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Don't forget the Ruperts parachuting from the sky east of the Normandy beaches and north of the Seine.Notaperson wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:19 amAccording to a documentary I saw a while back, the U.S. used a similar tactic when preparing to invade Germany in WW2. It involved inflatable tanks, IIRC.
Yeah. Not just tanks, but planes too, and lots of other fake hardware, all on show to fool German spies. Bazillions of them. And all of them under George Patton's command.Notaperson wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:19 amAccording to a documentary I saw a while back, the U.S. used a similar tactic when preparing to invade Germany in WW2. It involved inflatable tanks, IIRC.
Not sure how correct this is (I'm no military historian) but I read/heard that fairly early in WW2 British intelligence determined that every German agent in Britain has been identified and turned, removed or used as a channel for false intelligence. It wasn't spies these tricks were aimed at but reconnaissance units and fighting units – the Brits had fake airfields for the German bombers and sometimes would light to attract bomb aimers away from the real targets.keith wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 1:12 am Not just tanks, but planes too, and lots of other fake hardware, all on show to fool German spies. Bazillions of them. And all of them under George Patton's command.
Arguably the best General the Allies had, in charge of a giant ghost army. Eisenhower was a phuccing genius.
They also deployed the mighty First United States Army Group under Patton in that operation. There was no actual unit but it was successful in making the Germans think that Patton was getting ready to invade Calais with them. Not sure if he slapped any soldiers in that group.Notaperson wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:19 amAccording to a documentary I saw a while back, the U.S. used a similar tactic when preparing to invade Germany in WW2. It involved inflatable tanks, IIRC.
While all these fires could be some combination of #1, #2 or #4, we should assume #3 (coincidence) until a very hard look at the data proves otherwise.Chilidog wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:50 am I am posting this here for a reason.
I'm wondering if there are computer controlled production / research systems involving flammable liquids at these facilities?
Is this (my order of likely hood)
1 - Internal Russian political discourse?
2 - high tech hacking sabotage?
3 - coinky-dink? (Or just general corruption)
4 - Old fashioned Kyiv Cocktail sabotage by spies?
Ukraine update: The most important vehicle on the battlefield isn't a tank
In a sea of tanks, armored personal carriers (APC), infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), armored fighting vehicles (AFV), Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles, it can be easy to overlook the vehicles that are most often responsible for getting soldiers where they need to be on the battlefield—Infantry Mobility Vehicles. Also known as Jeeps.
Well, not actually Jeeps. But these are the vehicles that serve the role somewhere between Willy’s Jeeps and the 6×6 truck “Jimmy” trucks that were workhorses of U.S. forces in World War II. They get soldiers from bases to units a lot faster and more reliably than a lumbering APC. They deliver critical spare parts to where they’re needed. They patrol towns and villages behind the front lines. Depending on the level of armor and equipment, they can even become surprisingly involved in combat.
When Russia invaded, there were already a number of vehicles serving this role in Ukraine. That included the home grown Kozak-2 and Novator, and one that might be surprising—American Humvees.
When the U.S. announced it’s latest package of assistance, it included 200 more Humvees. This may have seemed like another of those “we’re only adding to the complexity of their supply chain” moments, but Ukraine already had about 350 Humvees playing various roles in their military. The reason that Humvees are showing up in some of the images of vehicles destroyed in Mariupol and eastern Ukraine is not because these are vehicles that rolled off the plane outside Lviv and somehow driven through Russian lines to reach the Azovstal plant. It’s because these are what Ukraine was using already.
It’s also one of their principle needs. Missiles, drones, planes, and tanks may all get more press, but IMVs are almost as central to a functional army as food and ammo. When you look at those videos of the Russian military rolling down the road, and see a huge variety of poorly-maintained, cobbled-together vehicles serving in this role, that’s one of the best signs that the Russian military has enormous issues. When it comes to an actual light armored infantry mobility vehicle, Russia has both tens of thousands and almost none. The GAZ Tigr and Iveco LMV theoretically fill this role, but the later has been quite a rare sighting in Ukraine. 80 GAZ Tigr are known dead.
... the third month of war finds Russia, not the United States, struggling under an unprecedented hacking wave that entwines government activity, political voluntarism and criminal action.
Digital assailants have plundered the country’s personal financial data, defaced websites and handed decades of government emails to anti-secrecy activists abroad. One recent survey showed more passwords and other sensitive data from Russia were dumped onto the open Web in March than information from any other country.
The published documents include a cache from a regional office of media regulator Roskomnadzor that revealed the topics its analysts were most concerned about on social media — including antimilitarism and drug legalization — and that it was filing reports to the FSB federal intelligence service, which has been arresting some who complain about government policies.
A separate hoard from VGTRK, or All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Co., exposed 20 years of emails from the state-owned media chain and is “a big one” in expected impact, said a researcher at cybersecurity firm Recorded Future who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss his work on dangerous hacking circles.
