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Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Voyager I posted:

It's also a reflection of the reality that Ukraine has less bodies than the Russians, so they are incentives to go to extraordinary lengths to preserve their forces while Russia continues to be frivolous with its infantry.
It's always important to remember, too, that the bodies Russia is throwing into the meatgrinder that is its war of imperial aggression are rarely Russian: they're the many minority ethnicities who've long been exploited and victimized by the various incarnations of the Russian empire over the centuries. Men and boys from the impoverished provinces sent to fertilize Ukrainian soil for Putin's vain attempt to Make Russia Great Again.

Yet tankies still celebrate Russia as a brave underdog, sticking a finger in the eye of "the West".

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Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

Icon Of Sin posted:

The fact that the Ukrainians even bothered to try and develop something for that purpose (let alone the drat thing actually working) speaks to their attitude towards their own troops. If you’re on the Russian side of that, you’ve got to start wondering “would our high command do that for me/us?” and then your face becomes :smith: when you think about it for more than a second.

Wasn’t that also a big thing in the Pacific War, how the US committed lots of resources to rescuing pilots (which George Bush appreciated) and so their pilots were more willing to ditch in the ocean?

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1987463335722242431

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!


The symbolism is almost too much.

common sensei
Apr 2, 2010
Ukraine should patent and develop those metal coffins as autonomous commuting vehicles for the west. Just imagine how LA traffic density could improve.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

common sensei posted:

Ukraine should patent and develop those metal coffins as autonomous commuting vehicles for the west. Just imagine how LA traffic density could improve.

don't they already have the artillery part?

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry

NJersey posted:

I wonder if this administration and the drunk fox dork understand the most important modern day logistics supply line of the...Burger King Truck.

Without gut trucks, can there truly ever be a range day?

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Charlz Guybon posted:

Is that a bad price? I have no idea.

more that someone'a selling a gas station on the local craigslist with a "no gas though" caveat at all

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

more that someone'a selling a gas station on the local craigslist with a "no gas though" caveat at all

You could make it work, except for the gas stations on the 2 other corners.

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

Kith posted:

sure, but the question was about "why bother expending so many resources to try to destroy one ground drone"



also very true. the story getting out is definitely going to have an effect on enemy morale, though - being on the meatgrinder side cannot feel good when you're hearing about how much the other guys value the lives of their troops compared to how much your commander doesn't value yours

Russian commander values his troop's lives plenty.

He's banking their pay cheques, after all.

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

Utterly Dethpicable

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

Without gut trucks, can there truly ever be a range day?

Gut trucks on range day? We only ever got slop ladled out of mermite cans.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



I don’t remember gut trucks in AK, but they were at every single range at Benning.

AK didn’t get to have nice things, they’d freeze and break :(

hazardousmouse
Dec 17, 2010

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

more that someone'a selling a gas station on the local craigslist with a "no gas though" caveat at all

Take the cue from America and turn them into Mexican or Greek take out joints

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe


:allears:

Tomn
Aug 23, 2007

And the angel said unto him
"Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself."
But lo he could not. For the angel was hitting him with his own hands
Wrong thread maybe.

But I will say that if 20 years ago you had a Fallout Enclave president rambling that poo poo people would have called it a ridiculous over the top parody.

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

INCREDIBLY UNFUNNY & DUMB
(seriously, stop posting)

Tomn posted:

Wrong thread maybe.

But I will say that if 20 years ago you had a Fallout Enclave president rambling that poo poo people would have called it a ridiculous over the top parody.

I think it was meant for the Internet VFW thread, Donnie is a disappointment in all regards. :shrug:

Alan Smithee
Jan 3, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1987911700813644233?s=20

Unknown Technology

Thwomp
Apr 9, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer
Something, something, the next war will be fought with sticks and stones.

Robert Facepalmer
Jan 10, 2019


Getting within 'stick' range of something that could be a flying claymore doesn't seem like a great idea, but Russia gonna Russia.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Gonna stick it to the Ukrainians :dadjoke:

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

looking at that video it seems more like dumb troops having fun?

The Door Frame
Dec 5, 2011

I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.

Robert Facepalmer posted:

Getting within 'stick' range of something that could be a flying claymore doesn't seem like a great idea, but Russia gonna Russia.

A claymore 10ft away is substantially more survivable than a claymore that has made contact with your torso

RFC2324 posted:

looking at that video it seems more like dumb troops having fun?

Splorange
Feb 23, 2011

RFC2324 posted:

looking at that video it seems more like dumb troops having fun?

^

there's a never-ending flood of mislabeled/misconstrued video out there

large hands
Jan 24, 2006

The Door Frame posted:

A claymore 10ft away is substantially more survivable than a claymore that has made contact with your torso

that's the hope I guess... not sure how survivable a pound of c4 covered in bb's is at stick distance

common sensei
Apr 2, 2010
Fighter in front of you gets a branch.
When he dies you pick up the branch and continue moving west.

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
the first man carries the rifle. the second man follows him

when a drone approaches the first man, he attempts to shoot it. if he misses, he tosses the rifle, and sacrifices his body to the drone

the second man then picks up the rifle, and hopes the ukrainians don't learn how to send two drones at once

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

INCREDIBLY UNFUNNY & DUMB
(seriously, stop posting)

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

the first man carries the rifle. the second man follows him

when a drone approaches the first man, he attempts to shoot it. if he misses, he tosses the rifle, and sacrifices his body to the drone

the second man then picks up the rifle, and hopes the ukrainians don't learn how to send two drones at once

It was all a trap, they sent two Finns. :ninja:

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Robert Facepalmer
Jan 10, 2019


large hands posted:

that's the hope I guess... not sure how survivable a pound of c4 covered in bb's is at stick distance

Maybe you'll get to be a Metallica video!

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