M88A2 Hercules Captured

 Here’s a captured M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicle, one of the largest recovery vehicles in use by United States Armed Forces and likewise one of the largest ever captured by Russian forces or Ukrainian anti-NATO partisans.

Ghanima won't count towards payback; payback to be imposed on the united states government separately, per our sources; following completion of the Ukrainian leg of the Great Liberation Operation.

First US M1 Abrams tank-based vehicle captured

Here’s a captured M1150 assault breached vehicle, the first Abrams tank based or related vehicle captured.

Some command hardware and software systems are captured. For-pay American "military experts" are in damage control mode: "minimum concern about what Russia will be able to glean".

But of course Russia will. 

But then also, is there that much to glean for Russia from anything inferior that Yanks may have made - their systems are advanced only in their crap for brain Americaine.

Exposed is Yank's composite shit armor

Yank's composite armor.. of which she very proud for some reason - baffles understanding.

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First M1 Abrams Tank Captured and On Way to Moscow

One of the earlier knocked out M1 Abram's tanks has been recovered and is on way to Moscow.

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Images 

BDA: We are guessing blow-out panels really work, really a useful feature (not)

the slightly burned M1 Abrams tank innards

Branded for Ukraine

In process of recovery

When it was knocked out

 

 

Our contributing military expert, General K. Sokolowski (ret.), he say the Americans have only ever managed to produce two type of tanks - bad tanks and worse than bad tanks.

Their best WW2 tank, the M4 Sherman, was a bad tank as compared to German, and especially Soviet, units.

The Patton was bad too.

But, huge propaganda and hype notwithstanding, it is the M1 Abrams that is the worst American tank, and probably the worst tank in the world, on balance (with the sole possible exception likely to be the British Challenger 2 rust-bucket which is even worse).

General Sokolowski says he has known it all along but do you now begin to see why from these early pictures and accounts of M1 Abrams use in the Ukraine? 

The only thing this tank managed to do was to drive too close to the war zone and get knocked out.

Contrary to propaganda, it wasn't the drone that got it, it just took some ATGM (x2), something like Konkurs or Malyutka, etc., a technology developed in the early 1960s.

 

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Analysis: Could Channel Tunnel Be Blown Up Under Water in Retaliation for West-Sponsored Crimean Bridge Attack?

The Kerch bridge is still on their mind but the payback will be a bitch.

Here’s what we wrote on the subject earlier:

Per current news reports, the Ukrainian Zelensky entity carried out another attack on the Crimean Bridge earlier today, causing serious damage and significantly frustrating its operation for the near term at least, while also killing the parents of a fourteen-year-old girl.

Though the Crimean Bridge is a civilian infrastructure project, attacks on the Crimean Bridge have been openly advocated and even encouraged by a number of both serving and retired Western politicians and media figures since the moment it was first envisaged.

Russian political figures say the early hours July 17 attack took place, if not with the direct participation of elements of the British or other culpable Western security services, then certainly with their tacit approval or even encouragement.

At this point, it would be pointless for Russia to send signals to the top doped-up figures of the Zelensky regime as they are essentially "dead men walking" and have nothing to lose, of which they are no doubt aware, and just want to take down with them as many people for company as they can, principally their own, but those from other nations too if they have a chance.

So in these circumstances, what could Russia do to ensure such acts of state sponsored terrorism don't happen again and/or to exact retaliation and punishment, should it want or be inclined to so do?

Well, creative opportunities abound.

For instance, our guest expert and some-time contributor General Sokolowski (Retd.) believes it would make sense for Russia to bypass the one-time Zelensky clown turned president and to send a note of improper behavior directly to the West, and, for starters, to the British as they are the foremost architects of this conflict even more so than the USers, that this behavior is unacceptable and must cease with immediate effect as must any further weaponry supplies to, or support for, the Zelensky regime.

Enter the Channel Tunnel, with its underwater section that took years to build, which is a comparable infrastructure facility to the Crimean Bridge but could be and is used for military purposes, such as ferrying troops and equipment, including equipment bound for Ukraine.

Suppose the underwater section of the Channel Tunnel gets blown up with a massive seabed explosive placed directly on top of it? 

The tunnels will surely be breached and then flooded with millions of tons of the filthy seawaters of the Channel.

Current thinking is it will be impossible to repair the tunnels once they are breached in this extreme fashion and completely flooded. 

It would be easier to build another tunnel in another location, but for the fact that the British and French have long lost the ability to build comparable infrastructure project due to irreversible de-industrialization, so that will be just it - the end of underwater transportation between the Continent and the Islands, for better or for worse.

General Sokolowski feels sure Russia has many devices that could do the job and penetrate only 40 meters or less of the soft clay soil once planted by, say, an unknown party on the seabed over the tunnels in a fashion similar to how the Nordstream was destroyed. 

