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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:25:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brok3n: The Old Guard is trying hard to justify their expensive legacy programs. Drone swarms delivered by stealth cruise missiles or ballistic missile vehicles are the next evolution. This idea keeps me up at night.
This goes right along with that short fiction film showing autonomous killer minidrones. China LOVES asymmetric techniques that will give them a jump on US military supremacy. This drone tech combined with China's advanced AI has really terrifying prospects for future conflict. AI and autonomous drones are a huge game changer. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:25:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GunGuyMP: No clue if true... Only post out there
Yeah, there would be a lot of chatter if true from both sides by now I would think. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:26:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Wow. That's epic footage there. Wish there was sound. Looks like the Russians gave it a good try using all hands shooting everything including PK's at the incoming drones!! That one drone in the beginning running in circles...probably got damaged and lost control. Maybe some sea drones should include one of those giant Russian Claymore mines just to clear the decks a little. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:33:18 AM EDT
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The first visually confirmed loss of the M142 "HIMARS" during the entire war...
Three Russian MLRS “Uragan” were destroyed in the Zaporizhzhia region. Morning, afternoon or night. Russia does not choose the time for another attack: Another insane detonation of a Russian APC: |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:34:34 AM EDT
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More chatter....
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:36:47 AM EDT
[Last Edit: AlmightyTallest]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: This goes right along with that short fiction film showing autonomous killer minidrones. China LOVES asymmetric techniques that will give them a jump on US military supremacy. This drone tech combined with China's advanced AI has really terrifying prospects for future conflict. AI and autonomous drones are a huge game changer. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Originally Posted By Brok3n: The Old Guard is trying hard to justify their expensive legacy programs. Drone swarms delivered by stealth cruise missiles or ballistic missile vehicles are the next evolution. This idea keeps me up at night.
This goes right along with that short fiction film showing autonomous killer minidrones. China LOVES asymmetric techniques that will give them a jump on US military supremacy. This drone tech combined with China's advanced AI has really terrifying prospects for future conflict. AI and autonomous drones are a huge game changer. You would be terrified of a Tomahawk that could dispense many coordinated tiny jamming and explosive drones over a target.  Article from 2012 by the way. https://www.military.com/defensetech/2012/04/20/navy-partnering-tomahawks-and-small-drones-as-hunter-killers We have been doing a lot of work with Tomahawk and small [unmanned aerial systems], so we've been using small UASs" to target for the missiles, said Rear Adm. William Shannon III, program executive oficer for the Navy's unmanned aircraft and strike weapons during the Navy League's annual Sea, Air, Space conference in National Harbor, Md., this week. "We do about 10 to 15 test flight a year just to ensure the software upgrades are doing well and we also test [concepts of operations] with it. We've been doing work with special forces, with Marine, with Navy, with Army and with British special forces. We've been using the small UASs to do targeting, we've shortened the time of flight with Tomahawk to make it more tactically relevant and it's a networked weapon so we're able to control it in flight. Last Novemeber, the British with their Astute Class submarine, launched a Tomahawk on the west coast as part of training and directed it into the training range at China Lake and redirected it from their [special operations] control center in London" while it was in flight. He went on to plug the missile, saying that the more than 230 Tomahawks launched against Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya ensured the NATO air campaign there was a success "because Tomahawk was there first and took out most of the air defense systems and most of the aircraft that were sitting on the airfields." 