube kicked back into his dysgenic face because low tech puccia man didnt know and didnt research there is a handle to brace your left arm
He was apparently planning on making some sort of
>hurr durr look how much kick this has! So inferior to superior RPG-7!
statement by holding it wrong (not holding the very obvious handles, loose grip) but didn't realize how much it was going to jump so it almost cost him an eye
Russian man unable to read pictographs that explain how to use the intuitive front grip.
>backblast
Some kind of malfunction since those are not supposed to have recoil.
this is panzerfaust, it fists panzers
Faust is fear
Stingers have gotten so many kills and attention because they are the most numerous western MANPADS by a long shot
They’re also the easiest SAM to use for minimally trained troops by a fair margin. moronic goatfrickers were dueling with hinds using stingers back in the Stan
And that was the 80’s. Mother fricking cassette tapes and 8 bit vidya 80’s.
Piss off Warriortard
>Starstreak didn't make it
?
Overrated once the Russians figured out to turn on their anti-air. And yes, turkey is part of NATO and the EU.
It was never billed as being anything special. It's very slow, has a low operational ceiling. Yeah, it's dead meat in an AA environment.
Vs a Pantsir, it probably survives.
> Turkey is part of NATO
Yes.
> and the EU
Take your meds.
>and the EU.
Maybe when they get a different watermelon salesman.
Even then, with how much Turk democracy has backslid, how quickly, and with how little resistance from the populace, the EU will take a long time before they trust them again. Specially with how many EU funds they wasted from the integration gibbs. (Seriously, EU candidates get Gibbs just for being candidates. All the non-EU balkans are leeching that tit too. And boy is the EU lamenting ever making that rule after seeing the munchers misuse them all the time.) Plus, yknow, every single EU member has VETO power over potential additions much like with NATO. And the Greeks would like to have a word about Cyprus. Plus as the Macedonians are finding out the hard way, Bulgaria is just in the business of VETOing for random gibbs or just plain fun. Which makes Turkey accession to EU basically impossible for the next generation at least.
Not vetoing Turkey's ascension into the EU would be political suicide in most EU countries. I don't think Turkey will ever join. I also don't expect Ukraine to join before 2040 (I'm serious).
>Which makes Turkey accession to EU basically impossible for the next generation at least.
And this is a good thing btw.
>turkey is part of NATO and the EU.
and don’t forget both the EU and NATO are controlled by the same israelites that also.... control russia and china
The Pope is israeli?!
The Pope, while technically born Catholic, is an adept of the Liberation Theology, which is a Judeo-Marxist infiltration of Catholic Christianity.
>Liberation Theology
Thats Latin American.
> And yes, turkey is part of NATO and the EU.
Funny thing is how assertive this moron is
It did its job in the opening months and you could say its contribution was very important. It was never supposed to be anything more than a cheap functional drone.
Good enough for the UK government to get the next gen version of it tho
Elaborate
https://mobile.twitter.com/Gabriel64869839/status/1646604426751234064?
Javelins did great, but HIMARS probably got the best sales pitch for the US out of the war so far, if we use that as an estimate.
Everything American got a nice showing. HIMARS, Javelin, even outdated shit like the Stinger and M113.
I don’t think switchblades did too well
If you're still around, I don't think it's so much that Switchblades did poorly, but rather that the role they play isn't really relevant in this kind of war. The 300s have had pretty good effect when used in their designed purpose, E.X. the FSB dudes getting shwakt but they're obviously worse when compared to the normal drone drops and the FPV drones in terms of cost-effectiveness and effect on target when used in frontline roles. There's plenty of vids of Ukrainian SOF backpacking them around, in addition to regular gear, which I think demonstrates one of its main selling points: it's lightweight and portable. The damage is also very localized and directional, which is great for minimizing collateral in the sandbox, terrible for frontline duty. The camera footage is also pretty good and it seems to be fairly intuitive to use and accurate. Overall, I think it's an unfairly maligned system due to its poor performance in roles it wasn't intended to fulfill.
