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I finally stumbled across a suitable counter to the VDV song. https://youtu.be/zylu0gaIUkA
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shame on an IGA posted:I finally stumbled across a suitable counter to the VDV song. Top notch.
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Apr 10, 2022 16:48
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oh poo poo and the lyrics  quote:Hey, by the steppes, and by the dark ravines
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Apr 10, 2022 16:56
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https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1513185057703436289
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MrYenko posted:A radiation source at a waste mitigation site would probably be a fresh source of documented provenance used to calibrate instruments, and not a chunk of the 35 year old reactor. That nightmare "drop and run" source is a radiography source, for looking through rocks a metal and stuff, to be useful as a calibration source you have to be able to pick it up and handle it a little bit, so 4 or 5 orders of magnitude less source strength. Still not a great thing to take out of the 'ol lead box and shove in your pocket. A 3000 curie Co-60 source gives you about 30 seconds, if held at arms length, to read it and comply with the directions and you might not die of ARS.
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Apr 10, 2022 18:16
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Does "intact" mean at least 80% functional force or am I making that up whole cloth?
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Apr 10, 2022 18:33
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Soul Dentist posted:Does "intact" mean at least 80% functional force or am I making that up whole cloth? Nah, intact the way they are using it just means “pretty much at full combat strength, or at least as much as you can be after a month of field ops”. The thing I would take from the assessment is that Russia is either going to disburse highly demoralized soldiers into other units which may actually reduce the host units combat performance in favor of a paper strength metric OR they are going to kitbash soldiers from multiple demolished units into one ‘full strength’ unit which will pretty much be almost entirely combat ineffective since they are doing gently caress all to rehabilitate them. The thing is, Russia doesn’t really have any more BTGs to bring forward. They’ve already stripped out the best parts of all their regiments and brigades to make the ones fighting now so this is the best they can do without a several month pause to reorganize and replenish.
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Soul Dentist posted:Does "intact" mean at least 80% functional force or am I making that up whole cloth? It means you are about to enter yet another moment of "what the gently caress they cannot possibly be that stupid and yet here is the evidence that that is what they did" The RF effectively neutralized any of their own C2 above the battalion level before the invasion even started. quote:The Russian armed forces likely have few or no full-strength units in reserve to deploy to fight in Ukraine because of a flawed mobilization scheme that cannot be fixed in the course of a short war. The Russians did not deploy full regiments and brigades to invade Ukraine—with few exceptions as we have previously noted. They instead drew individual battalions from many different regiments and brigades across their entire force. We have identified elements of almost every single brigade or regiment in the Russian Army, Airborne Troops, and Naval Infantry involved in fighting in Ukraine already. The decision to form composite organizations drawn from individual battalions thrown together into ad hoc formations degraded the performance of those units, as we have discussed in earlier reports.[7] It has also committed the Russian military to replicating that mistake for the duration of this conflict, because there are likely few or no intact regiments or brigades remaining in the Russian Army, Airborne Forces, or Naval Infantry. The Russians have no choice but to continue throwing individual battalions together into ad hoc formations until they have rebuilt entire regiments and brigades, a process that will likely take years. shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Apr 10, 2022 |
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Apr 10, 2022 19:01
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Murgos posted:Nah, intact the way they are using it just means “pretty much at full combat strength, or at least as much as you can be after a month of field ops”. I interpret intact to mean "has enough personnel and equipment to form tasks appropriate to their organizational level'. A tank unit with all of its dudes but no tanks isn't intact. Or one with all of its tanks but no fuel trucks. Or one with a bunch of tanks and no crews. Or one with all its dudes and tanks but all the tanks are busted and there are no repair parts. Basically, it's nebulous but I interpret it to mean "cant do whatever it's supposed to do for whatever reason". edit, or I guess it means that right up there. 
