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  1. I believe that the force composition for the second invasion of Ukraine will be significantly different. The Russians already have superior self-propelled artillery and missile forces installed in Ukraine. Instead of an artillery army with tanks, this second invasion will have significant infantry forces. So the invasion force would have a much higher infantry to support ratio. The original force had perhaps only 15% professional/contract infantry. This new force would have a ratio several times larger but its infantry quality would not be professional, but would be a reservist/volunteer force. This would effectively bridge the combined arms gap that have greatly reduced Russian offensive operations so far. As far as Tanks and IFVs go the Russians have been performing large scale refurbishing of armored vehicles taken from Soviet stockpiles. Besides new T-90 production contracts, approx. 800 T-62 tanks have been taken out of storage to be refurbished in a 3-year modernization contract with the 103rd Armored Repair Plant in Chita, Russia. The upgrade of the T-62 will include modifications to their sensors, thermals, armor, and armament. The T-62 will no longer just be for the Separatist army and separate volunteer battalions. There may be more Russian tank plants with major contracts like this for their armored vehicles.
  2. The Russians are currently preparing for the second invasion of Ukraine. In reading up on Russian mobilization, it appears that they will continue to collect people into November. So the anticipated 'winter offensive' with up to half a million men will be slated into 2023. The unlucky conscript class of 2022-2023 (130,000 young men, a decrease of 30,000 from 2021-2022- odd?) would also be training. So this group of reservists will be somewhere under 300,000 men in addition to the 70,000 volunteers already collected. The Russians claim that they have already collected 220,000 men. If they manage to reach their 300,000 target by December 1st that means that the reservists will have to conduct various layers of unit (platoon, company, battalion, brigade) training. The 70,000 volunteers on the other hand have been collected since the beginning of the war and should be more advanced in their training. There were also some separate volunteer units being spotted in the Ukraine already. As for Round 2 of this war, I'm thinking late winter at the earliest or early spring.
  3. Cult Icon replied to Cult Icon's post in a topic in Television
    been catching up with the show. I think the actor for Christian Cole is miscast from episodes 6 onward. A big issue with him is his appearance and voice. He comes across as a soft-spoken/gentle, good looking nice guy. Watching him play a villain (early Jaime lannister type) doesn't really work since he played the nice guy in episodes 1-5.
  4. Cult Icon replied to jj3's post in a topic in General Talk
    This youtube personality has made a youtube career taking the man's side of things. it's kind of funny to see a fine woman do this. But it works for her and she is doing well:
  5. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
    I thought the bugs were fixed lol.
  6. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
    Agreed, the story is quite solid and it does use a lot of tropes. But it combines them pretty well. When he gets his spine removed and replaced, my jaw dropped lol. Also what was freaky was how he kept on removing his organic body parts for cyborg ones, until he was just a head and torso. IIRC Motoko was almost entirely cyborg except for her brain.
  7. I think I might eventually need to buy a serious camera for recording.
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  12. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
    Did you find the show a bit disturbing too? In an intriguing way, that is. (Addiction/craziness, Body horror, extreme gore). Ghost in the Shell (comic, show, sequel) have an element of body horror as well.
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