THE BAR posted:

Twitter wants me to log in all of a sudden. Is that a new thing, or something on my end?

grumplestiltzkin posted:

waking up to see that pissed off a tankie trust fund baby so hard that they rage bought avatars to own their posting enemies has made today a good day

Mr Teatime posted:

Lmao at the Honor Herturnington av spam.

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

They mention cases where Ukranians are dressing up in Russian uniforms? Am I reading this right?

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Yeah. Japan's entire military strategy against the United States was "do a surprise attack and sink enough of their navy that they'll have to agree to favourable terms because they won't have an effective navy to fight us with", because replacing lost ships takes so long.

It can't be stressed enough how incredibly, amazingly, shockingly, uniquely massive America's warship production was during World War II, and even then they didn't let ships sink if they could do absolutely anything about it. One of the big things that won the war for the United States was their extremely high competence in damage control, because it enabled them to keep their ships afloat and fighting.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

It can't be stressed enough how incredibly, amazingly, shockingly, uniquely massive America's warship production was during World War II, and even then they didn't let ships sink if they could do absolutely anything about it. One of the big things that won the war for the United States was their extremely high competence in damage control, because it enabled them to keep their ships afloat and fighting.

quote:

"But what about the Navy? What are they doing to assist in defending Okinawa? Have we no more ships?" Now feeling pressured by the emperor to also mount some kind of attack, Japanese Navy commanders conceived a kamikaze-type mission for their remaining operational large ships, which included the battleship Yamato.

spankmeister posted:

They have their own oil and refineries, how can they gently caress up this bad?

pro starcraft loser posted:

I guess I was just too used to seeing crashes from the war when the plane is that high up when it's initially hit.

Arivia posted:

catherine the great had an infamous reputation that was reflected in her furniture

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mandycaruso/the-x-rated-furniture-of-catherine-the-great-is-something

so if today's russians are inheriting her legacy, they get the chairs and tables too!

Cable Guy posted:

A patent has been granted for an invention by which soldiers sealed inside vehicles during combat can dispose of their biological waste by firing it at the enemy



It's Russian.

William Bear posted:

The author of webcomic Terminal Lance, about life in the US Marines, once said that he knew three people who decided, independently of each other, to set their own pubic hair on fire when bored.

https://terminallance.com/2010/06/08/terminal-lance-41-standing-post-stages-of-boredom/

Big rear end On Fire posted:

Recent vid turned up Chinese made 60mm mortar rounds


https://twitter.com/i/status/1696080189514788912

god please help me posted:

I like War Crime Gigolo.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

It happened again: War Thunder players leaked confidential materials.

E:

This. And also there are plenty of examples from history of people using guns to fire indirectly. It was a pretty common tactic in World War I for multiple machine gunners to fire indirectly at presumed enemy assembly points, and leading up to World War II at least German machine gunners were specifically trained for indirect fire as well.

Jimlit posted:

Is war thunder even a sim like that? Every video I see makes it just look like an arcade deathmatch kinda game.

ishikabibble posted:

Most people aren't really aware that what they have is classified tbh.

It's a big scare word but most/all of the poo poo that's leaked has been on the same level of 'classified' as a guy in the service posting where his new duty station is. It's, in the US parlance, literally 'Controlled Unclassified Information'.
It's stuff that's reasonably deemed to not have a serious security risk if its released to the public, but still isn't actually cleared for it because it hasn't gone through the declassification process.

The Eurofighter manual that got 'leaked' is for a specific and now decommissioned developmental aircraft variant for the Italians, and has apparently been freely downloadable on the internet for years, apparently. The guy who posted it is probably just some rando plane nerd who found it and went 'omg this plane is cool, I wonder if they'll add it to my favorite game War Thunder? '

Ataxerxes posted:

There was a short movie, I think it was done by the BBC, about the first British tank attack from the viewpoint of the commander of one of the tanks. It captured the chaos and confusion of operating a Mark I really well, and the crew realizing that the supposedly bulletproof armor isn't.

