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HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1155559517201031168


gently caress

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Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Few more details:
https://twitter.com/BBCWillVernon/status/1155715612016087041
https://twitter.com/BBCWillVernon/status/1155715778345349120

AFancyQuestionMark
Feb 19, 2017

Long time no see.
Pretty straightforward message there.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
He's already back in the jail, so at least it wasn't polonium allergy.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

Military warehouses exploding near Kraznoyarsk, Russia forcing everyone to evacuate.

https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1158346494048657408

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1158375339946598400?s=20
https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1158464328485548039?s=20

yeah, placing ammunition depots barely 10km from a sizable city seems problematic

Hal_2005
Feb 23, 2007

Brown Moses posted:

It appears the GRU may be having another round of trying to phish emails, this time in a more sophisticated and target way than their earlier 2015 and 2017 phishing campaigns that targeted several thousand attacks, and led to the Podesta email leaks. This targeting included Bellingcat members and The Insider Russia journalists who worked on IDing GRU officers linked to the Skripal poisonings:


Threat Connect put out a technical analysis of the campaign, and ProtonMail put out a statement. What we've discovered since is at least 12 individuals were targeted by the same campaign, all of which are working on topics relating to Russia, and 3 of which were directly involved with our research on IDing and tracking the third GRU officer linked to the Skripal poisoning, one of whom hadn't previously worked on those sorts of topics.

Russia has been doing a heavy blitz program the past 5 weeks. There has also been a severe uptick in corporate raids by previously installed GPO silvokli, who are now repatching over from BPP to Oppo-For Life. Poroshenko is hiding out in Rostov-on-the-Don when he left the country last Tuesday. We expect cyber and disinfo will increase until the IMF delegation arrives into Kyiv.

Hal_2005 fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Aug 6, 2019

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Hal_2005 posted:

Russia has been doing a heavy blitz program the past 5 weeks. There has also been a severe uptick in corporate raids by previously installed GPO silvokli, who are now repatching over from BPP to Oppo-For Life. Poroshenko is hiding out in Rostov-on-the-Don when he left the country last Tuesday. We expect cyber and disinfo will increase until the IMF delegation arrives into Kyiv.

I'm hoping we'll have an update on the ProtonMail phishing today, we've ID'd more targets of the campaign plus done some extra analysis which shows it's a bigger campaign than was first apparent, but still very targeted.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Sounds like Russia hosed up with nuclear material, again,
https://twitter.com/ain92ru/status/1159778540369403905

AlexanderCA
Jul 21, 2010

by Cyrano4747
Apparently spouses of Dutch pilots in the baltic air policing mission and of soldiers in the enhanced forward presence in Lithuania are being harrased by phonecalls. Said phonecalls feature badly spoken Dutch /English with a Russian accent. :downs:

Military personnel are now no longer allowed to call their families on their private numbers while on mission but must use local anonymous Sim cards.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

Brown Moses posted:

Sounds like Russia hosed up with nuclear material, again,
https://twitter.com/ain92ru/status/1159778540369403905

Russians seem to be dealing with a lot of military stuff exploding lately.

Didn't the EU recently block anonymous SIM cards?

TasogareNoKagi
Jul 11, 2013

Brown Moses posted:

Sounds like Russia hosed up with nuclear material, again,
https://twitter.com/ain92ru/status/1159778540369403905

So are they storing spent reactor fuel on a missile test range, or did they have a low-order nuclear detonation? Prophylactic Iodine would only be needed if there were fresh fission products.

I remember there were accusations in the past year or two they were violating the CTBT.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

It could be this
https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1159617978641465344

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

TasogareNoKagi posted:

So are they storing spent reactor fuel on a missile test range, or did they have a low-order nuclear detonation? Prophylactic Iodine would only be needed if there were fresh fission products.

I remember there were accusations in the past year or two they were violating the CTBT.

They recently announced a nuclear powered cruise missile. Yes, really.

AlexanderCA
Jul 21, 2010

by Cyrano4747
[quote="HUGE PUBES A PLUS" post="497373177"

Didn't the EU recently block anonymous SIM cards?
[/quote]

You're right I misremembered the article, it said local sim, not anonymous.

StarkingBarfish
Jun 25, 2006

Novus Ordo Seclorum

Warbadger posted:

They recently announced a nuclear powered cruise missile. Yes, really.

who the gently caress thought that was a good idea? jesus.

Telsa Cola
Aug 19, 2011

No... this is all wrong... this whole operation has just gone completely sidewaysface

StarkingBarfish posted:

who the gently caress thought that was a good idea? jesus.

The US during the cold war though our model had widespread nuclear fallout from the exhaust as a feature not a bug.

StarkingBarfish
Jun 25, 2006

Novus Ordo Seclorum

Telsa Cola posted:

The US during the cold war though our model had widespread nuclear fallout from the exhaust as a feature not a bug.

Yeah I remember that but figured this was dumb enough nobody would try to further refine it. The RTGs that get sent into space have all kinds of red tape to get through because strapping something radioactive to a rocket is a great way to efficiently distribute it over a wide area. Putting it on something whose sole purpose is to go boom sounds like a great way to escalate a war.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

StarkingBarfish posted:

Putting it on something whose sole purpose is to go boom sounds like a great way to escalate a war.
It's just propaganda tool, pretending they are still a superpower and they have some secret superweapons and all that. Like that lone damaged antiquated fuming aircraft carrier.

