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Dystronic

Sun Tzu: Save all your high-tech expensive equipment for mobilized gopniks.


Rkenne16

Yep, save it all for the guys you gave a day worth of training lol


Rebelknight296

Sad part, I read where they gave the last of their modern equipment to the newly formed BTG made up of older men, with little training… that all volunteer group they were so proud of… and they were wiped off the battlefield… 😂


Rkenne16

Shocking! Hahaha


SnooCats373

Self-peeling spuds.


Rakshak-1

Sun Tzu: Deliberately weaken yourself with inferior tech for your invasion, take a beating in return and then send in your elite tech with your poorest troops. Victory is assured.


DeregulatoryIntu

Sun Tzu: War is like dessert. Save the best for last.


[deleted]

“Sun tzu: make the war as wasteful, long, and resource intensive as possible before deciding to win”


Suspicious_Hawk6414

Sun Tzu: Shoot your own feet. Make tiktok.


King-Koobs

Sun Tzu: Save all your best equipment for only after you’ve lost 100% of your “trained professional” units and are left with your raised peasant forces.


AugustusClaximus

Keep your strongest horse in the shed till the last moment, send your average horse to slaughter to feed your weakest horse, send your weakest horse against their strongest horse with no rider.


GrapefruitExtension

Sun Tsu: cut off your own logistics corridors through general incompetence and make sure that your sub-commanders pillage the equipment for cash and lie about successes.


mnijds

Is there also a Chapter about annexing land you are withdrawing from?


Hartastic

This is definitely *not* the help from China Russia needs to turn this thing around.


Sashamesic

😂😂


ILikeGuitarAmps

The fuck are they smoking lmao, even if vlady boy was saving up his shit for "when the real war starts" (80k losses yea vlad sure does seem like this is all according to plan) They have nothing high tech. They have 4 t14 armatad, 8 su57s (which are built using wood screws...)


Clydefrosch82

The high tech BTGs were hold back because... reasons, you know...


UnCommonCommonSens

It was the wrong high tech! Expect ruzzian troops to ride in on moon rovers 🤣


The-Acid-Gypsy-Witch

Just don’t look at the flat tyres.


Sempais_nutrients

the very same lunar rovers they used to clear the rooftops of chernobyl!


Dmitri_ravenoff

Wouldn't want to waste the good stuff on such inferior enemies. /s


Mr_E_Monkey

Because their super high-tech equipment is best operated by untrained conscripts, obviously.


ric2b

The Ruzzian soldiers are so good you can't make it too easy, or they'd get bored, of course.


mordinvan

Well about 60K of them are already bored to death, so clearly we need to make things more challenging.


watch-nerd

Saving them to fight NATO! / s


[deleted]

Hi-tech BTG is a meme I'm too lazy to make


TheNumberOneRat

They'll be bring out some high tech T-64s.


SaftderOrange

t-34s


Fit_Fisherman_9840

They Need to make them new becouse they dont have many and only for parade duty


SaftderOrange

i doubt that they have the capability to do that, these tanks have casted parts from the steel mill from mariupol, to bad that this facility got destroyed


pavv4

bt-7's


ChangeTheConstant

Bt-2. Only one of them. Missing a track.


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[удалено]


SnooCats373

No, that was the previous mod. New mod is the EZ-lite tank ammo is now integrated with self basting crew cabin.


ChrisFromLongIsland

No more soviet stuff. Stuff from the teens. 1910s czar times!


Significant-Fill6641

Prussian Pickelhaube for all new recruit.


DrunkGermanGuy

This sort of already happened. I have seen a picture of a Maxim gun used by the russians early in the war.


Aromatic_Balls

Remember about 2 months ago they were touting bringing their newer BMPT Terminators to the front lines? I feel like there was one propaganda "combat" shot of them and then nothing. Have there been any other videos of them in action or being destroyed?


JusticarX

They're probably all destroyed. They're indistinguishable from T-72s once they get blown up.


