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Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

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Duzzy Funlop posted:

This...this is fake, right?

Not really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB1BDrFzFY0

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Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS
:stare:

I wouldn't discount the merit of that as psychological warfare.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

suboptimal posted:

A few months ago, I was in Copenhagen and checked out their Resistance Museum. The French insurgency against the Nazis gets all the attention, but the Danes had their own underground. At first, it was your standard socialist/communist anti fascist resistance, but eventually turned into somewhat of a popular uprising. The Nazis took pains to make it seem like their occupation of Denmark was a benign one (they were using something like 10% of Denmark's food for their army, otherwise it would have gone to the British) but eventually, people started getting sick of the Nazis and it turned into a full-on underground movement in 1944 or so. Additionally, the majority of the country's Jews survived the war as well.

(pics)

The museum was destroyed by arson three weeks ago, but fortunately most of the items stored or displayed there were saved from damage before the building burnt down completely, and I think even the few items that were damaged weren't beyond repair.

http://cphpost.dk/news/local/resistance-museum-fire-set-investigators-say

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

Scratch Monkey posted:

This is especially surprising given how strict Islam is about the treatment of dead bodies, even those of the enemy. The Quran has stories about how God punishes Muhammed's army for mutilating the enemy dead. Given that these guys are "mujahideen" I wonder how they justify it.

Selective interpretation. Same way they get around a lot of the other stuff that would contradict a life of dedicated to killing or terrorizing anyone that angers them or happens to have something in common with someone who did.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS
Story goes that a VC sniper had spent a couple of nights in a row popping up from behind a rock on the hill above the base and emptying an AK-mag toward it before scurrying off. The soldiers grew a bit tired of this, so the next night they did some preparations, including one guy setting up his camera to catch the response. When the VC sniper tried to repeat his act as expected, this happened:



All they found next morning was a blood trail

Source

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

Can-O-Raid posted:

This looks like the thing the T-Rex knocked off the cliff in Jurassic Park 2.

Only for the vaguest sense of "looks like" perhaps...

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

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I will be disappointed if the russians haven't managed to turn tank operation into a major international sporting event before the end of the decade.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

Mortabis posted:

God is so great, He just blew up a bunch of my friends! Were they saying that all the time in the Libya videos too, or is it just a Syrian thing?

It's basically the islamic world's equivalent to using "oh my god" as an exclamation of shock, surprise, excitement, etc.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS
According to this article, it's a photo of some of the Baath party members (Saddam Hussein included) who overthrew General Qassim in 1963

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

Brown Moses posted:

Here's a good example of a Konkurs ATGM being used in Syria, one of the nicest launches I've seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQzJ2WpwA_g

is that a white flag of surrender flying on that tank or is flying white banners on tanks just a thing?

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS
I'm guessing that is a picture of how the people involved in building the thing views it.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

Looked like it simply used fixed repetitive leg movements to go forward and relied on having its center of mass close to the ground for stability. It'd probably get stuck pretty fast in uneven terrain. I don't think Boston Dynamics have to worry about the chinese catching up just yet.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

Richard Bong posted:

Whats the deal with this?

The taliban were great fans of using the stadium as the stage for their executions.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

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Saint Celestine posted:

Anyone remember the link or pictures of that Syrian dude that was turning cluster bombs into planters and children's toys?

Googling "syrian cluster bomb into planters" and so forth brings up nothing.

It was a photojournalism article if I recall.

On the previous page

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3519835&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=133#post420663754

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

Ferremit posted:

In that brazilian pizza bar video, did the cops put another round into the guy with the white tee while he was flopping around on the ground like a beached fish?

It looked to me like a hail of bullets is what's causing him to flop on the floor in the first place

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS

ArchangeI posted:

I still say naming a ship after your country is just asking to get it sunk.

Getting sunk would still involve some dignity.

Watch some idiot manage to run it aground.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

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That player's clearly so skilled that his plane spontaneously repainted itself from black to desert camo when he got back into it...

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

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I remember seeing a video or gif a while ago, showing the POV from a littlebird almost landing on top of two guys camped on the corner of a roof, then buzzing off again while giving the finger.

Anyone still got that?

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS


Thankfully not an actual military vehicle

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Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

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Civ 6 got impressive graphics.

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