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danfrodo

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  1. the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore. Disgraceful and sickening.
  2. Loyalty over competence is usually the criterion for dictators, so hopefully he'll get some real idiots. Folks who's main skill is ladder climbing and brown nosing, but will be put in charge of things that actually require competence. Then will choose subordinate managers also chosen for loyalty over competence, all the way down the chain of decision makers. Hopefully.
  3. A little sunday morale booster for the forum: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/10/2228602/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Russia-sacks-its-navy-commander?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
  4. I've noticed that they never just roll off the the vehicle. In this instance, not much chance to do anything. but so many times I see them cringe & shoot & curl into ball. RU should have training so that the instinctual move is to just jump/roll off. The drone is after the vehicle, at least the infantry could survive. But it happens fast and they only way one could react is to have practiced so it becomes an automatic response.
  5. And I keep asking myself "when/if it will ever matter" that putin is sending these schmucks to slaughter. They are so clueless they make videos complaining of abuse -- who do they think will help them? Who do they think cares? Their wives/girlfriends seem more interested in the combat death payout. I know is a LOTR-only forum, but I keep wondering if a platoon sized group will do Game of Thrones "kill the masters" and have it spread. So far it seems they just don't care about the deaths until suddenly some officer shows up and says "you're next!" and off they go.
  6. What!?? This is a real shocking development, in my mind. What would french SOF do in UKR? Training? Doing operations could get a french soldier captured (worse than dead for Macron). So I am guessing training? 100K per month? So 3000 strikes per day at ~1/3 success rate is 1000 hits per day. That's a lot! But need several thousand drone operators I would think, which is probably easier to train than to train a full-on front line soldier. Seems like really good news
  7. Did LLF get hacked? The above post is rather ..... positive? Uncharacteristically positive. There is a Sun Tzu reference which certainly makes it seem like LLF. But seriously, excellent points, LLF.
  8. As has been stated many times, hundreds of pages ago, it was an attempted coup backed up by a military invasion. When it didn't work Putin was stuck. So he just keeps mass murdering Ukrainians and throwing RU lives at it until he can get some kind of face-saving outcome. Meanwhile he'll keep undermining western political systems w disinformation and bribery -- cheap and effective. And once he's rebuilt he'll be at it again in the next ex-soviet republic, or in Moldova, or wherever else. Actually I'd like to see UKR take a brigade or so and overrun Transnistria (sp?). That would be fun. I know they probably can't right now but would be dang good punch in the nose for ol' Putin.
  9. I'm with ya on the light armor. I really like stuarts but chaffees are great. I am moving very slowly thru the Downfall scenarios due to work, looking forward to some chaffee action.
  10. I never could hit anything w these in CMSF2. My guys would fire at ~400m and it would miss by 100m, up, left right, down. I hope they are better in real life. But they look damn cool.
  11. Wait a minute, I've seen furious handwaving from individual russian soldiers not only stop drones but cause them to explode. Seems, unfortunately, that it has a range of less than 1 meter. And thanks to Fenris & HarmonRabb for some morale-boosters in their posts above, on what was shaping up to be a day of rather bleak news.
  12. Looks like every one of our allies is shaming us. Thanks Japan and thanks Germany for doing the right thing.
  13. Graphic video of UKR night raid on unsuspecting RU position. Plus some other UKR war bits. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/19/2224391/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Ukraine-might-get-long-range-ATACMS?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Ecuador now pulling back on sending it's RU weaponry to UKR. Putin does know how very easy & cheap & effective it is to simply bribe people.
  14. Thanks for that. So speed would only help if the vehicle could somehow get to safety quickly. Where would be safe I have no idea as the drone could just follow wherever.
  15. Actually, I thought Maciej's post led me to remember an interesting point: one of the things Ukrainians are fighting for is to be a prosperous western-style economy. Not that western economies don't have oligarch/trust/monopoly issues, but beats the heck out of RU style economy.
  16. I'm wondering how much speed matters if no matter what the vehicle is still slower than the drone? What I am asking is how fast are the drones, once loaded w ordnance? And how long can the drone follow (range at high speed)? Vehicle moving fast might have to make turns & such that slow it down while the drone just keeps cruising along..... Maybe vehicle can get into trees but drones just circle around and attack at 2m above ground. So can any IFV go fast enough? Maybe some lighter vehicles can be fast enough?
  17. I with good ol' Aragorn on this. Guessing Patton. Good posts (my) overnight. 5 planes in a week. That's some good news. Andiivka lost, but it was a pile of rubble anyway. And as was pointed out, cost a division. Yes, can be replaced, but it's still a division off the chessboard. W replacements there could've been two divisions. but there's just one, again. Steve made good point that I've been thinking about lately. Headlines in the media are a very bad way to judge things. And those headlines will say things like "Andiivka falls, can weary UKR fight on?" or some such. I am sure similar headlines we're there for Normandy, as Steve said. Same for N Afrika - El Alamein retreat by the brits, without realizing Rommel had an already unsustainable supply line that had just gotten ~600km longer. The underlying big picture of the war did not change w Andiivka, despite the pants-wetting we will see from the press and some folks. UKR can fight on, and at some point something breaks enough for one side that they negotiate and end to active hostilities. but we're not even close to breaking for UKR, sadly for certain Putin-funded US House members.
  18. A few interesting tidbits here today. Most items already seen here, but several not. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224138/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Prost-gegen-Putin?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
  19. Good ol' canadians coming in voice of calm reason.
  20. Well said. Sorry for my nasty tone. I will blame the shingles vax I got this morning, which seems to have me rather touchy. I stand behind the theme of I said but do wish I had said it much more diplomatically.
  21. Yeah, I know how it works. And instead of working to electing a sane speaker they took some crazy christo-taliban in a suit.
  22. I'm confused. Where else would someone get something this stupid? I used to work w a guy who would come in every day spouting whatever nonsense he heard on rightwing radio on his drive, only to be devastated, continually by his coworkers who simply fact checked his nonsense. Kimbosbread does this all the time. Here, he triumphantly announces that the aid not happening is all the fault of the guy trying to actually get the aid instead of the people holding the aid hostage.
  23. Completely not true. Just a few GOPers could simply vote to pass the aid. Last I checked 6 out of ~218 GOPers is all it takes. Might make folks feel better to blame it on the crazies, but then why don't the allegedly sane major of GOPers simply vote to do the right thing? The reality is that they vote as a block and simply refuse to do the right thing.
  24. Biden gave BILLIONS AND BILLIONS in aid. They didn't give as much or as fast as we wanted, speaking for most folks on this forum, but it was still a huge amount. Now the GOP is blocking aid completely, meaning GIVING ZERO. Do you even hear yourself? Biden is trying to give MORE AID. the GOP is blocking it. Once again, you make zero sense. Once again, you've gotten worked up on some ridiculous right wing bizarro world talking point and don't even stop to see if it evens makes the most basic sense.
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