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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Lostconfused posted:For Russia it has to be Borodino. If only Napoleon had sent in the Guard 
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Dec 28, 2022 00:24
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mlmp08 posted:In any case, Excalibur is making up less than 1.4% of contracted US artillery round purchases over the next several years. Most of the rest is unguided artillery. One point I see several of the Russian telegram bloggers making is that there was a company that had developed similar guided fuse kits with GLONASS guidance for 152mm shells in 2011, but it was allegedly driven into bankruptcy by corruption.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:25
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Lostconfused posted:For Russia it has to be Borodino. im borodino as gently caress, get on with it already!
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Dec 28, 2022 00:26
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Lostconfused posted:(from t.me/voenacher/36670, via tgsa) So many wars have been won and lost on the back of infantry small arms like .... and .... Yes I realise it's meant to be indicative of them generally taking this whole war business more seriously now
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Dec 28, 2022 00:26
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I mean it's also the russian airforce, they're more likely to run into a Ukrainian UAV than anything else.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:29
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The Chinese are investing a lot of money into infantry research, especially those dope exoskeletons.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:30
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Cpt_Obvious posted:The Chinese are investing a lot of money into infantry research, especially those dope exoskeletons. yeah but they actually have capacity to manufacture things. you can’t manufacture dope exoskeletons with medical debt and finance grift
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Dec 28, 2022 00:34
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Endman posted:I come from the very normal country of Australia where we can't stop wanking off about Gallipoli, a battle mostly fought by the English, Canadians, Indians and French where we all got merrily slaughtered by the Ottomans! I'm not Australian, but had to learn about William "Uncle Bill" Slim and his exploits. They tended not to mention that he was later accused by multiple children of molesting them after he retired and became a patron of a school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Slim,_1st_Viscount_Slim#Allegations lobotomy molo posted:yeah but they actually have capacity to manufacture things. Is this the "America doesn't even make anything anymore" canard? mlmp08 has issued a correction as of 00:41 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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Dec 28, 2022 00:37
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Springer has some very good titles, on for example Military Geography, but their analysis of Geopolitics is, charitably, dubious. For example, take NATO’s Expansion After the Cold War: Geopolitics and Impacts for International Security Publisher's Description posted:Offers an in-depth case study NATO’s expansion into the post-Soviet space Reality posted:The central concept of this book is a word which is composed of 9 letters: "expansion." This word will be used strictly without any political or ideological connotations. It will be used here in all its variants regardless of the state which expands and also regardless of the direction of its expansion and the arguments used for its justification. This approach is deduced from the natural sciences. First, mathematics, the "Queen of all sciences," has the following definition: (a + b)^2 is the basic formula, while a^2 + 2ab + b^2 is the expanded formula. Second, in physics, the word "expansion" is used to describe an increase in the volume of working fluid. Lastly, in geography, expansion means that a country enlarges its frontiers or its dominant influence in the world. In other words, the term "expansion" will be used without any pejorative or normative context or meaning.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:40
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mlmp08 posted:I'm not Australian, but had to learn about William "Uncle Bill" Slim and his exploits. They tended not to mention that he was later accused by multiple children of molesting them after he retired and became a patron of a school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Slim,_1st_Viscount_Slim#Allegations It's honestly a lot harder to figure out which of the guys who wielded power in the British Empire weren't pedos
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Dec 28, 2022 00:41
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Endman posted:It's honestly a lot harder to figure out which of the guys who wielded power in the British Empire weren't pedos The repressed homosexual psycho Anglicans like James Brooke and Charles Gordon who devoted all of their energy into loving Queen Victoria.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:43
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Cpt_Obvious posted:The Chinese are investing a lot of money into infantry research, especially those dope exoskeletons. Infantry small arms and other equipment is basically irrelevant in a combat sense (morale/psychology is a different matter). In a big boy shooting war their job is to occupy fortifications and act as submachinegunners for close assaults, that's all they're good for. You could quite literally equip any given modern army with m1 garands instead of whatever assault rifle they have and it would change nearly nothing because all the killing is done by crew served weapons, tanks and aircraft and all the other mechanized stuff. Exoskeletons are super cool sci-fi stuff but would change next to nothing in the grand scheme of things.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:48
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Slavvy posted:Exoskeletons are super cool sci-fi stuff but would change next to nothing in the grand scheme of things.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:52
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What if they allow crewed weapons to be used and carries by fewer soldiers?
