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    BamaMatt reacted to Maciej Zwolinski in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    That is a deeply unfair and frankly insulting post. You are talking about a man who is living inside Ukraine and who bases his pessimistic view on his assesment of war weariness level of the ordinary Ukrainians. Something you by definition would not know about, and the Western press would not report about - not newsworthy enough. Frankly, In this forum on this subject only the opinion of Haiduk and Zeleban matters, as they are the only ones who can take a measure of that metric. And you are saying that Zeleban thinks that people he meets every day are losing the will to fight not because he sees the symptoms of that, but because he has been "inadvertently convinced by Russian propaganda"? What hubris!
    Shame on you.  
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    BamaMatt got a reaction from Bulletpoint in Units using too many demolition chareges per blast - bug or WAD?   
    I did a little testing in CMBN in the scenario  "Pleasantly Shaded Woodland". 
    Using an 8 man regular Pioneer section with 6 charges against bocage expends 3 charges. 
    Splitting the section yields two 4 man teams, one with 2 charges, the other with 4. Either only uses 1 charge against bocage.
     
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    BamaMatt got a reaction from PEB14 in Tanks turret facing   
    A turret will face the center of a target arc or target armor arc.
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    BamaMatt got a reaction from Aussiegrit in Tanks turret facing   
    A turret will face the center of a target arc or target armor arc.
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    BamaMatt got a reaction from 37mm in SF2 'All in One' Released   
    After some research, my issue doesn't really seem to be about those specific tracers, but any tracers with the [night] mod tag. As a test I added the [night] mod tag to a copy of the default tracers and the identical issue pops up. So I'm pretty sure it's some problem on my end.
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    BamaMatt reacted to Pelican Pal in Drunken shotgun Mk19   
    You've repeatedly bring out this wishy washy "well we don't know" despite.
     
    - DoD Mk19 gunnery qualification cards
    - video evidence
    - the clear discrepancy between vehicle and tripod mounted
    - service members pointing out issues with the weapon they used (assuming I'm reading  Boche correctly)
    - Combat Mission itself having the weapon be more accurate historically

    The fact of the matter is that there is a clear problem with AGLs in CM. Another long running bug that was identified 5 years ago
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    BamaMatt reacted to Pelican Pal in Drunken shotgun Mk19   
    Your argument falls apart when every vehicle mounted AGL fires like it’s been on a week long bender while every tripod mounted one fires with good accuracy. Like are you seriously arguing that a AGL mounted onto a many thousand lb vehicle is going to be less controllable than a man packed variant deployed on a tripod?
     


    You are going to be surprised by this but a RCWS isn't going to result in accuracy that would make a Brown Bess blush.
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    BamaMatt reacted to benpark in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    As of this morning (apparently) Twitter links will no longer open for those of us that will not be signing up for it, so please add a synopsis if the only information linked is their truncated format.
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    BamaMatt got a reaction from 37mm in SF2 'All in One' Released   
    Ok, maybe those last screenshots were not ideal. These may be a little clearer.
    This is CMBN with only night effects plus veins tracers

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    BamaMatt got a reaction from 37mm in SF2 'All in One' Released   
    The following screenshots are from CMBN with a clean z folder except the effects night and veins tracers folder. The 3 pics are of the same tracer as I zoom in. They look exactly the same in Shock Force 2.
     