Or something could be improvised real quick even by non-state actors.

One should not also discount the use of an underwater tactical nuclear device to achieve the same purpose with more gusto and thrilling Tsunami effects, and that could be discretely dropped from submarines or other submersibles with a delayed or timed fuse or something. Or it could even be dropped from a passing freight ship operating under a flag of convenience! Or, come to think of it, from a hired yacht!

The possibilities of retaliation are endless, and by not coming to senses soon, says Gen Sokolowski, the West is threatening to unleash on itself the processes quite beyond their control or even current understanding or anything they can imagine in their worst nightmares, although this may be just another conspiracy theory with nothing of substance to it.

Center to Circus

Captured: Two German Marders 1944 - 2024

 Captured: Two German Marders 1944 - 2024

History repeats herself.

The vibes we are getting, looks like this time it will really be the final solution and the job will be finished, after which the West will be strictly a geographical term, and uninhabitable one at that.

Live: M113, YPR-765, M1064A3

Live M113, YPR-765 et al destruction, a curated collection of selected M113 and derivative destruction episodes.

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Yet another M113 shite box, except it's a version thereof, a YPR-765

 

 

 

 

 

And another one disguised with the Red Cross emblem.

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April 22 - another M113 cadaver, this is recent, as destruction of Western weapons in Ukraine is nearing completion as a prelude to big action to begin soon over the North Atlantic 

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April 19 - another knocked out M113

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April 7 - more M113 destruction, at least 4 vehicles in these pictures 

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April 5 - another M113

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April 4 - two recent M113 knockouts, as destruction of this chariot continues thousands of destroyed units later.

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March 16 - multiple M113 recently knocked out

 

 

 

 

March 4 - M113

Feb 29 - another day, another annihilated M113 crapper

Feb 23 - bunch of destroyed M113 and derivative YPR-765 as NATO weaponry continues to be wiped out on an industrial scale.

Feb 19 - bunch of recent M113 kills, including those from Zelenskyite newest disaster if Avdiivka.

YPR-765

Feb 18 - Another fleeing M113 catches it.

A small DIY drone typically makes a huge hole in the subpar US made vehicle that is the M113, though it is outdated of course, but newer U.S. made vehicles have fared no better if not worse.

Feb 17 - a YPR-765 destroyed, empty shell remains.

Feb 15 - another M113 char-iot destroyed and burned herself and, unfortunately, it’s human NATO proxy load.

Feb 10 - This is a new one (buy that lottery ticket), an M1064a3 mortar vehicle on the M113 chassis. As you can see again - “Likes to keel over”.

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Feb 09 - M113 destruction is going on.  

 A small DIY drone makes a huge hole in the subpar US made vehicle that is the M113, though it is outdated of course, but newer U.S. made vehicles have fared no better if not worse.

 

As destruction of inferior Western weaponry, armor and vehicles, old and new, continues unabated, here is another knocked out M113, one of likely hundreds if not over a thousand destroyed already by Russian forces and Ukrainian anti-Nato partisans, though M113s have become noticeably more scarce - nowhere near their peak destruction numbers of the spring and summer of 2023 and even before that.

 

Infer from this tidbit of information what you will. 

 

Our guest military expert, General Sokolowski (retd), says he believes probably the US master planners (whoever and wherever they are - certainly nowhere near the White House) have started hogging their weaponry and especially vehicles, if not actually withdrawing it from the Ukraine, so as to avoid more embarrassment and to mitigate the PR disaster of the whole world seeing so much destroyed American weaponry in one place and at one same time like never really before, which is to be sure also noted by many with a grudge against the US and other Western entities and their ruling elites and who are thus getting emboldened by the hour, and with good reason too.

Spreading military superiority propaganda and especially the myth of the "invincibility, amazing effectiveness and superiority of US made weaponry" is part of the US military doctrine (indeed as it also was part of the German Nazi Wehrmacht doctrine decades ago, etc.) whether actually articulated or just implicitly implied, and is meant to make it easier to subjugate nations around the world, to make them think that any resistance to the US creeping encroachment on the world is futile and to discourage people from ever finding out how easy it is to actually knock out US-made military assets and / or to kill US soldiery (as hundreds of US ex-military turned NATO auxiliaries in Ukraine have been killed to date), and, in the absence of such knowledge, to keep them docile and unresistant in the face of the US rule.

 

But these and other pictures from the Ukraine go a long way to shattering and burying that myth, with grave implications for the future of the world-wide US hegemony.

 

 

 

Another M113 knocked out along with a Leopard 2 tank 

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Jan 27 - another M113, an M113G3DK EX, as Western supplied weaponry continues to be destroyed at a huge daily rate.

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Jan 17 - another M113 catches it along with a bunch of other NATO proxy weaponry as destruction of Western supplied weaponry never ceases.

