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There are Mi-26s in the area, although I can't imagine why anyone would use them to conduct an air assault. Then again... https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1501263619111141384
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The Russian ship that was told to go gently caress itself, has indeed, hosed itself. Yesterday it was blown up by rockets: https://ukraine-today.org/russian-warship-that-was-told-to-go-f-yourself-has-been-destroyed/
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1501288850055995396?s=20&t=FZh8DrCPNUGGkmnBno1h2w This poo poo will never be not funny. I still think it's inevitable that the major cities fall or get shelled into rubble (or even if surrendered, genocided), but the fact that this keeps happening is hilarious. And Putin thought he was going to just take over a country with these kinds of people in it? THEY'RE STEALING TANKS WITH TRACTORS
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ASAPI posted:The Russian ship that was told to go gently caress itself, has indeed, hosed itself. Hitting a small patrol corvette with an unguided rocket barrage is some real good poo poo
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Arrath posted:Hitting a small patrol corvette with an unguided rocket barrage is some real good poo poo I have serious doubts that a warship can be destroyed by an Grad from shore.
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bees everywhere posted:Yes, the Mi-26 can carry up to 90 pax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Khankala_Mi-26_crash quote:The helicopter was ferrying 142  quote:The missile hit one of the engines as the Mi-26 was approaching Khankala, and the helicopter crash-landed in a minefield that made up part of the federal military headquarters' perimeter defenses. Some of the survivors, attempting to abandon the wrecked Mi-26, are reported to have been killed by 'friendly' anti-personnel mine explosions.[4] this hind...does not sound safe
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Stultus Maximus posted:I have serious doubts that a warship can be destroyed by an Grad from shore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_(cruise_missile) My guess is everything is a "rocket" even when it's a missile.
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Mar 8, 2022 22:25
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Ukraine wins the best MRE award https://youtu.be/ID_eFoIemjU No wonder their troops are so much better. Logistics matter.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_(cruise_missile) The video posted by the Ukrainians shows a rocket artillery barrage, not an ASCM. And the only evidence of success was smoke on the horizon.
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I believe a rocket barrage could do it. But given how russian fuels and botes work, a column of black smoke isn't really conclusive of a sinking or just regular operating condition.
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FWIW corvettes aren't exactly heavily armoured, and set fires in the right place, or punch a few holes beneath the waterline and you're about done.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:FWIW corvettes aren't exactly heavily armoured, and set fires in the right place, or punch a few holes beneath the waterline and you're about done. Pretty sure fire on a bote is pretty much a really big deal.
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Or put a bunch of them above a sinkhole
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CainFortea posted:Pretty sure fire on a bote is pretty much a really big deal.  my career says otherwise
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BIG HEADLINE posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_(cruise_missile) The original reports showed a video of a MLRS attack launched from a shore, so it sounds plausible. https://twitter.com/StateOfUkraine/status/1500887780045594628 quote:Ukrainian small boats lured the Russian patrol boat Vasily Bykov to a camouflaged firing position, where it was shelled.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Ukraine wins the best MRE award We must close the MRE gap.
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Saukkis posted:The original reports showed a video of a MLRS attack launched from a shore, so it sounds plausible. So it was shelled overnight and then sank the next day?
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Bored As gently caress posted:Ukraine wins the best MRE award Steve and his iron stomach are a natural treasure. Be sure to watch the one where he eats hard tack from the civil war. Not tack made from a recipe from the civil war, like it was made during the civil war. I think he has gotten sick from a couple of the modern Chinese MREs. The one thing he has taught me, if your tongue goes numb spit it out!
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hobbesmaster posted:So it was shelled overnight and then sank the next day? Big Truus Oversteegen vibes.
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Wrong Theory posted:Steve and his iron stomach are a natural treasure. Be sure to watch the one where he eats hard tack from the civil war. Not tack made from a recipe from the civil war, like it was made during the civil war. I think he has gotten sick from a couple of the modern Chinese MREs. The one thing he has taught me, if your tongue goes numb spit it out! I am amazed that he doesn't have massive intestinal issues yet.
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Wrong Theory posted:Steve and his iron stomach are a natural treasure. Be sure to watch the one where he eats hard tack from the civil war. Not tack made from a recipe from the civil war, like it was made during the civil war. I think he has gotten sick from a couple of the modern Chinese MREs. The one thing he has taught me, if your tongue goes numb spit it out! That one where he ate the beef paste from the 1890's was really something.