2022 article: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/24/1062039/us-navy-swarms-of-thousands-of-small-drones/ The US Navy has always been a leader in this field, and while they did not respond to requests to discuss their work, the budget documents that MIT Technology Review has read reveal ambitious plans for swarms vastly bigger than anything yet seen. Buried in hundreds of pages of budget numbers are details of several projects not previously revealed, which involve drone boats and submarines as well as uncrewed air vehicles. Together they fall under a project named Super Swarm. The US Navy has already made considerable progress in this area. In 2017 it demonstrated a swarm of 30 drones flying together. The idea is that the drones carry explosive warheads for kamikaze attacks, making them into miniature cruise missiles. The same approach has been used by Russia against Ukrainian cities in recent days. That project, named LOCUST (for “low-cost UAV swarming technology”), now falls under the bigger Super Swarm mission. In April last year a Navy drone swarm carried out an attack on a ship in a war game exercise for the first time. Even in a real mission, Kallenborn notes, the drones would carry just a few pounds of explosive each, compared with the 488-pound warhead on a Harpoon anti-ship missile. That means they would be used in different ways, taking advantage of their high precision. “The drone swarm could attack from multiple angles, aiming to damage or destroy critical systems like radar antennas, deck guns, and weapons systems,” says Kallenborn. The Navy’s plans in the budget document include swarms launched from ships, submarines, aircraft, and ground vehicles, in what they term “multi-domain operations.” The drones will have a variety of payloads: some might carry sensors, some will have jammers or other electronic warfare gear, and some will have warheads. But drone swarms still struggle with the problem of limited range. The 13-pound Raytheon Coyote used in the LOCUST program, for example, can cruise for only two hours at 50 miles per hour, so it needs to hitch a ride. Another project, DEALRS (for “deployment and employment of autonomous long-range systems”), seeks to overcome this challenge. One aspect of DEALRS is working on so-called marsupial systems or motherships: larger uncrewed aircraft carrying multiple smaller drones. Two US drone makers, Kratos and General Atomics, have already demonstrated bigger drones launching smaller ones. But these only involved one or two vehicles, whereas DEALRS aims to transport and launch “extremely large numbers” of small drones without human intervention. Another Super Swarm sub-project seeks to overcome a fundamental problem of military hardware: cost. The US Army pays around $49,000 for each of its small portable drones, known as Rucksack Portable Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Expendable swarming drones will need to be far more affordable to be fielded in large numbers. A project called MASS (“manufacturing of autonomous systems at scale”) is using 3D printing and digital design tools to create low-cost drones in large numbers. The aim is to have a design that can be modified at will to turn out drones optimized for different purposes—for example, maximizing speed, endurance, stealth, or payload—from the same production line. According to budget documents, MASS will manufacture drones “as far forward/afloat as possible,” suggesting production on board Navy ships closer to the action. The stated goal is to turn out tens of thousands of drones. If all the Super Swarm projects come together, a US naval force will be able to launch massive swarms to travel long distances, carry out detailed reconnaissance over a wide area, and find and attack targets. Ukraine’s small drones have destroyed over a hundred Russian armored vehicles; a swarm of a thousand drones might take out an entire battalion in one strike. It could direct additional drones against a target that survived the initial attack, and provide detailed imagery of the results. The budget documents suggest that the swarms are seen as an answer to one of the US military’s biggest headaches: “anti-access/area denial” (or A2/AD), military jargon for areas covered by advanced surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles that prevent US forces from entering. Swarms could break through the strongest existing defenses; dozens or hundreds of drones might be shot down, but thousands more would get through, with enough munitions to take out air defense radar and other defenses. This would pave the way for attacks by cruise missiles, crewed aircraft, and other traditional weapons.  
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:42:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prime:
WTF? Russian walks past one of his own that just was shot and turns & shoots him? Is that what I'm seeing? 
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:42:55 AM EDT
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Still no official work from Ukrainian sources. 
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:45:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GunGuyMP: More chatter....
