Ukraine: The Aristoblyats

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Jokers Gamble: May 31, 2013

Marshal Prolapse posted:

Oh my you've never seen the Sniper movie have you? Dale Dye orders him and ROB VAN drat to stop terrorists or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-5PAj-YOc

https://youtu.be/BzIHyF7UWY4

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:35

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# ? Jun 2, 2024 01:55

Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

CommieGIR posted:

https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1498425709546586115?s=20&t=OEEVr7WMobWXA6zc5IwtwA

T-90 abandoned in Ukraine. Appears to be a match based on some other T-90 photos.

I'd worry those guys need to watch for booby traps but uh that would be the least cost-effective bait in the history of warfare.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:36

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Wrong Theory posted:

In '06 there were definitely m&m's contest bags that were being found in MREs (not sure of year of production though). They were multicolored I think, you had to find a bag full of them? I don't know why I remember this.

I remember it being high school. I was going to prank a friend by getting a bunch of bags and sealing it back up somehow and pretend I got it but I was too cheap/poor to buy a dozen bags of m^ms

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:37

BIG HEADLINE: Jun 13, 2006; "Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Hyrax Attack! posted:

I'd worry those guys need to watch for booby traps but uh that would be the least cost-effective bait in the history of warfare.

While I'm guessing every calorie of food is being taken with the Russians whenever they abandon an asset, I do hope someone's reminded the Ukrainians to *never eat or drink anything left behind by Russian forces*.

They got a LOT of Afghanis that way. >.>

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:39

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Hyrax Attack! posted:

I'd worry those guys need to watch for booby traps but uh that would be the least cost-effective bait in the history of warfare.

These guys do not seem as dedicated or disciplined at the Afghanistan War era Army.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:42

Caconym: Feb 12, 2013

BIG HEADLINE posted:

The millisecond they radiate, the Rivet Joints and other SIGINT assets will know exactly where they are.

But that doesn't matter when the ukrainians have no SEAD surely?
Knowing where they are and telling the ukrainians is arguably in Russias interest, ideally they'd want to shoot down the drones, but at this point I'd think they'd happily settle for area denial so they can keep their logistics unmolested...

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:45

Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Jokers Gamble posted:

https://youtu.be/BzIHyF7UWY4

That episode is so goddamn hilarious.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:47

Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

CommieGIR posted:

These guys do not seem as dedicated or disciplined at the Afghanistan War era Army.

Yeah or I was thinking the retreating German army in North Africa and Italy and how they knew the Allies loved the easy to use jerry cans so those were favorite to rig to explosives.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:48

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Jokers Gamble posted:

https://youtu.be/BzIHyF7UWY4

The Behind the Bastards two parter on Seagal is a must listen. Hilarious but also I had no clue the level of crime he's into.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:51

Madurai: Jun 26, 2012

It concerns me that the only Category I units we've seen so far are the airborne forces.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:02

KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

BIG HEADLINE posted:

While I'm guessing every calorie of food is being taken with the Russians whenever they abandon an asset, I do hope someone's reminded the Ukrainians to *never eat or drink anything left behind by Russian forces*.

They got a LOT of Afghanis that way. >.>

Considering that the Russians have apparently been given rations that are 7+years past their best by dates, I wonder if the botulism or any possible poisoning would get you first.

E: https://i.imgur.com/ExMj07c.mp4

Considering what Steve1989 eats, I'm sure it's generally still edible, but still.

KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Mar 1, 2022

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:07

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if those rations were just relabeled from the '00s.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:12

Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

KozmoNaut posted:

Considering what Steve1989 eats, I'm sure it's generally still edible, but still.

no pinhole no problem!

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:18

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Speaking of, Steve's got a new video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eFoIemjU

No wonder Ukrainian morale is high. This looks way better than the Russian field rations.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:23

Big K of Justice: Nov 27, 2005; Anyone seen my ball joints?

Kazinsal posted:

Speaking of, Steve's got a new video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eFoIemjU

No wonder Ukrainian morale is high. This looks way better than the Russian field rations.

That looks pretty good. Not to side-line with MRE chat, but how long are MRE's generally good for past their inspect date? I got 2 boxes that have 2017 inspect dates, and the temperature stickers on the cases are still good, no black dots, so I'm assuming they are still edible..?