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hobbesmaster posted:So it was shelled overnight and then sank the next day? The only photo evidence I have seen was a tall smoke plum on the horizon. But if the boat was still producing that much smoke by the day time it can't been that far from natural firefighting methods.
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Slight food derail- some of my favorite Navy stories from my father were about the sub-legal horse trading and hijinks in the 70s/80s Navy, and no small amount of it revolved around food. When his ship (the Brunswick, a salvage ship) was anchored off a small South Pacific island, he was one of three people aboard a shore party to deliver a small generator to a remote outpost. The fishermen also on the island were running extremely low on diesel, as the supply ships in that area were variable schedule and unreliable, and they had gone a while without resupply. So they started plying my dad (a warrant officer). He called back to the ship, told the Captain to please trust him, and send a 55 gallon drum of diesel out on the tender. The obvious subtext was "for some poo poo I can't put out on the radio". So when they get done installing the new generator, they get on the boat back to the Brunswick. The CO was standing right there, wondering what he had gotten himself into. The returning sailors hauled up several huge laundry bags with hundreds of gigantic, feisty lobsters. Dad figured he was ok, but was still a little nervous that he had gone too far, as the CO looked at the lobsters for a minute, without saying anything. Then the CO turned to the XO and told him "tell the cooks I don't care what they're making, or how done they are. Throw it out and start boiling water", and Dad knew he was good.
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Saukkis posted:The original reports showed a video of a MLRS attack launched from a shore, so it sounds plausible. Russian bear fall for honeypot
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WEEEEEEEBBBB. Also if he gets killed because of this, it would be hilarious and satisfying.
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Chechnya: Its all Islam and Anime.
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CommieGIR posted:Chechnya: Its all Islam and Anime. And glass bottle sodomy.
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citybeatnik posted:My grandpa, a west Texas dirt farmer kid who joined up to serve in WWII because it meant he could actually eat, would wax poetically about the wonders of actually getting enough food while with the navy. He *loved* the ship he was on just for the chow hall. That's interesting thank you for sharing. Yeah it's fascinating to read about how so many young men who grew up in the depression had major food insecurity and were able to be properly fed after joining up. I think there were also literacy programs that were in high demand. In Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors they mention how ice cream makers were usually reserved for aircraft carriers but an escort destroyer was able to obtain one and this meant in the tropical humid Pacific they had a very valuable trade good when meeting up with other ships.
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psydude posted:How many MiG-29s does Poland have? Probably answered by now but Scramble has good details here: https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/polish-mig-29s-for-ukraine psydude posted:Pre-Edo era Japan? Can't believe I forgot this, good point. bees everywhere posted:Yes, the Mi-26 can carry up to 90 pax. Unlikely to be Mi-38s, those are still prototypes. They are supposed to replace the Mi-8s, but Russian procurement is, as we have discovered, completely ratfucked from top to bottom, sooooo Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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modern, tho, lol. joseon korea also did this
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That's interesting thank you for sharing. Yeah it's fascinating to read about how so many young men who grew up in the depression had major food insecurity and were able to be properly fed after joining up. I think there were also literacy programs that were in high demand. My grandpa told me that when the WW2 draft started all his friends lied to hide their medical conditions so they could enlist. He had an uncle who lost a leg in WW1 so gramps emphasized and embellished every little thing he could think of to be medically ineligible. He's always carried some guilt about that, especially because one of his childhood friends was KIA at Bastogne, but I've always felt gramps working his butt off on the farm for the entire war was as great of a contribution as enlisting would have been.
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citybeatnik posted:My grandpa, a west Texas dirt farmer kid who joined up to serve in WWII because it meant he could actually eat, would wax poetically about the wonders of actually getting enough food while with the navy. He *loved* the ship he was on just for the chow hall. I remember the last meal we had that had meat on the first mission of my first deployment, they pulled the last of the rotting meat off some meat that was still good in the broken freezers, we had chicken, beef, lobster, as much as you could eat you could have, I had two steaks, and two lobster tails (which was a good choice because the chicken had turned a little and made some sailors sick). The next 45 days where we got about 1000 calories in dehydrated eggs and whatever carbohydrates were onboard taught me a lot about forcible starvation.
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Very awkward. https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1501333459972800527?s=19
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CommieGIR posted:They should just fly them to the closest border airport and tow them across the border. Ukrainian tractors will materialize to do the needful.
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