is literal horse cavalry still effective in 2022?

is literal horse cavalry still effective in 2022?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Charge of the moron Brigade

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Charge of the No Longer Tight Brigade

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Winged morons
      The Cucksacks
      The Cowardsiers
      The Buffoon Guards

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Charge of the Blyat Brigade

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I laughed

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Half a bottle, half a bottle,
      Half a bottle, onward,
      All in the hangover of death
      Stumbled the six hundred

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Frick you anon, I just choked on my iced tea.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Half a bottle, half a bottle,
      Half a bottle, onward,
      All in the hangover of death
      Stumbled the six hundred

      My girlfriend is sleeping you can’t make me laugh this hard

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We are about to find out I guess.

      >ride a horse till it dies, then eat it
      lel, they'll just shoot the horses the moment they arrive and have a feast.

      Russia is copying China now: https://youtu.be/CzRX06Xqu80

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What're they shooting at?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Nothing. It's propaganda shot around a "training" event where they blew up a nuke in the middle of nowhere and then charged into the irradiated wasteland for... reasons?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          at nothing because their firing blanks

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Mobilizing horses from all over Russian Farms
      Is this the mobilization girkin wanted?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Charge of the not-so-bright brigade

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    We are about to find out I guess.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >ride a horse till it dies, then eat it
    lel, they'll just shoot the horses the moment they arrive and have a feast.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    During mud season, sure. Are they going to be able to train enough frickin horsemen(in the current fricking year) to make a difference, hell no.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's pretty straight forward, just jump on horse and kick it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        t.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          omg did she dieded

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I dunno probably

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I TELL YOU BROTHER THAT HORSE PINNED HER FOR THE ONE-TWO-THREE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING IN FRONT OF A HUNDRED MILLION SCREAMING HORSEAMANIACS

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              underrated

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The posted the video originally. This is what she said:

            “ What you don't see in the video was the temper tantrum he pitched in the beginning, or the fact that his his buddy just finished their run and was heading back up to the barn, how windy it was, or the fact that the reigns on the left side were open. I clearly came up too high and tight on the right when closing that side off, but had he given into the circling that was meant to happen until he was ready to finally move forward into the ring then we could have avoided all that. Sorry to disappoint, still alive, no wheel chair, not even any broken bones, just some gnarly bruising. And we still hit up the trails a few weeks later, there were no hard feelings, just some good lessons.”

            There was also some emojis in there

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The rider posted the video originally*

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              What a shame.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              So if I'm reading this correctly she's saying the whole thing was the horse's fault, correct?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Women never take responsibility

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Horse women are generally fricking insane. So yes.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Overweight and Obese people especially should be just flat out forbidden from getting anywhere close to horses
              Every stable should be surronded by a 10m tall stone wall covered with electrified barbed wire on the outer side.
              There should be a checkpoint with a mandatory weigh-in before being allowed to enter.
              Any fatty who enters the premises anyway should be blown up by loitering Predator drones armed with Mk84 with JDAM kits
              >she should have dieded

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                As a bit of a lardass I tend to agree. The only horse i've ever hopped on as an adult was a friend's percheron. But he was built like a brick shithouse and I don't think he even noticed I was there until I nudged him with my heels.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No need for all that effort just install a flight of stairs.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I might live to see a video of Seabiscuit taking a piss drunk Vatnik on a one-way trip to Suplex City
          Oh god yes

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Bro, wtf

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            horses are buttholes

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            One of two things
            >Horse straight up got pissed at the chick and intentionally suplexed her
            or
            >Horses was just rearing up, but weight of the girl made it pitch too far back and fall over

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          JOHN CENA

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Tu tu tu du

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Well that's why you don't suddenly pull up on the control stick without building up some speed first.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          How can you be this bad
          She's probably done something to the horse to make it do that.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            you're not supposed to pull their fricking hair.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Is it just me or did she have the reins up super tight around the top of its neck, potentially choking it?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >In America, horse suplex you
          >But in Mongolia, you suplex horse

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Bro look at the size of the horse. It’s a tiny Asian horse not a huge feet

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >that second guy just throws the whole horse over his hip
            I am in awe.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Breaking in horses is srs bzns. Shitloads of trainers have been killed or permanently maimed throughout the centuries while doing it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Srsly?
        Even if you know how to ride a horse, i can assure you, that shooting from horseback is sth slightly different. You have to train that. Lance charges?Through trenches? Into buildings?
        Besides. It's russia we're speaking off. Just how many saddles they organize. How many horses will be trained to not panic when hearing gunshots??. That post has to be bait (op).
        I almost died thanks to a horse at the age of 9. I was on a hunt with grandpa. Was on multiple hunts startin from the age of 7. Not as a hunter, but as an obserber. Helped in building feeding stations for animals in winter. Deliver food there once a while. And as a reward i could go see how a hunt looked. Was on multiple hunts (once every 2 months). Hunts in Poland look like this. Group of hunters gather, go hunt in a designated area. Usually they had small car, to transport the hunted animals. On that one hunt, the animals were put on a wagon. Which was pulled by a horse. It was the 3rd time i was in that place (local farmer, who transported dead animals for the hunters, did it with this horse wagon - sth like an american settler wagon, just no sheets.). Was already twice on it. Horse was used to gunshots. Was on this wagon for the 3rd time that day. The farmer jumped of the wagon to help toss a boar on the wagon. In a few seconds another hunter, turned 180, placed his rifle like 50 cm under the horses face. And fired. Horse went fricking haywire. With fricking me alone on it. Till this day i do not know, how in God's name, did i manage to jump down on my knees, grab the reins, and managed to stop him like 200 m. before the end of the road. I have a vague memory of it. But i do remeber it. Grandpa does remeber it clearly. He almost shat himself, cause i could literally die that day.
        And you tryin to tell me that russia's 5d chess is horseback charge??. With malnoutished, old horses, who will go haywire, when a single shot will be fired?. Or artillery barrages? If true, this will be /k/ino.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Fascinating, glad you were ok. Amazing how the mind works in life-or-death situation (even as a child)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        As shockingly stupid that is, this exact mindset would be exactly what I expect of Russian leadership. They'd field untrained, sickly horses, with little or no equipment and expect Conscriptovich to somehow learn a craft that's been lost for going on a century overnight. I fricking love it, and I hope this isn't bullshit propaganda. Which I think it is, because even for vatniks this is some of the most obscenely stupid shit I have ever heard in my life. It's up there with seeing reports Russian leadership is debating sending soldiers into the field with cuirasses lifted from some museum. Literally turning into a game of Civilization when you get too far ahead in the tech tree and fight a swordsman with a tank

