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Yeah, they’re still out there some places. Saw one on deployment last year, but his peer had a Glock instead.
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Midjack posted:To be fair the subject at hand could be research labs that have samples of really gross pathogens, which could include a whole lot of university labs and places like the CDC in addition to defensive research (sic) labs funded by governments. They don't have to be commonly-accepted "BW agents" to kill a lot of people if they get loose. The obvious implication of the tweet is that there are a couple dozen US funded Vozrozhdeniya Islands in Ukraine, which is of course poo poo from a bull's rear end. Exactly which is even more distasteful given what she's saying because most of those labs are probably just basic research stuff that have some select agents in them which aren't really easily converted into bio weapons by anyone without a huge effort on infrastructure and other things I am not going to talk about. The practical basis of what she is saying is that there are 25 Labs that have gotten some funding for biotech research in Ukraine and that we should destroy them all. If this logic was applied here my wife's lab would also be destroyed.
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mlmp08 posted:Yeah, they’re still out there some places. Saw one on deployment last year, but his peer had a Glock instead. Yeah, I assume a handful of people roll around with them, but it's not remotely common. If you're in a unit with that choice, you're obviously in a better trained place than the bulk of the military. If MEU is happy with it, the gov will eat the cost because it's not that big of a price to keep the crayola crew happy. I saw more M60s in Iraq than 1911s, but NG units had to go with whatever was leftover from the 70s.
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Icon Of Sin posted:This design has stood for over a century, with I think only the addition of a safety selector switch? And that was recent-ish, iirc. The safety selector switch and they also engineered out the need for headspace and timing to be done every time you screw in the barrel. It's set at the factory now.
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https://twitter.com/matt_meeta/status/1503032777217871874?s=21 Dunking on Scott Ritter will never not be hilarious. Also 5th FSB letter. No clue on if it’s real, but neat read anyway. http://www.igorsushko.com/2022/03/hits-about-to-hit-fan-between-fsb-putin.html?m=1
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/matt_meeta/status/1503032777217871874?s=21 who is this?
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Alan Smithee posted:who is this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter quote:William Scott Ritter Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who served with the United Nations implementing arms control treaties, with General Norman Schwarzkopf in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq, overseeing the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), as a United Nations weapons inspector, from 1991 to 1998. He later became a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. He is a convicted child sex offender for unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, and criminal solicitation. quote:From 2014 until 2017, Ritter was a columnist for HuffPost.[57] Between 2017 and 2020, he was a frequent contributor to The American Conservative.[58] Since 2017 he also contributes regularly to Consortium News,[59] and since December 2019, he writes weekly op-eds for Russian state-controlled media RT.[60] And he's been tweeting about how doomed Ukraine is for the last month.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/jimmysecuk/status/1502999312732631043?s=21 It seems like their cooks had a choice between tuber and not tuber. McNally posted:That was sort of the point of adopting it in the first place. This made me chuckle. Fearless fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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That kinda looks like the opening scene in a docudrama about a guy who ends up making the world's most kickass food truck.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That kinda looks like the opening scene in a docudrama about a guy who ends up making the world's most kickass food truck. Lmao
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It looks like the opening to Resident Evil VII.
