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| Is this a Russian ‘Barguzin’ nuke weapons train in the Ukraine or just an armored train with somebody very important on it. | |
| 2022-03-08 | |
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another expert says: No it's not. Armored train yes. One passenger car, and the rest of the carriages are too short.Mr. Vanacker is mistaken.
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| Posted by:3dc |
| #26 Chemin d'amour, or, um... something about lust and rust, since I failed to adequatrly convey the rustiness of the whole affair? Though I did watch Grand Budapest Hotel last night. |
| Posted by: Shaique Lumplump3151 2022-03-08 22:06 |
| #25 That was sharp enough to cut oneself on, Zonobia F. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-03-08 21:57 |
| #24 En route from the border with Mordor, Steel putti, one sharp spetsnaz porter; In turret, round bed, Sheets of satin, all red, Auto-mortar with card: OUT OF ORDER. |
| Posted by: Shaique Lumplump3151 2022-03-08 21:55 |
| #23 Nobody has yet answered the question whether those are actually biolabs established by the Soviet Union in the Cold War days when the U.S. and the USSR were competing in all areas of mass destruction — biological, chemical, and nuclear. Because if so, Russia has as much responsibility for not shutting them down as we do. But regardless, China needs to shut up before we remind them kinetically that their biolab is the one that released super-Covid into the wild, and they not only covered it up, but worked to spread it out in the world faster while sabotaging development and manufacture of treatments as well as selling subpar masks, gowns, and gloves after having cleared the shops in Europe and the US of all the quality stuff. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-03-08 21:09 |
| #22 China asked Washington today to release “relevant details as soon as possible” regarding alleged US biological laboratories in Ukraine: Foreign Ministry spokesperson… https://mobile.twitter.com/theinsiderpaper/status/1501292853548535811 |
| Posted by: Baldassarre 2022-03-08 20:39 |
| #21 Congrats on finding one of the few ways in which we aren't exceptional. |
| Posted by: Shaique Lumplump3151 2022-03-08 20:38 |
| #20 ….By the way Nuland now says America is “working with Ukraine” to ensure Russia “does not get its hands on the biological laboratories” which American media had only days ago said didn’t exist. |
| Posted by: Baldassarre 2022-03-08 20:37 |
| #19 America ..the country where mocking bird media tells the sheep which war is 'good' and which one is 'bad'.……. |
| Posted by: Baldassarre 2022-03-08 20:23 |
| #18 *to be clear, I don't hate seeing them posted, the more info the better, but that there are enough tiktokers-cum-experts already to cheapen and stupefy the whole thing. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-03-08 15:28 |
| #17 Twitter down....awwwww.... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-03-08 12:36 |
| #16 Re: #9: good one, Thing |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-03-08 12:36 |
| #15 warming with drizzles and flurries So you see, gerbil worming is your friend. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-03-08 12:02 |
| #14 Once the ground dries out so tanks can not just be stuck to chokepoints and ambush locations of roads, and supply stocks are refilled, Ukraine will be very hard pressed to hold their cities. Forecast about a week ago looked sloppy. -checks update- warming with drizzles and flurries. If those videos yesterday are to be believed, ground looked damp yet rather firm. Tracks, not clods. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-03-08 11:47 |
| #13 So much bullcrap flying from both sides it'll take a hundred years to uncover the truth. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-03-08 11:36 |
| #12 The Russians have an excellent rail network. But they don't have excellent unit logistics. They have too few support trucks per fighting unit. So they are stuck moving forward 200km and then have to pause to build up a forward supply base for a week or two. Rinse and repeat. Combined with crappy maintenance, iffy part supplies and a general lack of most essentials to be moved forward quickly, you get what you see today. Once the ground dries out so tanks can not just be stuck to chokepoints and ambush locations of roads, and supply stocks are refilled, Ukraine will be very hard pressed to hold their cities. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-03-08 11:24 |
| #11 Russians do ok until they get to the end of their rail lines. "The Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars." ~ General John J. Pershing |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-08 11:08 |
| #10 Hype pieces are starting to piss me off. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-03-08 10:57 |
| #9 An armored train? Does anyone know where Strelnikov is? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-08 10:08 |
| #8 It will get wrecked soon enough and the Ukrainians will post video of it. |
| Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-08 09:03 |
| #7 Its bait, trying to drag us in. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2022-03-08 08:58 |
| #6 Weird place for it as this is right north of Mongolia. The Russians are hoarders. They really don't like to throw away anything*. So, you got to park it somewhere. * read an intel summary back in the 70s about a Guard tank unit getting T-72s replacing (not T-62s) IS-2s. O.O |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-08 08:46 |
| #5 "Are these foam ear plugs rubber bullets?" redux. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-08 08:19 |
| #4 Looks like a troop train with some vehicles and some really old cars where they have machine guns in them. Not a nuke train. Weird place for it as this is right north of Mongolia. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-03-08 08:06 |
| #3 Is that a 'Barguzin' train in your skirt trans-girl, or are you just happy to see me? Or maybe the Tsar's courage has left him, and the creep is preparing to flee me? Dream on. They probably have those RS-24s on. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-03-08 07:31 |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-08 07:20 |
| #1 ...That appears - stress the 'appears' - to be a positively ancient armored train, definitely no nukes. My guess would be that since the Ukranians are whacking rail nodes, one of these relics would come in kind of handy. And no, Mr. Van Aken, it's not a nuke train. If it was, the nice folks taking the video wouldn't have lasted long enough to tweet it. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2022-03-08 07:13 |