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Phil Moscowitz
Feb 19, 2007

If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in full!
I assume the cop is the one in black all the way the left, last man standing. Are the daesh trying to steal the cruiser GTA style? Any link to what actually happened?

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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Phil Moscowitz posted:

I assume the cop is the one in black all the way the left, last man standing. Are the daesh trying to steal the cruiser GTA style? Any link to what actually happened?

I found a Liveleak video but the description just says it was two ISIS terrorists trying to go on a shooting spree and steal his car. I can't find any news on it.

Here's a pic of him in the hospital after.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Dude's got some serious stones.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

Wait are they towing that submarine? Is this Russia mobilizing its navy?

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

That flag on top of the conning tower looks a lot like Hungary's flag.

Hungary is a land locked country, which would explain the picture.

Lake of Methane
Oct 29, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mdPhEcf1cQ

http://englishrussia.com/2014/11/12/russian-submarine-standing-ashore-away-from-coast/

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Nuclear Tourist posted:

That flag on top of the conning tower looks a lot like Hungary's flag.

Hungary is a land locked country, which would explain the picture.

That does not explain the picture, unless you're suggesting this is a Hungarian invasion.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Apparently its B-307 at Togilatti, a Tango class Attack Submarine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango-class_submarine

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Godholio posted:

That does not explain the picture, unless you're suggesting this is a Hungarian invasion.

How else would you move around a submarine in a land locked country :confused:

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Why would you move it around? Where is it moving to and from?

Davethulhu
Aug 12, 2003

Morbid Hound

Godholio posted:

Why would you move it around? Where is it moving to and from?

It's on patrol obviously

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Godholio posted:

Why would you move it around? Where is it moving to and from?

Per the English Russia post earlier they moved it in to a museum to be on display.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
I wasn't looking for the actual answer, I was wondering how Hungary being a landlocked country explained what was going on to Nuclear Tourist.

Burt
Sep 23, 2007

Poke.



Nuclear Tourist posted:

That flag on top of the conning tower looks a lot like Hungary's flag.

Hungary is a land locked country, which would explain the picture.

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/su~1935.html

Or it could be the old Russian Naval Ensign.

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Burt posted:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/su~1935.html

Or it could be the old Russian Naval Ensign.

It will always be a Hungarian submarine to me. Don't you ever give up land-sub, god bless.

Radical 90s Wizard
Aug 5, 2008

~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Nuclear Tourist posted:

It will always be a Hungarian submarine to me. Don't you ever give up land-sub, god bless.

Davethulhu posted:

It's on patrol obviously

Ride eternal on the Hungarian Sea :allears:

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

*Lobs limp torpedo out the front.

*Serbia surrenders.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjRG0CDNSxk

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

The noise those things make is disconcerting

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

The noise those things make is disconcerting

Its like a horror movie.

Generation Internet
Jan 18, 2009

Where angels and generals fear to tread.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

The noise those things make is disconcerting

That's some Jericho Trumpet on a Stuka level poo poo

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
Now strap a mini-nade and thermal sensor on those, and set them to kamikaze in a target-rich area. loving chaos.

:getin:

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Slim Pickens posted:

Now strap a mini-nade and thermal sensor on those, and set them to kamikaze in a target-rich area. loving chaos.

:getin:

Switchblades are too cool.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
Ah yes just what the world needs. Self guided cluster bombs.

Beastie
Nov 3, 2006

They used to call me tricky-kid, I lived the life they wish they did.


I kept expecting to see some Metal Gear Solid villain show up with that swarm.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Beastie posted:

I kept expecting to see some Metal Gear Solid villain show up with that swarm.

The Horror

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit

:stare:

What do those things do besides sound incredibly unsettling?

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

Deathy McDeath posted:

:stare:

What do those things do besides sound incredibly unsettling?

That's the beauty of it, man. They don't do anything!

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Deathy McDeath posted:

:stare:

What do those things do besides sound incredibly unsettling?

Looks like a proof of concept testing. I would assume they could have cameras and bombs and whatever else installed on them.

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009
Scaring the hell out of religious fundamentalists

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
Once they figure out how to make more of themselves then we are hosed

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Hot Karl Marx posted:

Once they figure out how to make more of themselves then we are hosed

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll attack the capitol following the inauguration and we end up with someone decent in charge. That seems about as likely as anything else happening these days

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Pesticide20 posted:

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll attack the capitol following the inauguration and we end up with someone decent in charge. That seems about as likely as anything else happening these days

I'd like to be the first to welcome President SwarmBot01 to the office.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

ded posted:

Looks like a proof of concept testing. I would assume they could have cameras and bombs and whatever else installed on them.

First off, the scary part is this is the 6th generation of these drones. It puts in perspective just how secretive the DoD projects are that they can go six generations into a project this big before publicly revealing it. It emphasizes how literally loving anything could be going on in some skunk works.

The actual purpose of these drones, as of now, is supposedly reconnaissance. The idea is that a larger UAV can deploy the swarm to scout and report back to the mothership. The drones' AI is distributed in a network between the drones rather than trying to stuff tiny brains into each, so the whole swarm has surprisingly good decision making and self-healing capability.

The future is now.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Suicide Watch posted:

Scaring the hell out of religious fundamentalists
CENTCOM's Arabic language Twitter posted the video too so I wouldn't be surprised if there was an information operations (or whatever the DoD calls it) element to the reveal.

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Hot Karl Marx posted:

Once they figure out how to make more of themselves then we are hosed

Remember the movie Screamers, with Peter Weller? Yeah, that was actually a documentary.

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
This is some poo poo that Michael Chricton would cook up.

In fact, he's already done the self-replicating, distributed intelligence swarm of bots thing before: Prey. loving scary.

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

A thousand bees screaming good lord is that frightening.

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Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

This is incredibly similar to the old 2002 Michael Chrichton book Prey where they use distributed networking to create drones that talk to eachother using bird/insect flocking heuristics. The DoD here has literally succeeded at creating hive mind networking. It is really incredible.

Now can you loving imagine being the ISIS dudes in your jeeps or whatever out there in the desert and suddenly being surrounded in a circling cloud of those things with that hellmouth noise going on?? Jesus, it would be the sound of unescapable death.

edit: beaten.

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