>inb4 you're coping
I've been incredibly surprised at the M113's performance in this war. Back in 2021, I would have said the M113 would be a useless deathtrap on the modern battlefield. Is it obsolete, vulnerable, and of limited utility? Yes. But the Ukrainians have been getting *some* use out of it, and as the saying goes, 'the remarkable thing about a dancing bear is not that it dances well, but that the bear dances at all.'
War is like the rings of an onion, at the edge is the thin hardened skin that faces the enemy directly these are your tanks and most advanced systems. But these are just edge case, the volume of material is not front line and this is what wins war it's total "work" done, troops moved, dirt excavated, ammo transferred and sorted, minefields cleared, food cooked, all of this you could boil down to a single metric of horse power, m113 does work that needs to be done, the fact it's easily cut up on the edge isn't relevant.
They work fine as APCs, but the APC concept was born obsolete because anything with tracks and armor WILL be used as an IFV then die then be blamed for not being an IFV. It's instinctive. Wheeled vehicles are expected to suck so HMMWV gets love for being a misused turd in combat.
While nothing matched M113 for mobility in Southeast Asia (VN still use theirs) mobility doesn't matter much in real wars where trucks are just fine, and swimming not at all because river banks are mostly not surmountable. The US should never have built half-tracks AKA Purple Heart Boxes or M113 or any APC at all and gone straight to IFVs. Wheeled APCs as used by Russia are also helpless mistakes with useless armor.
Anything less than Namer is junk today and those require Trophy as anything without APS is also doomed.
It was a measure of technological capability. Armor design wasn't good enough, and engines weren't powerful enough to produce an IFV that was both well-armored and mobile. If you look at the early IFV designs (Schutzenpanzer HS.30, BMP-1), they're all tragic tin cans. Same thing was happening with tanks, you couldn't build 'true' MBTs because the engines weren't capable (the MBT is basically a heavy tank with a frickhueg engine).
The frick does Morocco need them for? Western Sahara?
In summary and not to stroke reformist wiener too much, but, frick the producers of cheap kit, specially cheap anti-tank are gonna be making bank due to this.
Since another anon mentioned the Pfaust let me use another example from my country, the C-90-CR and C-100 made by Instalaza, in (S)pain. Which has also been used quite a bit with great proficiency.
https://mobile.twitter.com/tacticalporn/status/1510325467244544008
Now don't get me wrong I do not advocate going back to unguided rockets as a norm. BUT people were questioning the need for these cheaper launchers at all, and boy were they wrong.
Shit is, ATGMs are great at long ranges, but for squad defense or shoeter range ambushes you have the rockets like these. But since all we've seen before is russian RPGs being used vs NATO tanks, those rokets looked ineffective at best, stupid at worst. Now we're seeing Ukranians use the much stronger NATO rockets vs the much weaker Russian tanks. Rockets are a turret tossing competition mainstay. God save Ukraine and thanks for making Instalaza's publicity for them that's doing wonders for our economy we should have sent more.
Also more generally, seeing drones dominate until antiair fricks them, then dominate again when HIMARs fricks the antiair proves the same thing all wars ever proved. No one tactic wins, combined arms is king and will always be.
Matadors are also in high demand from what I remember. Unguided launchers will always have use
I think what a lot of people forget about unguided launchers is that there are things other than tanks that the infantry might want to shoot a rocket at
Using an AGTM for a soft skinned truck or some enemy infantry in small building is incredibly wasteful, whereas a cheap unguided rocket would be perfect for the job
It is easy to forget that shoulder-fired launchers are also essential assets for busting up enemy MG positions, and other fortifications. Guided AT weapons are great at AT but not as versatile, portable, or economic as an M72A7 for blowing the shit out of a PKM nest.
Well, yes but I was talking about the AT ones because I hope absolutely no one who knows about how NATO operates is against the general purpose ones, but the AT unguided systems have been under a fair bit of attack lately, I mean it's hard to quantify how much of the stock prices changing due to this war is specifically due to that, but I know everyone who said the C100 is obsolete and we should just use atgms suddently shut their trap.
