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I always find it amusing how nonchalant dudes get when they deal with terrifying poo poo everyday.
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Apr 10, 2023 23:26
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bulletsponge13 posted:I always find it amusing how nonchalant dudes get when they deal with terrifying poo poo everyday. I think that’s a very literal case of survivorship bias.
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Apr 10, 2023 23:31
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His statements about the efficacy of helmets made a macabre sort of sense. Might as well go out comfortable because a helmet isn't going to help you at all if you set off a *checks notes* living room full of mines
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Apr 10, 2023 23:39
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Subjunctive posted:Jesus Christ Screw trying to defuse all those things one by one. We throw a grenade in there and let the original owners collect the insurance money.
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Apr 10, 2023 23:48
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Vengarr posted:Screw trying to defuse all those things one by one. We throw a grenade in there and let the original owners collect the insurance money. Over a year of war has probably effected their risk vs reward math by a lot. Those are a lot of explosives they can deploy against the russians themselves if they diffuse it properly.
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Apr 10, 2023 23:50
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HonorableTB posted:I'm visiting from the GBS thread to tell you all about the latest tank Russia is sending to the front, sure to inspire fear and awe in their enemies: I was really hoping they were sending Armata prototypes to the front, if they ever existed.
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Apr 11, 2023 00:09
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obj 279 isnt going to be sent into combat lol
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Apr 11, 2023 00:11
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CainFortea posted:Over a year of war has probably effected their risk vs reward math by a lot. Those are a lot of explosives they can deploy against the russians themselves if they diffuse it properly. OTOH you're down an EOD trained soldier and a room full of mines if something goes wrong.
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Apr 11, 2023 00:33
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Vengarr posted:Screw trying to defuse all those things one by one. We throw a grenade in there and let the original owners collect the insurance money. Most insurances in the US don't cover acts of war , would not be suprised if thats true in Ukraine.
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Apr 11, 2023 00:37
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orange juche posted:OTOH you're down an EOD trained soldier and a room full of mines if something goes wrong. Yes, that would be the risk math I had mentioned.
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Apr 11, 2023 00:38
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orange juche posted:OTOH you're down an EOD trained soldier and a room full of mines if something goes wrong. Maybe he wanted a nice room to sleep in
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Apr 11, 2023 01:46
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The mines really pulled the room together.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:54
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HonorableTB posted:I'm visiting from the GBS thread to tell you all about the latest tank Russia is sending to the front, sure to inspire fear and awe in their enemies: The gently caress are you talking about? Your post in the GBS thread reads like you're trying to score internet points like all the cringey "haha cope cage" guys. Googling does return stuff about the Kubinka museum restoring their Objekt-279 to running condition in 2022. If that's what you're going on about, news flash: tank museums restore vehicles to running (but not fighting) condition all the time, completely independent of any wars which may be happening. There's no way they did that work intending to send it to the front. It would just get in the way. There's no logistics train to keep it running, and nobody's trained to crew it.
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Apr 11, 2023 02:39
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BobHoward posted:The gently caress are you talking about? Your post in the GBS thread reads like you're trying to score internet points like all the cringey "haha cope cage" guys. You're at like an 8 right now, could you dial it back to a 5 or less?
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Apr 11, 2023 02:40
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McNally posted:You're at like an 8 right now, could you dial it back to a 5 or less? Sorry, will do.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Understood that Finland is adding a large NATO border, but why would Russia need to put more than a handful of additional troops there at this time? I understand not wanting to neglect their border with China too much but seems pointless to put significant ground troops on a spot where it is unlikely NATO would choose to declare war, when they are critically needed elsewhere. Depends on how sincere Putin was when he said one of the motivations for his invasion of Ukraine is to prevent NATO from winding up on his borders. If he really does feel NATO is an existential and aggressive threat, he'll prioritize strengthening the forces along the border with Finland. And even if he doesn't see things that way, his language suggests that he does and I would expect that there'd be some kind of domestic pressure to ensure that the border with Finland is adequately defended due to all the rhetoric he and his mouthpieces have thrown around about NATO being bent on the destruction of Russia.
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Apr 11, 2023 03:15
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I think it's cool they got that old rare tank running. Sometimes making prototypes is more about learning from your mistakes and trying new things than getting something out to production. Half the meme tanks out there are just prototypes. Not the s tank tho. It's perfect.