There is a pattern I am seeing recently with Russian targeting. They are consistently using the Iksander ballistic missiles to quickly get a weapon on targets they spot. Like the Himars, like the S-300 site, like this attempt today. They have shortened their time of spotting a target, and then using a very fast ballistic missile which has less than 5 minutes of flight time to hit any target in Ukraine. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:45:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: In the video that Prime (and I) posted earlier, the former ambassador says straight out that without NATO membership, Ukraine would have to become a highly militarized fortress state to stave off future aggression. He says the support for NATO membership is extremely strong in the country, and is the only real solution to Ukraine's security situation. There's an underlying story here that one of Putin's objectives is not just to restore the Russian Empire, but to break NATO. So far, it's working. NATO, which had already gutted all its own militaries post cold war, has dropped a large pile of its remaining capacity into Ukraine giving them less cushion for the future, and the recent German leak shows there are real gaps in the alliance. IMO it's a given that Putin will move on the Baltics after consolidating and pacifying Ukraine/Moldova. A quick strike through the Baltics (which would cover less area than their initial 2022 Ukraine invasion) would establish facts on the ground that NATO would find very difficult to overturn. Much of NATO is afraid of things that are difficult or risky or could cost some lives. This is the pain point where Putin could completely destroy the alliance as NATO would lose unity, and therefore be unable to respond timely or effectively. The geopolitical strategic shakeup would profoundly alter the world balance. Yes I agree completely. It IS true that Russia has been exposed as inept, primitive, and backwards but also mindlessly savage and aggressive. Likewise NATO has been exposed as having a very thin defense, with no depth, and utterly relying on a 100% commitment from all members BUT with the less exposed (and some maybe compromised) countries obviously showing weakness and cowardice. Like a group of weakling nerds teaming up against a bully but refusing to fight together "you go first! No YOU go first...no you...". |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:46:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/22FV5Z0.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/HJRB3ve.jpeg From topwar.ru Soy based wiring insulation has been a problem for many people here in the USA when their autos wiring harness's have been chewed by squirrels. Wiring should not "taste good" to rodents. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:46:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:48:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH-FscjW8AMTUiW?format=jpg&name=medium One option. IF Ukraine could have gotten Taurus, a single missile with a correct fuze setting could be made to go off inside the concrete pillar, it would not take the number of missiles in the leaked conversation to do this. That bridge is not long for this world. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:50:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
*chuckle* at the starlink antenna/stand just screwed to the top of it and wire running along the top to the back. Simplicity at it's finest... |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:50:21 AM EDT
[Last Edit: AlmightyTallest]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K0UA: Soy based wiring insulation has been a problem for many people here in the USA when their autos wiring harness's have been chewed by squirrels. Wiring should not "taste good" to rodents. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K0UA: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/22FV5Z0.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/HJRB3ve.jpeg From topwar.ru Soy based wiring insulation has been a problem for many people here in the USA when their autos wiring harness's have been chewed by squirrels. Wiring should not "taste good" to rodents. I have never seen that kind of wiring on U.S. made mil-spec weapons systems. Is this a European green initiative thing? |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:50:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Maybe add some AR500 plates. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:51:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
 Ghostrider from wish.com |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:52:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Maybe add some AR500 plates. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Maybe add some AR500 plates. From the Russian ship POV video, I am wondering if those Sea Baby drones are armored against small arms fire a bit. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:54:45 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:57:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: WTF? Russian walks past one of his own that just was shot and turns & shoots him? Is that what I'm seeing? Hopefully the guy laying down was the C/O...but the shooter was probably a RU "medic" making sure. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:58:26 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/6/2024 10:58:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH_mykUWIAAk6xJ?format=png&name=900x900 Came under fire? From an inbound Khinzal or Shaheed? Or someone took a shot at the motorcade with a Kornet or something "local"?? edit: OK so Iskander attack. Ukraine NEEDS Tomahawks NOW! |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:00:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryDamn, that last guy turned into a part of the landscape in a millisecond. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:02:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/22FV5Z0.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/HJRB3ve.jpeg From topwar.ru If you make wiring insulation out of food, critters are going to eat it. Fucking greenies are the dumbest fucking morons on the planet. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:02:43 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Lieh-tzu]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Yeah, there would be a lot of chatter if true from both sides by now I would think. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By GunGuyMP: No clue if true... Only post out there
Yeah, there would be a lot of chatter if true from both sides by now I would think. NVM! 