Also, btw, fun fact about that. I specifically mention NATO operation because of picrel, that russian mongoloid who makes propaganda, made this video: https://youtu.be/FD8oaXFeRrE comparing the C-90 to the RPG7 to dunk on NATO. And it's really fricking funny. Now practically all of his complains are as moronic as the ones on his infamous AT-4 video. But one of them takes the cake for the stupidest complain he's ever made. Spoilers below, watch if you wanna try to guess.
In that video he complains that the C-90 projectile didn't pen the tank's armor and instead filled the area around the tank with tiny metal chunks.
Have you guessed the issue yet?
For the slow ones. The C-90-CR is an anti-tank rocket. The C-90-C which he's using in the video is a frag rocket. It's meant to kill infantry, not tanks. He complained that a fragmentation explosive... Fragmented.
Fricking Russians.
Shit forgot the pic, picrel. If you make a drinking game out of everything wrong with this pic it'll drive you into a coma.
And since I had to make a continuation let me make up for it by showing this wonderful video of Russians not understanding how to disasemble a launcher. Seriously wtf.
https://twitter.com/Strelok_Pizza/status/1642279317504655360/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1642279317504655360¤tTweetUser=Strelok_Pizza
Oh so I didn't forget the pic, phone's just being an butthole! Ok, third attempt. I changed formats and everything, please work.
he looks like evil russian zelensky clone in this shot
>he looks like evil russian zelensky clone in this shot
They found a biolab that was manufacturing thousands of NATObot-infused Zelensky-supersoldiers designed to genocide russians but, much like in Terminator 2, managed to reprogram one of them!
Holy shit, Zelensky is fighting the Russians himself!
Switchblades are absolute garbage.
Meager range, pathetic warhead (not even vog level), subpar optics, vulnerable to jamming.
Can't kill anything with it, can't use it as a tactical recon, have to do the whole launch tube song and dance around it to deploy - as opposed to dozens of our own made variants both in fixed wing and rotor, that do everything of that better AND cost pennies.
Also idk if our morons were deploying them wrong or it is a manufacturing defect, but we had more than a couple of cases when this piece of shit exploded in tube on deploy.
I think SB600 deliveries were (after delaying it for a year) scrapped entirely too.
t. 4th ngu brigade ukie
I don’t believe you
Would you like me to post some top secret documents about coming offensive too? I will if you promise not to share it with anyone
I hope you made sure not to share metadata...
PrepHole wipes metadata off photos iirc
or PrepHole-x does
God bless!
Kek warriortard btfo'd in real time, God speed anon. Any experience with Western stuff?
Javelin's aiming unit makes for a fantastic infantry thermal when properly Black person-rigged, but as a man-portable atgm NLAW was doing better - it's lighter, much easier to use, and more ubiquitous, and kills russian armor just as well. Overall, western nv and thermals are leagues above anything we had before or could get commercially, but you can't equip everyone.
Scar h is a bloody good rifle, I don't see me ever going back to ak variants if I have a choice.
Western radars (incl counterbattery) are pretty fricking good, also ew and sigint gear we get is in short supply but it makes a difference.
Also, I cannot overstate how fricking indispensable starlink has been, if not for musk being a 50 yo teenage idiot we could do so much more with it. Overall we could use some cheap and reliable satellite comms modules in our manufacturing.
Pzh (reportedly, I'm not an arti guy) are good show guns, but a huge maintenance pain, to the point of being usable only in very narrow set of conditions.
M113 is a shitbox, not much better than a mtlb, it's more spacious/comfy inside, but mtlb wins points for lower profile and ridiculous all-terrain ability. M113 meanwhile can and in fact several times did roll over.
I haven't seen a starstreak irl, nor do I know anyone who did or knows someone who did. It might not even exist really.
Oh and I've see a Himars once from a respectable distance of about a hundred meters.
