United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately

Re:United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately by nradov on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:01AM (#34774211)

I saw a video recently where a column of Russian tanks was advancing along a road when the lead vehicle was hit by artillery. The others proceeded to ... just stop and wait until they were also hit.

Now I'm no expert in mechanized warfare but I think when you're caught by artillery fire on an open road with no cover you're not supposed to sit there and wait to get hit. Advance past the kill zone, retreat, or disperse but don't stop and wait for orders. Apparently this is the result of "perfect battle training" a year into the war.

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Re:United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately by vbezhenar on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:51AM (#34775049)

There're hundreds of thousands of soldiers. There're dozens of thousands of tanks and other vehicles. Incompetence is unavoidable and those kinds of situations put this incompetence to focus and hopefully measures will be developed to prevent it from happening in the future.

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Re:United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately by nradov on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:48AM (#34776005)

Why would you hope for that? We should all hope that Russian soldiers remain incompetent and die or withdraw without hurting anyone else.

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Re:United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately by pshirshov on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:18PM (#34777721)

What tanks? T62? T34?..

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