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >it's pretty straight forward, just jump on horse and kick it
        Did you learn that in vidya along with now guns shoot? Generation useless stupid c**t right there. Its fricking hard to learn to ride a horse well and takes years to train a horse for gunfire. If the Russians send horses there this winter they will be dead by spring because horses will not survive the winter without the right care and stabling. Cavalrymen were elite, trained as elite infantry and then trained to acre for their horse, even carrying spare house shoes. It would take years to train cavalry and for what? To die in a drone strike. If this is true its just because the satanist in the kremlin wants to add the sound of screaming horses to the rape and murder and death in mud he has created

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      About that, when is mud seaseon?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Now and February-March. The fall mud isn't as bad as the spring mud though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How a horse that is basically a 300kg vehicle on stilt not going to be absolutely exhausted during raspubreastsa after struggling for a 100m. It sound to me like the worst time to engage horse and I hope that they plan to train horseman during winter instead of throwing them like mobile kitchen for frontline troops so they dont starve during winter.
      I just checked quickly a horse ground pressure. 48 psi while walking. A bradley ground pressure is supposedly 7.7 psi.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You are right anon, I have gone to pull horses out of mud that had become stuck and exhausted and collapsed. For lots of reasons horses are the last thing you want in the hands of people who don't know how to care for them without fodder or vets in the war in Ukraine. Its insane. If the Russians do this it is actual insanity. I can ride and care for horses buts that because I was born to it. Even then a horse is the last thing I would want in that war with me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/HZV6DTV.jpg

      This has me curious, how often is horsemanship taught in the US military?
      I assumed it was mainly for parade/historical stuff and extremely niche SOF roles.

      Srsly?
      Even if you know how to ride a horse, i can assure you, that shooting from horseback is sth slightly different. You have to train that. Lance charges?Through trenches? Into buildings?
      Besides. It's russia we're speaking off. Just how many saddles they organize. How many horses will be trained to not panic when hearing gunshots??. That post has to be bait (op).
      I almost died thanks to a horse at the age of 9. I was on a hunt with grandpa. Was on multiple hunts startin from the age of 7. Not as a hunter, but as an obserber. Helped in building feeding stations for animals in winter. Deliver food there once a while. And as a reward i could go see how a hunt looked. Was on multiple hunts (once every 2 months). Hunts in Poland look like this. Group of hunters gather, go hunt in a designated area. Usually they had small car, to transport the hunted animals. On that one hunt, the animals were put on a wagon. Which was pulled by a horse. It was the 3rd time i was in that place (local farmer, who transported dead animals for the hunters, did it with this horse wagon - sth like an american settler wagon, just no sheets.). Was already twice on it. Horse was used to gunshots. Was on this wagon for the 3rd time that day. The farmer jumped of the wagon to help toss a boar on the wagon. In a few seconds another hunter, turned 180, placed his rifle like 50 cm under the horses face. And fired. Horse went fricking haywire. With fricking me alone on it. Till this day i do not know, how in God's name, did i manage to jump down on my knees, grab the reins, and managed to stop him like 200 m. before the end of the road. I have a vague memory of it. But i do remeber it. Grandpa does remeber it clearly. He almost shat himself, cause i could literally die that day.
      And you tryin to tell me that russia's 5d chess is horseback charge??. With malnoutished, old horses, who will go haywire, when a single shot will be fired?. Or artillery barrages? If true, this will be /k/ino.

      They could be trying to organize dragoon type formations, which travel by horseback and then dismount and leave their horses behind in nearby cover to fight. It would provide a big mobility boost to an otherwise bare infantry unit, the downside being you need to train all those soldiers to ride semi-competently and you leave 1/3-1/5 of your troops behind to hold and manage the horses every time you fight.

      I also don't think horses would provide nearly the mobility advantage in this circumstance that they did historically because the Ukrainian countryside has been sprinkled with mines like a very spicy cupcake, and buttercup isn't going to be able to recover from stepping on a butterfly mine nearly as well as an APC or even a civilian van.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Last time that it was used somewhat effectively was during the Russian civil war and its spawn conflicts. Thought its probably was still used in later conflicts

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It was used very sporadically by at least the Bitish and Americans in ww2. It wasn't amazing but its what they had and it actually wasn't just a waste (especially considering the equipment crunch).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Germans too. Horses and bicycles make a lot of sense if you don't have oil.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What's the second bike for

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            for when the first one gets tired

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >THE ONE WITH THE RIDER GOES FIRST, THE ONE WITHOUT THE RIDER FOLLOWS

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There is a different in using horses for cavalry and logistics/utility. A really big difference in fact. I have never heard about any German cavalry in ww2 and I kind of doubt it unless you have something more to show me.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Oh my bad, I missed the whole cavalry part.
            My grandpa and grandma told me about Germans invading Ukraine while they lived there (they were Germans too) and they always told me how many horses and mules they saw
            Pic is some German WW1 cavalry

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah, its a common misconception just how motorized ww2 was. Especially during the early days. I think I remember something like that during the famous German blitzkrieg they had 10 horses for every 1 vehicle. They were especially common with pulling artillery and carts full of munitions/supplies.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You have horses! What were you thinking?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah, its a common misconception just how motorized ww2 was. Especially during the early days. I think I remember something like that during the famous German blitzkrieg they had 10 horses for every 1 vehicle. They were especially common with pulling artillery and carts full of munitions/supplies.

              75% of German transportation in ww2 was via horse. They just kept the cameras pointed at the motor vehicles.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They did have some.
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_(Wehrmacht)
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cavalry_Brigade

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Germans actually used horses extensively. In fact, they were not fully motorized - and never were throughout the war. The whole "mechanized German blitzkrieg against Polish cavalry charges" was a complete propaganda meme on both sides, especially for the Allies who used it to cover up their own utter failure to explain why Poland fell so quickly.

            And, to be fair to the Germans, this makes total sense when you look at their industrial constraints. At no point could they have ever fully mechanized, and used horses for logistical purposes in order to avoid competition with their offensive motorized units.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            One of the reasons why Germany lost the war is they used horses and every other nation mechanised their shit. When your supply convoy is outstripped because it isn't mechanised, you're fricked. Why did the Germans do this, you ask? Because they didn't have enough gas. The plan was always to take the oil from the British in the Middle East and in Ukraine/Russia, but lots of stuff happened which prevented that, including Hitler splitting up forces and trying to have his cake and eating it and then getting into an autistic fight at Stalingrad, the Bongs beating the Germans out of Africa (and a major contribution was lack of fuel).

