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Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Here are the prices.



❗️You have a chance to kill orcs with your text on 152mm artillery shell that will be fired at Russian soldiers❗️
You will receive a photo with your signed shell

🪖All donations will be spent on equipment for our soldiers 🇺🇦

💰Donation - 100$* or more

*Increased from 40 to 100 because of too many orders and shell amount decreases

If you have problems with using telegram you can contact me
sokolenko372094@gmail.com

Soldiers will write your text with indelible marker on the whole side of 152 mm shell
And then fire at Russians
(2 week queue)

You can ask to write any text:
— wish someone a happy birthday/death in pain
— propose marriage
— greetings to Putin`s mom
— instagram

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Somebody fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jul 3, 2022

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
They could double their shell count just by rotating the shell to a blank face.

Honestly if they aren't putting 2-4 messages on each shell, then I don't know how Ukraine is ranked so high in corruption.

E: will they draw a rough goatse on the shell?

CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jul 1, 2022

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014
Like...how legit is that actually. How do we know its not some dude with a dry erase marker in Brazil taking pictures of military surplus?

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Cimber posted:

Like...how legit is that actually. How do we know its not some dude with a dry erase marker in Brazil taking pictures of military surplus?

I’ve seen some dude very happy with the picture he got for his wedding and others who have gotten seems indicate there isn’t anything weird or fishy about it….well the ordering and it being in Ukraine. but ymmv.

Jasper Tin Neck
Nov 14, 2008


"Scientifically proven, rich and creamy."

The Imp of Nipples posted:

There's something oddly sad about sending in an undermanned T-62M.

Things are going so well for Russia they're getting ready to break open storage reserved for WWIII.

Kommersant posted:

The Russian government has drafted a law on ensuring the operations of Russian troops abroad. The executive branch wants to receive special powers for the period of operations, including the reactivation of mobilization capacities and the establishment of working conditions at individual industries "outside the established working hours." Companies will be prohibited from refusing to conclude state contracts for the supply of goods and services.
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What powers does the government want?

  • holding events (without specifying any details);
  • temporary reactivation of mobilization capacities and facilities;
  • unbooking of material assets of the state reserve;
  • establishing the specifics of the legal regulation of labor relations in individual organizations, including “the procedure and conditions for engaging in work outside the established working hours, at night, on weekends and non-working holidays, providing annual paid holidays”;
  • procurement from a single supplier to fulfill the state defense order and to form stocks.

In clear English, things are going so badly, the Kremlin has to declare martial law and transition to a war economy (without declaring war) to keep going.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5436790 (in Russian but autotranslates reasonably well)

RoyKeen
Jul 24, 2007

Grimey Drawer

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Things are going so well for Russia they're getting ready to break open storage reserved for WWIII.

In clear English, things are going so badly, the Kremlin has to declare martial law and transition to a war economy (without declaring war) to keep going.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5436790 (in Russian but autotranslates reasonably well)

They better not loving hold events (without specifying any details).

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Things are going so well for Russia they're getting ready to break open storage reserved for WWIII.

In clear English, things are going so badly, the Kremlin has to declare martial law and transition to a war economy (without declaring war) to keep going.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5436790 (in Russian but autotranslates reasonably well)

I wouldn't read that as entirely 'things are going so badly' so much as it's very bad news in that Russia continues to escalate their commitment and mobilization and is doing more of the stuff necessary to be able to keep fighting longer. Which is bad for everyone involved. Ironically all the footage of Russian materiel getting wrecked and girkin yelling about incompetent russian military leadership and pictures of dpr militia with world war 2 gear was in no small part intended to get Russian leadership to commit significantly more resources to the war... which they now have. It's also not a great sign if Russia's hawks are the ones setting the course.

anyways that's not to say russia isn't getting a ton of their poo poo wrecked, but it does mean that this is almost definitely going to go on considerably longer, barring something extreme

Cimber posted:

Like...how legit is that actually. How do we know its not some dude with a dry erase marker in Brazil taking pictures of military surplus?

like zero percent. if anyone wants their money to do anything useful, I would not suggest sending it to random telegram accounts

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010
I expect that all of that regulation really comes down to one bullet:

quote:

procurement from a single supplier to fulfill the state defense order and to form stocks.

