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monkeytennis posted:Jesus that’s depressing. pantslesswithwolves posted:That’s some incredible reporting.
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A.o.D. posted:You probably meant Battery/Company, right? I'm sure they are organized as Batteries. "Firing Platoon" is a term still used by some force design folks and in some cases software to refer to a unit. There are SAM batteries that are "Fire Platoons" depending on the software and verbiage, though they would most commonly be referred to as a battery. When saying "firing platoon" about artillery, SAMs, etc, they're usually referring to the weapon capability/laydown rather than the table of organization and equipment, which has battery/company command teams and authorities. In one of the FA TCs, they have this note: "Note: The terms battery and platoon used throughout this manual are synonymous, unless otherwise stated."
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 00:56 |
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mlmp08 posted:I'm sure they are organized as Batteries. "Firing Platoon" is a term still used by some force design folks and in some cases software to refer to a unit. There are SAM batteries that are "Fire Platoons" depending on the software and verbiage, though they would most commonly be referred to as a battery. When saying "firing platoon" about artillery, SAMs, etc, they're usually referring to the weapon capability/laydown rather than the table of organization and equipment, which has battery/company command teams and authorities. Do you have a reference? The current Army TC on gun batteries makes a distinction between Fire Batteries and Fire platoons. https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/tc3_09x81.pdf I ain't calling you a liar, I just love manuals.
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 01:10 |
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Yes, it's page 29 of the TC in your link.
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 01:11 |
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mlmp08 posted:Yes, it's page 29 of the TC in your link. It sure is.
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mlmp08 posted:Yes, it's page 29 of the TC in your link. Oh snap! ( On mobile, assume proper smile)
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In the spirit of owning the ever loving poo poo out of myself, I even did a ctrl+f of that manual for that entry and didn't spot it.Herstory Begins Now posted:https://readovka.news/news/113764 wait, are they admitting that there's a Lyman cauldron? A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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https://readovka.news/news/113764 look what the russians are reporting, hm
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 01:56 |
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They appear to be reporting in Russian.
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 03:11 |
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Is it that "Our positions and forces around Lyman are at risk of being entirely encircled?"
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yeah. It's a very pro-Russian outlet and they're putting the line farther ahead than ukraine has generally acknowledged it to be currently (which is typical, Ukraine explicitly embargos info for... some number of days and most people reporting on Ukraine wait, too, even if it isn't explicitly asked). it's actually kind of bizarre because whoever made that map for them is putting the encirclement front and center but whoever wrote the accompany 'daily actions' report has an entirely blase tone in comparison.
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Nationalist shithead report: Russian nationalist telegram channels (specifically LNR/DNR officers) are now calling for the use of tactical nuclear weapons, although there is debate and it's not unanimous. These were the guys calling for mobilization 2-3 months ago through September. The fact that mobilization actually occurred after they called for it could be coincidental, so it's uncertain to what degree the thinking of lower officer corps actually reflects the upper echelons of command, but that's the current sentiment. Motivation appears to be continued conventional losses and dim views on the usefulness of mobilized troops. Some calls for nuclear weapons also appear to be coming from civil society, possibly in response to the perceived undesirability of mobilization. (eg win now with nukes, I don't want to freeze to death crossing Dnipro)
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 04:18 |
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Unfortunately the nukes are inevitable now https://twitter.com/drilhistorian/status/1575291883869331458
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Grand Fromage posted:Unfortunately the nukes are inevitable now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nC5TBv3sfU
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Grand Fromage posted:Unfortunately the nukes are inevitable now Oh thank God, FINALLY.
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 10:49 |
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Would the Russians even be able to exploit the hole in the line a tactical nuke would create?
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Chewbacca Defense posted:Would the Russians even be able to exploit the hole in the line a tactical nuke would create? No because any concentrated force behind that hole would probably be vaporized a few minutes later I bet.
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 12:40 |
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Are the Ukrainians even concentrated enough that a tactical nuke would be tactically sound? e: I'm already aware that Russian doctrine calls for using tactical nukes for strategic ends via escalate to de-escalate. But putting that aside for a moment...
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psydude posted:Are the Ukrainians even concentrated enough that a tactical nuke would be tactically sound? I thought that was limited to responding to things like PGM's poking holes in silo doors? e: does anyone have the air force (I think) slide with a tornado chart showing "De-escalatory nuclear strikes" on it? IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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I saw on CNN that Russia is planning on formally annexing 4 occupied regions of Ukraine on Friday. I'm guessing that is for a) a PR stunt to help raise sagging Russian morale, b) to provide a 'legal' justification of resumption of the war in a few years if/when gets fully ejected from Ukrainian territory, and c) block Ukrainian entry into NATO due to the territorial disputes.
