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Volmarias posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU&t=110s i know it's the FORBIDDEN TOPIC but i think the worst thing about that video is that israel's IDF watched that video and immediately went "that sounds loving awesome" and Lavender is their first pitch for upping the ante on "automated firing algorithms" out of Human Resources and into war
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Apr 5, 2024 00:27
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Staluigi posted:i know it's the FORBIDDEN TOPIC but i think the worst thing about that video is that israel's IDF watched that video and immediately went "that sounds loving awesome" and Lavender is their first pitch for upping the ante on "automated firing algorithms" out of Human Resources and into war I promise that no military needed or needs an incentive or imagination to do it, it's only a question on how squeamish their support base is about it. E: and how large their budget is for it. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Apr 5, 2024 00:52
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There are reports that Ukraine hit the Morozovsk air base in Russia with a massive drone attack. That air base is home to a number of Su-34s. Ukraine says that 6 planes were destroyed and another 8 were damaged. I've seen a couple of reports that claim that none of the drones were shot down. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68740094 quote:Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Airbase, Six Aircraft Claimed Destroyed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKJe3YbfR8w https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1776022704241389870?s=20 Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Apr 5, 2024 14:31
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Nervous posted:There's a part of me that's happy that a pedophile was forced to go somewhere where he might get fpv droned. Oh they are going to keep him around as a mouthpiece against biden's Nazi regime and a persecuted American dissident
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Apr 5, 2024 15:06
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Volmarias posted:They were already signing up Russian prisoners in exchange for pardons, this isn't a huge step. Except he's not getting any kind of pardon from anyone. So basically the worst of everything for this guy. He could have laid low somewhere in Russia or Belarus, but specifically chose to suicide by Ukraine. Best of luck to him!
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Apr 5, 2024 15:40
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Nitrox posted:Except he's not getting any kind of pardon from anyone. So basically the worst of everything for this guy. He could have laid low somewhere in Russia or Belarus, but specifically chose to suicide by Ukraine. Best of luck to him! I would imagine going to Russia or Belarus on a regular American passport would not allow you to lay low, especially if you were not smart enough to go someplace else without an extradition treaty in the first place.
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Apr 5, 2024 16:36
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Zooming down to ground level, I stumbled up this. https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM/videos A lot of one on one interviews with front line soldiers in Ukraine, mostly English speaking Legion guys. A lot of good first hand accounts with some interesting insights, but also fair share of the realities of war.
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Apr 5, 2024 17:42
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Not exactly related to the war, but it's interesting that I read today two different news from Russia. One was about an emergency in Russian Far East's Khabarovsk due to elevated radiation levels detected at a power pylon (I didn't know that nuclear power worked that way?). Then in Urals a dam has bursted, causing the evacuation of up to 10 000 people in the city of Orsk. Things like these happen all the time everywhere, and a plenty even at better times in Russia, so I don't intend to draw hasty conclusions. Rather I'm just thinking aloud that the focus on Ukraine is going to reflect on Russian infrastructure at some point. The longer the war continues, the worse it will become as repair debt accumulates and fewer workers available for jobs that require all four limbs.
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Apr 5, 2024 20:08
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There's two additional factors: first, Russian taxation is collected by the regions, sent to Moscow, and then distributed again to the regions based on the central government's preferences. This us why Moscow and St. Pete's get so much money. Second, imports of needed tools and specialists to maintain infrastructure is much more expensive because of sanctions.
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Apr 5, 2024 20:11
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saw that a machine gun was put on a heavy lifting drone and used in combat. it does not look accurate at all, but it's now a thing.
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Apr 5, 2024 20:41
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LifeSunDeath posted:saw that a machine gun was put on a heavy lifting drone and used in combat. it does not look accurate at all, but it's now a thing. As propulsion?
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Apr 5, 2024 21:15
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LifeSunDeath posted:saw that a machine gun was put on a heavy lifting drone and used in combat. it does not look accurate at all, but it's now a thing. Dahir Insaat was a prophet and we were fools to laugh at him
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Apr 5, 2024 21:29
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Nenonen posted:Things like these happen all the time everywhere, and a plenty even at better times in Russia, so I don't intend to draw hasty conclusions. Rather I'm just thinking aloud that the focus on Ukraine is going to reflect on Russian infrastructure at some point. The longer the war continues, the worse it will become as repair debt accumulates and fewer workers available for jobs that require all four limbs. broad categories of national peril which really like to eat the poo poo out of infrastructure, commerce, and industry over time and makes subsequent decades suck rear end include - a mobilized wartime economy - autocratic institutional capture - general corruption levels russia is now red hot on the center of that fantastic venn diagram, double-fisted clawing at any of the national seedcorn to keep at it. and a lot of it isn't even really new, just .. intensified
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Apr 5, 2024 23:50
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Nervous posted:There's a part of me that's happy that a pedophile was forced to go somewhere where he might get fpv droned. He will be used as cannon fodder most likely.
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Apr 6, 2024 00:56
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EDIT: Wrong thread.