Unlimited graft for the people with the ability to exercise this clause. The part about making people work 24/7 is ripe for graft. "Unbooking state reserve assets" is also probably graft.

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014
I wonder if they are also going to rename this as the 'great patriotic limited military operation' too.

SerthVarnee
Mar 13, 2011

It has been two zero days since last incident.
Big Super Slapstick Hunk
Great Patriotic Police Action. Should get the republicans to vote for shipments of weapons to go to Russia. Back the blue and all that.

Wrong Theory
Aug 27, 2005

Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code

bees everywhere posted:

I always thought it was interesting that our battle drill for reacting to artillery fire was to hit the deck, then pick a direction and run for your lives, whereas for 107mm rockets my battle drill was to roll out of bed and go back to sleep on the floor. (at least before they started using willy pete)

When was the last time we were in a conventional artillery fight? Vietnam? Maybe there has been some small-scale stuff here and there but I'm not sure if that was a big thing in Iraq.

I admit it wasn't artillery, but in '06 Afghanistan we took indirect rockets every day during the summer. I think end count for the deployment was over 350. The taliban would prop up a couple rockets on like a rock or something like a bush and set up a timer. It was wildly inaccurate but every once in a while the FOB would get hit! Mostly just hit dirt thankfully. They did hit some kids in the local bazaar once though. The taliban would sometimes blackmail (ie do this or we will kill your family) the locals to set up the rockets, one guy admitted it to us. He just said he aimed off to the side so as to not hit anything. I guess the taliban can't fault him for being incompetent. We didn't even arrest the guy, just a lovely situation. We had two 105mm Howitzers that would shoot counter battery (is that the term?) but it wasn't really a conventional arty fight I guess.

I saw the boosters go off once on a patrol and we rushed over there and found some charred bushes that were the launch site. Had a clear view of the FOB. From what I remember if you hear a whistle overhead you are probably safe, if you hear what sounds like a jumbo jet coming for you get in the bunkers. After a couple months everyone just stops giving a poo poo though.

I have taken mortars and that was loving scary. The team would shoot a couple rounds with maybe 1 correction and then move and do it again. Their first shots were usually past us and if they would have stayed and corrected more they could have really hurt us. They did that for hours until we got an apache on station. I think one of our mortar guys got knocked on his rear end from a blast but was fine.

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

joat mon posted:

High above the alleys of Manhattan, a Nestle executive begins to get an erection.
A thousand kilometers to the south, William Gibson frowns at his sudden indigestion.
For this fraction of a moment, the balance remains.

Beautifully said, but fwiw dude lives in Vancouver BC 3000 miles west

joat mon
Oct 15, 2009

I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

Kesper North posted:

Beautifully said, but fwiw dude lives in Vancouver BC 3000 miles west

BC fits my head canon better. I scanned wikipedia too fast, and misread his birthplace as his current place.

Jimmy Smuts
Aug 8, 2000

Wrong Theory posted:

interesting stuff
Now I wish I knew what type of guns the battery on my FOB used, for reference. Boomtown, FOB Joyce. Loud as poo poo, but you learned to sleep through the noise. Especially because it means less mortar fire.

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

joat mon posted:

BC fits my head canon better. I scanned wikipedia too fast, and misread his birthplace as his current place.

