Nidan1
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It's a wonderful dream, but it can't happen because there is no such argument to be made.
We, the people who made Black Sea's backstory, understood the reality of Russia's foreign policy and the importance of Ukraine to it. Based on this knowledge we predicted that Russia would invade Crimea and wage a "hybrid war" against the east and south of Ukraine as soon as the Ukrainian government decidedly shift westward. And guess what? That is EXACTLY what happened. Now either we understand Russia's true nature and predictable behavior fairly well, or we got all the outcomes correct but for all the wrong reasons. Given the demonstrated depth of knowledge that I, and others, have expressed about the events surrounding this war... I think it is totally implausible to conclude that we got the outcome right but the reasons for it totally wrong.
The only justification I still see pro-Russian supporters clinging to is the "coup" theory. Even if the facts supported the theory, and they absolutely under no reasonable circumstances come even close to doing so, Russia's actions are still 100% illegal, 100% counter productive, and 100% self serving Russia's own interests (though I would argue it is working against them, but that's a different discussion).
Which means, there is only one party to blame for the war that exists today... Russia. There would be no war, no faked insurgency, no problem of annexed territory, no deaths, no destruction, no threat of nuclear war, no NOTHING like this of any sort except this is what the Russian government has decided the world must suffer through.
There is no possible justification for Russia's actions.
If it didn't like what was going on in Ukraine, it could have gone to the UN and presented its case, it did not. It could be fighting the war in Ukraine openly, it does not. It could be living up to its written commitments to Minsk 1 and Minsk 2, it is not. It could be living up to its statements to not ship in "Humanitarian Aid" with inspection and following international law, it does not. It could be using its media to present accurate and balanced reporting, it does not. It could be investigating the assassination of one of its few remaining opposition leaders, it is not.
I could go on and on about what Russia could be doing vs. what it is doing, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to do so. Because anybody who does not understand by now that Russia is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine is probably incapable of having his mind changed.
Oh, and arguing minutia about transponders and what not is just that... arguing minutia. On its own it is like arguing about how to bandage a small cut when there's a gaping wound to the abdomen.
Steve
Would all this be happening if our current "Administration" had not decided to withdraw U.S. influence from the world stage?
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panzersauerkrautwerfer:
Your posts are cogent, funny at times and mostly on point, but could you please pleeeeeze take a few minutes of extra time to format your direct responses to other posters and include their handles so that I can read them without having to back up several posts or pages to see who made the posts you are quoting. Maybe its just me, but I find it annoying at best especially during a running exchange that is becoming a more interesting read.
I know I brought this up before, and maybe you will tell me to go f myself, but then I will be very very sad.
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In 1983 the Soviets shot down Korea Air Flight 007 claiming, after initially denying it, that the civilian 747 was a spy plane. Everyone aboard was killed.
This is what can happen when the tactics that we are discussing get out of hand. This incident caused such a world wide stir that flight patterns from Alaska to Asia were changed, and the US allowed international access to its then top secret Global Navigation Satellite System, which is now called GPS.
We have already had an airliner shoot down over the Ukraine, it can easily happen again if someone makes a mistake or misinterprets a radar blip.
http://theweek.com/articles/445179/heres-last-time-russia-shot-down-passenger-plane
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Wow, what a lot of FUD and miss information or at least FUD and miss communication.
I live in Canada. During the cold war the Soviet air force used to test the US and Canadian air defence partnership with frequent flights were close to our air space. Similar flights were conducted near other counties air space. Once the cold war ended so did those provocative flights.
Putin started them again.
That is what we are talking about. All this justification over radar and transponders and misinformed reporters and baffle gab is just a distribution.
Putin's government has brought back an old provocation from a conflict that we thought was passed. He chose to do that. The only conclusion is that Putin's government is seeking additional conflict or at least trying to bully other counties.
That is obvious and clear. Just because some reporter screwed up the details and some people here used incorrect terminology or you misunderstood understood what they were talking about does not change that.
Quite frankly this is a common strategy when someone has no legitimate point on which to stand. Distract the other side with issues of details either real or made up in an attempt to avoid the basic issues.
Putin's government has been conducting deliberate provocative flights for the purpose of intimidation. Are you actually attempting to deny that? Do you feel it is some how justifiable? Let us stop being distracted by pointlessness.
Edited to remove odd phone auto correction involving piglets of all things ???
IanL you are probably right to signal a halt to the arcane techno-discussion about ATCs, transponders and assorted radars. However you are also correct to point out that Putin is using his air force to bring back the old games played during the cold war.
You would also have to admit that those TU-96 flybys close to the DEW Line in northern Nunavut were probably the most exciting things going on in Canada during the 70's and 80's
, or maybe it was when the Red Army team skated into Montreal or Toronto 
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PanzerMike,
Gotta say that you, and your compadre S'Burke, 'mind me of the ol' Cheesy Wafflers... bunch of Howler Monkies flinging feces about. Do try to develope a little panache.
