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atomheartbevo

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  1. Das Boot, Catch-22, Bridge on the River Kwai (maybe). The Best Years of Our Lives was...rough at times, and maybe one of the first mainstream movies to really deal with PTSD in the 40s. I just watched Apocalypse Now again, and damn it's still a fantastic movie even after several rewatches. The cast is just amazing all around. Would have been interesting to see Steve McQueen in the lead. Edit: Deer Hunter might have been the first in the Vietnam-era.
  2. Another contact that went to Europe - can't blame them. Ukraine opts for Rheinmetall's Lynx For the Lynx, Rheinmetall has taken the knowledge gained from the German Puma program and the international Boxer program to develop a modern and, above all, modular infantry fighting vehicle. Beyond the restrictions imposed by national customers, such as transportability in an A400M, this resulted in a modern vehicle that is currently becoming the new standard in Europe. A special feature of the Lynx is the actual modular design. As with the Boxer, there is a driving module and a mission module, the latter of which can be replaced within a short time by crane. This not only simplifies role reversal, but also the integration of new skills. In addition, there is interchangeability between nations. So if Hungary integrates the Skyranger air defense system for its Lynx, then this can later be used by other nations such as Ukraine. Italy has also opted for the Rheinmetall infantry fighting vehicle and wants to introduce it in the variants Heavy Reconnaissance with 120mm, Air Defense with Skyranger, Electronic Warfare with Jammer, 120mm Mortar and Anti-Tank with Spike, among others. All modules that would later also be available to Ukraine. In addition, the Lynx is still in the running for the US XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle Program (formerly OMFV). The winning system is intended to replace the Bradley infantry fighting vehicles of the American armed forces, which would add significantly more usable mission modules. The Lynx KF41 infantry fighting vehicle was presented for the first time at Eurosatory 2018 and offers space for three crew members and a dismounted strength of up to nine soldiers. The maximum weight is 50 tonnes, it is powered by a 1,140 hp engine and reaches a top speed of around 70 km/h.
  3. Interesting. From a few weeks ago. https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraines-f-16s-take-over-the-skies-flying-80-of-combat-missions-against-russia-12373
  4. Sometimes we wore out tapes.
  5. Edit double post but here’s a video illustrating things - Russia is the dude on the elephant.
  6. Gerasimov is dead, it’s just a matter of which window he falls out of.
  7. I want to say I remember reading about it in Starlog or maybe it was a TV magazine on a newsstand but you still had to hope that whatever station carried it would be carrying it on the date it was supposed to come back.
  8. We can make this happen with AI.
  9. They gave Venezuela some of their more modern anti-ship missiles.
  10. Noel: Ukrainian strike drones have been tracked over Donetsk, Luhansk, Belgorod, Lipetsk, Kursk, Bryansk, and Oryol regions, with routes pushing toward Kaluga, Tula, and Moscow oblasts. Russian channels report urgent evacuation of aircraft near Moscow and bombers from Engels-2 over fears of imminent strikes.
  11. Armchair intel analyst mode - wouldn't surprise me if that was meant to make Putin/Kremlin more paranoid and to pull more air defenses into the Moscow area, leaving more areas vulnerable.
  12. Yeah, and those defense companies are known for having profits stolen/skimmed because it's a Russian tradition, all up and down the line which really causes problems since they need those profits to pay back the loans. Pretty crazy and they are seriously in the situation of things collapsing slowly and then suddenly.
  13. Interesting mention of Prigozhin - seems like since that time, PMCs in Russia/Ukraine have publicly vanished. There's some around Moscow that are attached to oligarchs, but they aren't on the front lines.
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