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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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| 🦋 |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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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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Throatwarbler posted:https://twitter.com/Defence_IDA/status/1614932757708242944 I'm pretty sure that isn't even an oplot
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Jan 17, 2023 05:38
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Cuttlefush posted:weren't you a member of the united states armed forces at one point he deffo posts like a piece of poo poo troop
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Jan 17, 2023 05:43
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mlmp08 posted:Raytheon and US forces advise and train KSA on Patriot. But the operation of Saudi Patriot is performed by Saudis. Americans do not operate their systems for them and likely wouldn’t be invited to anyway. us doesn't directly operate any other countries equipment for them outside of like, nato exercises, do they? like service and stuff yeah but actually operating things seems like it would be an easy way to accidentally get dragged into wars & cause all sorts of accountability problems if something bad happened
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Jan 17, 2023 05:45
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Turtle Watch posted:Hello my name is Mogra Doomblade, I am 9 year old orc girl from CSPAM and my thread cries out for pedantry. Please send Mikoyan Gureyevich 08 “Fishmech” advanced poster platform with full New York Times access and Defense Intelligence Department capabilities so my thread will be free from non-tedious discussion.
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Jan 17, 2023 05:47
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Tankbuster posted:world war 3? And in Europe again? Boy these sequels are getting lamer and lamer. There's going to be a Finno-Korean Hyperwar twist, though! 
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Jan 17, 2023 05:48
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Slavvy posted:I'm pretty sure that isn't even an oplot Yeah that's just a normal T-84 e: the main difference in recognition is that the flappy bits on the turret of the T-84 are more numerous and rectangular, and the ones on the Oplot are fewer in number and squarer.
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Jan 17, 2023 05:49
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revolver oplot.
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Jan 17, 2023 05:50
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FirstnameLastname posted:us doesn't directly operate any other countries equipment for them outside of like, nato exercises, do they? like service and stuff yeah but actually operating things seems like it would be an easy way to accidentally get dragged into wars & cause all sorts of accountability problems if something bad happened Correct, generally not. There are things like having an exchange where an American goes to serve on a foreign ship and the foreign country sends someone to serve on a US ship or something. But not just US forces operating equipment on behalf of a foreign force in their country/conflict. And even with exchanges those can come with national caveats agreeing only to specific missions and not free reign to retask people to new missions that can cause entanglements.
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Jan 17, 2023 05:50
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FirstnameLastname posted:us doesn't directly operate any other countries equipment for them outside of like, nato exercises, do they? like service and stuff yeah but actually operating things seems like it would be an easy way to accidentally get dragged into wars & cause all sorts of accountability problems if something bad happened 
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Jan 17, 2023 05:50
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mlmp08 posted:Correct, generally not. There are things like having an exchange where an American goes to serve on a foreign ship and the foreign country sends someone to serve on a US ship or something. But not just US forces operating equipment on behalf of a foreign force in their country/conflict. And even with exchanges those can come with national caveats agreeing only to specific missions and not free reign to retask people to new missions that can cause entanglements. Anything stopping them from just hiring a bunch of recently retired US air defence personnel to do the work? They already have hired help for everything from construction to medicine so why not hire contractors to do AD as well. They'll definitely do a better job than the inbred aristocrat in command.
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Jan 17, 2023 06:00
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Z the IVth posted:Anything stopping them from just hiring a bunch of recently retired US air defence personnel to do the work? china's been doing that with pilots haven't they?
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Jan 17, 2023 06:04
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Slavyangrad posted:
touch of death for bakhmut's garrison
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Jan 17, 2023 06:05
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Z the IVth posted:Anything stopping them from just hiring a bunch of recently retired US air defence personnel to do the work? Yeah, US code forbids it. The closest they could get is becoming a US-based contractor whose parent company is hired to provide training or maintenance support through FMS contracts. But working for the foreign government’s contractors or manning the system is not allowed, barring some kind of waiver. Trying to circumvent would jeopardize FMS, so Saudi Arabia is better off leveraging USMTM and TAFT to train their own forces.
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Jan 17, 2023 06:07
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middle eastern countries hiring american mercenaries to fight their wars for them ? ? Its against the law so surely it would never happen !
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Jan 17, 2023 06:12
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OctaMurk posted:middle eastern countries hiring american mercenaries to fight their wars for them ? ? Its against the law so surely it would never happen ! It’s not against the law if you just convince a head of government to do it openly!
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Jan 17, 2023 06:13
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Cuttlefush posted:it's devastating that the psycho wojak article 5 poland memes are 100% accurate this isn't a pscho wojak one but it's still lol 
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Jan 17, 2023 06:36
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Doktor Avalanche posted:this isn't a pscho wojak one but it's still lol lol
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Jan 17, 2023 06:44
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Intel Slava Z posted:
this one's a hexacopter/sexcopter with six rotors right?
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Jan 17, 2023 06:47
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CBC is heartbroken to announce that a Canadian volunteer medic has died in Ukraine, family says oh, a volunteer medic, cool beans! wait, zerocool, enhance: https://twitter.com/TrackANaziMerc/status/1582220738504687616
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Jan 17, 2023 06:48
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for real why are the most hardcore nazis so often reported as medics in the press. Do they require their medics be the ideological vanguard for some reason or do they just have a style guide of claiming to be medics for western press.
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Jan 17, 2023 06:52
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There's probably going to be more Ukrainians coming back to Vancouver that the ones who left when all of this is said and done.
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Jan 17, 2023 06:53
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Best Friends posted:for real why are the most hardcore nazis so often reported as medics in the press. Do they require their medics be the ideological vanguard for some reason or do they just have a style guide of claiming to be medics for western press. combat medics get clout because they're ostensibly performing the most important job on the field.