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:03:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: From the Russian ship POV video, I am wondering if those Sea Baby drones are armored against small arms fire a bit. They should be. At least as much as weight/buoyancy allows. And maybe Claymore or MON mine version. What every happened to the version with those Russian "flamethrower" rockets? |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:06:31 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Lieh-tzu]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Hang on - that's close to Mongolia. There is NO way that came from Ukraine. What is this? Edit - grainy video. Can't tell if it's a drone or a bird. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:09:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: I have never seen that kind of wiring on U.S. made mil-spec weapons systems. Is this a European green initiative thing? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By K0UA: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/22FV5Z0.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/HJRB3ve.jpeg From topwar.ru Soy based wiring insulation has been a problem for many people here in the USA when their autos wiring harness's have been chewed by squirrels. Wiring should not "taste good" to rodents. I have never seen that kind of wiring on U.S. made mil-spec weapons systems. Is this a European green initiative thing? I don't know about Mil spec things, but I know automotive wiring made in the last few years "tastes good". I also know that solder on printed circuit boards made in the last few years is crap too. It has a high tin content and no lead. It it does not flow properly and makes hand soldering difficult. I have a couple of rolls of it and it is "shit", BUT the largest problem is the fact after a few years it grows crystals called "tin whiskers" which can short out components and traces. Making for an early failure of the board. Yes this is a European "green initiative " called Rohs" Reduction Of Hazardous Substances. There is always a price to pay for any green initiative. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:19:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Hang on - that's close to Mongolia. There is NO way that came from Ukraine. What is this? Most likely some locals with Ukrainian technical assistance. Not everybody in Mother Russia likes Putin and ethnic Russians. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:23:33 AM EDT
[Last Edit: AlmightyTallest]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K0UA: I don't know about Mil spec things, but I know automotive wiring made in the last few years "tastes good". I also know that solder on printed circuit boards made in the last few years is crap too. It has a high tin content and no lead. It it does not flow properly and makes hand soldering difficult. I have a couple of rolls of it and it is "shit", BUT the largest problem is the fact after a few years it grows crystals called "tin whiskers" which can short out components and traces. Making for an early failure of the board. Yes this is a European "green initiative " called Rohs" Reduction Of Hazardous Substances. There is always a price to pay for any green initiative. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K0UA: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By K0UA: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/22FV5Z0.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/HJRB3ve.jpeg From topwar.ru Soy based wiring insulation has been a problem for many people here in the USA when their autos wiring harness's have been chewed by squirrels. Wiring should not "taste good" to rodents. I have never seen that kind of wiring on U.S. made mil-spec weapons systems. Is this a European green initiative thing? I don't know about Mil spec things, but I know automotive wiring made in the last few years "tastes good". I also know that solder on printed circuit boards made in the last few years is crap too. It has a high tin content and no lead. It it does not flow properly and makes hand soldering difficult. I have a couple of rolls of it and it is "shit", BUT the largest problem is the fact after a few years it grows crystals called "tin whiskers" which can short out components and traces. Making for an early failure of the board. Yes this is a European "green initiative " called Rohs" Reduction Of Hazardous Substances. There is always a price to pay for any green initiative. Thanks for that info, we use silver solder, and other high quality stuff. My experience was it flowed and works great from all of my experiences. Lots of gold contacts to work with. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:26:43 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:29:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: This goes right along with that short fiction film showing autonomous killer minidrones. China LOVES asymmetric techniques that will give them a jump on US military supremacy. This drone tech combined with China's advanced AI has really terrifying prospects for future conflict. AI and autonomous drones are a huge game changer. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Originally Posted By Brok3n: The Old Guard is trying hard to justify their expensive legacy programs. Drone swarms delivered by stealth cruise missiles or ballistic missile vehicles are the next evolution. This idea keeps me up at night.
This goes right along with that short fiction film showing autonomous killer minidrones. China LOVES asymmetric techniques that will give them a jump on US military supremacy. This drone tech combined with China's advanced AI has really terrifying prospects for future conflict. AI and autonomous drones are a huge game changer. China is fighting an invisible war on many fronts against us - while we are sleeping. The only thing that let me sleep at night is, that all these traitors and useful idiots who are responsible for the western decline will end on a wall. China won't welcome them with open arms because they despise traitors. And shit is piling up so fast, they already started to get a taste of their own medicine. Rant over, BTT. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:36:36 AM EDT
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Believing in Ukraine as a country and that it's better than living in Russia is literally mental illness, and such people need psychiatric help.