Ah I see you were an f'ing sealed beams in boot camp...ha! Nobody could deliberately look that goofy, you photoshopped that picture, right?
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Rammstein cover band? Mein Herz brennt!
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Back in 1971 a USMC F-4 collided with a DC-9 near California. The DC-9 was descending into LAX and was at 15000 feet when it was struck by the Marine jet. Everyone on the DC-9 was killed, the backseat guy in the Phantom was able to eject, the pilot was killed.
"PROBABLE CAUSE: The failure of both crews to see and avoid each other but it is recognized that they had only marginal capability to detect, assess, and avoid the collision. Other causal factors include a very high closure rate, co-mingling of IFR and VFR traffic in an area where the limitation of the ATC system precludes effective separation of such traffic, and failure of the crew of BuNo458 (the F-4) to request radar advisory service, particularly considering the fact that they had an inoperable transponder."
After this accident stricter flight restrictions were put in place for military aircraft flying near commercial airports. Better layers of ATC coverage and improved radars have dramatically lowered the chances of military vs. commercial collisions. This of course is in US domestic airspace, but there are probably incidents of planes getting too close to one another, as a previous poster already mentioned.
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Thanks a lot! I always hated my english teacher at school, but it seems she did her job well.
It also takes personal hard work and practice. I took eight years of German in school, and it was spoken in my home when I was young, and today I can barely put a cohesive sentence together auf deutsch. Language skills tend to prove the adage that "if you don't use it, you lose it".
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Thanks for correcting me. I am not a native english speaker and i see participating in english speaking forums as an opportunity to improve my english. I always try to do my best to use proper english, but natuarally i may sometimes make mistakes.
For a non-native English speaker I am very impressed with your abilities in the language. I wish I had been able to learn another language with enough confidence to verbally spar on a message board as you are able to do.
Your use of sarcasm in a non-native language is also quite impressive
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How come then, that Malaysian flight MH370 effectively disappeared by turning its transponder off and was only tracked on military radar thereafter ?
I always understood that the transponder sent all the info to the civilian ATC - the altitude, bearing and speed and its number, hence why only military radars can easily spot and track aircraft without transponders on.
( internet disclaimer ) - not trying to be snarky, genuinely looking for information.
Because of the mysterious circumstances of this particular flight, there has been renewed impetus to install real time flight data transmitters that would continuously send flight data information about an aircraft to a receiving station. That would include engine performance, instrument readings, etc. All the information that is now stored on the so called black box. Something that is always searched for after plane wreckage has been recovered.
From what I understand, the area where MH370 was flying contained numerous holes where radar and other tracking systems were either not present or not adequate enough to continuously track the aircraft's flight. It would not really have mattered if the transponder were turned off in those areas because there were no scanning systems watching that area of the sky anyway.
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You know what. Fall just might be better. Why don't we move it to that slightly cooler weather? I will make a new "poster"....
Standby!
Yes, we should wait for the Biblical flood waters to recede
I'm hoping you were not severely impacted by the floods.
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Seems essentially the same as this document...
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-German-Military-Forces-Department/dp/0807120111
Big difference tho, John's link is free!
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There are better articles out there to illustrate some of the points I'm making, but finding them while in the moment is another matter altogether. I know they exist, for I've read them. For a very long time now, by extremely creative accounting, the Pentagon has dramatically reduced actual war losses. If you don't die in-theater, it doesn't count as a war death. If you are badly wounded, released from the service and subsequently die because of wounds sustained in-theater, that doesn't count, either. Nor do war created PTSD related suicide and other fatality inducing problems, such as GWS, also shown to be contagious. For ages the Pentagon denied any responsibility whatsoever to the Agent Orange afflicted Nam vets whose lives, and those of their families (dioxin is a proven and potent teratogen and mutagen), were wrecked by what the Pentagon knew full well had terrible effects on humans. Maybe things have changed lately, in both war casualty definitions and in the way the senior people at the Pentagon operate, but considering every US service academy places enormous emphasis on honesty and integrity, I'd argue that, decades ago, periodic refresher courses in both should've been made mandatory for all leaders at the Pentagon!
I am happy to report, though, the US Army seems to have gotten certain things sorted out. According to my brother, now retired, when you come in, the Army does a comprehensive assessment of your health. When you're getting ready to be discharged, another such assessment is done. The delta is then used to figure out your service related injuries, if any, and resulting disability level, all set forth by category and then summed. If it gets high enough part or even all of retirement pay becomes tax free. This appears to be the human version of the "you broke it, you bought it"approach common in many small businesses, such as antiques. It marks, I think, a major improvement in the care of and respect for our warriors by their parent services. Unfortunately, the VA, which is supposed to care for our soldiers after they leave the military, is so horrendous it may require truly draconian measures to recalibrate its leadership and get it to do such things as provide timely review and fair treatment of veteran's cases and medical needs, as opposed to the documented burning of many medical files to reduce the case backlog! If that isn't monstrous evil, I don't know what is.