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It's a very competent truck. And you could make a lot of good eating out of those ingredients if you have an ounce of ambition. 'course you had to clean that fry iron first. And if you didn't before, now you know why field kitchens are the souls of an army - if you can look inside them, you understand their owners
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Marshal Prolapse posted:
There's an english version at this page here: https://informnapalm.org/en/jan13-russia-generals/ Note that the article is pretty old, from 2016, so there's likely been more deaths since then. But the evidence definitely suggests that Putin has kept a low-key purge running during his rule, and the results clearly speak for themselves.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1503084360815108103?t=pio0GxL69O_R9VadKzgiig&s=19 drat guess that quashes that "pilot parachutes sabotaged so they can't be taken prisoner" theory
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https://twitter.com/BobFranklin3/status/1503112648174575617 For those unaware of the context, the aircraft with previous registrations starting with "VQ-B" or "VP-B" are aircraft registered in Bermuda, who have sent the repo men out after planes leased to Russia. As a result, Russia is slapping a bunch of "RA-#####" registrations on them to basically steal their own planes.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That kinda looks like the opening scene in a docudrama about a guy who ends up making the world's most kickass food truck. I'm grinning at the thought of an enterprising Ukrainian stealing this truck, fixing it up, clumsily slapping Ukrainian flags over all the markings/insignia, and parking it at a popular tourist spot in Kyiv.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1503084360815108103?t=pio0GxL69O_R9VadKzgiig&s=19 Yikes. I hadn't really thought about what the equivalent of "ERA with explosives removed" would be for parachutes, but that's frighteningly plausible.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Yikes. I hadn't really thought about what the equivalent of "ERA with explosives removed" would be for parachutes, but that's frighteningly plausible. everything can be sold for gucci money in peacetime!
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1503084360815108103?t=pio0GxL69O_R9VadKzgiig&s=19 Is this finally the precision artillery they have been talking about?
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not caring here posted:Is this finally the precision artillery they have been talking about? 
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1503084360815108103?t=pio0GxL69O_R9VadKzgiig&s=19 How has this not been posted yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HtVYr9aKRM
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There's no way China says yes to this... right? https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1503102558331625473?s=19
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Nuclear Tourist posted:There's no way China says yes to this... right? China selling unneeded equipment for the right price is not completely unthinkable. That's not what you're asking is it?
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Dear China, Please send more lovely tires and weapons left over from your most recent revolution. Toodles, Putie
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Nuclear Tourist posted:There's no way China says yes to this... right? It seems unlikely that they'd be willing to risk debilitating sanctions just to try to bail Putin out.
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EasilyConfused posted:It seems unlikely that they'd be willing to risk debilitating sanctions just to try to bail Putin out. Unless they're wanting to kick the war into high gear. It'll certainly make things very hot in here. It's possible the thought process is that they cannot destroy China?
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Nuclear Tourist posted:There's no way China says yes to this... right? It depends on if/how China could survive without exports for a while, they are already supporting Russia economically with using their currency as a way to skirt some of the banking sanctions so they are not neutral at the moment
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BRB holding a kickoff meeting for a sprint to develop an innovative ML driven blockchain project to disrupt immovability from first principles.
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lol no ones going to sanction china, it would ruin everyone's economy
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Lol oh no the US is going to stop shipping China it's waste cardboard and unpeeled garlic what will they do?
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Reuters is reporting that the Chinese US embassy deny having heard of the request, and emphasize that "The high priority now is to prevent the tense situation from escalating or even getting out of control."
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1503127520253779974?t=iL4iglGiNq11K9OgBWW3wQ&s=19 We all goof about Clancy posting, but man that hit on the Libyan terrorist camp…was pretty good at guessing what things would be like. No I don’t know if that was in the book or just the movie. But whoever came up with it definitely had a good theory on the future of war.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1503127520253779974?t=iL4iglGiNq11K9OgBWW3wQ&s=19 how are you supposed to deal with this from a security stand point? Spotters? I assume the profile of UAV's make them small enough that radar isn't really gonna be able to pick them up?
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Can't remember if it was this thread or airpower that posted this https://uscnpm.org/2022/03/12/hu-wei-russia-ukraine-war-china-choice/ But even with that just being a think tank, and one that from my very cursory research tends to lead westward, it paints a pretty grave picture for any major moves between Russia and China. The risk of isolating yourself into a block with Russia and Belarus, especially when Russia has proven itself completely incapable of managing this war seems like an incredibly bad move. I'm sure they would've liked Putin to take Ukraine in a blitz, but at this point I don't think they're going to do anything to help except take Russian resources on discount.
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