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    fry30 reacted to Fenris in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    This clip is from a civilian ship that was nearby.  They spot one of the drones trailing the patrol boat before the clip ends.
    Another clip, this time it shows what I'm guessing is the first impact
    Apologies if this has been posted up thread.
    Seeing the tail chase etc makes me wonder whether the ye olde smoke dischargers would help.  If the crew has been alerted, at least to make more difficult for the drone pilot to see what/where he's hitting, or don't modern boats have smoke anymore?  Have wondered the same with AFV's, the T series can dump smoke can't it?  Dump smoke and hide inside, at least make it more difficult for an FPV to hit the rear turret.
     
     
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    fry30 reacted to Anthony P. in D-25T vs 8.8 cm KwK 43   
    That's the issue I wasn't going to raise by myself, but since it's been broached...
    Samsonov's written some interesting bits based on translations of original documents but he sorely lacks a historian's background, and it shows in some ridiculous methodology. I'm not going to trawl through years' worth of his blog posts to provide an extensive list of examples, but some which come to mind:
    "Disproving" the notion that the T-34 was a cramped tank by comparing a T-34 and a Panzer IV's manuals, and measuring the headroom available to the crewmen illustrated in said manuals. Since the illustrated T-34 crewman had a millimeter or so more space between the top of his head and the roof in the manual's pictures, he'd "proven" that the T-34 actually had a roomier crew compartment than the Panzer IV.
    "Proving" that Soviet helmets provided superior ballistic protection to German helmets based on a 1942 report testing half a dozen completely random, captured German helmets from the battle of Moscow against new Soviet helmets. Ironically he'd also translated the part of the report which noted that the methodology was so flawed that no conclusions could be drawn from it.
    Basically, anything he reads in original Soviet documents, he takes at face value with supreme confidence. It seems he doesn't realise the point of studies beyond those he is already capable of, i.e. translations.
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    fry30 reacted to Harmon Rabb in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    AFU is getting a new branch focused on drones.
    Ukrainian military to have dedicated drone branch (Yahoo.com)
    In other news as has already been brought up, we now know what Mr.Carlson is doing in Moscow. Can't say I'm shocked. Tucker has been parroting the Kremlin's talking points for years, now he can just sit down relax and have Putin make the same talking points without Tucker even needing to open his mouth.  Thankfully Mira of Kyiv has posted a drinking game we can play while watching the interview.
     
     
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    fry30 reacted to kimbosbread in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    In the end, what happened with Kadyrov’s hospital stay? We don’t see much from him anymore.
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    fry30 reacted to _Morpheus_ in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The Battle of Andriivka in 2023:
     
