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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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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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I remember there being some unhinged Ukraine supporter who was 100% certain there were 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers being trained at NATO bases all over the world who would come back for the big offensive. Wonder how they're doing?
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Apr 21, 2023 23:21
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Frosted Flake posted:150 guns to support 9 Brigades is a new one. If we are generous, they could do 3 "battery" of 6 guns in each of the 9 brigade for 162 guns total. It's close to the 150 number and probably let them move 1 battery while 1 is being setup and one is shooting to keep rotating. It's also probably light to only have 6 guns ready to fire at any moment if you are actively pushing forward.
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Apr 21, 2023 23:34
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Nix Panicus posted:I remember there being some unhinged Ukraine supporter who was 100% certain there were 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers being trained at NATO bases all over the world who would come back for the big offensive. Wonder how they're doing? If you stop to think all of those 35k won't be combat element troops either. there's various types of support, medical, logistics, admin in every brigade and so on.
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Apr 21, 2023 23:42
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toothies and tailies
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Apr 21, 2023 23:43
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One of the major flaws in US commentators listing a number of brigades and equating that in their head is that a lot of them don't realize that US brigades are heavier than a lot of other countries' brigades. Hell, it's true down at the company level. A US tank company is made up of 14 main battle tanks (3x platoons of 4, commander, XO), compared to 10 (3x platoons of 3, 1 commander) in a typical Russian or Ukrainian tank company. Each time the US mentions a Ukrainian "brigade" armor or mech infantry, they've been referring to a formation of 2,000 troops or so. In contrast, a US army armored brigade combat team is over 4,000 troops, plus the vehicles and equipment. US Stryker and Infantry BCTs are over 4,500 soldiers.
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Apr 21, 2023 23:50
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mlmp08 posted:US brigades are heavier than a lot of other countries' brigades i'd believe this
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Apr 21, 2023 23:52
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US brigades are also heavier in the tail
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Apr 22, 2023 00:11
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adebisi lives posted:https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1649434753953570817?s=20
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Apr 22, 2023 00:16
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Nix Panicus posted:US brigades are also heavier in the tail Yeah, I think it goes without saying that the US tooth to tail is going to be significantly, drastically more capable and sizeable than Ukrainian forces. Even within a battlespace, before you get to the depth of depot and replacements.
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Apr 22, 2023 00:17
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Battlespace is such a funny word to me
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Apr 22, 2023 00:19
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Nix Panicus posted:US brigades are also heavier in the tail They've got a lot of junk in their trunk
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Apr 22, 2023 00:26
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Endman posted:Battlespace is such a funny word to me I prefer Battlezone personally, you could use a joystick. ----- Also, as far as Ukrainian brigades go, I am sure plenty of the units actually in the field including the ones cycled in and out of Bakhmut are going to not be anywhere near full strength. The new ones coming in are but yeah they are only going to be about 2,800-3,000 men. To be get to 80,000, you would have to probably pull other units off the line for a major offensive and they would still be light on heavy equipment. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 00:30 on Apr 22, 2023 |
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Apr 22, 2023 00:27
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BROTHER I AM DEEP STRIKING INTO THE BATTLESPACE
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Apr 22, 2023 00:27
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Endman posted:BROTHER I AM DEEP STRIKING INTO THE BATTLESPACE 
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Apr 22, 2023 00:32
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warfighter always makes me laugh
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Apr 22, 2023 00:38
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Nix Panicus posted:I remember there being some unhinged Ukraine supporter who was 100% certain there were 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers being trained at NATO bases all over the world who would come back for the big offensive. Wonder how they're doing? deport the entire ukraine-canadian population to ukraine, win war
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Apr 22, 2023 00:40
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Regarde Aduck posted:yeah the thing about hype is that it hurts a lot more when things don't go as planned "why aren't any f-16s", says the geopolitically very astute people
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Apr 22, 2023 00:47
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Russia should know by now that continuing to oppose the West only leads to human catastrophe!
