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Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Decrepus posted:

That story gets more embellished every time it gets posted here :laffo:

I think it was because of that episode where War Nerd Radio was on Chapo.

If I remember right, Van Riper also gave himself invincible helicopters and insisted he could coordinate everything with complete radio silence.

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Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
And private collections of AFVs were typically way better kept than public museums.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Deki posted:

NAFO memes are loving awful in a vacuum but throw 20 at them at some scraggly bearded contrarian's twitter and the ensuing butthurt is glorious.

Speaking of, I just heard that Gonzalo Lira got booted out of Ukraine for materially helping the Russian army. Apparently he narc'd out a bunch of other collaborators to avoid any punishment but being kicked out of the country.

Lazerpig claimed that he asked into it, and a Ukrainian rep told him that Lira stayed in Ukraine after ratting out his collaborators, but grew so paranoid that he would be killed that he didn't leave his apartment at all. Police did a wellness check to find him begging to be escorted out of the country. That's entirely from a Youtuber with a goofy name though, so take it with a pound of salt.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

tiaz posted:

It's true that that's bad news, but it has also been expected - see all the drama about Bakhmut and how it either enables massive Russian advances or moves the front line 100 meters. A breakthrough does not mean a line collapse. We're just not going to know what transpired for a while.

It also seems like Russia is creating two fairly large salients for themselves if they don't secure the city proper.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

HonorableTB posted:

https://twitter.com/IuliiaMendel/status/1638955099954225154?s=20

Reuters says the Indian Air Force is reporting that Russia cannot meet their obligations of weapons shipments this year due to the war in Ukraine.

Didn't it take like over a decade for Russia to fill India's T90 ordet?

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

zone posted:

When isn't a pro-Russian roundtable deranged? Remember when Gonzalo Lira tried to mess with LazerPig and got owned so thoroughly he hid his stupid face for a couple weeks, lmao

The funny part was that at a certain point, Pig admitted that he got so drunk that he could barely speak, which gave room for Lira to just babble on and on, trying to "trigger" Pig, who didn't take the bait.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

HonorableTB posted:

I checked my mail.ru and lmao I have a mobilization order too. I haven't lived in Russia in 11 years. I'm not even Russian. Good luck with that

More fishbrick for me, westoid.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

HonorableTB posted:

Latest casualty counts are also indicative of major offensive activity. Hachi machi just take a look at the amount of logistics/support vehicles and artillery systems that got destroyed
Makes sense. I heard someone mention recently that Bakhmut has only been a focus because it just happens to be where a bunch of Russian supply lines converge.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Kith posted:

is it supposed to do that

Supposed to? Debatable, but Kuznetsov is famous for that plume if smoke caused by the garbage fuel it runs off of.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
You'd also have to believe that Ukraine thought they could assassinate Putin by blowing up a little bomb like 50ft above the dome of Putin's house.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
Apparently, Lazerpig was wrong about Lira being out of the country. That, or Lira was extradited.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

neato burrito posted:

Is calling Prigohzin "Pissgoblin" a probatable offense? It's remarkably clever and I'm a good poster.

You might need to ask permission from the Trump and Jorp threads first.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Rust Martialis posted:

I Googled and a generic PAC-2 missile gets up to 1.2 km/s with a range of 160km. So it will take up to maybe 2 minutes to hit any target in range. Curvature of the earth is an issue obviously from the radar unit, I wonder if you can drive a launcher far in front of the radar? Like your radar is near Kyiv, can you move a launcher 50km closer towards the front? 100km? Could you put a single launcher in Kharkiv and snipe at aircraft into Russia? (Ed: no, 1 km max stated)

Edit: hmm

Every time that I see people who would know the range of modern AA missiles asked about the range, they get really cagey.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
Just wait until Wagner runs into those Armatas piloted by hardened Syrian soldiers.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
Prigozhin advances further into Russia than he did into Bakhmut.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
This is where working as a caterer gets you.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

sebmojo posted:

Yeah. What's the relationship between Russia and turkey like?

E: aside from slightly worse than it was a few days ago obv

Historically? Not great.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

tiaz posted:

I find that often when creators step outside their area of expertise/interest they have a high risk of getting it badly wrong, so it's nice to see Adam Something continue having decent epistemic hygiene when he gets away from urbanism and trainposting.

Lazerpig and others learning this lesson the hard way.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
I'm seeing lots of boats getting sunk lately. Is it maybe time that militaries got rid of naval craft? :shrug:

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
Whopping Cake Goku.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Pontificating rear end posted:

The fact that putin didn't realize other European countries would naturally support Ukraine and send arms, goes to show how stupid he really is. People can cry "stop sending weapons! and stop prolong war!!" but it's a logical conclusion that neighboring countries, and the entire west, would feel the culminated threat of Russia and fight back.

Yeah, but remember when he brought that dog in front of Merkel? That was such a Chad move that let him dominate Europe.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Hot Expensive Squash Ham Burger

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

The Fico–Orbán axis might be disrupted by the fact that the Orbán vocally considers large parts of Slovakia stolen Hungarian clay, something which wasn't an issue for the PiS-Fidesz axis.

Missed out on a chance for the Fico-PiS Alliance

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Sedgr posted:

You can tell it's not a T-14 Armata because while it is primarily stationary, the barrel is straighter than normal and it's not on fire.

Whenever I see a t14 in motion, something about its barrel just looks off.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!
Giant friendly Krab.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Blistex posted:

Whatever happened with Brimstone? From the descriptions of its capabilities it sounded like some sort of semi-autonomous missile system that would hunt any location designated for enemy vehicles.

Did supplies dry up or is the front as it currently stands not target-rich enough for its use and likely a waste of missiles?

Last I heard there was a mixture of not having the right minimum numbers of missiles and platforms for UK, much less Ukraine, but that was much earlier in the year.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Alan Smithee posted:

So many questions. I thought dugin was a putinist for one

I feel like it's more that Putin is a Duginist, but I could be reading the situation wrong.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

It's like a wacky version of the effectiveness of American artillery and airpower in France in WW2. While planes didn't actually directly kill many tanks, one effect of the constant bombardment was that the Nazis began to move their armor more at night or during bad weather. Meanwhile, the Allies spent most of their evenings withdrawing their tanks to maintenance and resupply depots.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Tai posted:

I love it when tankies use Ritter as an info source despite being a convicted pedo and a con man. Just ignore the bought and paid for by the Kremlin.

Yeah, at least use a normal non-creep like Mark Ames or Gonzalo Lira.

Wait.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1775153076103496023?s=20
Hello IKEA? someone stole your sofas and used them to create copes

Anyone else think of Drop Dead Gorgeous?

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Offices that are in charge of accounting of military funding and stockpiles must be seeing their most frenzied activity in years.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Comstar posted:

The infantry tank returns! If you're limited to advancing at a walking pace, and a tank is better than no tank at all, might as well bring back the Infantry Tank with a good gun.


Then introduce Cruiser tanks for when you breakthrough.

Well, the army says it's been trying to restore the t95.

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

Lord Awkward posted:

"We painted fake explosions on the pavement to confuse the Ukrainians :)))))"

*helicopters park on top of explosions*

Pre-distressed airframes

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

That's gotta be hell on the suspension

Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
Western Liberal Democracy or Death!

mllaneza posted:

Keep an eye on Lazerpig's channel.

Their chat stuff can be fun, but I usually check out once Digital Vagrant joins. He's one of those guys that thinks the longer he talks, the funnier he gets.

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Pennsylvanian
May 23, 2010

Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXsRK9vr1Ak&t=666s

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