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Apr 10, 2022 19:02
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shame on an IGA posted:It means you are about to enter yet another moment of "what the gently caress they cannot possibly be that stupid and yet here is the evidence that that is what they did" effectively neutralizing any C2 above the battalion level That like at Market Garden when the Germans were putting together units from whatever troops were in the area out of desperation, it’s not the standard approach for an invasion that should have had months to plan ahead.
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Apr 10, 2022 19:04
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You know how in an AAR, you struggle sometimes to get the three ups and three downs? What are Russia's ups?
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Murgos posted:Nah, intact the way they are using it just means “pretty much at full combat strength, or at least as much as you can be after a month of field ops”. Sounds good on paper, but in the field it must be a complete shitshow. No unit integrity, logsitics hosed up because orders get misrouted. Lots of guys going to bed hungry I'm sure. A good NCO corps would be ale to help, but Russia doesn't believe in that. Better to have sub-lieutenants doing what a E-7 would be doing in the west. Cimber fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Apr 10, 2022 |
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Apr 10, 2022 19:06
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GD_American posted:You know how in an AAR, you struggle sometimes to get the three ups and three downs? Up: Were well prepared for the real mission of eliminating Ukrainians from Ukraine. Up: nice new washing machine for Babushka and new GPU for little Vasily. Up: Didn't have to carry heavy gear back to Russia
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Apr 10, 2022 19:07
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I'm very curious about the scale of and timeline for the mobilization of Ukraine's reservists and new volunteers. It's not looking realistic for Russia to adequately replenish their forces in the short term, so, from a purely quantitative perspective, it looks like Ukraine could not only hold their lines but start taking back territory that the Russian forces simply lack the resources to hold? Or does the likely shortage of offensive hardware balance out that potential advantage in raw manpower?
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Apr 10, 2022 19:21
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GD_American posted:You know how in an AAR, you struggle sometimes to get the three ups and three downs? ”The reach of our logistics network has been operationally tested” ”The discussion on whether cope cages are beneficial has gained a number of real-life data points” ”Lots of real-world experience on operating in deep mud”
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Cugel the Clever posted:I'm very curious about the scale of and timeline for the mobilization of Ukraine's reservists and new volunteers. It's not looking realistic for Russia to adequately replenish their forces in the short term, so, from a purely quantitative perspective, it looks like Ukraine could not only hold their lines but start taking back territory that the Russian forces simply lack the resources to hold? Or does the likely shortage of offensive hardware balance out that potential advantage in raw manpower? Russia has an equipment advantage high enough that they can likely hold off the Ukrainians from making any gains on recovering lost territory, at least in solidly held portions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and Crimea. Could they be pushed off of Mariupol or one of the other cities that is outside of those core regions? Possibly, depending on where the city is. Nobody knows exactly how badly the Russians suck, not even the Russians, and nobody can quantify exactly how far morale can carry you when your air force is flying 12:1 vs enemy aircraft in heavily contested areas.
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A.o.D. posted:Up: nice new washing machine for Babushka and new GPU for little Vasily. Down: Sudden lack of APCs and trucks means carrying washing machine back is a pain in the neck, among other things.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCBkCL27rU
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Apr 10, 2022 19:30
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I wonder if they are stealing all those GPUs because they want to do crypto mining.
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Apr 10, 2022 19:33
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orange juche posted:Radiation sickness isn't like any sickness you've ever had either, multiple organ systems all fail because your body is self destructing from ionizing radiation damaging your cells, and there's nothing doctors can do to save you other than offer palliative care and prayer, if you got a severe dose. It's basically like getting pneumonia, the bad runs, starting on going blind, and undergoing bad chemo, but all at the same time and all get worse until you die. It's pretty hosed up. Lots of alpha particles just settled out in that dirt and rain has pushed a lot of them down into the soil a bit. Digging those up without a respirator means you've got it in your lungs and probably eyes / every other mucus membrane. They are completely hosed.
