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Posted: 2/20/2023 4:14:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Jm11513]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: I know you and your posts, and respect you. But no. Russia has done a lot of things wrong, BUT: Soviet Russia did do a lot of things right. They broke centuries of slavery, sexism, etc. and set a talented people free. They massively altered an impoverished, backward nation to great things. Marx/Lenin, in Russia and elsewhere, broke a feudal system to empower people. Stalin and Mao bent that, to evil ends. I’m not a socialist by any means. And Marx was an idiot, I’m not a Marxist. But unleashing the talent of people previously suppressed, is cool. Soviet Russia screwed up ends/means to a high degree, but produced cool stuff because of that. I like this thread very much from 4xGM300m because it splits the difference. You can celebrate Soviet positive things and separate the political poison. That is how I have interpreted this thread/his intent. I really admire that and why I try to contribute, vs. how much hate we could otherwise feel. Things are always difficult like that, when human nature is involved. Full disclosure: not trying to speak for 4x, just trying to say how I feel. The soviets set people free?  what a retarded take. The soviets killed and imprisoned tons of "enemies of the state" from day oneI suppose getting your head twisted off by the Cheka is a form of freedom. |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 4:28:26 PM EDT
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   T-14 "Armata", T-90M "Proryv" and BMPT "Terminator" being assembled at the Russian manufacturer UralVagonZavod |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 4:30:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: I know you and your posts, and respect you. But no. Russia has done a lot of things wrong, BUT: Soviet Russia did do a lot of things right. They broke centuries of slavery, sexism, etc. and set a talented people free. They massively altered an impoverished, backward nation to great things. Marx/Lenin, in Russia and elsewhere, broke a feudal system to empower people. Stalin and Mao bent that, to evil ends. I’m not a socialist by any means. And Marx was an idiot, I’m not a Marxist. But unleashing the talent of people previously suppressed, is cool. Soviet Russia screwed up ends/means to a high degree, but produced cool stuff because of that. I like this thread very much from 4xGM300m because it splits the difference. You can celebrate Soviet positive things and separate the political poison. That is how I have interpreted this thread/his intent. I really admire that and why I try to contribute, vs. how much hate we could otherwise feel. Things are always difficult like that, when human nature is involved. Full disclosure: not trying to speak for 4x, just trying to say how I feel. I'm just fascinated with the "Interesting Ruski stuff" and not taking the derailment bait.  |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 4:40:08 PM EDT
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 Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: There has been at least one example from earlier in the war: Be careful not to pick up such crap from old corpses or on the road. The plastid into which the detonator is inserted is inserted from below. When filling the store with ammunition, as they fill up, they begin to press on the detonator, which in turn acts on the plastid and then there is an explosion" |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 4:49:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/BDcxxXM.jpg Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: There has been at least one example from earlier in the war: Be careful not to pick up such crap from old corpses or on the road. The plastid into which the detonator is inserted is inserted from below. When filling the store with ammunition, as they fill up, they begin to press on the detonator, which in turn acts on the plastid and then there is an explosion" Clevagirl.gif |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 4:58:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jm11513: The soviets set people free? what a retarded take. The soviets killed and imprisoned tons of "enemies of the state" from day oneI suppose getting your head twisted off by the Cheka is a form of freedom. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jm11513: Originally Posted By Jack67: I know you and your posts, and respect you. But no. Russia has done a lot of things wrong, BUT: Soviet Russia did do a lot of things right. They broke centuries of slavery, sexism, etc. and set a talented people free. They massively altered an impoverished, backward nation to great things. Marx/Lenin, in Russia and elsewhere, broke a feudal system to empower people. Stalin and Mao bent that, to evil ends. I’m not a socialist by any means. And Marx was an idiot, I’m not a Marxist. But unleashing the talent of people previously suppressed, is cool. Soviet Russia screwed up ends/means to a high degree, but produced cool stuff because of that. I like this thread very much from 4xGM300m because it splits the difference. You can celebrate Soviet positive things and separate the political poison. That is how I have interpreted this thread/his intent. I really admire that and why I try to contribute, vs. how much hate we could otherwise feel. Things are always difficult like that, when human nature is involved. Full disclosure: not trying to speak for 4x, just trying to say how I feel. The soviets set people free? what a retarded take. The soviets killed and imprisoned tons of "enemies of the state" from day oneI suppose getting your head twisted off by the Cheka is a form of freedom. Maybe he should have lived there (probably not old enough to have stuck his neck out that far) He might have a different take now. He should probably also see what the many commie blacks from the US that went to the USSR came to think of their decision |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 5:13:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Seven-Shooter]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/9LRyU0x.jpg https://i.imgur.com/eVDWl9t.jpg https://i.imgur.com/v54wVAg.jpg Interesting that Terminators are mentioned as being built. Seem to be shitty on paper when compared to a "tank", but seem downright terrifying when used as a form of IFV or support vehicle along with a tank. |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 5:24:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Seven-Shooter: Is that current, or dated? