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Scheiss Meister

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  1. I always appreciate a Doomlet update. His creativity is awesome.
  2. That looks cool and efficient. Trip and fall into it once and you may not get a second chance, though.
  3. That is amazing. I hope that the lab develops it on out, and that she gets a nice cut and credit. That doesn't happen in today's world, but I hope for it, anyway.
  4. There's going to be a big market for EOD folks when this war is over.
  5. As I see it, water drops on mines have two problems. First, the water's impact zone with maximum impact is relatively small. It would take a lot of drops to get the job done. Second, Russia has the air over the battlefield well covered. Slow water haulers would be shot from the sky very quickly. Mine clearing land drones would be great, but it would take a lot of them, as they would rapidly become primary targets. Whoever figures out a good way to deal with mines remotely and with minimal casualties will be very wealthy.
  6. I was trained that minefields are laid to optimize the manpower needs of a defensive line. Mines should be used to funnel enemy forces to locations that give you a geographic or firepower advantage. You have to provide cover fire all along the line to discourage and prevent sappers from removing the mines and making lanes through the minefield, like @RDCanecutter said, but it doesn't really take a lot of firepower to cover a minefield. Then you can concentrate more of your forces in the rear to respond to serious problems within the minefields or, if the minefields are set up correctly, bring concentrated fire on the areas to which the mines channel enemy forces. Done correctly you can force the enemy to come on in column so that they can only attack on a narrow front. This will let you put more firepower on them than they can bring on you, and allow you to defeat them in detail. Kind of like "crossing the T" in naval warfare. Infantry on the defense love mines. Infantry on the attack despise them. ETA - And I just realized that I didn't answer your question. You defeat a line like that by finding the weakest points in the minefields, concentrating suppressive fires there, usually a combination of infantry and artillery, and letting your sappers clear lanes through the mines through which you attack. You are still attacking through funnels (the cleared lanes) but you are picking the location of the attack. It's bloody, slow, and dangerous work, but that's the business. Read about the Battle of El Alamein to get a good idea of mine warfare.
  7. The essence of US offensive tactics since the Civil War, later copied by the Germans as Blitzkrieg: pick a point, overwhelm the enemy there, break into his rear, and wreak havoc on the REMFs. I hope it works well for Ukraine.
  8. Good chance parts of the Wagner Team is are Still on the field.
  9. He shouldn't have had an airplane that looked so much like a Ukrainian drone.
  10. That dipshit should have taken his disdain for safety and hitched a ride in the Titan.
  11. They must have been sailing with all hatches close and dogged, or at least the ones below the waterline. Better sailors than I would have expected.
  12. That's a load of bullshit.
  13. Who in US intelligence thinks this? What percentage of the community are they? There will be a spectrum of thought within the intelligence community, and this may only represent a small part of it. It would also be exactly what Russian operatives would put out to plant and water the seeds of doubt. That assertion is interesting, but I'll wait to see what plays out.
  14. Well, that's a way that you could test it. It's not the way I would, but you do you, I guess.
  15. This is probably stupid, but I've been thinking about that whole episode, and I think that it isn't really over yet. Pringles was convinced to stop and pull back, much of his force was nationalized into the Russian Army, but he was not imprisoned, he still has a force and is building it back up, and seems to be still involved. I think that Pringles pulled back before he was overextended and while he could still preserve some of his force and prestige. On the other hand, Putler was badly weakened, but has still held onto the intelligence apparatus. Since then they have been circling each other, looking for opportunities to get in a body blow. Neither has won, yet. We just have to wait for one to make a mistake and let the other put a knife in him.
  16. First, even as a guard, you aren't just walking your happy ass out of a prison. There is a process, at any point of which her supervisor can turn her around. Second, do you want prison guards just leaving their posts without relief? That seems like a bad precedent to me. Last, as has been pointed out, if she just walks out, she loses her job and healthcare. If she had done as you suggest and successfully given birth, as a newly fired new mother, what do you think her chances of getting another job with healthcare coverage are? If she had great job prospects, she wouldn't be working as an underpaid prison guard in a chronically understaffed prison system. Not all jobs are jobs that you can just walk out of, and not everyone has the prospects to just walk off of even the jobs where that's possible.
  17. A whole fucking lot racist. Fucking nazis.
  18. No Next to the bed. First thing in the morning, last thing at night. The only times I remember to do it.
  19. IT stands for Internal Terrorists. Change my mind.
  20. Used this as a safety topic at work yesterday. Any kind of tank can have a hazardous atmosphere, so don't enter without testing. Hydrogen sulfide kills quickly. And if you see someone down in an enclosed space, get help; don't go in after them. Better one death than two or, as in this case, three.
  21. The Creature From The Black Lagoon With Tits
  22. I once saw the premise of communism explained as, "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine." He must be that kind of commie.
  23. I like your boss, just based on this. Madrones are awesome.
  24. It sure seems like it. Of course, it cleared the playing field for China to grab a bigger share.
  25. Oh, Mr. Pence. It's cute that you assume that mouth breathing, knuckle dragging goon can read.
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