Kinophile
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First Oscar in Ukrainian history.
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I thought he was already fired?
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1 hour ago, fireship4 said:
Since he's speaking in Italian, I was hedging my bets, also world leaders can be somewhat "clarificative" to coin a phrase. What they really mean, their eventual position, is the clarification:
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Italians barely got a generation being white in some people's eyes before succumbing to this racist meme... not that I'm overly sensitive about it here and there but on the whole it gets tiresome.
Certainly wasn't meant in a racist fashion!
More in dispair that so many (not all) of the world's ills are caused by or could be fixed by Disconnected Old (Whichever Ethnicity) Men. Just when you think one Old Man in power is more realistic or empathetic along comes a moment like this.
Sure, clarification sorta helps, but he's still utterly unrealistic about both the nature of this war and of Putin in particular.
And by old I mean past retirement. It's not the fact of being old, but it's the tendency to be both old And disconnected And wielding significant power.
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1 hour ago, fireship4 said:
Dear oh dear the meme defense network spun up pretty quick regarding some comments the pope apparently made vis a vis Ukraine and negotiation:
Not apparently, but he did so in a recorded interview.
I've long been relative happy with this guy but man oh man, Disconnected Old White Man syndrome strikes down yet another victim.
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2 hours ago, fireship4 said:
I thought that was the command version?
Good point. Shall investigate further.
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Interesting
QuoteMost BMP-2 are the BMP-2(K) (Gray in the graph below). in July the BMP-2(M)s started showing up, yellow in the graph. It remains in small numbers, so perhaps only one or two batches came to the front.
Then the BMP-2 675-SB3KDYs started showing up from October 2022, (Blue) numbers are not large but have slowly grown, suggesting that all/most the BMP-2 output from the referbishment facilities are BMP-2 675-SB3KDYs. This vehicle has extra armour.
Then in November a new 'thing' appeared. It's like a BMP-2 675-SB3KDY, (Green) it has the brackets for the armour to attach to, but, it does not have the armour.
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The hanger was certainly struck, atvleastvtwo drones,but any damage inflicted inside is unknown. Lack of fire signatures (no smoke, no discoloration in roof, no damaged/burnt debris outside, no significant EMS presence) raises questions. Still, damage can be significant without fire but currently unknowable.
UPDATE, Official Claim but no visuals yet:
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France really isn't messing around...
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Feb 2nd:
"They can shoot down anything"...
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SA has 150 Caesars for its National Guard. Just saying...
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Mother Of All Bowel movements
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5 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
I don't think it is a question of effectiveness as much as it is one of sustainability. A large, hot and expensive platform needs to be able to sustain its effect over the long term. UAS have accomplished this through mass production, we are not going to be able to mas produce our current suite of EM weapons. If we could, great, we have a viable counter. But the large centralized system I am seeing will eventually be overwhelmed unless we can make them a lot cheaper and easier to build.
Absolutely, this also where I'm coming from.
I should have clarified in original post that I was thinking of future smaller, minivan sized platforms, not the truck/stryker size were seeing right now, the BFH Platforms that will have effect but die soon and are expensive (in material, and crew and time) to replace.
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2 hours ago, The_Capt said:
The largest drawback (and risk) in employing EM for c-UAS is signature. One has to pump a lot of energy into the sky with a large very expensive system to take down cheap drones. These EM systems are very vulnerable to detection because they are pumping out so much energy into space - you can literally see them from space. They immediately become targets for other fires. In many ways this is the major dilemma of UAS right now. Whether a bunch of soldiers open up with small arms, EM or even EW, missiles…they all have high signatures that give away position. So if you are firing away at 20 small, cheap UAS, you can get 90% of them but your position is given away and artillery can go to work on you. If you don’t fire and try to hide, the UAS will likely find you anyway and then FPV you to death.
This is why I am a big fan of low energy dispersed systems (like other UAS) doing the c-UAS job. Fight flies with flies, not a hammer.
For sure, a MW Emitter presents a target, but anything doing anything on a battlefield presents a potential target, no? That can't be a priority criteria for platform selection, can it? If we follow that logic, well...
Are you assuming a single platform approach, where the loss is quickly felt and is significant? But I think we're on the same page that any c-uas system must be as equivalently redundant and easy to scale up in numbers as the UAS its countering. Not equivalent in actual numbers but proportional (eg Pacific war, where the eventual AA Cruisers were vastly outnumbered by planes, but their own numbers were sufficient.).
Skynex systems etc are nice but are thinking from a decade ago. Future skynex need to be mounted on golf cart/minivan sized UGVs, and as plentiful. The same would go for any Microwave Emitters.
Is it also not a factor of exposure time? The length of time the emitter needs to sweep a particular patch of sky vs hostile response time. It doesn't need to be a Big Fat & & Hot - it can be small, light and hot. Then it's hot for a while but can then displace. While it's doing so another one of it's kind lights up.
Running a Christmas lights style op of these networked UGV-MW could keep a sky volume clear, sustain losses, and open/close holes for friendly UAS to pass through, help identify counter measures by their own losses, etc.
This is just spitballing, sure. But everything has a signature vs effect tradeoff. The fact of a temporary hot signature does not negate the platform if it's effect is useful, esp at scale and can be maintained.
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3 hours ago, Pete Wenman said:
Don't think this has been posted earlier but the Army trying some new tech here.
Airborne soldiers do some smart shooting with new sight that helps smash drones.
Another soldier training with the new sight is Lance Corporal Harry Howes, a driver with 13 Air Assault Support Regiment Royal Logistic Corps, who was full of praise for the Smash sight.
LCpl Howes said: "The Smash sight is a simple piece of kit to use. It just takes a few goes to get used to how it works.
"You still pull the trigger, but the system fires the rifle when it is most confident of a hit – which it gets!"
Interesting kit. Bet it will turn up in Ukraine pretty quickly. In that second photo he's using a tripod, I assume for parameter control during range testing.
And of course, they must first solve for
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"Over £100 million of the package will reportedly be spent to procure "maritime capabilities"."
Really hope the RN and SBS are all over the Slow Death of the BSF.
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How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
Posted · Edited by Kinophile
They're pretty polarized personally on domestics, as I understand it, so travelling and acting together on this issue (Ukraine) is significant?
Perhaps our Polski friends can elaborate?
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