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| 🦋 |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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94 | 23.27% |
| 🦟 |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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if what prighozin is saying is true abd ukraine has a big reserve force capable of doing a big offensive russia is in trouble for sure
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Mar 24, 2023 09:48
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CODChimera posted:So how long until I get to play in a video game as a regular Ukrainian a.k.a hero… to defeat the Russians in their failed war of 2022? so after all these months of crowing the russians have even failed to take bakhmut?
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Mar 24, 2023 09:55
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DancingShade posted:Ah got it. well norway and denmark have both acquired f-35-based airforces in the past years. sweden's still trying to use its own MIC to secure its skies, but now finland has also gone f-35 my guess is that this is mostly a push to finally get rid of the swedish aerospace defence industry as a competitor, with a "nordicisation" gloss as well as trying to pretend that sweden is getting into NATO despite not being a member. security policy up here is incredibly dumb
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Mar 24, 2023 09:57
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Rynoto posted:Pretty sure even the most hardcore nationalists in the UK military know that if the US abandons them they'll instantly fold. Do you follow UK political discourse at all? The consensus is that we remain a significant military power with the respect of the world, and we just need to waste a few billion more than we are already on stupid poo poo like those aircraft carriers for everything to be perfect.
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Mar 24, 2023 10:01
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its easy to get confued but the uk and the ukraine are not the same thing
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Mar 24, 2023 10:03
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lol
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Mar 24, 2023 10:03
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DancingShade posted:Ah got it. A great excuse for when your country actually faces a military threat and you've got nothing whatsoever to put in the air: "Our 3 partner nations didn't contribute what they should have: it's all their fault!"
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Mar 24, 2023 10:04
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:the ukraine reported
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Mar 24, 2023 10:05
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lol https://twitter.com/uamemesforces/status/1638996620850208768
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Mar 24, 2023 10:07
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Pistol_Pete posted:Do you follow UK political discourse at all? The consensus is that we remain a significant military power with the respect of the world, and we just need to waste a few billion more than we are already on stupid poo poo like those aircraft carriers for everything to be perfect. I saw HMS Queen Elizabeth when I was out on the piss in Portsmouth the other week. It looked pretty impressive, if you didn't know that there's no planes on it and it's basically an extremely expensive floating football pitch.
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Mar 24, 2023 10:10
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these guys dont seem to be performing as well as the regular forces
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Mar 24, 2023 10:10
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gradenko_2000 posted:reported *counters* reported
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Mar 24, 2023 10:11
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Pistol_Pete posted:I saw HMS Queen Elizabeth when I was out on the piss in Portsmouth the other week. It looked pretty impressive, if you didn't know that there's no planes on it and it's basically an extremely expensive floating football pitch. Well better than the HMS Prince of Wales which is still under repair after one of her propellers disconnected from its drive shaft. They are also replacing at least 5 of their frigates with a lighter class aimed at air defense. The Australian sub thing was extra humorous too since the French subs would have at least been started to be commissioned in the 2030s, while the new subs won't be ready until the 2040s if not the 2050s. The US and the UK have did a great job making sure that the Australians probably won't have a new sub fleet in any type of time frame when they would be useful. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 11:45 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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Mar 24, 2023 10:27
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 good luck to those lawyers
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Mar 24, 2023 11:14
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V. Illych L. posted:well norway and denmark have both acquired f-35-based airforces in the past years. sweden's still trying to use its own MIC to secure its skies, but now finland has also gone f-35 You say "acquired"... we haven't actually received them yet. Also they have to be maintained in Italy by the same company responsible for the IC4 train fiasco. It was hilarious, though, when we borrowed one of the four existing F-35 simulators and it caught fire and was totally destroyed.
