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cruft posted:Hold up, Russia had a secure comms facility? Why didn't they use it? I understand Russian secure comms relied on access to 3G towers. They blew a lot of those up early in the war. But that's OK: Tactical traffic should be perishable and therefor fine transmitted *checks notes* in the clear on civilian-band SW.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Those are also Soviet area rucks, a Veshesmok. Not unuseful, but it's a glorified laundry bag. i like the bedazzle camo bulletsponge13 posted:Writing, maybe not (I disagree with it being easy, but that is referring to the birth, not the writing), but I'm a luddite. I prefer pen and paper; I've taken to doing some 'analog e stories' where I've posted pictures of stuff I wrote out long hand. Speaking as a luddite, writing (particularly when done with the expectation that maybe someday someone else will read it) is loving weird and forces you to put order to thoughts and memories and basically re-examine everything. And then on top of it you hear your own reasoning, or lack of it, is just laid out there. It's a good practice and can even be pretty therapeutic provided you've got a therapist around to work through whatever comes up, but yeah I can see why it's daunting too. On the plus side, you also can hit a point where you feel like you've run out of stuff to go back and re-examine, which is a nice feeling in my opinion. idk i know gently caress all about military stuff, but you seem circumspect and like you've got something to say, so imo do more of it. who knows, someone might find it helpful, too. Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 04:27 on May 14, 2022 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:i like the bedazzle camo I follow a maker from Germany, Taktonik. He makes wonderful upcycled bags and what not. I have...uh, a few of his bags. They are functional art to me, and I get a lot of compliments on them. I had no plans to buy a bag, but that pink digi-dazzle-whatever, was so loud I couldn't help myself. His stuff is about the most 'rich people' things my white trash rear end buys. I don't want to insult his talent- I just grew up in a world where having the disposable income to buy a nice, fun shopping was a luxury. Much less being able to buy a super nice one from an artist.
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There was an example in a course I had to take one time where a guy comes in with a phone a nice guy downtown sold gave him a good deal on and he wants to use it for the duty phone. Seemed a little too far fetched at the time. Not so much anymore.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Nah, it was a EW thing. When it comes to secure comms, you'd probably have to ask This is a good article on it: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russian-comms-ukraine-world-hertz Basically they have a sophisticated "sixth generation" radio system ("Azart") that on paper is widely distributed among their forces, and in practice is almost non-existent. Most likely this is due to embezzlement.
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what they're using...but it sounds like the Russians don't give a gently caress and are just using cell phones and such.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I haven't a clue who that is. You've done a large part of the writing work already. The hardest part is getting the ball rolling and if you go back through your post history and start copy/pasting all your anecdotes into a single file, you've got the basic structure down already. After that its a matter of editing existing content for stuff you don't want to share beyond a bunch of goons and fleshing out the stories that you feel need more context.
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Cross posting from Cold War, but some updated imagery from the bridge crossing is showing more vehicle losses. https://twitter.com/Danspiun/status/1525263859505942528?s=20&t=pcZkAWLPTGDOShl0cLDimA
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Well this is the 2022 Russian Red Army we're talking about, so if they can gently caress up something simple, they totally will gently caress it up. Yeah that sounds right, wild guess but maybe they were ordered to have it way closer to the front than it should be and came under artillery or drone fire and fled, or it got abandoned in an unescorted convoy.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Writing, maybe not (I disagree with it being easy, but that is referring to the birth, not the writing), but I'm a luddite. I prefer pen and paper; I've taken to doing some 'analog e stories' where I've posted pictures of stuff I wrote out long hand. Writing is like suppressing fire. Accuracy helps, but volume is the key, and you have volume. You could hire an editor to take all your forum posts and probably make a decent retrospective already just copy and pasting. Don't sell yourself short. Your writing style is already apparent and you have the ability to articulate ideas in a creative way.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Again, I don't mean to poo poo up the thread- Shut up and write, friend.
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KitConstantine posted:These gentlemen seem...poorly outfitted Watching the 2nd video clip again its interesting that its only the 2 or 3 guys at the very end of the line that appear to be properly equipped - kevlar helmets, AKs, proper webbing. So are these some Russians to act a bit of backbone/blocking force, or just the officers with cherry picked gear for themselves ? Certainly no leading from the front.
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Baconroll posted:Watching the 2nd video clip again its interesting that its only the 2 or 3 guys at the very end of the line that appear to be properly equipped - kevlar helmets, AKs, proper webbing. From what I've seen, these are basically conscripts from Russian controlled areas. In at least 2 reported instances, these guys were 'backed up' by Chechen blocking forces. I have my doubts that their armor has gently caress all in it. You can see in pics of the same unit they are equipped with Soviet Era helmets, magazine pouches, and garbage rods.
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Valtonen posted:Im still sceptical about that container. Like there is no way there Wasnt SOMEONE in charge of it with enough guve-a-fucks to brick the thing (and controls on bricking it) that it wouldve been captured intact. They probably had thermite charges, but whhen the time came, whoops, the thermite charge is empty/made of wood 
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Lead out in cuffs posted:This is a good article on it: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russian-comms-ukraine-world-hertz Russian_arms.txt
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Crini posted:Fresh Ukrainians? What does their manpower reserve look like? going back to this question, the Ukr MoD yesterday said "We are focusing on the need to provide for 1 million people who will be facing the enemy." this is in the context of the supply of equipment, so to me it sounds like he is talking about planning to field 1 million front line troops. https://www.mil.gov.ua/en/news/2022/05/13/address-by-minister-of-defense-of-ukraine-oleksii-reznikov/
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Alan Smithee posted:Sell your words like you sell the bullets in your body This about sums it up. I would buy the book.