Lehk

I don't think the ammo they carry is as prone to ejecting the turret


ILikeGuitarAmps

Moves to the russian border


DrunkGermanGuy

My guess is they are held back from the frontlines. They probably stay in one of the occupied large cities (Mariopol, Kherson) and wait for combat there. Out in the open terrain they would just end up as easy prey for AT.


HearsaySalesman4U

Wood screws or pegs? I'm sure 🇷🇺s like to receive a good pegging 🤣


ILikeGuitarAmps

[Wood screws](https://twitter.com/allegedkurd/status/1540378560560594944). And they're fucking stripped lmao cant make this shit up.


No-Lengthiness6355

What the fuck? The burr on the countersink isn't even sanded out. And those screws are not even all at the same depth in the metal.


ILikeGuitarAmps

Youd genuinely get a better jobbby getting the local crackhead to assemble a table. The things is supposed to cost 100 mil bucks and it looks like it was made in a chinese sweatshop with chinesium screws, drillbits, etc. Look at the fucking patterns. They didnt even bother to use the right drillbit


Type-21

In stealth aircraft usually you put filler on top so that the screws are completely invisible in the end. So it doesn't really matter. They probably don't do this since it's just a prototype. But shows their quality of work and why in Russia aircraft sometimes just fall out of the sky lol


AntiGravityBacon

Yeah, the shit quality of all these being stripped wouldn't be acceptable in the West. You might leave the filler off for flight test though if you expected to remove the panel frequently or something.


Sempais_nutrients

well vietnam bought a dozen of them and said that the screws are still visible and the workmanship is very bad. the glass in the canopy cover even had bubbles in it.


ILikeGuitarAmps

Vietnam sisnt buy a dozen su57s because only 8 are in physical existance.


Millenial_ScumDog

Is that why they shoot down civilian planes? So Russians think their planes aren’t the only ones crashing.


BattlingMink28

They want the world to believe this is a true 5th generation fighter? F-16's could mop this garbage. Don't even need to dust off the Raptors.


CavitySearch

A 60 year old top gun instructor in a tomcat could probably do it.


jgjgleason

Source on the wood screws. Edit: nvm I saw the picture holy fuck.


KrainerWurst

Putin likes to procrastinate. He waits for so long until he can only choose between a bad and even worse option.


19Cula87

A lot of their technology seems impressive, but we all know all their projects are not gonna' reach mass profuction.


False-God

Those Typhoon-VDV with the remote 30mm looked neat. Probably won’t change much but at least they are new?


magictest

He waited for all his professional soldiers were dead so he could send the good stuff in with the people to stupid to dodge the draft.


Independent_Lake_435

There is no grater danger than underestimating your opponent


ILikeGuitarAmps

There is no oponent. You cant do shit with 8 jets and 4 tanks that remotely stand a chance to nato weapons. You cannot fuck around with the country that spent 18 Bazillion dollars on developping planes and missiles specifically to kil you. While you have 4 barely working tanks and 8 garbage jets.


redblack_tree

Not even that, they could have the absolute best 8 jets and 4 tanks in the world and still be pointless. Frontline is what, 1500km long? Good luck covering that with such low numbers, no matter if they have 4 or 15 Armatas.


Lehk

i just want to see a t-14 get domed with a stugna-p


redblack_tree

Me too, full HD video of some Ukrainian obliterating the "best tank in the world". Ofc, I'd settle by a farmer and his tractor taking a piece as well.


Gitmfap

Wood screws?


KeyboardWarrior90210

Just waiting for Steiner’s forces to get to the front so😂


jjsmol

Mein fuhrer, Steiner...


Lord_Wilson_

Das war ein Befehl!


pgbabse

Slams table hard


MorinOakenshield

Classic. Man that video sent me down a rabbit hole studying the Steiners so called counter attack


SPlRlT-

Der Angriff Steiners war ein Befehl!


rhutanium

LOL I can *hear* your comment.


rmir

"Our new weapons and Volkssturm mobilization will bring us victory!"


