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Crab Dad posted:Paint a Okinawan taxi on the side of a Russian tank and the marines will hit it every time. that's hand to hand combat
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Crab Dad posted:Paint a Okinawan taxi on the side of a Russian tank and the marines will hit it every time. We're talking about javelin accuracy, not M113 obstacle courses.
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https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1546605456889679884 https://twitter.com/IntelArrow/status/1546882181053693954 Uragan and Grad rockets are now decoy rounds too.
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golden bubble posted:Uragan and Grad rockets are now decoy rounds too. For more context - they're launching Grad salvos at the same time as HIMARS salvos to distract the Russian CRAMs and mask the HIMARS rounds. loving brilliant.
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And if those make it through too, bonus hits on something!
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I haven't looked into anything Ukraine related in a while. Can someone give me a summary of the current situation?
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Mr. Nice! posted:I haven't looked into anything Ukraine related in a while. Can someone give me a summary of the current situation? Warcrimes, offensives more or less ground to a halt, most of the Donbass is in Russian hands but strong evidence of Ukraine counterattack coming up, HIMARS is currently annihilating all of Russia's munitions, other nations standing ready to kick off if things go sideways, I'm sure there's more but that's probably the bulk of it
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Mr. Nice! posted:I haven't looked into anything Ukraine related in a while. Can someone give me a summary of the current situation? HIMARS go brr.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I haven't looked into anything Ukraine related in a while. Can someone give me a summary of the current situation? Most of Luhansk and half of Donetsk are under Russian control. There's a de-facto operational pause for Russia as they consolidate to attack in the area of Slovyansk following Ukrainian withdrawal from a salient west of Severdonetsk. Other areas of the line have been largely static. There's been some partisan activity/assassinations in Kherson as Russia moves to take the area under it's administration. HIMARS is doing a good job of disrupting Russian command and logistics nodes. Russia is down to recruiting old men and prisoners for now. Ukraine has about 1m under arms but the proportion who are well trained professionals has suffered under grueling attrition since May. Current big questions are being asked about sustainment for both sides.
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This is what happens when Adobe revokes all of your pirated copies and you use MS paint to try and edit photos. https://twitter.com/killedinukraine/status/1547280709018173442?s=21&t=OMooCGcsXBqlmihvJWAkbQ Although I potentially have some sympathy if this person was just some rural bumpkin chosen for no reason besides being an ethnic minority and thus not needing to use “Russian people.” Granted m being an officer potentially removes all of that.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Although I potentially have some sympathy if this person was just some rural bumpkin chosen for no reason besides being an ethnic minority and thus not needing to use “Russian people.” My sole personal interaction with the Russian military was when Varyag made a port call in SF, but a large proportion of the crew looked extremely Asian. I'm guessing that military service is an attractive option for folks east of the Urals.
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Madurai posted:My sole personal interaction with the Russian military was when Varyag made a port call in SF, but a large proportion of the crew looked extremely Asian. I'm guessing that military service is an attractive option for folks east of the Urals. Yeah I’ve seen videos of what it’s like out there and considering how isolated it is to begin with and probably even more so with current news and how long it takes to travel, that it could be a really attractive thing for a lot of people who are ethnic minorities and live in the Far East. Granted I’m not sure how many people would find being an ethnic minority in the Russian military a terribly good or safe thing. I wasn’t gonna post anymore dead Russian officers for the day, but this is just way too silly not to post. https://twitter.com/killedinukraine/status/1547295018632757256?s=21&t=4mKc2FzwSnsOAUew0r45Hw
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Hasn't it been discussed a bunch in these threads about how much of their army is made up of ethnic minorities? I thought that was extremely common knowledge at this point...