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Per photographic evidence, first knocked M113 this year, as over a thousand are likely to have been destroyed already.

 

As destruction of inferior Western weaponry, armor and vehicles, old and new, continues unabated, here is another knocked out M113, one of likely hundreds if not over a thousand destroyed already by Russian forces and Ukrainian anti-Nato partisans, though M113s have become noticeably more scarce - nowhere near their peak destruction numbers of the spring and summer of 2023 and even before that.

 

Infer from this tidbit of information what you will. 

 

Our guest military expert, General Sokolowski (retd), says he believes probably the US master planners (whoever and wherever they are - certainly nowhere near the White House) have started hogging their weaponry and especially vehicles, if not actually withdrawing it from the Ukraine, so as to avoid more embarrassment and to mitigate the PR disaster of the whole world seeing so much destroyed American weaponry in one place and at one same time like never really before, which is to be sure also noted by many with a grudge against the US and other Western entities and their ruling elites and who are thus getting emboldened by the hour, and with good reason too.

Spreading military superiority propaganda and especially the myth of the "invincibility, amazing effectiveness and superiority of US made weaponry" is part of the US military doctrine (indeed as it also was part of the German Nazi Wehrmacht doctrine decades ago, etc.) whether actually articulated or just implicitly implied, and is meant to make it easier to subjugate nations around the world, to make them think that any resistance to the US creeping encroachment on the world is futile and to discourage people from ever finding out how easy it is to actually knock out US-made military assets and / or to kill US soldiery (as hundreds of US ex-military turned NATO auxiliaries in Ukraine have been killed to date), and, in the absence of such knowledge, to keep them docile and unresistant in the face of the US rule.

 

But these and other pictures from the Ukraine go a long way to shattering and burying that myth, with grave implications for the future of the world-wide US hegemony.

 

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A destroyed YPR-765 (m113 variant) in the same heap of obliterated Nato supplied armor with a destroyed Polish PT-91 and a Czech T-72EA tanks.

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Another knocked out YPR-765, November 2023.

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Another YPR-765 is sought out and destroyed by a drone.

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YPR-765 destroyed 

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More M113 carcasses...only empty hollowed out shells remain.

Whilst untold numbers of the M113 have been destroyed by the Russian army and Ukrainian partisans by now, into hundreds if not thousands of units already - the biggest M113 destruction in history of humanity since Vietnam, the destruction of the M113 still continues on a near daily basis and / or more or fpreviously destroyed M113s are coming to light.

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Another carcass of a destroyed M113 variant YPR – 765 comes to light.

As per very frequent, it’s resting sunning its decayed underbelly - “likes to keel over”

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What’s left of another M113: not much at all.

M113 art installation 

More pictures of destroyed tin foil M113s and variants as, according to our contributing military expert, General Sokolowski (Retd), the myth of the superiority of Western armor, weaponry and armaments is shattered once and for good and they are found out in the Ukraine to be ineffective and little short of useless which will no doubt encourage more Western-oppressed peoples and movements to take up arms, and engage in direct action, against their Western masters all over the world which will be, and already is, one result of this Western provoked war, on which the plutocratic Western minority (1-percenters) ruling elites  did not count at all.

On the other hand, General Sokolowski notes, the oppressed populations of the Western plutocracy states, foremost amongst them the U.S., are no longer as fearful of their repressive bodies, especially armies and fleets, as they used to be because they know now that the Western, NATO and the US armies can be successfully taken on, engaged and defeated with DIY grade weapons and little else but daring and courage, and that’s, Ladies and gents, right here is another one result of this Western provoked war many years in the making, on which the plutocratic Western minority (1-percenter) ruling elites  did not count at all and did not anticipate.

Carcass of another YPR-765

YPR-765

M113

Another M113, this is a recent kill as recent as nov 10 2023.

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In the excitement of the past weeks in the months of June, July, August, September, October and now November of 2023, of seeing new nomenclatures of NATO supplied armor destroyed for the first time and immediately in industrial quantities and in numbers never heretofore seen anywhere, such as Leopards and Bradley, it is good to know that the destruction of the bad olde M113 APC and variants is still also continuing bringing peace ever closer with each destroyed NATO and Western asset, of which here is a proof: one more M113 asset can be put down in your OSINT copybooks and preserved for posterity as destroyed.

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Starting as far back as in the early 1960s, the US M113 APC used to be the mainstay of US Army armored cavalry formations in many wars (though all eventually lost by the US military) starting from Vietnam and up to Iraq and Afghanistan in the 21st century but is now an embarrassment and a huge stain on the reputation of the US capitalist run military-industrial complex (what's left of it) and the American made weaponry in general, with hundreds of US M113 APC and derivatives spectacularly destroyed in Ukraine already and more taken out almost every single day.

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