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  1. Tank primer #2 - Gunnery AKA The most fun you can have with your clothes on We trained on this all the time. It was our primary mission. Placing steel on target. I'm sure it's pretty much the same now, but we shot a full crew gunnery qualification at least once a year, sometimes twice depending on where you were deployed. This consists of multiple engagements both stationary and moving against armor, both moving and stationary, and infantry. We also spent at least an hour a week in simulators fine tuning our crew interaction, fire commands, etc. The M1 is so good at putting steel on target, you have to almost try to miss once you know what you are doing. We could hit targets out to 4000 meters, but most engagement was under 2000 meters. Training standards in my day were 6 seconds from target identification to target destruction while stationary and 8 seconds moving if I remember correctly, but most crews trained to a 4 or 6 second standard. By the early 90s we were no longer using daylight optics as our primary sights. Thermal was primary for all weather and light conditions because they were so effective. Vehicles GLOW in thermal sights in any weather, day or night, fog, smoke, hot, cold, desert, snow, forest, whatever. Troops are smaller but also stand out against background temp. A typical firing engagement against enemy armor would begin with the Tank Commander (TC, duh) using his TC override handle to point the gun to the target he's evaluated as the most immediate threat. For example a stationary tank is considered a greater threat than a moving tank. Obviously a tank is a greater threat than a BMP or troops. He would then issue his fire command to the gunner "Gunner, Sabot, Tank" is an example. Usually the preferred ammo is already loaded at the beginning of the engagement, but this assumes the gun is empty. Loader then loads announced ammo or simply takes the main gun off safe and declares "Up". Simultaneously the gunner announces "Identified" to let the TC know he has the target and lays the main gun on the target. If the target is stationary, he then announces "lasing" and the range comes up simultaneously on his sight and the TCs panel. If the target is moving he "drops the lead" by quickly releasing the control yoke as the computer uses turret movement and range to calculate lead. TC quickly determines if it's a valid range (sometimes if there is intervening terrain you can get a bad lase) and if he determines it's good announces "Fire". After lasing the fire control computer will use the range plus a bunch of other factors like temp, humidity, gun barrel temp, ammo temp, elevation changes, and a myriad of others to adjust the reticle and the gunner simply replaces it center of mass and announces "On the way" and pulls the trigger. Big boom follows, spent casing is ejected and breach stays open. On the 120 mm the casing is designed to burn up and all that comes back is the butt plate of casing with a longish metal rod so it's easy to get rid of. Loader then waits for next fire command to determine ammo needed and uses his knee to trigger a switch to open the ammo doors, pulls the required round, drops it butt down, rotates it over and rams into the breach which then closes. The above process repeats as needed. This doesn't cover machine gun engagements or other types of ammo or vehicles, but you get the idea. CSB when I was in Korea as a PFC, I was the driver on the tank the won the Battalion cup for gunnery. Our gunner was an absolute wizard. On our first moving engagement the main gun hydraulic cylinder blew so the gun just dropped to it's lowest elevation. Turret still worked so as the gunner lined up, the TC just put his foot on the breach and pushed it all the way down and as it slowly came back down (it was very well balanced) our gunner would fire as it came down onto the target. We hit 4 targets like that on the move with no stabilization or computer range adjustment. He used the back up sight with a graduated reticle and used the TCs estimated range. Shortest target we hit was at 1100 meters and longest was around 1350 m. I doubt seriously I could have done that with any amount of practice. TLDR, If the Ukrainian crews are as motivated as they seem, a brigade of NATO MBTs will absolutely roll through the Ruskies like crap through a goose, killing everything they see at ranges the Russians won't be able to comprehend.
    26 points
  2. I think that one thing we should be realizing is that racism can often ENHANCE how shitty cops can be.....but the primary color problem isn't black, or white -- it's blue. Once you put on the blue, 1) you think you're above the law, and 2) you have contempt for everyone who isn't a cop. The world is "blue" and "everyone else." And whether the "everyone else" lives or dies in a given situation depends entirely on the mood and magnanimity of the guys in blue. It's a completely broken culture, and I strongly doubt that it can ever be reformed.
    25 points
  3. You watched a video of a civilian getting murdered by the police and the one thing you came away with is "what did this guy do wrong?" Your priorities are fucked, you boot-licking piece of shit.
    17 points
  4. Intredasting. https://generationalmorons.com
    13 points
  5. No yellow. Wordle 587 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    13 points
  6. Wordle 587 3/6 [emoji833]🟨[emoji833][emoji833][emoji833] [emoji833]🟩🟨[emoji833]🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    12 points
  7. Wordle 587 3/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    12 points
  8. Ukraine has already sacrificed 10s of thousands of their people to destroy one of our greatest advisories. The money we've given them has been a drop in the bucket relative to the amounts we have spent on our military and other armed conflicts over the years. This has been the greatest use of our military budget ever with respect to fighting the enemy. Not to mention no US soldier has died to get to this result. I feel Ukraine has earned every penny we have given them and then some. I'm more than willing to lead reconstruction efforts after the war as a big thanks to the sacrifices they have made to destroy one of the most toxic countries on the planet.
    12 points
  9. how else is one to numb the pain and sorrow of a dead end job and a family that you hate?
    11 points
  10. sometimes i wonder about posters like you. do you stop and actually think about what you post? or have you staked out your position and by god, that's all there is to it. like, for example, i read your post and you seem hellbent on there being no racial animus here. why? of course there is racial animus. this is fucking america.
