mosuri
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48 minutes ago, Elmar Bijlsma said:
That does seem to point towards a certain psychological breaking point being reached. Not recovering your dead or even chucking them over the parapet are indicators of a very grim mindset having set in. Of course, that is not an indicator of fragile morale. It may even be evidence of a fatalistic mindset amongst Russians that they will endure whatever they need to. OTOH I think troops that let their dead buddies lie where they fell aren't first in line to take the initiative in a fight.
Grimness (or ghoulishness) aside, isn't there a very real hygienic aspect to this? Even with cold weather I shudder to think of the potential for rat infestation, and with insects in the warm season the spreading of disease is guaranteed.
One would think that you have to be very far gone to ignore that, but luckily I don't have any experience with such situations.
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10 minutes ago, Bearstronaut said:
I guess a false flag is possible but I don't see why they would do it this way. It makes Russian air defense look incredibly impotent/incompetent.
Striking at a symbolic target like Kremlin to whip up support for Great Patriotic SMO in Moscow?
Any statement from Russian government is a lie by default for me -- I believe it to be an Ukrainian operation when Ukraine claims it.
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I didn't see this being discussed yet, claims that JDAMs are vulnerable to Russian GPS jamming?
I have no real knowledge on the topic but AIUI JDAM has inertial + GPS and Wikipedia claims 30m CEP with inertial only when GPS is not available, doesn't sound super awful given the long reach, but of course depends on the target and number of munitions used in the strike... All the more reason to target Russian EW units then.
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Just wanted to drop in and say a big thank you! Bought CMBN, CW, and MG way back when they were new but was never a fan of Battlefront license system. Getting the Steam keys and having also my CM games under a single system just makes it so much easier to access and manage my games when transitioning to new hardware eventually.
And to show renewed support I also purchased the vehicle pack and battle pack now, something I probably wouldn't have done without the Steam option rekindling my interest.
Please move the rest of the products to Steam as well
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15 hours ago, Beleg85 said:
Btw. this odd lack of care about Finlad/Sweden is showing perfectly how hollow are some "realistic" arguments about NATO supposedly expanding and creating danger for Russia. Several angry Baltic fishermen can now effectively cut out Kaliningrad and Petersburg from ocean. Russian reaction- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
Regarding that, I hope there is a clear plan -- and very soon the means-- in the works for placing Petrograd under naval blockade from both shores of Gulf of Finland. You know, just in case.
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I thought Armenia was pretty much in Russia's vest pocket? Poor Vlad ... everyone turning their backs
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52 minutes ago, Chibot Mk IX said:
Here is a very interesting read. @LongLeftFlank
While reading the post from Galeev and Suyi控 , one of the Suyi控’s opinion posted back in Jan caught my attention. He believes the Putin’s war preparation began as early as 2016.
https://www.zhihu.com/question/566794678/answer/2837159962
Another sign to that direction is that Russian national wealth fund was flatlining until 2014, but especially since 2019 was growing significantly.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1078279/russia-national-wealth-fund-volume/
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Any scuttlebutt on who was taking an ambulance jet flight?
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Finland is sending three mine clearing Leopards to Ukraine:
Maybe not the most exciting development, but should be useful I hope
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2 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
A very long time ago I had a debate with a Russian. Cripes, might have been 25 or more years. All I remember about it was me hammering the guy on why he thought Russia was so great. I asked what it has contributed economically to the world, and he couldn't provide any examples. No inventions, no industrial processes, no finished goods, nothing. I asked him what they have contributed culturally, and that came up with zero. What about helping other countries with things like foreign aid, disaster relief, etc? Nothing. All he could come up with was a) Russia is too big to ignore and b) it has a lot of military power. That's it, that's all they got. If they lose all of their military power in this war they will simply fall back on the "Russia is too big to ignore". Which is why I think that needs to be removed from the equation before anything happens.
Well, sounds like you had a discussion with an ignoramus TBH.
Mendeleev? Pavlov? Sakharov? Tolstoy? Tarkovsky? Tchaikovsky? Whether Russia has pulled its full weight or not is another thing but there's certainly a bit more than zero cultural achievement stemming from there.
And even with that said, I do think the country needs a lesson beat into it.
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Russia's revenues down, spending up:
Russia's Jan budget deficit widens as energy revenues slump
There's always the piggy bank to break into:
Russia rainy day fund shrinks by $38 bln as government plugs deficit
And business profits can be mobilized:
So nice to have plenty of good news
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3 hours ago, The_Capt said:
It is still selling oil and gas but it has severely damaged its major market - Europe.
And sanctions like the price cap on oil do actually work. It needs to be noted that while e.g. India is opportunistically buying oil from Russia, they are not paying a premium price. One reason why the price cap works is that ships that are owned or insured by Western nations do not carry oil that is sold above the price cap, and Russia or third nations simply don't have the capacity.
