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LonePirate

(13,420 posts)
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 12:44 PM Mar 2022

Winning the Lottery in Ukraine




Oryx @oryxspioenkop

This is Igor.

Every morning Igor goes for a stroll through the nearby forest.

Today, Igor found a Russian Army 9K330 Tor SAM system abandoned in the forest.

Now Igor owns a $20 million SAM system.

Congratulations Igor.


This is merely a joke as I am sure Igor would have preferred no Russian invasion at all. He's simply making the best of a bad hand he's been dealt in life.
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Winning the Lottery in Ukraine (Original Post) LonePirate Mar 2022 OP
Gas up your tractor, Igor. Wingus Dingus Mar 2022 #1
MSNBC showed two farm tractors dragging off one of these the other day. Emile Mar 2022 #2
Good for him! Chainfire Mar 2022 #3
I think that the Ukraine farmers Delmette2.0 Mar 2022 #4

Chainfire

(17,536 posts)
3. Good for him!
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 01:33 PM
Mar 2022

I wonder what it brings as scrap metal? The Ukrainians that "capture" these vehicles really need to keep and incendiary device close at hand, just in case. The Russians shouldn't be able to get them back by capturing them or in some kind of negotiated peace deal. If the Ukrainian people can't put these captures to immediate use, they should be permanently disabled and fire is the method. When they are gone, they are gone.

The Russian policy in WWII, dealing with disabled armor, is that, regardless of all other conditions, that if a tank or similar vehicle had been disabled the crew had to stay with it, under penalty of death, unless it had burned out. So, if you were out of gas, the cannon was blown off, the track was broken and all but one crew member killed, he had to stay to "protect" the disabled vehicle. I guess it is not the same army.

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