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  1. if you are looking for the full Ramadi map done by LLF it is here oops sorry that was in the original CMSF.
  2. I was working on a SADR city map. I may release a portion of it as I'll never finish the full map. It will just crash CM at this point.
  3. Dozens detained as Russian soldiers' wives call for their return from Ukraine (yahoo.com) More than two dozen people, mostly journalists, were detained Saturday at a protest in central Moscow, as wives and other relatives of Russian servicemen mobilized to fight in Ukraine called for their return, according to independent Russian news reports. The relatives gathered to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the Kremlin walls. They marked 500 days since Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2022 ordered a “partial mobilization” of up to 300,000 reservists following battlefield setbacks in Moscow’s full-scale war against Ukraine. The call-up was widely unpopular and prompted hundreds of thousands to flee abroad to avoid being drafted. Wives and relatives of some of the reservists called up in 2022 have campaigned for them to be discharged and replaced with contract soldiers. Saturday’s demonstration was organized by one such campaign group, The Way Home, that on Friday posted on Telegram calling on “wives, mothers, sisters and children” of reservists from across Russia to come to Moscow to “demonstrate (their) unity.” “We want our husbands back alive,” one of the protesters, who only gave her name as Antonina for fear of reprisals, is heard saying in a video published by independent Russian news outlet SOTAvision.
  4. weird thing is I was watching a video taken by a unit in Ramadi and recognized a stretch of road from LLFs map.
  5. Putin Goes After Scientists Behind 'Unique' Hypersonic Missiles (msn.com) At least 12 scientists in Russia have been detained in politically motivated arrests linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin's much-touted hypersonic missile program, it has been reported. Three have died since their arrests. Yevgeny Smirnov, a lawyer who represented the defendants, told news outlet BBC Russian that FSB sources told him every accusation was reported to Putin, and the arrests were to demonstrate that Russian missile technology is being hunted down. The cases aimed "to show that Russian missiles are the best and that they are trying to steal them," Smirnov told the outlet.
  6. nah, it is going to make itself appear as Taylor Swift as it goes live during halftime at the Superbowl. or sumfink like that....
  7. Ukraine Goes After Russia's Fuel Tanks in Record Hunt (msn.com) Ukraine's bid to degrade vital Russian supply lines in the occupied south and east of the country is being reflected in the rising number of fuel transport vehicles being reported destroyed in Kyiv's daily battlefield tallies. Through January, the Ukrainian defense ministry claimed 937 fuel cars and cisterns had been destroyed or damaged beyond repair, the highest monthly tally since the beginning of Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Similar losses in December—931—were the second-highest monthly total of the war, per Kyiv's tallies. The rising attrition rate may be a reflection of Russia's costly offensive activities, which have seen the Kremlin's troops pushing forward in hotspots including Avdiivka in eastern Donetsk Oblast, and on the northeastern front near Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast.
  8. umm that would equal a half a tire Maybe $1000 a tire or 1k a tire. "Details matter" - Jack Reacher
  9. Interesting if this is Ukraine's plan to seize more of the strategic initiative. Ukraine's strikes on targets inside Russia hurt Putin's efforts to show the war isn't hitting home (msn.com)
  10. This would seem to be a sure-fire way to incite some civil unrest. Yeah sure, go jail someone's grandmother for 5 years for sharing a post. Russia Jails Pensioner for Post About Army Casualties (msn.com)
  11. heh or we could just stay focused on Ukraine and not rehash WW2.
  12. very nice. Take a look if you haven't at LLFs mods for the Ramadi map. There are some nice ones there to spice up the map.
  13. Exclusive-Russia struggles to sell Pacific oil, 14 tankers stuck - sources, data (msn.com)
  14. U.S. sanctions ruin Kremlin's grand energy project - Bloomberg (msn.com)
  15. Seems Ukraine is enacting its own form of "sanctions" on the Russian energy industry. Ukrainian drone attack ignites fire, forces shutdown of major Russian refinery on Black Sea coast (msn.com)
  16. one way to deal with enemy drone capabilities,,, Drone warfare takes a deadly turn: Ukraine's HIMARS system eliminates Russian 'Judgment Day' squadron (msn.com)
  17. druggier? Umm I'm throwing the challenge flag on that one. I think the mid/late 70s have this generation beat on the druggie thing ESPECIALLY in regards to the military. Funny thing, having integrated army units was once the "woke" thing. Other than a few NAZI types running around I doubt anyone gives a second thought to integrated units anymore. I'll admit to being confused sometimes by this generations challenges to orthodoxy but given what I've seen in my lifetime I take it for granted that my not understanding stuff has zero value on its importance to someone else so I mostly keep my trap shut and nod benignly as my neighbors kid goes on a rant and I understand only maybe half of it. Just so long as their friends stay off my lawn.