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    fry30 reacted to Tux in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Earlier still, imo. We haven’t seen an Eindecker, yet!
    As much as I have also long been thinking of today’s drone war as analogous to the first year or two of air warfare (certainly in terms of the likely rate at which development will occur), we should note that there are several key differences:
    1. Today’s first generation (or maybe gen 1.5) drones are actually apparently very effective ground attackers. It took until the development of PGMs for aircraft to become anywhere near as efficient.  In this sense it makes much more sense to think of drones as munitions than aircraft.
    2. The vast majority of development focus seems to be on increasing drones’ offensive potential (again, “munitions”).  I’ve yet to see evidence of anyone trying to field a single type of defensive drone ‘fighter’ (as I’ve mentioned several times I think there’s a good chance we will see a modern-day “Fokker Scourge” when one does appear).
    3. The entry barrier to effective drone use is spectacularly low, to the point that it seems to have been privately-bought and operated drones that did all the early running in this war.  This is very much unlike air warfare and may mean that national armed forces will struggle to maintain a significant qualitative edge over commercially-available drones for the foreseeable future.
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    fry30 reacted to TheVulture in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Using "their" in a sentence like that has been around for decades, possibly over a century.  Its not some new development. And not exactly on topic either.
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    fry30 reacted to JonS in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    It was a thing in CM at one point, too
    (It was a bit ... odd though, so better off gone)
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    fry30 reacted to paxromana in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    "Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers."
    -Socrates
    “They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
    - Aristotle
    I was a High School Teacher for 40 years and my colleagues would occasionally come up with comments about how standards of behaviour/study/anything at all had changed dramatically for the worse ... nope. Not in my experience. And, as you can see, this sort of complaint has, shall we say, a long grey beard and should be put down with extreme prejudice.
    YMMV
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    fry30 reacted to sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    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.
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    fry30 reacted to JonS in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    This is a common claim from the "git yer gubmint hands offa mah medicare" demographic of deep thinkers.
    It is, of course, pants.
    Making an activity illegal never eliminates it (see: speeding, murder). It does, nevertheless, still provide three useful outcomes. It ...
    1) reduces the frequency of the prohibited thing, because most people understand that rules exist, there are reasons even if they don't like the reasons, and complying with the rules is part of the social contract
    2) makes it super easy to identify illegal behaviour, and thus cue counters. In this case, *any* drone over DC is ipso facto a target for countermeasures, with no further questions needed.
    3) hands the good guys a legal mallet to go after miscreants with.
    All three things affect law avoiding individuals, contrary to the popular claim.
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    fry30 reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The article sounds like POWs really were onboard, but indeed our militaries meant Russians shouldn'd geopardize their lives moving them in planes in zone of potential risk. 
    Evening statement of Zelenskiy about international investigation need of this crash was absolutely superflous, giving a food for conspiracy and further hype from some our media and Proroshenko-followers, which today rised hysteria in social network on increadable level, when even Russian propagandists calmed down with POWs death version. 
    More bad - Russian milbloggers with satisfaction pointed out "at last we won in this information operation - western media cought our agenda". The same, as western media rised hysteria about hundreds and thousands killed in Gaza hospital, which turned out a fake, but in the time, when many people read headlines only this is enough. 
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    fry30 reacted to danfrodo in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    When I see Photon & TheCapt discussing things I say to myself "hush, grownups are talking"
    Meanwhile, a few tidbits here today:
    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/18/2218018/-More-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-EU-s-Parliament-puts-the-screws-to-Hungary?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
    Explosion in Donetsk area, looks like ammo?  Woman from Bashkorastan puts out video asking fighters from from the region to return home from UKR war to fight against the RU oppressors in their homeland.  I'd love there to be lots more of this, though I suspect she will be in a jail cell, or worse, rather quickly.  As TheCapt said earlier, arab spring started w one angry guy -- killed himself over govt corruption ruining his business, that's what I recall but not sure if correct.
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    fry30 reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Tsargrad this is TV-channel from which you can know about Jewish-Masonic conspiracy against Russia, about that most of anglo-saxons are reptiloids and King Charles III is main reptiloid and anyway - "Russia is a motherland of elephants" )))
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    fry30 reacted to kohlenklau in CMFI KOREA 1950 MOD PBEM DAR "Patton's Ghost"   
    We will pick up the action later today unless postponed by TV sports...
    Meanwhile, here are some more screenies.
    A face I did from a Korean actor. He played the bad guy in "71 - Into the Fire".
    You can also see my "stick grenade pouch"...


    The Maxim MG team hunkers down in turn 1. These guys are now ex-parrots, singing with the choir invisible.

    Some more guys in that team wearing their "Keds hightops"...

    This guy is a warrant officer in command of the company group. He had served in the Red Army during dubya dubya two.
    I had a cool idea for the "stick grenade pouch"...each texture for the grenades can be randomly plucked from the data.
    Some are transparent so a guy can have 0, 1 or 2 grenades in the pouch.
    GRAVEYARD: I googled a little to try and see what a circa 1950 Korean graveyard might look like. I had no luck really. So I just deleted the Italian names off of these CMFI gravestones. Mi dispiace!