I am not an economist either, and this guy's videos have clickbaity titles, but the message itself seems solid enough:
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1 hour ago, Lethaface said:
I'd keep my expectations low about Dutch F-16s anytime 'soon', it will be at least 'Steve soon'
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Two weeks, be sure!
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Tangentially related, in Sweden the convicted two Iranian-born brothers who were employed by Swedish intelligence agency for spying for Russia. Some relatively ridiculous sums of money (in the order of US$50k) apparently changed hands; doesn't sound like worth a life sentence?
https://apnews.com/article/sweden-government-stockholm-57182be4865a4657c0f243d980f1a547
Just like to good old days, Russian moles in intelligence organizations ...
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7 hours ago, The_MonkeyKing said:
Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Swiss, Austria will not give any. Also Finland has max give of only a couple (I disagree with that decision)
I would like to see a reasonable plan for backfilling whatever amount we donate. While I agree the donation should be something meaningful, that land border of ours isn't going away. More likely it's going to be part of Cordon Sanitaire v2.0 ...
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36 minutes ago, Huba said:
We'll have to wait and see of course. OTOH losing some god-forsaken base on the Chinese border was a spark that caused the revolution in 1905, didn't it? Not regime-ending, but big enough to resolve the war ASAP and concentrate all efforts at internal stabilization. Same happened in 1917 more or less. Also, Putin is no Stalin, the historical analogies can only get us this far. Perhaps the fury after Sevastopol falls will give him a heart attack? That would be a very elegant solution
I would prefer him to emulate Stalin fully, have a stroke and lie dying in his own waste for a good while, but then again I am mean. You are much kinder.
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4 hours ago, sburke said:
I know, stupid to ask but wtf is a defense minister doing with a PMC?
Double dipping, getting both contract money and corruption money?
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1 hour ago, Zeleban said:
Russian television is constantly releasing new videos about the hardships of life in the European Union. This time, poor Europeans are forced to eat their pets for Christmas.
Similar brainwashing is happening in North Korea. There, local residents are told that epidemics and wars are raging all over the world, and peace and prosperity reign only in North Korea.
Hah, sure. BTW, don't have experiences with hamsters, but guinea pigs are tasty when grilled (regular food in the Andes).
My best wishes to Ukraine, may the new year bring victory and peace. As for the Russians, they can eat their belts for all I care.
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10 hours ago, NamEndedAllen said:
once the term for Russia was “The Evil Empire.”
The Evil Empire never went anywhere. It was just incapacitated for a while in the 90s. Hopefully this time a bit longer than a decade.
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24 minutes ago, JonS said:
The problem with this cunning plan is that artillery propellant charges are designed to burn completely before the round leaves the muzzle, making them flashless.
I discovered that to my chagrin on my very first live fire exercise, back in 199mumble. "Cool" I thought "a night mission - I'll get my camera!" Shortly followed by "wait, what? Did I just blink at the wrong time? Every time?" Shortly after that someone kindly explained what the F in FNH meant to the FNG.
It would work for rockets though.
Oh man...
Need to use infrared instead it seems, found this online now: Infrared Detection and Geolocation of Gunfire and Ordnance Events f rom Ground and Air Platforms
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Having some time to think idle thoughts, I recalled that amateur astronomers do a sort of crowdsourced meteor tracking -- they point wide field cameras up to the sky and log any streaks of lights recorded by those cameras to a common database. Given locations of the cameras are known the data can be used to calculate where a meteor might have landed.
That got me thinking that in principle a geographically spread swarm of drones could be used to pinpoint the location of enemy artillery. Each drone would have a known location, attitude and bearing (GPS, accelerometer, and electronic compass) so any distant flashes they observe could be collected together and processed quickly enough to send a return packet to the determined location before the gun has time to move.
Of course image processing to filter for gun flashes would require some computing power from the drone but should be doable, at least during a night, in principle - many things are possible in principle
-- and would require relatively clear weather to see far enough ... well, like said, idle thoughts. But the thought of a swarm of relatively cheap observers providing real time data over a potentially wide physical area, and being able to distill useful bits of information from that data, feels useful.
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15 hours ago, dan/california said:
That is the video you want the starving conscripts on the other side to see.
Also, if the other side manages to set up a Gulaschkanone, spice their soup with a mortar bomb.
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1 hour ago, dan/california said:
They might as well add the SBU to the conference call...
Well, you can run digitally encrypted communications over a radio link using even an ancient radio -- whether they do or not is another matter of course.
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3 hours ago, Beleg85 said:
It's actually nice they don't even pretend to be civilized. Makes things easier.
Normal kremlinite bilge. A while ago another lovely person wrote that since peaceful ways have not cured Finland's and Estonia's russophobia, military means must be used instead. Impeccable logic.
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We finally know what air defense doing!