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Jan 17, 2023 06:54
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Is the guy from the Straight Pipes YouTube channel going over to fight? He was getting poo poo for not speaking out at the beginning of the special military operation.
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Jan 17, 2023 06:55
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Best Friends posted:for real why are the most hardcore nazis so often reported as medics in the press. Do they require their medics be the ideological vanguard for some reason or do they just have a style guide of claiming to be medics for western press. medics r good and save life . . . How can nazi be bad, if medic ?
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Jan 17, 2023 06:55
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quote:Vitalii Tsekhmistrenko said he and his wife had travelled to Kyiv from Canada to spend Christmas with their son. They were all together for the holidays. drat, should have just went home with them. I guess he can get his name on the victims of communism memorial or whatever the gently caress the SS 14th Galicia one we have here is called.
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Jan 17, 2023 06:58
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https://twitter.com/josepbastardas/status/1613531690164527104?s=20 what's euro media like on the war? is the clip at all indicative of a turn of opinion?
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Jan 17, 2023 07:00
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they should end the war in my humble opinion.
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Jan 17, 2023 07:15
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/josepbastardas/status/1613531690164527104?s=20 It's not a war, its a special military operation! If the USA gets to call a recession anything but then Russia gets to call a war a high stakes LARP re-enactment.
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Jan 17, 2023 07:17
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Best Friends posted:for real why are the most hardcore nazis so often reported as medics in the press. Do they require their medics be the ideological vanguard for some reason or do they just have a style guide of claiming to be medics for western press. does this mean medic from TF2 is a nazi?
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Jan 17, 2023 07:32
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Tankbuster posted:does this mean medic from TF2 is a nazi? I mean that was the joke right?
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Jan 17, 2023 07:36
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Tankbuster posted:does this mean medic from TF2 is a nazi? Valve said he wasn't. I assume because he, like his good friend Dr. Vahlen, is so hosed up and insane that even the nazis want nothing to do with him I always found it very funny that Vahlen was doing poo poo that was beyond the pale for the ethereals, the people who were going to turn an entire species into goo so they could have anime bodies
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Jan 17, 2023 07:39
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/josepbastardas/status/1613531690164527104?s=20 lol, not even close the general mood in op-eds these recent weeks have been that no matter how the ukraine conflict is resolved or what happens to putin, it is our legal and moral obligation to fight a forever war with russia until they balkanize and demilitarize forever. there was a semi-famous cooking influencer here that got in the news a few weeks ago for using his patreon money to buy signed artillery shells for ukraine.
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Jan 17, 2023 08:41
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Slavvy posted:I'm pretty sure that isn't even an oplot Does the oplot still use the hull autoloader that other soviet tanks use? How does it also have ammo stored in the turret bustle?
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Jan 17, 2023 08:42
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Comrade Koba posted:lol, not even close I've got a classic Bagdad Bob image on standby I've been saving for when the situation reaches the right time. Don't know what the subtitles will be or which side it will mock. Both ideally.
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Jan 17, 2023 09:26
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Throatwarbler posted:Does the oplot still use the hull autoloader that other soviet tanks use? How does it also have ammo stored in the turret bustle? The largest number of oplots ever in operation, which was prior to the invasion, was about twelve. So to answer your question I'm pretty sure the answer is who the gently caress knows, they probably didn't do much of anything. Anyway you can reload the auto loader cassette from inside the tank so presumably that's how that works, you can see it in action in the tank biathlon when the crew have to load the ammo from the outside of the tank then go shoot at cardboard while accidentally ramming the other tanks. Tank is hard.
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Jan 17, 2023 09:30
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Ardennes posted:Anyway despite other statements, there were two impacts which suggests something interrupted its flight. Ardennes posted:It is, and it is why it is really sad because it is just going to be this for a quite a while. Honestly, the only real thing that can be done at this point is get people out of the country but even that really isn't fully possible. A lot of people just have no where to go (or are simply tied to where they are for a multitude of reasons) and it is just going to get worse. And it doesn't help that social services in the west are largely already stretched overthin by neoliberal policy BrotherJayne has issued a correction as of 09:40 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Jan 17, 2023 09:30
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Best Friends posted:for real why are the most hardcore nazis so often reported as medics in the press. Do they require their medics be the ideological vanguard for some reason or do they just have a style guide of claiming to be medics for western press. people in general who have admiration for the military from afar tend to end up selecting medic because it allows you join as a troop, but without requiring you to be a gunfighter per se, or otherwise expose yourself to front-line fire
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Jan 17, 2023 09:45
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mlmp08 posted:I don't like to post LOLMEMES in response to indiscriminate attacks on civilians, but you are your own person. Mate your posting can get pretty dire but I wouldn't call it a war crime. More seriously though, have you seen enough reports of KH-22s missing to suggest that they have a higher failure rate than say a tomahawk during the Gulf war, ~15%? FirstnameLastname posted:us doesn't directly operate any other countries equipment for them outside of like, nato exercises, do they? like service and stuff yeah but actually operating things seems like it would be an easy way to accidentally get dragged into wars & cause all sorts of accountability problems if something bad happened There's the Combined Maritime Forces, which is a multinational group commanded by an American admiral based out of Bahrain that does fun stuff like blockade the Houthis. It's made up of ships from member nations and I'm pretty sure crews are often multinational so I'm guessing there are American troops on other countries' boats, but it's under American command.
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Jan 17, 2023 10:09
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https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1614931970815037440
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Jan 17, 2023 10:29
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What if he is Otto Skorzeny?
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