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ISW is reporting that ARF just gave up roughly 3 square miles of Bakhmut. Not that there's anything with holding there anymore, that's still a sizable reversal given the pace of conflict over the past 5 months. https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1656343774232969227
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Borscht posted:That patriot battery wasn't even the most up to date, right? I think there were reports saying that the Ukrainian battery was brand new and hard parts the US didn't even have yet, would have to dig out that article though. Edit: couldn't find it, so not sure if I just made this up. Recall it was an interview with some manufacturing folks producing a station of some kind which was going to Ukraine before DoD took official delivery but it could be for some other system WarpedLichen fucked around with this message at 20:58 on May 10, 2023 |
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May 10, 2023 20:35
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A.o.D. posted:ISW is reporting that ARF just gave up roughly 3 square miles of Bakhmut. Not that there's anything with holding there anymore, that's still a sizable reversal given the pace of conflict over the past 5 months. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/16865 According to the Kyiv Post it's a sizeable counterattack that did not end well for the Russian side, it'll be interesting to see if it's just part of the general ebb and flow around Bakhmut or whether it's part of the supposed major counterattack that's going to happen in May. According to Prigozhin, who has every motivation to understate his losses(unless he's still trying to convince everyone that Wagner just needs more ammo and this is what happens when they don't get it), Wagner lost 500 troops in the counterattack.
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WarpedLichen posted:I think there were reports saying that the Ukrainian battery was brand new and hard parts the US didn't even have yet, would have to dig out that article though. Well, there really isn't any better trial ground for new stuff than Ukraine at the moment, but obviously there are limitations on what you can send to Ukraine if you want to keep the details of such system a secret.
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May 10, 2023 20:48
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PurpleXVI posted:
It turns out it might be a bad idea to broadcast that your force is basically out of ammo in front of a motivated enemy.
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Der Kyhe posted:Well, there really isn't any better trial ground for new stuff than Ukraine at the moment, but obviously there are limitations on what you can send to Ukraine if you want to keep the details of such system a secret. <Russia captures a brand new 2023 Patriot battery> <Spends 2 years cannibalizing Samsung appliances and PS4s for components> <Spends another 4 years developing first prototype at a cost of 200 billion Rubles> <Is actually an S-300 with a body kit that they staff with dwarfs and children in Russian uniforms and keep Putin at least 200m away from>
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Alchenar posted:It turns out it might be a bad idea to broadcast that your force is basically out of ammo in front of a motivated enemy. edit: like that video from early on of Russian soldiers standing like 20 feet away from an SRBM and intentionally shooting it to I guess disable it? Ended with predictable results. Jimmy Smuts fucked around with this message at 00:49 on May 11, 2023 |
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Blistex posted:<Russia captures a brand new 2023 Patriot battery> I think the worry would more be the battalion of Chinese forensic engineers who would descend on the device as soon as it entered Russian hands.
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i saw people elsewhere speculating a while back about whether this was theatre or if there's actual bad blood between russian MoD and wagner and I remain confident that, if anything, there's no shortage of either
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there's no way in hell prigozhin is pretending to be owned he has far too much pride for that for a guy who looks like a bulldog anyway
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May 11, 2023 01:24
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US DOD update, not much here. I cut out everything unrelated to Ukraine. Link with video: https://www.defense.gov/News/Transc...press-briefing/ Link with USAI announcement: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3388890/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/ Reminder that USAI is a contract mechanism, not a drawdown from US stocks, so anything in a USAI tends to be months to a year+ down the road. Highlights: -USAI includes ammunition, training/maintenance support, air defense systems/munitions, equipment to help integrate Western and legacy Ukrainian air defenses, among other things -US Confirms that Ukraine used Patriot to shoot down a Kinzhal (NATO reporting name Killjoy) missile. These are missiles launched from modified MiG-31s, capable of hypersonic speeds. -US continues to train Ukrainian personnel in Germany, plans to do so as long as Ukraine has demand for it quote:BRIGADIER GENERAL PAT RYDER: Good afternoon, everybody. Just a few things here at the top, and then we'll get right to your questions.
