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Bubbacub posted:All Navy Tomahawks have conventional warheads. Somebody in the Trump administration was pushing to restore nuclear capability to the Tomahawk, but I'm not sure how far that went. Nobody in the Navy wants that, an attack sub carrying nukes will require additional training and safeguards for handling the weapons, and the crews are already busy enough with their regular missions. Yeah, iirc George H.W. Bush pulled the Tomahawks and a bunch of non strategic nukes in 1991. Although I saw a Wikipedia saying they weren’t retired till 2008-2010. Perhaps they were just in storage vs dismantled.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:The naval nuclear Tomahawks were decommissioned in 2010-2013. The ones scrapped at the end of the cold war to comply with the INF treaty were the ground launched nuclear Tomahawks, which were mounted and fired four at a time from a big ol' truck launcher. See I’m finding conflicting info. https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/pniglance#:~:text=27%2C%201991%2C%20Bush%20announced%20a,of%20the%20same%20weapons%3B%20and The GLCMs are clearly INF, but he also did some sea based stuff. quote:U.S. Presidential Nuclear Initiatives: This probably explains the confusion, I took with Straub to mean dismantling, when it’s clear reading over it they must’ve just been placed in the storage and serviced until that time around 2010, which would jive with commies comments.
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Mar 23, 2022 22:13
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That’s an oof. https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1506767202707554312?s=21
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/russia-us-military-leaders-communication/ Top Russian military leaders repeatedly decline calls from U.S., prompting fears of ‘sleepwalking into war’ Lack of communication leaves the world’s two largest nuclear powers in the dark about explanations for military movements
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Mar 24, 2022 01:27
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https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/1506644669362540548 They are using Clearview AI tech to ID dead Russians and then using the information to contact their families in Russia to inform them of it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...f0867da3721787d
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Mar 24, 2022 02:37
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Morrow posted:He banned the activities of 11 opposition parties, those with deep pro-Russian ties, only one of which actually held any seats in the parliament. Yeah, it’s basically like the rolling up of the German American Bund at the start of World War II or Mosley’s group of dorks…British Union of fascists (I think) in the UK.
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Mar 24, 2022 03:38
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mobby_6kl posted:Shoigu died on the way back to his home planet That’s failing his life‘s purpose of Collecting sticks and pieces of wood on Planet Tanna Tuva.
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Mar 24, 2022 15:17
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:This is so dumb I'm tempted to think it's just Ukrainian propaganda. Set a false deadline so that Moscow looks bad both for projecting it and for missing it, demoralize the Russian troops who know it's idiotic, etc. I don’t know I remember how pissed they were about having it delayed due to Covid one year,and made sure that didn’t happen in 2021. So I could see Putin wanting poo poo wrapped up, and besides he’s surrounded by sycophants and people who collects sticks of wood for fun, well maybe not the latter anymore, so it’s not like he’s getting good advice.
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Mar 24, 2022 23:01
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So what is the total now if this is confirmed? https://twitter.com/mrkovalenko/status/1507193029064593409?s=21
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Mar 25, 2022 04:16
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Quick question, is it possible whether via fire support missions, SSM, or ATGM attacks, whether the land bridge can be “closed?”
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Mar 25, 2022 15:04
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Bing's regular search is kind-of rubbish, especially the non-English queries, but the image search at times has been, khem, too effective. Yandex reverse image search is the best for Eastern European war content, though. Isn’t Bing generally crap, except for finding porn? I always remember the jokes that Steve Balmer worked hard on that feature.
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Mar 25, 2022 17:07
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Text search and reverse image search are different parts of the engine. The text search is crap, and I don’t talk about it. Reverse image search works quite well in Bing. I just recall the joke, and this was in the 00s, was that the video search was light years ahead of what Google had…in porn. I have to admit besides generating Microsoft points I’ve really never used Bing too much. Not to be the dead horse any further; I just always wondered if others had heard the same joke.