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Apr 6, 2024 01:09
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The Russian official budget for this year is 1/3 military-adjacent spending, and the actual numbers might be even higher. And no, the infrastructure was not getting regular improvements even in the best of times. You know how the repair sewage lines that have rusted through? The hammer in wooden shims to plug the leaks. The money gets stolen on every level. And nobody can do anything about it because thieves are in charge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
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Apr 6, 2024 05:28
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Between the war casualties, the people who have escaped abroad, and the defense and extraction industries paying very inflated wages, the Russian economy is heading towards very tough times. Unfortunately it's probably too slow a process to help Ukraine much. It will be interesting to see how the spring planting season goes, if they have the manpower and the diesel fuel to manage. On another note, the difficulties Ukraine is having to getting around to drafting more men is very worrying. I think they would have done it already if they weren't thinking the measure was unpopular enough to potentially bring the country to a crisis.
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Apr 6, 2024 08:55
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wrong thread
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Apr 6, 2024 10:19
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https://twitter.com/leonidragozin/status/1776654888925081964?t=SDW5Yn7NRQD4mpYPmkdJ9g&s=19 Today in Nazi discourse: the perils of selling out
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Apr 7, 2024 08:59
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drat nazis, they ruined nazis
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Apr 7, 2024 11:46
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Brilliant https://www.twz.com/land/bizarre-turtle-tank-appears-in-ukraine-with-shell-covering-it-nearly-completely
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Apr 9, 2024 04:39
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D-Pad posted:Brilliant Yeah that's a medieval battering ram. There's dudes walking and carrying a giant log under that triangle Maybe it works though
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Apr 9, 2024 05:18
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D-Pad posted:Brilliant Congratulations, Russia, you reinvented the StuG.
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Apr 9, 2024 05:22
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Testudon't
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Apr 9, 2024 15:33
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Cope Shell
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Apr 9, 2024 15:45
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Scratch Monkey posted:Cope Shell "Cope-a-cabana"
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Apr 9, 2024 15:53
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The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, But For A Tank
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Apr 9, 2024 16:09
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How do you see?
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Apr 9, 2024 16:21
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Zhanism posted:How do you see? Seems like you mostly don't?
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Apr 9, 2024 16:36
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I think the thought was it's for leading convoys (as seen in the video) with its minesweeper attachment thingy so it doesn't really need to be able to see except straight ahead or turn its turret. Not a good thought, but a thought none the less.
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Apr 9, 2024 17:06
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It’s not a tank gun, it’s a spyglass
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Apr 9, 2024 18:09
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But hey, they got plenty of shade with that setup
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Apr 9, 2024 23:17
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Everyone needs to double check that article, because it looks like the "turtle tank" is already dead, snuffed out in it's sleep when Ukraine geolocated it's home and called in a strike on the a tank hangar.
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Apr 10, 2024 02:17
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Young Freud posted:Everyone needs to double check that article, because it looks like the "turtle tank" is already dead, snuffed out in it's sleep when Ukraine geolocated it's home and called in a strike on the a tank hangar. Good night, sweet tortoise tank, and columns of tankers swear "blyats" to thy rest
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Apr 10, 2024 03:30
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Young Freud posted:Everyone needs to double check that article, because it looks like the "turtle tank" is already dead, snuffed out in it's sleep when Ukraine geolocated it's home and called in a strike on the a tank hangar. toy drone with grenade proof, but not anything else proof 
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Apr 10, 2024 08:44
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Even if it were unique, publicising this one tank might allow Russia to use similar looking constructions as cost effective missile/HIMARS bait, since it's "drone proof" and difficult to see inside.
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Apr 10, 2024 08:50
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But it is not drone proof. We have seen FPV drones fly through windows, trenches, and anything else a person can to blow stuff up. It does seem like local Russian commanders/units are trying anything they can think of to at least mitigate the risk, but I doubt the turtle shell method will stick. I think it will come down to EW and who can effectively locate and then jam these drones cheaply and with ease.
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Apr 10, 2024 09:09
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It might protect the most vulnerable parts, the front of a T-55 is still hard to penetrate compared to landing on engine deck or turret top. For the crew that might be enough to persuade them that it's safe to use. But they will need someone to guide them, that tank has a literal tunnel vision and can't reverse out of trouble on its own.
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Apr 10, 2024 09:24
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Don't know if this is the first time, but there seem to be direct hits on at least one Zaporizhzhia containment, in addition to other close hits. https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-condemns-drone-strikes-at-Zaporizhzhia-site
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Apr 10, 2024 10:00
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Nenonen posted:It might protect the most vulnerable parts, the front of a T-55 is still hard to penetrate compared to landing on engine deck or turret top. For the crew that might be enough to persuade them that it's safe to use. But they will need someone to guide them, that tank has a literal tunnel vision and can't reverse out of trouble on its own. Eh, maybe they use their own drones to guide them. I don't think it will be much worse than the driver looking out of vision blocks even without the tent. Also, I guess they assume that the tank is spotted anyway so then the camouflage moves from trying to increase spotting time to trying to remove the preciseness of FPV drones (and direct fire, I guess). It is harder to exactly on the turret roof your device has to point accurately a few meters and you are not entirely sure where the turret is in the tent.
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