Karate Bastard posted:

If poccnr suddenly gave you an opportunity to take back territory long since stolen from you by poccnr and filled full of poccnians, would you take it?

mobby_6kl posted:

Right, and they don't have any aircraft carriers either

Baronjutter posted:

I was reading up on how bad attrition from supply mismanagement can be and holy poo poo fascist japan just straight up murdered a vast amount of their own army through starvation, not combat.

"There were 2.3 million military deaths, of whom 1.4 million died away from the battlefield, succumbing to disease and starvation."

Why are fascists so loving bad at everything?

steinrokkan posted:

Cicero posted:

Presumably these are for the F-16's, right? And whatever other western fighter jets may get added to the pile.

I'm confused why the US isn't committing to sending over any F-16's or F-15's, since it seems we're gradually replacing the old ones with F-35's anyway.

Tai posted:

I'm sure heaving lots of extra weight on a wing for hours a day will surely not shorten the life span of it.

zone posted:

Presented without comment.

redshirt posted:

Again, "spitballing". Is there ANY out for Putin at this point other than victory or death?

spunkshui posted:

The USA knows to kick your enemies if they are down. We are sending top tier tanks with these horrifying rounds lol

Found a sliced open image of one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/10f8ftl/american_m829a4_armorpiercing_tank_round/

Id go home personally.

Der Kyhe posted:

Poland bought enough so that they can be shared with the class if Putin decides in 5-10 years to go somewhere else in the Eastern Europe and USA is lead by a known Putin associate on work release parole and Germany manages to find someone even more spinless to replace the current head of state.

Nelson Mandingo posted:

Honestly it's funny how Putin is going to be known as the guy who crippled Russia, where before Feburary 2022 he would have gone down in history as the man who did everything he could to restore the nation to greatness before they became a resource colony of China.

Nessus posted:

Whatever his ultimate reputation, he definitely broke his army's dick doing this poo poo. I suppose if they are able to reconstitute and reconstruct it, it will probably be a better force pound per pound, but how much military can Russia afford?

For that matter, are all their nuclear deterrent stuff also soviet vintage? Are they building any new missile subs?

karoshi posted:

Can you park 486 HIMARSes on the biggest container ships and empty their magazines without the ship sinking? Asking for a project.

spankmeister posted:

If you put effort into makoing your tanks reverse faster instead of going forward it means youre winning right?

Philonius posted:

We really dodged a bullet here by not sending the Ukrainians any M4 Shermans. Those would have a pretty rough time.

HonorableTB posted:

Edit: I'm not worried about nukes in any case because of where I live. I'd be vaporized instantly between the two major metro areas of Seattle and Tacoma, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Bremerton Naval Base, the strategic industry of Boeing, Hanford nuclear power plant, and the shipping capacity of the Puget Sound ports. I'm so nuked it's unreal and simply not worth giving any consideration to because of how futile it is lol. So many warheads are aimed at my balls that I would cease being biology and start being physics

fatherboxx posted:

I have recently learned that in the past ten years Russian airlines deliberately headhunted most military pilots straight from pilot schools. Military pilot doing bombing runs in Syria would get 100 000 rubles monthly salary (1,5k usd on prewar rates, barely above median federal salary, now are certainly higher because even cannon fodder mobiks get 200k+, but too late) while civilian pilots are paid 500k monthly. Various SEA airlines also have been offering competetive rates.

Thats also the reason why Russian airforce has not managed to secure air superiority in Ukraine.

The_Franz posted:

No worries, the replacement token fat dictator just arrived:
https://twitter.com/Kremlinpool_RIA/status/1701577404815208926#m

Der Kyhe posted:

My guess is that that airframe isn't going anywhere from that field, besides being stripped for donor parts and cut to pieces.

Too bad that the sanctions do not work, and that Tupolev was stripped down and grifted between the oligarch, as it seems that Russia sure could use a national company that can build airplane spare parts, even less than ideal jury rigged and reverse engineered ones, right about now.

