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Nenonen posted:Akademik Lomonosov, you mean. I'm sure it's just teething problems. Huh never heard of it quote:the first Russian floating nuclear power station 
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Nenonen posted:Akademik Lomonosov, you mean. I'm sure it's just teething problems. The Admiral Kuznetsov is going to retaliate by polluting the world super hard so that all walruses will die
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 Well well well I guess that settles the 30 Years War, Popes win! (also lol at Mormonism getting it's own color while Shinto is "folk/traditional")
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xthetenth posted:From people I've asked about the use of the things, there's a lot less functional differentiation as much as practical role differentiation. A SAW is an SAW because it's a belt fed that one guy can manage. You can fire it from the shoulder in theory, but the bigger thing is that the one guy can and does manage it. This has upsides and downsides. When it comes time to move, a SAW with all its ammo nice and tidy in a nutsack can come along. Meanwhile a GPMG is like as not to have a guy gunning it, and a guy paying attention to the ammo supply, linking new belts to the old belt so it's got sustained fire. For a SAW, you'd check up with the dude and if he doesn't have enough fire in it, have him top off before doing whatever he's covering. Unless it's static defense, you basically won't be connecting belts end to end on a SAW. There's a lot of GPMGs that can and would be handled by a single soldier. Dutch practice with the FN MAG was to the gunner have assisted feeding from a long belt, then switch over to a 50-round belt when moving, to allow him to act without his assistant. The UK vz.59, another GPMG, seems to have been operated without an assistant in the squad machine gun role in the 80s. Even going back to the MG34, the 50-round assault magazines were made to allow the machine gunner to operate the weapon by himself rather than requiring a two-man crew to move and fire it. When you get down to it, a "squad automatic weapon" (and most other military terms like it) is more like... a list of requirements/a statement of intent, and whichever weapon you issue to meet those requirements is definitionally a "squad automatic weapon". Other weapons used by other armed forces aren't going to fit that definition perfectly, because the requirements/statement of intent is slightly different.
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LatwPIAT posted:When you get down to it, a "squad automatic weapon" (and most other military terms like it) is more like... a list of requirements/a statement of intent, and whichever weapon you issue to meet those requirements is definitionally a "squad automatic weapon". Other weapons used by other armed forces aren't going to fit that definition perfectly, because the requirements/statement of intent is slightly different. Yeah, what I'm getting at is that it seems like a SAW is a role more than a list of weapon characteristics. I'd say that it's entirely possible to use a rifle caliber GPMG in a SAW role for instance. It might suck a bit, but there's a good amount of stuff that exists to make it work and people do it, with some tradeoffs. It's more like the idea of a heavy machine gun as the GPMG with a tripod and all the fixins rather than the idea of it being anything chambered in .50.
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zoux posted:
How did that group of Buddhists end up in the Caucuses
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Jack2142 posted:How did that group of Buddhists end up in the Caucuses Golden Horde / Kalmyks.
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I've been reading a biography of Stalin:Stephen Kotkin, "Waiting for Hitler", p556 posted:Following a duce state visit to Berlin in September 1937, according to Albert Speer, Hitler pantomimed him [Mussolini]. "His chin thrust forward, his legs spread, and his right hand jammed on his hip, Hitler, who spoke no foreign languages, bellowed Italian or Italian-sounding words like giovinezza, patria, victoria, macaroni, belleza, bel canto, and basta. Everyone around him made sure to laugh, and it was indeed very funny.
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It is pretty funny but it definitely refutes the internet wisdom of "you can always do an italian accent. It is never racist". I mean, just consider the source.
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Jack2142 posted:How did that group of Buddhists end up in the Caucuses Those are the Kalmyks, they fled the eastern steppe in the early 17th century and basically attached themselves to the Russian tsardom.
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PittTheElder posted:Those are the Kalmyks, they fled the eastern steppe in the early 17th century and basically attached themselves to the Russian tsardom. They actually headed West in search of Stardom, but once in Russia they settled for only being one letter off
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1176541685704286208 The truth is kinda boring: clickbait posted:The scientists were aboard a Russian Navy tugboat known as the Altai on an expedition to the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean this week right before the unusual human-animal interaction occurred. They boarded a small rubber landing craft and were en route to the shore to study its flora and fauna when a female walrus attacked, sinking the vessel
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HEY GUNS posted:if they managed to piss off one of the most gregarious animals on earth, they probably deserve whatever she did to them Well walruses are pretty territorial. I learned that from Octonauts. If you somehow managed to make a capybara mad at you then there's seriously no helping you.
