Picatinny is now producing 24,000 155mm rounds a month. That's less than Ukraine is currently using in a day & but more than the UK was producing in a year... If nothing else, this war has been a massive wake up call to any nation who values its freedom & security regarding defence costs & needs.

It's a miracle, for the first time in decades Hamish pronounced Abrams correctly...Extensive training by Dom paid off

As a retired artillery man I enjoyed your interviews with the Picatiny arsenal. Dom knows his onions.

The Leopard 1s were not some unwanted rotten stuff someone found in a depot. Since spring several european states made a collective effort to buy and refit hundreds of them and the first were send to Ukraine in July. The problem with the particular batch was, that Ukrainians have trained on them in Germany for months, so they were already worn-out and in need of repair. Thus, Ukraine refused them because they cannot waste their resouces to repair stuff which is already broken by the time of delivery. In short: the Leo1 is old but ok. The embarrassing story is, that no one bothered to repair them before they were send from the training ground to Ukraine.

Posting for the algorithm, and also to say huge thanks for this intelligent and balanced update each day. My family have been hosting Ukrianian refugees since 5th May 2022, and we are on our 4th family/11th & 12th Ukrainian that we have helped to get out of the war zone. This podcast has been an essential for my wife, daughters, and I (and many other fellow HFU hosts in our area) keeping well informed about the situation - which in turn has helped us understand what it is our UKR guests have been going through, their challenges at home, their cultural challenges in assimilating here and the situation on the ground in Ukriane each time we have coordinated getting our latest refugees out of danger. Also, as with the ups and downs of war, this pod has helped us keep all our spirits up, and helps us explain the situation to the many Ukrainians that now live in the locality. Bravo Zulu and huge thanks 🙏😊 🇺🇦❤️🇬🇧

The UN is a total waste of time as long as the veto exists.

Great one, Albania!

I teach a Ukrainian student who is a refugee (we live in the South of England). Over the summer break she went home to Ukraine, Kiev, to see her mum, dad and baby brother. She told me that one night she had to run to the shelter nine times. That's just insane. No sleep. Anyone who's ever had an infant baby would understand how terrible it is to be sleep deprived. Just imagine, this is happening to the entire population of Ukraine every night (they don't know where the Russian missiles will land, so the sirens blast over the entire country). The only way to survive would be to sleep in the shelter. With families, babies, pets etc. Those poor people. They are so strong. There's so much more than just the front line. Keep strong Ukraine. ❤

Well done Dom and Hamish for sustaining an entire podcast double handed. Two of my favourite people. General Shirref is another one. Would love to hear him on the pod.

Appreciate these updates, the excellent hosts, and the interesting guests. Thanks

My go to podcast. Greetings from irish guy in New York 🇺🇦 💪

Ukraine cannot be abandoned. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Great to hear at the end honest hard-working patriots doing their jobs and understanding why it's important.

Another great listen … Cheers from Australia

Did Ukraine really ask Germany to stop sending Leopard 1 tanks? From the info I can find Ukraine refused a single batch of 10 tanks due to the state of those specific tanks. My impression is that the Telegraph is getting more and more UK centric. Please try to convey an unbiased picture of what's going on - there are enough biased views out there as it is.

Zelensky and Albanian prime minister Edi Rama are awesome!!!

Just posting for the algorithm and love for Ukraine as well as your podcast/ team.

Still the number one podcast for me 👍🏻

Security Council is a broken structure 😢😢

Easy the most reliable source of information on the war in Ukraine. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Albania President of affairs gets a "Top G" and his words of wisdom was awesome. Zorcs took another big L.

Excellent. The Telegraph is my go-to source for comprehensive coverage of the war in Ukraine and especially the geopolitical goings-on. Well done mates, from across the pond in Canadia-land.

It's called the Telegraph because its listeners live in the last century.

We're all looking forward to the end of this conflict... But having said that, I'll miss this podcast and Dom and Hamish with their excellent, informative and entertaining banter. Please consider creating an ongoing podcast, even if it becomes weekly instead of daily, to cover in similar fashion and format whatever is happening in the world.