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Getting weirdly reminiscent of the wars in EVE Online where every participant was terminally online and internal drama would leak out into public meltdowns, leaving you to try to figure out how much they were putting on a show and who it was for.
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I would not want to be stationed anywhere near Vilseck/Grafenwoehr anytime in the last 30 years, but I double-triple would not want to be there now. Can't imagine the ops tempo.
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or the town with the largest church spire in Europe for that matter
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Voyager I posted:Getting weirdly reminiscent of the wars in EVE Online where every participant was terminally online and internal drama would leak out into public meltdowns, leaving you to try to figure out how much they were putting on a show and who it was for. DBRB: okay, everyone charge into that apartment. Go go go go. Wait it's boobytrapped. If you charged you're dead. Bark bark bark
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GD_American posted:I would not want to be stationed anywhere near Vilseck/Grafenwoehr anytime in the last 30 years, but I double-triple would not want to be there now. Can't imagine the ops tempo. Visited family living about 20 km from Grafenwöhr and you can still hear big rapid fire guns through the night from time to time.
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Lol I remember living in Vilseck back in the Gulf War 1 timeframe and you had the tank ranges right next door to the housing, one foggy morning one of the M1s missed a turn on the road and drove into someone's house. Very much a Blues Brothers situation of "How often do they shoot off the guns?" "So often you won't even notice it."
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I was bored and browsing TMs and FMs while on shift once, and came to a table of how much we paid German farmers for maneuver damage by what kind of crop it was (I remember sugar beets was by far the priciest). It seemed weird that US tanks would just drive through a German farmer's field, considering the insanely strict range control I had ever dealt with at Graf. The Cold War must have been an amazing time.
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swerving into the belgian endive to save uncle sam $15,000
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Highest compensation paid from my unit when I was in the  Army as a conscript was when our heavy mortar section emplaced in a field at night and fired about eight practice layers from all four tubes. We would have fired more, but the mink farmer from the other side of the hedgerow came running and stopped the show. Turns out highly strung weasels in cages do not take well to loud nightly noises next to them.
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Rust Martialis posted:DBRB: okay, everyone charge into that apartment. Go go go go. Wait it's boobytrapped. If you charged you're dead. Bark bark bark Quit asking me about adding your rorqual to the reimbursement spreadsheet.
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A.o.D. posted:Quit asking me about adding your rorqual to the reimbursement spreadsheet. Christ, I actually do SRP out of a gigantic google docs spreadsheet and it's the biggest pain in my rear end. You'd think after all this time there'd be a better way to implement a goonswarm-style SRP system without actually being able to directly clone goonswarm's tooling, but nope. Every other alliance in this game doesn't give nearly a quarter of a poo poo about things like SRP, so no public tooling exists.
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Kazinsal posted:Christ, I actually do SRP out of a gigantic google docs spreadsheet and it's the biggest pain in my rear end. You'd think after all this time there'd be a better way to implement a goonswarm-style SRP system without actually being able to directly clone goonswarm's tooling, but nope. Every other alliance in this game doesn't give nearly a quarter of a poo poo about things like SRP, so no public tooling exists. Sorry, it was the best I could do with the skills I had at the time, and even then I had to pay someone to make a functional spreadsheet for me. My main goal at the time wasn't to make it pretty, just to make it work.
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A.o.D. posted:Sorry, it was the best I could do with the skills I had at the time, and even then I had to pay someone to make a functional spreadsheet for me. My main goal at the time wasn't to make it pretty, just to make it work. Oh, dude, I'm reinventing the wheel here with <GEESE>. Mostly because it turns out almost every non-GSF alliance does SRP in the form of a binary "do you get the killmail paid out to you yes/no" thing, so there's no open source tools that can handle things like strategic vs. peacetime vs. shitstack. We've almost got a proper solution working that integrates with Alliance Auth but it's a few weeks out still, so for the past almost a year I've been doing SRP manually through a combination of a Discord channel and a google docs sheet. If ESI had an endpoint for POSTing corp wallet transfers I could completely automate this poo poo without having to log in but no, that would make my life *too* easy...
