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Cimber posted:indiscriminate lobbing. They are not trying to hit anything specific, just get rounds downrange. Not giving a gently caress where it hits or who it hits. This seems...like a stupid idea. Edit: But what do i know im not part of the glorious russian army. Sentinel fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:CNN is saying an armed russian drone was found in Croatia this morning. I think that they are talking about the drone that landed a few days back(13/03), nothing new in the press from Croatia
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Sentinel posted:This seems...like a stupid idea. It could be that they're just trying to get rid of their ammo as fast as possible so they can return to base before a MANPAD gets them. "This is Buttfucker 6, we have expended all munitions and destroyed so, so many Ukrainian tanks, it was a great success, please get the hot tub ready, over."
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Yeah. I caught it right before walking out with Frank. I didn't hear about it the other day.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Yeah. I caught it right before walking out with Frank. I didn't hear about it the other day. Who's frank. Are you holding out on us?
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I love Arnold. https://youtu.be/4e1BndTE6Lg
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Cimber posted:Who's frank. Are you holding out on us? Frank is my dog, Beans is my cat, for future reference.
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bees everywhere posted:It could be that they're just trying to get rid of their ammo as fast as possible so they can return to base before a MANPAD gets them. I'm guessing "munitions expended" is a key reporting metric. Boss only cares that the rockets don't come back on the helicopter. No reason to get frisky within Stinger/Strela range.
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Cimber posted:Who's frank. Are you holding out on us?
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Cimber posted:and not giving two fucks where it lands. that too MA-Horus posted:Wondering if the flare dump is an anti-MANPAD measure, I've seen CAS do it after gun runs. or because that they could say back in the base that they were under fire and had to use them
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There's an old maxim about how the best propaganda is the truth. Truth doesn't debate your eyes or ears or logic, not your life experience, not your intelligence. It debates your feelings, and it debates the lies you've been carrying with you. But it has another advantage as well. Truth is time efficient. There's no time needed to make it, and wrapping paper be optional before delivery. Waiting for the lies to come first so they can be fact checked, is how we got Trump. It's a mistake. As satisfying as exposing a liar through truth is, it's surrendering one of the biggest advantages truth has. Don't repeat things you're unsure of. But - if you see something you can guarantee is the truth - don't second guess yourself or be scared of critics, SHOUT that poo poo. Chances are you'll hit the bastards before they do you. E. In a manner of speaking. Got a little philosophical about news carried through social media, and the decades experiencing the overload model of propaganda that is Putinism, and how strangely often very disparate things look like nails ripe for any single one of Clausewitz' hammers. Something something gently caress Goebbels and the evils that would deny you access to information ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I love Arnold. He had an excellent interview on the nerdist (yeah I know, I know) podcast a few years ago that was supposed to be promoting the movie sabotage. He barely mentioned the movie but gave an in-depth autobiographical account of growing up in post-war Austria and moving to California, I hadn't know he had done so much investing in apartment buildings. It was interesting to hear how he was aware he was terrible in his early movies but kept taking English and acting classes to improve. I'm sure there were some omissions but overall I came away respecting him more.
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Its kind of interesting that they were a mixed flight, Ka-52 and Mi-28. Why wouldn't two of the same unit be flying together unless a lot of their stuff is sitting broken on the ramp waiting for repairs? Or, maybe I'm just reading too much into a short video clip...
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winnydpu posted:Its kind of interesting that they were a mixed flight, Ka-52 and Mi-28. Why wouldn't two of the same unit be flying together unless a lot of their stuff is sitting broken on the ramp waiting for repairs? Or, maybe I'm just reading too much into a short video clip... Tuna-Fish fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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This one hits particularly hard. I may have seen some of those kids alive in video last week.
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Tuna-Fish posted:The Ka-28 has better self-defense armament, including supposedly much better aa capability, I think it's standard practice for one of them to escort the older and comparatively squishier vehicles. 
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Platystemon posted:This one hits particularly hard. Good news in that regard https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1504402863254036480
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zoux posted:Good news in that regard Good. The only upside is so many of these places have REAL bomb shelters, not just a basement. 