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    BamaMatt reacted to Huba in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
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    BamaMatt reacted to Butschi in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I am getting increasingly irritated by the way we do discussions here. Shall we, maybe, concentrate on what I actually wrote? I answered to a post, which itself was a reaction to Musks tweet. The post picked the one number (85%) and ignored the rest. I explicitly presented the calculation based on the assumption that "the numbers are correct". If so, focusing on the 85% is a flawed calculation. I said nothing else.
    Btw. If you give someone something you would otherwise charge him for you don't just lose what that product costs you but what you would charge - money you would have otherwise.
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    BamaMatt reacted to Cederic in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
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    BamaMatt reacted to kraze in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    A few years back in Belarus they were doing military exercises against an imaginary country of Weisnoria.
    They suffered real casualties.
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    BamaMatt reacted to kraze in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Safety.
    Every russian is an occupier wherever he is - because he behaves like one and should be treated as such. They do not come to some country to assimilate and accept the native culture - they come to establish an enclave that sooner or later will have russian invaders drop in there - and met with open arms.
    Don't even need to go for proof far.
    So booting russians out is much less riskier than allowing them to exploit the civility of a country and weaken it - which will bring countless victims and horrible suffering.
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    BamaMatt reacted to acrashb in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    You re-process the waste, put it in a reactor with a different power cycle, extract the remaining energy and set the final waste in bins that are dangerous for about 300 years.  Due to the power density of fission fuels, the total cubic storage isn't that big.  The "site" isn't dangerous for nearly that length of time, because the fuel and waste products are removed.
    With this mechanism, we have enough uranium for thousands of years of power.  But well before then we will have figured out fusion, and/or energy storage from intermittent sources, and so fission reactors will be relegated to manufacturing isotopes for medical imaging and the like.
    Modern fission reactor designs are fail-safe anyway, SMRs in particular, and the track record of deaths, even with the older designs still in service, makes nuclear safer that anything except solar (I think) with which it is neck-and-neck.  I didn't keep the study and chart, but it is straightforward.
    I don't expect to persuade you, just wanted to put some things out there for others.
     
    Regarding Zaporizhzhia  specifically, taking it on and off the grid is deliberately provocative and, in a war zone where backups can be interrupted unpredictably, too dangerous for my tastes.

    While the plant makes a lot of energy it isn't 120v / 240v / 550v / or whatever the plant needs to run operations.  It has to go through large-scale transformer / distribution stations and then be fed back through "the grid") to the plant for operations, with suitable voltage and frequency.
    But, if the plant is off-lined fully and experiences a full or partial meltdown (because the fuel rods have not been proactively removed), that can accomplish the strategic goal of further pushing Europe away from nuclear (due to enhanced fear in the population) and towards Russian natural gas.  So long term, it would be a win for Russia, and I'm sure Putin would see it that way.  I hope that he doesn't think the short-term pain can be tolerated.
    Mr. Picky says 'protons' would be used in fusion, and if we ever figure out proton-proton fusion (which is what powers stars and is not what is being developed now), we will be in a very good place for energy generation.
    If you want to denigrate / demonize fission, you would say "pro-neutron mob"
     
     
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    BamaMatt reacted to Huba in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Haiduk was few seconds faster
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    BamaMatt reacted to Der Zeitgeist in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Yes, I needed a bit of a "vacation", so to speak and got out of the constant drumbeat of Twitter, Telegram, Discord and forum threads about the war for a month or so. I highly recommend it to clear one's head. 😃
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    BamaMatt reacted to kraze in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    They really don't. If you look up in google maps where those russian officers lived - you will find horribly dirty towns in the middle of nowhere. Of course if by officers you mean generals - then sure. But their generals come to the frontlines to die, not kill.
    Sure quality of life in Europe and US is considerably higher than here - but they have absolute disconnect with Europe and US, they didn't get to occupy much of Europe and thus don't really care about if France or Netherlands live good.
    But here comes Ukraine, a country they occupied for more than 70 years the last time and did everything they could to turn it into a ****hole - and yet in 30 years of independence Ukraine got ahead of them, adding insult to injury - Ukraine, still being corrupt (even if less so) and supposedly "borderland" - got ahead of them exactly during the war they themselves started. Before Feb 24 a so called "McDonalds burger flipper" was already earning close to average salary in Russia of 500 bucks. While millions of russians still live in wooden barracks.
    This is what causes envy. They don't care if some Billy from Texas lives better than them. But when some Oleksa from Sumy lives better than them even when working some mundane job - this they can't stand. They are the Empire, the Metropoly, the Center of It All and we are the province and thus have to live worse than them - otherwise wtf is this?
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    BamaMatt reacted to c3k in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Indeed, I have not objected to, nor supported, any viewpoint on foreign politics because I realize that all I would bring would be a distorted American perspective. I have no basis for getting into those discussions...either pro or con or trying to tamp them down to prevent spiraling off-topic.
     