That's about it, only the stuff that I personally had any contact with.
I still don't understand why the Germans sent the Pzh. It's a great gun, but obviously needs the whole western maintenance and supply complex to function in combat.
Didn't expect poland to block the maintenance depots, leading to them being used essentially without proper maintenance for quite a while which leads to much more maintenance being required in the long run.
MTLB is the best thing the God has ever graced on this Earth.
>Javelin's aiming unit makes for a fantastic infantry thermal when properly Black person-rigged
The rest of you post is cool but that statement isn't really correct. The CLU is a shitty 80s greenscale thermal that cheap domestic ones outclass in clarity, have you looked through one? Shits nasty.
t.knower
I didn't get the opportunity to be spoiled with latest gen thermals on every grunt, so I guess I don't mind that much:D High-end, nice resolution stuff either goes into manufacturing or gets issued to elite units, and as I said it is miles above anything we can normally get our hand onto. But for an infantry section manning a trench with half of their gear what they took with them from home, a clu they can take off of used javelin is pretty fricking great, at пocaдкa to пocaдкa ranges it does the job and better than doing it with an ir searchlight.
I would imagine it is still far outclasses the mark 1 eyeball, which is their main problem throughout the whole conflict - not having enough force-multipliers to equip everyone
LARP
Good larp, but from what I understand the bong AA unit isn't all that common anyway so it would be rare if you did see it.
Surprised you didn't see at least one, or a Stormer.
I'm curious about your opinion on the light skinned CVRT, and if you've seen it at top speed.
Sparky on suicide watch
>more spacious than the MT-LB
jesus if that's true how cramped is the MT-LB
although granted i was only in an IDF engineering M113 with the bench in the middle instead of sides, which is more cramped than the stock M113
Maybe a silly question but how is radio silence enforced? Even from before the invasion last year, there has been almost zero leakage from the AFU, with very few exception, all tiktoks and telegrams we see from the Ukrainian side are from volunteer units, national guard or civilians. Do they just take away all your devices? Or is there just such tight discipline?
>Pzh (reportedly, I'm not an arti guy) are good show guns, but a huge maintenance pain, to the point of being usable only in very narrow set of conditions.
delet dis before local polacks see this
make them suffer
Dammit Anon, you didn't have to put him in his place that hard.
I kneel
Kill one for me anon
POG
Kill'em all and God bless
Your country is in ruins and your women give $5 throat jobs in Europe. Keep it up I enjoy the cheep dome
Russia is a bust, get over it
But enough about Russia
God bless and kill them all
You please the murder/k/ube. Cum on all of them.
sad but not surprising, it’s basically junk optimized only to fight Taliban who have no jamming but might have civilians nearby so no collateral damage allowed
I don’t know why the US feels the need to overengineer this shit. They could just place an order for 10,000 quadrotors and slap on a grenade dropping device. Oh wait, I know why, money
Ad hoc systems will always be better
It's not money but moronic procurement regulations and siloing of MAV efforts which makes them cost-prohibitive. BlueSUAS kinda fixed that but too little too late.
I had a feeling this was the case when we heard literally nothing about these things after the initial hype.
I still believe that's due to opsec because I've seen a switchblade unpacking video in July (i.e. a few months after the initial hype) where ukies said they were quite happy with the performance (and there are no videos because you need a laptop to record a video and few people carry laptops in the warzone). Video was deleted from youtube in a few hours.
Ask for Warmate, and thou shall be given
Warriortard thread.
Literally no point in posting in this gay thread.
does it hurt when people don’t heed your advice
It's a shame you effectively samegay your own thread, so even if the advice was heeded we wouldn't know.
Either way, people are warned, and they'll learn your moronic thought processes eventually.
Argue based on what? A few videos?