And don't get me started on the Great Betrayal of military personnel with the promise of free lifetime medical care, then reneging. And that's atop a drastic truncation in access to PX/BX facilities and their vital commissaries. Retirement planning for ex-service personnel was predicated on exactly such access. What used to be conveniently nearby is now hours away for many.
Regards,
John Kettler
Well said John.
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I think that Americans are very educated as to the real cost of war, we really don't have to see bodies and coffins to realize what we are paying. You can just count up the dead and maimed since 1914 to realize it.
During WW2 a British film maker (who later became a US Marine), Louis Hayward made a documentary of the battle for Tarawa atoll. The film was raw combat footage and so graphic that President Roosevelt himself had to approve it for viewing by the American public. No You tube or Wiki leak back then, the newsreels of the war were shown in movie theaters.
What ultimately occurred after American moviegoers saw the real horror of what was going on in the Pacific was that war bond sales went through the roof.
Once the service member is dead, his pain is over, it is the family that have to carry on with the loss of a loved one. I would never want the body of my son to be part of someones you tube feed.
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All of the Baby Bells seemed to love these tests starting back in the late 80's and into the mid 90s.
I think I took the damned thing a dozen times in a ten year period. After the third one I could actually skew the results to come out any way I wanted them to, which is probably one of the main drawbacks with personality tests. I don't know if slysniper is on to anything or not, but it might be fun if BFC tested all of their forum members, other than being a bit nuts, what else do we all have in common?
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I'm reminded of a line from the movie "Patton", as the general is reviewing a parade somewhere in Tunisia, and he says something like..."they look pretty. but can they fight"
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Wasn't pond scum an old denizen of the Cess ?
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Gott in himmel!!!!, Andreas....wie gehts alte deutschejunge.
Warum bist du zurückgekommen? Wir waren so glücklich, wenn man vor so vielen Jahren verlassen.
Good thing your English is far better than my German.
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Its interesting to read that a lot of players are still into the old CMx1 CMBB rather than the new updated engine of CMRT.
I too really enjoyed CMBB, but alas it will no longer load on my PC and I'm not paying for a fix for that at this point. It is a matter of personal choice however, not that one game is superior to the other. They both have their pluses and minuses, and in their time they have both proven to be war simulation winners.
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Does the first clip in this video look like a kill on a Iraqi Abrams?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f88_1402790352
Also here just for reference here is a propaganda clip of a abandoned Abrams being blown up
Someone said earlier that it was hit by a car bomb, and that the turret was dragged away from the remains of the hull. Dont know how he knew that, but it seems plausible. The video you posted shows a tank being hit by some sort of missile. It's hard to tell from the video what kind of vehicle is being hit.
The second video shows an Abrams being deliberately blown up, which is more likely to cause the turret to leave the hull as the video shows. According to the ISIS caption, these machines are "fragile" and need to be blown up. I'm sure there may be other reasons why they blow them up.
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As to the photo, anyone consider Photoshop? Looks too staged for me, no smoke or scoring marks anywhere on the turret. Hatches look intact. If a turret was blown off a tank by a catastrophic internal explosion wouldn't it have some externally visible damage.
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In order to test the problem one needs to be completely accurate with the variables involved. Why test the problem with every type of German 75mm gun, when maybe the problem can be isolated to one particular type, i.e the unit in Stndrtnfhr's game that is having the issue.
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I didn't know he could do yo-yo tricks.
Try doing a trick with the game file....if you are capable.
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No, no. Of course not. One set of people we demonise and throw into prison for ruining the lives of hundreds. The other set we lionise and handsomely reward as they ruin the lives of millions. The two sets are obviously completely different.
Yes, but you can't - and shouldn't try to - do it on your own. Society has an active role to play, and in interest in the outcome. They aren't disinterested bystanders.
Ah! Jon the sarcasm is quite palpable
There is a difference, the hedge fund managers and politicians created ruin in a legal framework, hence what they were doing turned out to affect many people in a bad way, but it was not against the law. As far as being lionized, that has not been the case generally here in the US. President Obama delights in ragging on the so called one percenters that supposedly control all of the wealth. Murder has been frowned upon in human societies for thousands of years, and has been punished. The closest thing in the 10 Commandments to rigging the housing market would probably be the 9th.Murder comes in at number 7.
There is a place for society at large, I agree, but when children are very young and just starting to form their awareness of things outside of themselves, a parents guidance and involvement is paramount.
, or maybe it was when the Red Army team skated into Montreal or Toronto 
New offensive in Donbass?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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Ewwwwwwww, I hate bugs
See, even the Big Kahuna agrees with me!
Right, even something as small as a disagreeable expression, or calling them an "Evil Empire" could have restrained Putin even a tad.