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Germany used 3 million horses in Barbarosa. Look it up.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >we might get to see a BTR4 autocannon turn a horse into tartare in seconds

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They can't feed their mobiks, what are they going to feed horses that have a much higher caloric requirement?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You're really not very bright, are you?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You can't just feed an actively working horse off the land in a war zone. Even centuries ago armies would secure a logistics train for fodder instead of grazing, because otherwise the horses had to be out grazing 80% of the time and engaged in useful work 20% of the time.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Even centuries ago armies would secure a logistics train for fodder instead of grazing

          >read about the 1683 siege of Vienna
          >THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
          >they arrived with their own wagons and fodder, but not much because the Pope paid the Austrians to organize logistics for the Poles
          >Poles leave their wagons and supplies with the Austrian infantry to the West of the city as they circle around to attack from the south
          >battle happens, Turks are defeated, everyone celebrates
          >Poles ask where the supplies the Pope paid for are
          >turns out Austrians pocketed the money but never organized the supplies
          >also the Austrian infantry robbed the Polish wagons so there's no supplies left

          they were platinum mad and lost a frick ton of horses

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            What the frick is it with Austrians and constantly being the bane of every Pole's existence?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >turns out Austrians pocketed the money but never organized the supplies
            tfw you hire russian subcontractors

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              criminally underrated post

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        good luck finding enough grass for your horses in a war zone in the winter

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Go suck start a pistol you pseud homosexual, you have 0 logistical comprehension.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >A soldier can ride a horse till it dies, then eat it
        I think every self-respecting Cavalryman across the entire spectrum of human history, regardless of continent, race or creed, just suffered a collective aneurysm despite virtually all of them already being dead.

        >Vatniks don't understand logistics of modern mechanized warfare
        >Vatniks don't understand logistics of historical Equine warfare
        Like poetry, it rhymes!

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Poor horses do not deserve such a fate. Fortunately they shall be avenged when inner and outer Mongolia combine and the Khanate is reborn. You may think that impossible, but far stranger things than that have happened this decade and we're only two years in.

          Also at this point, it wouldn't surprise me that the number one cause of death in Russia is starvation because they literally can't organise a shopping run to save their own life.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Tengri please let it happen. If they do this, I will immediately go to Mongolia to fight for them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's almost November. This ain't Texas, it actually snows in most of Ukraine.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        "Lookie Horsie -- White Grass! Eat em up nom nom!"

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why do slavic speaking people sound like they're drunk when they speak english?
          The language sounds slurred.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They don't have an equivalent to the word "the, a, or an" in their language. So it ends up sounding childish and dumb when they speak English.

            So instead of "Look a black cat" its "look black cat". Instead of "trust the plan" its "trust plan". Instead of "An hero" its "Hero"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >horse spends 80% of its day grazing on the shit winter grass
        >sorry Nellietovich we need to ride into Yook artillery
        >heavily loaded horse can’t graze enough
        >collapses after two days
        Less catastrophic than most of Russia’s logistics

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Russian politicians think a work or cavalry horse can survive on grass alone.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What do you think horses eat exactly?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Big modern horses need more than grass anon, especially on the move. Armies have been stalled for want of oats before.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >An average horse on pasture 24 hours a day will graze for about 16 hours, meaning that they can consume 16-32 lb (7-15 kg) of pasture. This is equivalent to 1.6-3.2% of body weight per day for an average 1,000-lb (450-kg) horse,” said Kathleen Crandell, Ph. D., a Kentucky Equine Research nutritionist
          Now throw in heavy workload caloric expenditure and good luck finding that much grass per horse in the winter in a war zone

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. Reminder that horse fodder was the number one commodity in terms of tonnage shipped to the fronts of WW1, ahead of ammunition and food for the soldiers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/vJGTelH.jpg

      You're really not very bright, are you?

      This. Reminder that horse fodder was the number one commodity in terms of tonnage shipped to the fronts of WW1, ahead of ammunition and food for the soldiers.

      >when the snow hits and either kills or makes dormant everything remotely edible for your horse, and the higher ups in supply tell you "just let them graze, bro"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Bro why isnt that horse eating the grass?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's fasting.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Only certain horse breeds can live off of just grass and apparently that is not one of them.
          That was one of the advantages that Mongol horsemen had over everyone else, their horses could work all day and thrive on just grass.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >what does you horse take? Leaded or unleaded?
            >diesel

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >That was one of the advantages that Mongol horsemen had over everyone else, their horses could work all day and thrive on just grass.

            What they ACTUALLY had was a system where nine horses were out grazing while one worked. The 80/20 ratio mentioned in

            You can't just feed an actively working horse off the land in a war zone. Even centuries ago armies would secure a logistics train for fodder instead of grazing, because otherwise the horses had to be out grazing 80% of the time and engaged in useful work 20% of the time.

            is generous.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Also there's not a lot of nutrition in grass, which is why you also need to supplement the diet of grazing animals like sheep or cows.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Mongolian horses are still just grazers:
              >The horses typically eat nothing but grass and require very little water, a trait useful for survival in environments like the Gobi desert. A horse may drink only once a day.[9][10] In the winter, Mongol horses paw up the snow to eat the grass underneath. For water, they eat snow.
              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_horse

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Mongol horses are very basal too. Of all domesticated horse breeds, they are the most similar to the wild ones of the Pleistocene.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Whole concept is incomprehensable for me. Horseback charges are out of the question. Takes a few shots and those horses scatter or drop their riders. Besides. What would they be armed with. Ak's?? Yea i imagine how would that work out against a dug in enemy. Lance charges, pretty good in the field, rather disappointing against trenches, building's or ifv's. So no horseback fighting. What than?. They make a camp 5 km away??. And tie horses to trees??. It's a 5 min fun for the local artillery units. So they can't be mobile, and they do not have a possibility to make a camp anywhere close to enemy lines. This can't work on so many lvl's...

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It seems from the wording that what's being proposed isn't cavalry in the "rides into battle" sense, but rather horse mobile light infantry (dragoons).