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# ? Sep 29, 2022 14:27 |
Always a good song
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Cimber posted:I saw on CNN that Russia is planning on formally annexing 4 occupied regions of Ukraine on Friday. I'm guessing that is for a) a PR stunt to help raise sagging Russian morale, b) to provide a 'legal' justification of resumption of the war in a few years if/when gets fully ejected from Ukrainian territory, and c) block Ukrainian entry into NATO due to the territorial disputes. Don’t forget: legally* they can now deploy conscripts to those areas as well (since they’re now “Russian” territory) *lol
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Cimber posted:I saw on CNN that Russia is planning on formally annexing 4 occupied regions of Ukraine on Friday. I'm guessing that is for a) a PR stunt to help raise sagging Russian morale, b) to provide a 'legal' justification of resumption of the war in a few years if/when gets fully ejected from Ukrainian territory, and c) block Ukrainian entry into NATO due to the territorial disputes. It's so they can claim it's Russian territory to deploy conscripts there and threaten to use nukes to defend it.
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Intro and excerpts as I choose. https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3173997/senior-defense-and-military-officials-hold-a-background-briefing/ Highlights: -Various aid under USAI (this is US funding private industry to build new stuff for Ukraine, it is not immediate, it takes months to years to field). Link to list: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3173378/11-billion-in-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/ -Ukraine continues to take territory east of Oskil River in Kharkiv area. -Russians ceding territory around Lyman -Russia making advances near Bakhmut characterized as "small incremental gains, very similar to how we've seen in Severodonetsk a couple of months ago (inaudible) where the Russians were making progress but at heavy expense." -Ukraine is not advancing around Kherson , holding the gains they made about a month ago. Russia has been able get some reinforcements over the river, toward Ukrainian forces, supporting the Russian defenses around the Dnipro River, but not going on the offense against Ukrainian forces -Kind of waffles on 300,000 conscripts feasibility and timeline. Says It's a harder task than most people realize, but also Russia is a large country with a large population base. Points out the lack of training/logistical support for new conscripts, in any case, and how the last two times Russia mobilized were 1914 and 1941, indicating the effect this war has had on their military and the military needs to achieve their objectives. And weather has been poor around Kherson, so muddy and overcast. -US "hasn't looked at any particular provision of M1 tanks" -Cross-border exchange of fire not witnessed exceeding the level of tactical artillery vs artillery engagements (not long-range fires from Ukraine deep into Russian territory) -US cannot assess how or why NordStream pipeline blew, just that the water in the area is 80-100 metters deepish. Says US was "Absolutely not involved." [The DOD is avoiding doing what various people, from Western pundits, to Ukraine, to twitter "experts" to conspiracy theorists are doing where they look at any boat, plane, helicopter, or birdwatcher who was in the area any time within the last month or so and assuming that existing inside the Baltic is evidence of blowing up a pipeline] quote:SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Good afternoon. Today I'd like to begin by commenting briefly on recent developments including Russia's sham referenda in Ukraine and Russia's ongoing mobilization. Then I'll turn to today's security assistance announcements to give you some additional detail on that.
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Chewbacca Defense posted:Would the Russians even be able to exploit the hole in the line a tactical nuke would create? Lol they don't even have cold weather gear for the upcoming winter let alone CBRN gear that hasn't been rotting in a wooden box outside since 1991.
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If you wanted to actively sabotage Russian military efforts, there not a whole lot you could do that isn't already being done now. The only thing left would be to throw clogs into the machinery in the factories , I guess.