So much BS on Leo's. Here is what really happened: Leo1 crew training in GER started before mechanics training. Happens in batches of 10 (1 company ) Takes 6 weeks. 2 weeks on training tanks. 4 weeks on the tanks the Ukrainians will take with them to Ukr, as they get refurbished by FFG. Ukr insisted on sending the first 2 companies directly to Ukr after those 4 weeks of hard training, before Ukr mechanics were trained to fix them. 20 were sent as desired, then, surprise surprise, the Ukrainians found out that 50yo tanks do need some work after 4 weeks of intensive use, even though they were refurbished before the training. Turns out, Ukr mechanics aren't magicians that can repair tanks without training nor the right equipment. So now Ukr Leo1 crews will continue training in GER or POL instead, while their mechanics get up to speed. And no, GER doesn't have loads of leo2 available. Just as Uk can't just send a bunch of Challengers. Leo1s are generally easier to maintain, once mechanics are trained. They also can use Ukr bridges. Ukr will get 135+ of them. But it looks like another 24 Leo2 are in the cards for a ringswap as SWI is now finally ready to officially retire them.

Excellent drone work by the Ukrainians keep up the pressure. Glory and victory to Ukraine. Long live the independent nation of Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

The worse the weather gets the bigger then chance of success. Push harder now.

I often listen to your podcast on the drive from Sydney to Canberra. Makes a nice change from counting dead roos and wombats.

Excellent podcast! I hope that it is not just mirrored by my own feelings due to those great news of puncture of Surovikin line. Very informative, truly. 👍

Gret work...thank yous to all of your team.🖤🐦‍⬛🏴‍☠️🖤💙🤍💛

There was literally 0 research done for the tank topic. The tanks were restored but subsequently worn down by the training of the ukrainian crews. The training of the ukrainian maintainers is just starting, so Ukraine had no means to restore them. Hence it makes sense to restore them in Poland or Germany after the training for the time being. It's embarrassing that the wear and tear of the training was not planned for and the training of the maintainers is not in sync with the crews, but the tanks will still be accepted into service. Was that so difficult to research? To conclude with "oh just send them your active service tanks" is even more daft for a former military servicemember to say.

So, Picatinny make boom-things as well. As a wiever of Forgotten Weapons, I'm tempted to say that they have 'rails and stacks' of them. Anybody got that?

Great balanced and analytical comments by your regular podcast. Please keep up your service to counter the modern lean on sound bites with very little in depth coverage of social media. Chris expara.

Tanks for great commentary

The story about the Leopards 1 is not quite correctly passed on here. It was 8 or 9 tanks of a batch which were used for training and therefore worn out. The tanks had been added by mistake. Nothing big. They are going back to be fixed. Now my question is: Is the Telegraph referring to another incident? If not I wonder why The Telegraph would twist the story and leave out this vital information?

Best Pod yet! Dom and Ham FTW!

Excellent episode 😊

Important to say that those tanks were worn because we trained the ukrainians in them too much. And we'll still send them, just after an overhaul they can't do.

Haha how true! Dominics comment...out of favour, out the window ...and a great summation of Mr Zelenskys view too. Brilliant tank information today. Hamish is invaluable in that area.

Why not give the the Leopard 2s? What are they saving them for? Ridiculous

Great stuff 👏

Best podcast ever!

Ukraine rejecting those tanks is like a homeless man rejecting a warm meal.

Keep spreading the message please!

Germany has not loads of Leo2, as GB has not loads of Challanger 2. There are many in many other countries, but each country has not "enough". It has less tanks than Poland, after Poland gave their old T72 and part of modernized T72 Twardy?. Enough tanks are only in USA on stock, and see how long it takes them to be ready.... These Leo1 are crap from Belgia, Italy (probably swiss providence). But the available Leo2 that Swiss had stored and sold to Rheinmetall are not allowed to be sold to Ukraine...so they go to Greece that is unloading its crappy Leo1 to Ukraine. Leo1 for Ukraine are not only refurbished, but they have thermals installed...Denmark and Germany train already tankers for these tanks. They could use them for Belarus border, till they can handle them, and they are debugged. Problems that occurred in Ukraine were minor and were very fast solved. They just need to learn this new system. Lets not forget, that there might still some bigger ammunition stocks left for them. Use and discard. Many M113 are not younger

Curious sound engineering on this particular interview -- remarkably, and distractingly "breathy". Most excellent interview, on par with your recent works.