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >dragoons
                Some vatnik commander was watching game of thrones and mistranslated dragon.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                moron

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Which, in the age of drones, is also doomed to fail. They ride for 30 km, leave the horses 5km before the trenches and go on foot??. Imagine ruskies tying those farm horses to a fence or sth. Or even to trees. All it takes is a uav nade, to start a stampede. However you try to make it work it just doesn't. Not only is it stupid to the core, it will be implemented by people, who don't shit without a direct order. As i would love to see it, it can't work.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >tying them to something
                No, the plan is to ride them to death and then eat them.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Can't they just walk to the frontline? It's not like it's that far from the russian border

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                If they walk then what are they supposed to eat?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                And then eat their own two feet?
                I like how you think, tovarisch!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I see Shoe Soup is going to be a Russian staple this year.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              We both know there's going to be that one idiot who's going to try and fire an RPG from horseback and have the results preserved on the internet forever.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Ak's
              >building's
              >ifv's

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Having mules to carry your shit can unironically be a good and viable idea.
              Riding into combat is just moronic though.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is satire, right? It has to be.
    Russia doesn't have any horses in significant number and it's nearly winter.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Man, I don't even know anymore

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If I hadn't spent my entire life observing Russian command like the Chimpanzees with front lobe injuries that they are, I would doubt this. However, to the contrary, I believe it entirely. Doesn't mean they'll do it, but at least one fetal alcohol moron in the Kremlin shouted these ideas out in desperation.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    have they not learned from WW1? no way they are that moronic

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Horses were a major asset in WWI

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        > 1914-1918 – First World War: More than 16 million animals were made to serve on all sides, with nine million killed (including eight million horses, mules and donkeys).

        Didn't fly so good.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Horses are good for packing shit in mountainous terrain that you can't run an ATV up or drop a helicopter into. That's about it.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This has me curious, how often is horsemanship taught in the US military?
    I assumed it was mainly for parade/historical stuff and extremely niche SOF roles.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There's a school for it ran by USAJFKSWCS, iirc.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >USAJFKSWCS
        An acronym which looks fake but isn't.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >USAJFKSWCS
        I initially assumed this was a joke

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Space Force inherited the Vandenburg Airforce Base mounted units, so the Space Force has mounted recon cavalry
      >horses on mars

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >horses on Mars
        They’d better be called the Knights of Cydonia.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The Space Force inherited the Vandenburg Airforce Base mounted units, so the Space Force has mounted recon cavalry
          >horses on mars

          >Yeehas in binary

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Donkeys and horses were used by SOF during the invasion of Afghanistan.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know if SOF ever had any formal training with horses, but I do know at least some of them did a decent amount of riding in their spare time. Growing up in the 90s I had a friend whose dad was with 5th SF, though he never discussed anything with me of course.
        But he and his 'friends' who were obviously in the same line of work seemed to go riding pretty regularly, and I was invited to come along with them and his son once or twice.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >don't know if SOF ever had any formal training with horses

          They do.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dunno about the US but the Dutch riot police still uses horses for charging to disperse crowds (and very effectively so). Obviously that is not how Russia plans to use them (I hope for their own sake) but thought it was neat.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Lots of US police forces still maintain mounted units for crowd control and search and rescue.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >A soldier can ride a horse till it dies, then eat it
    I get the feeling russian soldiers would have absolutly no idea how to care for a horse, or a empathic inclination to care for its suffering.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like how their most optimistic plan is still to abuse and kill an animal, and of course the soldiers won't have enough real food.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tank need gas
    >you can eat horse
    Fricking hell Russians never change

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >when /mlp/ saw that a kleptocrat was using the war to enhance his stable and used it to tricked into discussing horses
    I want PrepHole back

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fricking phoneposters up in here again

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >When the horses have full personal CBRN protection, but the soldiers have to hope the seals on their vehicles still function.

      It'd be hilarious if we end up in a situation where the only things that aren't panicking madly are the fricking horses.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't think a situation exists that won't panic a horse. I know people with the frickers and they're the most moronic, easily terrified, fragile, and high maintenance thing I've ever encountered in my life. No wonder women feel such a kinship with them.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I agree with them being ridiculously timid things. My little brother got dragged through a barbed wire fence by one when it got startled a crisp packet. He was alright, but he got cut-up bad in a few places.

          I reckon cows and donkeys would be much more popular pets if people realised how much smarter and friendlier they are compared to horses.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            YJK

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I wouldn't exactly call cow smart, they are more too dumb to be easily spooked or deliberately aggressive outside of very specific situations.
            It's also a bit unfortunate they are too dumb to realize creatures smaller than them are fragile, cows (especially in a herd) will quite possibly trample someone to death just out of curiosity and trying to examine them.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >It's also a bit unfortunate they are too dumb to realize creatures smaller than them are fragile, cows (especially in a herd) will quite possibly trample someone to death just out of curiosity and trying to examine them.

              >oops what was that? let me back up a bit. oh sorry didn't see there, you puny little fella, was that your rib cracking?
              >hahaha oh no bessie watch out, you're still crushing him!
              >oooh girls my legs are sooo tired, I think I'll sit my big ass on this monkey cushion that someone conveniently left here
              >c'mon bertha cut it out, we'll get in trouble if he dies hahaha

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                haha, w-wouldn't it be funny if he was hard? That would be totally weird right? Who would get hard from getting stepped on by a cow h-haha.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Horses have an innate bolting instinct, unlike donkeys or mules, whose zebra blood inclines them more to violence than mindless running. See donkeys routinely murdering coyotes on various farmsteads throughout the Midwest.
          Horses can run farther, faster, and for longer than donkeys/mules, and this has steered their instincts toward an extremely strong flight response. It takes a huge amount of effort to break them out of it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      THE WITCH MUST LEAVE

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >take the calvary and squeeze Surovikin, squeeze hard

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Kinky.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >#russiaiswinning

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ...I.... wait a minute... I feel like I've seen this episode before.... Somewhere... Some... Where....Where....Wear... Wehr....Wehrmacht!
    Fricking WW2 Wehrmacht levels of logistics soon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      anon, Wehrmacht logistics actually worked

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Wehrmacht only used horses to transport shit. The Russians are going to be using them to replace armored vehicles in combat.
      They're not the same. One worked with what it had to combat a gasoline and supply shortage by cutting back where it wasn't needed. The other one is Russia.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >the horse is more stable
    lmao still dumbfounded by the fact the ruskies can't maintain their own tanks for shit. Tanks they've been building for 50 years and they still don't know how to fix them when they break.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is actually genius, a normal empathetic human might actually hesitate to shoot at a Russian if a horse might get hurt in the process.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    imagine the look on Shoigu's face when someone tells him he could've had these dudes on-side the whole. fricking. time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Man, it's going to be really weird seeing Orcs joyously crying out "The Eagles Are Coming!".