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Dec 28, 2022 00:56
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I was thinking artillery gun pit help but you either are cabled up to a generator or you have battery packs that probably do a good impression of a tesla on fire if perforated by shrapnel. and then it stops working and is dead weight. really really expensive dead weight.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:56
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Pair an exoskeleton crew with a Soviet howitzer for a 24 hour fire mission casually juggling 152mm HE
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Dec 28, 2022 00:57
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I give an infantry exo-skeleton approximately five minutes before it gets gummed up with mud or tangled in foliage
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Dec 28, 2022 01:00
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Endman posted:I give an infantry exo-skeleton approximately five minutes before it gets gummed up with mud or tangled in foliage if they become useful, might be more in maintenance or warehouse use than running in the field. But I dunno, forklifts and cranes are already pretty good.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:01
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Slavvy posted:Infantry small arms and other equipment is basically irrelevant in a combat sense (morale/psychology is a different matter). In a big boy shooting war their job is to occupy fortifications and act as submachinegunners for close assaults, that's all they're good for. You could quite literally equip any given modern army with m1 garands instead of whatever assault rifle they have and it would change nearly nothing because all the killing is done by crew served weapons, tanks and aircraft and all the other mechanized stuff. Exoskeletons are super cool sci-fi stuff but would change next to nothing in the grand scheme of things. Israel had great results when they reorganized infantry sections to just be Uzis and FN MAGs but it was demoralizing so they introduced the Galil. I don't believe this is a psychological problem though. Not making infantrymen carry their rucks when they don't need them would seem to be a much better solution than developing an exoskeleton, cooling vest etc. etc. but somehow that's been lost. Soldiers have had to carry packs on the march literally since Old Kingdom Egypt, and have never gone into action with them if they didn't have to. On extended marches, similarly, it's always been the norm to have extra kit carried by mules, porters, wagons, trucks etc. as echelon baggage and follow-on kit. Without going into all of the literature, this seems like the MIC taking on a life of its own and trying to "solve" a problem that does not exist in soldiering, but does in the public imagination. People who have not rucked don't really understand it, nor do they realize you just dump your ruck x hundred metres away from going into action, leave the 2IC and a few other people there, and that's that. If China wants to throw money at their MIC to gently caress around, that's fine, but they already have the solution for "what to do with extra gear on extended marches?" and "where do the infantrymen put their packs when breaking off a march?"  It's a copy of the Iveco VM 90 and it's cheap and reliable.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:01
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Can you put radar on an arrow and like Make it a guided arrow
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Dec 28, 2022 01:01
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All the photos of the Chinese exoskeleton stuff seem to be soldiers rucking off-road. Makes sense they'd pursue that, most of the Chinese border is mountains or desert with poor infrastructure so the soldiers will have to do a lot of marching.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:03
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That's what trucks are for  Besides imagine the insane extra logistical complexity just to make every guy physically stronger. All the parts and maintenance and technicians and ugh. Easier to just build another truck instead. E: beaten like Russian conscript For mountainous terrain I think the exoskeleton would have to be loving magical to better the humble donkey Slavvy has issued a correction as of 01:08 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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Dec 28, 2022 01:05
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I remember from being a cadet that carrying the big pack and all the webbing made me very sad, and taking it off made me feel very good
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Dec 28, 2022 01:06
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https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1566818160128720897 PLA is already using exoskeleton for their logistics guys.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:06
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Slavvy posted:Infantry small arms and other equipment is basically irrelevant in a combat sense (morale/psychology is a different matter). In a big boy shooting war their job is to occupy fortifications and act as submachinegunners for close assaults, that's all they're good for. You could quite literally equip any given modern army with m1 garands instead of whatever assault rifle they have and it would change nearly nothing because all the killing is done by crew served weapons, tanks and aircraft and all the other mechanized stuff. Exoskeletons are super cool sci-fi stuff but would change next to nothing in the grand scheme of things. Look at this guy going into battle with a weapon that's less than 100 years old. 
