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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/walter_report/status/1599654381145595904 Well that explains this being reported on atm mlmp08 posted:Breaking my own soft-rule of “No ATACMS chat” but this is actually new reporting. Though I'm pretty sure even the ATACMS doesn't have the range to hit Engels. BadOptics fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Dec 5, 2022 |
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I don't know what it is about "a completely defenseless airfield" that I find so hilarious, but it sure is funny
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Dec 5, 2022 18:06
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/walter_report/status/1599654381145595904 oh no the poor defenseless smol bean nuclear bombers 
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Dec 5, 2022 18:11
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Xakura posted:Quadcopters don't make a noise like this They sure don't, hadn't seen that clip yet. Wonder what it was.
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Dec 5, 2022 18:14
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Loezi posted:I don't know what it is about "a completely defenseless airfield" that I find so hilarious, but it sure is funny Indeed, poor widdle airbase, bristling with innocent strategic bombers that were just minding their own business of lobbing a few hundred cruise missiles. How dare they!?!  
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Dec 5, 2022 18:40
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Power Khan posted:The Gepard got it good. Whatever that was. I need to watch Doctor Sleep
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Dec 5, 2022 18:42
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Indeed, poor widdle airbase, bristling with innocent strategic bombers that were just minding their own business of lobbing a few hundred cruise missiles. How dare they!?! Camping the bombers spawn location.
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The X-man cometh posted:Camping the bombers spawn location. This future war is kinda annoying
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In my Tom Clancy fantasy, the Ukrainians have disguised a HIMARS as a box truck and snuck it across Russian lines to target the Russian strategic bomber fleet.
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psydude posted:In my Tom Clancy fantasy, the Ukrainians have disguised a HIMARS as a box truck and snuck it across Russian lines to target the Russian strategic bomber fleet. At this point, that seems plausible to me.
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psydude posted:In my Tom Clancy fantasy, the Ukrainians have disguised a HIMARS as a box truck and snuck it across Russian lines to target the Russian strategic bomber fleet. In my Dahir Insaat fantasy, Russians are on a lookout for two males on motorbikes, last seen driving a bright red "FRESH FRUITS" truck.
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Loezi posted:In my Dahir Insaat fantasy, Russians are on a lookout for two males on motorbikes, last seen driving a bright red "FRESH FRUITS" truck. fresh fruit in russia? obvious terrorism
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ded posted:fresh fruit in russia? obvious terrorism No, that's Scotland
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I have to say I'm really not too bothered by the idea that your long range bomber fleet that you've been blowing up infrastructure with starts suffering unexplained explosions up to 2 months later due to some kind of long range weapon system. Like what did Russia expect, there are a bunch of countries in Europe with missiles that can do that who likely have feelings about Russia trying to freeze millions of civilians and have weapon systems that could accomplish this.
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Dec 5, 2022 23:38
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Like what did Russia expect, there are a bunch of countries in Europe with missiles that can do that who likely have feelings about Russia trying to freeze millions of civilians and have weapon systems that could accomplish this. They expected everyone to be afraid of their supposed nukes.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:I have to say I'm really not too bothered by the idea that your long range bomber fleet that you've been blowing up infrastructure with starts suffering unexplained explosions up to 2 months later due to some kind of long range weapon system. Like what did Russia expect, there are a bunch of countries in Europe with missiles that can do that who likely have feelings about Russia trying to freeze millions of civilians and have weapon systems that could accomplish this. Yup. Who cares, maybe Russia shouldn't start a war and lose it.
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The strongest hypothesis at the moment is that Ukrainians have cobbled together poor man's cruise missiles by giving 1980s vintage Tu-141 recon drones a guidance upgrade and an explosive payload. I doubt these things exist in vast quantities though, and their payload is probably pretty puny, so for the time being the Crimean and Donbas rear areas remain relatively safe staging areas for the Russian war logistics.
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I can't read a Wikipedia history about old Soviet equipment without hearing it narrated by Peter Ustinov's voice.
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It’s immoral for Ukraine to strike back against these pathetic conscripts, and also to strike into the country doing a fascist genocide against them
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:The strongest hypothesis at the moment is that Ukrainians have cobbled together poor man's cruise missiles by giving 1980s vintage Tu-141 recon drones a guidance upgrade and an explosive payload. How difficult are these things to manufacture? Like, what level of jet technology do they represent? It seems like in some ways they are on the same level as early 60s eras jet fighters.
