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steinrokkan posted:Those are fire fighting vehicles with jet powered water nozzles. must be a hell of a fire. seriously, under what circumstances did they envision using them?
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gender illusionist posted:must be a hell of a fire.
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that whole documentary mentioned in the description is p good by the way if someone is not picky about dinner youtubes
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gender illusionist posted:must be a hell of a fire. Mainly oil derrick fires
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Naxuz posted:Just came across this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbzUS0D5_0
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etalian posted:I like the story how in some protests they were able to restart memorial T-34s despite the tanks sitting around for 50+ years which is even more amazing considering they were expected to have a lifespan of about 6 months before getting destroyed in the war, so they weren't built to last and the cheapest, shittiest materials possible were used in a way that favored manufacturing speed over build quality
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LordArgh posted:which is even more amazing considering they were expected to have a lifespan of about 6 months before getting destroyed in the war, so they weren't built to last and the cheapest, shittiest materials possible were used in a way that favored manufacturing speed over build quality Yeah despite it's reputation as a god tier tank, the US army wasn't too impressed with the T-34 when they got test them as part of a technology transfer deal with the Soviets. It was mainly due despite the solid overall design the quality of the T-34's parts was really low, which compromised long term reliability, crew comfort and performance.
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etalian posted:Yeah despite it's reputation as a god tier tank, the US army wasn't too impressed with the T-34 when they got test them as part of a technology transfer deal with the Soviets. This popped up in the mil host thread. Essentially the answer to why it was shoddy is it didn't have to last very long since any time the parts didn't break after it was shot to pieces was useless. Why build a tank that can drive a thousand miles when it'll only have to do one hundred yards?
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Boiled Water posted:This popped up in the mil host thread. Essentially the answer to why it was shoddy is it didn't have to last very long since any time the parts didn't break after it was shot to pieces was useless. Yeah I reminder reading a blurb in which the average life of the soviet tanker was something like 8 attacks, so they pretty much expected each new T-34 to get shot pieces within a few weeks.
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Yeah the Soviets just did the math, figured out that a tank on the eastern front tended to have a lifespan of about six months and a lifespan once it entered combat of about a day, and so they decided that there was no point in having combat parts that functioned after a day and no point having non-combat parts that functioned after six months, since the effort spent making those parts long-lived was wasted effort. So they stripped everything possible out of the tank so that they could churn out thousands of them as quickly as possible. It's possibly simultaneously the most brilliant and most Soviet thing I've ever learned about Russian military thinking.
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vyelkin posted:Yeah the Soviets just did the math, figured out that a tank on the eastern front tended to have a lifespan of about six months and a lifespan once it entered combat of about a day, and so they decided that there was no point in having combat parts that functioned after a day and no point having non-combat parts that functioned after six months, since the effort spent making those parts long-lived was wasted effort. So they stripped everything possible out of the tank so that they could churn out thousands of them as quickly as possible. It's possibly simultaneously the most brilliant and most Soviet thing I've ever learned about Russian military thinking. It was the russian military which had the great saying, "Quantity has a quality of its own"
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etalian posted:I like the story how in some protests they were able to restart memorial T-34s despite the tanks sitting around for 50+ years Sometimes the preservation of those relics is pretty good. The U.S. stripped museums of their .50 cal machine guns for the Iraq invasion in 03.
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C.M. Kruger posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-hiv-cases-reach-record-high-of-over-a-million-a6828816.html I liked the posts about the new russian subculture witchhouse based around listening to bad EDM and sharing drug needles at the events. Shame on you HIV from taking away the more common ways to kill russians such as road crashes or trying to make awesome youtube videos. What could go wrong?
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C.M. Kruger posted:This means that a little over 1 per cent of Russia's 144,000,000 inhabitants now test positive for the virus, meaning that Russia has more cases of HIV per person than any other European country, save Estonia.
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Skellybones posted:The homonazi brigade strikes again they shall celebrate this by going to the ballet to watch the most heterosexual thing ever
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Kirs posted:I also sure they have their own unique name for it. I don't know it myself. Jacket Potato
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spud posted:Jacket Potato  Interesting, why so many things have almost the same literal meaning in two different languages? And yet Russians unable to properly translate movie names.
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a thing http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article.php?id=514661
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Hogge Wild posted:from dd map thread: Bad map since the Balkans should be included as part of monster russia
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one simple trick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNthF_2TaOc
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gender illusionist posted:must be a hell of a fire. Russian fires are often the worst fires. Exceeding 47.2 on the World Fires scale on *average*. For reference, the worst fires in US history have achieved about a 13.9. Jet propelled water guns are the only known thing to be able to put out a Russian Fire.
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grimcreaper posted:Russian fires are often the worst fires. Exceeding 47.2 on the World Fires scale on *average*. For reference, the worst fires in US history have achieved about a 13.9. ???? I thought we lost the recipe for making Greek Fire?
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kalstrams posted:пицца russian pizzas always suck 100% of the time
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etalian posted:I liked the posts about the new russian subculture witchhouse based around listening to bad EDM and sharing drug needles at the events. Where are these posts demonising witchhouse?
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ekuNNN posted:this video is oddly satisfying to watch And all that snow is on clearance! kalstrams posted:one simple trick BLYAT! translates to, 'My friend just died.'
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Wedemeyer posted:???? I thought we lost the recipe for making Greek Fire? This is Russian Fire, forum friend. Greek Fire barely hit 20.336(repeating of course) on the scale. Russian Fire cant melt Jet Water which is why we use it to douse those fires from hell.
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