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  1. 2 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    The police aren't the ones who bring charges. That Beard has already been charged by authorities within a few hours can't be taken as a good sign. At all.

     

    I let your first few posts go by but then you had to take the extra step. Negged. You're fixin' to get crowd-sourced if @immamac doesn't straight up IP ban you.

    Technically you are correct but I guarantee no prosecutor was up at 2 am drafting charging documents before a police report was even written, so he prolly hasn’t been “charged” yet other than police booking him in and turning in a PC statement. 

  2. 9 minutes ago, Augustus said:

    Sam's got a point.

    Rankings don't mean anything once they step on campus.

    He really doesn’t. 2 of their top 3 pass catchers are highly rated not freshman WRs. And all 3 of the top pass catchers are highly rated recruits. So all his points are incorrect. I guess we are about to find out with Klubnik in. 

  3. 1 minute ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    You do realize football continues after the recruits become college players, right? Clemson has focused on the taller jump ball WR and has struck out. Antonio Williams is probably the only WR Clemson has that would start for Texas. Maybe Randall, but he's been hurt. Like I said, our two freshmen. 

    Sure, and if it was just a couple guys I’d say you have a point. You’ve got a bunch of other 4 stars as well as those top guys I referenced. No way they all suck. Swinney made his career with WR development. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    Lol wtf are you talking about? Clemson has had pretty poor WR recruiting. The only real studs are the two freshman. Also, nobody said DJU doesn't have anyone to throw to, it's the dumbfuck OC who calls screens until....he actually needs to when Cuse drops 8.

    You’re completely delusional as to what poor WR recruiting even is. I literally just gave you the National ranking to your WR room. 5 National top 20 players at their position. 
     

    or maybe you’ll understand this…5 of the 22 highest rated players on your roster are WRs

  5. I’m just trying to imagine having guys that went #6, #9, #12, #13, and #17 WRs in their various recruiting classes on the roster and claiming the QB has no weapons to throw to. By comparison Texas has Hall and Worthy as the only guys anywhere near that level and then Whittington was a top rated athlete. I consider Texas to have an above average WR room and it isn’t near Clemson. 
     

    Swinney is going to cause his program to shrivel and die between portal dumbassery and loyalty to a crappy QB. 

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  6. Man I didn’t realize I was on the Clemson board. Fuck those guys and go Syracuse. The QB still sucks ass and is who we thought he was. Probably throwing to the highest rated assortment of WRs in the country and consistently can’t do shit if they aren’t wide open. 

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  7. 2 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Bijan is a 1st round RB.  His 40 time might disappoint pundits, but the versatility as a receiving threat to go along with the short area burst, agility, and insane tackle breaking makes him more like Christian McCaffrey than a 2nd rounder.

    I think he will run a good 40. His acceleration is pretty good for his size. I’m guessing low 4.5 or maybe even high 4.4. He only starts looking a little slower on his longer runs where the sprinter speed folks flourish. That isn’t him, but that’s okay. 

  8. 25 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    Reminder that Bijan and Rojo are making this line look much better than it is.

     

    It’s a talented but young offensive line. They need the weight room to start moving those big bodies on run downs 

  9. I feel like people are being overly negative because they don’t want to get hurt again. I saw some good things out of both sides of the ball. Both sides of the ball dominated the 2nd strings for stretches of the game. That’s what you want to see realistically. Other than that you can’t tell much except the game was fairly evenly matched. Could mean we suck, we are average, or show me a loss. 
     

    I get it, going with we suck is the easiest because we have for so long and Sark hasn’t shown he can be anything more than average as a head coach. But it’s also a really lazy take based off this spring game. 

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  10. 8 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


    Are you familiar with Orban and the state of democracy in Hungary? The only logical explanation for them remaining in the EU/NATO at this point is a “keep you enemies closer” strategy in order to prevent them just becoming a Russian and/or Chinese puppet in the middle of Europe.

    I’ll never forget when my first unit deployed to Iraq they wouldn’t let us off the plane in Budapest because they were hostile to American soldiers apparently. After flying that long flight we sat there on the plane over 2 hours before taking off for Kuwait. In all my back and forth travels after that, that was the only time that happened. I’ve always wondered if that was true or just something they made up. Sounded made up at the time, but maybe not.

     

    I was so pissed because we carried half our gear and weapons on that plane and were sandwiched like sardines. We just wanted to breath for a bit. They were just chartered commercial flights so it was super cramped. Fuck Budapest…

  11. 1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    I work for a big tech company, but I work with a small team that focuses on Analytics and AI/ML workloads. We released a software product about 18 months ago with very little fanfare that is designed to do real time analytics on data streams. It's a tool, not a complete solution, but it has real promise in the IOT and Edge space. Shortly after release, we put up some pre-recorded webinars on our website, and about a week later I got a call from one of our DOD reps that the CG of the 82nd Airborne wanted to hear more about the software and had given us a couple times/dates for an initial meeting. We put together a virtual meeting ASAP, and General Christopher Donahue himself was the first person on the call. We spent two hours with him and his technical team just throwing questions rapid fire to a couple of our engineers, and when the call wrapped up, he asked us how soon we could get to Bragg for a workshop. The first use case they identified in the workshop? Finding drones. He said they weren't worried about large Military Grade UAVs, but commercially available units like DJI and Mavic that could be used for intelligence gathering and target spotting. Based on what Ukraine is doing, his concerns seem to have been well founded. 