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wait are they sending untrained horses into a war zone?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Untrained horses with untrained riders.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Clearly this is to boost the flagging morale of the Russian infantry. I know that if I was squatting in a muddy foxhole, prolapsed anus throbbing and pondering whether boiler plate will stop shrapnel and I saw Conscriptovich fly past me upside down and hanging from one stirrup on a bolting horse heading straight for the frontline, screaming like a frightened schoolgirl, I'd immediately feel better about my situation.

        It's such a goddamn shame that we will only ever be able to see a fraction of the comedy gold that will be on display.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It could work if they were provided with anti armor weapons. That's how the Polish cavalry operated in WW2 and they did pretty well. What I would do is recruit a bunch of steppe people from Yakutia or somewhere, put them on steppe horses, give em a bunch of anti armor, and let em go at it. Of course, that makes sense so I know they won't do that.
    >inb4 somebody brings up the Poles charging German tanks
    Didn't happen the way the Krauts reported it. They accidentally ran into them after routing an infantry unit and managed to get away.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm made nobody ever charged a tank on horseback with an anti-tank lance

      If Russia starts resorting to cavalry armed with lunge mines I'll start rootin for pootin

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >made
        I'm mad at the japanese for not doing it and mad at autocorrect for fricking this up

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I once heard someone describe Russian socioeconomic system as "mandatory Warhammer 40000 roleplay". There's plenty of moronic kino left in Putin's sleeve, just you wait until they start mobilizing the children.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >just you wait until they start mobilizing the children.
          >start
          I'm pretty sure they've been doing that already. Don't have it saved, but I saw some soldiers who looked way too fricking small to just be short adults in some webm an anon posted here like a month or two ago.
          They were filmed from behind, most of the measuring of them being done by comparing them to the rifles they were holding, and nearly every poster in that thread was saying "nah man, they're just like midgets or something" when I'm positive they had the proportions of a child.
          At the very least, they probably have some kids on standby already, if they haven't already started sending them out in waves.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >That's how the Polish cavalry operated in WW2 and they did pretty well
      Does that still work with drone recon and guns that can accurately engage a horse sized target from miles away

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >laughs in HIMARS

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What exactly are they going to do with the horses? All the talk about tanks makes me think they're going to use them as replacements for their tanks...? What exactly is the battle plan here I don't get it

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I only have one question.
    Can a Javelin lock on to a horse?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's just cruel and unusual, Anon. But yes, if the heat signature coming off the horse is strong enough, we CAN vaporise a horse with a heat-seeking, tandem charge missile from 3km away. Same goes for people to, in theory.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      javelin doesn't care how hot an object is, it records and tracks its specific thermal gradient. if the horse is not standing against a background that is as warm as a horse then yes you can fire a $180,000 missile at it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I thought you weren't supposed to fire AT weapons at infantry (I think this would apply in this case)?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          first, that's a cultural conflation of a few things, including treaties the US didn't sign and specific orders in vietnam to not use the spotting .50 for the M50 ontos against infantry (because it's a waste of a spotter cartridge)

          second, horses are equipment

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Straight up, this is not something I knew for sure, its why I was asking. And I figure we would be discussing this from the perspective of Ukraine and not America. Did they sign them?
            >second, horses are equipment
            I get what you are saying and I guess we would need to read the actual documents but I have to imagine the idea is that you can't fire AT on non-armored targets and unless the Russians are gonna bring back barding as well, I think you'll have a hard time making that one stick. Please let me know if its not presented that way though.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              as far as i'm aware there's no law or rule anywhere against using antitank weapons against infantry, other than a prohibition against using exploding bullets against infantry in some treaty or another and the fact that it's generally a waste because antitank weapons are specialized and expensive and usually aren't very good at it, like in all those ATGM vs foot patrol videos from syria where everyone except the poor guy who gets hit is more or less fine.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Alright, fair enough. Maybe I'll remember and look into this at some point. Might just be one of those things your hear and gets repeated but really has no basis in fact.

                weren't war horses specifically bred to not freak out at noise of explosions and gun fire? you can't just press some regular tamed horse into battle with out it panicking and spooked at the first loud noises.

                >weren't war horses specifically bred to not freak out at noise of explosions and gun fire?
                Yes. An untrained horse will unironically freak out from a potatoe chip bag rolling around on the ground from the wind (not an exaggeration). This isn't just a stupid idea, I legitimately cannot fathom how they could even attempt it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I think another fun fact about horses is that the creatures are suicidal as frick. They'll routinely kill themselves for the most benign of reasons. Many times they just drop dead for no real reason.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >be horse
                >shed some hair
                >accidentally eat it with hay
                >die a gruesome death from a couple of own stray hairs

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >no gas is needed, Ukraine is covered in Grass. A soldier can ride a horse til it dies, then eat it
    I almost pissed myself laughing

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is sounding like the cope coming out of Germany in 1945, when the brass was touting a volkssturm with a bicycle and a panzerfaust as an invisible, silent, tank-killing uberwaffe.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It would have worked if the allies weren't homosexuals and had infantry with their tanks

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Would work against modern day russians

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Be Z, riding majestic horse.
    >The next farm field we have to take is right ahead!
    >C'mon Nessy, atta girl.
    >Shit starts exploding all around.
    >Blyat, it's an ambush!
    >Horse is spooked and 1 week of horse training kicks in.
    >Horse doesn't know what you're trying to say or do.
    >Horse will not run to cover, horse runs into the line of fire.
    >Be crushed under weight of dead malnourished horse.
    >Femur broken like anal hymen was in training.
    >Be blown up.
    >Ukie soldiers play with your severed head like meatpuppet.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >TFW you will never get to witness an IRL Monty Python sketch because the Russians will have to resort to tin cans on strings for communications, so no one will have a camera to record it.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why not just acquire a frickton of cheap chinese or indian made motorcycles?

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    soon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's purely sentimental and probably also a sign I'm a superficial shit person, but seeing Nazis or Vatniks getting blasted away from in the air bothers me way less than seeing horses get shot at.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Well horses, and animals in general, are innocent victims in all regards. They don't know what the fricks going on and sure as shit don't deserve it.

        It's like what Hawkeye said, out of War and Hell, War is the worst of the two because there's no innocent people in Hell.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >but seeing Nazis or Vatniks getting blasted away from in the air bothers me way less than seeing horses get shot at.
        Well, that's because Nazis and Vatniks are all inhuman fricks who deserve what's coming to them, and should be glad that logistics prevent them from being skinned alive and boiled en masse.
        I'd rather horses be shot than women and children, but they're both essentially innocent civilians in war.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >but seeing Nazis or Vatniks getting blasted away from in the air bothers me way less than seeing horses get shot at.
        Well, that's because Nazis and Vatniks are all inhuman fricks who deserve what's coming to them, and should be glad that logistics prevent them from being skinned alive and boiled en masse.
        I'd rather horses be shot than women and children, but they're both essentially innocent civilians in war.