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Mar 24, 2023 11:44
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mlmp08 posted:It’s still fantasy. No way they’re making 1500 new tanks this year. said the guy who couldn't figure out the most obvious submarine whodunnit possible
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Mar 24, 2023 12:04
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:this thread has twinkophrenia only cognitive bearhavioral therapy can fix it
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Mar 24, 2023 12:34
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everyone arguing over a mistranslation. he actually said russia is producing 1500 tankies this year
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Mar 24, 2023 12:47
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someone give me a coaxial machine gun status on the 1500 tanks
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Mar 24, 2023 12:50
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Ardennes posted:Well better than the HMS Prince of Wales which is still under repair after one of her propellers disconnected from its drive shaft. They are also replacing at least 5 of their frigates with a lighter class aimed at air defense. Australia is beyond hosed for sub capability now. It's effectively gone. Even if a sub gets delivered 2 decades from now nobody alive & in uniform will know how to operate it and they'll have to train a new arm from scratch. Every iota of institutional knowledge will be long gone. And the "price" is ludicrously inflated. I assume it was an all or nothing cash grab for the contractors before the empire falls. Plus even if one actually gets delivered in 2-3 decades it'll be more obsolete than the Collins relative to when they were first delivered. Ah well. Joke nation. Joke military. edit - to be clear I don't believe a single sub will ever be delivered. They'll "rent" a US sub and crew from the fleet if they need to play make believe shooty military. Probably for a million an hour or something. You know how it is, sellers market. DancingShade has issued a correction as of 13:15 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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Mar 24, 2023 13:07
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:its easy to get confued but the uk and the ukraine are not the same thing This actually used to confuse me a lot as a kid when I watched Guts
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Mar 24, 2023 13:15
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Cuttlefush posted:This actually used to confuse me a lot as a kid when I watched Guts lol I remember International Guts was the first time I ever heard of Ukraine, I thought it was a cool flag, nice colors.
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Mar 24, 2023 13:18
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Some Guy TT posted:good news everyone
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Mar 24, 2023 13:32
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:Pipeline owners better watch out Maybe they can buy timeshares in a USN dive team to avoid having to train their own.
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Mar 24, 2023 13:33
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Turtle Watch posted:lol I remember International Guts was the first time I ever heard of Ukraine, I thought it was a cool flag, nice colors. they always won some aggro crag too
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Mar 24, 2023 13:33
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1639100030815535108 "The Donetsk city of Bakhmut" who the gently caress writes like this. I had to stop and think to figure out if they were talking about Donetsk or Bakhmut.
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Mar 24, 2023 13:36
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Cuttlefush posted:they always won some aggro crag too Slava Ucragni
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Mar 24, 2023 13:42
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Two seater gripen looks really dumb imo. Though i do love the regular gripen.
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Mar 24, 2023 13:42
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Lostconfused posted:"The Donetsk city of Bakhmut" who the gently caress writes like this. I had to stop and think to figure out if they were talking about Donetsk or Bakhmut. Donetsk is also a city in Donetsk.
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Mar 24, 2023 13:45
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVkUvmDQ3HY 20 year old ideas that are actually kinda interesting getting looked over again. The problem is the whole concept requires close cooperation with South Africa and, well, BRICS happened in the meantime.  lol PowerPoints used to be so cool.
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Mar 24, 2023 13:46
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nowadays they don't even let you brag about the size of your papa's cannon
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Mar 24, 2023 13:48
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Frosted Flake posted:
god drat
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Mar 24, 2023 13:51
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Regarde Aduck posted:DeSantis reads the gbs thread DeSantis is the thread's most banned/probated poster.
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Mar 24, 2023 14:02
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Frosted Flake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVkUvmDQ3HY I thought military PowerPoints were notorious for being terrible? Or is that exclusive to the US military?
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Mar 24, 2023 14:02
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gradenko_2000 posted:hot take but if Ukraine had nuclear weapons they probably wouldn't have been invaded It's a debatable take as a nuclear Ukraine probably mean less foreign aid and more govt expense to maintain the nukes and at least 1 credible launch vector. IIRC, the launch vector Ukraine had were ICBMs with minimal range too long to strike anything but the Russian far east and missiles launched from planes like TU-160 Blackjack which I don't think they could have maintained medium/long term.
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Mar 24, 2023 14:04
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It would have been a great historical irony if the USA had ended up creating the very "rogue nuclear-armed state run by madmen" they used as a boogeyman for so long, thankfully that did not happen, they just settled for the conventional version
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Mar 24, 2023 14:10
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South africa has good relationships with it's neighbors tho.
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Mar 24, 2023 14:10
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:I thought military PowerPoints were notorious for being terrible? Or is that exclusive to the US military? No they're all bad, but I can't imaging ending a proposed artillery weapon system deck with "Not your daddy's field artillery piece". People were just discovering the art form back then, it was like jazz.
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Mar 24, 2023 14:44
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Al-Saqr posted:if what prighozin is saying is true abd ukraine has a big reserve force capable of doing a big offensive russia is in trouble for sure BIG (if true)
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Mar 24, 2023 14:51
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Tankbuster posted:South africa has good relationships with it's neighbors tho. Granted, Ukraine and South Africa kind of flip flopped from the early 1990s though in terms of politics.
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Mar 24, 2023 14:52
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