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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1633809519556820993 Half a billion dollars of missiles wasted on terror bombing again.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 14:06 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 06:43 |
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"A very sophisticated attack, using technniques only available to highly specialized actors" isn't that the public line fed by incompetent assholes after they get wrecked by some teenagers finding the keys to the vault under the doormat? Like, by every crypro dipshit to get wrecked ever? Like Deviant Ollam says in many of his lectures, we literally got in using some trash we found in the garbage can next to the door, and grabbed some stacks of cash that we found laying on the counter.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 14:08 |
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1633809519556820993 How many % of that even got through?
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 14:08 |
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Power Khan posted:How many % of that even got through? Unfortunately this time? close to half, as many of the missiles used were ballistic. However the damage is still repairable in most cases.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 14:11 |
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1633809519556820993
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 14:25 |
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Pablo Bluth posted:150m on missiles, 430m on graft? That kind of ratio is the only way it was possible for the *civilian* PD-14 jet engine to cost the Russian Federation the equivalent of $1.1 billion in development and production costs.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 14:40 |
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Public support for Ukraine in most EU countries increased in February compared to the last Eurobarometer survey in November https://twitter.com/Kofronjan/status/1633498867541983232
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:03 |
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Mr Teatime posted:The talk of Russian tank brigades advancing in columns and getting bogged down over and over dredged up a memory of this article I read many years ago. I missed this post from a few pages back thanks that is very interesting
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:07 |
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1633810221054279680 Shoigu, see how effective my terror attacks were on the Ukrainians, I remain a master strategist, ook. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:09 |
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Dwesa posted:Public support for Ukraine in most EU countries increased in February compared to the last Eurobarometer survey in November Thanks this is very interesting. Do you, or anyone itt, know why some of the old east block countries (Slovenia, Slovakia, Czechia for instance) are so low?
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:32 |
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Probably a lot of pro USSR boomers
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:37 |
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A couple of articles up on Yle today about the ramping military activity by the Finnish/Russian border and generally in the arctic. This one is specifically about the NATO Joint Viking exercise and the situation in the arctic today. All the obscuring has been left to the side, and everyone is really open that the enemy that everyone is training to defend from is Russia. As someone living in the Nordics, this feels really scary that everyone now feels so free to just say it out loud after it generally being just alluded to since the 2nd World War. Feel free to click the link if you want to see soldiers running around in -30 C weather and a lot of snow, and there are links within the text for further sources. Author: Hanna Visala Release date: 09.03.23 Link to untranslated article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20021609 quote:Russia opened almost all of its Soviet-era military bases near Finland in the Arctic region - this is how the commander of the Norwegian Navy commented on the matter There was also an interesting article about an island just 40 km south from the nearest Finnish town, and a short helicopter flight to Helsinki. To summarize: Russia has built radar stations as well as an helicopter airport there, with the implication that the base there would function as a way to basically control all airspace in the area if they install a anti-air battery there, not to speak of giving them the capability to do some really nasty helicopter based strikes if things turn ugly. And yeah, as a tiny aside it seems that all that GPS interference that we have had in southern and eastern Finland most likely originates from this facility, and is a direct attack on air safety especially in this area of Finland. If you want to see satellite imagery of the outpost, as well as some maps of the GPS jamming you can find those behind the link. Authors: Anu Rummukainen, Juha Rissanen, Taneli Arponen Release date: 09.03.23 Link to untranslated article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20020628 quote:Russia has become active in Suursaari, which is right next to Finland Set fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Tai posted:Why are B-52's flying around eastern Romania lol. Seems like a dumb thing to do I must have missed where that was posted, I only saw the Global Hawk off Crimea. If there's a B-52 in the air, it's to send a message. Any time we fly a B-52 sortie that close to Russia, the message is some variant of "If you 'accidentally' hit NATO, remember that we have mobile cruise missile planes on your border ready to go." The airframes currently flown have some ISR capabilities, but nothing near the utility of a dedicated surveillance plane. As for the particular timing, I'd guess it was planned in advance, but I'm not in the loop for bomber ops these days. There are no US bombers on permanent assignment to Europe. Via midair refueling, B-52s can launch from their home bases (in Louisiana, North Dakota and Guam) and fly around the world and then return, but that means they need tankers ready to meet them. Alternately, for them to operate out of the same geographic region, they require a long, reinforced runway and various support facilities for fuel, munitions, etc. There are two NATO bases typically used to temporarily support those bombers in Europe - RAF Fairford and Morón Air Base. Back in 2014, after Russia first invaded and occupied Crimea, I was stationed at a B-52 base. As a similar show of force, my team went out to RAF Fairford in England with a squadron of bombers, and then they spent a month flying along the border of Russian airspace. B-52s are currently flying out of Morón Air Base in Spain as part of a previously planned annual training exercise, so I'd think this is most likely a training sortie, or else they were diverted to assist in a real world mission due to their existing proximity.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:40 |
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https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1633825336101306372 Which crystal ball did these geniuses use to make this prediction?
