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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:
CBU-97? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon quote:The 40 Skeets scan an area of 1,500 by 500 feet (460 m × 150 m) using infrared and laser sensors, seeking targets by pattern-matching. When a Skeet finds a target it fires an explosively-formed penetrator to destroy it. If a Skeet fails to find a target, it self-destructs 50 feet (15 m) above the ground
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Oct 22, 2023 08:42
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So literally a killer robot.
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Oct 22, 2023 08:54
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No but it was sort've like that in principal but substantially different in design. https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/atacms-bat.htm quote:he BAT is a self-guided submunition that uses on-board sensors to seek, identify, employ a top attack engagement profile, and destroy moving tanks and other armored combat vehicles. It uses an acoustic sensor to seek out its armor targets, and infra-red sensor to engage the vehicles. There are test vids of it on the tubes but they're fairly grainy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSx6ZQUUhbc Like I said they got rid of it because the unitary warhead was good enough for the job although I think the final nail in the coffin was the funding was diverted to FCS. Which was doomed to failure but whatever. Some other interesting .pdf on it from the late 90's when it was in development and testing: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA356470.pdf PC LOAD LETTER fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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Oct 22, 2023 08:54
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SirPhoebos posted:Who the gently caress would want to rehabilitate Haig a century after WWI? Much of his historical reputation is straight-up bullshit.Logistics didn't have the ability to keep up, the full effect of the weapons available were unknown, and nobody had any real idea how to break the stalemate on the Western Front. Haig constantly changed and adjusted the approach he was taking in response to failed attacks - the idea that he just kept trying to use the BEF as a blunt instrument to hammer through German lines is nonsense. Committing so much force to the Somme, which is what can be better attributed to a "blunder" than anything else, was a perfectly justifiable response to credible intelligence that the Germans there were badly weakened, which gave him hope that he could force a breakthrough and break the back of the German Army. Which would have effectively ended the goddamn war and saved countless lives if it worked. Most of the condemnation of Haig, which really got started long after the war, comes from looking at the weapons and tactics that broke the trenches in 1918 (and 1940), and declaring that these were so obvious that only a stupid mindless butcher would have failed to see them.
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Oct 22, 2023 10:12
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I’m sure there’s a Russian general with perfectly credible intel saying they can break through with just one more push. I note the Ukrainians are not making the same mistakes.
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Oct 22, 2023 10:23
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mllaneza posted:That looks to me like an option the UAF command is keeping open. A quick push from those bridgeheads could cut a supply line and force a response. There are a lot of downsides for Ukraine that happen immediately after that, since it'd be a small force being supplied over pontoon bridges, but Russia has to keep reserves available to deal with the threat or UAF could pick up an easy, if probably short-lived, victory.
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Oct 22, 2023 12:51
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Oryx abacus guy saying Russia lost 24(!) helis in the ATACM's strike
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Oct 22, 2023 12:52
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Charlz Guybon posted:This a new twitter clone? Nah nitter is a way to strip info off twitter and present it in a way that doesn't sell your info or spy on you. When it works its great. Its pretty commonly fails to load stuff though. So I like it in theory but I don't use it often.
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Oct 22, 2023 13:14
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Charlz Guybon posted:This a new twitter clone? No, it lets you read twitter threads without having to go on twitter.
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Oct 22, 2023 13:15
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Nah nitter is a way to strip info off twitter and present it in a way that doesn't sell your info or spy on you. Does it work on Discord?
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Oct 22, 2023 13:17
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Charlz Guybon posted:Does it work on Discord? If you edit the twitter link to read https://vxtwitter.com instead of the default https://www.twitter.com it should link in discord
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Oct 22, 2023 13:24
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:No but it was sort've like that in principal but substantially different in design. Separately, Textron BLU-108, which is the sensor-fuzed munition used in CBU-97 and CBU-105, has been successfully tested deployed out of an ATACMS canister, but no-one bought the weapon. It wasn't really cancelled in the sense that development wasn't finished, it was just a private program that had no customers, which Textron did because they designed the BLU-108 to be easy to deploy in any weapon system that originally used the M74 bomblets, but in the end only variant where it was bought was the aircraft-carried bomb.
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Oct 22, 2023 13:41
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Charlz Guybon posted:Nine brigades is not small in the scale of this war Dumb question- how does anyone know where any of the Ukrainian units are? Shouldn't that be a bit more...secret?
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Oct 22, 2023 13:50
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Weather question: They don't get mud in the fall/early winter in Ukraine do they? I've seen a few references here and there, but it doesn't make sense to me. I could be wrong.
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Oct 22, 2023 13:51
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Tuna-Fish posted:It wasn't really cancelled in the sense that development wasn't finished, it was just a private program that had no customers, Yeah I've heard that happens a lot in the MIC. They'll develop something, or repurpose another existing weapon with a bit of minor engineering, and it turns out no one wants it so it goes nowhere.
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Oct 22, 2023 13:51
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Satellites aren't limited to only looking at Russian positions. Various info sources in aggregate most likely. Rasputitsa is spring/fall due to melt/rain. Slightly different conditions but still mud.
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Oct 22, 2023 13:55
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The Ukrainian word is bezdorizhzhia btw, which means something like "roadlessness".
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Oct 22, 2023 14:03
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Sedgr posted:Satellites aren't limited to only looking at Russian positions. Various info sources in aggregate most likely. Here in Maine, Mud Season is a specific thing, and seasonal. Late winter/early spring when the ground is thawing out but is still frozen down deeper, as such meltwater/rain has nowhere to go, and thus, mud. But no such frozen ground exists in the late fall/early winter, so I don't get where the mud would come from. Does it rain that much this time of year?