Ukraine has smothered Russian trenches with cluster shells then troops go in within seconds of the barrage stopping. The gunnery accuracy and coordination with troops is simply stunning.

I heard an interesting interview on MSNBC last night with Lawrence: the 35 Billion we have confiscated from russia should be given to Ukraine to help them rebuild. Supposedly there are also some 300 Billion worldwide that could be used for these purposes also? I bet that would twist the Kleptos' Tails?

Great podcast. Slava Ukrani

Love Dom's humour...'pinch of wheat'..brilliant.

yes Hamish 14:37, finally no more 'Abrahams' tanks haha its Abrams - so many pods of hearing Abrahams, was beautiful finally hearing the correction

I question Ukraine's leadership. To get into a fight with Poland over grain, thus Poland stating they not send anymore aide to Ukraine and then Ukraine telling Germany not to send tanks seems poor.

Super proud of those folks in New Jersey, they are impressive. Russia doesn’t have a chance against American industrial might.

Send working ones!

Great :-)

Yeah the Albanian nailed it beautifully.

AND i LOVE listening to people who have no idear whot thei talkn abut!!

Careful. The conscripts may be poorly trained, but after 3 months in the line, those who are still alive are much better. Ukraine itself notes the Russians are becoming more tactically proficient. Operationally, they were already pretty good.

Fabulous...

Should swap tanks around between Germany, Poland, and Ukraine. Give the newest and best models to Ukraine, the next best models to Poland, and leave Germany with the rest for active use and conversion to other models. This would provide primarily Leo 2A7 / 2A7+ to Ukraine, mostly Leo 2A6 to Poland, Leo 2A5 for interim use by Germany while they build Leo 2A8, and many Leo 2A4 that could be converted into self propelled anti air guns(SPAAG) with either German Gepard or Finnish Marksman style turrets. Send these SPAAG to Ukraine for defending units against drones, helicopters, and some missiles.

That was good.

I generally agree with Hamish but not knowing all the complexities written into the UN charter, it would appear to me that majority voting must be paramount over the veto. In addition, any one member must abstain from voting on any matter should they be identified as the aggressor in any dispute identified by the membership, using that majority voting system. I would also go one stage further and suggest that the only members allowed to vote are those who contribute to an agreed level of contributions allied to GDP so that the UN can function, as intended, for the benefit of its members should the need arise.

"Ukraine tells Germany to stop sending tanks" - must be because they AFU is almost in Moscow........

To the end 👏

Looking at Crimea climate conditions October is wet on average then it gets better again for vehicle movement in November and into December.

Russian 'Tornado' Leaves No Escape For Ukrainians In Maryinka; 57 Airstrikes, 38 Attacks on 9/23/23 am.

Good content. Slava Ukraini😅

Poland has just stopped suppling Ukraine any weapons at all, that incudes everything, tanks, munitions, shells, missiles, aircrafts. Big argument over Ukrainian wheat exports, the Polish are extremely annoyed. This of course is excellent news for Russia.

such a misleading and wrong title. whats the purpose here?

Germany Germany Germany i have never trusted them in supplying the right weapons to Ukraine. From the beginning of this war they have always drag their feet to give quality weapons to Ukraine. It makes u wonder if they are really helping Russia.

"All German aid available, short of anything useful ?" That harks back to the unofficial reputation of another country's foreign service whenever its citizens abroad wound up in assorted foreign jackpots.

Now why would they do it that? Are they expecting more from the U.S. Sounds stupid to me.

The peace plan from ukraine is not an effective peace plan as no one in Russia would agree. So it would need to be applied by force.

More like asking them to stop sending free coffins.

Criticism of Poland at the UN was a massive and unnecessary PR own goal for Ukraine. Russian TV is absolutely loving this story as it feeds the narrative that the war could end due to allied disarray. Maybe the West needs to train Ukrainian diplomats as well as soldiers?

