re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Can confirm. We got some from the national guard after the hurricane. Much better than the old ones. All were palatable. Some were actually pretty food

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I actually enjoyed MREs....right up until I had to live off of them for a month.

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Russia jas lost damn near a quarter of its starting Army.

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40k is 20%??

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First month of OIF?

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Nah. Remote mountain top in eastern Turkey. Remember that BMD radar we fired up in Turkey that pissed Russia and Iran off?

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Russia jas lost damn near a quarter of its starting Army.


40k is 20%??

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Russia had 150K+ troops in its Ukrainian invasion force. So 40K is roughly 25% of that total.

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If the 190 figure is wrong then I apologize. Its still a shite load of people either way even its more than 190k and would not be acceptable in the West. But Putin does not care.

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He cares, though not due to any emotional attachment.

Probably a third to a half of the initial invasion force were combat arms if they are structured anything like most other modern armies. That's a hell of a lot of units becoming combat ineffective and goes a long way to explaining how they've lost the maneuver initiative in much of the country.

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I assumed the number the Russians started with was 190k

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This is correct in the theater. But Russia has an army of about 900,000. Lots of reinforcements left.

Yeah buts that’s everything they have, no way even half of that would be made available for this fight would it?

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Probably a third to a half of the initial invasion force were combat arms if they are structured anything like most other modern armies.

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So if a modern army ( like the US) sent in 200k ground troops for a full scale invasion nearly 50% would be support troops ? Astonishing what it takes to keep modern combat units effective.