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KitConstantine posted:Posting this here for military goon feedback - is this how you are supposed to do when coming under fire? There are a lot of things wrong in that video and it would take a really big effort post to outline them all. But tldr is these guys are like ROTC cadets. edit: there's a couple guys in that video who have the right idea. Hit the deck and get away from the Javelin target. bees everywhere fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:
haha this totally reminded me. I worked with some Brits for a few weeks back in 2003, and those motherfuckers had absolutely no barrel awareness. Like non-stop flagging. Sometimes they'd sight in on each other for laughs. Like I don't know if that was just the guys I was with or if it's the British army but jeeeezus
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Holy poo poo, the article says that DoD says that Russia's lost at least 7,000 KIA so far? They're halfway there on their massive speedrun to exceed the amount of Soviet deaths in their 10-year misadventure in Afghanistan, which is 13,310. Ukraine claims they’ve killed 14k already… some other groups are saying it’s closer to 20k. I think 7k might be the conservative estimate.
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Eason the Fifth posted:haha this totally reminded me. I worked with some Brits for a few weeks back in 2003, and those motherfuckers had absolutely no barrel awareness. Like non-stop flagging. Sometimes they'd sight in on each other for laughs. Like I don't know if that was just the guys I was with or if it's the British army but jeeeezus Worst I saw was Mongolians in Afghanistan. They were a part of the UN mission there and holy poo poo were they bad. They would sling their AKs with the barrel parallel to the ground and flag people everywhere.
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zoux posted:What are the Ukrainian Army casualty numbers? so far about 5000 javelins
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zoux posted:What are the Ukrainian Army casualty numbers? edit: and casualties are one thing, since modern medicine can fix some of those numbers (lol @ Russia having modern medicine there though), but the straight up KIA numbers are what's stunning
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:well this is pretty heartbreaking. This is true of every war of conscripts, but what sucks in a new way here is just how brutal the sanctions are. It is difficult, if not impossible to overstate just how much hardship the Russian population is facing in both the near and long term. Sanctions can and will be lifted more rapidly if Putin is removed from power, but a lot of the damage simply cannot be done quickly - and if the sanctions last too long, some of it may not be undone at all.
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Good https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1504614394176720897?s=21 After the video I just saw…I just.  But I’m happy to see those who try and result Russia will be punished. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:Worst I saw was Mongolians in Afghanistan. They were a part of the UN mission there and holy poo poo were they bad. They would sling their AKs with the barrel parallel to the ground and flag people everywhere. 
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Tiny Timbs posted:Listen, eating flesh is eating flesh. Might as well own it. Being able to accept the miracle of transubstantiation but then being all like, god converting that cracker into the flesh of Christ makes you a cannibal so you had best convert to my religion is some truly wild mental gymnastics.
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zoux posted:What are the Ukrainian Army casualty numbers? They are being very tightlipped about it and have some home field advantage of moving bodies without being filmed etc. Plus hard to account army vs militia. The US gave an assessment over a week+ ago but I haven’t heard anything since except to say they’re at about 90% combat power, but combat power is not a 1:1 with lives.
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zoux posted:What are the Ukrainian Army casualty numbers? The Ukrainians have claimed about 1300 dead or so in the last public statement about their casualties I recall, but that was about a week ago and there's a decent chance the actual number is notably higher. Either way, the Ukrainians aren't really saying much and it's been hard to prove their losses, so hard to say.
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Lol, I ran into the Mongolians in Camp Phoenix once, they could have been the same people because there weren't very many out there. I think they were artillery advisors. Anyway I went to their 'camp' and had lunch with them and traded stuff. They showed me this weird finger game that involved flicking each other on the forehead and I walked out with a welt. Fun guys!
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If the Ukrainians were dying like the Russians are the Russians would probably be posting videos.
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The Russians might not have the ability to take videos at this point. They don't appear to even have GPS in their tanks, so cool cinematic drones might be scarce, and they had to surrender their smart phones as a rule of service.
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Are the engineering corps officers typically likely to get murked? https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1504612301915230219?t=103fRmD_U69MhAfNc1MlvA&s=19
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I would die if I tried to deploy a bridge, I know that much
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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/life...of-sambuca.htmlquote:Drunk mum in the UK orders Uber to Ukraine to help in conflict after one too many shots of Sambuca o7
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:Worst I saw was Mongolians in Afghanistan. They were a part of the UN mission there and holy poo poo were they bad. They would sling their AKs with the barrel parallel to the ground and flag people everywhere. That brought back memories from the Finnish army. When you riding a bicycle, the most convenient way to carry the rifle is by stuffing the magazine in your battle belt, laying in your back pointing right.