Yeah he left the US when it was fashionable during the Vietnam War. You might say he "peaced out" :dadjoke:

Jarmak
Jan 24, 2005

Wrong Theory posted:

I admit it wasn't artillery, but in '06 Afghanistan we took indirect rockets every day during the summer. I think end count for the deployment was over 350. The taliban would prop up a couple rockets on like a rock or something like a bush and set up a timer. It was wildly inaccurate but every once in a while the FOB would get hit! Mostly just hit dirt thankfully. They did hit some kids in the local bazaar once though. The taliban would sometimes blackmail (ie do this or we will kill your family) the locals to set up the rockets, one guy admitted it to us. He just said he aimed off to the side so as to not hit anything. I guess the taliban can't fault him for being incompetent. We didn't even arrest the guy, just a lovely situation. We had two 105mm Howitzers that would shoot counter battery (is that the term?) but it wasn't really a conventional arty fight I guess.

I saw the boosters go off once on a patrol and we rushed over there and found some charred bushes that were the launch site. Had a clear view of the FOB. From what I remember if you hear a whistle overhead you are probably safe, if you hear what sounds like a jumbo jet coming for you get in the bunkers. After a couple months everyone just stops giving a poo poo though.

I have taken mortars and that was loving scary. The team would shoot a couple rounds with maybe 1 correction and then move and do it again. Their first shots were usually past us and if they would have stayed and corrected more they could have really hurt us. They did that for hours until we got an apache on station. I think one of our mortar guys got knocked on his rear end from a blast but was fine.

Had a similar experience but we had one crazy month in the summer where they had a specialist operating in the area and suddenly the hit rate went up to 60-80%. We took 112 107s in the month of July on our ~100m x 100m COP. Blew up our fuel point, a couple of our trucks, mass cal from hitting an occupied idf bunker, just every day multiple times a day.

The whole time we kept hearing chatter about "the rocketman" over LLVI.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
A thing in Iraq while I was there was Iraqis freezing mortars in coffee cans, dropping them in the tube and leaving before the ice block melted.

Not great for accuracy but they always got away.

Jasper Tin Neck
Nov 14, 2008


"Scientifically proven, rich and creamy."

That one airport is on fire again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1543225405741711362

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
watch luka join a fuckin war finally push the country into the cool zone

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1543278082227933187

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CMYK BLYAT! posted:

watch luka join a fuckin war finally push the country into the cool zone

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1543278082227933187

Watch the Belarusian army’s first action be to kill Luka.

Also the whole syncing the action up to Rammstein songs is kind of a thing.

https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1543286490725228545?s=21&t=MbsH0SyiahzVOGEkgFamWQ

Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jul 2, 2022

Jasper Tin Neck
Nov 14, 2008


"Scientifically proven, rich and creamy."

Marshal Prolapse posted:

Also the whole syncing the action up to Rammstein songs is kind of a thing.

I wondered for a second whether I was having a stroke, but no, there's apparently a cover of Sonne in Russian. Its oddly appropriate though:

Wikipedia posted:

According to Till Lindemann, the song was originally written as an entrance song for the boxer Vitali Klitschko, whose surname was also the working title of the song.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

I wondered for a second whether I was having a stroke, but no, there's apparently a cover of Sonne in Russian. Its oddly appropriate though:

Huh I never ever knew that. That’s actually pretty awesome and explains a lot. This explains why I also heard it used, when I suspect an Orlan, was yeeted out of existence by a Buk. Funny enough it was also really well done and synced up to the action.

I thought it was just to tee off the Russians by having a German language song play as their stuff gets clapped.

I like that type of 4D Strip Poker Warp Mindfuckery.

HolHorsejob
Mar 14, 2020

Portrait of Cheems II of Spain by Jabona Neftman, olo pint on fird

Marshal Prolapse posted:

Here are the prices.