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Memento posted:If you somehow managed to make a capybara mad at you then there's seriously no helping you. 
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Memento posted:Well walruses are pretty territorial. I learned that from Octonauts.
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JcDent posted:The truth is kinda boring: That's why you print the legend Krazyface posted:I've been reading a biography of Stalin: Reminds me of the scene in Death of Stalin where Khrushchev is going over the jokes he told around Stalin and writing down which ones were hits and which missed
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JcDent posted:The truth is kinda boring: quote:According to National Geographic, walruses near the Arctic Circle can weigh in at as much as 1.5 tons, reaching between 7.25 and 11.5 feet – twice the size of a human. That's some...interesting math.
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Oh, y'all don't weigh 1800 lbs and stand 5' tall? Uh, me neither.
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aw poo poo yeah slightly less than a small walrus over here
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zoux posted:
I guess it's cause Shinto doesn't have the same emphasis on doctrine and scripture as Buddhism or any of the Abrahamic faiths. I've heard arguments that you shouldn't even call it Shinto before the Meiji era, since it makes it sound like it's more unified and less regional than it was in the pre-Meiji times.
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Phanatic posted:That's some...interesting math. quote:1.5 tons quote:twice the size of a human Only in 
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golden bubble posted:I guess it's cause Shinto doesn't have the same emphasis on doctrine and scripture as Buddhism or any of the Abrahamic faiths. I've heard arguments that you shouldn't even call it Shinto before the Meiji era, since it makes it sound like it's more unified and less regional than it was in the pre-Meiji times. Nessus fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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zoux posted:Oh, y'all don't weigh 1800 lbs and stand 5' tall? Uh, me neither. I am sorry to tell you this but you have caught a disease that has turned you into a small portable artillery piece.
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SeanBeansShako posted:a small portable artillery piece. 
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SeanBeansShako posted:I am sorry to tell you this but you have caught a disease that has turned you into a small portable artillery piece. I'm proud of it.
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Laddie, have ye ever considered joining the Royal Arse Hortillery?
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Elyv posted:The Admiral Kuznetsov is going to retaliate by polluting the world super hard so that all walruses will die Except for all the lead paint I guess.
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So from machine gun and mortar chat there seems to be a big disconnect between what weapon a was designed for vs what it was good for. I'm curious if there are any examples where something was amazing at an unintended role and if anyone realized this and ran with it.
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honda whisperer posted:So from machine gun and mortar chat there seems to be a big disconnect between what weapon a was designed for vs what it was good for. Mustard gas turned out to be a great treatment for lymphoma.
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honda whisperer posted:So from machine gun and mortar chat there seems to be a big disconnect between what weapon a was designed for vs what it was good for. The M16 Gun Carriage used 4 .50cal Browning M2s and was designed for anti-air against low flying aircraft. Then they realized it was also good if say, a Nazi sniper was in a tree and you needed to encourage him to come down. It was so good as an anti-infantry weapon it got the nickname "Meat Chopper".
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The M50 Ontos was a bunch of heavy recoilless rifles on a light armoured chassis. Originally designed for tank busting, the Army rejected it and it was subsequently snapped up by the Marines and sent to Vietnam. It didn't find many tanks to bust, but it turns out that a lightweight, small-arms-proof vehicle throwing heavy explosive shells was brilliant at supporting infantry fighting dug-in infantry.
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Pom Pom guns which were light artillery being adapted into an anti-air role comes to mind to me.
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Bad pilots turned into kamikazes
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honda whisperer posted:So from machine gun and mortar chat there seems to be a big disconnect between what weapon a was designed for vs what it was good for. There's a huge variety of WWII era anti-tank and tank guns that got their start as AA guns. Turns out a gun that throws shells at high velocity is just what you need, and better yet a lot of them have good HE shells already. Some of these even go back quite a ways, like the US 3-inch gun M1918, which goes back to WWII, when tanks didn't need nearly that much to take out.
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88mm Flak gun and also the 90mm aa gun the italians used, not so hard to see why they wouldnt eventually see use that way but still.
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Phanatic posted:That's some...interesting math. It's Ben Shapiro math
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Bad pilots turned into kamikazes Warships being converted into valuable sources of low-background steel
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