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Mar 25, 2022 17:18
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Tomn posted:I think I'm starting to dislike this Orban fella. I mean, "we can't risk Hungarian weapons shipments getting bombed"? Right, because we're hearing so many reports about the Polish shipments getting struck, right? Trust me there was a lot to dislike before. Him and Poland started getting weird ideas about governance over the last few years. That’s said, to Poland‘s credit if I remember correctly, they’ve backed off a lot of goofy poo poo. Honestly Orban is far closer to Luca, then is Polish leadership.
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Mar 25, 2022 18:05
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Well in fairness so are Russian delays in deployment. 
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KitConstantine posted:I said former in the post, but yes being in jail would also make it difficult lol. That's why I asked. Thank you! Luca looks like a guy who stars in both low rent porn and Steven Segal movies.
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Mar 25, 2022 18:55
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https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1507415889385332747?s=21&t=8a2XdRcOZe9rcr6jmxxCow This may be the one and only acceptable use of NFTs, it’s being sold for a charity and only a charity and everyone knows they’re just getting a little thank you sticker for helping out. Same with the Gregg Popovich one. Basically a digital PBS fundraiser reward.
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mobby_6kl posted:That will involve bombing russinas, right? right?? Well more the Russians not bombing them. Also I assume to get into the Black Sea, the ships will be unarmed.
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Mar 25, 2022 21:23
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Owns https://twitter.com/mattia_n/status/1507414146371006469?s=21&t=okMUJcx3aMZbNrj8m3n2dg
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Mar 25, 2022 21:49
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 https://twitter.com/den_2042/status/1507460724460818 438 Dead civilians. Just delete the space between 8 and 4. Clearly Azov deep false flag attack.
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Mar 25, 2022 21:54
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Already deleted tweet. I did the space thing, since I’m on awful app and it always seems to embed otherwise. Djarum posted:Wasn't there a report saying that the local authorities don't have the ability to do anything about the dead currently and to just put them out on the balconies? I heard mostly mass graves, but that does sound possible, especially if the goal is to prevent water contamination. Although I recall that dead bodies are bad more for morale, then as a disease vector, at least in context to a lot of reported issues.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Oh, I apologise, I’m blind. You’re correct, mobile app will embed in break with the convention. No worries, at least it’s confirming to me it didn’t embed.  So un/related could Georgia decide to just retake its poo poo and pull it off?
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Mar 25, 2022 22:44
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CommieGIR posted:The problem was Germany didn't have to. They openly chose to retire their nuclear plants prematurely, and now apparently did so at the advice of Gazprom advisers and lobbying. That's the issue. And even ignoring the majority of their gas usage is for heating, ~15% of their electricity is gas generated. Seriously, Merkel deserves to have this and this alone be her legacy. Much like how Schroeder’s is now that of paid Russian tool.
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Mar 25, 2022 23:19
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Young Freud posted:Apparently General Dmitry Vitalyevich Bulgakov has been made the acting Minister of Defense. It’s extremely hilarious too. I mean he’s been in charge of logistical stuff for a rather long time, even food stocks… so he either really loving sucks or is super corrupt or the most likely answer: both. It’s like how do you get worse and the Russians, much like life, finds a way.
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CommieGIR posted:Jesus he looks like Hermann Goring Hopefully poo poo I can’t unsee that.
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Mr. Apollo posted:Unfortunately I’ve seen a lot online leftists talk unitonically about how “Ukraine had to be destroyed in order to save it.” or “Ukraine needed to be taught a hard lesson about siding with imperialists/nazis/fascists.” I can’t even imagine typing that out let alone believing it. Doing that requires a fundamentally broken brain.
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So do people think Georgia, might get antsy, about wanting to take some things back?
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
I guess I’m just trying to think of areas, well besides Japan, that Russia has border issues with or Russia has (practical) control of a state, that could be considered tenuous at best.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:They call that midlands. Hence the “well besides Japan.” lol That said in General Sir John Hackett’s Third World War, features Japan getting the islands back after a Soviet disintegration, after Minsk is nuked, in retaliation for Birmingham getting nuked.