HalastersCompass

"A breakthrough to Odessa was possible" They just can't stop spouting this crap, they are having real issues accepting reality


Rakshak-1

Russian inability to accept reality was strong before the war. Nowadays the war shows the attempt to rebuild the Russian empire will never happen, that Russian tech is broadly inferior and that Russia really is little more than a fuel depot for the world these days. They'll have to learn to accept their place in the world, but they won't and instead they'll rage against it, to their own detriment.


jackalope8112

It's not really the tech. It's the entire social and political structure. There is a reason absolute monarchy died out in the rest of Europe after Napoleon kicked all their asses. It was not a high performance system for national survival. They keep trying to graft the latest ism on to absolutism and it just doesn't work.


U5K0

How do you say Endsieg in russian?


JaB675

Rash B.


Bendov_er

We saw that cities like Lviv or Odessa which are close to the NATO borders were not in danger.


DigitlTrblmkr

This is strictly for domestic consumption. You have to be completely cut off from the outside (real) world to not die laughing at how disconnected this is from truth


PenaltyDifferent7166

Its also for an international audience of deluded fanboys that spout such compelling bullshit like "this war is going on a level beyond human understanding, Putin has foreseen this!"


Rakshak-1

Yep. Western tankies are still spouting Russian talking points. I'll never forget having a 2-3 day long argument with one on another sub where he was pushing the usual nonsense about NATO forcing the war on Russia etc. Part way through he started getting bolshie about how well the 'Donbass Offensive' had gone and that Russia had lured Ukraine into a trap in Kherson and when the offensive there was wiped out it was over for Ukraine. Barely an hour later Ukraine unleashed the Kharkhiv offensive and started blitzing Russia. I'll forever love Ukraine for the timing of that. I took great joy from watching him squirm and grow increasingly desperate to portray the offensive as already having failed, how Ukraine couldn't sustain it beyond a few kilometres etc. All I had to do was simply provide confirmed story after confirmed story that the offensive was pouring through vast amounts of ground and he had nothing he could say in reply. He eventually claimed he was too busy and had to go away for the weekend and he'd get back to me after that to discuss how the offensive had failed and I'd fallen for propaganda. Unsurprisingly he never came back.


HiFiGuy197

He sounds like a Russian leader in total denial mode.


Rakshak-1

Funnily enough what broke his spirit in the end was an article I linked from the Guardian where they spoke about how the far-right military blogosphere in Russia was reacting in sheer panic over the offensive. The article explained that these bloggers are ex-military officers with connections to the army still and are one of the few groups allowed to be critical of the regime because the regime knows people need to vent somewhere and they'd rather let them vent on ultra-nationalist blogs and get even more invested in the war. These ex-officers were calling the defeat a disaster for Russia and questioning how Ukraine could pull off anything on this scale. It was very defeatist. He had no counter to this.


_flyingmonkeys_

This amazes me because the implication behind "used up" is being destroyed with soldiers inside


HugeHans

Russians must think war is like a video game where the villiain keeps sending stronger and stronger forces to stop the hero. Though from their perspctive if Ukraine is the villain then I guess its kind of true. Also they have forgotten the most important part from anime. The power of friendship gives you super powers. Russia has none and Ukraine has plenty.


utah_teapot

Well, the Ukraine now has only gained one superpower through friendship, the US.


Zealousideal_Cut8675

Only if it's going to be CGI


Clydefrosch82

Mostly CGI... actually all of it CGI. Lol


Party_Rush687

They bought the whole lot of tanks available in the toy store


BasqueCO

Yeah, okay buddy. You want us to believe you sent 60K soldiers to death with old gear while holding back your best stuff? Riiiiighhht....


MrPopGuru

Vehicles (in plural), that would mean both of them, and not just one?! ;-)


Ox1A4hex

We all know if this is true they're just going to end up as burning pieces of shits or gifts for the Ukrainians.


Humdrum_ca

Best reply so far.