Comments from the Ukrainian Army
How new are you
Starstreaks worked great for the amount they were given, stingers were cost effective though
I love watching europe and america bankrupt themselves out of AT weapons to the point where the army is telling active duty to 'do without' because they're busy shipping them away for 16 year old hohol conscripts who'll die to ancient commie artillery before even seeing a russian
"They can't possibly have more than the tiny handful of stuff they've sent in working condition, most of our shit is broken so theirs must be too"
- Russians and turd-worldies
As an American, I can confirm. Our entire $857.9 billion defense budget went towards sending Ukraine--- (does math) 1.83 million Javelin launchers. Also, my grandmother couldn't afford to eat this month because the government used half of the Social Security budget to give Ukraine 6,407,518 TOW missiles.
Am from Ohio Oblast and can confirm, Babuskha froze to death last December when Biden blew up federal budget by sending 6 brazilion Javelins to the Hohols.
Can you imagine what 1.83 million Javelins could do?
Yeah
GOOD MORNING SIR!
Some things I heard get good reviews of are the thermobaric warheads for the RPG-7 from Bulgaria. They pack a huge punch and can pop fair sized houses.
Another thing that had great reviews is the Estonian Terramil PK-14 EFP directional mine, they say it is very light and easy to deploy.
forgot pic
And lastly, it is an open secret that Ukrainians love the RAAMS anti tank mine rounds and they cause huge problems for Russian tanks.
This. The concept of instant deployable minefield showstopper - its an intricate and difficult program to advance at all now and IDK if "advances against forces" will even be considered in future. Entire focus on destroying all enemy before moving.
did they ever consider what happens when they're dumping mines across their country haphazardly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Anti-Armor_Mine_System
"the M718 or M718A1 (RAAM-L) with a self-destruct time over 24 hours and the M741 or M741A1 (RAAM-S) with a self-destruct time under 24 hours."
Americans think of these thing in advance, we don't make mines that just hang around, they're either on a timer or manually triggered, and many of the more modern ones have a pingable gps unit inside them that allows them to mark themselves for collection via waypoint if hit with the right code signal to wake them up and have them show themselves. Even our land mines are smart munitions because we actually give a shit about "after" and reducing civilian collateral damage not just a concern for us but a priority. In our world it is more important to not kill bystanders than it is to kill enemies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Scatterable_Mines
Dick measuring vs Argelia and internet videos about how they could totally PWN Spain because they waste so much by GDP into their army (just ignore the Russia-tier corruption and the fact they have as much of a drug gang issue as fricking Mexico.) Not actual use just show.
Wellwell,
Do you ever Heard about depleted uranium and the gulf war Syndrom? Dont need mined when Theres radioactiv nanodust everywhere.
You are a Brown ESL Homosexual 🙂
You mean the depleted uranium that has been repeatedly scientifically proven not to be the cause of Gulf War Syndrome.
The same Gulf War Syndrome that has been repeatedly linked to low concentrarion sarin nerve gas exposure.
Go frick yourself, turdie. Just because your bugman masters don't give a frick about soldiers ane civilians doesn't mean NATO doesn't. We're not lile you. We're leagues better. Get it through your thick skull.
Bolt, H.M. Sarin: a never-ending story. Arch Toxicol 97, 1–2 (2023).
Angriest dinner plate I've seen in a while.
Patriot and switchblade flopped so hard
Javelins did wonderful, HIMARS was a surprise MVP
I won't say TB2 did amazing, but it produces lots of memes and certainly is very notable
patriot flopped? I know NASAMs and Gepard were better vs the shasneeds but I wouldn’t think patriot sucked
You idiots, Patriot hasn't even been deployed in Ukraine yet.
I thought the just got some according to the documents, or was that upcoming
IRIS-T is rated highly.
I heard nice things about Polish drones. One was perfectly going around Russian jamming capabilities. Flyeye?
Rumors are they were the only ones able to consistently resist jamming. Also the AA manpads (Piorun I think?) are widely considered to be the best Ukraine has currently.
Source? Haven’t heard shit about piorun in months.
