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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:Nobody's really ever built a good tank on the first try except for New Zealand. You're goddamned right 
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Mar 24, 2023 00:46
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Some people will try to tell you that this isn't a Warhammer Orc tank
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Mar 24, 2023 00:47
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Nelson Mandingo posted:This is absolutely wild and utterly pointless at the same time. I guess in a nominal rational sense it's a good idea to prepare defenses ahead of an attack but if Ukraine is legitimately pushing on Kursk then Russia has explicitly Bigger Problems. Maybe it's to get people domestically to believe it's reasonable to expect NATO to invade Russia, like daddy poot poot says they will. After all, if they weren't invading, why are they putting up all these defenses? Or, they might be doing it to avoid having people ask the question if NATO is invading, why isn't anyone setting up any defenses???????
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Mar 24, 2023 00:50
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Nelson Mandingo posted:This is absolutely wild and utterly pointless at the same time. I guess in a nominal rational sense it's a good idea to prepare defenses ahead of an attack but if Ukraine is legitimately pushing on Kursk then Russia has explicitly Bigger Problems. Let's be honest though, if they actually had some knowledge of sound strategy, they'd have understood by now that Ukraine is only being supported because they're fighting a defensive war on their own land. If they decided to conduct an invasion into Belgorod and Kursk all their support would quickly fly out of the window. There were even issues about handing over long range weaponry to strike inside Russia because the Western allies thought that Ukraine would indiscriminately strike targets across the border or even the Kremlin, especially considering the (valid) fears of nuclear escalation, as nobody knows how Russia might choose to react given the situation, which is why Ukraine had to develop its own drones and use ersatz cruise missiles created from modified Tu-141s. They're framing it as a war against NATO because they consider the lethal and non-lethal aid already sent as being no different from active participation in the conflict as far as they're concerned. Though in the scheme of things, like Strelkov mentioned, they have 9 months to 1 year left in the gas tank. By Feb 22 2024, their land army will be entirely ruined, at the current rate of losses.
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Mar 24, 2023 00:52
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The real question is what would win between an al-khalid and an arjun. Ones basically a T-90, and the other is a chinese copy of the T-90.
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Mar 24, 2023 00:52
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Actually, I might be wrong and Coquito Ergo Sum might be referring to the Scholfield tank, I'm not sure of the timeline of their developments and which came first, but honestly, they're both complete winners and paragons of tank design
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Mar 24, 2023 00:56
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What’s Meloni’s deal? US fascists loving love Putin, how did she come by her one good (anti-Putin) position?
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Mar 24, 2023 00:58
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I'm assuming that it's the Bob Semple tank, which was put together in world war 2 from corrugated roofing iron, concrete and would of had a... 40mm? anti-tank gun on top. It was designed to be made out of D8 bulldozer chassis', since that's what's available. Basically what I'm saying is New Zealand was going to weaponize the killdozer. 
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Mar 24, 2023 01:00
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Nelson Mandingo posted:This is absolutely wild and utterly pointless at the same time. I guess in a nominal rational sense it's a good idea to prepare defenses ahead of an attack but if Ukraine is legitimately pushing on Kursk then Russia has explicitly Bigger Problems. It’s all graft, same as the fortifications in Crimea and Kherson. It’s financed centrally but built by local businesses without military oversight. The strategic value is minimal and shows how far down the corruption rabbit hole Russia has really fallen.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:01
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Toxic Mental posted:Some people will try to tell you that this isn't a Warhammer Orc tank I posted about one of the orkiest tanks in the first Threead: Coquito Ergo Sum posted:Also something for the thread, a true Orky tank (in the 40k sense), the M2 medium tank: Not pictured: The two roof-mounted MGs that gave it a "bunny ear" look. Also, when it was announced that "M2s" were being sent to Ukraine, a Taiwanese broadcast used a picture of the M2 medium instead of the Bradley.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:02
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Mokotow posted:It’s all graft, same as the fortifications in Crimea and Kherson. It’s financed centrally but built by local businesses without military oversight. The strategic value is minimal and shows how far down the corruption rabbit hole Russia has really fallen. Not to mention the Neo-Nazis fighting for Russia and the entire milblogger community already panned the fortifications in detail, pointing out that relying on them to even slow down the upcoming Ukrainian offensive is a fool's hope.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:03
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Chicken Butt posted:What’s Meloni’s deal? US fascists loving love Putin, how did she come by her one good (anti-Putin) position? Yeah, she's been kind of surprising on the upside thus far. I keep waiting for her to pull the mask off, though.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:03
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Drone_Fragger posted:I'm assuming that it's the Bob Semple tank, which was put together in world war 2 from corrugated roofing iron, concrete and would of had a... 40mm? anti-tank gun on top. The Bob Semple and the Schofield were both designed roughly around the same time (skimming wikipedia) and based on a Chevy truck and Universal Carrier. New Zealand made to absolute bangers of tanks that never got used while Canadians were producing the lame Ram and Australians were desperately compensating with the Sentinel's  hull machine gun.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:07
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Toxic Mental posted:Some people will try to tell you that this isn't a Warhammer Orc tank all I will tell you is it is an act of terrifying bravery to construct your tank entirely out of shot traps
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Mar 24, 2023 01:08
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The only thing trapped is anyone taking on the Bob Semple Main Battle Tank.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:16
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I'm sorry friends but none of those tanks are saying "is Fight" to me.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:24
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shadow puppet of a posted:I'm sorry friends but none of those tanks are saying "is Fight" to me. Has to be a Panzer to qualify.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:40
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Chicken Butt posted:What’s Meloni’s deal? US fascists loving love Putin, how did she come by her one good (anti-Putin) position? I'm guessing there's an element of opportunism. She probably assesses that she's about as far right as the electorate will go and does not feel vulnerable to pro-Russian sentiment on either extreme, so she can score points with old school hawks and centrists without giving up ground on parts of her platform she cares about.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:51
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CommieGIR posted:Has to be a Panzer to qualify. the Germans should've produce a PzKpfw "Faust" model just to confuse the hell out of everything.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:02
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Toxic Mental posted:Some people will try to tell you that this isn't a Warhammer Orc tank That's because it's a 40K Grot tank instead.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:04
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War bad There are several better card games to play Also Russia should leave Ukraine.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:11
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1639069300785926147
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Mar 24, 2023 02:15
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TaurusTorus posted:Also Russia should leave Ukraine. Typical bloodthirsty GBS warmongering 
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Mar 24, 2023 02:15
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I think we need to capitulate to Putin and give him more horse semen. Then, perhaps, the war will end.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:41
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so is everyones tank fetish 40k based?
