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Year 3 of the US operation to save the English speaking minority of northern Mexico from ethnic cleansing by the drug cartel regime of Mexico City. After dismantling the McDonalds PMC and mobilizing 30.000 men every month, President Biden orders to relocate the American weapons industry to the east of the Appalachean mountains to save them from Mexican long range drones. "Everything is going according to plan" defense Minister Lloyd Austin proclaimed in a recent press conference. "In fact, things never looked better for the American cause. Rumors of losing 10.000 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradleys are actually sign that victory is just a question of time."

UGV groundstrike against bridge.

A new, directed EW system financed by Poroshenko is claimed to be effective against Lancet and Zala drones.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Russian government announced a mobilisation for 150k men this weekend. Unless that was an April's Fools joke, they might reach 500k with that.

Thread on Russian logistics and potential (maximum) force numbers. Of course there are a lot of assumptions in there, but it's an interesting piece. The attacks on Russian refineries are not significant enough yet, but they increase the stress on the Russian logistics.

People, people, please. It is perfectly reasonable important to ask ourselves sometimes: how do we know the world is actually a spheroid? We all assume it is, but have you experienced it yourself? Humans are wrong with their assumptions about the world more often than they are right, did you consider this? Now, you might have a thread full of possible hints towards a spheroid planet, and you have discussed it amongst yourself, to the best of your ability determining it does a lot look like it might be spheroid - with some people hoping that it turns out spheroid and others open that it isn't qhen things go wrong. But what if all of you are just subject to a well-known phenomenon of mass hallucinations, which especially affects those of low IQ, such like the people who are not myself? And it gets worse when people are in a group for anlong time. They tell to each other that the world must be round, but what do they use? Physics? Optics? Geometry? Do you know how many times these fields have been re-written again and again? By people in authority no less, who are well-known to be conspiratorial liars whenever you don't watch their fingers closely. You might now wonder where my questions are going, but really, where would all you people end up if not someone like me, with one year of high-school philosophy under my belt, didn't engage you with aimless sophistry? This is my last and only post. Have a good night everyone. (You expected me to wish you a good day? Expectations subverted again sheeple! I will now leave to look at Hunter Biden's leaked nudes.)

For those who are interested in an overlook of the Russian force organisation.

Probably filled with Western chips again...

Good stuff. There have been a bunch of destroyed M777 lately. Caesars will not be just replacements, but upgrades.

There some Ukrainian sources who claimed that PAC-3s for Patriot are running low. Maybe Russia just hopes to outpace Patriot supplies - and since these are made exclusively in the US, and the US congress is running in circles at the moment...

Considering we have SMART and BONUS rounds which prove that a tiny paragliding object is capable of carrying an EFP projector, drones could get a massive upgrade with this if the trigger mechanism is adapted. Remove the need to hover and for a human to pull the trigger. Place an EFP projector under the drone, have it circle or lie in wait (flying up based on a movement sensor), have the EFP trigger as soon as it recognizes a vehicle or person from above. It will happen in the blink of an eye. There could be different versions with different target data, though the miniaturization of systems could mean that each drone is multirole. After burning a hole through either turret or helmet, fly back to a save pick-up location for recharging and attaching a new EFP projector in a can. This is pretty close to the intelligent, self-replenishing minefield and it is not unfeasible at all with tech which exists right now.

Another arms company setting up shop in Ukraine. If this continues every major European military industrial company will have a sub-branch in Ukraine.

Great news after another night of Russian bombardment...

MRA - Mobik Reactive Armor.

And just after this thread's discussion mentioned, once again after many times, how important autonomy or partial autonomy for drones can be, this clip claims to show the operation of a Ukrainian drone with an automatic targeting algorithm which helps against EW on the final approach.

Some surveying of Russians who voted outside of Russia. Putin below 20% in many cases.

And maybe Ukraine will also eventually adjust their targeting to the most expensive and useful parts of the Russian energy and railway grid - unless the Western powers really wagged their fingers and declared that as forbidden.

There is one estimate by a Russian exile newspaper that roughly half of the votes for Putin were faked based on released counting numbers vs. times when people usually go to a polling station. That would mean Putin got something like 43%, missing an absolute majority.

800.000 plus another 700.000, mostly 155mm with some 122mm (?) apparently. Didn't read anything about 105mm for the light howitzers or 152mm for the soviet legacy equipment (the latter seems to be supplied to a large degree from Bulgaria). Still needs a lot of funding. Only one third is funded so far.

Without giving any details, I do not work in the defense industry, but the company I work for provides certain products used by companies in the military industry branch seated in Germany and the US. The current demand for these products in 2024 has doubled, in some cases it has quadrupled. We are happy to oblige because none of the involved materials experience a bottleneck. What is needed mostly is qualified workers. Bt yeah, it is noticeable that over the last two years, capacities inside our customers have been created which now demand supply to cover their increased output.

Well, that's true. He doesn't have the running shoes on yet, but he is thinking really hard about the socks.

And see it that way: some of that EU money might be added to that. It's a pure bonus. The most importnt part is of course that this represents a legal precedent. The EU has been producing legal precedents with mind-boggling speed since Feb 2022, actually, compared to how sluggish the EU is designed to be (to facilitate common ground between diverse member nations). This sleepy giant started to run, and he has deep coffers.