    11 points
  11. Wordle 587 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 368 7️⃣4️⃣ 6️⃣5️⃣ quordle.com 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    11 points
  12. Wordle 587 3/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    11 points
  13. And how many of the vehicles that we've donated were just sitting around, either in storage, or on their way to storage. Some people are acting like we are straight up giving Ukraine the money, or giving them our best stuff, when the fucking M113s entered service in 1960 and the Bradley's entered in 1981. As a matter of fact, the Army is in the process of replacing over 2,800 M113s with the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (which is based on the Bradley chassis, but not the existing Bradleys, which will also be replaced/are being replaced by the AMPVs and other systems. And those Humvees? We have over 230,000 of them in the Army and the Marine Corps, and they are being replaced by the Oshkosh L-ATV Almost everything we are sending, with the exception of the HIMARS (which are themselves from the 1990s) and the M777s is old shit. We were paying to store this shit and now it's being put to good use. For the people worried about the cost to the United States, a lot of American companies are wanting to get into a Russian-free Ukraine, but in particular the oil & gas companies who were just starting to really get the Ukrainian O&G industry going pre-February 2022 (which could have been another reason for Putin to move - he couldn't risk Ukraine replacing Russian gas, which Putin has now guaranteed will eventually happen). But in general, this will lead to a much more stable Europe, which, again, is good for our economy, for those worried about how much this is costing us.
    11 points
  14. I don't give a fuck how badly he was driving, it doesn't make any fucking difference. He's still a human being. The cops don't get to summarily execute speeders. And to the extent it matters, and it doesn't, evading an unmarked car chasing after him at night seems like a normal reaction. Who the fuck stops for an unmarked car chasing after you at 10 pm? And he would have been right. There were murderous psychopaths in the car.
    10 points
  15. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/65d82fd3-cce6-43c2-a750-d16df84db5fc
    10 points
  16. White Americans should be fucking pleased as punch that Black Americans only want equality and justice and not revenge.
    10 points
  17. Cops don't operate as individuals in their capacity as cops. They operate as a demonstrably violent, armed extension of the state. You're using the wrong typecast, it's oppressor vs. the oppressed. And their skin color doesn't make a shit, when you're on duty as a cop, you're a cop and thus operating as an agent of an organization built on white supremacist ideals. It's not a big stretch at all to assume the city of Memphis is using the fact that all of the offending cops are black to actually treat rogue cops in the way they actually should be treated, rather than the way they're usually treated by the American legal system.
    10 points
  18. Wordle 587 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 368 4️⃣7️⃣ 5️⃣3️⃣ quordle.com ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Worldle #371 3/6 (100%) πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬œβ¬œβ¬…οΈ 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜➑️ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŽ‰ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
    10 points
  19. Wordle 587 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  20. Wordle 587 5/6 [emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834]🟩[emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834]🟩[emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834]🟩[emoji834][emoji834]🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  21. Wordle 587 6/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  22. Wordle 587 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’m very surprised no one else has fallen into the trap of my penultimate guess. I thought everyone would be losing one guess on that word. #Worldle #371 4/6 (100%) πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬œβ¬œβ†˜οΈ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬œβ†–οΈ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬‡οΈ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŽ‰ β­β­β­πŸ™οΈπŸͺ™ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Worldle’s choice of β€œneighbors” in this part of the world is always ridiculous. Daily Quordle 368 4️⃣7️⃣ 5️⃣3️⃣ quordle.com 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Easy Breezy Quordle.
    10 points
  23. Wordle 587 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 368 4️⃣7️⃣ 6️⃣3️⃣ quordle.com 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Worldle #371 1/6 (100%) πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŽ‰ β­β­β­πŸ™οΈπŸͺ™ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
    10 points
  24. Wordle 587 5/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  25. I agree beating a man to death for a traffic violation is over the line, but the most important thing is that technically he was a criminal.
    9 points
  26. Cops still do this in the age of cell phones, dash cams, body cams, and random security cameras. I can't even imagine how many murders they've gotten away with over the years, back when their word was gospel.
    9 points
  27. 9 points
  28. What I've got to offer is as good as money, sir. These are IOU's $275 thou, might want to hang on to that one
    9 points
  29. He’d prefer to come to Texas if all things were equal, apparently. I find it surprising because of what Georgia has done with TEs, but that’s pretty cool. It would take more than looking under the couch cushions for spare change at this late stage, though.
    9 points
  30. Saved the par. Wordle 587 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  31. Wordle 587 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 3 guesses, 1 letter... Fantastic... Daily Quordle 368 6️⃣7️⃣ 4️⃣5️⃣ quordle.com ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Had to think about Quordle a good bit today. The answers didn't come easy.
    9 points
  32. Wordle 587 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  33. Wordle 587 5/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  34. Um, hey Vlad, what should ya do about this? This is 100 modern MBT's heading to Ukraine by summer. Add to that Bradley's and Marder's, plus the equipment farmers snagged and Ukraine has an armor spearhead.
    9 points
  35. I was looking for some image that said, β€œWE REPORT YOU DECIDE….” …but I ran across a more interesting gif and so I’m posting that instead
    9 points
  36. Curiously, your first takeaway after watching the video was what this guy did wrong. It's almost as if you're seeking evidence that justifies his murder.
    8 points
  37. 8 points
  38. I will not watch the video. I hope Memphis surprises people with no riots. It’s almost like some people want it to happen to validate their opinions. I think the city has done a great job of being proactive and his mother is stressing peace. I feel horrible for the family.
    8 points
  39. I have also lived around the globe, nice countries and shitholes. We need to be better. I do not want our police being compared to Haiti, Afghanistan, or even Dubai's. This shit needs to stop. Once you put on blue you serve and protect all of us, not just your brethren.
    8 points
  40. Wordle 587 4/6* [emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834]🟩[emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] 🟩🟩🟩[emoji834][emoji834] 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    8 points
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