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:28

Naked Bear: Apr 15, 2007; Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

American? If you've kept them in a cool place (less than room temperature), odds are decent that they're still good.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:32

bees everywhere: Nov 19, 2002

I lived off of expired MREs for a bit my 1st deployment and I noticed it was usually the cheese or the peanut butter that would go bad first, you'd open it up and this nasty grease would come out, overall looked like an alien took a crap. I can't remember how the rest of it was but I'm sure it was mostly normal.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:33

ChaseSP: Mar 25, 2013

Stuff with fat usually goes bad the quickest due to rancidity. Also I really doubt these rations were stored in proper conditions for food.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:39

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Big K of Justice posted:

That looks pretty good. Not to side-line with MRE chat, but how long are MRE's generally good for past their inspect date? I got 2 boxes that have 2017 inspect dates, and the temperature stickers on the cases are still good, no black dots, so I'm assuming they are still edible..?

Just depends how you store them. If they've been sitting in the basement or something similar that stays consistently cool they should be fine for a while. All expiration dates are kind of bullshit to begin with, guesswork at best. Trust your nose, it's the most reliable tool you have. If you sniff something and it seems at all off, don't eat it.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:45

Radical 90s Wizard: Aug 5, 2008; ~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Caconym posted:

Knowing where they are and telling the ukrainians is arguably in Russias interest

Uhhhh what?

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:45

BIG HEADLINE: Jun 13, 2006; "Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Caconym posted:

But that doesn't matter when the ukrainians have no SEAD surely?

The Ukrainians have SEAD - it's just drone- and ground-based.

The fact that we haven't *yet* seen a proper SAM setup with all the trimmings makes me think the Russians aren't willing to do anything but set up their launchers in fire control radar-only mode, which is how MH17 got got, and honestly makes their AAD just as dangerous to their own assets. It does give them more mobility options, though.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:53

CBJSprague24: Dec 5, 2010; another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

Kazinsal posted:

Speaking of, Steve's got a new video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eFoIemjU

No wonder Ukrainian morale is high. This looks way better than the Russian field rations.

That seems like it's a long way from Brad Colbert longing for a ja-la-pen-o and cheese in Generation Kill.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:58

Bored As Fuck: Jan 1, 2006; Fun Shoe

CBJSprague24 posted:

That seems like it's a long way from Brad Colbert longing for a ja-la-pen-o and cheese in Generation Kill.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NBVHLKM/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_8R67GZ4TX73GA8ZS5G2D

# ? Mar 1, 2022 02:01

Caconym: Feb 12, 2013

BIG HEADLINE posted:

The Ukrainians have SEAD - it's just drone- and ground-based.

The fact that we haven't *yet* seen a proper SAM setup with all the trimmings makes me think the Russians aren't willing to do anything but set up their launchers in fire control radar-only mode, which is how MH17 got got, and honestly makes their AAD just as dangerous to their own assets. It does give them more mobility options, though.

Yeah, I guess Grads, 152mm and 203mm howitzers are quite effective SEAD at the ranges we're talking about here. :v:

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Uhhhh what?

This was premised on the ukrainians not being able to reach out and touch them except by slow drones with short range guided bombs, which was a rather stupid assumption on my part.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 02:28

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

shame on an IGA posted:

This whole thing is Eve Online poo poo, the plan is to link up in Kyiv and make the world's costliest Z O R chain

FC: PutinGodLegend

# ? Mar 1, 2022 02:46

pmchem: Jan 22, 2010

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340
huge interview with Fiona Hill, this is the :stare:

part

quote:

Reynolds: And then there�s the nuclear element. Many people have thought that we�d never see a large ground war in Europe or a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia, because it could quickly escalate into a nuclear conflict. How close are we getting to that?

Hill: Well, we�re right there. Basically, what President Putin has said quite explicitly in recent days is that if anybody interferes in Ukraine, they will be met with a response that they�ve �never had in [their] history.� And he has put Russia�s nuclear forces on high alert. So he�s making it very clear that nuclear is on the table.

