Well, howdy there, internet people, Lidsboo again. So today we are going to talk about a few

different news items, I guess three really, and they all relate to Ukraine.

Different aspects of it, but they all tie in there and they all also kind of tie into the general

tone of readiness overall and how that's being achieved in

force generation and all that stuff. Okay so we will start with the F-16. There has been a lot of roadblocks along the way when it comes to

Ukrainian pilots being trained to fly the F-16. They're apparently all gone. Next week in

Arizona that starts. It will take some time but the process is underway.

Okay, the next piece has to do with the artillery.

I think it was last month, the first time Ukraine used more artillery rounds

than Russia for the first time in the conflict.

Now, we talked, I think over on the other channel, we talked briefly about how Russia was shifting its doctrine to try to be more accurate and use less rounds.

That might have something to do with it. It also probably has a whole lot to do with the fact that they don't have much.

Granted, they just got a shipment of some kind from North Korea.

We don't know the quantity, we don't know the quality, but we know some stuff arrived.

It's an interesting shift.

Generally speaking, Russia is artillery intensive. So them not using them to the same degree, you can read into that

a little bit with it's probably a clear

indication that they are trying to be sparing with what they have.

Now for the really interesting news and I know there are some people who showed up here just to tell me I have a typo in the title. I

don't BTR 90s they're a thing they actually they exist

So for normal people those giant armored vehicles that look like tanks that have

wills, those are BTRs. Generally speaking, the BTR 90 isn't something that anybody has seen.

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