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PurpleXVI posted:https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1749253898890514465 Piotr sighed as he flew his katana
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EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A BATTERY PACK INTO THE FPV CONTROLLER
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now attach a second one and have it spin.
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"He who pulls the sword from the drone shall be rightly crowned king."
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https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27055quote:Ukraine's New Drone Strategy Helped By 'Open Goal' In Russian Air Defenses Content: Ukraine bombs important facilities in Russia and goes "lmao, good luck stopping us" as they declare more such strikes will happen. From what I understand, the Ust-Luga terminal is a pretty big blow to Russian oil exports on one end of the country, how bad news would it be for the Russian economy if the Ukrainians blasted every terminal they could each in Western Russia? Do they have enough customers in the east to compensate? https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1749465770717847791 quote:The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will submit proposals to the National Security and Defense Council for the consideration of a 50-year prohibition on any transportation connections with Russia, including automotive, railway, aviation, and maritime. On the one hand, some "gently caress you, Russia"-legislation feels good. On the other hand I wonder how much it would actually impact Russia post-war.
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PurpleXVI posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27031 https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/hellfire-missiles-al-qaeda-leader-al-zawahiri-minimal/story?id=87885003 Just saying they killed Al Zawahiri with a sword bomb.
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the concept is sound but I have doubts about a quad drone being able to put enough kinetic energy behind it to be reliable, especially with the long torque arm. Low mass, relatively low speed, weird impact angles. Whereas sword missile is a 100lb 6' wide apple corer dropping on you at 1,000 MPH
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The future of warfare is a fleet of weather balloons dropping telephone poles with fins as FPV drones from the edge of the atmosphere
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PurpleXVI posted:On the one hand, some "gently caress you, Russia"-legislation feels good. On the other hand I wonder how much it would actually impact Russia post-war. It honestly might be less about hurting Russia and more about protecting themselves from ending up bound by economic leverage. It's a sizeable economy that's right there, and left to their own devices companies would probably start trading with it again not too long after the war. This way it adds the inefficiency of lacking direct connections, which makes trade with the EU or whoever else more appealing and hopefully integrates Ukraine more into economies run by governments it trusts not to invade them.
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Yeah basically cutting off ""commercial"" access to the warm water port.
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bennyfactor posted:Just in case anybody else had problems reading this map like I did, you may find the image below instructive. Thank you for this. One of my favorite jokes in a very funny series.
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shame on an IGA posted:the concept is sound but I have doubts about a quad drone being able to put enough kinetic energy behind it to be reliable, especially with the long torque arm. Low mass, relatively low speed, weird impact angles. thats why the sword needs to be impossibly sharp!
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Bargain bin knife missle, smh my head
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PurpleXVI posted:how bad news would it be for the Russian economy if the Ukrainians blasted every terminal they could each in Western Russia? Do they have enough customers in the east to compensate? Russia flatly does not have the capacity to ship oil or gas overland to the east. When the boycotts/price caps were instituted, they floated plans with China to build such capacity, but the timescales were ~decade or something, and I don't think much came out of it. Right now, China gets oil from Russia by having oil tankers travel to the Baltic to fetch it.
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Tuna-Fish posted:Russia flatly does not have the capacity to ship oil or gas overland to the east. When the boycotts/price caps were instituted, they floated plans with China to build such capacity, but the timescales were ~decade or something, and I don't think much came out of it. Right now, China gets oil from Russia by having oil tankers travel to the Baltic to fetch it. So Ust-Luga's terminal getting put out of functioning for a bit is, in fact, a big deal?
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PurpleXVI posted:So Ust-Luga's terminal getting put out of functioning for a bit is, in fact, a big deal? We have no idea how extensive the damage is. IIRC Ust-Luga can serve more than one ship at a time, and it's possible that only a portion of it was damaged. In any case, Russia has other oil export terminals in the Baltic, but I think their capacity is limited now that they no longer have full use of the ones that are in Latvia, Lithuania and Germany. I believe it's a hit that Russia felt, but not necessarily a crippling blow.
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Some stories I read claimed Ust-Luga's AA was positioned to repel attacks from NATO countries (north and west) but not from Ukraine (south).PurpleXVI posted:https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1749253898890514465 If they attach a Saints Row-ish dildo bat then we are ready to go. Doubly so if it is rainbow colored.
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shame on an IGA posted:the concept is sound but I have doubts about a quad drone being able to put enough kinetic energy behind it to be reliable, especially with the long torque arm. Low mass, relatively low speed, weird impact angles. It’s a katana, so it doubles as an anti-tank weapon
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The Door Frame posted:The future of warfare is a fleet of weather balloons dropping telephone poles with fins as FPV drones from the edge of the atmosphere
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Low budget Rods from God concept: Rods from Todd 
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Low budget Rods from God concept: Rods from Todd …because the edge of the atmosphere could also be referred to as the rim of the sky?
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The Lone Badger posted:…because the edge of the atmosphere could also be referred to as the rim of the sky? And here I thought the Rods from God concept had faded into oblivion
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Discussion Quorum posted:And here I thought the Rods from God concept had faded into oblivion budgetary considerations reduced it to a conceptually similar but less ambitious program with less mass and velocity known as "Daggerfall".
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tiaz posted:budgetary considerations reduced it to a conceptually similar but less ambitious program with less mass and velocity known as "Daggerfall". a lend-lease C-130 flying at 20,000 feet over the front lines with a cargo hold filled to the top with loose combat knives and bricks opens the back hatch and tilts nose-up
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https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27076quote:‘We Did a Little Magic’ – How Ukrainian Partisans Seduced Russian Soldiers Then Poisoned Them Russian soldiers being thirsty in both senses ends badly for them. I love knowing there are still partisans fighting the good fight in the occupied territories.
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Discussion Quorum posted:And here I thought the Rods from God concept had faded into oblivion Not until they're "torn from the heavens".
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This "airdropped pointy metal sticks" discussion feels like another way this war resembles WW1. See also the Lazy Dog airdropped projectiles from the Korean and Vietnam wars. E: quote:Lazy Dog projectiles could be dropped from almost any kind of flying vehicle. They could be hurled from buckets, dropped by hand, thrown in their small paper shipping bags, or placed in a Mark 44 cluster adaptor—a simple hinged casing with bins built in to hold the projectiles, opened by a mechanical time delay fuze.
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Computer viking posted:This "airdropped pointy metal sticks" discussion feels like another way this war resembles WW1. Lazy dogs were just .50 cal bullets with some wings, it's kinda wild You need a ton of big rear end bombers to drop enough to be effective I'm guessing
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Nine times out of ten, it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's a lazy dog. Of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a lazy dog... always use the indefinite article "a lazy dog", never "your lazy dog".
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A.o.D. posted:Was there a "Quick Brown Fox" munition? It was canceled because DARPA wasn't able to figure out the brown note.
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Those dudes that totally attached the chutes to the hummers, (honest) just needed to get Lockmart in on it. They weren't loving around, it was a 'technology demonstrator'.
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Orban testing everyone's patience again. I think this time he's going over the edge. https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1749738846692974970
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tiaz posted:budgetary considerations reduced it to a conceptually similar but less ambitious program with less mass and velocity known as "Daggerfall". Hammerfell is traditionally Russian territory
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Alchenar posted:Orban testing everyone's patience again. I think this time he's going over the edge. I still maintain that we should cut a deal with Putin where he gets Hungary and he fucks on out of Ukraine for perpetuity, as long as he promises that Orban goes out of a window on day one.
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Alan Smithee posted:Hammerfell is traditionally Russian territory I thought there was a big GDI base there.
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