Coolguye posted:

all of these random fires i have to wonder what the actual distribution of causes are

like ok, smoking accidents, yeah i am positive there's plenty of those. terrible maintenance being revealed by wartime shortages and stressors, absolutely. a lot are also undoubtedly due to ukranian drones, though a TV station would be outside their usual targets.

the part that i am curious about is cyberattacks. if you're using software, especially industrial software, poorly and don't have manual/hardware failsafes, some hacking can absolutely cause a gas valve to get stuck open and whoopsie poosums you're a spark away from a gas fire.

the thing is, because russia's been so huge about DoMiNaNcE oF cYb0r and the perpetrators aren't really going to be interested in claiming responsibility for cyberattacks (because that increases the chances of the vulnerabilities getting fixed), everyone involved in a cyberattack wouldn't say a drat thing about it. i can't help but wonder how many of these fires are someone hacking various gibsons around moscow.

HonorableTB posted:

lmfao elon "decided to" turn over the parts of starlink that are used for the war to the pentagon.

"decided to"

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1702035419938857246?s=20

Somehow I think what really happened was the Department of Defense finally had enough of elon's fuckery and just took it and said deal with it or lose the rest too

Captain Fargle posted:

How replaceable are these Russian anti-air systems? I want to get some context on how significant a hit this is. How many of them do they have and how long does it take to manufacture one?

HonorableTB posted:

The thing to understand about Russian is that a lot of the translations are wonky because of the extensive use of mat. Mat is a sublanguage made up of pretty much nothing but cursing. There are at least 37* different meanings for "gently caress your mother" (yob tvoyu mat) that are dependent on tone, context, etc. It could mean anything from "This surprised me" to "That's excellent" to "Literally gently caress your mother" (this will get you beaten). A good mat speaker - something pretty much only native speakers can converse fluently in - looks like that mishmash of florid prose and raw vulgarity.

Fun fact: mat is legally regulated by Roskomnadzor, the government agency responsible for censoring and blocking the internet in Russia

*slightly exaggerating but not by much

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_(Russian_profanity)

quote:

Four pillars of mat

In 2014, Roskomnadzor compiled a list of four lexical roots, with any words derived from these roots - nouns, adjectives, verbs, participles etc - of the Russian language which it deemed "absolutely unacceptable in the mass media": khuy ("cock"); pizda ("The Australian Word"); yebat ("to gently caress"); and blyad ("whore"). Since Roskomnadzor is the governmental agency legally entitled to make such decisions, this is exactly the currently active Russian legal definition of "mat".[2]

SquirrelGrip posted:

Wtf is the Australian word

the popes toes posted:

"Our production manager was a woman, and one day she called me in and gave me an assignment. And then she looked at me and said, ’Yob tvoyu mat’ ’ – ’Make sure it loving gets done!’ I’d never heard her use mat before. She used it to show that she was being straight with me."

and

"Even Peter the Great was a master of mat: while decapitating rebellious Kremlin guards, he let out an immense stream of mat, a legendary tapestry of seventy-four words woven together by the force of his wrath."

Good mat write up here: http://www.russki-mat.net/e/mat_VEvrofeyev.htm

quote:

At times, the characters of mat’s urban folklore can take on the appearance of mythical monsters, such as Yebena mat’ and V-rot-yebis’ (literally, «hosed mother» and «gently caress-yourself-in-the-mouth».. Faced with these terms, translation admits defeat. One chastushka – a verse akin to the limerick-goes like this:

A man stands on the bridge there, look.
He seems a lot like Mother-gently caress.
Then out of nowhere drawing near
See gently caress-Yourself-in-the-Mouth appear.

grumplestiltzkin posted:

Re: mentally disabled soldiers

The us tried something similar in Vietnam, and to the surprise of nobody except the ghouls running it, it was not only not productive but actively counter-productive.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1703086849139327332#m
Time for these to get sunk too.

Wistful of Dollars posted:

https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1703891181279613318?s=46&t=6HOSYVrXffESMo0NlyR0Lg

Must go faster