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That Task & Purposes guy was able to find Russian videos of them videoing abandoned and burned-out Ukraine tanks. So I guess if you know the right telegram channels you can find Russian propaganda.
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Just the exactly right number of shots of sambuca
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KitConstantine posted:Are the engineering corps officers typically likely to get murked? Did Clive Owen brain him with a cinder block after he got stuck in a door?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Did Clive Owen brain him with a cinder block after he got stuck in a door? Hahaha holy poo poo
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Shooting Blanks posted:Solid piece, who knows how many people in Ukraine/Russia will see it. That said, the California flag patch on his shoulder is just weird - I see the Texan flag all over the place, I don't know if I've ever seen any other state flag worn by an individual or flown by any non-gov't building before now. It tracks, a friend of mine works on a lot of his vehicles, he kept that part quiet until there was a very specific Hummer with a terminator logo on the rear fender and he was like "yeah that Arnolds". He's got a fairly large car collection, some really nice Jeep Waggoneers. More than one vehicle had custom embroidered floormats with the California Governors Seal on them. He's proud that he got elected as governor, so being California proud in his case makes sense.
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CBJSprague24 posted:"Denazification" is going to be the Russian equivalent of "Illegals" in that it's going to be the drum the cornered powers that be drum to try to get people to go their way. E: looks like I'm wrong. It means that if the Russians win, Wikipedia will probably have a disambiguation page on Katyn massacre. It does not mean what it sounds like it should mean. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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So i found a webcam where you can watch Kiev. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz1Se_9rBEU Its dark right now, but I see city lights on. Now...shouldn't have cutting the cities electrical connection have been one of the earliest things the Russians _should_ have done?
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IPCRESS posted:I think "Denazification" is a translation of the term of art the KGB used to describe the Stasi zersetzung method/practice - thread historians correct me if required please. I’m not sure I follow. Are you implying that it’s actually more benign and everyone is slighting Putin with this word choice? Or are you saying that the phrase in Russian seems innocuous and your surprised it’s getting translated that way?
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Kesper North posted:I would die if I tried to deploy a bridge, I know that much Maybe he was the bridge
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Murgos posted:I’m not sure I follow. Try this: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1503085486604275717 which is part of this larger thread https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1503053699798769666 some background https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1497306746330697738 joat mon fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1270945583230930944?s=21 Saw this retweeted today. Edit^ Kamil’s post have been absolutely fantastic.
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So all those minority indigenous populations in Siberia that have largely been wiped out are all Nazis? Good to know.
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Casimir Radon posted:So all those minority indigenous populations in Siberia that have largely been wiped out are all Nazis? Good to know. I can think of a couple reasons why the minority indigenous populations of Siberia that were wiped out between the late 16th to early 20th century were not Nazis. joat mon fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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"Anyone who disagrees with Russia is a Nazi" is very much a modern/post-WW2 bit of rhetoric, so I think there was a crossed wire there
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KitConstantine posted:Are the engineering corps officers typically likely to get murked? To give you an idea: when I was in a bridging unit, each platoon (~50 soldiers in total) was designed to be able to complete the mission with 50% of its personnel being casualties. You're basically a massive sitting target for a bunch of angry defenders to shoot at.
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Mappo posted:That Task & Purposes guy was able to find Russian videos of them videoing abandoned and burned-out Ukraine tanks. So I guess if you know the right telegram channels you can find Russian propaganda. Russia has started a pro-russian alternative to oryx that documents ukranian losses, but it somehow actually lists less ukranian equipment than even Oryx does and refuses to list Russian losses, which it says it will post after the war is over. The whole thing is pretty ridiculous currently. With that said: Ukraine is definitely losing stuff and there's no way that they aren't losing a lot of people, both civilians and military even if the footage of it doesn't make it out.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Russia has started a pro-russian alternative to oryx that documents ukranian losses, but it somehow actually lists less ukranian equipment than even Oryx does and refuses to list Russian losses, which it says it will post after the war is over. The whole thing is pretty ridiculous currently. Based upon some of the articles I'm seeing, the Territorial Defense Forces are taking fairly heavy losses (vs. the UKA), which makes sense given most of them are little more than a militia that received a couple of weeks of training and some surplus equipment.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Does all sense of tactfulness and consideration just get deleted from your brain when you're this religious? ''Never be so religious so as to be of no earthly use'', a man from decades ago told me that. I'm atheist but i always found it eminently relatable. 
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