Russia - threadbanned users in OP

This makes sense in the context of my seeing reports that some villages and towns are seeing near 100% mobilisations of the male population.

Mordor is so completele effed up it's sometimes hard to think the place is in the same dimension we inhabit.

We were discussing why a double tap to the body and where it came from.

DP is actually a police originated tactic not originally a military tactical shooting skill even though they adapted it. The one to the head is a special forces/ military addition to the technique.

Double tap was actually developed for two reasons originally. The first was that the second shot brought you eye in better as for the first shot you might not have your hands fully extended. The second shot was more capable of permanently disabling an opponent.

The second reason for the DP was the use of full metal jacket rounds. A FMJ round was more likely to penetrate without doing enough damage to disable as previously lead rounds which had the ability to expand and tumble therefore causing more damage.

The DP was developed further by the military in that you had to reaquire your target for the second shot. With constant training the two shots are fired close togeather and are not taught to be a controlled shooting by an untrained person

In a police situation you did not want Police officers firing uncontrolled in area where there was people especially with the advent of FMJ.

FMJ's were becoming more popular because as they also offered secure automatic reloading. That is they limited the probability of jamming.

And in a most delicious turning of the tables

Peskov's response would indicate Putin has been bluffing as he sounds positively scared.

Well played, Mr Zelensky, smoked them out nicely.

The threat of nukes is the main strength Russia has. And it's a real threat. But using a tactical nuke would be a catastrophic mistake - it wouldn't achieve much on the battlefield, and it would completely isolate Russia from the rest of the world. And it would make China (and India) Russia's enemies.

Winds generally blow east.. so fallout in Ukraine would affect the country east of Ukraine.

I think I'm pretty much just repeating what you already said, so I agree completely.

Is there any evidence that India and China would decisively turn against Putin if he used a tactical nuke? I doubt they would be happy about it privately but they’ve stuck with him after he launched a brutal war of occupation on the most pathetic pretext ever - I wouldn’t be confident that they would break with him unless he went completely insane and threatened to wipe out London or Paris or something similar

Where would Russia explode a nuke for best effect

I think western Ukraine or odessa

Civilians are viable targets in putler's sick mind already a mass murderer

The 96hours of US/NATO involvement sees Russia anialated

There should post nuke war gaming preparations displays

Nuke threat climb down will be a disaster for the west

I very much doubt Trump actually meant anything by that statement. I think it was just his usual hyperbole. It’s unlikely he knew the difference between the various options. This was a man who inquired about the use of nuclear weapons to stop hurricanes.

Despite the hundreds of terminal medical diagnoses he's received on this thread since last winter, Putin turns 70 today. Obviously his body is a bit more robust than his country's military.

I, for one, wish him an awful birthday and a thoroughly miserable new decade marked by defeat, isolation, and humiliation.

I would like to join you in wishing Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin a very, very crappy birthday.

It'd be kind of funny if he did though. "Putin, Russia, the BOMB? Hahaha I bet none of their nuclear weapons even work." Just to see what would happen

At least one of those is true....