John Charity Spring posted:

FF posting classified Canadian documents to the Red Scare discord trying to get attention from the coked up brooklyn egirls posting their nudes

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Anyone excited to see the new movie "Once Upon a Time in Ukraine"?

tazjin posted:

No, but my girlfriend went to the pre-premiere of Вызов yesterday (the movie that they partially filmed on the ISS). She said it was actually really good, not just resting on the "gimmick" of being filmed in space. Kinda looking forward to watching it now when it comes out publicly.

Col.Schultz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vphtaCRmfk&t=1032s



FF have you ever been forced to eat this?

Blarghalt posted:

kuk armee

Raskolnikov38 posted:

cc:ff

thankfully I have solution he might be interested in. I call it the dual monarchy republic of the Levant

Turtle Watch posted:

Jel Shaker posted:

it’s a real shame that we missed the chance to be a lot meaner to FF so we could have also have had our own tilted NATO office top secret image dumps

sullat posted:

These forums are too nice. We weren't able to bully 2Dcat into leaking the Trump secrets.

Turtle Watch posted:

Turtle Watch posted:

Regarde Aduck posted:

lol if Zelensky basically turns out to be a hostage in all this

supposed to basically guide the Russians into Kyiv but something went wrong/The US found out and now its basically "keep the war going or we shoot you"

Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1646406887213080579

Frosted Flake posted:

Poutine is the most popular one!

WRT volley sights

Volley sights

Gravid Topiary posted:

what an optimistic design

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

Whenever you are forced to retreat from a position you should make sure to mag dump straight up into the sky do your enemies taking over the position will be headshotted once the bullets come back down

Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1646406887213080579

Mike Fallopian posted:

I'm not like a big military technology guy or anything but I assumed that any kind of accuracy would be totally lost to the wind carrying off your rifle rounds if you tried to do some kind of crazy mini artillery arced shot stuff with rifles.

Mike Fallopian posted:

I'm not like a big military technology guy or anything but I assumed that any kind of accuracy would be totally lost to the wind carrying off your rifle rounds if you tried to do some kind of crazy mini artillery arced shot stuff with rifles.

OctaMurk posted:

rly does it have to be some big conspiracy as opposed to some guy trying to be a main character

Ardennes posted:

And/or just someone that was pissed off at the time, and they really didn’t think about the consequences of their actions.

Frosted Flake posted:

Do we think bureaucrat, military or contractor?

Ardennes posted:

My bet is someone that was Russian orthodox and in the military (or at least a contractor they were using), and was tremendously pissed off about the the Ukrainian government has been doing.

OctaMurk posted:

what is funnier

intel contractor posts hundreds of clasified documents on discord to win arguments against unimpressed teenagers, ends up leaking that ukraines kinda hosed and that america has no clue wtf going on

head scientist on top secret project at defense contractor hires his favorite prostitute as an "engineer" and she manages stay employed for some time by selling her services to all the other engineers

Frosted Flake posted:

Max range for 5.56 is something like 800m for an area target, right?

I wonder if you could develop an indirect fire sight for the FN Minimi. Not that it would be useful, just wondering if you could set up the tripod and everything else you need, and what the beaten zone would be like. The tracers would have burnt out by then, and the bullets are so light, I imagine they'd be both slow and blown around a fair bit on the way down.

Frosted Flake posted:

Do we think bureaucrat, military or contractor?

quote:

The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.

Two U.S. officials confirmed that investigators want to talk to Airman Teixeira about the leak of the government documents to the private online group. One official said Airman Teixeira might have information relevant to the investigation.

Federal investigators have been searching for days for the person who leaked the top secret documents online but have not identified Airman Teixeira or anyone else as a suspect. The F.B.I. declined to comment.

Starting months ago, one of the users uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings into the small chat group, lecturing its members, who had bonded during the isolation of the pandemic, on the importance of staying abreast of world events.

A Guide to the Leaked Pentagon Documents

A major intelligence breach. After U.S. intelligence documents, some marked “top secret,” were found circulating on social media, questions remain about how dozens of pages from Pentagon briefings became public and how much to believe them. Here is what we know

Are the documents real? Yes, officials say — at least, for the most part. Some of the documents appear to have been altered, officials say. U.S. officials are alarmed at this exposure of secret information, and the F.B.I. is working to determine the source of the leak.

Where did the materials come from? The evidence that this is a leak, and not a hack, appears strong. The material may be popping up on platforms like Discord, Twitter, 4chan and the Telegram messaging app, but what is being circulated are photographs of printed briefing reports.

What other countries are named? The leak appears to go well beyond classified material on Ukraine. Analysts say the trove of documents also includes sensitive material on Canada, China, Israel and South Korea, in addition to the Indo-Pacific military theater and the Middle East.

The New York Times spoke with four members of the Thug Shaker Central chat group, one of whom said he has known the person who leaked for at least three years, had met him in person, and referred to him as the O.G. The friends described him as older than most of the group members, who were in their teens, and the undisputed leader. One of the friends said the O.G. had access to intelligence documents through his job.

While the gaming friends would not identify the group’s leader by name, a trail of digital evidence compiled by The Times leads to Airman Teixeira.

The Times has been able to link Airman Teixeira to other members of the Thug Shaker Central group through his online gaming profile and other records. Details of the interior of Airman Teixeira’s childhood home — posted on social media in family photographs — also match details on the margins of some of the photographs of the leaked secret documents.

The Times also has established, through social media posts and military records, that Airman Teixeira is enlisted in the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. Posts on the unit’s official Facebook page congratulated Airman Teixeira and colleagues for being promoted to Airman First Class in July 2022.

On Thursday, President Biden said the United States was “getting close” to finding answers about the leak.

“There’s a full blown investigation going on, as you know, with the intelligence community and the Justice Department, and they’re getting close,” Mr. Biden told reporters on a visit to Dublin.

It was not immediately clear if a young Air National Guardsman in his position could have had access to such highly sensitive briefings. Officials within the U.S. government with security clearance often receive such documents through daily emails, one official told The Times, and those emails might then be automatically forwarded to other people.

Airman Teixeira’s mother, Dawn, speaking outside her home in Massachusetts on Thursday, confirmed that her son was a member of the Air National Guard and said he had recently been working overnight shifts at a base on Cape Cod. In the last few days, he had changed his phone number, she said.

Later, someone who appeared to be Airman Teixeira drove onto the property in a red pickup truck.

When Times reporters approached the house again, the truck was parked in the driveway. Airman Teixeira’s mother and a man were standing outside in the driveway.

When asked if Airman Teixeira was there and willing to speak, the man said: “He needs to get an attorney if things are flowing the way they are going right now. The Feds will be around soon, I’m sure.”

Members of Thug Shaker Central who spoke to The Times said that the documents they discussed online were meant to be purely informative. While many pertained to the war in Ukraine, the members said they took no side in the conflict.

The documents, they said, only started to get wider attention when one of the teenage members of the group took a few dozen of them and posted them to a public online forum. From there they were picked up by Russian-language Telegram channels and then The New York Times, which first reported on them.

The person who leaked, they said, was no whistleblower, and the secret documents were never meant to leave their small corner of the internet.

“This guy was a Christian, anti-war, just wanted to inform some of his friends about what’s going on,” said one of the person’s friends from the community, a 17-year-old recent high school graduate. “We have some people in our group who are in Ukraine. We like fighting games, we like war games.”

Frosted Flake posted:

Okay, but a 21 year old is what, a corporal Intelligence Operator or a just graduated 2lt Int O?

Why would they even be read in on this stuff? Unless they were the ADC to someone in attendance?

e: Is Airman a one hook?