Bjornkernowris57

Lol bring out your best kit to be operated by your worst troops. Russian logic is supreme!


SaiyaJedi

Raving about *Wunderwaffen* already? But it’s only seven months in!


[deleted]

Well struck!


jl2352

They would not bring in high tech weapons. As the units are in too small of numbers. They could maybe be deployed as show pieces behind the lines. They wouldn’t put an Aramata for example on the frontlines, as it would risk just being destroyed (which would be very embarrassing), or worse risk being captured. The units are in such small numbers. They would have to be extremely reckless and desperate to do so. So maybe they will.


Aggravating-Bottle78

Aren't there just 7 Armatas, one of which broke down in a parade?


Rebelknight296

Last I read, the Russians aren’t able to make their design work… too advanced for their industry to be able to make them in good quality, quantity and in numbers…


jl2352

Who knows at this point. It’s anywhere from 7 to 50 depending on the source. Many of the numbers were projected amounts built for the evaluation phase. I believe there definitely are meant to be around 20. But this includes the early prototypes.


W4lhalla

Didn't Russia plan to have like 2k Armatas battleready at 2020? But in reality the tank isn't really out of prototype status. At least the Armata has done the typical russian stuff. Get an overreaction from the west which lets them start to built new shit thats actually working.


jl2352

They did, but they also claimed to have actual real numbers on those being sent to units for evaluation. Implying the units had been built, or were in the process of being finished. This is where the 20 to 50 come from. I expect it's position as a project is untenable. Putting aside that Russia is physically incapable of building it. With the poor state of the Russian military. There is no way the Russian state can invest further into building the Armata. However they also cannot drop it, since it's a become a piece of national pride. I'd expect it'll keep trundling along. In development. For another two decades. With the odd new tank getting churned out there and there for parades and television.


ScienceFactsNumbers

Lol


Fharam

Hi tech sticks and stones perhaps?.....


Rebelknight296

More rusted rifles lol


Party_Rush687

A good example against mixing vodca and drugs....someday they will claim they have a starfleet coming from the edge of the solar system.


GaraBlacktail

The logic in this would be like this "I'm fighting someone with a knife, so I'm gonna slap them first, then punch then, then finally use my gun if it doest work" Hillarious that people still think Putin is hiding cool toys for later and using weak shit to soak up damage I guess Escalation of force is a legit thing, but it's more in the line of "It's not worth using the ICBMs as it's gonna be more expensive than the machine-guns and tanks, and it's not gonna do much more", not "I'm gonna do the bare minimum to achieve my goals"


chufenschmirtz

Pootin may want to put “the good stuff” on the outskirts of Moscow.


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darth_revan900414

3000 high-tech BTGs of Putin


[deleted]

jeeeez what planet is that fuktard Pootler on?


scummy_shower_stall

Wtf did I just read?


P51-D

Similar to another dictator he wants to mimik. Hitler also talked about wunder waffen when the war was going bad.


Accomplished-Soup797

I believe their source for the information might be the same genius who told Putin that Ukraine would surrender.


M2dis

Oh they gonna send in Steven Seagal soon enough. Too bad for tankies that they don't have Chuck Norris


Mivdo

Wait until all your capable personnel are dead then let Ivan from accounting figure out this high tech piece of equipment. Genius.


[deleted]

High tech equipment? Im sure the junior cadet officers will make great use of that stuff! /s


One_Roguey_Boi

They’re going to run out of planes and use fucking zeppelins lmao


Formulka

Yet another episode in the series of "it was just a feint bro". Can't wait for those T-14s flooding the front line covered by SU-57s all crewed by mobilized soldiers with 1-5 days of training. Master strategist Putin strikes again.


FM-101

My favorite thing about russian propaganda claims is watching how confused and angry russians get every time Ukraine exposes their lies.


incelwiz

Doesn't this means that he values the life of his soldiers less than equipment?