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catfry posted:going back to this question, the Ukr MoD yesterday said "We are focusing on the need to provide for 1 million people who will be facing the enemy." This sounds like a call to nations who can't contribute things like nlaws, old t72s to provide a stream of rations and logistical support to facilitate this, professionally it's really interesting to watch a nation go to a full war setting so quickly after an invasion. Sucks that it's actually happening though.
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Quickly in the sense that they had 8 years to prepare for this and they knew it was coming and were preparing the entire time. Still, I get what you mean, even in light of the preparations it's a pretty crazy transformation to actually see now that it's happened. Tbh the scale of change over the 8 years is incredible too. I spent the first few weeks of this just repeatedly telling people 'yeah no you're describing ukraine in 2014 still, ukraine in 2022 is an entirely different beast.' Ironically you can see how Russia was blindsided just by how many people outside of Russia and Ukraine had apparently not really internalized that anything was different in ukraine now vs 8 years ago. Estimates in 2014 were that Ukraine had ~6-8000 combat ready troops. They basically built an entire army from the ground up. If there's one massive lesson from this it's if you're going to invade someone, don't give them 8 years to arm up between phases of the conflict.
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1 million is likely referring to total amount of people able to be conscripted or in reserve force on paper, the amount of people actually being trained is probably more about 100-200k. Russia has around 2 million as a potential reserve force last I checked.
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It does sound extreme but that's on the defense minister He does say it in the context of talking about equipment procurement and using an example about bulletproof vests, so to me at least it sounds like he is saying they are targetting acquiring soldier equipment sufficient for a million people. i don't know if it's expected that a proportion of those vests will go to rear area personnel.
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Considering that this represents a general mobilization for a war of survival, it doesn't sound at all extreme to me.
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catfry posted:It does sound extreme but that's on the defense minister Most of it, since putting million troops to the frontlines without the artillery, IFVs, APCs... to adequately work with them would be useless. What we can see is heavier troop rotation, which is important.
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MonkeyLibFront posted:This sounds like a call to nations who can't contribute things like nlaws, old t72s to provide a stream of rations and logistical support to facilitate this, professionally it's really interesting to watch a nation go to a full war setting so quickly after an invasion. I thought this was why the Burger King gut truck was on the way. I don't care if the picture was old, I still believe  In all seriousness I guess it doesn't make the news but surely there has been humanitarian relief, food and stuff, sent to Ukraine? Unicef pennies just aren't as sexy as Javelins and NLAWs. Maybe I just haven't seen it in the news, thanks algorithm! /s
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ChaseSP posted:1 million is likely referring to total amount of people able to be conscripted or in reserve force on paper, the amount of people actually being trained is probably more about 100-200k. Russia has around 2 million as a potential reserve force last I checked. If this is their active duty troops “fighting” I can’t imagine what Russian reserves will be able to do.
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Crab Dad posted:If this is their active duty troops “fighting” I can’t imagine what Russian reserves will be able to do. A few things they can’t do: feed, arm, or sustain them all 
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GodDAMN https://twitter.com/bergopolis/status/1525510879642460165?t=ufI50lNPkyuLU2U-3jM0uQ&s=19
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:GodDAMN https://twitter.com/AllBadMitch/status/1525540769158807552?t=7PVBxRQj7bmrbuDVkaK7qQ&s=19 Lmao
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:GodDAMN Zelenskyy's looking more and more swole every week. Looking angry brolic. Chickenhawk. "Fuuuuck. One term, that's it." Two, three "Keep the Russians back, that was it." Two, three "gently caress up my hometown. gently caress up my country." Two, three "Alright. I'm ready to "negotiate". YOU! Where's my Javelin?" gently caress messaging, gently caress propaganda, gently caress diplomacy. One-on-one? Vs. any Russian alive? I'd bet on Volodomyr.
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“I don’t need a ride, I need ammo” is going to go down as one of the most  statements from anyone getting invaded.
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Alchenar posted:Every time a Russian attack collapses Zelensky does one pushup I was at a UW home game against Oregon when Huskies were barely functional and Oregon was a national championship contender and Oregon’s Donald Duck mascot would do a push-up for every point they had whenever they scored. Near the end of the game the guy in the suit took a long rest lying facedown.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I was at a UW home game against Oregon when Huskies were barely functional and Oregon was a national championship contender and Oregon’s Donald Duck mascot would do a push-up for every point they had whenever they scored. Near the end of the game the guy in the suit took a long rest lying facedown. Insert gallows humor here.
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ChaseSP posted:1 million is likely referring to total amount of people able to be conscripted or in reserve force on paper, the amount of people actually being trained is probably more about 100-200k. Russia has around 2 million as a potential reserve force last I checked. You're a nation of 44 million fighting against a force whose leadership has outright stated that they don't recognize your right to exist. They've got a long and well-documented history of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. They've committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, in this invasion, against your people, and you have video evidence of the same in 1080p. Given the circumstances and the demography: if he says 1 million, he means 1 million.
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