i should be writing
Step 1. Drain Nova Kakhovka reservoir
Step 2. Occupy area that was irrigated by said reservoir
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Get a teaser of regular life in 2050
yeah i guess so that situational awareness is limited, but still M1A1 is not T72. without any AT weapons, i see that, but without any explosives, outside of occasional tannerite IED and whatever can be spun on local lathe, there might be some problems
how many PG-7VLs do you have at hand? or maybe do you have a 2A36 howitzer stashed in garage? believe or not, you can’t fight tanks with good vibes only
all the socdem use of rose as a symbol makes it only better
this is anarchist armoured car (so basically an early technical) from spanish civil war
, retaliate
tithing on urbit
yeah if you want to have so different pieces working together, you need training that makes exploitation of it all possible, goes without saying
i don’t know enough about chinese rifles to speak authoritatively one way or the other, but there was a claim that it’s a target from QCB training where they used rubber bullets that tumble no matter what you do
this is how people used guns before john browning was born
if i have to guess, the thing that prevents mobility now is constant surveillance, also by drones + lots of artillery, and some attack drones too. the thing that will enable large scale movements will be air dominance and even more EW
but was Kurzweil sued (and lost) for his bullshit?
Damn, if only.
Drones mostly target humans and crewed vehicles, not other drones (and disable rapidly and suddenly un-crewed vehicles) (with rare exceptions of recon drones crashing other recon drones by breaking their propellers and like 1 or 2 cases of FPV drones shooting down fixed wing recon drones. anti-drone warfare is mostly EW, then AAA and things like MANPADS or even bigger missiles depending on how valuable that drone is as a target)
Besides, last time i’ve checked it was not drones that took or retook Vovchansk (80% ish Ukrainian controlled last week), it was tanks, arty, mechanized infantry, maybe a dash of CAS and loads of AA and jammers, you know, just like in every war since 80s or even bit earlier. Loads of small cheap PGMs do work great in anti-vehicle role, and drones are just that, so it makes everybody hide fair bit harder
what makes me think that APSs are not a real factor either way is that everyone slaps ERA and anti-drone mesh on everything, which would interfere with radar. APSs historically had a huge blind spot on top, which is a bad thing in a war with drones. also, major user of APSs, IDF, slapped anti-drone grids on top of their tanks at the beginning of current Gaza war, so kinda probably that means that they are not really sure that it works good enough
it funded some fundamental research, fine by me
yeah, and it’s been like this since brits used freshly invented heavy machine guns in their colonial wars. machines killing machines is just what will cause army bean counters to burn at stake operators of these machines
“Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle.”
if you have budget for that, against an enemy that doesn’t
Ukrainians have this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaslin_Active_Protection_System but i’ve never seen something like Drozd/Arena used, nor western APSs. plenty of ERA everywhere tho
what is nice about this, half of the shit you listed is either scam for hype-suspectible cultists or is not what you present as when marketing fluff is removed
real
spent last 3 days figuring out lebanese politics. this is my fourth attempt, it’s an unmitigated civil war with at least 4 sides that in some forms is still ongoing and has been for almost 60 years. every single time you look up any atrocity it gets worse and there are at least two more layers of revenge. there’s everything, remnants of colonialism, cold war era proxy conflicts, military interventions by syria and israel and covertly by everyone else, every party has a militia, seats in parliament are divided by religion according to results of 1932 census, nobody wants a newer one because it risks massive sectarian instability