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Mukaikubo posted:That would be because Team Yankee was explicitly written in the world of Hackett's Third World War as a companion piece to show the ground-level experience of what Hackett was describing. They're a very interesting combo. Hell there is even an anime that uses it. Also Max Brooks praised his writing style as being a part of World War Z. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-KzsYM7Uw Synthwave AMV for seeing awesome war porn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWvtUoAzXM Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Or a chemical fire of sorts. Russians have shown themselves to be fond of bombing fuel depots. I wonder (and this is kind of Clancychat) if the Russians picked a target that would be visible to Biden in Poland in some way. Granted that implies way too much operational competency for Russia.
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1507516892688359430 I wonder how they can get the gear and not have ITAR issues, cause seriously they should be ordering via a brownells or someone with a poo poo ton of export experience. cinci zoo sniper posted:Not at all Clancychat, I think it’s normal to expect Russia do some flashy posturing today. It does seem right up their alley and their small dick energy way of showing off.
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fuctifino posted:The Russian 'pranksters' released the video call to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel. Looking at that man’s Twitter I can see a person who has a severe case of brainworms or CTE.
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fuctifino posted:His twitter account is flagged 'Russia state-affiliated media', so yeah.... Yep, some dipshit in DC who works for goddamn Sputnik International.
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Cimber posted:I feel awful for laughing at this. I don’t think you can be blamed for laughing at something that funny. Then again I’m a lawyer so I have a strong adherence to gallows humor.
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Apologies for trying to expand the conflict, but I was wondering, at what point does the world or even just popular opinion say, gently caress Putin, gently caress his nukes, it’s the worth risk to stop him (either in Ukraine or third country)? I guess at what point do nukes stop being able to deter a military attack?
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sebmojo posted:Do you know what the D in MAD stands for? Also I only realized how hilarious that reads after typing it.
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Groke posted:The thing is that the A is supposed to mean what it means, so the word "risk" is not entirely appropriate. I should have also stated I was thinking solely of conventional attack and with that clearly stated.m to the Russians. I can see how wacky it comes off as if you think I mean use nukes.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:When encouraging evacuation it is important to evacuate pets also because people who can't leave with their pets stay for their pets and get killed. Yeah, I remember this being a reason for the revamping of a lot rules w/r/t pets and emergency shelters, at least after Katrina in the US.
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timma85 posted:This is hasn’t been true for most military beaches in the US for the last 10-15 years. The majority of branches have regulations specifically forbidding people from those sorts of enlistments. Plus the military likes avoiding people who have done crime, barring some surge waivers, and also is looking for people to sign up for long term recruitment vs a short term to get out of jail.
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CommieGIR posted:I don't think it matters at this point if NATO/US were involved because Putin is not acting out some long planned vengeance over it: This is entirely about his delusions around rebuilding the Russian empire. I don't see how, at this point with what we know, we can even entertain that any of this is even remotely the Wests fault. Putin is entirely at fault for this war and dressing it up as a concern around western expansion. Putin continued and encouraged the Oligarchy and client state ideal that a lot of ex-Warsaw Pact wanted to avoid, its not like being economically or defensively aligned with Russia looked great to most of them because Russia was its own sort of corruption that wasn't attractive to nations looking to modernize. They'd end up like Belarus, basically a satellite state with a hand picked puppet at the helm. Its part of why the Maiden revolution happened at all: The vast majority of Central and Western Ukrainians didn't want to be more closely aligned with Russia. It’s kind of amazing most fan scenario briefings for Harpoon, Steel Panthers II, or Command Modern Operations, are far far more thought out and we’ll planned then Russia actually did. I was joking in the GBS thread about how if this was a computer game people would lose their poo poo at the performance of Russia’s AI. Someone actually typed out some hilarious patch notes for Russia. quote:Patch Notes for Russia-Ukraine War Scenario:
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