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  1. So you are 100% positive that it's not something the legislator has done to avoid that public opinion, being fed by the cnn vultures would become annoyed by the casualties? Because again, I'm all for the respect for killed soldiers - yet I have my doubts that the Bush administration had much more respect towards dead american military than Putin's has for russians. As for plausible deniability, it may be words I don't understand, yet there is a large numbers of explanations around, some from highly valued sources, and all tend to make an example to explain it: I send my SOF to a foreign country,on an operation I can't publicly disclose, knowing that they are going to kill foreign personnel and probably get killed. So I decide to send them without any markings which could lead the foreign country to point out my country, when they pick up the bodies. Which is basically what Russia does in Ukraine, unmarked soldiers and equipment, but also what American and British SOF have been doing for years all around the world. also @panzer - reading your last post you are basically arguing that the public should not see its dead because such vision may be exploited by folks who have a political agenda which is against the action of that government - which basically it's a form of censorship which I find hard to justify, in a state of civil law, and not very different from what is the policy Putin is enforcing nowadays.
  2. at least those who aren't neighbours are safe from them
  3. I think it's rather naive to send this kind of criticism down only one way. Governments starting wars, especially ones not very popular with public opinions have always tried all they could to make informations about KIAs the most inaccessible - during the 2003 invasion of irak there was a ban on filming coffins getting back to the US. Yet the OP mentioned SOF in abroad situations, which is a matter that no government, regardless of form, is not ready to publicy discuss promptly. "Plausible Deniability" is not a concept confined to Russia, USSR or other non-western countries.
  4. in fact I believe that specops KIAs on black operations abroad are kept pretty much top-secret in any country
  5. It ain't that I have all this drive to get into discussing economical topics - yet I would practice some caution in listening to "financial experts". Looking around the web, in fact there are many who have diametrically opposing views, and I suspect that "Russian economy state" is one of those subjects of which you can find people basically saying anything. Since I don't consider myself versed enough on the subject, I can only say whatever I feel about it, already knowing that folks who are in this kind of things could prove me wrong. Yet, afaik, Russia is a country that economically shouldn't be considered by the same parameters western countries are judged on - basically it's a country that produces energetic resources and gets much of its revenues from them. With the actual situation, in which western countries economies are much in need of those resources to make their industries going, I find hard to believe that Russia 's economy would get much worse than it is now. Besides, oil prices have been lowered by the arab producing countries, with a move that was probably conceived to hurt Russia (although I'd say that it could hurt the US quest to become energy self-sufficient), but they are in fact rising again and I doubt that those same countries could keep those prices that low for much longer. Also don't forget that Russia secured a massive 30 year contract with China, to furnish huge amounts of energy products (both oil and natural gas) to that country, which has recently become the biggest importer of such products.
  6. what about rarity? I am not aware of the difference between the two systems
  7. frankly, I don't see the "good" arab countries really putting their feet on the ground and the fight to ISIS - mostly because there is imho a deep hypocrisy about this whole situation. If people in the west are really that naive to think that ISIS is a sort of "state founded and run by terrorist", the western governments should know better - and it's alarming they are not intervening. My point is, this "calyphate" basically came out since the arab revolutions. Strangely enough, revolutions in arab countries took place only in those where there wasn't a theocratic regime: Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Morocco (somehow), and the like. Also, one can see a pattern like these scenarios forming up in sunni countries - or where sunnis are present in substantial numbers. Shouldn't that ring some bell somewhere? I don't want to type hundreds of words to express a simple concept, also because it would be kinda OT to this thread. But, somebody has heavily financed this country from the start, and looking at where we are going, one would be simply blind not to notice that ISIS is the wet dream of extremely rich, petrodollar-heavy, religious integralist "noble" families, all of which never resided in Hussein's Irak, Assad's Syria, Qaddafi's Lybia and so on, but - in countries which the west keep really close as friends (and I don't wanna mention which countries, I'm sure folks on this forums know plenty of them). Also, kinda worrying the lack of involvement, at least in a substantial way, by Israel. A country which has always been crying wolf at the smallest suspicious event in near arab countries, a country that has bombed nuclear plants hundreds of miles away from it's borders, and that would find itself ISIS at its border if Assad falls, seems extraordinarily silent to me on the subject. Turkey? not ambiguous at all - the only time they opened up on somebody it was on the kurds trying to regroup outside Kobane. I don't want to draw conclusions too soon, but I already made my mind up about the geopolitical scenario, and I doubt facts are gonna change the idea I get, although I really hope so.
