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What is the most powerful flying bug?
This poll is closed.
🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Nix Panicus posted:

Yeah, you just cut off their resupply routes and then wait for attrition to wear them down, classic Hearts of Iron tactics

Play Unity of Command!

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Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

mawarannahr posted:

catimir purrtin

:hmmyes:
explains why the baltic countries doesnt get along with him

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Slavvy posted:

Do you reckon you could explain what's going on in this video (no gore I just have no idea how to embed telegram)? The caption said they're using a UR-77, which itself doesn't seem like the right thing for the job, and you can see the cords coming down but only the end part explodes? I thought the whole cord is meant to explode to clear a path through mines. Am I just misunderstanding how those things are meant to work?

You can see when the rocket burns out and it starts coming down in the arc they either have attached only part of the line charge, or rigged it so the line doesn’t unspool. The explosives are all concentrated in a bundle near the end there.

Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 02:32 on Apr 20, 2023

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

So they're using it as a sort of rocket powered catapult basically? Maybe it was just the closest boomy thing they had on hand

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

DancingShade posted:

The Ukraine army is using the sisters of battle codex for their plans. Specifically hoping for the divine miracle mechanic.

Should've read the novels. The Sisters of Battle [Ukraine] are just there to die so the Grey Knights [NATO] can coat themselves in their pure and holy blood [Nazism] to better fight Chaos [Putin]

Freezer
Apr 20, 2001

The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
woah just learned that the Patriot missile costs 4 million a pop, no wonder the tab quickly runs into the billions.

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

DancingShade posted:

There are going to be a number of people on social media deleting either their accounts or otherwise scrubbing their post histories once it is no longer hip and cool to support the ahem historical reenactment people in Ukraine society.

there will be no shame

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/seriations/status/1648832183845494787?t=C4nSdhaUN3Z1LUC7MQJGog&s=19

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Frosted Flake posted:

Just want to remind everyone that modern Ukrainian national identity is the result of the Hapsburgs losing Spain to the Bourbons and naming a region of partitioned Poland after their favourite lost Spanish province as consolation.

:wrong: Ukraine started so Stalin could take their grain.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Freezer posted:

woah just learned that the Patriot missile costs 4 million a pop, no wonder the tab quickly runs into the billions.

Wonder what a single glide bomb costs.

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

Regarde Aduck posted:

yeah he's a pathological liar

or wanted people to think he is, which is just as weird

I'm just happy I can finally add the fucker to the ignore list

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Slavvy posted:

So they're using it as a sort of rocket powered catapult basically? Maybe it was just the closest boomy thing they had on hand

Yeah. I mean, the most military useful purpose of fuel air explosives is mine clearing, that’s still the main application. If the sappers were there, and of course they would be, they have to accompany the infantry in fortified areas, and they have all of those FAEs and no minefield to make lanes in, it seems like a decent way to get some use out of them.

Freezer
Apr 20, 2001

The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.

DancingShade posted:

Wonder what a single glide bomb costs.

According to the internet, the glide kit costs about 24k USD. No idea about the cost of the bomb itself, but they've probably got plenty of them.

Using patriots on glide bombs and shaheds is a terrible value proposition.

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


broke: tapping phone lines and intercepting cell signals

woke: just sit first class on a flight to myrtle beach

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Freezer posted:

According to the internet, the glide kit costs about 24k USD. No idea about the cost of the bomb itself, but they've probably got plenty of them.

Using patriots on glide bombs and shaheds is a terrible value proposition.

Instead of ERA blocks or patriot missiles have we considered just strapping about 4 million in small denomination notes to each Ukraine armor?

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

good news everyone

https://twitter.com/TradersAbacus/status/1648866876259291136

speng31b
May 8, 2010


that doesn't sound good

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
Crikey

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

What a nice present for the birthday boy

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

personally, i would not announce the start of my counteroffensive on twitter

speng31b
May 8, 2010

yellowcar posted:

personally, i would not announce the start of my counteroffensive on twitter

where would you announce it, reddit?

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

yellowcar posted:

personally, i would not announce the start of my counteroffensive on twitter

:ssh: It's a fake-out, OP.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Me selecting the whole screen of units in red alert and pointing them at the wall of Tesla coils, then walking away to make a coffee while it all plays out.

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1648659435370303489?s=20

Have you goons considered that Ukriane's Soviet era AA defenses being destroyed is actually bad for Russia because each one is immediately replaced by a superior NATO system with trained and readied crews?

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

speng31b posted:

where would you announce it, reddit?

War thunder forums

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

speng31b posted:

where would you announce it, reddit?

discord voice chat channel obviously

speng31b
May 8, 2010

yellowcar posted:

discord voice chat channel obviously

i declare a counter offensive

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1648809920735637504

dammit switzerland we need you to be one of our team players

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
EU plans farmer support, import curbs on Ukraine grain


quote:

The European Commission said on Wednesday it would take emergency "preventive measures" for wheat, maize, sunflower seeds and rape seed after a joint complaint from Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia at the end of March.

An EU official said this would only allow the grains to enter the five countries from Ukraine if they were set for export to other EU members or to the rest of the world. This measure would last until the end of June.

I'm rather surprised, but then again, I suppose the Commission prefers to make choices that avoid a subset of nations in the bloc taking unilateral action.

Tom Guycot
Oct 15, 2008

Chief of Governors



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-3Yok5D3Aw

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

OhFunny posted:

EU plans farmer support, import curbs on Ukraine grain

I'm rather surprised, but then again, I suppose the Commission prefers to make choices that avoid a subset of nations in the bloc taking unilateral action.

But they sanction Hungary and Poland all the time for 'rule of law' violations... :thunk:

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

speng31b posted:

where would you announce it, reddit?

Wowmao discord

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1648644105558274048

big if true

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1648809920735637504

dammit switzerland we need you to be one of our team players

the person in the room who's like "we can do something with those letters. pore? rope? no, REPO"

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

OhFunny posted:

https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1648659435370303489?s=20

Have you goons considered that Ukriane's Soviet era AA defenses being destroyed is actually bad for Russia because each one is immediately replaced by a superior NATO system with trained and readied crews?

thats not blood its victory wine

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

OhFunny posted:

https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1648659435370303489?s=20

Have you goons considered that Ukriane's Soviet era AA defenses being destroyed is actually bad for Russia because each one is immediately replaced by a superior NATO system with trained and readied crews?

A Sam site in red alert takes just seconds to build.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

sullat posted:

War thunder forums

Unironically this.

January 6 Survivor
Jan 6, 2022

The
Nelson Mandela
of clapping
dusty old cheeks


( o(

OhFunny posted:

https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1648659435370303489?s=20

Have you goons considered that Ukriane's Soviet era AA defenses being destroyed is actually bad for Russia because each one is immediately replaced by a superior NATO system with trained and readied crews?

"eh we will just somehow replace it for free by something better, newer and also our guys will magically be trained for it too so really it's a good thing" I say in response to a video of our already dangerously thin AA defense getting just a little thinner. No this is obviously not cope.

"but what about the crew members that might have gotten injured or killed in that attack?" some sniveling anti rules based order russian paid disinformation troll asks. "Is that a good thing too?"

I sigh. Time to explain again that sending slavs to die for our geopolitical goals is still better than sending some of the purer races like nordics or germans.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1648867173585018882

goodness. what a relief.

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Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1648809920735637504

dammit switzerland we need you to be one of our team players

If the Russians are orks then the swiss are clearly dwarves because all they care about is gold and keeping to themselves so they can admire their gold in their mountain fortresses

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