RaffyTaffy
Oct 15, 2008
Looks like that ammo dump is still on fire.
https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1159834445437779969
https://www.dw.com/en/explosions-rip-through-russian-ammunition-depot-for-second-time/a-49969498

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




StarkingBarfish posted:

Yeah I remember that but figured this was dumb enough nobody would try to further refine it. The RTGs that get sent into space have all kinds of red tape to get through because strapping something radioactive to a rocket is a great way to efficiently distribute it over a wide area. Putting it on something whose sole purpose is to go boom sounds like a great way to escalate a war.

My university advisor worked on an ESA project involving “portable” nuclear power generator and ESA did basically fly out 3 airplanes worth of European scientists to the U.S. to work at a facility fortified better than Korean Peninsula DMZ.

Plastic_Gargoyle
Aug 3, 2007

Telsa Cola posted:

The US during the cold war though our model had widespread nuclear fallout from the exhaust as a feature not a bug.

The fact that it was shelved by the US at the height of the cold war, ye time of the AIR-2 Genie and the Davy Crockett, would suggest the US even then realized that it was a bugfuck insane idea.

Which makes you wonder what primo poo poo the Russians have been smoking.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

TASS is reporting 5 are dead following the mysterious radiation incident

https://twitter.com/tass_agency/status/1159936368027602950

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

Brown Moses posted:

TASS is reporting 5 are dead following the mysterious radiation incident

https://twitter.com/tass_agency/status/1159936368027602950

5 *Ros-Atom* employees, at that.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Yeah, this is about as official as it will get for confirming that an accident involving nuclear material happened.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Brown Moses posted:

TASS is reporting 5 are dead following the mysterious radiation incident

https://twitter.com/tass_agency/status/1159936368027602950

That's... quite the oopsie.

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
Everything about the incident seems confused as gently caress, from the media not knowing the difference between a rocket and a jet to bad translations to possibly deliberately misleading information. I can't even tell if it was a nuclear rocket, a nuclear jet, a regular non-nuclear rocket that blew up and damaged something nuclear, or what.

Plastic_Gargoyle posted:

The fact that it was shelved by the US at the height of the cold war, ye time of the AIR-2 Genie and the Davy Crockett, would suggest the US even then realized that it was a bugfuck insane idea.

Which makes you wonder what primo poo poo the Russians have been smoking.
The US didn't suddenly grow sense, they just figured out ICBMs and found they were a much better way to nuke people. Russia's thing is about diversifying (or pretending to, who knows how real this is) their arsenal because they're concerned about the US development of ICBM defenses. Currently US defenses are small scale, but there's no treaty limiting them anymore so they could choose to scale it up.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

https://twitter.com/runetecho/status/1160584153269751810
https://twitter.com/runetecho/status/1160585245432963072
https://twitter.com/runetecho/status/1160586337596170240
https://twitter.com/Leyla0203/status/1160588324664479744

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005


These are great.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Seems like a missile test failed, and when they tried to recover it the missile exploded

https://twitter.com/ain92ru/status/1160840071135879168

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Brown Moses posted:

Seems like a missile test failed, and when they tried to recover it the missile exploded

https://twitter.com/ain92ru/status/1160840071135879168

Jesus gently caress.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Sounds like maybe the missile had a positive void coefficient

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

My not so inner art historian loves these so much.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

More news from Russia following their minor nuclear incident:
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1161322058053234689

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

Brown Moses posted:

More news from Russia following their minor nuclear incident:
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1161322058053234689

They also apparently forgot to tell the doctors treating the injured about the whole radioactive contamination thing:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Mortis_Banned/status/1161263011564310530

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

OddObserver posted:

They also apparently forgot to tell the doctors treating the injured about the whole radioactive contamination thing:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Mortis_Banned/status/1161263011564310530

Shared this with a Lithuanian friend on facebook and his reply was "standard."

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

Between this missle explosion and the research sub accident, I'm wondering how long the Russians can keep the Deep Ones at bay. Having a few shoggoths around can be useful but the whole thing is a bit like buying a buffalo from Hermann Göring, there are strings attached.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer

madeintaipei posted:

Between this missle explosion and the research sub accident, I'm wondering how long the Russians can keep the Deep Ones at bay. Having a few shoggoths around can be useful but the whole thing is a bit like buying a buffalo from Hermann Göring, there are strings attached.
Wouldn't having Cthulhu in charge be an improvement, though?

Dark Off
Aug 14, 2015




if the missile exploded while raising it up from sea the short term evacuation kinda makes sense. They basically cant guarantee that the whole thing doesnt start spewing up radioactive steam into air when raised up,
Dunno what is the best option if the whole thing is scattered in the sea floor however. I would guess they will do nothing about it, at most fishing restrictions. Maybe they determine whole bay's fish population endangered or something.

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woodenchicken
Aug 19, 2007

Nap Ghost

madeintaipei posted:

Between this missle explosion and the research sub accident, I'm wondering how long the Russians can keep the Deep Ones at bay. Having a few shoggoths around can be useful but the whole thing is a bit like buying a buffalo from Hermann Göring, there are strings attached.
Reminds me of that old tweet by Babchenko: Countless Jets, Satellites, Submarines, Buses, a Dry Dock and even a Choir: Is Russia Secretly Building an Underwater Empire?

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