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Well you see the thread's intended goal was to say that other parts of the forum are evil and therefore
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Tiny Timbs posted:lol that the GBS thread gets closed while the one that had people calling dead Ukrainian children crisis actors gets to live on. The war is too serious for shitposting, after all Yeah and to insult all that, didn't give any links at all. Just a close and 'look it up'. I'll be damned if I'm going to go to either of the other offerings, I value my sanity thank you very much.
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Extremely dumb move to close the gbs one but I'm glad this threads still going strong.
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It's possible to find a thread where some dude was obviously excited about the prospect of Russian soldiers resorting to cannibalism distasteful while still hoping Putin and his buddies lose this war and their heads  .
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Any map updates?
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If you want to talk about the GBS thread, do it elsewhere.
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Arc Hammer posted:Any map updates? Been wondering this.
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Anyway, I hope the newfound lurkers and readers like long-ish, boring policy updates full of things like “Not much this update, USAI process means this is months out.”
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Arc Hammer posted:Any map updates? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bSkuMpR2Q
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Edit: Whatever, not allowed to talk about it anywhere unless I gather a group of weirdos to post long angry screeds about the mods with me
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Don't bring it here, please? Thanks.
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Another GBS refugee here. I'll do my best to not gently caress it up. Edit: I come bearing a link, don't know if it was posted here yet https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/02/russian-carrier-kuznetsov-leaves-dry-dock-at-last/ Lol WATCH OUT EVERYONE
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There were folks who were doing a lot of great updates in the GBS thread that I hope make it over to here. The diversity of experience and opinion was great, which is why I generally preferred it to posting with fellow vets. I have Ukrainian roots myself but my lived experience is limited to growing up in a Ukrainian immigrant community so I don’t have much to offer myself.
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Flyinglemur posted:Another GBS refugee here. I'll do my best to not gently caress it up. I imagine the Kuznetsov remains the same broken shell it was before it went into drydock.
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CommieGIR posted:I imagine the Kuznetsov remains the same broken shell it was before it went into drydock. Russia's announcement is that it won't return to operations until 2024. So even if it were all fixed and wonderful somehow, that's still a ways out.
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sending people to d&d and cspam is not a solution its trying to give posters brain worms sending them here is pretty laffo tho
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Last warning. Talk about Ukraine, not Something Awful.
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A great year on retrospective by one of our favorite classicists, Bret Devereaux. https://acoup.blog/2023/02/24/collections-one-year-into-the-war-in-ukraine/ Very unfortunate about the GBS thread. It was the best thread on this topic on the forum.
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Good thing Ukraine has held strong in the face of adversity. Edit: Appeasement protocol is in place.
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psydude posted:The economist has a fantastic and terrifying diary from an office manager turned platoon leader who was in Bakhmut in August. Is there a way to read these without signing up?
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Is there a way to read these without signing up? I guess I had a free article. I don't know if docdroid sucks or not but I don't have a ready better way to get it to all of you - https://docdro.id/0BYH8HS also NB the pdf renderer split some of the images across multiple pages. but the content's all there I also came here from GBS, I'll do my best but do let me know if I get out over my skis here.
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Flyinglemur posted:Another GBS refugee here. I'll do my best to not gently caress it up. That's a ship even I wouldn't touch.
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You'd have to find it first
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That's easy just look for the giant plume of smoke that's moving about 15 knots.
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GBS refugee's guide to posting in GiP: 1) Don't bring interforum drama here, you will get paddled. 2) see 1. 3)  Kuznetsov is never going to be able to sail on an actual deployment anywhere, she's already ancient, and runs on poo poo that's E: apparently Mazut is equivalent to No. 6 Fuel Oil, so basically the absolute worst poo poo you can burn in a boiler. orange juche fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Feb 25, 2023 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:That's a ship even I wouldn't touch. Please do, though.
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I'm kind of glad the Kuz is still sailing & rollin' coal, as it's sucking up tons of resources that could be used against Ukraine.
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I submit my Price is Right-style $1 bid that the Kuz is actually on fire right now or else will certainly be on fire before anyone else’s estimate
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If you don't check it then it's perpetually on fire in all of our hearts
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:That's a ship even I wouldn't touch. I wonder if at this point its primary purpose is to just be a long term graft fountain. Lots of dacha money to be siphoned off the ship in forever repairs. Didn’t India/China buy/inherit some of her sisters? Did they do extensive modernization to them?
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Last time I saw the Kuznetsov was that video of a jet loving up its landing and pulling away with a hard cobra maneuver. I'm surprised it didn't set the deck on fire.
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:I wonder if at this point its primary purpose is to just be a long term graft fountain. Lots of dacha money to be siphoned off the ship in forever repairs. the Varyag, ostensibly about to become a casino before it became the Liaoning instead? Supposedly yes, but I have no idea if that modernization did anything beyond what un-grafted-to-hell maintenance would've done to the Kuznetsov.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:I'm kind of glad the Kuz is still sailing & rollin' coal, as it's sucking up tons of resources that could be used against Ukraine. At this point I am honestly amazed at the effort the Russian Navy is taking in keeping that floating environmental disaster operating come hell or high water, can't imagine it's cheap.
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tiaz posted:I guess I had a free article. I don't know if docdroid sucks or not but I don't have a ready better way to get it to all of you - https://docdro.id/0BYH8HS also NB the pdf renderer split some of the images across multiple pages. but the content's all there Yo thanks for this
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:Didn’t India/China buy/inherit some of her sisters? Did they do extensive modernization to them? China bought her sister Varyag and turned that ship into a functional carrier.
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Taerkar posted:If you don't check it then it's perpetually on fire in all of our hearts Schroedinger’s kuz
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:Didn’t India/China buy/inherit some of her sisters? Did they do extensive modernization to them? China turned her sister, Varyag into a functional carrier, Liaoning, and India bought an absolutely clapped-out Kyiv class aircraft carrier, ex-Baku, now INS Vikramditya (Surprise surprise, the Russian refit of the ship to sell it to India took 3x the initial budget, due to the Russian shipyard blackmailing the Indian officer who was coordinating the sale and refit) Since Varyag never actually was ever under power (construction of Varyag was abandoned at ~89% by the Soviet military, and then she was purchased by China from Ukraine), the Chinese technically didn't have to worry about lovely Soviet maintenance wrecking the engines, and were able to rework everything onboard the ship. China had a very intense interest in getting a working aircraft carrier, and based on Liaoning actually having deployed successfully a couple times now, they did quite a good job finishing it out and fixing the lovely workmanship of the Soviet builders. orange juche fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Feb 25, 2023 |
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:I wonder if at this point its primary purpose is to just be a long term graft fountain. Lots of dacha money to be siphoned off the ship in forever repairs. India bought an old Kiev class. China bought a couple of Kievs and turned them into tourist attractions and they also bought a half complete Kunetzsov class and made another based on it on their own.
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orange juche posted:China had a very intense interest in getting a working aircraft carrier, and based on Liaoning actually having deployed successfully a couple times now, they did a good job finishing it out and fixing the lovely workmanship of the Soviet builders. I'd be very interested to read the account of a Chinese shipbuilder complaining about said lovely workmanship while working on the boat.
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Tomn posted:I'd be very interested to read the account of a Chinese shipbuilder complaining about said lovely workmanship while working on the boat. It would probably be a nonstop string of swearing in Chinese.
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