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Why doesn't Ukraine just hire me to stand near Russian military bases 
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How do we know you haven't been?
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He's still chained to the last open McDonalds
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:The strongest hypothesis at the moment is that Ukrainians have cobbled together poor man's cruise missiles by giving 1980s vintage Tu-141 recon drones a guidance upgrade and an explosive payload. Big ups to the Croatian, Romanian and Hungarian governments for all pretending they didn't see poo poo when one went 180 degrees the wrong way and crashed into a dorm parking lot in Zagreb a few months ago though. No snitches in osteurop.
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i wonder if someone hammered the compass sensor on upside down
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shame on an IGA posted:Big ups to the Croatian, Romanian and Hungarian governments for all pretending they didn't see poo poo when one went 180 degrees the wrong way and crashed into a dorm parking lot in Zagreb a few months ago though. No snitches in osteurop. Holy moly Zagreb? Pretty town. Glad only a parking lot got hit.
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Any excuse to bring up one of the top raids on an airbase of all time, courtesy of platoon of Stuart tanks in North Africa in 1942. Excerpt from Rick Atkinson’s excellent An Army At Dawn.quote:Suffused with cavalry panache, Barlow pressed ahead. His tanks rumbled northeast for seven miles along the left bank of the Medjerda, sheltered by olive groves, to the village of Djedeďda. Behind a ridge a few hundred yards ahead, a German plane lifted into the air, followed by another. Barlow sent forward a platoon under Lieutenant Wilbor H. Hooker while the rest of the company remained secluded in the olive trees.
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What on earth do they mean by squirrel guns?
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citybeatnik posted:What on earth do they mean by squirrel guns? The Stuart tanks used by the US in 1942 was a light tank with a 37mm gun, insufficient firepower against medium or heavy tanks but useful in a scouting or infantry support role, or in this case, shredding densely packed aircraft.
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citybeatnik posted:What on earth do they mean by squirrel guns? Probably the .50 machine guns versus the bigger 37mm main gun. MG's would be enough to pierce the aluminum skin of some Messerschmitts. The line after even talks about them machine gunning aircraft taking off.
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citybeatnik posted:What on earth do they mean by squirrel guns? It's a pejorative term for the Stuart's inadequate 37mm main gun.
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The PzIII (Ausf E) started out with a 37 as well, it wasn't a terribly unheard of armament for the early war. Ofc not really what you'd prefer to be armed with in 1942.
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It’s fine for the role a light tank was supposed to do at the start of the war. Go forward, make contact, withdraw and then send in the Sherman’s. Technology really caught up with the next light tank rocking the 75mm, the M24 Chaffee, but it didn’t hit the battlefield until 1944.
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I can't think of a better gun for shredding parked aircraft than a fast firing tank cannon with canister shot. .50 bmg will do in a pinch as well. Did those Stuarts even have canister?
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A.o.D. posted:I can't think of a better gun for shredding parked aircraft than a fast firing tank cannon with canister shot. .50 bmg will do in a pinch as well. Like many other light anti-tank guns, the M3 was widely used in the infantry support role and as an anti-personnel weapon, firing high-explosive and canister rounds. The M5 and M6 tank mounted variants were used in several models of armored vehicles most notably in the Stuart Light Tank M3/M5, the Lee Medium Tank M3, and Greyhound Light Armored Car M8. In addition, the M3 in its original version was mated to a number of other self-propelled carriages.” So yup it would appear they could. However HE would work just fine for aircraft on the ground.
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Crab Dad posted:“ Yeah, but canister lets you turn the aircraft into confetti AND the ground crews into hamburger in a single shot.
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A.o.D. posted:I can't think of a better gun for shredding parked aircraft than a fast firing tank cannon with canister shot. .50 bmg will do in a pinch as well. Somebody never played Company of Heroes Stuarts with canister was the funniest thing
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Crab Dad posted:“ It's practically the only thing the 37mm HE would be good for.
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Madurai posted:It's practically the only thing the 37mm HE would be good for. Hey now, they make a good replacement for those lil noisemakers you throw at the ground and they pop
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Xakura posted:Somebody never played Company of Heroes Close Combat was my first exposure to such
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