Well it's bad against bullet... but if it can block shrapnel it will block most of what kill soldiers in Ukraine. Don't know the protection against shrapnel from these ?
The War in the Ukraine
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She was the German Minister of Defense, so she should know better … however, I heard that she didn’t exactly excel in that role and was “promoted “ to a position where she could do the least amount of harm which is apparently the president of the EU Commission. This what Martin Schulz had to say in 2019:
“She is “the weakest minister in the government”, the former European Parliament president said. “[But] apparently such a performance suffices to become head of the commission.”
From the FT:
Among members of her own party, on the other hand, there was relief. “It’s good for the army that she’s going,” said one Christian Democratic Union MP. “Her years as minister have been really hard for the armed forces.”
Based on what UVDL said, “over 20000 civilians were killed” in Ukraine. As sad as that it is, I expected much worse based on the daily reports in my news feeds. It’s probably too early at this point to come up with accurate figures.
To compare, in the month long Desert Storm campaign some 3,600 Iraqi civilians were killed.
In the 2003 month long Invasion of Iraq, 7269 civilians were killed according to the Iraq Body Count.
To compare, in the month long Desert Storm campaign some 3,600 Iraqi civilians were killed.
In the 2003 month long Invasion of Iraq, 7269 civilians were killed according to the Iraq Body Count.
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I do believe there was a mistranslation. She was sourcing that claim from General Milley, head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said Russia had suffered over 100k casualties, and Ukraine suffered about the same. Although I do believe the Ukrainians have more casualties, perhaps 1.5 times more, if they suffered 400k casualties I don't really think the Russians would have such a hard time breaking through.
plawolf
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Might be down to delivery times. Level III/IV are obviously better, but if they cannot be delivered before you need to report for duty, IIIA is still better than nothing.
The number for the Russian side is complete propaganda. Most of the casualties from both sides were due to cannon fire. By their own admission, the Ukrainians have a 10:1 disadvantage in cannon fire. How do they manage to kill the same number of Russians with one tenth the cannon fire?
She definitely misspoke, should be over 100,000 Ukrainian casualties, not deaths.
- Russian gov't claims ~110,000 Ukrainian casualties which includes 60K killed, 50K wounded.
- US gov't claims +100,000 Ukrainians killed and wounded.
The Russian estimate you are referring to is from September, there's been quite a lot of heavy fighting since then so the number is going to be higher.
The Ukrainians can answer this by telling us how many soldiers have died just as the Russians have been doing. They won't because it'll be very high.
Your economy will reach a breaking point much sooner with incremental decreases in the working population. Who will farm the food? Drive the trucks? Maintain the utilities. Ukraine has and needs over 256,000 to maintain its utilities alone. The fact that millions already left the country is the nation's by far the biggest economic damage. Its telling that the biggest refugee recipient is Russia. Plus there is a good fraction of the population that is for the Russian side, even fighting for it and has or planning to move to it. Do not forget the DPR and LPR are Ukrainians fighting a civil war.
where you get this information? Ukraine itself admitted that there are about 450 aircraft and 430 choppers in the battlefield
This first battlefield where combat aircraft and combat helicopters given equal importance from the start.
among those 450 aircrafts most of them will be Su-25SM. its all part of low altitude attack pattern that no one has applied on this scale.
Ukraine has been unable to capture any number of Russian pilots relative to thousands of sorties.
the guided missile part is 7,000 by early October. since most of Su-25SM will be using rockets and unguided bombs that will be multiple of that numbers.
Su-25 have been given extensive training over the years.