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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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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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mawarannahr posted:Slava Ukraïni I didn’t give you permission to reveal his name.  Thanks everyone!
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Apr 14, 2023 03:28
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Majorian posted:Also my son was born yesterday and he’s very cute. Congratulations.
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Apr 14, 2023 03:30
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I know that he’s mine because he burps and farts exactly as much as I do.
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Is he named vladimir or volodomyr
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Apr 14, 2023 03:31
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mlmp08 posted:Russian T-90 appears in US for some reason. Stay safe. Putin is ready, just give me the password and the boat will be on the dock tomorrow.
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Apr 14, 2023 03:31
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Cpt_Obvious posted:thank god ur safe mlmp
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Apr 14, 2023 03:32
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Cpt_Obvious posted:thank god ur safe mlmp
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Apr 14, 2023 03:33
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Nonsense posted:The first fighter ever shot down was with a rifle. wwhoa https://www.twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1566828796950478851
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Apr 14, 2023 03:34
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Majorian posted:Also my son was born yesterday and he’s very cute. nice!
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Apr 14, 2023 03:35
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Majorian posted:It’s like poetry, it rhymes. *insert modern nazis uniromnically complaining that they feel as persecutred as jews* Also of course Dreyfus was not actually a spy but only spuriously accused while this anti-semite gamer most certainly said what he said and posted what he posted. PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 03:38 on Apr 14, 2023 |
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Apr 14, 2023 03:35
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A giant image post of MGs in the direct role. RIP mobile users, I didn't feel like formatting all the text: Gatling  Vickers (including in Korea)   MG 08    M1917 and M1919     M2 (M16 is the quad mount I think)   M60   FN MAG   FN Minimi (!)  You could, very briefly, buy the good rifles, Diemaco stamp and all. [timg]https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Diemaco.jpg[/itmg] They even had a limited run with the green furniture of the military issued ones. I was hemming and hawing buying one when they all sold out. Then an RCMP informant committed a mass shooting and now they're all prohibited.  The long barrel on the commercial C8 was to avoid being prohibited due to barrel length.
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Apr 14, 2023 03:37
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Slavvy posted:Is he named vladimir or volodomyr Vyacheslav, Crusher of the Bashkorts.
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Apr 14, 2023 03:37
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Slavvy posted:Is he named vladimir or volodomyr
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Apr 14, 2023 03:39
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Majorian posted:Also my son was born yesterday and he’s very cute. Don't name them after posters, as tempting as it might seem... The joke won't be as funny in 2055.
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Apr 14, 2023 03:39
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Majorian posted:Also my son was born yesterday and he’s very cute. Great news on a Thursday evening! Congratulations Majorian!
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Apr 14, 2023 03:40
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Slavvy posted:An air national guard private having these materials is pretty loving tenuous don't you think? Also congrats Majorian. The Germans did have a heavy machine gun, the 13mm MG 131, they just didn't have a place for it in their doctrine. "It was one of the smallest, if not the smallest, among the heavy machine guns of that conflict, with a weight of 16.6 kilograms (37 lb,) less than 60% of the M2 Browning or the Breda-SAFAT machine gun. Despite this, the MG 131 was a rapid fire weapon with an elevated firepower for its mass. " e: If, and how often, the MG 131 was used in the ground role is an internet rabbit hole if you're interested. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 03:45 on Apr 14, 2023 |
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Apr 14, 2023 03:41
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Congrats, Majorian. Remember it's never too early to put your son and yourself to sleep by reading Capital. Edit: or FF's posts gotem
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Apr 14, 2023 03:53
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Something I have always been interested to learn more about is WW2 era artillery that could also be used for direct fire. To start off, what actually was the doctrinal purpose of the Nazi 75mm and 150mm Infantry Guns? They were obviously not designed with AT warfare in mind but where still not considered "real" artillery? Certainly if you just look at a 15cm Infanteriegeschütz you can tell it is not designed for long-range fire... The other side of this question is the SU-76, which for example many games have designated as either an anti-tank piece (or assault gun) or as a mobile artillery piece, with little comrpomise. Basically, there seems as like WW2 had an entire category of gunnery that was equppied for both direct and indirect fire, that tends to get forgotten, partially because the overwhelming impact of artillery overall in WW2 gets forgotten for tanks nd planes... PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 04:00 on Apr 14, 2023 |
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Apr 14, 2023 03:54
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Slavvy posted:An air national guard private having these materials is pretty loving tenuous don't you think? All I know is it sounds like information access and security was wild west.
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Apr 14, 2023 03:56
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Majorian posted:I didn’t give you permission to reveal his name. Hope the baptism at the local Russian orthodox church goes very well too. All the best and sorry about your imminent loss of sleep the next couple years!