    I see a lot of blame put on former President Trump for this invasion. Funny how Putin only invaded AFTER President Trump left office...
    1. The Russian Hoax has been explicitly proven to be a forgery created by the Hillary Clinton campaign. All the "Russia Russia Russia" hysteria in the US media has been conclusively shown to be a political ploy by the DNC, supported by the Mainstream Media.
    2. President Biden is on tape bragging about corrupting Ukraine to protect his son, Hunter, from a criminal investigation by the authorities in Ukraine. He used his position as vice president under President Obama to wield a $1 Billion dollar stick over Ukraine. This is on tape.
    3. The debacle of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan occurred under President Biden. Whether that withdrawal was warranted or not is immaterial: the process of the withdrawal was a total fustercluck. How much weakness did this signal to Putin?
    China...by sending wealth to the Biden family via Hunter...has shown the world what the Biden family cares about.
    Putin obviously thought that Biden was weak and would not involve the US in this invasion. (Due to corruption, lack of leadership, and international weakness.)
    Whoever in the US administration began leaking Russian invasion plans was trying to stop this...but it was too late. These things have a certain momentum or inertia. Putin thought he had the measure of Biden.
    So...does President Biden have a share of the blame in "allowing" (<- via the signaling I mentioned above) Russia to think they could get away with this? Or, is it all Trump?
     
     
    Again, I will stay away from any opinions on foreign domestic politics. I will say that I am heavily disappointed in the lack of support Germany is providing. Is that due to Scholtz? I have no idea...it could be far more complex and nuanced than "that guy is a Stasi wannabe" or whatever the complaints are against him.
    Ditto Switzerland blocking ammo supplies. Is it one of cantons that is doing that? Shrug. All I know is that Switzerland thinks it is safe behind the mountains and that any future armament purchasers better think about how they will source their ammo and other logistics.
    Should Macron be praised for the Ceasars? I don't know, but FRANCE is sending some good equipment.
    If you look at my posts, I am very careful to point to the COUNTRY involved, not any individual. (Zelensky excepted, because, damn, talk about the right man at the right time.)  I have tried to do the same with the US.
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    BamaMatt reacted to Cederic in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The prospective EU army was a (small) factor in Brexit, which predates Trump.
    That the UK would eventually have to bail out Europe (again) by defeating it continues to be anticipated (if the EU doesn't collapse first). Yes, we'll probably want the Americans to help (again).
    The EU demands EU dominance in everything and doesn't tolerate dissent. It's why the UK left (we just want free trade) and EU demands to control taxation, foreign policy and have its own army meant that the moment EU and NATO priorities conflict, the EU will either abandon NATO or demand it changes. It doesn't know any other way of operating.
    It's one reason I really hope Ukraine doesn't join the EU, and why Hungary (and even Poland) have so many conflicts with their overlords.
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    BamaMatt reacted to kraze in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    There's only a single country in the world that threatens NATO and it's Russia.
    There's also a country that's fighting Russia alone against all odds and it's Ukraine.
    Ukraine already knows how, but most importantly - is willing to defend against Russia.
    The math is blunt here. Not accepting Ukraine into NATO will be a net loss for an alliance. Because it's the only way Ukraine (and whole Europe) gets true peace, while NATO gets an experienced, battle hardened force that will be more than happy to play ball with all the NATO requirements and demands once this is all over.
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    BamaMatt reacted to kraze in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Ukraine was a neutral state up until 2019, 5 years into the war, a war Merkel made sure to swipe under the rug over those years.
    I wonder if those many realize that Ukrainian neutrality is off the table forever.
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    BamaMatt reacted to kraze in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Nothing unites us like a bunch of guys, that just sent another dozen bil $ to Russia, telling us that we must quickly give up, calmly load ourselves into trains to concentration camps somewhere in Siberia, while leaving our homes for "liberators" to live in - so that business can go on as usual and a face of tzar of war criminals looks attractive.
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    BamaMatt reacted to c3k in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Shutting down sources of US oil production helped worsen the supply imbalance of oil products...and raised the prices. 
    Massive printing of money has led to inflationary pressures resulting in raised prices.
    I'll ignore the statement about climate change and budgets. (But, if you'd like, you can venmo me some money and I'll apply it to carbon offsets in your name.)
    Fiat currencies, politicians fueling the financial crisis, kicking the can down the road to future generations, deficit spending, short-sighted government policies...that is what is causing the current inflationary spiral.
    But I'm not sure what that has to do with Ukraine kicking Russia's ass?
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