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Kazinsal posted:Oh, dude, I'm reinventing the wheel here with <GEESE>. Mostly because it turns out almost every non-GSF alliance does SRP in the form of a binary "do you get the killmail paid out to you yes/no" thing, so there's no open source tools that can handle things like strategic vs. peacetime vs. shitstack. We've almost got a proper solution working that integrates with Alliance Auth but it's a few weeks out still, so for the past almost a year I've been doing SRP manually through a combination of a Discord channel and a google docs sheet. Good luck with that, I won Eve in 2011 and have no intention of going back.
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A.o.D. posted:Good luck with that, I won Eve in 2011 and have no intention of going back. Sounds like a perfect time to re-up and come honk with us in Omist! 
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Mzuri posted:Highest compensation paid from my unit when I was in the Suddenly the statements about how Finnish practice ranges are particularly appealing back from when Finland was about to join NATO make a lot more sense. We have a maneuver area with no civilians that's about the size of Lolland in Lapland. Tuna-Fish fucked around with this message at 11:12 on May 11, 2023 |
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Kazinsal posted:Oh, dude, I'm reinventing the wheel here with <GEESE>. Mostly because it turns out almost every non-GSF alliance does SRP in the form of a binary "do you get the killmail paid out to you yes/no" thing, so there's no open source tools that can handle things like strategic vs. peacetime vs. shitstack. We've almost got a proper solution working that integrates with Alliance Auth but it's a few weeks out still, so for the past almost a year I've been doing SRP manually through a combination of a Discord channel and a google docs sheet. I cannot get over how that game has inspired goons to roll their own ERP stacks from scratch twice (at least) now
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Delta sqad robbed all the Russian soldiers of their delicious raspberries and honey
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Looks like the counter attack in Bakhmut pushed back the Russians 2km. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/10/russians-near-bakhmut-have-retreated-by-up-to-2km-ukrainian-official-says
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Another classic 'there will be consequences' (there will not be consequences) threat as the UK confirms sending the missiles https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/11/russia-vows-adequate-response-after-uk-supplies-cruise-missiles-to-ukraine-18766189/
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Tuna-Fish posted:Suddenly the statements about how Finnish practice ranges are particularly appealing back from when Finland was about to join NATO make a lot more sense. We have a maneuver area with no civilians that's about the size of Lolland in Lapland. That sounds awesome! We mainly just puttered around West Jutland and set up in fields and the like - usually after asking the farmer nicely. Sometimes we even got to sleep in their hay loft. We did also go to a big maneuver area in Oksbøl a couple of times, but most of our fresh air activities and field exercises were on a mix of public and private land.
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https://twitter.com/chriso_wiki/status/1656565436773793792 I mean I know we weren't far away already but the Russians have now truly entered beyond the realm of parody.
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this transgression mustn't stand India should break oil ties and send Penetration Cum Blast immediately
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PurpleXVI posted:https://twitter.com/chriso_wiki/status/1656565436773793792 Just doing straight up gang colors rules now.
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The UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallis has confirmed in Parliament that Storm Shadow cruise missiles have been sent to Ukraine and are either there already or on the way. He added that the missiles would be for use "within Ukrainian sovereign territory". So I guess things are going to get spicy in Crimea !
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Rude Dude With Tude posted:Another classic 'there will be consequences' (there will not be consequences) threat as the UK confirms sending the missiles Oh no, maybe they will lift the restrictions on conducting assassinations in the UK.
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Rude Dude With Tude posted:Another classic 'there will be consequences' (there will not be consequences) threat as the UK confirms sending the missiles A favorable outcome in Ukraine is, technically, a consequence.
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