Russia Ukraine War 2022

Who will win this war?.


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SwordOfDarkness

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Can Someone Please Answer My Question

I was wondering whether a
12.7 MM x108 Heavy Cartridge can Punch a Hole At the POINT where the Main Gun of a Tank is Connected to the Turret

Because then the Shell might explode inside the Main Gun Barrel
Technically, yes. Practically, you would have to get ridiculously close to the tank for it to work from an accuracy POV.
Maybe a slight chance of working in urban combat if you turned a corner and came to face with a tank? But then it would show an intel failure on your part.
 

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Why that should be a red line? Both Mariupol and Melitopol are Ukrainian cities that Russia occupied last year, so Russian soldiers around are perfectly valid targets. If Russian soldiers don´t like being attacked there, they know where to go. Americans have been pretty strict about targeting of their rockets, they are not used against internationally recognized Russian territory, even though there must be many juicy targets in Belgorod (we have yet to see how they see Crimea once UKR gets longer-range rockets), but any Russian target in the Ukraine is a fair game.
Ok going by your line of logic, Polish targets are fair game.
 

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Way this works is, tank spends 5-6 hours in mud, takes 2-3 hours to clean/grease it back up. 40-50 hours in combat, takes 10-12 hour deep clean and servicing. After a few months goes into proper maintenance and spends some time there. These things rack up to lots of hours.

Though not sure 3:1 will be the ratio, seems rather high. 2:1 I would not be surprised.
The standard peacetime cost of maintaining a single M1A2 is 350,000$ per year. Now calculate for wartime usage and see where that cost balloons to.
 

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Honestly, S-400 stands little chance. NATO is flying constant ELINT/SIGINT missions since last year, they know every capability of Russian systems by now. Western EW is miles ahead of what Russia got.
NATO is flying either in international space or in NATO space, not in Russian space so no need to shot them down.
The moment NATO set foot in Ukraine or any sort of direct involvement then Nukes will be used for 100% means WW3 would begin officially.
 

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