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Vahakyla posted:If you do them right, footwraps are very very comfortable and can offer a very flush fit with the boot. They also dry faster than socks once you take em out. A.o.D. posted:Wraps are fine, but require skill to wear. They have several advantages over socks, one being that with foot wraps you do not need as precisely sized boots as compared to socks. They can also be longer lasting than socks, since there's no elastic component to them. However, they can also become undone, and unlike a sock, it's possible to wear them improperly, and it's not like socks have any meaningful deficiency as foot insulation. If you're thinking they're an example of Russian industrial and military culture deficiency.. you're right. I guess the Russian troops are fortunate to have received a bunch of initial and specialty training, which probably gave them enough time to get this figured out before going to the front.
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Godholio posted:I guess the Russian troops are fortunate to have received a bunch of initial and specialty training, which probably gave them enough time to get this figured out before going to the front. Once upon a time (in living memory in fact) foot wraps were the norm in Russia, so your typical conscript wouldn't have needed training on how to wear wraps. Russians mostly wear socks now, but why let modernization get in the way of military tradition and corruption?
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Honestly I would not be at all surprised if foot wraps were something they actually had a legitimate stockpile of.
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in a well actually posted:Sockpile, surely? This tracks.
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JSOC and the Sock Pile
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Flyinglemur posted:https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...ntent=link&ICID Just a quick note but the Express is basically a tabloid. Heck, just look at the article: "We hear that some Kazakh opposition journalists have been saying that their unnamed sources are saying Kadyrov is totally ill and maybe poisoned!" It's pure rumormongering.
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ASAPI posted:Jesus. The second worst thing you'll see today.
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in a well actually posted:Sockpile, surely? Obviously they don't have that.
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Tomn posted:Just a quick note but the Express is basically a tabloid. Heck, just look at the article: "We hear that some Kazakh opposition journalists have been saying that their unnamed sources are saying Kadyrov is totally ill and maybe poisoned!" It's pure rumormongering. Yeah, never take anything it says as gospel. The Express is sub-tabloid. It's a fantasist rightwing outlet aimed at crazy people obsessed with Princess Diana.
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psydude posted:Out of curiosity: Has the Abrams ever suffered a combat loss that wasn't friendly fire from another Abrams? I'm sure there were some mobility kills. I very distinctly remember a hasty bridge built so we could cross the river going into Baghdad in 03. What was underneath the hasty bridge was the old bridge and the tank that tried to cross flipped upside down in the river. I dont think the crew made it.
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There was an infamous kill where it went through the crew cabin credited to an RPG29. Damaged/destroyed the breech block as I recall
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Tomn posted:Just a quick note but the Express is basically a tabloid. Heck, just look at the article: "We hear that some Kazakh opposition journalists have been saying that their unnamed sources are saying Kadyrov is totally ill and maybe poisoned!" It's pure rumormongering. Yes I know that, I was more talking about what he is starting to look like and probably thinks he is becoming
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I haven’t checked on this thread in a while and the explosion of posts was slightly worrisome as I’ve avoided twitter doom scrolling for a week or so lol.
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Tomn posted:Just a quick note but the Express is basically a tabloid. Heck, just look at the article: "We hear that some Kazakh opposition journalists have been saying that their unnamed sources are saying Kadyrov is totally ill and maybe poisoned!" It's pure rumormongering. https://news.yahoo.com/chechen-warlord-kadyrov-reportedly-having-185300586.html?guccounter=1 Yahoo news also has the story, and they are actually a lot more reliable. edit: it is a repost from The New Voice of Ukraine, so who knows? But in my experience, Yahoo generally does some fact-checking. Also https://www.kyivpost.com/post/13766 not sure about the reliability on this one. Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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"Russian State Duma Defense Committee Head Andrey Kartapalov encouraged Russian companies to purchase their own air defense systems to defend against drones." This kinda reminds me of the stories about 1920s America with coal mines/ford/steel companies buying belt-fed machineguns to protect the factories and homes of the owners. Though that was against their own workers rather than drones !
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Baconroll posted:"Russian State Duma Defense Committee Head Andrey Kartapalov encouraged Russian companies to purchase their own air defense systems to defend against drones." Pretty sure the bosses back then regarded their workers as drones too.
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Fearless posted:Pretty sure the bosses back then regarded their workers as drones too. as opposed to now?
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Fearless posted:Pretty sure the bosses back then regarded their workers as drones too. if the drones had stingers they'd be taken much more seriously
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It's still a really long road to go, but transitioning from 'regional governments, develop the capacity to raise battalions all by yourself' to 'local companies, buy air defence' is another box ticked off the prerequisites for 'accidental free-for-all civil war'.
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New Perun on Wagner and Russian PMC https://youtu.be/wXKUNc9yI2A
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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1632255175963340801 I thought this was interesting and hadn't seen it posted in the thread yet, a reminder that Ukraine isn't just relying on old Soviet hand-me-downs but actually has a competent defense industry of its own that hasn't stopped innovating.
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PurpleXVI posted:I thought this was interesting and hadn't seen it posted in the thread yet, a reminder that Ukraine isn't just relying on old Soviet hand-me-downs but actually has a competent defense industry of its own that hasn't stopped innovating. See also the Neptune - they seem to be doing well.
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How do they not have enough AKs to hand out? Even a rusty AK-74 with a bayonet and no ammo is a better weapon than a shovel.
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Got it. I wonder if they use that model to dig the trenches, that would be rough.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:How do they not have enough AKs to hand out? Even a rusty AK-74 with a bayonet and no ammo is a better weapon than a shovel. In the close quarters of a trench, the shovel is time tested and battle proven as an SS tier melee weapon. I'd prefer an E tool to a bayonet mounted rifle. The bayonet gives you reach, but requires more room to use efficiently and with lethality. They are also designed for primarily one plane of use- stabbing. Bayonets tend to not have slashing edges. An E Tool can be swung from any plane, including stabbing, and cause great harm. Reading accounts of Sturmtroopen and Trench Raiders, you'll find they rarely used fixed bayonets, instead preferring clubs, shovels, pick axes, hatches, and knives- with a healthy crop of fragmentation grenade. If you want a practical demonstration, do bayonet drills in your shower, and consider that is utterly ideal compared to taking a trench. I don't know that it is still taught, but I know the Soviets and Americans used to teach to keep an edge just in case- in the American case, I can say I was told that (and some of the finer points of cleaving with one) as late as 2002.
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bulletsponge13 posted:In the close quarters of a trench, the shovel is time tested and battle proven as an SS tier melee weapon. I'd prefer an E tool to a bayonet mounted rifle. The bayonet gives you reach, but requires more room to use efficiently and with lethality. They are also designed for primarily one plane of use- stabbing. Bayonets tend to not have slashing edges. An E Tool can be swung from any plane, including stabbing, and cause great harm. Reading accounts of Sturmtroopen and Trench Raiders, you'll find they rarely used fixed bayonets, instead preferring clubs, shovels, pick axes, hatches, and knives- with a healthy crop of fragmentation grenade. E- Jimmy Smuts posted:Got it. I wonder if they use that model to dig the trenches, that would be rough. They are using the standard issue E- Tool is my guess. About 30 inches long, wood handle, Square-ish spade blade about 8 inches at it's widest point. They issue the same shovel they did during the Soviet Era. E2- me post good
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 The US Army issued one folds up. They were still doing the bayonet assault course in BCT when I was in, but we were also told to use a knife or hatchet or worst case this thing up close.
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