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Dec 28, 2022 01:11
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1566818160128720897 Hard to see from a distant still image but it connects knees and shoulders and helps… somehow?
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Dec 28, 2022 01:11
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Frosted Flake posted:Both the Galician and Croatian identities were artificial in the sense that they were constructed and shaped by external forces, rather than being based on a shared history or cultural traditions. i don't know about galicia but in the croatian case this sounds highly doubtful
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Dec 28, 2022 01:12
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lol like literally we have problems every single winter where the new, high tech, Frame of the Future (B,C are the popular Down East frames) snaps like a twig from the cold, causing someone to limp around with a broken pack. The 60's aluminum (A Canadian, E American) or 80's wire (D) frames are ergonomically imperfect, probably don't distribute weight ideally, and are heavier... but would you rather have your rucksack distributing your weight imperfectly or not at all? It's very very hard to totally write off an aluminum rucksack frame, it's surprisingly easy to do so with the polymer. They've gotten much better, but still.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:12
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Lostconfused posted:Look at this guy going into battle with a weapon that's less than 100 years old. Ah, but semi automatic fire is actually genuinely an epochal, qualitative change. Every modern rifle is ultimately an ultra refined version of something like a garand, whereas a bolt action rifle is fundamentally inferior and would very much impact combat effectiveness in the few areas infantry rifles are actually useful. Being able to take a few quick shots vs just one at a time is absolutely massive, it's comparable to the jump that happened with smokeless powder or breech loading guns.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:15
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Ardennes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkhCZmo_z8U Watching this video and people still don't understand what the russians are like. "Even more sealed an isolated than soviet union." Buddy, Russian nazis are indistinguishable from US nazis besides that their blood and soil memes are written in cyrillic. 
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Dec 28, 2022 01:22
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Slavvy posted:That's what trucks are for Trucks don't go up mountains Animals are convenient when there are a lot of them. China has urbanized so quickly that there aren't a lot of donkeys around anymore. The count of donkeys and mules has dropped by 250% and 500% over the last 20 years. Running a husbandry program for military animals has never been economical, whereas exoskeletons are just bits and bobs of metal. It seems that various iterations aren't even powered, but reduce the strain of carrying poo poo up mountains. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1206395.shtml https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212636.shtml Mentioned in this article is the fact that they are being used by units in Tibet or high-altitude regions. You can drive a truck through Tibet, but if you want something actually on the mountain, something living needs to drag it up there.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:24
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Doktor Avalanche posted:i don't know about galicia but in the croatian case this sounds highly doubtful  Croatia was organized as a border march, and the same time, for the same reasons
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Dec 28, 2022 01:26
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mlmp08 posted:Hard to see from a distant still image but it connects knees and shoulders and helps… somehow? It helps prolong endurance given the skimming on exoskeleton design I've done.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:26
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gradenko_2000 posted:Can you put radar on an arrow and like of course dumbass
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Dec 28, 2022 01:26
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https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1607337108909219840 how dare the russians repair damage to infrastructure
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Dec 28, 2022 01:30
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I thought they were not allowed to be part of the investigation?
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Dec 28, 2022 01:31
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I'm confused by the above hemming and hawing about the cost and difficulty of producing cavalry mounts and pack animals versus robot exoskeletons because the PLA retains a horsed cavalry division. Macron even gifted them a stud from the French cavalry.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:32
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Frosted Flake posted:
i don't see what this is supposed to mean, the military frontier was organized because of the ottoman invasion. extrapolating from that into what you claimed above (no shared history or cultural traditions) is ludicrous.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:32
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Trucks don't go up mountains they have negative donkeys and mules? lol. they used to have 100 miles but now they have -400
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Dec 28, 2022 01:33
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Doktor Avalanche posted:i don't see what this is supposed to mean, the military frontier was organized because of the ottoman invasion. extrapolating from that into what you claimed above (no shared history or cultural traditions) is ludicrous. What is the difference between a Croatian and a Serbian?
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