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What is the most powerful flying bug?
This poll is closed.
🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
Til milisovic was tried under some special tribunal that predated the ICC, and the ICC had only indited Africans

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1637095837175037954?t=Ym0cEG_NOaPyJthOsUw11g&s=19

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Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
with each passing day russia becomes more mongoloid and their skulls start being bound...

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

speng31b posted:

the ICC stuff isn't really the US though, but I guess that's a technicality

Well Russian telegram is certainly taking it as such when people start being liberal with an NYT quote like

https://web.archive.org/web/20230318082607/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/world/europe/putin-icc-arrest-warrant-war-crimes.html

quote:

“This makes Putin a pariah,” Stephen Rapp, a former ambassador at large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. State Department, said. “If he travels, he risks arrest. This never goes away.” And, he said, Russia cannot gain relief from sanctions without complying with the warrants.

Koirhor
Jan 14, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

Endman posted:

Poland really is just the place you go to gently caress poo poo up over and over again throughout the history of Eastern Europe

they do have the best vodkas

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

SplitSoul posted:

Ukraine is getting some MIG-29s. How much more room is left for escalation at this rate?

Most of those Mig-29's are old GDR ones that aren't that capable. Not even the same as getting some mid-life F-16's.

Edit: Also 3 of the 13 Slovakian MiGs don't even have engines and what not installed lol. Mostly just for the spare parts.

BadOptics has issued a correction as of 19:28 on Mar 18, 2023

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1637089981318545409?t=u8jZsvZHs1u7311gA8Lygw&s=19

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Well, at least it's not the rising sun or whatever.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Regarde Aduck posted:

details are not important to the narrative

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

Throatwarbler posted:

Til milisovic was tried under some special tribunal that predated the ICC, and the ICC had only indited Africans

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1637095837175037954?t=Ym0cEG_NOaPyJthOsUw11g&s=19

im surprised mike sparks resisted the urge to append gavin on that tweet

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Tankbuster posted:

I didn't know your marriage counsellor wrote books too.

Boy do they!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSMKS33StM

It's the most American poo poo I've ever seen. They all live in McMansions and are very upset about The Culture.

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1637095837175037954?t=Ym0cEG_NOaPyJthOsUw11g&s=19

"Oh nooo a M113! Whatever will I doooo???"

The NPC
Nov 21, 2010



The enemy has light armour and infantry in hastily dug trenches in an open field. Do you:
a) over whelm their position with waves upon waves of your own troops.
b) expend several thousand shells.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
God the m113 is such an awkward inviting target.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
Every apc is a shitbox but the m113 is the shitbox

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

euphronius posted:

the USA isn’t even a signatory to rome statute


Regarde Aduck posted:

details are not important to the narrative
Weeeeell I don't know if we need to hand it to Joe's soggy brain buuuuut https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1637125709851426816

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Frosted Flake posted:

"Oh nooo a M113! Whatever will I doooo???"

The finest aluminum coffins

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Lostconfused posted:

Weeeeell I don't know if we need to hand it to Joe's soggy brain buuuuut https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1637125709851426816

Amazing.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

I used to have a paper on one of those computer models of shell fragments against different types of armour. I know the M577 was used as the target vehicle in tests, but I can't find the full report.



Anyway the gist is that the old Russian 152mm shells produce big rear end fragments, which makes them mathematically sub-optimal as pure anti-personnel weapons, but is bad news bears for M113s.

BrownPepper
Dec 30, 2017

HiroProtagonist posted:

Found the link i was looking for last night

https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/

Thanks dude! that's exactly what the kind of thing I was looking for.

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012


I love how every volunteer has crisp clean uniforms like if you just bought it from clothing sales.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Frosted Flake posted:

I used to have a paper on one of those computer models of shell fragments against different types of armour. I know the M577 was used as the target vehicle in tests, but I can't find the full report.