There's quite a lot (albeit mostly from last year) if you just search piorun vs stinger. Basically:
>higher range
>harder to jam, more resistant to noise
>can shoot at very low altitude targets as well
>can be effectively used at night
Those are just Wikipedia stats. The fact is pioruns just don’t exist in high numbers
>implying stingers can’t be used at night
>OP
HIMARS
Javelin
NLAW
Stinger
Harpoon
AT4
Archer
Gepard
NASAMS
IRIS-T
>Good enough
TB-2
M109
M777
AS-90
CAESAR
PzH2000
Krab
Matador
Panzerfaust 3
TOW
SMAW
Piorun
>KWAB
Starstreak
Switchblade
>nowhere to be seen yet
M270
Patriot
Western tonks and some other armored vehicles
to be seen yet
>M270
I'd be surprised if a sizable number of the HIMARS-attributed hits we've seen weren't from M270s.
>Starstreak KWAB
Yeah hi warriortard
Nice try inputting your moronic opinion.
>M270
My guy, they fire the same ammunition as HIMARS, we'd have no way of knowing which is which from the point of view of the thing going boom.
>m270 nowhere to be seen
my brother in christ, there were videos of them and they use the same ammo like HIMARS. the only difference is tracked, slower and double the ammo. slower is a non-problem with the range they have, in comparison what the russians can counter with
Everyone is jerking off the HIMARs mobility over the M270 as a primary selling point but they haven't even gotten one confirmed M270. If the HIMARs system really the superior choice here?
considering starsteak is being operated 100% by the SAS it explains the lack of video footage
Source
Jack Teixeira
Where does it say starstreak is being operated by SAS
It doesn’t he’s just shitposting
Its old news from 2022
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/crack-team-sas-veterans-joining-26350789
This is a tabloid talking about retired sas guys going to Ukraine. Do you have any sources to back this up
1) A fricking tabloid as a source...
2) It's not news that there's instructors there
Do you not know how the SAS operate? If the England isn't actually at war with the country, the SAS that go to that country either "volunter" or going "training".
They putt the storey in mainstream press in case they are captures
Can I have evidence of the claim you made about starstreak being 100% operated by the SAS
NTA butterfly Pentagon leak mentions British troops on the ground there which I assume is what he refers to.
The leaks don’t mention SAS operating starstreak. Can you post the specific leak you’re talking about that shows the link between SAS and starstreak
Black person I just told you they mentioned British troops, I don't care about gay little argument. Stop being bad faith Black person about this, obviously the British government would send their special forces if they send any. Least amount of men with the greatest impact and so on.
No I don't know for sure, I didn't make that claim either, but the other moron is at least correct in so far as them very likely operating there.
Fricking autistic c**ts on /k/ lately, go shoot a gun.
>claim all starstreak in Ukraine are operated by SAS which significantly changes their visibility and apparent performance
>get asked for evidence
>mumble something about it being in a large leak
>get asked where in the leak
>admit the leak doesn't say anything to support your claim at all, insist that maybe it mentions the term "SAS" somewhere, accuse the people that called you out of being autists arguing in bad faith, push some spurious bullshit about how if you were the british government you'd totally send SAS to operate fricking manpads for reasons
You're the Black person arguing in bad faith. It's hard to imagine a less sincere attempt at discussion than whatever the frick I just watched.
Starstreak fans are cancer.
Yeah, 100 guys, which are probably all cooped up inside the embassy since your average crayon eater probably isn't enough to properly ensure the protection of embassy staff in case the Russians try to infiltrate spec ops inside Kiev to attempt to kill Zelensky again. That is assuming the Russians still have any spec ops left or if this time they'll just send homosexual in beaten-to-shit Ladas.
The SAS story seems likelier to me.
Mostly because I would do it and they always have the volunteer excuse. Literally no reason not to with how much Britain has invested into the war.
Source?
Are you asking me for a source of my opinion on that issue?
Because that source is me.
You're either moronic or so butthurt that you fall back on brainlet reflexes, but you can't be butthurt at me and there are too many possible positions my basic opinion of
>yeah I think british oper8ors are probably active in Ukraine
To figure out who or what caused you to be anally devastated.
