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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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Leandros posted:Somebody should tell that to the Russians! Unless they are buried and have the shape like an iceberg beneath the surface these aren't going to stop any engineering vehicle that would be used when creating a breach.
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May 25, 2023 13:39
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in a single line the dragons teeth look pretty useless but if it’s more than two deep i can imagine them rotating and digging in pretty well into the ground
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May 25, 2023 13:40
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Frosted Flake posted:My only regret is that I'll be probed during the defence conference which I have to attend, after a mandatory meeting where the coughing chief complained about "the worst flu he'd ever had" and hardly being able to breathe. My two complementary coffees will be like ambrosia as I pass into the Elysian Fields, along with the rest of the unmasked, un-six-foot-distanced representatives of NATO and the MIC. So you're telling me that now is the time to strike  ?
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May 25, 2023 13:40
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genericnick posted:So you're telling me that now is the time to strike I swear it's in a Tom Clancy novel.
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May 25, 2023 13:42
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Frosted Flake posted:My only regret is that I'll be probed during the defence conference which I have to attend, after a mandatory meeting where the coughing chief complained about "the worst flu he'd ever had" and hardly being able to breathe. My two complementary coffees will be like ambrosia as I pass into the Elysian Fields, along with the rest of the unmasked, un-six-foot-distanced representatives of NATO and the MIC. is wearing a mask not up to uniform regs anymore
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May 25, 2023 13:43
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gradenko_2000 posted:is wearing a mask not up to uniform regs anymore It's been discouraged for B2B2G networking because salespeople are salespeople.
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May 25, 2023 13:44
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Could anyone repost the holodomor memorial where the plaque in Ukrainian blamed Jews but the English translation omitted it? Someone asked for proof and I can't find it.
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May 25, 2023 13:54
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Could anyone repost the holodomor memorial where the plaque in Ukrainian blamed Jews but the English translation omitted it? That was a banger. Was that the one in Chicago or something?
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May 25, 2023 14:03
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Frosted Flake posted:That was a banger. Was that the one in Chicago or something? Pretty sure the claim was it was around lviv
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May 25, 2023 14:05
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Unless they are buried and have the shape like an iceberg beneath the surface these aren't going to stop any engineering vehicle that would be used when creating a breach. Guess what hasn't been part of any aide packages thus far.
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May 25, 2023 14:17
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i saw a tweet about a captured russian engineering vehicle a couple weeks ago
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May 25, 2023 14:20
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:i saw a tweet about a captured russian engineering vehicle a couple weeks ago sounds like an interesting tweet. imagining what it might look like in my head now
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May 25, 2023 14:22
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OctaMurk posted:i thought syqs from the other ukraine threads were banned? i knew exactly which poster this was before even checking lol. its funny but this was really bad for the thread last time so imo we should keep syqs to twitter and reddit, theres plenty of content there that wont lead to forums dramas. 
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May 25, 2023 14:26
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DancingShade posted:The best dragon's teeth come from real dragons. Tooth Fairy gives you a Leo 2 for each one removed.
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May 25, 2023 14:49
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CODChimera posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1661670760459431937 i guess you're getting through eventually, unless of course there's somebody on the other side with an at missile and they take a potshot during the ~20 seconds you're spinning your tracks in the dirt
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May 25, 2023 14:51
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DancingShade posted:The best dragon's teeth come from real dragons. You just need to give them a gold coin under their pillow for each one. Good thing that they're restricted from being imported from the west, everyone knows that Zmey's teeth are vastly inferior. Although I guess you do get three times as many per creature.
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May 25, 2023 14:56
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Frosted Flake posted:My only regret is that I'll be probed during the defence conference which I have to attend, after a mandatory meeting where the coughing chief complained about "the worst flu he'd ever had" and hardly being able to breathe. My two complementary coffees will be like ambrosia as I pass into the Elysian Fields, along with the rest of the unmasked, un-six-foot-distanced representatives of NATO and the MIC. Work didn't splash out on the premium pass with unlimited coffee?
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May 25, 2023 14:58
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Unless they are buried and have the shape like an iceberg beneath the surface these aren't going to stop any engineering vehicle that would be used when creating a breach. even the steel-reinforced, deep-foundation ones the germans had weren't useful fot much, the allies would just plow dirt onto a section and roll straight over them afaik they don't stop anything that digging a big ditch wouldn't
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May 25, 2023 15:08
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Come on Slavs, enough with the boring low tech dragon's tooth trench battle, I want to see high tech M1 vs drone battle in HD.
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May 25, 2023 15:09
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FirstnameLastname posted:even the steel-reinforced, deep-foundation ones the germans had weren't useful fot much, the allies would just plow dirt onto a section and roll straight over them afaik They put all of those dragon teeth just at the edge of lines of artillery and machine gun nests, I don't think the point is to stop attackers so much as slow them down long enough to pick them off
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May 25, 2023 15:16
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it will be nice if in a million years the post-apocalypse sentiment rodent people can make habitats among those dragons teeth
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May 25, 2023 15:18
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DancingShade posted:Guess what hasn't been part of any aide packages thus far. All the Tank recovery variants have dozer blades and so do the MBTs that have been given.
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May 25, 2023 15:49
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CODChimera posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1661670760459431937 when the enemy is making a mistake the first thing you should do is go on social media to mock them about it and point out the location and what vehicles you're training to break through with - Sun Tzu
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May 25, 2023 15:50
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euphronius posted:it will be nice if in a million years the post-apocalypse sentiment rodent people can make habitats among those dragons teeth are they still normal rat sized?