Anyway the gist is that the old Russian 152mm shells produce big rear end fragments, which makes them mathematically sub-optimal as pure anti-personnel weapons, but is bad news bears for M113s.

can the computer model putin's fragments impacting my rear end with gay armor on? i need to test if it can be penetrated effectively

please say yes

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

Throatwarbler posted:

Til milisovic was tried under some special tribunal that predated the ICC, and the ICC had only indited Africans

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1637095837175037954?t=Ym0cEG_NOaPyJthOsUw11g&s=19

Are they just driving forward and reverse in a straight line in a giant open field to avoid artillery like they are the targets in a county fair shooting gallery? I don't know anything about military tactics, but that seems like a bad way to use those things.

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


BadOptics posted:

I love how every volunteer has crisp clean uniforms like if you just bought it from clothing sales.

Petes of all nations

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
lol at getting awestruck at APC's with the acceptable bare minimum armament

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

HiroProtagonist posted:

can the computer model putin's fragments impacting my rear end with gay armor on? i need to test if it can be penetrated effectively

please say yes




;)

Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 21:35 on Mar 18, 2023

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

that's a blown o ring right there

Zudgemud
Mar 1, 2009
Grimey Drawer

a_gelatinous_cube posted:

Are they just driving forward and reverse in a straight line in a giant open field to avoid artillery like they are the targets in a county fair shooting gallery? I don't know anything about military tactics, but that seems like a bad way to use those things.

Sure looks like it at least. Though maybe they are spotting and fixing something out of frame and actually does a deadly peek-a-boo with a t62 or similar. I must admit that the M113s look quite nippy for being old hunks of military metal.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Regarde Aduck posted:

that's a blown o ring right there



Bad Dragon is getting more and more carried away these days.

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
If the two messages I've been hearing are both true- 1) Ukraine getting planes will turn the tide of the war, and 2) they've been getting planes for some time already, then it would therefore seem that the war situation is as good for them as it will ever be and won't see improvement based on "additional" equipment being provided.

Planes were supposed to make the difference, but whatever difference they're making is already being reflected. Besides nukes, what's even left to give them that could provide a tactical advantage over the Russians?

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Regarde Aduck posted:

that's a blown o ring right there

They call that move The Challenger for a reason.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die



https://youtu.be/cO3MttgvHUY

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Futanari Damacy posted:

Planes were supposed to make the difference, but whatever difference they're making is already being reflected. Besides nukes, what's even left to give them that could provide a tactical advantage over the Russians?

Direct NATO involvement, which is what we know they want, and what their Chief of Staff said they want, for over a year now.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

https://youtu.be/bLvWeELexYU



:ironicat:

Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 21:56 on Mar 18, 2023

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

if you look carefully, you can see the wedding ring

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Anti-war rally in DC today. No Ron Paul at this one.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1637129442513305600?s=20

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

20 years of endless war is not nearly enough to rid the world of barbaric Putinism

fanfic insert
Nov 4, 2009
seymour hersh thinks stalin starved 22 million ukrainians by taking all the grain in 1930 lol

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007


Frosted Flake posted:

Direct NATO involvement, which is what we know they want, and what their Chief of Staff said they want, for over a year now.

I'm honestly surprised we've not seen more involvement by now, or significant ramp ups in production. Biden / Stollenberg really seem to think they can win with old stockpile kit

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


fanfic insert posted:

seymour hersh thinks stalin starved 22 million ukrainians by taking all the grain in 1930 lol

Stalin personally ate all that grain himself

Comrade Koba
Jul 2, 2007

Futanari Damacy posted:

Planes were supposed to make the difference, but whatever difference they're making is already being reflected. Besides nukes, what's even left to give them that could provide a tactical advantage over the Russians?

no you don’t understand, javelins bayraktars M777s HIMARS patriots NASAMS leopards fighter jets will be the game changer that turns the tide of the war!!

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Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Futanari Damacy posted:

Planes were supposed to make the difference, but whatever difference they're making is already being reflected. Besides nukes, what's even left to give them that could provide a tactical advantage over the Russians?

a navy

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