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Apr 22, 2023 00:59
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supersnowman posted:If we are generous, they could do 3 "battery" of 6 guns in each of the 9 brigade for 162 guns total. It's close to the 150 number and probably let them move 1 battery while 1 is being setup and one is shooting to keep rotating. Yeah, 3x6 guns is the standard makeup of a field artillery BN in a US brigade combat team. SPG 155mm, towed 155mm or towed 105mm depending on type of BCT. never mind that US BCTs also have divisional artillery and this thing called "the air component" at their disposal, so it's not exactly fair to compare small countries' formations to a military the size and resourcing of the US. Still, have to imagine a whole lot of donated howitzers are destroyed in combat or generally broken by now.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:00
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Al-Saqr posted:Eid Mubarak to all the haters. Funny you should say that, the big Ukrainian derby match is this Sunday. Dynamo Kyiv vs Shakhtar Donetsk.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:01
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From this war, did we find out that all the fancy equipment doesn’t work that well against an opponent with similar level tech? Seems like this war is back to WWII type tactics of just pound everything with artillery and move up slowly.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:05
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Palladium posted:"why aren't any f-16s", says the geopolitically very astute people They’ve been asking for German submarines and frigates which would be a no kidding act of war. Of course, since their goal is to draw NATO in, that’s not really a problem.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:05
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Ukrainian battlecruisers should besiege Sevastopol
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Apr 22, 2023 01:07
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US is sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine. From listening to the Radio War Nerd podcast about tanks, I take it they will quickly run out of fuel and be blown up. I didn’t know it but they said those things are so thirsty you pretty much need to build a pipeline behind them to keep them fueled up.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:09
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Raccooon posted:From this war, did we find out that all the fancy equipment doesn’t work that well against an opponent with similar level tech? We discovered that Russia just adapts to things like HIMARS by keeping their ammo dumps and HQ further back, and that HIMARS is expensive and limited and not a real substitute for saturation with low tech artillery. We're also learning industrial production capacity is key for military success, a lesson we already knew over a hundred years ago, but nevertheless must relearn every decade or so
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Apr 22, 2023 01:16
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Frosted Flake posted:They’ve been asking for German submarines and frigates which would be a no kidding act of war. have they tried the one weird trick by calling others to sanction china more
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Apr 22, 2023 01:19
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Apr 22, 2023 01:24
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Raccooon posted:From this war, did we find out that all the fancy equipment doesn’t work that well against an opponent with similar level tech? don't know about everything but the m777's sure kinda don't come up very much anymore nor do the HIMARS, but that might be because they are holding them back
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Apr 22, 2023 01:27
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Uuhhhh
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Apr 22, 2023 01:28
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The big takeaway from this war from a technological perspective, at least to my untrained and largely stupid eye, is that cheap drones with explosives strapped to them are very effective.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:29
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Slavvy posted:Uuhhhh yeah it's an odd one if i was to be cynical i'd say they were playing to their audience
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Apr 22, 2023 01:32
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 Senior lieutenant Pavel Kuzin mowed down hundreds of Russians with his machine-gun before his death, enabling his troops to commit a skilled rear-guard action.
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Apr 22, 2023 01:34
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I'm MOOTW
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Apr 22, 2023 01:40
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Endman posted:The big takeaway from this war from a technological perspective, at least to my untrained and largely stupid eye, is that cheap drones with explosives strapped to them are very effective. this is true. i also perceive there being a huge difference with the amount of information available about the enemy. its impossible to build up an armored fist to push unexpectantly in a particular direction when you're being observed 24/7
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Apr 22, 2023 01:44
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sending 35,000 warrior poets to the ukraine
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Apr 22, 2023 01:54
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master of orion third worldism
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Apr 22, 2023 01:54
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lmfao
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Apr 22, 2023 02:00
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Endman posted:The big takeaway from this war from a technological perspective, at least to my untrained and largely stupid eye, is that cheap drones with explosives strapped to them are very effective. The first time I read about a Ukrainian jet fighter going down from a cheap drone, I thought it was a fluke. The second time really made me realize cheap drones are incredibly effective. Fun fact, the US army used a ton of cheap (for the US MIC) ADM-141 TALD glider drones during the first Gulf War. They saturated Baghdad's SAM radar with decoy gliders.
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Apr 22, 2023 02:02
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https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1649561761022967821 does this one really need any more comment than just lol
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Apr 22, 2023 02:04
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Some Guy TT posted:does this one really need any more comment than just lol why the gently caress would i believe anything from the feds on this
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