gravitas_deficiency

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[–] gravitas_deficiency 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, you may want to pick it up on that - orangeboi will probably start making annexation noises soon

[–] gravitas_deficiency 37 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Ngl, I did NOT have “rooting for the CCP” on my bingo card

[–] gravitas_deficiency 9 points 11 hours ago

This timeline is so fucking dumb 😓

[–] gravitas_deficiency 13 points 12 hours ago

See, this is one of the major points of this tariff idiocy that I’m baffled by (unless, of course, it’s as simple as “Putin told him to”): we’re wrecking the economy of scale of our own military industrial complex. Say what you will about the corruption and waste, but we do make a lot of the best hardware out there. The fact that we’ve pissed EVERYONE off enough that many allies are passing on that hardware is kind of a big fucking deal.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 3 points 12 hours ago

lol wow. Make America Industrial Revolution smog again…?

[–] gravitas_deficiency 44 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Wow that’s a complete head scratcher. What a mystery. Guess we’ll never know.

And Belarus is exempted, too.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 32 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Wow it’s super cool how people who don’t understand global economics are running our economy now 🫠

[–] gravitas_deficiency 25 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I assume they’re devoting the vast majority of their capacity to military production for now, but I would enthusiastically buy a Ukrainian drone over a Chinese one once the war is heading towards a positive resolution, and consumer production becomes more of a thing.

Their site, for those interested. They’ve got a ~350ish USD model with a 2kg capacity, 25km range, and 3km max altitude. That seems… really good for the price.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 1 points 14 hours ago

They let millions of their own people die because Mao decided he didn’t like sparrows for a while. They’ve tilted harder at far more pointless windmills.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 6 points 14 hours ago

If he calls it a “special military operation”… well, that’ll be like the 8th or 9th shark jump in the last 3ish months

[–] gravitas_deficiency 22 points 15 hours ago

I mean, yeah, but I live here too :(

[–] gravitas_deficiency 1 points 15 hours ago

Hey man, I can go all day if you want.

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Fuck you Hesgeth rule (en.wikipedia.org)
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Government websites now no longer mention perhaps the single most selfless, incredible, and strategically significant coordinated effort by a community of First Nation military personnel in service to a country that did worse than nothing to deserve their loyalty - and yet they played, and succeeded in, a pivotal role that literally helped win the pacific campaign.

Any veterans on here: I really do hope you’re furious at this.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/34623787

 

It’s a very obvious solution once you take a look at what a lot of their coastline looks like. Elevated armor delivery. Skip the beach. Dump ‘em’ straight on the coastal roads. Makes a shocking amount of sense. Definitely much more specific of a use case than the more general purpose landing support vessels that the USN/USMC employs, but for their primary missions and targets in the next decade, this is exactly the hardware that will significantly increase the CCP’s chances.

This is the an evolution of the combined arms amphibious assault tactics that the US has refined for the better part of a century. For heavily built up targets - specifically those that need to be assaulted and captured quickly for any reasonable chance of success (read: Taiwan + establishing a foothold on the island), this is PERFECT. This basically lets you dump 1000 tanks and a ton of IADS and 100k infantrymen in like, an hour.

That’s a paradigm shift right there.

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The other Mario brulether (sh.itjust.works)
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This definitely isn’t a ruleference to anything that may have happened recently in the news

 
 

Edit: lol yeah, I deserve this, I teed it up rather magnificently.

 

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/15203982

Russian D-30 howitzer with anti-drone protection and ERA.

https://t.me/yigal_levin/69976

👀Russian D-30 howitzer with anti-drone screen and dynamic tank protection. Dynamic protection, in essence, is blocks of plastic that explode towards the cumulative stream of anti-tank ammunition and deflect it to the side. Placing this protection on anything other than the powerful armor of a tank is fraught with even greater damage to the “protected” object. Published by Balu.

@yigal_levin

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https://t.me/BaluHub777/13351

As the gifts went on, they began to suspect us of something 🤔

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21952875

Ukrainian pilots in light aircraft shoot down Russian UAV

cross-posted from [email protected]

 

Personal commentary: reading the summary (I did not watch the interview live), I’m not really seeing anything that assuages my concerns about his mental acuity. More importantly, I’m not seeing anything that indicates he’s being anything even close to as pragmatic as Macron is being with the election they’re doing now in France, with regards to just trying to make sure the fascists do not fucking win. I must admit I’m feeling quite pessimistic about things.

 

Surprisingly based from ND, to be completely honest

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