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Laxtonto

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  1. LETS GO!!!!
  2. Is this the same Michigan team Texas destroyed?
  3. Fuck yeah!!!
  4. So the USC O sucks or the the Texas O is scary... Makes me laugh that it is starting to become obvious to the rest of the nation that maybe just maybe the Texas O and D are even better than the pundits were giving us credit for..
  5. So where does UNC rank in the pantheon of college football jobs open next year? I am guessing Florida is far and away #1, but what they of coach are we talking about for UNC? Like retread or cheap coordinator or are they still at the point that they will garner real interest?
  6. So maybe this is jsut tied to the API, but when I have it set up as "in progress" it takes out the games that are in commercial breaks between quarters. I am just trying to keep a screen up of all games that have kicked off and have not gone to final, but the in progress option sometimes drops games at half and in between quarters.
  7. Its a start. He is at least willing to put the system on blast and has enough reach to get the other pundits to steal will content. The real problem is I doubt the big names anchored to the various main conferences (heres looking at your big ears Finnebaum) will ever admit that there is an issue within their own conference. There isn't enough conference independent content out there to get this to quickly reach critical mass.
  8. So all of a sudden we see a massive uptick in secondary and tertiary hops in the ammunition supply chain. What I am more curious about isnt the how/what they are targeting but the "why". This is a major change in tactics and a much more visible approach than targeting long-range aircraft and various rail hubs. If we are looking at this strategically then, what does this do that is different that their prior approaches? Is Ukraine trying to bleed out the front-line troops of ammo to essentially starve off the current counterattacks in Kursk? Are we seeing a preemptive strike to look to limit the Russian stockpiles before winter to keep them from using the cruise missiles to target power infrastructure this winter? Are they trying to force Russia to be reactive and move their supply depots farther east? Is this more of a psychological set of targets to now sow fear in the Russian populace overall? Generally, when you look to cripple major hubs in the supply chain, the point is to create downstream disruptions to then force scarcity within the combat units to degrade their combat effectiveness. The problem with this approach is that it is time dependent. At some point, the enemy creates a workaround for those shortages. The other obvious reasoning is that these are targets that Ukraine just now has the ability to attack and they have decided to hit their highest value targets with this new weaponry while Russia has not yet developed a sufficient counter or changed their directives regarding munitions handling and storage. Some targets are just too juicy to pass up and when you have the means to reach them you do. So, my learned scholars, what does this mean? What is the goal here? With us still being in autumn in Ukraine, does the time dependent nature of this have any larger meaning?
  9. This is the new comms devices that Hezbollah was able to source. They even got a bulk discount and the supplier said they would make sure that they get to them as soon as possible...
  10. So, maybe a dumb question and perhaps a question that belongs in the realignment thread, but has anyone been paying attention the the Big12 TV numbers? Curious how many of the Texas fans are still hate watching the Big12 or has their numbers tanked a bit more with the large fan bases of Texas and OU leaving the B12.
  11. I also want to add that it make sense for Israel to do this now vs waiting because this is a approach that is extremely novel, it won’t be very difficult to find a counter or just replace all the devices in the near term. If you have infiltrated their supply chain to this extents, you know that this is a time sensitive operation and once the first one is detonated the clock is ticking. This also to me is a signal that Israel is about to push north into Lebanon now to look to build a much larger buffer/no man’s land/dead zone between the two countries
  12. This second wave is as vital as the first. It might lead to slightly higher civilian casualties but the value is exponentially higher to Mossad. It went from maybe a lone batch to now all devices are now suspect. My guess that this is a much more limited set of devices and is there more to sow discord and terror in Hezbollah and those around them than to actually look to decimate their fighting core or leadership. Make the population leery to be around any Hezbollah member and not only it’s a psychological win but provides even more avenues for both intelligence gathering and covert operations.
  13. All coms are now suspect and all physical devices must be destroyed…. Next we will find out that the walkie talkies were from a different vendor provided due to a different “found” security vulnerability… And funnier, unless Iran manufacturers them and hand delivers them to Beruit, there is no way anyone will ever trust a large batch of comms again. This means they will go back to either over the counter unique purchases or user cellphones, with both approaches being easily subverted from a security perspective… This entire operation is just a master class in destroying the faith in comms of an enemy that cannot control the means of their production.
  14. I’ve done some work on our large Red River ammo depot (which most are decommissioned or extremely old ordnance) and knowing how those facilities are designed, I am at a loss on how the facility can keep having secondary detonations that are leapfrogging the entire facility. If they use any form of compartmentalization approach then storage of ordnance should be contained and this wide spread multiple explosions should not really be happening. The most obvious point here is this level of destruction is not possible due to just a shot down UAV. Next, either this is a complete design flaw (which is unlikely) of the facility or the Russians got caught with multiple storage doors open at once. This either implies that the Ukraine UAVs hit them when they knew large transfers of munitions would be happening, the Russians violated the most basic sets of ordnance storage mantras by essentially having multiple blast doors for several ordnance bunkers open at once, or the storage plan for these cruise missiles are as such that they are trading safety and secondary blast protection for convenience of access. This is more than likely an act of hubris by the Russians thinking them being so far into the interior nothing could reach them. Also, the fact that this is the storage for much of their cruise missile production is a huge deal. Without those limited stocks of their more modern munitions any attack on the Ukrainian interior will require using much less sophisticated armaments and there mean the launch point will have to be much closer to the front. Needless to say, that is a huge problem for Russia from both a tactical and logistical standpoint.
  15. So this literally means that not only was he around one, but he actually grabbed it as was looking at the potential message. This implies he has done this before in the past and it was a routine activity...
  16. This is a brilliant approach. The batteries themselves can be mass produced and easily included in the devices. On top of that, since they are simply telling the pager force overheat, it makes them so much harder to detect. The big part is how did they set up the signal to make them overheat? Did they have all the pager numbers? Did they set up a RF setup to set off the overheat? Amazing set of trade craft.
  17. How many of these did they make? How many did Hezbollah buy? Did Isreal really just con them into replacing their entire coms network to devices they control, and then to go a step farther people bombs in them all... It make me curious about did they include a microphone and tracker for realtime tracking while they were at it?
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