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animist
Aug 28, 2018
https://twitter.com/RealDaddyMarx/status/1310300706868518913

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animist
Aug 28, 2018

Gaupo Guacho posted:

I hope the glorious Armenian with glorious Russian support crush filthy Turkoroach just as the filthy Uighurs must be crushed by Glorious Han People. to advance the cause of international socialism

:hmmyes:

animist
Aug 28, 2018

Gaupo Guacho posted:

ok, how long until tanks want turkic genocides because they're opposing Armenia which is a Russian proxy in this conflict?

take note: this poster is a fed

animist
Aug 28, 2018

Al-Saqr posted:

Ok so I decided to do my basic research, I though the disputed territory would be tiny but it looks like a fairly hefty chunk of land about a third the size of Armenia, apparently it’s internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but it declared it’s own Independence in 1991 and is mainly Armenian population. Lol talk about a wierd situation.

Does Azerbaijan even have army large enough to take and hold that much territory?!

basically sounds like a classic war of aggression with a flimsy pretext? what a throwback

animist
Aug 28, 2018

turn on you're monitor

animist
Aug 28, 2018

dangerous levels of bappin

animist
Aug 28, 2018
just deploy more drones to fight the other drones. beep boop problem solved

animist
Aug 28, 2018

sum posted:

I was doing some research on Azerbaijans suicide drone force and I was surprised to discover that their tiny drones (Orbiter Minis with a 2 kg warhead) cost about $400,000 apiece and the big ones (IAI Harpies/Harops) cost something like ten million dollars each. For reference, a T-72 tank costs something like $1 or $2 million apiece. It's unlikely that Azerbaijan has more than a few dozen on hand and it seems like a lot of them are being spent on blowing up supply trucks, reserve rifle squads and Soviet surplus howitzers. They make for impressive videos but my sense is that their battlefield impact is limited and that the Azeris are probably going to run out of them sooner rather than later

confused why they don't just buy commercial drones and strap bombs to them

animist
Aug 28, 2018

:confused:

animist
Aug 28, 2018

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lol isn't that one of those tables were you can adjust the diameter too

theyre social distancing

animist
Aug 28, 2018

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

drones turning actual modern warfare between states into a ww1 trench warfare hell but worse


It's kinda funny how war buffs (/ the pentagon) spend all their time jerking off to fantasies about full-scale conventional war with modern armaments, but every time it happens it's just "yeah you walk forward 100 meters and then explode"

animist
Aug 28, 2018

Raskolnikov38 posted:

i mean there does seem to be way to counter the drones, its just that they're all hideously expensive. exponentially so when you factor in the cost of the drones.

hear me out. more drones

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animist
Aug 28, 2018

BattleMaster posted:

so then fire more shells, we're talking a muzzle velocity of about 1 km/sec for cannons like the one on the shilka with an altitude of a few km for spotter drones, and they maneuver like planes so are a bit predictable. they are also remote controlled by humans, I don't think have the ability to autododge like a video game

don't worry, silicon valley has its best engineers on the dodging problem

(nearby, a drone performs an elegant barrel roll, before flying directly into a parked fire truck and exploding)

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