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:42 |
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1633825336101306372 Or more likely, the chinese plan was treated with the derison it deserves, so now they're trying to pretend they had Ukraine's best interest at heart after all.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:48 |
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1633825336101306372 China ran it in a state of the art simulation: a Genshin Impact RP mod
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 15:51 |
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It’s super rainy across most of Ukraine today which makes it lovely for repair crews but makes any fires like at the coal plant easier to deal with edit: also means that drones don’t fly and there’s not much chance of fighting, not that these were actually strikes in support of military actions Victis fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1633825336101306372 I had a friend in the military who did a lot of war gaming and he at one point mentioned that the Chinese rig their war games so that China always wins. It’s probably the same here. How could glorious ally to perfect China not win?
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:13 |
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:I had a friend in the military who did a lot of war gaming and he at one point mentioned that the Chinese rig their war games so that China always wins. It’s probably the same here. How could glorious ally to perfect China not win? That's almost too precious for words. You'd think they'd at least not make the same mistakes Russia did with their military, but now I'm not so sure they haven't gone the same route.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:18 |
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Victis posted:It’s super rainy across most of Ukraine today which makes it lovely for repair crews but makes any fires like at the coal plant easier to deal with
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:18 |
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Still loling at the time the usa lost a wargame because the guy they put in charge of opfor realised the usa military wouldnt be able to deal with small suicide powerboats or mass cruise missle attacks owing to control issues and sunk like half the us navy by ramming them with suicide powerboats while the limited point defence weapons were trying to shoot down incoming cruise missles. Anyway, they accused him of cheating and reset the wargame and forced him to run to a script that consisted of stuff like "turn the radar on full blast when you detect enemy aircraft so we can shopt it with anti radiation missles".
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:21 |
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Drone_Fragger posted:Still loling at the time the usa lost a wargame because the guy they put in charge of opfor realised the usa military wouldnt be able to deal with small suicide powerboats or mass cruise missle attacks owing to control issues and sunk like half the us navy by ramming them with suicide powerboats while the limited point defence weapons were trying to shoot down incoming cruise missles. This comes up a lot, but the dude did in fact cheat because his plan and strategy relied on physically impossible things like 1. Motorcycle couriers that are invisible and instantly go from A to B, and 2. Mounting ASM missiles on basically inflatable boats that in no way could have actually taken the weight. When called out on this and basically called a loving idiot for wasting everyones time and money, he went to the media. It's pretty telling that from what I can tell, he's not looked fondly on by anyone whose done any military wargaming. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Drone_Fragger posted:Still loling at the time the usa lost a wargame because the guy they put in charge of opfor realised the usa military wouldnt be able to deal with small suicide powerboats or mass cruise missle attacks owing to control issues and sunk like half the us navy by ramming them with suicide powerboats while the limited point defence weapons were trying to shoot down incoming cruise missles. Wasn't he kinda cheating with teleporting messengers and poo poo? Efb
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:25 |
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My lot (UK) did quite a lot of wargaming versus the US. Kitted up with those laser detection things to rifles and chest. We'd always win and they'd be super salty
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:27 |
That story gets more embellished every time it gets posted here
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:27 |
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On the one hand, the whole point of wargames is to expose potential weaknesses and measure your ability to deal with unforeseen issues, so you want to model a certain amount of bullshit from your opfor; no one needs to analyze the best case scenario. There's a limited amount you can learn from outright impossible hypotheticals, though, so you still need to keep it somewhat plausible.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:31 |
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You can read the declassified official report: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Joint_Staff/12-F-0344-Millennium-Challenge-2002-Experiment-Report.pdf The point of professional wargaming is not to take tens of thousands of people so that two generals can play real life Hearts of Iron, it's to test boring things like 'if we set up a new headquarters unit here, does that make command and control of the force easier'.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:33 |
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Victis posted:It’s super rainy across most of Ukraine today which makes it lovely for repair crews but makes any fires like at the coal plant easier to deal with Don't know why we haven't explored more ATHF-inspired air defence systems before. It's brilliant!
