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zone posted:https://twitter.com/parrot_soldier/status/1674419138125795329 This is good for Russia, because
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Jun 29, 2023 17:43
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/parrot_soldier/status/1674416768364986370 Impressive find given how many shells the Soviet Union fired in World War 2
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Jun 29, 2023 17:43
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Lord of War's first half was a documentary
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Jun 29, 2023 17:43
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/parrot_soldier/status/1674419138125795329 It's 2150, The Russo-Hungarian empire has invaded the Inner Mongolian Cybernetic Protectorate, video is released showing the bio engineered super soldiers dressed like reenactors from WW2 with Mosins from the 1890's. Helmets have been upgraded from plastic to potato starch.
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Jun 29, 2023 17:44
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Toxic Mental posted:Lord of War's first half was a documentary The weapons and vehicles on that movie were by the way real. It was cheaper to rent them from ex-soviet gun runners than make wooden/rubber props in such numbers. Yeah, no really. Its listed as trivia for example in IMDB. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Jun 29, 2023 17:45
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TulliusCicero posted:Prig is missing according to CNN Out of nowhere everything goes dark. You didn't even see the gunman coming. In your last moment of consciousness you resign yourself to the fact that it was always going to end this way. Then, just as suddenly, you're alive again. Its 2014, but you aren't marching into Crimea. You've been stripped of everything you strove for. A mysterious person gives you money. Tauntingly close, but not quite enough to rebuild your life. In broken english you ask your cruel benefactor: "Is this.. hell?" "Close, GBS. Your son has DSLs by the way."
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Jun 29, 2023 17:47
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"Sniper" is also used in media reports, or soldiers talking about themselves, when they really mean designated marksman or sometimes even just "guy with rifle". I wouldn't take a newspaper article's designation of a "sniper" to mean much.
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Jun 29, 2023 17:48
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Der Kyhe posted:The weapons and vehicles on that movie were by the way real. It was cheaper to rent them from ex-soviet gun runners than make wooden/rubber props in such numbers. Pretty sure they were cg, look at them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LUEiKs2UAo&t=72s
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Jun 29, 2023 17:53
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I think he means the scene with the big ads depressing Soviet warehouse full of guns
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Jun 29, 2023 17:55
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https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1674365438665408513 Puccia is scattering its war dead across numerous cemeteries, which any country would do if their 3 day special military operation was going as planned one and a half years later.  for pictures of graves.
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Jun 29, 2023 17:58
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Anders posted:I think we agree in principle - American fighters are objectively better in the air, while Swedish fighters are easier to hide, maintain and supply. good lord that is a high AoA approach  also  at the forest of clicks when it throttles up. it's almost white noise!and yeah I think we agree. I can see how short/improvised airstrips can be very useful for an individual nation's consideration when not part of a large bloc. hell iirc in the early parts of the war Ukraine was operating MiG-29s off roads and stuff, and maybe still is. we're cool  HonorableTB posted:Hah this is cool!  I had never heard of this! that's really cool. I knew about the remotely powered microphone in the wall sculpture or whatever.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:05
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Look, The Mosin-Nagant was not built to satisfy the military-industrial complex, so it just Works, unlike the various weapons
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Jun 29, 2023 18:07
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1674365438665408513 Standard soviet practice to hide casualties through obfuscation. They practiced it extensively with the Afghantsy casualties
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Jun 29, 2023 18:07
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Tunicate posted:Pretty sure they were cg, look at them. I cannot make you believe me, but IMDB and for example this article: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2472161/why-lord-of-war-starring-nicolas-cage-bought-3000-real-guns-instead-of-props both say that the guns in that movie are not props or replicas, but real ones they rented or bought from a real gunrunner for the movie. CG animations non-withstanding of course. So if you are wandering where the Soviet stockpiles went, that gives you an idea on how cheap they were to acquire.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:11
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EorayMel posted:Imagine joining the army and getting a 1890's build date mosin nagant and you watch the other guys get ak47's Imagine building a gun today for a war that will be fought in the year 3050.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:12
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EorayMel posted:Imagine joining the army and getting a 1890's build date mosin nagant and you watch the other guys get ak47's "Well, especially after some refinements, the Mosin-Nagant, in the hands of an experienced rifleman, is...."
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Jun 29, 2023 18:13
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Imagine building a gun today for a war that will be fought in the year 3050. I mean, by 3050, any surviving example of a Mosin would probably be in a high security vault somewhere as a priceless relic.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:14
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tiaz posted:
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Jun 29, 2023 18:14
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HonorableTB posted:Hah this is cool! Stuff like this is probably why military installations (at least here) have alarms on everything. Open up a light switch cover plate? That's a silent alarm. (As some conscripts I knew found out much to their own cost.)