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May 25, 2023 15:51
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Marenghi posted:Work didn't splash out on the premium pass with unlimited coffee? Not for me. Anyway, thought for sure we had a combat engineer or two ITT but WRT to field fortifications the short explanation is not that they can't be breached, but that breaching them exposes you to fire. An obstacle is useless unless observed. Any heavy obstacle that requires specialized equipment to move, even if it's just huge blocks of concrete, means that the engineers have to go out into an observed, and usually pre-registered, area to clear it. It all comes back to the crew served weapons thing. Barbed wire by itself - not much of an obstacle Dragoons Teeth or Czech hedgehogs by themselves - not much of an obstacle A deep ditch by itself - not much of an obstacle but given that cutting wire, bulldozing the anti-tank obstacles or filling/bridging the ditch takes time and exposes you to the enemy, they become very effective. The reason armoured engineering vehicles are valuable is that they allow you to work - and remember engineering is hard, time consuming, work - under harassing artillery fire or sporadic small arms fire, where a bunch of guys trying to erect a bridge, or fill a ditch or whatever, could not effectively work under even that amount of fire. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 15:59 on May 25, 2023 |
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May 25, 2023 15:57
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https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1661748033682546688?s=20
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May 25, 2023 15:59
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the great pyramids are actually just leftover dragons teeth from the titanomachy
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May 25, 2023 15:59
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Sappers are part of the Grenade Club, also bear the battle honour "Ubique", and they don't seem to ever get their due unless it's combat engineers saying they're "basically infantry". Not that it's a contributing factor, but in Combat Mission and other games with a short time frame, yeah they're just lovely rifle sections, and their companies and battalions don't have heavy weapons. It's when you think of them clearing minefields, rubble, obstacles, bridging, digging in etc. in those longer time interval (?) games that you can see their value. Probably, like a lot of military things we've talked about, there's no way to make that exciting in pop culture - other than EOD guys in the GWOT. Aside, we've had a 30 year institutional fight over Infantry Pioneers, with the Infantry and Engineers fighting over who owns that responsibility, and I don't even know how you would explain that to a normal person.
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May 25, 2023 16:02
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Engorged Pedipalps posted:They put all of those dragon teeth just at the edge of lines of artillery and machine gun nests, I don't think the point is to stop attackers so much as slow them down long enough to pick them off nah they slapped em down in big lines like someone playing a tower defense game at the siegfried line
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May 25, 2023 16:07
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Frosted Flake posted:My only regret is that I'll be probed during the defence conference drat, defence conferences are hosed up
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May 25, 2023 16:08
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can't upload multiple but yea big af lines what's a place to host images now that imgur is trash btw does anyone know or do I just need to buy webhosting again
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May 25, 2023 16:10
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last 1 I had to shrink it to make it fit but you can see it running all along the hill in the back left and a second parallel layer out of the shot
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May 25, 2023 16:12
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FirstnameLastname posted:nah they slapped em down in big lines like someone playing a tower defense game at the siegfried line No I am talking about the way the Russians have deployed them, if you look at sat photos the dragons teeth are just at the edge of huge lines of artillery and machine gun nests
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May 25, 2023 16:13
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FirstnameLastname posted:nah they slapped em down in big lines like someone playing a tower defense game at the siegfried line There's a case study of the defence of Germany around here somewhere, but the very short answer is that after the Battle of the Bulge they didn't have enough troops to man, let alone effectively cover obstacles, the frontier and relied on (often unobserved) obstacles as a substitute - which meant they were completely ineffective. At critical road and rail junctions where the defences were manned and obstacles covered, it was usually by a small (platoon - company strength) group of Volkssturm and Hitler Youth. It goes almost without saying that they were usually displaced from their roadblocks in about as long as it took for artillery or fighter bombers to arrive on the scene.
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May 25, 2023 16:13
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Regarde Aduck posted:when the enemy is making a mistake the first thing you should do is go on social media to mock them about it and point out the location and what vehicles you're training to break through with - Sun Tzu Thinking about that New Yorker article where they had to cancel an attack because one of the soldiers posted about it on social media... If I were a conscript that didn't want to die in a muddy field that might be a good way of getting the attack cancelled. It's certainly something that Blackadder might try.
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May 25, 2023 16:15
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FirstnameLastname posted:can't upload multiple but yea big af lines Catbox.moe
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May 25, 2023 16:15
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You could say that ideology demanded that every inch of German soil be defended, which was impossible, because the military had been fought out on a suicidal offensive, which ideology had also demanded. The Wehrmacht of November 1944 probably could have held a line somewhere, though again not along the entire German frontier, some ground would have to be given to shorten it, but after the Bulge, no chance.
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May 25, 2023 16:17
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Engorged Pedipalps posted:No I am talking about the way the Russians have deployed them, if you look at sat photos the dragons teeth are just at the edge of huge lines of artillery and machine gun nests oooh whoops my b. link to sat pics? i haven't seen how they've been using them since they very first started and had the hollow ones collapsing in on themselves lol
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May 25, 2023 16:19
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FirstnameLastname posted:oooh whoops my b. link to sat pics? i haven't seen how they've been using them since they very first started and had the hollow ones collapsing in on themselves lol https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10719658/satellite-pics-putins-dragons-teeth-defences-ukraine-offensive/ Ignoring all the tripe from the sun, you can see the trenches and artillery emplacements in the distance
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May 25, 2023 16:26
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Frosted Flake posted:You could say that ideology demanded that every inch of German soil be defended, which was impossible, because the military had been fought out on a suicidal offensive, which ideology had also demanded.
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May 25, 2023 16:33
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