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Will they work?

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^haha! These clowns.

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^Ummm....

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I would laugh that they don’t know where anything is in their mafia-ruled country, and don’t realize so much is missing because Putin and his buddies were robbing the state coffers, but it also means they are gloating about fucking with civiiians,

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by atomheartbevo

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^Took part of the highway, if they can hold it, they can cut off any supply or retreat along that route

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8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

hahaha holy shit so the Ukrainian army is using a sick ass VR sim rig with DCS world? No joke, one of the milsim youtubers that I watch just put out a video today of them trying the feasibility of shooting down a cruise missile
 

 

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Drafted Sep. 23, killed October 10.   That’s some real American Civil War shit right there.

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8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Drafted Sep. 23, killed October 10.   That’s some real American Civil War shit right there.

That would be 8-9 in the FAFO scale 

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9 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

That would be 8-9 in the FAFO scale 

I’m surprised the Russian government is allowing the bodies to come home.  Second round of mobilization will be an even harder sale to make.

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1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

have no fear #AmnestyInternational is on the case.

Well…

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80s kids rejoince

 

 

 

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First thing I thought of.

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Different countries, but showing that the drone stuff has made its way into third-world countries.  I’m assuming that the US, Brits, French, etc. are studying the hell out of drone usage in Ukraine, because it could bite us in the ass in the Middle East and Africa.   Small mortars are all over the world, as are drones.  Some of this shit is 3D-printed.

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by atomheartbevo

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45 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Do other countries routinely get a good look at F22s?  Or can we expect that the polish drivers are eye fucking them the entire time?

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^This guy's great

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12 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Different countries, but showing that the drone stuff has made its way into third-world countries.  I’m assuming that the US, Brits, French, etc. are studying the hell out of drone usage in Ukraine, because it could bite us in the ass in the Middle East and Africa.   Small mortars are all over the world, as are drones.  Some of this shit is 3D-printed.

 

I've told this story somewhere on here before...maybe earlier in this thread.

My company launched a streaming analytics platform a couple years ago. One of my customers was a launch partner for our solution, and some of their early solution use cases were predictive maintenance analytics and computer vision analytics. My main contact even filmed a launch video and webinar with our program managers. Anyway, about 4 days after we launched, I get a call from the program manager that "Some Army dude" watched our webinar and is interested in what my partner does, and requested an in-person deep dive. Keep in mind, this is during COVID lockdown in 2020, and there's no travel getting approved. I asked the PM where the guy is located and he tells me Ft Bragg.....Well Shit...So I get our Army team involved, they pull some travel budget out of their ass, and we bring my partner out to Ft Bragg to meet General Christopher Donahue, CG of the 82nd. You might know him as the last guy out of Afghanistan. The very first thing he said was "I need help finding drones". He was talking about this exact thing...relatively unsophisticated attacks with small munitions, or even advanced spotting. He wasn't worried about larger drones, like the TB2s or the Iranian drones, but the DJI stuff kept him up at night.  

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I would rather almost be mobilized Than have this be my only source of entertainment the last 7 months. Talk about taking the easy way out

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13 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I've told this story somewhere on here before...maybe earlier in this thread.

My company launched a streaming analytics platform a couple years ago. One of my customers was a launch partner for our solution, and some of their early solution use cases were predictive maintenance analytics and computer vision analytics. My main contact even filmed a launch video and webinar with our program managers. Anyway, about 4 days after we launched, I get a call from the program manager that "Some Army dude" watched our webinar and is interested in what my partner does, and requested an in-person deep dive. Keep in mind, this is during COVID lockdown in 2020, and there's no travel getting approved. I asked the PM where the guy is located and he tells me Ft Bragg.....Well Shit...So I get our Army team involved, they pull some travel budget out of their ass, and we bring my partner out to Ft Bragg to meet General Christopher Donahue, CG of the 82nd. You might know him as the last guy out of Afghanistan. The very first thing he said was "I need help finding drones". He was talking about this exact thing...relatively unsophisticated attacks with small munitions, or even advanced spotting. He wasn't worried about larger drones, like the TB2s or the Iranian drones, but the DJI stuff kept him up at night.  

Yeah, I see a lot of Army Futures Command. I've had lots of interesting conversations with higher ups like the future of tanks and drone attacks. What's funny is I don't know rankings so I have almost no clue is someone tells me they are command sergeant major.

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5 hours ago, MillerEP said:

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2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I've told this story somewhere on here before...maybe earlier in this thread.

My company launched a streaming analytics platform a couple years ago. One of my customers was a launch partner for our solution, and some of their early solution use cases were predictive maintenance analytics and computer vision analytics. My main contact even filmed a launch video and webinar with our program managers. Anyway, about 4 days after we launched, I get a call from the program manager that "Some Army dude" watched our webinar and is interested in what my partner does, and requested an in-person deep dive. Keep in mind, this is during COVID lockdown in 2020, and there's no travel getting approved. I asked the PM where the guy is located and he tells me Ft Bragg.....Well Shit...So I get our Army team involved, they pull some travel budget out of their ass, and we bring my partner out to Ft Bragg to meet General Christopher Donahue, CG of the 82nd. You might know him as the last guy out of Afghanistan. The very first thing he said was "I need help finding drones". He was talking about this exact thing...relatively unsophisticated attacks with small munitions, or even advanced spotting. He wasn't worried about larger drones, like the TB2s or the Iranian drones, but the DJI stuff kept him up at night.  

And?  Did you help him find drones?

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2 minutes ago, Parliament said:

And?  Did you help him find drones?

