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atomheartbevo

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  1. This one is for @PTINS - just under 1,000 km from Ukraine Russian Telegram channels report an attack on a gas processing plant in Kotovo, Volgograd region of Russia. The plant specializes in processing associated petroleum gas and light hydrocarbons. Its annual capacity is about 450 million cubic meters of raw materials. The plant produces a wide fraction of light hydrocarbons and stable condensate.
  2. Ukrainian defense companies will launch new joint production projects on the territory of Denmark. This is stipulated by the Memorandum of Understanding signed today together with Danish colleagues – Minister of Defence @troelslundp, Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs @mfMorten, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars @larsloekke The Memorandum provides for Ukrainian defense companies to start production in Denmark, establish joint facilities, exchange technologies, and attract EU financing for the implementation of joint projects. The signing of the Memorandum is a major step toward forming a new security system in Europe and strengthening the defense-industrial capacities of our countries. During the war, jointly produced equipment will support Ukraine’s Defense Forces. In the long term, Ukrainian solutions and experience in the field of security will also strengthen the defense capabilities of our allies.
  3. Thread of some of the Americans who have died in Ukraine
  4. 80s kids going hard in this thread.
  5. I always forget this one, and my middle-schooler loved it, as did his friends. Never read them, but from conversations and glancing through, it does a good job of bridging from the younger chapter books up to the Harry Potter/Percy Jackson level.
  6. He’s got a bigger body count though,
  7. Good thing nobody considers us to be a Christian nation.
  8. I saw some air defense exercises at Fort Bliss/White Sands 30 years ago, but nothing like this. Holy shit.
  9. US warned about possible attack on its embassy in Caracas, Venezuela says Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday his government had warned Washington of a "false flag operation" by "extremist sectors of the local Venezuelan right" to plant explosives at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. The White House and State Department did not immediately reply to requests for comment. Venezuela's National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez originally reported the plot on Sunday in a message on his Telegram account, saying that the alleged plans had been reported to the United States through three different channels. ----- We are talking occasionally about Trump using Venezuela to distract from various domestic problems, sounds like Maduro is using Trump to do the same.
  10. It's worse when you watch it.
  11. Not to revive an old thread, and NSIAP, and I don't know if I saw this here on another thread or it just bubbled up in my YouTube algorithms, but how about Marty Robbins, as sung by Merle Haggard?
  12. Assaults are done in 2- or 3-man teams. Massed formations are no longer a thing in many areas because of drones (which I guess parallels WWI and massed formations running into machine guns). I know the US is training for drone warfare, but I still don't think we are even close to being prepared for something on this scale. In theory, we would wipe out the leadership and command & control. When Ukraine drops the Kerch bridge, I don't know how Russia will be able to keep their forces in Crimea supplied - Ukraine has hit plenty of stuff in the Azov sea, and the land bridge/rail lines are within reach of the smaller drones. And then there's this, which has to have the Chinese sweating bullets Ukraine’s Sea Drones Are Now Launching Unjammable Fiber-Optic Drones I feel confident that Taiwan is taking notes (and probably supplying a lot of components on some level). The Chinese are using cruise liners as their troop transports, and those things are slow as hell and have a massive radar signatures. Easy pickings for drones when they have to cross almost 100 miles of open ocean.
  13. I don't know how they chose who is going to Illinois, if it was by unit or they were pulling in soldiers from different units, but that sure as hell looks like somebody up the chain-of-command said "hey, let's send all of the guys who haven't passed the APFT in a while!" Because if that was from a single unit And I like how they are all carrying their M4s like some shit is going to go down on the way to the donut shop.
  14. The problem is that our Secretary of State declared that Maduro was a "fugitive from American justice" whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean, so I don't think there are any deals to be cut - Maduro is lining up to be Trump's Noriega or Saddam Hussein or Ghaddafi or whatever example one wants to use. And Trump ordered Grenell to cease discussions in a phone call he made while he was in the middle of meeting with DOD leadership. I know, I know, he was trying to pretend he was tough in front of the generals and admirals, but still. We seem to be ignoring all of the other cartels that are a bit closer and have killed far more Americans than Venezuela's cartels. Kind of odd that Trump has zeroed in on them, and talked about regime change and declared they are unlawful combatants, and Rubio declared he was a fugitive from American justice, etc. I absolutely hope I'm wrong and that nothing happens, but somebody is 100% coaching him on the specific language to use, trying to shoehorn it into the stuff passed after 9/11, and that can't be a mistake.
  15. Sounds just like R/C planes from the 80s and 90s.
  16. No surprise, Russians went big on crypto
  17. Another look at their new missile variant
  18. NEW: The Kremlin continues its reflective control campaign aimed at preventing the US from selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin is attempting to portray potential US Tomahawk deliveries to Ukraine as a dangerous escalation to deter the United States from sending such weapons to Ukraine. The Kremlin has previously conducted similar influence operations when the United States was discussing sending Ukraine Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), F-16 fighter jets, and Abrams tanks, and has routinely successfully delayed the provision of Western weapons to Ukraine. Previous Western weapons provisions and Ukrainian strikes using US-provided long-range weapons systems, however, did not trigger an escalatory Russian reaction, and the West and Ukraine have repeatedly violated Russia’s alleged “red lines” in the past with no resulting escalation. These recent Russian threats about Tomahawk missile provisions are part of Russia’s wider reflexive control campaign that aims to coerce Russia’s opponents to make policy decisions that actually benefit Russia. Other Key Takeaways: Leaked Russian estimates of Russian killed in action (KIA) to wounded in action (WIA) rates in Ukraine underscore the impact of increased tactical drone usage in Ukraine and the extent to which drones complicate ground advances and casualty evacuation. The leaked estimates indicate that Russian forces suffered their highest casualties in the Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, and Lyman directions between January and August 2025, reflecting command prioritization of these sectors of the front. Russian forces appear able and willing to sustain these casualty rates despite achieving limited tactical advances
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