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Apr 14, 2023 03:59
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поздравляю majorian
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Apr 14, 2023 04:04
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congrats majorian is your baby bigger than zelensky yet
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Apr 14, 2023 04:08
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lol
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Apr 14, 2023 04:12
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crepeface posted:congrats majorian is your baby bigger than zelensky yet 22 inches, so yes.
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Apr 14, 2023 04:16
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DancingShade posted:Hope the baptism at the local Russian orthodox church goes very well too. All the best and sorry about your imminent loss of sleep the next couple years! The good news is I’m a chronic insomniac so I ain’t losing poo poo. 
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Apr 14, 2023 04:17
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I was watching Hotel Mumbai last night and sure enough there was Jason Isaacs somehow playing yet another Russian. Funny coincidence.
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Apr 14, 2023 04:23
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Majorian posted:Also my son was born yesterday and he’s very cute. grats
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Apr 14, 2023 04:26
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gradenko_2000 posted:I was watching Hotel Mumbai last night and sure enough there was Jason Isaacs somehow playing yet another Russian. He also played a sort of dream sequence version of Peter the Great in “The Great,” which is a show that had some potential and then totally squandered it, sadly.
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Apr 14, 2023 04:33
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congratulations Majorian  so when is Minorian getting his first account?
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Apr 14, 2023 04:39
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congrats Majorian! glad you’re not a mod anymore so I can think of you fondly and be earnestly happy for you
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Apr 14, 2023 04:43
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gradenko_2000 posted:I was watching Hotel Mumbai last night and sure enough there was Jason Isaacs somehow playing yet another Russian. thats the 26/11 terror attack movie right? I saw the fidayeen get yeeted out of the ground floor window in front of cameras live on TV.
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Apr 14, 2023 04:45
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Majorian posted:Also my son was born yesterday and he’s very cute. So did you name him Volodymyr? edit : aw poo poo someone already made that joke edit 2 : is SA modship hereditary? January 6 Survivor has issued a correction as of 04:55 on Apr 14, 2023 |
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Apr 14, 2023 04:49
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Lostconfused posted:All anarchists are feds. Look, it's simple. Your goal is to "destroy all the governments." What's the best way to do this? Obviously it is to support the US, the country with the world's most powerful military. Once it has destroyed all the other governments, you can then take care of it last.
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Apr 14, 2023 04:52
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/13/ukrainian-orchestra-key-members-refused-visas-play-uk The western betrayals keep coming quote:Key members of a Ukrainian state orchestra were refused visas to play a series of concerts in the UK this month in a “catastrophe” that the promoter claims cost it more than €100,000 (£88,000).
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Apr 14, 2023 04:56
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Something I have always been interested to learn more about is WW2 era artillery that could also be used for direct fire. Sometimes there's some guys in a building or whatever and you can wait around hoping to get some artillery support at some point that may or may not do the trick, or you can have your guys wheel forward the 75 and make the problem go away right now. Su76 and stug III are just that idea but self propelled and with armor protection; the stug was only ever issued to infantry units as an assault fire support vehicle and fighting tanks was just a bonus. You can still see this today with the way ATGM's are being used to blast holes in buildings in Ukraine
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Apr 14, 2023 05:08
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Slavvy's right: the notion derives from the concept of an "infantry gun" - a gun that the infantry hauls around when they need to blow something up that isn't a tank, but can't be shot at with small arms, and can't be approached closely. Like a house. You make it small and simple because you don't need it to be as long-ranged as a full-on artillery piece. The "assault gun", as the Germans called their Stugs, is wrapping an infantry gun around some tracks for mobility, and around some armor so the crew can withstand small arms fire coming from the house that they're trying to blow up. A gun that isn't explicitly designed to be a "tank destroyer", will end up being pressed into that role anyway, because a sufficiently large gun can still blow up a tank given the right conditions (i.e. the range is low enough) Converselt, a gun that IS supposed to be a tank destroyer, will end up being pressed into the infantry gun role if there are no tanks to shoot at, as American TDs regularly were.
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Apr 14, 2023 05:16
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Majorian posted:I didn’t give you permission to reveal his name. Congratulations on your new orcling! 
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Apr 14, 2023 05:19
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Also worth noting, in case it gets confusing, that this is one of the roles a tank is supposed to do, but not the only one. So tanks have to have their own separate doctrine and unit structure and training etc. A stug really only has one job so it can just fit right into an infantry unit like any other piece of hardware.
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Apr 14, 2023 05:19
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lol 
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Apr 14, 2023 05:25
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https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1646563894448488470?s=20
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waiting for ukraines victory like i wait for half life 3
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