Putin tried to warn Trump about this, but I don�t think Trump figured out what he was saying. In one of the last meetings between Putin and Trump when I was there, Putin was making the point that: �Well you know, Donald, we have these hypersonic missiles.� And Trump was saying, �Well, we will get them too.� Putin was saying, �Well, yes, you will get them eventually, but we�ve got them first.� There was a menace in this exchange. Putin was putting us on notice that if push came to shove in some confrontational environment that the nuclear option would be on the table.

Reynolds: Do you really think he�ll use a nuclear weapon?

Hill: The thing about Putin is, if he has an instrument, he wants to use it. Why have it if you can�t? He�s already used a nuclear weapon in some respects. Russian operatives poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium and turned him into a human dirty bomb and polonium was spread all around London at every spot that poor man visited. He died a horrible death as a result.

The Russians have already used a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok. They�ve used it possibly several times, but for certain twice. Once in Salisbury, England, where it was rubbed all over the doorknob of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who actually didn�t die; but the nerve agent contaminated the city of Salisbury, and anybody else who came into contact with it got sickened. Novichok killed a British citizen, Dawn Sturgess, because the assassins stored it in a perfume bottle which was discarded into a charity donation box where it was found by Dawn Sturgis and her partner. There was enough nerve agent in that bottle to kill several thousand people. The second time was in Alexander Navalny�s underpants.

So if anybody thinks that Putin wouldn�t use something that he�s got that is unusual and cruel, think again. Every time you think, �No, he wouldn�t, would he?� Well, yes, he would. And he wants us to know that, of course.

It�s not that we should be intimidated and scared. That�s exactly what he wants us to be. We have to prepare for those contingencies and figure out what is it that we�re going to do to head them off.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:00

CainFortea: Oct 15, 2004

Kesper North posted:

FC: PutinGodLegend

Oh my god this whole thing makes perfect sense if piggles was in charge of the invasion.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:03

90s Solo Cup: Feb 22, 2011; To understand the cup
He must become the cup

Amazing how these guys still find time to do a racism in the middle of a war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODMOzwI__zs

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:22

citybeatnik: Mar 1, 2013; You Are All
WEIRDOS

Bored As gently caress posted:

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loving spectacular.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:22

Cythereal: Nov 8, 2009; I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

The recent gravitational anomaly you may have felt has been determined to emanate from Taiwan.

https://twitter.com/MOFA_Taiwan/status/1498453937653161986

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:27

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

pmchem posted:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340
huge interview with Fiona Hill, this is the part

Solid article, thanks for sharing it. But yeah it's very :stare:

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:34

SquirrelyPSU: May 27, 2003

Cythereal posted:

The recent gravitational anomaly you may have felt has been determined to emanate from Taiwan.

https://twitter.com/MOFA_Taiwan/status/1498453937653161986

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:35

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

https://twitter.com/DuplessisBrad/status/1498265519367016450?t=gBFiymgj_bR5g4zx0CU2Gg&s=19

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:49

Bored As Fuck: Jan 1, 2006; Fun Shoe

citybeatnik posted:

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loving spectacular.

Hahahahhaha

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:56

Jimmy Smuts: Aug 8, 2000

Wombot posted:

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1498408659633770504?t=CjgXO3VqjOUY3HhmBgWFBA&s=19

Owns bones. Beep beep, motherfuckers.

Today I learned that T-72s have a horn, and it sounds adorable

# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:57

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

pmchem posted:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340
huge interview with Fiona Hill, this is the part

This was fantastic, thank you

# ? Mar 1, 2022 04:39

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...ism-of-inaction

quote:

“Slava Ukraini,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said as she asked Parliament to join her in condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Feeling a touch of pride here

# ? Mar 1, 2022 04:44

Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Any idea how the Slavic Crime Yacht is doing these days?

# ? Mar 1, 2022 05:06

Vortex Street: Oct 23, 2010; I walked right out of the machinery

Well if we�re all going to die at least it�s in support of a man with moves like Jagger:

https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1497768813860896770?s=21

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# ? Jun 2, 2024 01:55

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Godholio posted:

Any idea how the Slavic Crime Yacht is doing these days?

It got sold not long after I left, I'd hazard a guess it cost more in maintenance than he was expecting.

# ? Mar 1, 2022 05:15

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