So are you moronic or just angry? And if it's the latter, why? You sound like you're desperately shilling against the idea but I can't figure out the reason. Is it literally just because vatniks have said do before?
>Because that source is me.
Baste
>You have been demoted from anon to ESL.
>80 dollar pay cut as well.
Verification not required.
>seems likelier to me.
>Source?
You remind me of a zoomer who once proudly wrote that when his mother mentions God he goes
>uhhh source?
I hate your generation so fricking much.
100 sas wouldn't make a difference compared to how much of a liability it would be. The personnal deployed in Ukraine are advisors and technician, probably military attaché too. Maybe a few of them were offered to shoot something in the rough direction of the russians for fun and that's the most they have done in actually participating to combat.
Horseshit. The leaks all but confirm direct SAS action. You forget just how good anglos are at war
I was discussing British land forces actions during ww2 with a friend yesterday and couldn't find anything but blunders or timid offensives while always overwhelming the enemy in everything. God save the americans for Mac Arthur or Montgommery would be the worst leader of ww2.
>I was discussing British land forces actions during ww2 with a friend yesterday and couldn't find anything but blunders or timid offensives
that is a reflection on your incredibly poor research capabilities, Operation compass for example saw a 30k strong british force take out a 250k strong italian force in weeks
Revisionist cope
>Italians
Wow so impressive
You're literally replying to the warriortard shill.
But also it's unlikely they are using Bong troops directly.
There is probably some back line work for setting up and programming brimstone missiles, command, sig-int and the like.
Specialists for setting up and fixing weaponry and people needed for sharing NATO intelligence. It is unlikely there was very much direct action using bong SAS infantry outside of specialist kit and maybe a few instructors alongside Ukrainians to see how tactics work in field. These are supportive actions, it makes no sense to send basic grunt tier SAS ops in a long dense frontline war.
As for Starstreak, it's still used. There are quite a few videos of martlet being used against lower cost drones and helicopters at extreme range through the infantry launcher, and a few from stormer. It seems effective enough, else we wouldn't see them at all being frontline and attacked.
Not stop replying to bait.
Yes read Jack Teixeira files.
Which file specifically
You mean this guy is just taking Instagram photos
>Staged photo vs operations.
What sas operations
>SAS
>Ukraine
?????
More like is being operated by Ukrainians who were trained by actual anti-air soldiers who know what they're doing with it.
Kind of depressing that the starstreak was supposed to be above reproach but people feel the need to lie about it to prop it up. We don’t know if it’s a bad system but we know for sure it’s not as good as advertised
>I guess you can argue that Starstreak didn't make it while the old Stingers are still reliable anti-air assets.
You again? Don't you ever get tired of being proven wrong? Pretty much every single user here in this board has wiped their asses with your face regarding this subject, and yet you keep insisting on this folly. Do you like being repeatedly humiliated, over and over and over? Why do you persist?
IRIS T SLM
I really hope the good showing of the gepard and the need of non missle anti drone weapons will give us a new western spaag.
The Ukrainians are doing to well for the SAS to be on the ground there. They would have drive car over the border into Russia because they held a map upside down and been arrested by now for speaking english in a Russian accent to convince the russian cops they were russian
Pathetic.
>2023
>SACLOS
Yeah Starstreak is fricking trash.
Stop samegayging your gay thread.
the M777 are getting fricked by lancets
Anything the Germans sent was amazing:
>PzH 2000
>IRIS-T SLM
>Gepard
>Panzerfaust3
>MARS II
That's why I'm so eagerly awaiting Leopard 2A6 and Marder 1A3
Marder 1A3 will be marginally better than bmp1 don't get your hopes up
Well of course it's not going to get many kills if you give it to the Black person.
Well personally i've used all of the western equipment that was supplied to ukraine by and to be honest they are all shit besides the ppsh41 heck of a shotgun
MG3 and the Italian rechambered MG42
Leopard 2 tanks are already all destroyed