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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Humvees can be modified to carry lighter AA guns in the back, but you have to take off all the paneling and expose the crew anyway, so it's no different functionally from putting an AA gun on a pickup trick. This is a post from months ago, but my question is timeless: how in the gently caress do you know this stuff? Do you google it before posting or do you just have a swath of knowledge about the world so wide that it encompasses what kind of guns can be loaded effectively onto pickup trucks?
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Read your tactical WWII history and then wonder if any of it was repeated?
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:This is a post from months ago, but my question is timeless: how in the gently caress do you know this stuff? Do you google it before posting or do you just have a swath of knowledge about the world so wide that it encompasses what kind of guns can be loaded effectively onto pickup trucks? You see enough photos of technicals coming out of the Middle East and it's easy enough to put 2 and 2 together. From there it's a matter of searching out the details. So it's both. Like Lawman 0 just said, they were using AA guns as anti-infantry weapons during World War 2. There's a scene in Saving Private Ryan where the Germans use a Flak 38, if you want an exaggerrated idea of what it's like to get hit by rounds that are bigger than golf balls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3kDNYeGm3k
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Meanwhile: It's recently been revealed that Israel was in secret alliance with Egypt and had carried out over a hundred bombing missions into the Sinai against ISIS with unmarked planes & drones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksulNgJ5bHw
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Meanwhile: It's recently been revealed that Israel was in secret alliance with Egypt no wayyyyy
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I guess this isn't technically syria, but nearby Libya had a fun image today:
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So the world is just like this now?
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Wonder how many voluntourists the Kurds have to send home for being too weird. IS iirc would just make them blow themselves up.
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lol imagine someone having to deal with homework explainer 24/7
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aphid_licker posted:Wonder how many voluntourists the Kurds have to send home for being too weird. IS iirc would just make them blow themselves up. lol that reminds me of the extremely online autistic australian 17 year old who somehow made it to syria and joined up with IS and then on his like first week there they were like "uh yeah your divine mission is to drive this explosive filled truck into the front gate of that police station, god bless"
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Baloogan posted:lol imagine someone having to deal with homework explainer 24/7 and imagine that person being an extremely not-online rural communist kurdish militiaman
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the great deceiver posted:lol that reminds me of the extremely online autistic australian 17 year old who somehow made it to syria and joined up with IS and then on his like first week there they were like "uh yeah your divine mission is to drive this explosive filled truck into the front gate of that police station, god bless" IS's human resources could see the true value in their personnel, you gotta admit.
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Baloogan posted:lol imagine someone having to deal with homework explainer 24/7 And it's not like in ISIS where the annoying foreigners just had a bomb strapped to them and told a direction to run.
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They made Pisspig Grandad do mine clearing duty.
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aphid_licker posted:Wonder how many voluntourists the Kurds have to send home for being too weird. IS iirc would just make them blow themselves up. pisspig talked about a group of american "isis killer" type conservatives being sent home after refusing to join in a lenin study group and not realizing the YPG was a communist organisation. Also there was apperently a guy who got sent home for cannibalism.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:They made Pisspig Grandad do mine clearing duty. everyone involved in taking back any ISIS held town has to do mine clearing duty. turns out wiring most structures in a town to explode buys you a lot of time to perform defense in depth.
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HorrificExistence posted:pisspig talked about a group of american "isis killer" type conservatives being sent home after refusing to join in a lenin study group and not realizing the YPG was a communist organisation. Also there was apperently a guy who got sent home for cannibalism. 
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So apparently the Kurds made a deal of some sort? Maybe?
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Didn't the Kurds fight a bunch of former novorossia mercs recently too lol
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^^^ Russian media interviewed the families of the mercs the USAF killed recently and they were apparently in Donbas before. Really curious about how the money flows and chain of command look like for stuff like that. Like does it end up at some Russian Defense department slush fund, some oligarch, Gazprom, did Putin pop off an email at some point etc. I feel like you should not just send the cannibal home. Like stamp his passport or something so immigration can look into him, idk aphid_licker has issued a correction as of 18:04 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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In fairness I don't think any goverment just lets you come back from Syria without a talking to. Unless it was them who sent you there in the first place.
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aphid_licker posted:^^^ Russian media interviewed the families of the mercs the USAF killed recently and they were apparently in Donbas before. Really curious about how the money flows and chain of command look like for stuff like that. Like does it end up at some Russian Defense department slush fund, some oligarch, Gazprom, did Putin pop off an email at some point etc. They are paid by Putin linked oligarchs and are basically the plausible deniability operation wing of the Russian MoD yeah. The Wagner Group.
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Plutonis posted:They are paid by Putin linked oligarchs and are basically the plausible deniability operation wing of the Russian MoD yeah. The Wagner Group. Yeah I know that much, I meant, and I guess this is mostly sort of morbid voyeurism or whatever, on the microest of levels, who talks to who and how openly, through what channels etc.
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The real question is why putin thinks he needs plausible deniability Whats the point, really
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rudatron posted:The real question is why putin thinks he needs plausible deniability Any failure by the army reflects bad on the state where as PMCs can be discounted easily. Also them being illegal in Russia puts a check on them gaining infulunce domestically.
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https://twitter.com/CivilWarMap/status/965962045425422337 I'm the Toyotathon Sales Event
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https://twitter.com/Rojhat_Dersim/status/965969844880510977 The state of the online discourse is good. https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/965938450414399489 https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/965943861876011008 The artillery guns mounted in large commercial flatbed trucks are something I haven't seen before, but I suppose you'd need that kind of heavy equipment in the first place to even conceive of it. Only pro-government militias could have access to those kind of heavy weapons, and any state military would be using purpose-made self-propelled guns. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 16:43 on Feb 20, 2018 |
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Don't know which is a worse title "Operation Olivebranch" or "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
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Frijolero posted:Don't know which is a worse title "Operation Olivebranch" or "Operation Iraqi Freedom" Afrin is Syria's most productive region for producing olives, so there's a tongue in cheek implication to "Operation Olivebranch" that isn't just some kind of Orwellian newspeak thing. https://twitter.com/op_shield/status/965961933877899265 Just a few days ago some of these Assadist militiamen were getting blasted by the American air force for attacking SDF at Deir ez Zor, and now they're going into Afrin to fight the FSA with YPG. Civil Wars are crazy as Hell. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 18:08 on Feb 20, 2018 |
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