Rob Lee

Rob Lee @RALee85

@APHClarkson @SashoTodorov1 The problem is that laypeople who aren't following the war that closely are not getting a representative view of the war from social media (including from my twitter account). But social media is giving the false perception that we know about the war than we do. — PolitiTweet.org

Rob Lee @RALee85

@SashoTodorov1 @APHClarkson This war proves that many of those hyperbolic takes from Karabakh were wrong, and yet we're seeing more of them being applied to Taiwan. — PolitiTweet.org

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@APHClarkson I think it is a product of the huge number of videos from this war. People will remember a video of a tank exploding and assume this is representative or a huge weakness. When you look at the data, the picture is different. — PolitiTweet.org

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The combination of armor, mobility, and firepower that tanks provide is still important in ground warfare. Tanks have a number of flaws, but so do all of the alternatives and you would lose a key capability by doing away with them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Modern warfare has made every arm more vulnerable, so you mitigate those vulnerabilities through combined arms. If you want to conduct offensive operations against entrenched forces, you have to mass combat power, and tanks are more likely to survive than the alternatives. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tom_bullock_ They were subordinated to the ZVO right? — PolitiTweet.org

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28/ https://t.co/aOx1IXkzBZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@thinkdefence Not too much info though they have clearly been in combat. They only have a limited number when the war began, but some Russian accounts seemed to be happy with them. When they aren't available, Russian forces still use ZU-23-2 in a ground attack mode. https://t.co/pTDiTZ8uWK — PolitiTweet.org

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Video of a BMPT as part of the Western Group of Forces in the Svatove area. 27/ https://t.co/UKrPz5NGt6 https://t.co/DgDOvTWA2O — PolitiTweet.org

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The new Ukraine air package announced today by the US includes: -50 Bradley IFVs with 500 TOW missiles -100 M113 APCs -55 MRAPs -138 Humvees -18 Paladin howitzers -70k 155mm rounds -500 155mm PGM rounds -36 105mm howitzers and 95k rounds -RIM-7 Sea Sparrow https://t.co/nFLyzGuiwL https://t.co/YDWmf6GsQ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@DefMon3 Possibly, but a UAV from a higher vantage point (or closer to the target) would give you a better understanding of how close you missed a target at max effective range in direct fire than the T-90M's optics. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @wartranslated: Update from Bakhmut 6 January. https://t.co/Sq6WvQUFXO — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Forsvaret_no: #Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov is sailing southwards along the coast of #Norway. She is legally in international water… — PolitiTweet.org

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4599/ https://t.co/iEZxmMek90 — PolitiTweet.org

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@gnuggat1 @shashj @KofmanMichael @DAlperovitch Thanks, Edward. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tobiaschneider: It bears repeating that, regardless of the debates of the day, the basic realities of attritional warfare and limits of… — PolitiTweet.org

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@shashj This is a bizarre paragraph, and there is no source for the brigade figure (nor are brigades the standard Ground Forces formation). Russia invaded with 80% + of its permanent readiness BTGs, which is a more useful figure. There aren't 40 reduced-strength brigades back in Russia. https://t.co/a1Y4QbgOUu — PolitiTweet.org

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@einsteinradler @KampfmitKette Bonus points if you use American spelling. https://t.co/Tpg4rTm2kI — PolitiTweet.org

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41/ https://t.co/ujnsGZr6DI — PolitiTweet.org

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Presumably, they're part of the 90th Tank Division, which was mentioned in a recent MoD press release about T-90M. 2/ https://t.co/tpB9ioZIzT — PolitiTweet.org

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Video of Central Military District tank crews training on T-90M tanks. They say they’re integrating UAVs into their training to correct fire. https://t.co/kB2eHiwjDo https://t.co/whRG0hcDve — PolitiTweet.org

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@SashoTodorov1 Not that I'm aware of, but I need to go back and review where many Russian units were at the beginning of the war. — PolitiTweet.org

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A good thread by @KampfmitKette on the Marder infantry fighting vehicles that Germany is sending to Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ https://t.co/ntZB4aWSPK — PolitiTweet.org

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Kramnik suggests, to produce sufficient quantities of shells for this expenditure rate, they would need a general mobilization of the economy, and Rybar questions whether they have enough specialists and that they would need to use civilian factories to produce the ammo. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Rybar gave a lower production figure, and said Russia started emptying warehouses with its expenditure rates but waited too long to ramp up production (and blamed former Minister Serdyukov for hurting VPK enterprises). Murakhovksy says they need millions of rounds per year. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Viktor Murakhovsky, Rybar and Ilya Kramnik posted about Russia's artillery ammo issues. They suggest Russia produces/refurbishes 300k rounds per year (and had 2.6 million tons in storage in 2013) but was often firing 100k over the span of a couple of days. https://t.co/NITVHaTgWI https://t.co/YohA64FBGj — PolitiTweet.org

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Rostec said it will begin mass production of new C-UAS EW systems in two months. https://t.co/WpOEZqM3nJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Video of Prigozhin awarding Wagner fighters who were previously prisoners medals before they were allegedly set free and flown home. https://t.co/Wc7v19MiVG https://t.co/ttqc2A2UBW https://t.co/6IxWnNhjY3 https://t.co/SMW2D2n0r9 — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ https://t.co/brZ28W56aI https://t.co/52OmTQ4Uka https://t.co/IhkdsRsU1E — PolitiTweet.org