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GD_American posted:You know how in an AAR, you struggle sometimes to get the three ups and three downs? Up: Arrested potential anti-Putin subversive elements inside of Russia. Up: Found deficiencies in military procurement Down: Won't remediate
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GD_American posted:You know how in an AAR, you struggle sometimes to get the three ups and three downs? Up: Performed real-world assessment of the importance of proper planning in airborne operations Up: Demonstrated maintenance requirements of a typical BTG in field conditions Up: Provided valuable training in NBC operations and after-care
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Apr 10, 2022 19:56
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So can we get stickers of a pointing Putin made up that say "Я ЭТО СДЕЛАЛ!" underneath? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-blame-vladimir-putin-oil-companies-high-gas/story?id=83967683 Of course, the true  of it is that neither Biden nor Putin are responsible for higher gas prices! 
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Does anyone know anything about the supposed new force commander? https://www.9news.com.au/world/vladimir-putin-appoints-new-commander-for-ukraine-alexander-dvornikov/e432287e-cbd8-4519-b1cf-1bf6ec69701b
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Does anyone know anything about the supposed new force commander? All I need to know is that he was the commander of their Syrian "military intervention" to know he's bad loving news.
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Apr 10, 2022 20:09
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Cimber posted:I wonder if they are stealing all those GPUs because they want to do crypto mining. They're likely being looted solely with the intent to resell.
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Apr 10, 2022 20:14
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I don’t know by how much I missed it, but new thread title made me laugh so hard that my 5yo came to ask if I was OK
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Apr 10, 2022 20:20
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GD_American posted:You know how in an AAR, you struggle sometimes to get the three ups and three downs? If my unit AARs are the trend it was:  Knowledgeable instructor. Good visual aids. Short to the point.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:All I need to know is that he was the commander of their Syrian "military intervention" to know he's bad loving news. So in the range of Russian commanders, he's in the "Pitiless Taskmaster" category?
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orange juche posted:Russia has an equipment advantage high enough that they can likely hold off the Ukrainians from making any gains on recovering lost territory, at least in solidly held portions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and Crimea. Could they be pushed off of Mariupol or one of the other cities that is outside of those core regions? Possibly, depending on where the city is. Nobody knows exactly how badly the Russians suck, not even the Russians, and nobody can quantify exactly how far morale can carry you when your air force is flying 12:1 vs enemy aircraft in heavily contested areas. It hasn't been talked about as much, but the number of Russian sorties is down even over eastern Ukraine. It makes me think they're running into major maintenance issues and have probably already lost a sizeable chunk of their operational aircraft.
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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1513217158997852168 So quick question does the US have rules about attacking industrial targets that could result in release of dangerous chemicals or fumes? This is also the second time the Russians have attacked it.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1513217158997852168 I don't know about rules, but what exactly could the US do beyond the current sanctions/arms shipments to a hostile (to Russia) foreign power?
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Youtube videos taking apart classified Russian military technology, why not https://twitter.com/UkraineNewsLive/status/1513204186434920451?s=20&t=mtLk7KXlE3UhOdtd7gOY3g Apparently it uses an off-the-shelf Canon camera.
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Unboxing videos getting weird.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Does anyone know anything about the supposed new force commander? Something to keep in mind is that this isn't some new guy swooping in from elsewhere to take over and fix everything, supposedly he was already in charge of the southern and eastern fronts of the invasion, which is the part that the Russians are focusing on most now.
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So that's where my Canon Rebel ended up 
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Does anyone know anything about the supposed new force commander? Don't know if this guy's on the level, but his blog posts seem a lot more detailed than the usual Twitter randos. https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/here-comes-dvornikov-10-april-2022-80b7a09a7ef7
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Kesper North posted:
Going to call my Nifty-fifty lens 'military rated' now. Using a plastic $85 lens in a drone is hilarious.
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Hannibal Rex posted:Don't know if this guy's on the level, but his blog posts seem a lot more detailed than the usual Twitter randos. He's a pretty well known author in military aviation history, he's on the up and up. For reference, I have several books by him on the Iran-Iraq war that are nearly 15 years old now.
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