Wow the A-10 Warthog could be given to Ukraine! It is well known for its incredible destructive power from its GAU 30mm Gatling / mini gun. Introducing this to the war would be devastating for Russian troops and equipment. A reminder below of its power when the Taliban tried to escape it.
That could be a game changer if the A10 is deployed in Ukraine. 
I highly doubt that. The production line of the “Tank of the air” is no longer there and I am sure the Americans need it for themselves.
I think that you are right Jabbath as the A10 Thunderbolt will not be deployed in contested war zones.
Which is a pity because that is what it was made for. Blasting Sowjet tanks in low altitude attacks with its amazing canon.
A shame the “Warthog” can’t finally go to its natural hunting grounds 
They are not saying it will be deployed even though Ukrainian pilots are being trained in them. ‘IF’ it ever enters the war it won’t be for a long time or circumstances would have to be a lot more serious. Training Ukrainian pilots in it is probably beneficial for other aircraft and I think there is a little bit of scare tactics from the west in this one.
I think AH64 will make a lot more sense. The assembly lines are still open and Boeing could ramp up production quite fast to make up for losses.
Agreed because there is a newer version ready to enter production. It would make a lot of sense to give Ukraine the older Apaches. They have been in service over 35 years now but still quite formidable.
Still more than capable enough to destroy the Russian crap there.
@ Lukas156546 Leaked documents might not have been such a bad thing after all in getting the ‘‘Truth’’ to Russian people 
Lukashenko seeking guarantees? He is a big bag of meaningless hot fart air nobody wants around or takes seriously but he is certainly Putin’s puppet because he is afraid of Putin. Reading between the lines Putin is already invading Belarus but without having to fire a shot! There is the real truth!
Putin bearing down on conscript dodging again. Recruits can be contacted digitally now. Harsh punishments in prospect for avoidance. Not sure how this will affect our male participants.
Well if any of them are ellgiible there will be no problem recognising them.
Don’t know if VH are obliged to inform on them?
As @Squish has already mentioned this is the report in slightly more depth and explanation;
RUSSIAN LAWMAKERS HAVE advanced a bill to create a digital conscription notice system which could bar men from leaving Russia as Moscow’s Ukraine campaign stretches into a second year.
Under the legislation, a draftee would be banned from travelling abroad and would have to report to an enlistment office once electronic call-up papers are received.
Currently draft notices have to be delivered in person in the country, and many Russian men have managed to dodge draft notices by refusing to pick up their enlistment orders and fleeing abroad.
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved the legislation on second and third readings.
The bill would next have to be backed by senators and signed by President Vladimir Putin to become law.
The proposed changes come months after Putin ordered in September a “partial” military call-up to boost regular troops fighting in Ukraine in what has become the first military mobilisation in Russia since World War II.
Hundreds of thousands of men have been drafted, while tens of thousands more have fled the country.
The changes to the legislation will make dodging the draft much more difficult.
Military service for men between the ages of 18 and 27 is mandatory in Russia, with conscription carried out twice a year.
Andrei Kartapolov, chairman of the defence committee at parliament’s lower house, said before the vote that the new rules would apply not only to young conscripts but all men liable for military service.
“The draft notice is considered received from the moment it is posted in the personal account of a person liable for military service.
In different regions of Russia, they continue to discover mass graves of people who could fight on the territory of Ukraine as part of the Wagner PMC. The BBC is aware of seven such cemeteries so far, with a total of at least 995 people buried there. Judging by open data, many of the buried were convicts who still had to serve time in the colonies.
Relatives of at least 42 of the buried did not know about their death and spent several months trying to find out their fate.
In April, local residents discovered two more previously unmentioned mass graves - at the Gusinobrodsky cemetery in Novosibirsk and at the Alexander cemetery near Irkutsk.
“I only found my brother through a group on the Internet. I have been searching since October,” a relative of one of the victims buried in Novosibirsk told the BBC, “No one contacted me from [PMC] Wagner, I called them myself. They said that the brother is alive. But it turned out to be in the Novosibirsk cemetery. And there are dozens of such graves.”
Most often, convicts recruited by PMCs are buried in the places where their relatives live. But now we know about several dozen cases when the dead, who had close relatives, were buried in other regions and without notifying their relatives.
Appreciate that but i find it strange that no one ever reports Ukraines losses as it must be quite big as well?
@robwin there is in the third video I posted below. Although Ukraine has suffered high losses it has been a real meat grinder for Russia. Absolute carnage.
Thanks pal, wasn’t trying to be controversial at all but have often noticed the lack of info from the Ukranian point of view.