 

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The US government bought and shipped many/most of the StarLink terminals to Ukraine (Musk was taking credit for them), and I feel like the US government (and others) were footing the bill already for those terminals as a result.  I don't see Musk allowing them to rake up tens of millions of dollars in outstanding bills.

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Though Musk has received widespread acclaim and thanks for responding to requests for Starlink service to Ukraine right as the war was starting, in reality, the vast majority of the 20,000 terminals have received full or partial funding from outside sources, including the US government, the UK and Poland, according to the SpaceX letter to the Pentagon.

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SpaceX’s request that the US military foot the bill has rankled top brass at the Pentagon, with one senior defense official telling CNN that SpaceX has “the gall to look like heroes” while having others pay so much and now presenting them with a bill for tens of millions per month. 

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According to the SpaceX figures shared with the Pentagon, about 85% of the 20,000 terminals in Ukraine were paid – or partially paid – for by countries like the US and Poland or other entities. Those entities also paid for about 30% of the internet connectivity, which SpaceX says costs $4,500 each month per unit for the most advanced service. (Over the weekend, Musk tweeted there are around 25,000 terminals in Ukraine.)

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Just now, atomheartbevo said:

The US government bought and shipped many/most of the StarLink terminals to Ukraine (Musk was taking credit for them), and I feel like the US government was footing the bill already for those terminals as a result.

Yep. We paid him for them. A 3rd party contractor shipped them. They are ours. And if he in breach of contract well fuck him. 

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1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep. We paid him for them. A 3rd party contractor shipped them. They are ours. And if he in breach of contract well fuck him. 

The article goes into detail about the fact that SpaceX didn't pay for most of them, and it's fuzzy about the monthly service fees - no way SpaceX/Musk is allowing those bills to run up into the tens of millions or hundreds of millions without having said something before now.

Whole thing seems odd on SpaceX's part.

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2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

He wasn't worried about larger drones, like the TB2s or the Iranian drones, but the DJI stuff kept him up at night.  

Like the stuff below (an off-the-shelf DJI unit).  I've talked to a friend (who was a mortarman) about some of this stuff, and sent him the stuff about the fighting in Myanmar (from the top of this page), and he said if you took your smaller mortar rounds, and  just focused on dropping the actual fuse/warhead assembly with a 3D-printed plastic tail assembly (not the tail fin assembly that comes with it), you can probably get the weight down to around 2lbs on the 60mm stuff.  People don't realize how light those rounds relatively are when they are ready to be fired out of a tube, and how much the tail assembly probably weighs.

Edit: for reference, the grenade below is below 1.5 lbs.

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5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I would laugh that they don’t know where anything is in their mafia-ruled country, and don’t realize so much is missing because Putin and his buddies were robbing the state coffers, but it also means they are gloating about fucking with civiiians,

 

Where's Waldo?

lol, they sold all their ammo to Academy and it is in the closets of people all across the U.S. 

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4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’m surprised the Russian government is allowing the bodies to come home.  Second round of mobilization will be an even harder sale to make.

I mean what they gonna do, leave them there? They need young men and probably somewhat content to have them back vs body bags.

since this is Russia, not really sure what I wrote above applies, ignore 

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Holy shit, what a dumb fuck. They have casinos in Europe, he should have taken his luck to one of those.

 

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Putin pissing away Russian influence.

 

1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep. We paid him for them. A 3rd party contractor shipped them. They are ours. And if he in breach of contract well fuck him. 

They started coming back online yesterday.  Curious timing that Musk is asking for more money, etc.

https://www.reuters.com/world/starlink-helped-restore-energy-communications-infrastructure-parts-ukraine-2022-10-12/

 

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Russia doing the bluff thing

 

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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Putin pissing away Russian influence.

 

They started coming back online yesterday.  Curious timing that Musk is asking for more money, etc.

https://www.reuters.com/world/starlink-helped-restore-energy-communications-infrastructure-parts-ukraine-2022-10-12/

 

Someone called someone who called someone who sent a suburban full of dudes in suits and at the same time called a contracting officer. 

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We know Ukraine isn't going to invade, which. makes me wonder if they are doing this in case of the need to try and mobilize some Belorussians to help Russia fight in Ukraine.Would be nice if the citizens of Belarus decided they were done with the current regime.

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2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Russia doing the bluff thing

 

Seems like every October they run this exercise. But nice way to hide intentions. Like OU's acting like they were going to pass from the wishbone on 4th down. 

What Time is it? OU and Russia Suck. 

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

We know Ukraine isn't going to invade, which. makes me wonder if they are doing this in case of the need to try and mobilize some Belorussians to help Russia fight in Ukraine.Would be nice if the citizens of Belarus decided they were done with the current regime.

Give them visas and their girlfriends a year contract on onlyfans. 

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Russia doing the bluff thing

Yeah, gosh golly, this is really gonna catch Norway off-guard. Norway would NEVER think of having to defend against Russian aggression.

CSB: we hosted a Norwegian exchange student, she is genuinely like a daughter to me. Taught her to shoot she was here. Gave her a head start when she was called up for military service a year later. She served in security for the Norwegian AF, patrolled the base, on a pretty rugged island, including night patrols etc. When we asked her “yeah, but what are you doing?”, she just smiled - “hunting Russians.” She’s a kind, decent, pretty Norwegian girl….and she made it clear that she’d have gladly shot Russians till she ran out of ammo.
Hell, at this point, I kinda wish a Rooskie would. The Norgies would take great pleasure in administering a healthy dose of “finding out.”