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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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    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















  • 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