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Apr 11, 2023 03:16
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Borscht posted:Not the s tank tho. It's perfect.  The S stands for "scoot" and it's capitalised because it's real good at it
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Apr 11, 2023 03:23
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Dandywalken posted:obj 279 isnt going to be sent into combat lol I mean, no it’s not, but it’s not a zero % chance…
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Apr 11, 2023 03:49
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Back in the day, i only ever unlocked the Obj. 260 from the personal reward missions, so i wouldn't mind seeing some drone footage of a 279 getting destroyed
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Apr 11, 2023 04:15
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Any news on T-55 seeing combat yet? My suspicion was when they popped up in pictures was they were destined to be pillboxes in fortification lines but no data.
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Apr 11, 2023 05:46
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Tunicate posted:Finnish is viperless I refuse to believe there is a way to make the risk calculus on that thing result in anything but "controlled demo". 
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Apr 11, 2023 06:25
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You can all disagree with me, but I'd say the best tank is Hooba's tank. 
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Apr 11, 2023 06:53
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Isn't it bad opsec to post your defusing TTP to the interwebs?
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Apr 11, 2023 06:58
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vuk83 posted:Isn't it bad opsec to post your defusing TTP to the interwebs? If it leads to safer UXO cleanup for both sides, I'm not against it. I'm not sure what that first device does though. Does it loop around the spoon and closes it down to make sure the holes align so he can put a pin back in?
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Apr 11, 2023 07:35
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Fragrag posted:If it leads to safer UXO cleanup for both sides, I'm not against it. This was I understand a booby trapped mine, with a hand grenade under. So by showing your EOD ttp, there is a chance that next time the grenade is tampered with?
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Apr 11, 2023 07:56
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Dandywalken posted:obj 279 isnt going to be sent into combat lol What about obj 69
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vuk83 posted:Isn't it bad opsec to post your defusing TTP to the interwebs? Paranoid me thinks that is only the FIRST trap in that pile of mines.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Paranoid me thinks that is only the FIRST trap in that pile of mines. Paranoid him thinks so too. That's why he just showed the first one on camera
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Apr 11, 2023 10:25
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https://twitter.com/naalsio26/status/1645609044680343555 Check out the kill marks on the barrel
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Apr 11, 2023 11:51
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New season of extreme hoarders looks wild
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Apr 11, 2023 12:09
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I don't think I've ever seen a stack of tank mines that wasn't a total mess, is there no good way to stack those things??
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Serjeant Buzfuz posted:I don't think I've ever seen a stack of tank mines that wasn't a total mess, is there no good way to stack those things?? they stack just fine in a container. When they're loose they like to just pile up haphazardly.
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Apr 11, 2023 12:26
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HonorableTB posted:Do left-handed users get sprayed in the face by hot brass or is that accounted for in modern rifle designs? I don't know anything about ejection systems but that would really suck to find out a bunch of hot brass is now filling your shirt At first this post prompted me to mention that there is a brass deflector that can be snapped into the carry handle on an M-16. We would occasionally have them available for BRM and quals. Here's an example: https://youtu.be/0akMkiZteRU Then I remembered that the Army switched over to flat top uppers with optics a very long time ago. I feel like an old fart now.
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HonorableTB posted:Do left-handed users get sprayed in the face by hot brass or is that accounted for in modern rifle designs? I don't know anything about ejection systems but that would really suck to find out a bunch of hot brass is now filling your shirt Finnish RK-62s worked without issue shooting from the left. I'd argue they were actually better that way since the charging handle was on the right.
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Saukkis posted:Finnish RK-62s worked without issue shooting from the left. I'd argue they were actually better that way since the charging handle was on the right. Counter strike was right all along
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https://twitter.com/PaulJawin/status/1645705332847509505 Ah sweet, man made horrors beyond compehension e: Ah why the hell isn't the link displayed properly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's a FPV drone used as a divebomber on a training range. After delivering the payload, it's speeding off Dein Specht fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1645565714584018946?s=46&t=NORpsj0R4coZAENOyHWtdg If true seems like a buried lede in all this
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1645565714584018946?s=46&t=NORpsj0R4coZAENOyHWtdg Somebody really wanted to keep his Su-35s, I guess.
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