     
     
     
     
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    fry30 got a reaction from sttp in Steam & MatrixGames 50% off on all CM titles   
    Been looking for an excuse to finally try out CMFI... here goes! 
    EDIT: Guess I'll snag the modules too... 🥳
     
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    fry30 reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    For Russians often is better to blame friendly fire, than to recognize "pathetic khokhols" were able to destroy their "no-analog" system. In better case they will claim "NATO instructors controlled all process, NATO ELINT plane gave targeting, stupid khokhol just press the button, because khokhol-villagers so stupid, that they just unable fully operate with such complicated systems"
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    fry30 reacted to sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    what you don't?  Our bathroom says "wife only" with an arrow pointing to the backyard door for the "men's room".  Though I gotta say our tomatoes do pretty well.  😀
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    fry30 reacted to Jarran in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Unlurking from the shadows to add something. This looks to be a Lvkv 90C ( The AA variant) at 00:46 it looks to be a radar dome ontop of the turret.
    From what I can find 3 Lvkv 90A was uppgraded to the Ceasar standard (C-version) and I guess all of them where given to Ukraine.
    Was looking at other pictures to see if it could maybe be a Norwegian one with a kongsberg remote weapon station. But it looks more like a barrel. To bad quality on the video to be 100 % sure. (Norway is talking about sending some of their Cv90 aswell.)
    Starts lurking again. // Jarran
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    fry30 reacted to akd in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Looks like TOS-1A, not tank.
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    fry30 reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Article in English about preliminary researching of ballistic missile parts (tail part of one of missiles remained in quite large fragments), which has struck Kharkiv several days ago. It is similar to Iskander-M, but has some differences. Diameter is on 10 mm more, assembling quality is much worse, erased factory mrks on many parts, no EW system, etc. But to make final conclusion that this is N.Korean missile need to conduct additioanal researhes
      https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/6/7436148/

    But I agree with Zeliban. 
    Evil Axis Russia - N.Korea - Iran with proxies backed by China is growing own strength month by month, arming each other and igniting conflicts, threating to West sensitive areas (Gaza, Red Sea)
    Russia expanded own "Shadow Axis" - BRICS, several days ago Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Ethiopia joined to this organisation, so BRICS countries now control 45 % of world oil 
    US claimed: N.Korea will regret if hands over ballistic missiles to Russia
    N. Korea: handed over
    US: we will put personal sanctions on persons, responsible for this and will call UNSC meeting to blame this
    UK: This is a victory! We forced Russia to walk with outstrached hand! They beg missiles in N,Korea and Iran!
    Ukraine: soooo, but how it help us? N.Korea gave missile to Russia "stretched hand". Can we get at last ATACAMS, BGM-109 and Taurus?
    West: this may cause escalation.Maybe will be better if we help you to produce 155 mm shells? Through the year or two...
    N.Korea: shelled S.Korea territory with artilelry
    Evil Axis (chorus): Yes, we are fu...g nuts. And what will you do to us?
    West: sinking in 1000 round tables and deep concernings  
    Alas, in situations "tough times demand tough solutions" liberal democracy is too slow in comparison with authocraties and dictatorships
     
     
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    fry30 reacted to danfrodo in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Hopefully we'll get another person of reason and sound judgement who also thinks earth is 6000 years, amongst the many wise beliefs of mike johnston.  But maybe we'll get an improvement as the current speaker is somewhat flawed as he thinks the earth is round and goes around the sun.  
    American taliban.  
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    fry30 reacted to billbindc in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Ah...the most pernicious Russian agitprop of all. 
    A give that 9.9 on the Solovyov scale, at least.  
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    fry30 reacted to Bearstronaut in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I'm strongly leaning towards the latter. He seems mightily invested in pushing the "bow down before the might of the unstoppable Russian bear" line.
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    fry30 reacted to keas66 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    You are clearly either delusional or this is just a deliberate campaign of mis- information - I'll be blocking you going forwards .
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