  18. word. I'm confused enough on this thread with some of the stuff that gets said.
  19. Maybe they should make it illegal then to disrupt the electoral vote in Congress... oh wait..
  20. Military intelligence: Cyberattack on Russian scientific research center deals 'devastating' damage (msn.com)
  21. Ukraine's 'Blackjack' hackers breached 500 Russian military sites and caused chaos, says military intelligence (msn.com) "Blackjack," a Ukrainian group of hackers with possible ties to the country's main spy agency, stole construction plans for over 500 Russian military sites, Newsweek reported. The cyber operatives are believed to have links to the Security Service of Ukraine. Ukraine's military-intelligence agency, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, or GUR, confirmed the successful operation on Friday. GUR said a successful cyberattack had been launched against a Russian state enterprise overseeing all construction contracts for Russia's Ministry of Defence. They wrote that operatives had transferred critical information about Russian military facilities that have already been completed, constructed, reconstructed, or planned for construction to the Security and Defense Forces of Ukraine. The Blackjack group amassed 1.2 terabytes of classified data on Vladimir Putin's military apparatus. The data includes detailed maps of more than 500 Russian military bases across Russia and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. The mined information includes crucial data about Russian Army headquarters, air-defense installations, and weapons arsenals. The Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne said the group also took down seven servers and encrypted over 150 of the Russian contractor's employee computers.
  22. This one is still going. Detentions made after fresh protests in Russia's Bashkortostan republic (msn.com)
  23. another reason for China to be wary of extending itself too much for Russia. China’s $6.3 Trillion Stock Selloff Is Getting Uglier by the Day (msn.com) Chinese stocks just capped another dismal week, with a gauge of mainland firms listed in Hong Kong languishing at the bottom of global equity index rankings for the year so far. Grim milestones have kept piling up in recent days: Tokyo has overtaken Shanghai as Asia’s biggest equity market, while India’s valuation premium over China has hit a record. Locally, a meltdown in Chinese shares is wreaking havoc on the nation’s asset management industry, pushing mutual fund closures to a five-year high. In all, some $6.3 trillion has been wiped out from the market value of Chinese and Hong Kong stocks since a peak reached in 2021, underscoring the challenge that Beijing faces as it seeks to arrest a decline in investor confidence. Authorities have ruled out the use of massive stimulus to revive the flagging economy, leaving traders wondering when things will improve. “What we are seeing this year so far really is a continuation of what we saw last year,” John Lin, AllianceBernstein’s chief investment officer of China equities, said in an Jan. 17 interview on Bloomberg Television. “These squeezing-the-toothpaste type of stimulus policies so far haven’t been able to turn around the underlying bottom-up fundamentals of areas like the property sector.” The HSCEI gauge plunged more than 6% this week and is on track to record its worst January performance in eight years. On the mainland, the CSI 300 Index has dropped in nine of the last 10 weeks. Signs that state funds likely bought exchange-traded funds and a decision by China’s largest brokerage to suspend short selling for some clients failed to halt the onshore benchmark’s losing run. The headwinds buffeting the market are well documented: China’s real estate sector remains a trouble spot, deflationary pressures are building and a long-running feud between Beijing and Washington refuses to go away, with the US election set to take place later this year. In recent days, uncertainties about the trajectory of US interest rates and the threat of an imminent blowout of local stock derivatives have added to investor worries. Asian fund managers have cut their allocation to China by 12 percentage points to a net 20% underweight, the lowest in more than a year, according to the latest Bank of America survey. Managers of benchmark-tracking funds have sold a net $300 million of shares traded in mainland China and Hong Kong this month, according to a Morgan Stanley analysis. That’s a reversal from the last half of 2023, when they bought $700 million on a net basis even as stock indexes declined. “China is a waiting game and we continue to be waiting,” said Mark Matthews, head of Asia research at Bank Julius Baer & Co., which is mostly avoiding Chinese equities. Beijing’s efforts to reassure investors have been met with skepticism from investors, many of whom worry that authorities are behind the curve. While the People’s Bank of China took steps last month to pump cash into the financial system, it bucked widespread expectations for cutting a key policy rate on Monday. Speaking to leaders at the World Economic Forum this week, Chinese Premier Li Qiang trumpeted his nation’s ability to hit its roughly 5% growth target for 2023 without flooding the economy with “massive stimulus.” Right now, the loss of confidence is so severe that even attractive valuations are of little help. The MSCI China Index has never been this cheap versus the S&P 500 gauge from a forward earnings estimate perspective. Still, bets on a short-term rebound have failed to materialize. “The government seems very sanguine about the economy,” said Xin-Yao Ng, an investment director for Asian equities at abrdn. “The market might not even trust the 5% growth figure, it certainly has a much more negative view on the economy and definitely believes Beijing needs a big fiscal response.”
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