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[RedStar] At the Kremlin wall they honored the memory of Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky.
On November 23, at the necropolis of the Kremlin wall on Red Square, a solemn ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers at the urn with the ashes of twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, took place on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding military leader. The event was held under the leadership of the Chief of Staff - First Deputy Chief of Missile Forces and Artillery, Major General Sergei Medvedsky.
The ceremony was attended by officers of the Main Command of the Ground Forces, students of the Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Ground Forces "Combined Arms Order of Zhukov Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation", cadets of the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School, students of the Moscow Suvorov Military School, veterans of the Ground Forces, Armed Forces and other honored guests.
Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich - Soviet statesman and military leader, commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union. He took part in the First World War and was awarded the St. George Cross as someone who distinguished himself in battle.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, at the head of the 48th Rifle Corps, Malinovsky took part in heavy battles with the enemy on the State Border of the USSR along the Prut River. In August 1941, he was appointed chief of staff, then commander of the 6th Army, and from December 1941 to July 1942, commander of the troops of the Southern Front. After the merger of the Southern Front with the North Caucasus Front, Malinovsky was appointed commander of the 66th Army, and in October 1942, deputy commander of the front forces. During the Battle of Stalingrad, he commanded the 2nd Guards Army, which played a very important role in the offensive at Stalingrad.
From February 1943, Malinovsky led the troops of the Southern Front, and from March - the South-Western Front, which was then renamed the 3rd Ukrainian Front, whose troops fought for the Donbass and Right Bank Ukraine. From May 1944 he commanded the 2nd Ukrainian Front. In 1944, Malinovsky was awarded the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union. In July 1945, he was appointed commander of the Transbaikal Front, which successfully acted in the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
After the end of the Soviet-Japanese War, Malinovsky commanded the troops of the Trans-Baikal-Amur Military District. In 1947, he became commander-in-chief of the troops of the Far East, and then commander of the troops of the Far Eastern Military District. From March 1956, Malinovsky was First Deputy Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, and from October 1957, Minister of Defense of the USSR. He remained in this post until the end of his life, doing a lot of work to strengthen the defense capability of the state and increase the combat capability of the Armed Forces.
As a major military leader during the Great Patriotic War, Malinovsky actively contributed to the introduction of her experience into the training of the Armed Forces. The period of his activity as minister coincided with the advent of Soviet nuclear weapons and the equipping of the Armed Forces with them, and the creation of the Strategic Missile Forces.
Malinovsky is twice Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded the Order of Victory, five Orders of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov, 1st degree, Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree, medals of the USSR, orders and medals of foreign countries.
#3
Planned obsolescence via cascading wear failure.
Look to other personal items: vests, boots, rucks, uniforms, weather gear...all wear to failure to keep the manufacturing capacity alive.
#4
why the f*ck wasn't M16 metal parts made of stainless steel?
Probably more to do with the metallurgical properties of stainless steel than the cost. Stainless steel has a lot of chromium in it which makes it much harder than regular steel. Machining a harder, more brittle material is more of a challenge, along with increased tool wear and, if memory serves, a tendency for chips to stick to the tooling.
As a kid, I read that the Israelis referred to the M-16 as "the gun that must be shaved". Apparently, it did not do well in dusty desert environments and soldiers carried a shaving brush to keep the action clean and working.
#7
Stainless is actually weaker than alloy steel. It's just corrosion resistant. Also, carbon steel holds a cutting edge better.
Different grades of steel for different purposes.
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#8
I'll go with #3 "Planned obsolescence", also cheapskatism.
#9
^ "Planned obsolescence"? Hardly. There is no point to 'over engineering' a weapon of war that will almost certainly be crushed, blown up or simply fired so many times it becomes a rattling collection of junk parts. Especially if you can cut the unit cost down for an expendable item that you plan on issuing by the thousands.
Check out some of the videos on Forgotten Weapons channel when Ian discusses wartime production...
[NYPOST] Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’ first hostage release has confirmed some very telling facts about the terrorists: 1) They’re ruthless liars; 2) they’ll victimize anyone they can, and 3) they think they can get America to break with Israel.
One of those released Friday was Hannah Katzir, 77 — a woman whom Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (the No. 2 terror group based in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ) repeatedly announced days ago was killed by an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... That is, PIJ reported her as dead for pure propaganda purposes — to make the world think the Israeli government was killing hostages.
The lie had at least two purposes — to increase divisions with Israel, and to tar Israel’s global image (the strike really must be "indiscriminate" if they’re killing their own people, you were supposed to think).
Fine: It’s no surprise that hard boyz lie — but US and world media keep giving Hamas’ claims equal footing with anything Israel’s government says, even when it comes to such long-established and widely reported facts as the way Hamas had major terror bases around and even in the al-Shifa hospital.
Also freed were 10 Thai nationals and one citizen of the Philippines — farmworkers who’d been swept up by the hard boyz amid the Oct. 7 atrocities.
That is: The raiders grabbed with zero discrimination — anyone in Israel was a target, even people who plainly weren’t Israelis or Jews.
Again, not news: After all, those killed on Oct. 7 also included Arab Moslems, and Hamas and PIJ also treat ordinary Gazooks as their cattle — looting foreign and humanitarian aid for the cause, firing on civilians who try to flee rather than serve as human shields, etc.
Finally, note that no US citizens were released: The hard boyz clearly intend to hang on to their American captives as long as possible, as leverage over Washington.
Without a doubt, Hamas and PIJ see Biden administration support for Israel as soft: They want it to make Israel agree to a "permanent" cease-fire, or at least to greatly extend this one so they can resupply as much as possible from all the humanitarian aid flowing into Gaza.
So they want as many as possible American families besieging the White House on behalf of their loved ones.
If the cease-fire ends with Americans still held hostage, we guarantee the hard boyz will soon claim the Israelis have killed one of them — and if that doesn’t work, they’ll kill an innocent themselves to produce the "proof."
All of which goes to the central fact of this war: Hamas (and PIJ) must be eradicated, or the words "never again" have no meaning left.
#2
I do notice no Americans among the ones released.
But if I were Hamas and had noticed Joe paying Iran $6B for Amerian hostages there, I wouldn't release any American hostages for free, either. The example has been set.
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#3
Not a surprise. People that work would have been of no use to Hamas.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Am Greatness]
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