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Seven-Shooter: Is that current, or dated? No date mentioned. I guess they are a couple of years old. How can you tell which are which, since they're all rolling hunks of shit? By looking at thousands of RU tank pictures over the years.  |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 5:27:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By towerofpower94: Clevagirl.gif Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By towerofpower94: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/BDcxxXM.jpg Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: There has been at least one example from earlier in the war: Be careful not to pick up such crap from old corpses or on the road. The plastid into which the detonator is inserted is inserted from below. When filling the store with ammunition, as they fill up, they begin to press on the detonator, which in turn acts on the plastid and then there is an explosion" Clevagirl.gif Old shit, they did the same in Yugoslavia in the 90's |
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Posted: 2/20/2023 5:36:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: I'm just fascinated with the "Interesting Ruski stuff" and not taking the derailment bait. Agreed, it’s pretty obnoxious. Is that UVZ now, or before 2022? |
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Posted: 2/21/2023 7:34:17 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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No date mentioned, I guess the RU TV used an older footage.
  NII Stali presented the new ERA modules for the BMP-3 IFV. New modules are based on 2S24 explosive elements. Pic from IDEX2023 Whoever built this model has some impressive skills. |
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Posted: 2/21/2023 8:14:48 AM EDT
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But nothing to stop a top attack?
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Posted: 2/21/2023 4:23:49 PM EDT
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 Five Russian BMP-1 IFV and a T-72B3 tank were destroyed or damaged and abandoned after an attempted attack in the vicinity of Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast. |
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Posted: 2/21/2023 4:25:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/9LRyU0x.jpg https://i.imgur.com/eVDWl9t.jpg https://i.imgur.com/v54wVAg.jpg Аккуратный |
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Posted: 2/21/2023 4:42:30 PM EDT
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    Russian artillery using the 1D22 laser target designator (LTD) to guide a 152mm 3OF39 "Krasnopol". |
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Posted: 2/21/2023 4:45:45 PM EDT
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Videos at the link. |
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Posted: 2/23/2023 6:52:55 AM EDT
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   Object 112 APC during trials, 1950.  |
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Posted: 2/23/2023 11:12:30 AM EDT
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 Object 781, another Soviet proto-Terminator developed from the "Afghan experience" |
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Posted: 2/23/2023 12:41:32 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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 BTR-50 somewhere in the East of Ukraine. Holy shit, they are from the 1950s. Feb. 2023 |
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Posted: 2/23/2023 3:47:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Jack67]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/ltoxRXL.jpg BTR-50 somewhere in the East of Ukraine. Holy shit, they are from the 1950s. Feb. 2023 Better pic of one. Built on the old PT-76 light tank chassis. Officially now a Steampunk war.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/24/2023 6:05:35 AM EDT
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    Russia's ammunition shortage in eastern Ukraine is reportedly so severe that its troops there have reportedly been issued with completely unusable munitions, including shells which are so rusty they have simply disintegrated. |
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Posted: 2/24/2023 6:20:43 AM EDT
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 Russians carried out a failed (likely RC-)VBIED attack against UA forces near Svatove, Luhansk Oblast. The vehicle, an MT-LB w/ a DKRP-4 mine-clearing charge & 3 OFAB-100-120 as explosive charge, rolled into a UA position w/o driver & was later detonated by UA |
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Posted: 2/24/2023 9:35:22 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Jack67]
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Quote HistoryWait - Took me almost a minute to figure that out. That’s a mic-lic they just spooled into the back of a BMP? Really? I had too much vodka last night, or they did? |
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Posted: 2/24/2023 10:38:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: I'm just fascinated with the "Interesting Ruski stuff" and not taking the derailment bait. I'm still enjoying the thread very much.