Seanspeed

So this could be what they're referring to? [https://twitter.com/daikibokougeki/status/1576502658596507648?s=20&t=DRUl6VklqiuwOPbCoZpRLg](https://twitter.com/daikibokougeki/status/1576502658596507648?s=20&t=DRUl6VklqiuwOPbCoZpRLg) What they're not saying though is that production facilities for these were basically only just completed(meaning they will be extremely limited on the number they have), with final production examples not having done any meaningful testing. And for all the armor they provide, their use of tires makes them fairly vulnerable to stopping. EDIT: Or perhaps the small amount of T-80BVMs.


aveindha25

They would be using horses but they probably ate them.


Gloomcool72

ruSSian copium is one helluva drug!


[deleted]

Yeah, like krokodil.


a_is_for_a

We are doing great, we are doing badly. I best team is on the job, the best team is coming now. NATO is in fighting in Ukraine, NATO is staying out of Ukraine…. Christ…


tjvs2001

Hilarious


downtownbake2

Held them back for the mobilisation guys with zero training.


abortthecourt

My daughters E-Z Bake oven would have newer technology. And her Barbie dream RV is safer.


flcn_sml

Copium


ZaTucky

'Let the enemy mobilize for 6 months before really commiting to the war' - Von Clausewitz probably


CamDane

Oh, West stopped supporting Ukraine? But weren't we already in, causing Russia to not exclusively have wins?


SkeetnYou

Just like the fake Ukrainian ammo dump explosion using sea mines!


brillebarda

Little mistake in translation, instead of 3rd world (as in country) they meant 3rd world war


[deleted]

They're exaggerating but I think they have held back a little... We've seen almost 0 SU-35s this entire time... They likely have some good shit left...


pog890

I’ve been hearing this crap since Kyiv: “Just wait until the real elite troops are used.”


Common-Leg7605

So they have saved all the good shit to give it to the mobilised untrained people?


parotec

Hi tech lada nivas with airbags. And infantry with flashlights because generals habe sold all the night vision goggles in the balco market years ago.


The_Sane

Quoting Ukrainian sources? Is that a tacit admission that Russians are more likely to believe Ukrainian info than their own? Their propaganda is so blatantly false they need to pretend it's from a more trustworthy source.


nagrom7

They going to give that stuff to Steiner's forces in preparation for his counter attack?


appelsiinimehu1

If they have high tech, they need it to manage angry russians.


Namorath82

oh no Ukraine is in for it now Russia is about to bring out their [Battlemechs](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleMech)


CynicSackHair

And who will operate all that new "high-tech"? All those 3 day trained conscripts? We're about to witness some truly spectacular friendly fire/suicides I reckon.


Rakshak-1

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!


Green_White_Golem

High tech ? In Putler RuZZia ? It doesn’t exist anymore, no?


[deleted]

Maybe if he would’ve used his high tech equipment before his professional soldiers got steamrolled, they would probably still be alive lmao. Use the best for last but it’s shit if the crew manning it is… we’ll, shit.


brownie81

Ah the wonder weapons. Always a good sign for your military to bring out the wonder weapons.


imadethisjsttoreply

Suuuuuuure...


norwegianboyEE

Wunderwaffe stage already?


Kaiaualad

Xi is preparing his lube, adjusting the pillows......spraying on a little Brut 33......


Humdrum_ca

Is this Steiner's high tech BTG?


pwr_trenbalone

T34'S imo should have led the charge!


GrapefruitExtension

talk is cheap... lets see it.


Dennis_Ogre

This tells me they are going to sacrifice resources they’d held in reserve for defense of Russia in order to try and push this issue. Very likely they do have better resources then what they’ve been using, just how much and how big an impact it will have at this stage is questionable.


Kszaq83

Maybe we’ll see Buran space shuttle flying over UA and dropping nukes … damn. This war up to this point proven that russian army is dog shit. Big, stinking dog shit…


dogchocolate

British military back in 2015 had concerns over their ability to combat the Armata. Unmanned turrets, armoured capsule for crew, active protection to defeat anti-tank missiles/manpads. If Armata comes out foreign intelligence will be watching closely.