        For fricks sake could you two homosexuals make it anymore obvious you’re from fricking plebbit or what?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >but seeing Nazis or Vatniks getting blasted away from in the air bothers me way less than seeing horses get shot at.
        Well, that's because Nazis and Vatniks are all inhuman fricks who deserve what's coming to them, and should be glad that logistics prevent them from being skinned alive and boiled en masse.
        I'd rather horses be shot than women and children, but they're both essentially innocent civilians in war.

        >muh nazis
        Whoever you're with, frick off.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So russians are back to their mongols day?

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Horses in the mud? This will be an even better shit show the Kyiv push. I guess when the horse breaks its leg they can at least kill it and have food this time around.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Of course, they'll also bugger up with cooking the thing properly as well, so we get to see an army in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty two suffer casualties from soldiers dying from dysentery.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Putin lowkey gonna sign a decree making the consequences of horse fricking more severe.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You are laughing now but there are a shitton of mongols living in Russia. The last time mongols on horses went to Ukraine didn't end well

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I refuse to believe this is true without additional proof. That could just be a troll account
    Jesus, I doubt they there are even enough military-grade/ready horses available in europe to even supply a decent sized force, much less in russia on short notice. And then the training time to even get them up to dragoon level would be extreme when they already aren't even bothering giving them a full 2 weeks of basic.
    No, give proof or this is just twitter shitposts.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the mare is winking

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >conscript buttsex replaced by mare fricking
      Good God you just solved the russian army's issue anon
      >one of them at least

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        But then the horses will catch HIV...

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >human immunodeficiency virus
          Right there in the name anon!

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The VDV has horse training at one of their schools and two Russian brigades had horse logistics units before the war started.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone who has every ridden a horse will tell you that they generate a FRICKTON of heat after a heavy run. They will literally give of steam in cold weather. Good thing there isn't a magical eye in the sky that could detect that kind of thing amirite?

    Also, I'm willing to bet my left nut that the Russians aren't going to give their horses proper battlefield training. I am eagerly looking forward to the first reports of 100 horses bolting after hearing an artillery shell go off and stampeding through the streets of some random town.

    Horses (that is, properly bred and trained warhorses) used to be one of the most expensive pieces of equipment an army had. They're only "cheap" in comparison to modern vehicles and even then by not as much as most people would think.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There is a different in using horses for cavalry and logistics/utility. A really big difference in fact. I have never heard about any German cavalry in ww2 and I kind of doubt it unless you have something more to show me.

      based horsetrainer anons

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How long until Vladimir moronovich gets his chest caved when he tries to frick one?
    >DMS2GG

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They are larping the barbarrosa part where the logistic is mostly horse-driven
    horses have no combat value over modern vehicle, only pack mules in mountains could beat vehicle and now we're getting drones that can do long-range deliveries and those walking robot-dog anyway

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Russians are getting stomped on so hard we're having to dig up old ass horse logistics materials from the great war in 2022
    I'm so sorry Burger-king sama.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair I heard some rumors that the burgers were thinking of bringing back pack mules in the sandbox, but that was only for small teams doing operator shit in the mountains for long periods.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That was only because they bid out a mechanical mule and it turned out to make so much fricking nose it was damn near useless.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Mule beats robot
          Nyet, donkey is fine

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They did it and it worked. They had to send them to special classes and get unprecidented clearances/permissions for a bunch of nobodies to teach them how to handle them. It was wild.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >having to dig up old ass horse logistics materials from the great war
      Yeah, they are going to have to literally dig them up because all the horses and breeders/trainers are long dead by this point. You can't just take any horse and put it into combat. Ironically, one of the nations that still has the capability to actually field warhorses (its mostly for ceremonial purposes at this point) currently is the USA

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Don't the chinks have some cossack units for border patrol in Xinjiang?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The 1st & 2nd PLA Cavalry Battalions (the last non-ceremonial military mounted cavalry units on the planet actually), mounted police elements, and militias from Uyghur & Mongol Minorities. They're mostly stationed for border patrol in Xinjiang-Kazakhstan border and Inner Mongolia border.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >The 1st & 2nd PLA Cavalry Battalions (the last non-ceremonial military mounted cavalry units on the planet actually)
            No, not even close https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry#Operational_horse_cavalry
            And the original point was about the horses needed to act as warhouses.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The Indian, Chilean, and Argentinian units have long since became mechanized.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                May I see it?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Here's one
                >https://theprint.in/defence/indian-armys-only-cavalry-unit-set-to-replace-its-horses-with-tanks/422138/#:~:text=The%20Jaipur%2Dbased%2061st%20Cavalry,it%20with%20T%2D72%20tanks.&text=New%20Delhi%3A%20One%20of%20the,be%20riding%20into%20the%20sunset.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >PLA maintains operational horse cavalry at squadron strength in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia for scouting, logistical, and border security purposes.
          So you have like 100 "cavalrymen" doing light recon. If we want to do this logic than the US Border Patrol has double that.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Canada, Britain (though most of their really high end horses come from Canada), and I think France and Spain could also be added to that list. Maybe certain parts of South America. These are all fairly small units used mostly for ceremonial purposes though as far as I know.

        I don't thin any of them would be too keen to go to Russia to train Vatniks and sell their precious remaining horseflesh to them to be eaten by Boris after two weeks when his unit doesn't get resupplied.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Most of those that still use horses do not maintain destrier lineages and thus would be unsuitable for reactivation. Humorously, the UKs are little more good than police breeds BUT in the civilian population they have a great many used for medieval reenactment which could probably be a somewhat adequate stand-in with a bit of training. France I think also has some of this but I don't know enough to say to what extent.
          All horses are not the same, not by a long shot.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is wild. If I was a mobik I would just kill myself.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cofveve and seethe.