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Posted: 2/24/2023 10:45:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By armoredman: But nothing to stop a top attack? Not "nothing", they do have those petal-looking sheets on the turret, which are probably for pre-detonating HEAT or RPG rounds. You can only add so much to the turret before whatever is moving it (electric or hydraulic motor) simply can't keep up, or it gets so out of balance that it won't rotate when you want it to (or at all). Much easier to beef up the hull armor, because it doesn't have any moving bits. 
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Posted: 2/24/2023 10:46:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryHoly Shit that thing is archaic. |
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Posted: 2/24/2023 11:36:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/mnKcuYS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FM42sVU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/EDlcE5i.jpg Ka-52, near Kyiv, early days of the war. Feb/Mar 2022 I have a piece of that Ka-52. https://defence-blog.com/russian-forces-destroyed-ka-52-to-prevent-it-from-falling-into-hands-of-ukrainian-soldiers/  |
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Posted: 2/25/2023 8:52:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By centex_SR-15: I have a piece of that Ka-52. https://defence-blog.com/russian-forces-destroyed-ka-52-to-prevent-it-from-falling-into-hands-of-ukrainian-soldiers/ https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/260794/885BEAD0-5B6F-426D-AEF9-B02F1D91494A-2724240.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By centex_SR-15: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/mnKcuYS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FM42sVU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/EDlcE5i.jpg Ka-52, near Kyiv, early days of the war. Feb/Mar 2022 I have a piece of that Ka-52. https://defence-blog.com/russian-forces-destroyed-ka-52-to-prevent-it-from-falling-into-hands-of-ukrainian-soldiers/ https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/260794/885BEAD0-5B6F-426D-AEF9-B02F1D91494A-2724240.jpg Obvious follow up question…how’d you get a piece of it? |
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Posted: 2/25/2023 10:17:07 AM EDT
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I was messing around on eBay and recognized the background in the listing I was looking at and searched until I figured out why I recognized it. Hard to believe no one else recognized it for what it was: A piece of a well publicized (on both sides) shoot down.
 Picture from the news article:  |
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Posted: 2/27/2023 7:22:59 AM EDT
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 BTR-60 |
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Posted: 2/27/2023 11:26:06 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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 The dapper young Hungarian revolutionary named József Tibor Fejes holding a captured AK-47 in what is believed to be the first widely distributed photo of the weapon. 1956 vs.  In April 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency received its first report of what would become the most recognized weapon of the 20th century: the AK-47 assault rifle. Within twenty years, the mysterious “submachine gun” sighted on the outskirts of Leningrad would spread worldwide, Sources: Sixty years ago the world got its first look at an AK-47 A CIA Agent’s Drawing of the First AK-47 Sighting In 1953, the legendary AK-47 assault rifle was a state secret. |
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Posted: 2/28/2023 5:23:43 AM EDT
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 It appears we have the first sighting of a new Russian T-62 modernization in the combat zone - a so-called "T-62M obr. 2022". Tanks of this model received a new 1PN96MT-02 thermal sight instead of the old optics however even ERA wasn't installed. |
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Posted: 2/28/2023 9:00:32 AM EDT
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 Beriev A-100, Russia's new prototype AWACS bird. |
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Posted: 2/28/2023 9:41:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/IlOoe8l.jpg Beriev A-100, Russia's new prototype AWACS bird. Hey look! A nicer, newer, and likely much more capable AWACS than our geriatric E-3s. 