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Jun 29, 2023 18:16
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Imagine building a gun today for a war that will be fought in the year 3050. M2 easily has another hundred years ahead
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Jun 29, 2023 18:16
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Imagine building a gun today for a war that will be fought in the year 3050. https://youtu.be/e2ZRSwul7cE
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Jun 29, 2023 18:17
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theyre making a sequel to lord of war
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Jun 29, 2023 18:21
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https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1674420164975263744
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Jun 29, 2023 18:22
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Lockback posted:"Sniper" is also used in media reports, or soldiers talking about themselves, when they really mean designated marksman or sometimes even just "guy with rifle". I wouldn't take a newspaper article's designation of a "sniper" to mean much. Yeah, worth noting that at least Soviet style squad typically were supposed to have one designated marksman (that's what the dragunov was made for, though it doesn't have to be a dragunov of course, variety is a thing) in each squad (I think typically 7 or 8 men). I don't know if Russia or Ukraine still follow that template though I wouldn't be terribly surprised, I've seen those marksmen refered to as snipers before but that is really kind of a misleading label as this is a soldier who still operates within a normal rifle squad, not as part of a sniper team.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:22
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Uh. If they captured vessel that means the Donetsk airport is an untenable position for the Russians.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:26
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Technically speaking snipers are usually the guys going on 3 day long crawl missions to blow a VIP's head off and are far from the main action. You have Designated Marksmen which are guys in regular squads with rifles more precise than most, but those guns don't have to be super precise, nor the guys using them for shooting heads off at 1400 meters, where they usually shoot heads off at 300 meters
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Jun 29, 2023 18:27
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Prig was back In Moscow for a negotiation as of yesterday. Imagine taking a mutiny right up to the gates of Moscow, taking the deal to stand down, and thinking you were in any fashion safe to set foot anywhere near Moscow for the rest of your life. How stupid do you have to be to think Putin isn't absolutely planning to have you dealt with at the nearest possible convenience for the FSB?
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Jun 29, 2023 18:37
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Uh. That's a different Vesele. The Vesele Perpetua is talking about is here: 
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Jun 29, 2023 18:43
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I appreciate that Mr Putin is aware of the great importance of the three R's: * Reduce (they don't produce new weaponry) * Reuse (best army in the business when it comes to this) * Recycle (tanks keep reusing other tank parts) NATO should learn from their example
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Jun 29, 2023 18:46
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Imagine taking a mutiny right up to the gates of Moscow, taking the deal to stand down, and thinking you were in any fashion safe to set foot anywhere near Moscow for the rest of your life. I wonder about this too. Do guys like him not know that Putin kills people? Do they assume if he promised something, he's trustworthy? Like, how the gently caress can I understand that Putin will kill you if he THINKS you betray him but the guys getting orders from him don't?
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Jun 29, 2023 18:49
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:I wonder about this too. Do guys like him not know that Putin kills people? Do they assume if he promised something, he's trustworthy? Like, how the gently caress can I understand that Putin will kill you if he THINKS you betray him but the guys getting orders from him don't? the same way mob dudes do? they expect their connections or personal loyalties will allow them to outmaneuver the other guy or that they're too valuable when the time comes.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:54
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https://twitter.com/BDeMayo/status/1673034622286938112?s=20 Finally an explanation of Prigozhin's little adventure that makes sense.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:55
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HonorableTB posted:That's a different Vesele. The Vesele Perpetua is talking about is here: One think that annoys me about Ukraine is there are like 15 of the same loving town names it makes it very difficult to know what the hell is going on sometimes.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:56
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Richie "prigohzin" Aprile. He's gone gone.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:57
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:One think that annoys me about Ukraine is there are like 15 of the same loving town names it makes it very difficult to know what the hell is going on sometimes. That's not really a Ukraine trend. You'll find that all over, most placenames aren't very imaginative or complicated and are thus reused a whole lot.
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Jun 29, 2023 18:57
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:One think that annoys me about Ukraine is there are like 15 of the same loving town names it makes it very difficult to know what the hell is going on sometimes. Yeah same. Not even getting into the time one of the GBS threads was thrown for a mollywobble for several pages because articles were posted describing events in New York and a bunch of people started arzying about russian attacks on NYC and a lot of people learned about  Randarkman posted:That's not really a Ukraine trend. You'll find that all over, most placenames aren't very imaginative or complicated and are thus reused a whole lot. my home state has a Rome, a Cairo (pronounced kay-ro), and an Athens 
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Jun 29, 2023 18:57
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Randarkman posted:Yeah, worth noting that at least Soviet style squad typically were supposed to have one designated marksman (that's what the dragunov was made for, though it doesn't have to be a dragunov of course, variety is a thing) in each squad (I think typically 7 or 8 men). I don't know if Russia or Ukraine still follow that template though I wouldn't be terribly surprised, I've seen those marksmen refered to as snipers before but that is really kind of a misleading label as this is a soldier who still operates within a normal rifle squad, not as part of a sniper team. I don't speak Russian or Ukrainian, but as a native speaker of a language where marksman and sniper are both the same word, I can understand the conflation.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:01
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NoiseAnnoys posted:the same way mob dudes do? they expect their connections or personal loyalties will allow them to outmaneuver the other guy or that they're too valuable when the time comes. He wasn't loyal!!!!! He tried to take the throne!!
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Jun 29, 2023 19:04
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't speak Russian or Ukrainian, but as a native speaker of a language where marksman and sniper are both the same word, I can understand the conflation. In Russian sharpshooter/marksman is generally меткий стрелок (metkiy strelok) or just стрелок (remember Girkin chose his war name as Igor Strelkov, Igor "The Shooter"). Sniper in Russian is снайпер (snai-per)
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Jun 29, 2023 19:06
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Steven Segal is going to run over the remaining ramparts of Adviika with a car
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