    Great to hear!

  12. 45 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    What kinda anti drone tech do we have, jammer and such?  How vulnerable are our ground forces?

    I’ve been out over a decade so I would only be speculating. The Army was pretty behind on this topic though when I was in. We had a Naval Officer assigned to my unit to just help us jam cell phones, radio signals, garage door openers, etc. The Navy and Air Force have been playing this game a long time though so I’m sure grunts have something at this point. Hopefully.

  13. 2 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:

    My understanding is they couldn't flank because of the mud

    A squared away American Combined Arms unit wouldn’t need to flank a light infantry unit with anti-tank weaponry. Our thermal imagery would have seen them coming miles away in the open farmland of Ukraine. It would be a turkey shoot. Either Russia has the most undisciplined untrained troops in the world or Russia has been lying about their technology for decades. 
     

    Drones are another issue. Those things are terrifying. Without air support all ground militaries are mostly sitting ducks to air attack assets. That’s why America invest so heavily in the military. It’s expensive stuff gaining air superiority the way our doctrine calls for.
     

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  14. 27 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    They function in the same manner as our "MOAB" FAE bomb.  We used them on the cave openings in Tora Bora, and used something similar to clear landing zones late in Viet Nam.  They function differently, but they are basically another weapon.  The horrible aspect of these is the ability to put a lot of them on target quickly.  How long does it take to reload?  How many reloads per unit do they have?  Also, they look like grapes to me.  It looks like rifle, machine gun, and mortar fire can all render the launch boxes inoperable.

    That’s why they are overrated IMO.  They take so long to break down and move, once they fire, a single American Excalibur round is going to finish its killing days in a war with us. If Ukraine is using counter fires radar they can end Russia stupid fear weapons effectiveness easily. As soon as that first rocket fires they should have coordinates and let er rip back at them. 

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  15. 26 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    They are very indiscriminate.  If used on an urban area with civilians, that's pretty much a war crime.

    Sure, similar destruction can be accomplished with more conventional artillery, but those are pretty hideous.

    All of ours are guided bombs, like the bunker buster, deployed only on military targets.

    Correct, but the MLRS stuff Russia has been using already is the same bad news for civilians. I guess this is kinda too war nerdy to waste this much energy on, but I think Russia PR for their gear is showing to be just that, PR. Even that huge thermobaric bomb they have is just a tiny dick response to the MOAB. 

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  16. 28 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Well, it doesn't have any real battlefield uses in Ukraine other than terrorizing population centers. That's the concern. 

    I hear you, but I’m simply addressing it as some line in the sand or super weapon. I think using any artillery piece indiscriminately against a densely populated area wrong. Which I’m sure we all do. I just don’t get the comparison to nukes. It’s not even close. 

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  17. I don’t understand the thermobaric weapon freak out. Which news station is pushing this? We use thermobaric weapons too. The TOS-1 is just a suped up MLRS designed to bunker bust and clear trenches more effectively. As it defeats otherwise hardened targets by oxygen depletion. Russia tested one that was damn near nuke powerful but that isn’t a TOS-1. I don’t get it. It isn’t any more scary than many Russian weapons. 

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  18. 5 minutes ago, Homercles said:

    Something I’ve wondered is…where is the slat armor for the Russian tanks and BMPs?  I thought that was reasonably common way to attempt to breakup the warhead itself  or scatter the liquid jet before it could fully impact the armor?  Seems we used them a lot later in the WOT to protect crucial parts of our heavy equipment.  

    That was for Russian RPG’s. It pretty much nuetralized them. Then they just switched to Vietnam era armor piercing hand grenades. Then it was explosively formed penatrator IEDs.
     

    There is always a way to kill a tank or armor. Then there is a countermeasure. I’d assume Ukraine and Russia will play this game of cat and mouse the longer this plays out. But it takes time to adjust tactics.

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  19. 1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

    First of all, Cav Scouts prefer to be addressed as MR. Weird, if you don't mind, you lice-ridden Red Leg concussed to the point of addled perversion.

    That said, I like reading your views and those of the other actual prior service, finding bits of insight amidst all the ravings of the bunny-hopping video gamers.

    I agree that 190,000 is a tiny amount compared to earlier wars. I believe the Germans invaded France and the Low Countries with millions of men, on a comparatively tiny front. Putin's tanks and paratroops can probably pull off a smash-and-grab, but no way do the gopniks in the motor rifles have the numbers to pull off an occupation. I bet their units are way understrength in personnel. They'll be busy trying to protect the running tanks, the broken-down tanks, and the clunky supply tail following all the combat units. If this stretches out I foresee lots of unsupplied hungry Russians getting ready to leave the band due to creative differences.

    As a former Scout, seconded all the way around. 

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