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Posted: 2/28/2023 9:53:51 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/bNLDQOm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/quisDzf.jpg Pic from IDEX2023 Whoever built this model has some impressive skills. Russia Stronk  Holy shit. 
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Posted: 2/28/2023 12:31:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chairborne: Hey look! A nicer, newer, and likely much more capable AWACS than our geriatric E-3s. |
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Posted: 2/28/2023 5:25:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/28/2023 6:09:22 PM EDT
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 Up-armoured PTS-2 (apparently used to clear naval mines in Mariupol last year) For reference: 
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Posted: 2/28/2023 7:47:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Looks like an RAF Nimrod, a C-17, and E-3 had a drug fueled orgy and produced that!   
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Posted: 2/28/2023 8:07:11 PM EDT
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Since we are talking about radar:
(Haven’t see this here but maybe it occurred early on). Russian “Duga” (arch) radar installation in Ukraine. Massive ionoshpere-reflecting radar to detect ICBMs. Sister installation in Amur to look eastward towards the western US. Now inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone and rotting away. Had a direct power cable from the nuclear plant to energize it.  Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 3/1/2023 12:01:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/BLwMsAc.png For reference: https://i.imgur.com/chPQqZo.jpg Yeah, that extra sheet metal will make a huge difference if they have a sea mine cook off close by. 
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Posted: 3/1/2023 10:58:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: Since we are talking about radar: (Haven’t see this here but maybe it occurred early on). Of course and more than once. But who cares? I lost track long ago. No freeloading:  Dunay-3 (NATO: Dog House) radar receiver taken by US KH-7 spy satellite in 1967 Russian/Soviet radar installations are a fucking rabbit hole, just start with the wikipedia links.   
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Posted: 3/1/2023 11:00:44 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/1/2023 11:05:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheKill: "The Russians obviously aren't maintaining their military very well, so those ICBM probably wouldn't even make it off the ground, let's go!" - Ukebro morans Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheKill: "The Russians obviously aren't maintaining their military very well, so those ICBM probably wouldn't even make it off the ground, let's go!" - Ukebro morans Did you miss the launch last week that failed? |
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Posted: 3/1/2023 11:35:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By southerncross: Did you miss the launch last week that failed? |
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Posted: 3/1/2023 11:55:10 AM EDT
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  Russian demining of Ukraine. Thomas C. Theiner @noclador Excellent work from @OcultaMondiala , who looked at photos of destroyed russian infantry fighting vehicles and marked all the anti-tank mines. Nothing passes here... but the russians drive into these minefields again and again and again and again... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
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Posted: 3/1/2023 1:43:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xd341: It happens. They've had successes too, so I don't think it's a design issue. I wouldn't count on failure. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By southerncross: Did you miss the launch last week that failed? I'm not counting on anything, but when they fuck up a planned propaganda launch it says a lot about their ability to maintain and deploy them effectively. |
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Posted: 3/1/2023 3:21:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Of course and more than once. But who cares? I lost track long ago. No freeloading: … [/img] https://i.imgur.com/rtvNMXw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/WiTOn8u.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Ko6XQt0.jpg I need to take a deeper dive, obviously. Impressive the abilities of the Key Hole even in 1967. |
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Posted: 3/1/2023 4:16:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: I need to take a deeper dive, obviously. Impressive the abilities of the Key Hole even in 1967. If you believe what they disclosed they could read newsprint on a clear day. |
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Posted: 3/1/2023 5:03:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By southerncross: If you believe what they disclosed they could read newsprint on a clear day. If... |
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