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:33 |
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EasilyConfused posted:Great post, but what the hell is going on with the floating torso? But also this: Borscht posted:Her parents never fell in love at the enchantment under the sea dance.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:40 |
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Drone_Fragger posted:Still loling at the time the usa lost a wargame because the guy they put in charge of opfor realised the usa military wouldnt be able to deal with small suicide powerboats or mass cruise missle attacks owing to control issues and sunk like half the us navy by ramming them with suicide powerboats while the limited point defence weapons were trying to shoot down incoming cruise missles. Still lol that goons post about the one warfare they ever heard about without ever looking into how they guy managed to break the laws of physics to do so
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:41 |
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the holy poopacy posted:On the one hand, the whole point of wargames is to expose potential weaknesses and measure your ability to deal with unforeseen issues, so you want to model a certain amount of bullshit from your opfor; no one needs to analyze the best case scenario. There's a limited amount you can learn from outright impossible hypotheticals, though, so you still need to keep it somewhat plausible. This. If you "win" the wargame routinely then its not a good test.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:42 |
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:Thanks this is very interesting. Do you, or anyone itt, know why some of the old east block countries (Slovenia, Slovakia, Czechia for instance) are so low?
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 16:59 |
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the holy poopacy posted:On the one hand, the whole point of wargames is to expose potential weaknesses and measure your ability to deal with unforeseen issues, so you want to model a certain amount of bullshit from your opfor; no one needs to analyze the best case scenario. There's a limited amount you can learn from outright impossible hypotheticals, though, so you still need to keep it somewhat plausible. We did try to explain it to them at the pub/bar once everything was finishied that you aren't expected to win. This is purely to make you better. Still grumbled lol
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 17:03 |
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Alchenar posted:You can read the declassified official report: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Joint_Staff/12-F-0344-Millennium-Challenge-2002-Experiment-Report.pdf That's the other part of it: even if someone legitimately gets an "instant win" condition out of the scenario, you still have a lot of time and resources invested and it only makes sense to rewind and do it again as though that didn't happen. Otherwise you did the full expense of training for a fraction of the benefits.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 17:08 |
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They've been using analog video transmitters since day 1 because $9 aliexpress 5GHz combo devices are supported by ardupilot. Combo as in TX and put some text on the video. Also analog cameras are cheap af.
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Killer robot posted:That's the other part of it: even if someone legitimately gets an "instant win" condition out of the scenario, you still have a lot of time and resources invested and it only makes sense to rewind and do it again as though that didn't happen. Otherwise you did the full expense of training for a fraction of the benefits.
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 17:22 |
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Jet taboo seems to be cracking. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1633777296854138880?t=tw5LlJ6tIR6BMhIdObi04A&s=19
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://twitter.com/Seveerity/status/1633546192834396160?t=SsMOPOWYjqvUMDkbKpvoNg&s=19 https://youtu.be/V6l2py68WY4
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# ? Mar 9, 2023 17:39 |
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zone posted:That's almost too precious for words. You'd think they'd at least not make the same mistakes Russia did with their military, but now I'm not so sure they haven't gone the same route. It's all part of the same authoritarians dilemma, advancement and being non dead rely on asskissing and reinforcing to the people above you that they're very smart and handsome. Of course boss your plan is great and will result in great success. And your bosses bosses plan is great too. Aside from the PLA not being a Army in the sense of built to fight foreign adversaries (It's mostly an internal suppression force), I had another friend who did a lot of observation of large scale corps of engineers type projects, and they sound like they anecdotally suffer from the same problems the Russians do. Can't take a dump without the go-ahead from Beijing first, no effective NCO's, and the funniest was a lot of observation on how the enlisted guys would just straight gently caress off and leave if there wasn't an LT there yelling at them to do their jobs.
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Power Khan posted:FINALLY, it happened. They found a TOS and used a drone to blow it up Rip to the unlucky crew, TOS usually blows up in a giant fireball
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