❗️You have a chance to kill orcs with your text on 152mm artillery shell that will be fired at Russian soldiers❗️
You will receive a photo with your signed shell

🪖All donations will be spent on equipment for our soldiers 🇺🇦

💰Donation - 100$* or more

*Increased from 40 to 100 because of too many orders and shell amount decreases

If you have problems with using telegram you can contact me
sokolenko372094@gmail.com

Soldiers will write your text with indelible marker on the whole side of 152 mm shell
And then fire at Russians
(2 week queue)

You can ask to write any text:
— wish someone a happy birthday/death in pain
— propose marriage
— greetings to Putin`s mom
— instagram

Make a donation - send a screenshot to @artillery_text - send your text

Paypal
sokolenko372094@gmail.com
Revolut https://revolut.me/heorhirp2d
VENMO https://account.venmo.com/u/Chris-Munden-5

🇺🇦МОНОБАНК 5375414123327370
Соколенко

Any goons done this and can verify?

Steezo
Jun 16, 2003
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!


Jimmy Smuts posted:

Anybody here been under artillery attack? I've heard it sucks exponentially more than mortar attacks, which I and many others here are familiar with. And this is what's being lobbed against both sides in this stupid war.
What is it like?
I imagine this question would mainly cover 2003 Iraq invasion vets.
edit: I've only experienced mortar attacks

I'm tired as poo poo and will need a reminder later. OIF 1 vet, first registered hit went to my battery. Been on both ends. It sucks and is why I hate the 4th of July or summer in any state that allows, note I say allows, not legalizes, fireworks. I'll get some actual sleep later.

Hope this helps answer the question that I can't seem to remember as I write as it's about 4:30 AM and I've been up for a while.


There is a certain feeling when you, or your #1 man pulls the lanyard, and I don't mean the freedom boner from shooting a big gun. I mean the pressure wave of the powder charge lighting as the tiny piece of superheated coat hanger wire like metal from the primer goes through all the bags and lights them off, throwing a minimum of 92.5 lbs of steel with 25lbs of comp B, TNT or RDX filler(bursting, HE) or other kinder eggs for assholes goodies in them (base ejecting, Illum, 88 bouncing betties, or 64 betties and 24 anti armor spikes, etc..etc...) to the other side.

After a while you feel that pressure wave when something that seems like it should be a lanyard pull happens. Its loving annoying and I loving hate it.

The Army thought I was crazy because I was in the Marines, and the Marines thought I was crazy because all Marines is crazy.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Jimmy Smuts posted:

Anybody here been under artillery attack? I've heard it sucks exponentially more than mortar attacks, which I and many others here are familiar with. And this is what's being lobbed against both sides in this stupid war.
What is it like?
I imagine this question would mainly cover 2003 Iraq invasion vets.
edit: I've only experienced mortar attacks

We took a ton of rocket attacks in Afghanistan, probably 107mm? These were never that accurate when used as intended (in a tow-behind array of 12, I think you could expect a single rocket to land in something about the size of a football field), and even less so when you break the array down and shoot off each tube individually with cobbled-together fuses.

Still, we had someone manage to bracket our brigade headquarters with the drat things. We were in a valley and the assholes figured out that they could shoot into it easier down the long axis than anywhere else, and some guy landed 2 shots on the fob. Looking down the valley from the opening (the base entrance) the shots were far/left and close/right, and the second one was wayyyyy closer to our brigade HQ than the first.

Idk if he was that lucky, that good (and ran out of shots), or some combo of both…but if one of those had hit home, it would’ve been little consolation either way.

Also had a guy land a bullseye with a recoiless rifle from ~2km. Too bad he only shot out the tire of a Gator 4x4 :laffo:

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

107mm rockets sounded like God damned banshees.

Jimmy Smuts
Aug 8, 2000

Icon Of Sin posted:

Also had a guy land a bullseye with a recoiless rifle from ~2km. Too bad he only shot out the tire of a Gator 4x4 :laffo:
:stonklol:
Wtf happened there?

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Jimmy Smuts posted:

:stonklol:
Wtf happened there?

Dude was just eyeballing it from afar, figured his angle was about right, and took his shot. He landed a few rounds on the fob, left 2 small craters and took out a tire on that Gator. He didn’t do them all at once (span of a few days, iirc), and he may have shot more rounds that were just short and he somehow kept his angle in mind, but drat if he didn’t pull it off somehow.

