I will never understand why war thunder of all things attracts all the leaks.
A DCS or even that indie HEAT game is high fidelity realism. This shit is balance numbers.
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I assume it has a lot more players because it heavily invests in marketing and has broader appeal (not everyone wants to spend hours reading a plane's manual and watching tutorials just to be able to get through the pre flight checklist). So more chances of a random player having access to (low level) classified docs, and then uploading them.
For whatever reason Warthunder attracts a lot of people that are total nerds over military hardware, especially on the historical side of things, including a lot of wereaboos. It also attracts people actually working in military positions, where a lot of the leaks come from, to my understanding. I remember a bunch of years ago there was a leak because a bunch of them were having an argument on the forums, and one of them was an engineer with access to blueprints.
I think it's kind of an extreme version of that thing where if you want an answer on reddit you don't ask for help, you confidently post a wrong answer and someone will immediately correct you.
The need to pedantically correct strangers online knows no bounds, not even the government can prevent it.
The leak happened earlier this week during a forum discussion regarding the T-90M, T-80BVM, and T-90S Russian main battle tanks, all of which are currently in service and appear in War Thunder itself. The documents shared are user manuals meant for those operating said vehicles and have, like most other military documents, been declared classified or sensitive even though they contain relatively surface-level information.
"all of which are currently in service" you mean like T54s? Saying that is absurd, even if you talk about Russia specifically. T34s are used elsewhere, let's see when Russia starts fielding them.
yeah russia's ability to send mid-20th century mbt's to ukraine for scrapping by drone has been wild.
my fav is the turtle cage, the gigantic boxes of welded metal where the turret can't move and they don't even provide the gun with ammo, just use it as some kind of giant shit troop transport.
I know russia uses blocking units to keep their forces from retreating but they also must have some kind of prodding battalions just to get these poor shitbags to the front line in the first place, there's no fucking way I'd hop on a chinese quad or ride some battery powered scooter into combat but we're seeing it every fucking day.
There are no blocking units. POWs do not talk about that. There is one sketchy video. It is not real. They really want to fight this war, based on their indoctrination and upbringing, thinking how much better they are and how Ukrainians and everyone else is below them and they deserve everything.
Even during the battle for Stalingrad, when it was actually used/invented, was it not used in the way people portray it in the current war.
There are no blocking units.
bwhahaha you can't be that dumb?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67234144
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxRr9GiHDVk
It's not 'one sketchy video' it's reality, Vlad.
But hey, I'm sure idiot waves on quads and dirtbikes is superior russian tactical advance, not just because anything larger gets blown to tiny russian meat mist.
You seem to thinking I somehow like or whatever Russia? I am saying this so people remember that most are there for the money, not because someone forces them. Stop letting them off the hook, blaming someone else.
You seem to thinking I somehow like or whatever Russia?
you asserted complete and utter bullshit that was easily verifiably false. I don't know what your deal is, but when you walk up and start saying 'nah the russians ain't that bad' you're fuckin sus in my book hoss.
I am saying this so people remember that most are there for the money, not because someone forces them. Stop letting them off the hook, blaming someone else.
yeah like the migrants the russians kidnap and force to the front, they're in it for the money?
putin is evil. russia is evil. trying to ascribe rational thoughts to an adversary reduced to throwing meat waves, whos only advances come through absolute destruction of the cities they claim to capture, its a fool's errand. no troop who walks behind you and shoots the deserters is your friend.