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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Looks like every one of our allies is shaming us. Thanks Japan and thanks Germany for doing the right thing.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
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