 Dmitry Steshin describes how Ukrainians are treated in occupied regions CBC interview with exiled oligarch Khordokovsky who lays out the truth: Putin cannot be negotiated with except from a position of strength to stop him. The idea that he shouldn't be humiliated and should be given off-ramps (as Macron said) is completely wrong. We all knew this, of course. A bully who lives by force is only stopped by force.  'Putin's oldest enemy' has advice for Western leaders |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:42:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Yes I agree completely. It IS true that Russia has been exposed as inept, primitive, and backwards but also mindlessly savage and aggressive. Likewise NATO has been exposed as having a very thin defense, with no depth, and utterly relying on a 100% commitment from all members BUT with the less exposed (and some maybe compromised) countries obviously showing weakness and cowardice. Like a group of weakling nerds teaming up against a bully but refusing to fight together "you go first! No YOU go first...no you...". It really doesn't take much to refute that nato was a threat to russia. If nato were a threat they wouldn't have scrapped all their equipment. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:42:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lorazepam: If you make wiring insulation out of food, critters are going to eat it. Fucking greenies are the dumbest fucking morons on the planet. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lorazepam: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/22FV5Z0.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/HJRB3ve.jpeg From topwar.ru If you make wiring insulation out of food, critters are going to eat it. Fucking greenies are the dumbest fucking morons on the planet. Rodents chewing wires in the field has been an issue since wire appeared in the field. The bulk of the surviving German tanks in the 6th Army at Stalingrad were deadlined at the end because rodents had eaten wiring. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:43:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: A good point, notice that this is the Russian idea of having adequate air defense on a Corvette nowadays.  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH6ihN8XcAAadNb?format=jpg&name=large You really don't want to use land based air defense systems on naval platforms, because they aren't stabilized for the roll and pitch of the ship. Their radar systems also are not optimized for working over water.
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By governmentman: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: 1 hr ago.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH6N05uXsAAdV77?format=jpg&name=small Note from the intercepted radio from the ship, posted by Prime earlier, that it was reported to be on air defense duty for the Kerch Bridge. This opens the way for an attack on the bridge. The bridge threat is also a great way to keep drawing ships with air defense capabilities out into the open. A good point, notice that this is the Russian idea of having adequate air defense on a Corvette nowadays. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH6ihN8XcAAadNb?format=jpg&name=large You really don't want to use land based air defense systems on naval platforms, because they aren't stabilized for the roll and pitch of the ship. Their radar systems also are not optimized for working over water.
The #Russians planned to deploy an air defense system on the ship "Sergey Kotov" - #GUR There had already been successful attacks on the ship, but it was restored. This time "Sergei Kotov" was definitely destroyed, said Andrei Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. https://t.me/Pravda_Gerashchenko/88763 "The enemy had plans for him. In addition to the patrol boat itself, there were also plans to place anti-aircraft missile systems on the ship itself, and there have already been such attempts. There are dead and wounded. Part of the crew was able to evacuate, so the exact information is being clarified," Yusov said. The cost of such a vessel is more than $60 million. "Sergey Kotov", together with the cruiser "Moskva", took part in the attack on Zmeiny Island. I wonder how long it takes for the salt to corrode those land based systems when used like this. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:43:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By klinc: *chuckle* at the starlink antenna/stand just screwed to the top of it and wire running along the top to the back. Simplicity at it's finest... It's not like it has to withstand a decade of harsh weather.