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Mar 24, 2023 02:43
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https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1638974241533054976 Can you even afford to build new nooks? The last three tests you made already failed, so you want a new opportunity to make fools of yourselves?
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Mar 24, 2023 02:43
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1638974241533054976 Someone alert Willo567's balls
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Mar 24, 2023 02:44
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Tarkus posted:I think we need to capitulate to Putin and give him more horse semen. Then, perhaps, the war will end. Ukraine War: Horse Cum in Peace
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Mar 24, 2023 02:44
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HonorableTB posted:Someone alert Willo567's balls they are already in the bunker.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:45
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Jimlit posted:so is everyones tank fetish 40k based? I have a poster in my room of the Harkonnen's Devastator from Dune 2 but all posed, oiled up and sexy like a 90's budwiser pinup.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:46
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Prigozhin may be pulling Wagner out? This is a pretty bold story from The Daily Beast.The Daily Beast posted:Report Signals Humiliating End for Russia’s Shadow Army in Ukraine https://www.thedailybeast.com/yevgeny-prigozhin-to-reportedly-pivot-russian-wagner-group-away-from-war-in-ukraine?ref=home If this is true (and that's a tall IF), that would entirely doom the Russian war effort in the fast way rather than the slow grinding way it's currently doomed.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:47
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Honestly i'll believe it when I see it happening. It's too early to tell if he'd just cut his losses and leave, because there's bound to be consequences for that. As for the ammo talk, there's shortages everywhere across the line, tons of the stuff just gets destroyed and at least half of what arrives is useless rust.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:49
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Jimlit posted:so is everyones tank fetish 40k based? Mine's kind of a vore thing where the barrel opens up and sucks my naked body up inside and I'm covered in borsht and welded in.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:50
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shadow puppet of a posted:I have a poster in my room of the Harkonnen's Devastator from Dune 2 but all posed, oiled up and sexy like a 90's budwiser pinup. thats what i'm talking about! 
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Mar 24, 2023 02:51
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zone posted:Honestly i'll believe it when I see it happening. It's too early to tell if he'd just cut his losses and leave, because there's bound to be consequences for that. As for the ammo talk, there's shortages everywhere across the line, tons of the stuff just gets destroyed and at least half of what arrives is useless rust. Also I think the ammo situation for Wagner was more about "hey we're a PMC or a reasonable facsimile thereof, we have more flexible and meaningful say in OUR equipment instead of adhering to military standards" and then suddenly slashed to achieve parity or be more parallel to the ammo distribution of the rest of the forces. I think.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:53
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EorayMel posted:Also I think the ammo situation for Wagner was more about "hey we're a PMC or a reasonable facsimile thereof, we have more flexible and meaningful say in OUR equipment instead of adhering to military standards" and then suddenly slashed to achieve parity or be more parallel to the ammo distribution of the rest of the forces. I'd be pretty miffed too if I went from halfway decent provision to a couple rusted out mags and a promised fishbrick
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Mar 24, 2023 02:56
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EorayMel posted:Also I think the ammo situation for Wagner was more about "hey we're a PMC or a reasonable facsimile thereof, we have more flexible and meaningful say in OUR equipment instead of adhering to military standards" and then suddenly slashed to achieve parity or be more parallel to the ammo distribution of the rest of the forces. Yeah actually, that was one of Pigozhin's main complaints, that the Wanker SS weren't getting priority supplies any more but had to make do with the rest of the rubbish that the other units got. He made an open demand to Gerasimov last month asking for 3 times the number of shells every day that what was being fired across the whole front (15-20,000 per day) to conquer Bakhmut after he continued antagonizing both him and Shoigu. That predictably ended about as well as you see here.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:58
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zone posted:Yeah actually, that was one of Pigozhin's main complaints, that the Wanker SS weren't getting priority supplies any more but had to make do with the rest of the rubbish that the other units got. He made an open demand to Gerasimov last month asking for 3 times the number of shells every day that what was being fired across the whole front (15-20,000 per day) to conquer Bakhmut after he continued antagonizing both him and Shoigu. That predictably ended about as well as you see here. It's amusing to me that he assumes that there are priority supplies for any Russian combatants, PMC or Russian military lol. "Surely the good gear is simply being given to someone else. There's no way we have simply run out!" *a steam train full of t55s rumbles past*
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Mar 24, 2023 03:06
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HonorableTB posted:Prigozhin may be pulling Wagner out? This is a pretty bold story from The Daily Beast. People put way too much stock in this concept of Wagner as some elite fighting force. They got slightly better results because they were given preferential treatment in terms of their ability to source arms and manpower, and they were given even more leeway than the rest of the RuAF to expend men as ammunition. When they stopped getting those results even with their special pipeline, it was cut off and now they're just another mediocre wing of a dogshit-grade army.
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Mar 24, 2023 03:13
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1639080885550022656 https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1639082805832368129
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