Good news for Ukraine and the US by 2025 the US will be producing 1 million artillery munitions per year. The bad news is Russia are currently producing two million artillery munitions per year and are increasing their production.😂😂😂

very true about POland, it is just an opinion. We have to be careful about reading the headline!

So if Putin threw out a thousand insults to Germany I can totally see Germany throwing a thousand tanks back😂😂😂

Does it tell us what is going on the ground rather than what going on at UN

Erm, with Germany a permanent member of the security council, inaction won't be improved, it will be exacerbated! 🤣

So if the Russians would not have put a fight, Ukrainians would have 'punched through' their lines. Amazing plan - too bad it did not work as expected

This is in rergards to the previous episode i belive but i was at work so couldn't comment. But it was particularly interesting because i work in a ball-bearing factory. The company has plants in China as well. Now that particularly hurts a bit because we make component for some weapons being used by Ukraine as well. (We are supposed to be flooded with money for new machines for the "Ukraine Initiative") Id be very very interested into a DEEP DIVE into what companys are selling ball-bearings to Russia. Is it company selling is it coaxed by Chinese governments. (I remember a recent episode talking about how the economy companys in China are supporting) That worries me if the company is proffiting from both sides. Even if its a branch in china the economics are above me. Hopefully this makes sense its been a long day

There goes the Leopard 1 market… The best news has been if Germany can barely get 100 Leopards fully operational on the field, it’s unlikely the Russians have it any better.

Could we not perform a cloud-seeding operation to control _WHERE_ the Rasputitsa forms?

The German tanks are simply not up to the job!

Hey Hamish, yer sayin’ bonnie Prince Cherlie is sticking his beak in eh? Is it constitutional that the monarch of Scottish Cup Heid jug ears fame gets involved in such a political issue?

The USA is way behind on shell and other arms production. Europe is practically nowhere as regards its capacity.

Listening to this channel, and squinting, one could almost believe that the Ukrainians can win this war.

There's no news on the tanks getting moved in China! By road and railway

There is 30 tons of plutonium in Zapporizia NPP..

1:12: 📰 Ukraine launches a large-scale strike on the sake military Airfield in occupied Crimea. 5:01: 📢 Ukraine claims to have shot down 36 out of 43 cruise missiles, while UK defense intelligence highlights low morale in Russian lines. 10:05: 🔴 The Russian delegation at the UN felt isolated during the proceedings. 15:28: 👎 The Germans have handed over tanks that are not in good order and it would take weeks or months to get them up and running again. 20:25: 👥 The speaker believes that the EU is not withholding weapon systems, but rather has reached a natural pause in sending additional supplies. 46:10: 👥 The war in Ukraine is impacting civilians in the US who are taking greater physical risks in support of Ukraine. 25:43: 🔑 Russia's lack of strategic reserve suggests they are not trying to stop Ukraine's breakthrough in the Zaparesia region. 30:40: ! The concern is that Russia may target nuclear power stations with their attacks. 37:12: 📰 General Mr Rosanna discusses sustainability and industrial requirements of modern warfare in Ukraine. 41:22: 💥 The capacity for artillery ammunition production has increased significantly, and there are plans for further expansion in the future. 51:16: 🔒 The company ensures security and safety of the equipment it supplies overseas, but after delivery, it is beyond their control. Recap by Tammy AI

This is the week that Zelensky needs to remember the remarks of Ben Wallace. Actions and language are becoming unproductive. And Im a supporter of Ukraine.

If a new security arrangement had been negotiated, this war would not have come about.

Leopard 1 réservoirs ( tanks) a besoin de reparer

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💙Slava ukraini 💛🇺🇦🇺🇸

This USA munitions expansion , will later help to restock much of Europe who have over-exploited the end of the Cold War to over reduce their stockpile inventories.

Excuse me how was Russia isolated at the UN

Who could forget all these heated debates between the UK and Britain in the UN Security Council? :P (love the show, always great work!)

Maybe even out of a window - hahahahahah