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there’s also almost always implied and explicit heavy drinking but that’s just life in america
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Mandel Brotset posted:I have a soft spot for imperial propaganda like jack ryan etc. I’ve noticed in recent years that almost all of them include a scene near the beginning where the grizzled, reluctant operator with a heart of gold pops some kind of unspecified pills to start the day that and starting the day with a shot of bourbon. bonus points if they PTSDd their puppy on waking
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tatankatonk posted:whats with all the TBI diagnoses whenever US troops get missiled? is it just an easy catch-all category? an admin thing where they'll slowly release the actual injury later? an actual effect of the specific weapon? Havana syndrome
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skooma512 posted:Havana syndrome
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Mandel Brotset posted:there’s also almost always implied and explicit heavy drinking but that’s just life in america the navy seal trick of getting two pours of booze, dumping cocaine in one of them and chugging it, then sipping on the other one is something that’s for sure.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...e-syria-border/ drat getting drone striked sounds like it sucks, good thing the US didn't do that [checks notes] fourteen thousand times
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they've got drones now?! they've got DRONES now. well THAT happened.
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Hey its not fair when they hit back! I'm telling mother about this, just you wait!
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It’s not going to be a problem, the US has the biggest, strongest, most powerful military in the world. I think they know how to fight and win a war even without total air supremacy. 
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what do you even do against drone strikes with the american military right now? feels like asking this question should have informed some of the decisions that brought us to this point
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hubris.height posted:what do you even do against drone strikes with the american military right now? Die, evidently.
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hubris.height posted:what do you even do against drone strikes with the american military right now? C-RAM go brrrrr
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hubris.height posted:what do you even do against drone strikes with the american military right now? Play the latest Call of Duty and dream about the first gulf war invasion of Iraq.
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Mandel Brotset posted:there’s also almost always implied and explicit heavy drinking but that’s just life in america Every statistic I have seen suggests most Americans barely drink
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Weka posted:Every statistic I have seen suggests most Americans barely drink depends what state
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hubris.height posted:what do you even do against drone strikes with the american military right now? Personal cope cage by Raytheon.
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SplitSoul posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/26/us-planning-to-station-nuclear-weapons-in-uk-amid-threat-from-russia-report lol uk unable to afford any deterrence at all.
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hubris.height posted:what do you even do against drone strikes with the american military right now? We spent 2 years doing everything we could to not take any lessons from the Ukraine war lol. sounds like we are really not prepared to deal with FPV warfare or what to do about 25k shahed swarms
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TBI talk got me remembering that blast gauge program that got shut down in 2016 and I found this case study about the sensors they were using. the experiment was set up so that the sensors detect pressure events, and call them as red, amber, or green, based on the severity of the impact. this summary doesn't have specifics on the pressure levels and I didn't go looking. they record all pressure events. a poo poo-ton of them can't be analyzed, a bunch happened while the soldier wasn't wearing a helmet, a bunch couldn't be linked reliably to a medical record or soldier, lots of data issues. but they did get some data to analyze. there's a summary of an interesting conference talk in the summary: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1065366.pdf quote:To highlight the current state of sensors as a potential screening tool for mTBI, Colonel Greene presented preliminary data from the Known Events Tracker (Figure 3), a list of PCEs defined by the four criteria set forth by the DoD. From this list of events, 378 occurred while the service member was outfitted with a sensor. Of these 378 events, sensors triggered a warning (defined as a red or amber light output) in 12 cases; 9 of the 12 warnings were eventually confirmed concussions, a positive predictive value of 75%. The sensors issued no warning (defined as a green light or no output) in 366 of the events, 121 of which were confirmed concussions. Therefore, the sensitivity of the sensor was 9/130 (6.9%, Figure 3). In other words, the sensors missed 93.1% of concussions amongst the potentially concussive events
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SixteenShells posted:TBI talk got me remembering that blast gauge program that got shut down in 2016 and I found this case study about the sensors they were using. It's shame that program got shut down right as it was about to show the the military should have massive liability for all the concussions its causing.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Personal cope cage by Raytheon. A repurposed chicken coop mounted on supermarket trolley wheels. 2 million dollars each. If you want the off road deluxe version upgraded with BMX wheels that's 2.5 million per unit.
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lol the news has a guy on begging for attacks in iran
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Real hurthling! posted:lol uk unable to afford any deterrence at all. I don't think it is about the UK beyond it is politically reliable. It's just a closer launch platform if America itself feels threatened.