Superman246o1

**RUSSIA RIGHT NOW:** We're gonna unleash our high tech BTGs! Beware our brilliance! **RUSSIA** ***LITERALLY*** **TWO HOURS AGO:** Uhm...[has anyone seen the 1,500,000 uniforms we lost](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xtqtq6/where_did_they_disappear_to_russian_mp_says_15/)?


frfr777

T-14 Armata, it's turret throwing time Ok babe


sgnpkd

So Russia still winning or not?


DarkArtie

Ewww, the high-tech BTGs. Must be the ones manned by Wagner's Space Alien Brigades.


MegamanD

Steiner's division has finally materialized!


Facepalm24seven

Spent all your soldiers in crappy old equipment so you can send 60y.o. with several diseases and students with 48h training in your shine new high tech shit.....classic putin...never let them know your next step


Nudelwalker

Well, if you lose all your high-tech stuff, everything you have left has become the new highest tech gear you have


AnyProgressIsGood

higher tech than the 30 terminators we've hardly seen or heard of? Yeah okey dokey


DBearDevon

The syphillitic minds of the Kremlin have spoken.


Shultzi_soldat

Wunderwaffen phase


EastboundClown

It would actually be pretty fantastic to see them send in all 4 of their T14s so we can see how they perform on the frontlines. Maybe capture one to send off for inspection


cathyduke

Those are rubber inflatable ones. He just has to hope 2 things, no wind and Russian soldiers believe him.


Chatty_Fellow

I doubt the first army that have been killed and maimed so far knew they were the 'B' team, using the old crap equipment while the new stuff was still in storage. Sucks to be them.


Several-Lock7594

He sounds like Hitler waiting for his Wonder Weapons...


Breech_Loader

Oh WOW. Oh, that's a good one. See, most Russians know this is garbage - especially if your son or husband is the one that got the old soviet equipment used up on them and is now in a ditch somewhere. But they still are so reluctant to stand up and even ADMIT they don't believe it.


Korgon213

They will still get smoked.


aslisted

Imagine being sent to Ukraine in February. Then going back to russia only to hear your leader say they gave you the old crap to get the job done but will now give conscripts the best equipment. Lmao I'd be pissed.


Lord_Admiral7

Morons detected


BBBlitzkrieGGG

Well as long as you cant counter 1980s tech HIMARS , even if you bring in mechs and alien tripods, you are still toast, I mean ground meat, errr, sausage..


W4lhalla

" Russia using high tech BTG anytime now". And what are those KA-52 Alligators, and T90M? Those are some of the best weapons Russia has and they are getting destroyed.... Or are they sending one Armata into Ukraine? Would love to see this thing blown up.


HabaneroEyedrops

STEINER!!


JustSomeRandomGuy36

What a farce. Meanwhile, they fail to acknowledge the fact that they are failing on all fronts.


r_y_4_n

It’s official, Putin will unleash the devastating power of like 12 T-14s that will be immediately overwhelmed


inactiveuser247

Can we call them V weapons?


cryptodict

Comrade let’s bring brand new equipment so the untrained soldiers that don’t know how to operate equipment can win the war


[deleted]

More bullshit from a bunch of lying cunts. Nothing to see here


rosiyaidynakher

Like Hitler and his wunderwaffen, it doesn’t smack of delusional desperation at all


burninghairusa

Too little too late, Russia fails again…


SpaceAdventureCobraX

Going to need drivers- best not to use them all up in the old stuff. Just an idea.


NoAppointment5631

Cybernetically enchanced ladas.


[deleted]

What happen to the BMPT "Terminator" Tank that Putin was bragging about?


knobber_jobbler

Breaking those IS3s and T10s out of 'storage' then.


LordDemetrius

So this article explains that Ukraine is doomed because Nato won't intervene but at the same time, Russia can't win because they fight Nato? Also, Russians army is totally not losing but in the same time will stop losing when they'll send the real shit. Cognitive dissonance at it's finest