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Oct 22, 2023 14:09
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Actually, mud season is a perfidious NATO psyop and the people that live there don't know it. They've been tricked by the warlocks into adding specific words into the language to refer to that time of year. Or yeah, it rains.
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Oct 22, 2023 14:23
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Comstar posted:Dumb question- how does anyone know where any of the Ukrainian units are? If they wanted that info secret then it would be secret, plus who knows how accurate or up-to-date it is.
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Oct 22, 2023 14:30
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Gnoman posted:Much of his historical reputation is straight-up bullshit.Logistics didn't have the ability to keep up, the full effect of the weapons available were unknown, and nobody had any real idea how to break the stalemate on the Western Front. Haig constantly changed and adjusted the approach he was taking in response to failed attacks - the idea that he just kept trying to use the BEF as a blunt instrument to hammer through German lines is nonsense. Haig, in retrospect, gets a liiiitttle tiny bit more credit for his role than say... Cadorna or Von Hertzendorf. The problem of WW1 trench warfare was fundamentally unsolvable with the technology available at the time, and to Haigs small credit, he promoted and encouraged subordinates who were willing to try new things and ideas. That said, he gets a heap less credit than say Petain or Ludendorf because he never really actually puts something of a band aid on the problem of trench warfare (Petain's being methodical battle, Ludendorf's Riga tactics). The reality is that the only people who deserve full credit for realizing in full what the problem was is Joffré and Folkenhayn for both realizing that the whole thing was a war of whoever bleeds the most first. To say Haig is a terrible general would be vastly overstating the case against him. He was serviceable if not particularly inspired.
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Oct 22, 2023 14:35
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Toxic Mental posted:Jeez someone should tell Putin that war is bad Why would you troll thusly?
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Oct 22, 2023 15:11
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Posting war bad in russia gets you a 15 year prison sentence for treason
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Oct 22, 2023 16:25
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1716098114350682131 https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1715823464408306112
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Oct 22, 2023 16:26
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HonorableTB posted:Posting war bad in russia gets you a 15 year prison sentence for treason Then they send you to a prison so bad you decide that, comparatively, war is good and you agree to be shipped off to the front. Reprogramming with Russian characteristics.
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Oct 22, 2023 16:51
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lomzus posted:https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1716098114350682131 Production ended around 1938.... Holy poo poo are they scraping the bottom of the barrel if they're bringing these out. I know those engines were easy to work on and keep running (poo poo for power though, less than 50hp originally, typical for the era I guess) but I'm a little impressed that they were able to find any that were able to work at all for this suicide run. I figured they'd all be rusting in a field or preserved in a meusem.
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Oct 22, 2023 16:56
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weg posted:Then they send you to a prison so bad you decide that, comparatively, war is good and you agree to be shipped off to the front. gulag working as intended tovarish
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Oct 22, 2023 17:07
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The GAZ AA stripped
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Oct 22, 2023 17:12
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:So supposedly the GAZ AA's they're using in these attacks (according to the tweet, I dunno if they're there, hard to tell from the vid) are near identical (I guess they use a bit more steel in some spots) clones of the Ford AA trucks (which were designed and built in the 1920's!!) that were licensed and produced in the Soviet Russia beginning in the early 1930's! wouldn't just loading people up into a lada pickup be both easier and cheaper by this point??
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Oct 22, 2023 17:20
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Coolguye posted:wouldn't just loading people up into a lada pickup be both easier and cheaper by this point?? That would eat into the 1,000 families who got a car as KIA compensation 
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Oct 22, 2023 17:22
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:So supposedly the GAZ AA's they're using in these attacks (according to the tweet, I dunno if they're there, hard to tell from the vid) are near identical (I guess they use a bit more steel in some spots) clones of the Ford AA trucks (which were designed and built in the 1920's!!) that were licensed and produced in the Soviet Russia beginning in the early 1930's! There's a good amount follow-up tweets pointing out that they're more likely GAZ-51's from 51-75, they made like 4m of them. The GAZ-51 was a clone of Studebaker trucks we gave them in lend-lease in WW2. So, design from the 30's, made in the 50's. Regardless they're still doing assaults in glorified pickup trucks in place of IFV/APCs. How long until Lada waves?
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Oct 22, 2023 17:53
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Think of all the money Ukraine stands to make on the resell market once Russia collapses and the war ends, lots of car buffs are probably just dying to own one of those trucks, you can even sell them wrecked for hobbyists to repair!
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Oct 22, 2023 17:56
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https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1716107194368655499?s=46&t=6HOSYVrXffESMo0NlyR0Lg Even technicals are getting gentrified smdh
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Oct 22, 2023 17:58
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loving lol russia are down to some br 1.0 warthunder poo poo.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:13
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:My grandfather was in the 8th Air Force and was part of Black Thursday/the Schweinfurt raids and the strategic bombing campaign in Europe in general and the scale of what he was watching drove him to the booze. Those big bomber groups were dropping like 2,000,000lbs of ordnance at a time. Just obliterating cities into dust. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the scale of devastation during that period. IIRC during the Vietnam war it rained down seven times the amount of explosives used in WW2. That was your factoid of the day. karoshi fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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Oct 22, 2023 18:18
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He might want to board up that window behind him.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:28
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No more assaults on Terrikon. VVP: No! More assaults on Terrikon!
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Oct 22, 2023 18:31
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terrikont take that objective
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Oct 22, 2023 18:39
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Tarquinn posted:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nork The source for this is an anonymous contributor whose only source for it is from a fictional unnamed character from a video game. They have less of a contribution history than most of the posters on this forum. 
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Oct 22, 2023 19:05
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Yeaaah, seems like some pearls were clutched and some PM's sent tbh.
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