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    weren't war horses specifically bred to not freak out at noise of explosions and gun fire? you can't just press some regular tamed horse into battle with out it panicking and spooked at the first loud noises.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes. Armies spent ungodly sums of money breeding, training, and maintaining legions of horses in case of battle.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Fun fact: during the French Revolution the revolutionaries burned down or other wise destroyed a bunch of French stud farms as they were seen as a symbol of the aristocracy. This ended up fricking them during the Napoleonic Wars as the stock books were destroyed too, meaning the quality of French cavalry mounts took a nosedive in quality as nobody knew what the good bloodlines were anymore. Horse breeding and training was Serious Fricking Business back in the day to the point of being a strategic asset.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's still serious business if you look at the cottage horse industry. People will pull out whole books of breeding lines for a horse at auction.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Fun fact: during the French Revolution the revolutionaries burned down or other wise destroyed a bunch of French stud farms as they were seen as a symbol of the aristocracy. This ended up fricking them during the Napoleonic Wars as the stock books were destroyed too, meaning the quality of French cavalry mounts took a nosedive in quality as nobody knew what the good bloodlines were anymore. Horse breeding and training was Serious Fricking Business back in the day to the point of being a strategic asset.

            It's also still serious business in the Thoroughbred and Quarter horse industry as well.

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The most fake BS imaginable. No Russian ever at anytime imaginable publicly said the words "ride the horse until it dies and eats it".

    I mean…why do I even to point out such obvious shit? The only explanation is that /k/iddies know it’s made-up infowar junk like all the Twitter-produced propaganda posted here literally daily is. You guys just don’t care, all you want to do is enjoy the social aspect of circle-jerking and signaling.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Post indoor plumbing and Kharkiv.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        After you post your ID with birthdate, skin color and flag.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why are /misc/ homosexuals so obsessed with flags?
          People just fake theirs anyway when posting which renders the whole thing meaningless.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            /misc/ is obsessed with any ideology you can buy on amazon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No, it's just that reality has degraded to the point that everything is believable.

      Did you not see the apartment block where the Russians turned the elevator into a toilet, because they did not recognise that the intact, functional flushing toilets were meant to be used for shitting in?

      They have literally given medieval steppe nomads guns and sent them to fight. Seeing them use horses would be one of the least insane things we've seen them do. Hell, it's down right sensible actually.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i did not see that
        i'm also thinking of how you'd have to be careful if you were on a lower floor because some dude above you might be taking a shit and you might be in the line of fire

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Russia brings back horse cavalry first

    But Ukraine will somehow make it actually WORK.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ukranians be stealing and eating the horses to survive the winter.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        We all know they'll actually be getting resupplied while the vatBlack folk will be eating rats.
        >inb4 "Ummm, achkewally rats are a good source of protein. There is no panic."

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >>we cossack now

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >now

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >"A horse! A horse! My nuclear weapons for a horse!"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How many Satans is a Thoroughbred worth? A Shire horse is what they actually need, but they don't know that.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pigs > horses
    Pig cavalry is the answer, pigs eat pretty much anything, including dead vatniks, of which there is an abundant supply in Ukraine right now.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >HOG RIDER!!!!!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >pigs eat pretty much anything
      I always thought this was exaggerated or that it would take a lot of time for pigs to eat a body.
      Nope, 2 or 3 of those frickers can eat an entire body and skeleton in like 2hrs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The pigs are smart enough to recognize the winning side and strong enough to rip the vatniks apart, better to keep them at home where they won't be tempted to rebel.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >no matter defeat or victory in battle it occurs to me that we may see a swelling in our ranks

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Corb Lund lyrics become prophecy
      Unfathomably based.

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    horse are extremely effective in off/uneven terrain transport
    trenches/shrubbery/mine chokepoints are eliminated, but you need some way of preventing the horses from being spooked from the sound

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > Horses won't set off landmines.

      So go horseback riding. Minefield is over thataway.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, when the US uses them in harsh terrain where vehicles can't go for the purposes of recon. Not as Russians will use them, with tactics centuries old implemented in the most pants-on-head moronic way.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      horse are extremely effective in off/uneven terrain transport
      trenches/shrubbery/mine chokepoints are eliminated, but you need some way of preventing the horses from being spooked from the sound

      Which horse breeds does the USA and other countries that still employ horses use anyway?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There are at least 51 breeds used in the USA:
        https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=horse+breeds+in+the+usa

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Something about this feels almost sub-orc. I can't imagine them riding their wargs to death without proper food and then just eating them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They've finally gone one tier lower and have now become Skaven.

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just buy 500 hiluxes holy shit even ISIS can do that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What part of 'out of gas' do you not get? They don't have enough to supply their current army, which is why they are doing static warfare. They want horses because 'they don't need gas'. This is why Ukraine is able to do what it does because it gets supplies of fuel to keep the fight going and has a logistic system in place.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >They want horses because 'they don't need gas'.
        No they just need skilled riders who can perform day-to-day care, feed and hay, water, frequent veterinary care, and their hooves have to be cleaned, trimmed, and shod by trained cobblers. Without those things they'll be essentially useless. That's on top of all the training each horse and rider is going to require in the first place.
        People who have never been around horses have no idea how much work they are. There's a reason we use cars now.
        I would also add that it's far quicker to replace a truck than it is to replace a horse, and in the modern day battlefield you don't just have to worry about horses dying during combat or of illness, you have to worry about them being hit with a goddamn artillery shell while picketed 10 miles behind the front line.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Riding and taking care of a horse is easy and cheap. This is a smart move by Russia and no amount of HATO cope can change that. Ukraine will suddenly see massive counterattacks and flanking attacks from unexpected locations.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Plus, knowing Russian soldiers, they'll be buttholes to their horses. The horses will hate them and bolt when the slightest thing goes wrong

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This tbh, horses are so moronic and fragile they can die of indgestion

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They're probably going to kill and rape the horses. In that order. I suppose they can spread HIV further among their ranks be eating meat taninted by their orc semen.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        How could a petrostate have not much gas? I thought supply lines were their problem.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I've just had a look, and apparently they produce about 6.9 million barrels per day of refined oil products like petrol and diesel, so they should be able to.

          The question just depends on how much trouble they have getting it to the front and how much gets stolen or lost along the way. Also how much are they selling to the Poohs and Pajeets in order to fund there other stuff.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Turns out russia just isn't very good at anything it does. A shocker, I know.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they haven't been able to fuel their units since day 1, anon. that hasn't changed.

        but..but..RUSSIAN GAS! EUROPE WILL FREEZE! GENERAL WINTER! RUSSIAN STRONK!