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psydude posted:For more context - they're launching Grad salvos at the same time as HIMARS salvos to distract the Russian CRAMs and mask the HIMARS rounds. loving brilliant. Holy crap. I wondered what the other stuff impacting was. That's naaasty
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psydude posted:For more context - they're launching Grad salvos at the same time as HIMARS salvos to distract the Russian CRAMs and mask the HIMARS rounds. loving brilliant. that's pretty cool
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Hasn't it been discussed a bunch in these threads about how much of their army is made up of ethnic minorities? I thought that was extremely common knowledge at this point... I think the fact he's an officer was the anomaly.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Yeah I’ve seen videos of what it’s like out there and considering how isolated it is to begin with and probably even more so with current news and how long it takes to travel, that it could be a really attractive thing for a lot of people who are ethnic minorities and live in the Far East. Granted I’m not sure how many people would find being an ethnic minority in the Russian military a terribly good or safe thing. Ukrainian Geno Silva: *shoots Russian Scarface in the back with a shotgun*
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The age old problem of heating meals in the field has a new Russian solution  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJQvs182V5k
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Uhh, I suppose that's one way of heating a meal rapidly
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Uhh, I suppose that's one way of heating a meal rapidly They wouldn’t be yelling “FIRE!” all the time if it wasn’t wasn’t hot 
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https://twitter.com/cjdrew94/status/1546252643898630144?s=21&t=MQ3MAjbD5Zj9Hr8_u4mwg Sometimes dick waving can be funny
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/cjdrew94/status/1546252643898630144?s=21&t=MQ3MAjbD5Zj9Hr8_u4mwg I hate it
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I mean that’s literally what the song is about.
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FrozenVent posted:I mean that’s literally what the song is about. Yeah in the video editing and synchronization is spot on. I also absolutely love the finish of the video.
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Baconroll posted:The age old problem of heating meals in the field has a new Russian solution That bread doesn’t freshly bake itself.
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Woodchip posted:That bread doesn’t freshly bake itself. I know he’s not a sailor, but for some reason that random dialogue bark from deus ex popped into my mind of, “I spilled my drink” when I see that dude.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I did not invade Ukraine I did not! Oh HIMARS. lmao holy poo poo
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FrozenVent posted:I mean that’s literally what the song is about. "The Star Spangled Banner" is about a defense holding despite a devastating artillery barrage. It's as topical as you could possibly get.
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Uncle Enzo posted:"The Star Spangled Banner" is about a defense holding despite a devastating artillery barrage. It's as topical as you could possibly get. The whole rockets thing. Although, I suspect a Ukrainian soldier would laugh at seeing Congreve rockets' effects.
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Uncle Enzo posted:"The Star Spangled Banner" is about a defense holding despite a devastating artillery barrage. It's as topical as you could possibly get. Well, except the parts about putting the slaves in their place.
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A.o.D. posted:Well, except the parts about putting the slaves in their place. Which doesn't exist.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Which doesn't exist. code:
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A.o.D. posted:
Which is in the context of fighting the British most likely referred to mercenaries and subjects of the British monarchy. It's juxtaposed with "land of the free and home of the brave" - Americans are free citizens of a republic, Britons are subjects of a king. Also likely intertextuality with quote:The nations, not so blest as thee,
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Pointless fact about Francis Scott Key, one of his nephews was killed by famous, well infamous, union general Dan THE MAN Sickles, because The nephew was banging sickles wife. Sickles on his own was banging other people too… because of course he was.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Which is in the context of fighting the British most likely referred to mercenaries and subjects of the British monarchy. It's juxtaposed with "land of the free and home of the brave" - Americans are free citizens of a republic, Britons are subjects of a king. Also likely intertextuality with Francis Scott Key, Brother in law of Roger Taney, and a slave owner, was almost certainly referring to freedmen and slaves who had sided with the British in order to earn their freedom. There is some scholarly debate due to the archaic nature of the verse, but it's almost certainly about putting slaves in their place.
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Madurai posted:My sole personal interaction with the Russian military was when Varyag made a port call in SF, but a large proportion of the crew looked extremely Asian. I'm guessing that military service is an attractive option for folks east of the Urals. Yeah IIRC from various of the threads it's more that members of ethnic minorities come from parts of Russia that are way poorer, so they're less able to bribe their way out conscription. And then it's one of the few ways to make money, so a bunch sign contracts. I believe there was also some stuff around the Russians deliberately selecting units from poorer (read: ethnic minority) parts of the country to bear the brunt of the fighting.
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They sent their entire military in, there's no units being held back on ethnic grounds. As you said there's just a massive gulf between how attractive 20 or 30k rubles army pay per month look to someone in the sticks in Buryatia or someone from Moscow or Piter, but those regions generally also are majority ethnic Russian.
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