  8. I don't get it. Shouldn't be the other way around? If optics are improved the commander better stay inside and look through them? I don't think neither the gun or ammo is different - maybe it has a better gun-launched ATGM
  9. For every CM title getting released, I normally play out all the single player content, both missions and campaigns. I can say that, after the introduction of the real time mode in CMx2, I basically switched over to that mode and never got back to turn based - at least in SP. So normally, if the game was limited to turn based, 60 seconds action phases, I would gladly welcome an option where other turn durations would be available - one could even conceive an option by which you select the phase length that actually suits you better (like a dropdown with several options, 15 secs, 30 secs, 45 secs, 60 secs, custom: input your turn duration). But having the real time option makes that redundant imho - in that case you can pause the game whenever you like and adjust your orders. So my suggestion would be to give real-time a try. As for the "readiness" of the AI, from what I know about the tacai, it's not really related to time - if you're playing a sp scenario that kind of behaviours are pretty much based on how the scenario designer implemented the construction of the AI combat mission
  10. was watching it.. Armatas passed without problems..
  11. is wp so incapacitating, even if inhaled in low concentrations? I don't think that in the case the op mentioned, the vehicle ventilation would blow air which was 100% wp into the tank. And, didn't filtration systems exists back then? I doubt that with today's AFVs such situation would arise
  12. afaik, wp rounds can wound/disable dismounts but not tanks
  13. I believe it's the President of the USA that decides if and when that occurs. Congress already approved the law months ago
  14. the KIA count might not be referring only to combat deaths - in fact he says irrecoverable losses. Might include all the personnel who got discharged as a result of wounds or sickness, while the WIA count should refer to personnel that has been treated by military hospitals and put back into service, regardless of where or in which unit. Could be an interpretation, although I can't be for sure since I didn't read any document in regard as how the Ukrainian armed forces categorizes this kind of information
  15. I tried following your suggestions.. but nothing. - Affinity was already set to core 0 (i have 4 cores, hyperthreading disabled) - My soundcard is the common realtek chip, mobo integrated. I downloaded and installed the newest version - Directx 9 are installed, did that with the websetup (last time after the release of gta v, so I think they're up to date). I also run CMBB in compatibility mode, windows 98/ME. Being just a marginal bug, I'm not gonna lose my sleep over it, besides, game works and it's great as it was thirteen years ago. I was wondering if it is a sort of common issue CMBB has with modern hardware, but anyway. Thx for ur reply
  16. hey. I 've been trying to make CMBB work on win 7 - no problems, everything runs as it should with patch 1.03. The only issue, is that the in-game sounds are played at like, double their speed. I mean, the voices have a freak high pitch, same goes for machine guns volleys, which seem to be shooting 3000 rounds per min. Even the tune on the splash screen. Is there any known solution to this?
  17. excuse me the ot - but I never quite understood why the BW picked the G36 over the G41. imho, the latter is a better battle-rifle in every aspect. Maybe someone in these forums knows the capabilities of these weapons and the reasons why the G36 was selected, but as far as I can understand, the G41 would have at least same the combat effectiveness of the G36, but would be better in terms of overall costs, also considering that it keeps the same form of the G3 which it would had replaced, making the transition much less problematic
  18. u mean Arena and Shtora ? But is Shtora considered an "active" protection system? I read somewhere that active ones are those that deploy projectiles to disable the incoming munition, while shtora would lie in the range of passive systems since it deploys smoke screens and jammers. But anyway, it's just a nomenclature problem probably.
  19. I remember watching a vid in which a US convoy got ambushed by talibans down in a'stan. The person who was recording the vid was riding in a hummer with a 50 cal mg. As the gunner was firing the mg, he got hit in the head by sniper fire, presumably a SVD. He was saved by the helmet but was bleeding and shocked, thankfully he got bandaged and had no severe wounds. Although just a single episode, it looked clear that he has been picked by a sniper and not hit randomly. One may assume that talibans were firing from elevated positions, up in mountains around the road, so had a clear line of fire to the gunner, but anyway. In game, I don't think that such vehicles are under-armoured, I normally keep them away from close encounters and if one of them gets "ambushed" by some hidden squad, I try to speed away from them and engage with the .50 or whatever weapon the vehicle mounts
  20. absolutely an impressive job. many thanks for your work Kieme!
  21. I would normally say so, cut and paste installation directories is normally a no-no in windows. Yet I recently performed the operation with DCS world, had the simulator installed on a hd, cutted and pasted it, with loads of modules, to the ssd, updated links and it's a go. That simulator has drm based on the latest starforce protection, which seems to be, at least from what I've read around, a rather complex software.
  22. I agree about the fact that there is not the necessity to implement every existing rl weapon in the game. Yet, my thought is that the RPG-26 would be a kinda "interesting" weapon to be included in BS - along with the SMAWs and SRAWs, which I believe will be included in a future marines module anyway. Besides, I guess that as new modules come out, they will almost surely include new opfor formations and weapons, and the vast variety in tube launched AT systems enjoyed by the russians will eventually lead to the inclusion of some of them in game. As about sources on the chechens RPG-26s, although I can't readily provide a link, I recall having watched several vids on youtube, and also news reports on tv in which "tank hunter" teams were armed with such weapons
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