I want to say an A-10 caught up with him, but that may just be conflating some memories. We had them firing almost directly overhead from us, and could hear the secondary explosions from the rounds impacting, so the insurgents weren’t exactly far away from us :v:

This was Panjwai province, late 2011. Rumored birthplace of the Taliban, and same province where SSG Bales went on his rampage (but that came a few months later, about a month before I left).

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY AS IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT!

Icon Of Sin posted:

about a month before I left).

Curious what the official response was in the AO. Lockdowns?

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



GD_American posted:

Curious what the official response was in the AO. Lockdowns?

I don’t really remember. Probably the initial investigation, if anything. I had moved to KAF by then, and this was around the time someone tried to murder one of my soldiers in retaliation for testifying at the court martial that resulted from Danny Chen’s suicide, plus the impending redeployment, plus all the stress from my actual job as a medical liaison where my brigade was trying to kneecap the position I had fallen into…that part of my time there is a mess.

Things were probably spicier further west at my former fob (Masum Ghar), or whatever other fob we had even further west out in the Horn of Panjwai whose name now escapes me.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
gently caress me it's weird to know Danny Chen committed suicide while I was there and I had no loving idea.

And his unit sounds like half the units I know, in terms of occasional, fun, racist nicknames, like my Vietnamese squad leader, who had a morale nametag of his "infantry name."

LingLing.

:negative:

Eason the Fifth
Apr 9, 2020
Lol i remember some sergeant yelling at my (Vietnamese) A-gunner asking why he couldnt hit anything and my a-gunner saying it was because of his slanted eyes, he couldnt see poo poo

Obviously racism bad, etc but in the initmate context of the gunline and among friends and fellow marines, the most incredible lol

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Eason the Fifth posted:

Lol i remember some sergeant yelling at my (Vietnamese) A-gunner asking why he couldnt hit anything and my a-gunner saying it was because of his slanted eyes, he couldnt see poo poo

Obviously racism bad, etc but in the initmate context of the gunline and among friends and fellow marines, the most incredible lol

It’s such a weird line, but it’s absolutely true and not just in military unit stuff. I mean as you said racism bad, but when you have the type of people you can joke around like that back-and-forth and everyone’s cool with it, it’s probably oddly reassuring that they have your back.

Ajaxify
May 6, 2009
"Russian factories refusing to repair military equipment damaged in Ukraine - intel" https://www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubric-ato/3520928-russian-factories-refusing-to-repair-military-equipment-damaged-in-ukraine-intel.html

Source is Ukrainian Intelligence so take it with a grain of salt, but it seems to track.

Or should I say detrack? On account of the tanks blowing up.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


https://m.glavcom.ua/news/rosiyske-sudno-akula-zatonulo-poblizu-mariupolya-857776.html

Apparently the Russians sank one of their own ships with their own mines.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Kith posted:

https://m.glavcom.ua/news/rosiyske-sudno-akula-zatonulo-poblizu-mariupolya-857776.html

Apparently the Russians sank one of their own ships with their own mines.

God bless

RoyKeen
Jul 24, 2007

Grimey Drawer

Kith posted:

https://m.glavcom.ua/news/rosiyske-sudno-akula-zatonulo-poblizu-mariupolya-857776.html

Apparently the Russians sank one of their own ships with their own mines.

I hope that ship was named after a doctor.
(Please tell me some one gets this)

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

If anyone was wondering where cspam was on the Ukraine war currently, they seem to have circled in on "Marjorie Taylor Green has the most intelligent response to the situation".

TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

If anyone was wondering where cspam was on the Ukraine war currently, they seem to have circled in on "Marjorie Taylor Green has the most intelligent response to the situation".

lol people are loving stupid

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Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

I'd rather set myself on fire than read cspam to be honest.

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