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mlmp08 posted:
That was one embarrassing typo, only caught from your post. Meant the 52.
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Quick follow up: there was no coup attempt in Belarus nor did China change their position yesterday, right?
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My understanding is that the Belarus thing was just military drills and China did promise humanitarian aid to Ukraine
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It doesn't look like it, no. Belarus says the noises heard yesterday were supersonic aircraft.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:And here's NLAW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIVtB-8fQ7E I wonder why the guy aimed right above the tank and not right AT the tank for a product video. I do love how the Javelin missile always does a little hop before it's propulsion systems activate and it shoots off.
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Jiro posted:I wonder why the guy aimed right above the tank and not right AT the tank for a product video. I do love how the Javelin missile always does a little hop before it's propulsion systems activate and it shoots off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iePl9mnSI9Q&t=39s
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Jiro posted:I do love how the Javelin missile always does a little hop before it's propulsion systems activate and it shoots off. Can't have the backblast frying the operator.
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Jiro posted:I wonder why the guy aimed right above the tank and not right AT the tank for a product video. I do love how the Javelin missile always does a little hop before it's propulsion systems activate and it shoots off. Because it has a proximity fuze for top attack mode.
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https://twitter.com/benlewismedia/status/1504048686766211073 Man, gently caress these people. Seriously.
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Handsome Ralph posted:https://twitter.com/benlewismedia/status/1504048686766211073 You know, if they had just accepted Jesus none of this would have happened. This is all Ukraine's fault.
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Why don’t the preachers go and minister to the Russians?
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Platystemon posted:Why don’t the preachers go and minister to the Russians? Because they would get shot
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Naked Bear posted:It doesn't look like it, no. Belarus says the noises heard yesterday were supersonic aircraft. The only notable part is that this is a different excuse than the one they initially gave, but who knows what that actually means. Jiro posted:I wonder why the guy aimed right above the tank and not right AT the tank for a product video. I do love how the Javelin missile always does a little hop before it's propulsion systems activate and it shoots off. Er, because that's how NLAW works. It flies over the target, and shoots a shaped charge downwards. That tank is toast.
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Cimber posted:You know, if they had just accepted Jesus none of this would have happened. If they're the hosed up kind of evangelical assholes I imagine them to be it's a blend between the people on the ground performing self-righteous "praying in public" bullshit their own book tells them not to do and the leadership smelling starving, desperate prey and pouncing like a predator.
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Hang on a minute. I just looked it up, at apparently something like 80+% of Ukrainians (at least, as of 2019) are Christian. Mostly Orthodox, unsurprisingly. So what's the point of going there to evangelize?
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Quackles posted:Hang on a minute. Obviously they are the wrong sort of Christian for these sort.
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Quackles posted:Hang on a minute. Anyone outside your fringe cult of choice isn't a real Christian, and Catholics and Orthodox are actually pagans.
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Yea the evangelical branches of christendom do not believe orthodox or catholics are actual christians.
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CommieGIR posted:Obviously they are the wrong sort of Christian for these sort.
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Do Christians believe they get like, extra funbux in heaven for this kind of behavior or converting people or something? I seriously don't know, my parents let me figure religion out on my own (atheist since age 7)
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Jiro posted:I wonder why the guy aimed right above the tank and not right AT the tank for a product video. I do love how the Javelin missile always does a little hop before it's propulsion systems activate and it shoots off. Because that's the missile, not the aim. The proximity sensor for top attack means that, in practice you aim straight at the target and fire, then this missile flies just above the tank, and at the right time fires the warhead downwards through the thin wide roof and anything beneath. The trick to the NLAW/Rb57 and the Robot 56 predecessors is that the shaped charge isn't pointing forwards, its horizontal - down. Since it doesn't have to turn or do anything else different it has a lot of the same benefits of older AT designs - same weight class, same speed to target, same tactics. Only it kills T-90M's. You can put it in direct flight mode if you need it to go inside a room or through a hole at the target etc ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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