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mlmp08 posted:Intro and excerpts as I choose. 80-100m down is pretty far, even for the technical divers I used to know. It’s still doable by divers, but there would be a lot of moving parts, specialized gear, hell even special gas mixes just to even breathe at that depth as a diver (some version of trimix with almost all of the O2 pulled out would have to be the breathing gas at depth, for how the pressure and biochemistry interact). Quick/dirty of it: oxygen turns toxic at a certain partial pressure, and nitrogen will make you feel drunk. Atmospheric air won’t be toxic (for the O2 content) until ~190ft, but the N2 will probably get you hammered long before then. First solution: heliox. Helium/oxygen blend. Probably hilarious to listen to on comms, but the lack of N also became a problem for reasons that I think are still under investigation (something to do with cellular signaling; heliox was rumored to cause tremors). (The O2 pathways involved are also still under investigation for the why, but we’re pretty sure about the combo and concentration that makes it toxic, and the point at which that happens) Second solution: heliox + a touch of nitrogen, aka trimix. Expensive (local dive shop used to charge like $40 per tank), but it works. Using this on a rebreather can take you as far down as you’d need to go, as long as you don’t go too deep for the O2 content to catch up to you and give you a seizure. At 100m down, you’d have to breathe gas that was ~12% O2 to avoid seizure onset from O2 exposure (if I did the math right). You’d also have to have some sort of decompression chamber available, because they can’t go to the surface and decompress (that gets you spotted), but I’m pretty sure there’s a Russian sub add-on for dudes to do exactly this as the sub is bugging out. The SEALs have this kind of bolt-on chamber, at least. I think it’s a modified submarine escape system (since that’s technically what they’re doing ), it’s a lockout trunk. SEAL version: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-navy-seals-swim-out-of-a-submarine-2017-12?amp I assume the Soviets had some equivalent to this, and that the Russians have one as well. The ocean gives no fucks about those on it or in it though, it had to have been maintained to stay functional. Aside: the current (known) record for a rebreather dive is ~290m. https://blackwatertek.com/deep-ccr-world-record/
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So those numbers change if you don't give a poo poo about the welfare and survival of your divers?
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A.o.D. posted:If you wanted to actively sabotage Russian military efforts, there not a whole lot you could do that isn't already being done now. The only thing left would be to throw clogs into the machinery in the factories , I guess. You'd need a team of Dutch commandos to pull this off.
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A.o.D. posted:So those numbers change if you don't give a poo poo about the welfare and survival of your divers? The O2 toxicity doesn’t, everything else probably would though e: Diver’s Alert Network published tables for O2 exposure a while back, but the civilian training agencies tightened up a little further on those. For PADI at least, they planted a “go past this and you’re loving dead” flag at the exposure limit where you’d have ~45min (according to DAN).
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Clearly some dude felt like a bit of extreme freediving and leaving his mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2pBpQolKE
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I didn't do it, but if I was going to do it I wouldn't dive to do it.
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It was most likely a underwater drone or ROV of some sort.
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Has anyone brought up the possibility of russias secret dolphin strike squad?
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Defenestrategy posted:Has anyone brought up the possibility of russias secret dolphin strike squad? Well, now I am.
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Instead of another edit, it’s a Diver’s Alert Network article. https://dan.org/health-medicine/health-resources/diseases-conditions/oxygen-toxicity/ The way you calculate the threshold is (%O2 in your breathing gas)(depth in absolute atmospheres) = partial pressure (typically should be less than 1.4) For normal atmospheric gas at sea level, this would look like (0.21)(1.0)=0.21 (no surprise here). 100m is ~330ft, and we can’t forget about the atmospheric pressure already present at sea level (so add another atmo for that). A depth of 33ft is equivalent to one atmospheric pressure, so there’s a handy conversion. (Metric makes this easier, as you add another atmo for every 10m of depth and can just play with moving decimals from there on out). (Unknown O2 %)(110 atmo) = 1.3 (exposure limit used by USN for rebreather divers) 1.3/110 = 11.8% O2 for their gas at working depth. Physics bows before nobody, even less-so when it’s dive physics. Even if the Russians tried to force the dive on a gas mix not suited for the depth, the divers would probably have seizures and be dead before they even reached the target depth. Whether or not they could lock back in after finishing their mission, who knows…but that’s the constraints they’d be forced to operate under while trying to do that type of dive.
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Defenestrategy posted:Has anyone brought up the possibility of russias secret dolphin strike squad? No because the allies have attack dolphins. The Russians have mind controlled giant squid.
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Icon Of Sin posted:The O2 toxicity doesn’t, everything else probably would though bends is not real comrade, is western sissy invention. strong russian patriot does not need decompression chamber
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Icon Of Sin posted:[smart dive stuff] I thought that those decompression chambers were just for sustained dives. If you only need to be down there for 15min with a trimix rebreather, would you need to decompress more than you can achieve with a slow ascent?
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M_Gargantua posted:I thought that those decompression chambers were just for sustained dives. If you only need to be down there for 15min with a trimix rebreather, would you need to decompress more than you can achieve with a slow ascent? Oooooh yeah. A multi hour deep dive might last many hours but only have like 90 seconds at max depth. You might stop at a depth and stay there for hours on the ascent.
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