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The gas they're referring to with that is natural gas, not gasoline. Like vapor that you could inhale by mistake, not diesel or ethanol.
          Russians are still moronic and poor at the end of the day, but the oligarchs do control some vital infrastructure to Europe, and it's used solely to line their own pockets. Regardless, someone ought to actually find a solution for Europe's energy crisis rather than remain in denial as to what the rest of the world means by gas. As it stands, the EU is helping Russia by trying to weaken Europe and make them more dependent on Russian resources. First it was the farms in the Netherlands being seized by the government so they can pave over them, now they're dismantling their own domestic energy sources like nuclear plants so that they become even more dependent on Russian gas.
          The EU are fricking traitors and its leaders need to be lined up and shot, they're actively sabotaging the war effort and trying to strengthen our enemies.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >The EU are fricking traitors and its leaders need to be lined up and shot
            The actual European Commission apparatchiks tried repeatedly to create the legal framework for a common gas contract with Russia (so Putin couldn't play favorites with countries against each other in bidding wars, and would be easier to control on the EU side), but guess who opposed them every time: national politicians from several countries.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they haven't been able to fuel their units since day 1, anon. that hasn't changed.

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can't wait for "Гocпoдин Pyки" to appear on the battlefield.

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >soldier can ride a horse till it dies, then eat it
    Kek, my great grandfather was cavalryman. Horses were more important than soldiers. Like you werent allowed to eat before you feed the horse, or overworking or injuring horse could even mean court martial.

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes as China demonsrates but only if:
    >If you're operating in the wilderness where there is zero infrastructure for hundreds of kilometeres.
    >Facing simple poachers and smugglers not a conventional military
    >Armed with satellite phones to call in air support.

    And most importantly.

    >have professionally trained fricking cavalrymen who knows the ins & outs of your horse better than your own body and take care of it with minimal support.

    Good luck Ivan

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Admit it how many of you were fooled by this brilliant parody account https://twitter.com/RussianFrontNow/status/1582660630850719745

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Many do not understand Russia's power. There is proof: the common resolve and unity of all RU soldiers creates an Aura power, a psyonic field capable of changing trajectory of bullets.
      >Why does AFU chase us wildly? Because of disunity. Soon the tactical brilliance of Russia's temporarily withdrawal will be seen. Inherently greedy and with out principles bred into every RU soldiers, the Ukraine lash out like mad men. Space is given to them. They stretch thin.
      >I once saw a RU solider hold off seven AFU with a stick. Yes. A stick. Give him a rock, a rock and a stick, and he could have stopped a brigade. This is no embellishment. Firm boots. In December? Putin takes his Christmas present: all Ukraine

      Kek. I don't think this is a parody account Anon, I think this person is being dead serious. They're using the same language and tone as those milblog nutters that Putin has decided to simp for on Telegram.

      Although considering that their most recent posts are about trained re-supply pigs and limiting aircraft and tanks to only firing when they have confirmed they will hit, you may be right about this just being a very good parody account. It's just impossible to tell anymore.

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw recruitment officer supplies you a bow and arrow and you're send to participate in the great cavalry charge of 2043 to take bakhmut

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I mean, if you're smart about it, maybe. The key is to use the horse like you would a humvee, as a battlefield mobility tool, rather than something you expose to gunfire. The problem is that almost any motor vehicle does that job better, because it carries more men and more gear at a higher speed than a horse. Unless you're moving through seriously fricked-up terrain like rocky mountain passes, even a 4-door sedan is going to outperform a horse.

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ive been advocating for a return of horse warfare long before this moronic war started.
    Think about it though, there really isn't a replacement for horses that cover all its advantages. They're pretty damn fast, they're pretty damn silent, can cross difficult terrain, can climb and swim, can carry stuff, you can rest on a horse. Why did we do away with them?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dear god we are lucky you aren't in charge of anything

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Why did we do away with them?
      Because they die of colic, if a strong wind pushes them, or if they just feel like isekaing on a moment's notice.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's moronic. Take the camelrypill.
      >Better endurance than horses and overall faster strategic movement
      >needs no shoes or hoof care
      >eats all shrubs in the wild and does not need massive amounts of specialized grass/oats for fuel
      >humps act as fat reserves for long periods of scarce vegetation (no drop in performance if your camel doesn't eat for days)
      >drinks rarely
      >not skittish
      >will spit at you if you're annoying instead of trampling you to death
      >beautiful eyelashes
      >acclimated to all kinds of harsh environments from deserts to snowy mountain passes

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Bactrian camel better camel. Change my mind.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They even come with a built in saddle.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            what a comfy looking animal.
            Thank you Bactrian Camel, based animal

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Lookit that smug sonovabitch.

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think its a false flag. Russians are rounding up all the horses they can...so that they can ship them to Mongolia in exchange for their cooperation to get back conscript age males that fled there.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I think its a false flag. Russians are rounding up all the horses they can...so that they can ship them to Mongolia in exchange for their cooperation to get back conscript age males that fled there.
      Mongolia is a NATO partner

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    can a javelin lock on to a horseman?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      A horse would have a massive IR signature but horses are useless because shrapnel, artillery, mines, mud. You can't use them for logistics either because well...you actually need the horse carts and harnesses and people very experienced in it and the horses trained for it. There is no military reason to do this. I'm guessing Russia is short of red meat

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If this is true it is nothing to do with winning that war or even its administration, its to do with taking the horses off rural people. Why? No idea but nothing else makes sense. To get red meat from them for the Russian public?

  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This was satire, guys.
    https://twitter.com/RussianFrontNow/status/1585828445488963584

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It utilizes intelligence of the pig
      Finally, Russia is going to start using intelligence.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There is no possibility of satire when it comes to Russian incompetence.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We know. We're pretending otherwise because it's funny.

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Horse is fine.

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Literally mongoloids.

  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    expect this but instead of a gasmask hes wearing a bycicle helmet and after firing the first shot he falls off the horse

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >once the nuclear bombed area calms down, break the shattered will of your opponents with a cavalry charge
      grim.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      SOVL

  69. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >no gas is needed
    how do you exactly transport them and feed them

  70. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Mengjiang (Inner Mongolian) cavalry held off against Russian armor for 2 days.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You know what the difference was? They were Mongolians, so they knew how to ride, how to feed and how to care for their animals. Russians will shoot and eat those horses that are not meant to be in the field.
      I had no issues with russian people being conscripted, but innocent horses? That's it, all russians must be genocided.

  71. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ride of the Roshirrim

  72. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >he went on, growing warmer and beating his chest, "I'll make them eat horseflesh!" And tears again dimmed his eyes.

  73. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    kek, regular horses can panic if you just look at them wrong, imagine what the sounds and living conditions of war would do to farm horses

  74. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They will obviously be used as dragoons, dismounting and moving to the enemy before engaging. For a lack of better words.

  75. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ok, so organic horses are not that great, but what about machine horses?

  76. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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