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Weka posted:I don't think it is about the UK beyond it is politically reliable. It's just a closer launch platform if America itself feels threatened. i think it's also a weird kinda threat to the UK like if poo poo kicks off even if the UK tried to stay out of it, there's nukes here now so it's going to get hit by Russian nukes it's the US making sure we know we're going if they go. If you look at all the other flashpoints going on right now, the UK is knee deep in the poo poo. We're even the ones giving Ukraine long range missiles after the US pointedly refused. And they've been using these missiles to attack Russian officials and generals. It's like someone is making sure the UK is deep in every possible quagmire. Regarde Aduck has issued a correction as of 06:38 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Curious with all this talk about TBI - how do the Russians deal with it (or not) given their focus on artillery?
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Z the IVth posted:Curious with all this talk about TBI - how do the Russians deal with it (or not) given their focus on artillery? they used a pencil
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Z the IVth posted:Curious with all this talk about TBI - how do the Russians deal with it (or not) given their focus on artillery? my understanding is that a lot of this has to do with the way artillery pieces are used and designed. It used to be that a "field gun" [high muzzle velocity, flat trajectory] and a "howitzer" [lower muzzle velocity, high-angle trajectory] were two different things. a field gun would be 105mm artillery, and a howitzer would be 155mm howitzer, for example the problem is that, at some point, NATO decided that all artillery should be 155m in order to use the same caliber shell all throughout, while also designed to be a gun-howitzer, or an artillery piece that can act as either a field gun or a howitzer part of how a field gun manages to achieve its high muzzle velocity is that the calibre is smaller (105mm); a howitzer has a bigger shell (155mm), which means a heavier shell, but that's okay, since the muzzle velocity is expected to be less but if you're trying to push a 155mm shell into the muzzle velocities demanded by field guns, you need to use much bigger (and more chemically dangerous?) powder charges to squeeze out every last bit of force when you combine that with: - artillery pieces also lack gun shields, because gun shields add weight, and you want the piece to be as light as possible for portability, when gun shields are important for protecting the gun crews from shock - a muzzle brake design that projects more of the force back towards the crews (and all that extra force that has to be dissipated comes from, again, forcing 155mm artillery to act as a gun-howitzer) - troops that aren't disciplined enough to dig proper firing positions for themselves and you get artillerists with brain damage somebody's going to have to dig up specifics, but as far as I know, Russia doesn't design artillery like this, and so doesn't run into quite the same problems (as much)
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Real hurthling! posted:doesnt the uk have its own missiles stations or was their nuclear program all sub/air based? just the 4 subs
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Regarde Aduck posted:i think it's also a weird kinda threat to the UK Didn't Russia say they would definitely nuke Britain if they launched the nukes back in 2022? As to the rest, maybe, but it seems to me you would have to restrain Britain from jumping into these messes. Your political class love the yanks, I suppose because they represent power and wealth.
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Cerebral Bore posted:doesn't russia use a whole lot of self-propelled artillery? you'd think that would help things on the brain-scrambling front Yeah, the length of the barrel and being armored compared helps a lot, ak lot of it is doctrine. That said, a fair amount of it is specifically the M777 howitzer. The issue really isn't using the larger calibers that have been around since the First World War, but they tried to jam a medium howitzer into the weight class of basically a field gun. That means a much more aggressive muzzle break, no shield, a shorter barrel, frequent use of red bag charges, shorter lanyards, and usually no trench work, basically doing everything to promote TBIs as aggressively as possible in exchange for a lighter and more easily transportable gun. It is a clear signal from the politicians to the brass to the average soldier that their livelihood is completely meaningless as tools of the empire.
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Cerebral Bore posted:doesn't russia use a whole lot of self-propelled artillery? you'd think that would help things on the brain-scrambling front you get protection from the muzzle but i imagine the small enclosed space could create a lot of pressure on the other end
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Weka posted:Didn't Russia say they would definitely nuke Britain if they launched the nukes back in 2022? oh yeah this country is a trash fire and no one needs any help to gently caress things up it's just... odd. Like with the Ukraine, Gaza and Yemen stuff it seems like there's this weird drive to be involved while other countries are obviously trying to distance themselves from the whole mess. There's probably a whiteboard somewhere that just says 1. gently caress everything up........... 4. profit???
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Weka posted:Every statistic I have seen suggests most Americans barely drink Every time I've drank with Americans suggests this too
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Source: Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...03351#925403351 Houthis launched rocket at U.S. warship in Gulf of Aden Reuters 9:05 AM The Iran-aligned Houthis launched a rocket at U.S. warship Lewis B. Puller as it sailed through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, the group's military spokesman said in a statement on Monday.
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Megamissen posted:you get protection from the muzzle but i imagine the small enclosed space could create a lot of pressure on the other end isn't the other end supposed to be sealed tight by the breech?
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