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:49:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Believing in Ukraine as a country and that it's better than living in Russia is literally mental illness, and such people need psychiatric help.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTcPUi1vzACBC interview with exiled oligarch Khordokovsky who lays out the truth: Putin cannot be negotiated with except from a position of strength to stop him. The idea that he shouldn't be humiliated and should be given off-ramps (as Macron said) is completely wrong. We all knew this, of course. A bully who lives by force is only stopped by force. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5IXIYuHobkPretty much what I have been saying all along. Stand on his throat and tell him what is going to happen is the only way for him to stop. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 11:51:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
The ATGM gunner timed that one pretty well. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 12:01:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prime: I'm gonna wait for the day shift guys on that one https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH803sFWwAA_Arx?format=jpg&name=small Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prime: I'm gonna wait for the day shift guys on that one https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH803sFWwAA_Arx?format=jpg&name=small 
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Posted: 3/6/2024 12:05:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K0UA: I don't know about Mil spec things, but I know automotive wiring made in the last few years "tastes good". I also know that solder on printed circuit boards made in the last few years is crap too. It has a high tin content and no lead. It it does not flow properly and makes hand soldering difficult. I have a couple of rolls of it and it is "shit", BUT the largest problem is the fact after a few years it grows crystals called "tin whiskers" which can short out components and traces. Making for an early failure of the board. Yes this is a European "green initiative " called Rohs" Reduction Of Hazardous Substances. There is always a price to pay for any green initiative. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K0UA: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By K0UA: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/22FV5Z0.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/HJRB3ve.jpeg From topwar.ru Soy based wiring insulation has been a problem for many people here in the USA when their autos wiring harness's have been chewed by squirrels. Wiring should not "taste good" to rodents. I have never seen that kind of wiring on U.S. made mil-spec weapons systems. Is this a European green initiative thing? I don't know about Mil spec things, but I know automotive wiring made in the last few years "tastes good". I also know that solder on printed circuit boards made in the last few years is crap too. It has a high tin content and no lead. It it does not flow properly and makes hand soldering difficult. I have a couple of rolls of it and it is "shit", BUT the largest problem is the fact after a few years it grows crystals called "tin whiskers" which can short out components and traces. Making for an early failure of the board. Yes this is a European "green initiative " called Rohs" Reduction Of Hazardous Substances. There is always a price to pay for any green initiative. Thanks for the additional info. Never knew about this problems. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 12:14:54 PM EDT
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The Russian POV of the Ukrainian USV attack, now with some audio.
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Posted: 3/6/2024 12:27:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Thanks for the additional info. Never knew about this problems. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Originally Posted By K0UA: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By K0UA: Soy based wiring insulation has been a problem for many people here in the USA when their autos wiring harness's have been chewed by squirrels. Wiring should not "taste good" to rodents. I have never seen that kind of wiring on U.S. made mil-spec weapons systems. Is this a European green initiative thing? I don't know about Mil spec things, but I know automotive wiring made in the last few years "tastes good". I also know that solder on printed circuit boards made in the last few years is crap too. It has a high tin content and no lead. It it does not flow properly and makes hand soldering difficult. I have a couple of rolls of it and it is "shit", BUT the largest problem is the fact after a few years it grows crystals called "tin whiskers" which can short out components and traces. Making for an early failure of the board. Yes this is a European "green initiative " called Rohs" Reduction Of Hazardous Substances. There is always a price to pay for any green initiative. Thanks for the additional info. Never knew about this problems. Yet another example of how things built "in the old days" were better quality by being more durable. Lead solder and asbestos shielding makes for indestructible wiring to last for decades. 
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Posted: 3/6/2024 12:32:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/6/2024 12:34:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AlmightyTallest]
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FPV strike on a lot of guys in the shell of a building.
https://x.com/ipostdeadpigmen/status/1765406997212495951 |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 3/6/2024 12:59:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Wow. That's epic footage there. Wish there was sound. Looks like the Russians gave it a good try using all hands shooting everything including PK's at the incoming drones!! That one drone in the beginning running in circles...probably got damaged and lost control. Maybe some sea drones should include one of those giant Russian Claymore mines just to clear the decks a little. Comment I saw said it may have been filled with foam, used as a decoy to draw fire,thus why it was circling. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 1:06:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: There is a pattern I am seeing recently with Russian targeting. They are consistently using the Iksander ballistic missiles to quickly get a weapon on targets they spot. Like the Himars, like the S-300 site, like this attempt today. They have shortened their time of spotting a target, and then using a very fast ballistic missile which has less than 5 minutes of flight time to hit any target in Ukraine. They (Russia) had a few rocket launches several months back that they might have got something decent into space to monitor the area/theater. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 1:10:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/6/2024 1:14:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By klinc: They (Russia) had a few rocket launches several months back that they might have got something decent into space to monitor the area/theater. There is that, but the recent footage shows they have larger drones getting views behind the Ukrainian front lines at high value targets. Getting those drones would ruin their targeting process. The only other thing to do is to get a Russian ballistic missile launch warning and have Ukrainan high value targets drive away from their current position until the missile impact. |
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Posted: 3/6/2024 1:20:29 PM EDT
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25 minutes ago.
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