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Fico

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  1. Common practice in damn near every "DUI" arrest/pullover/suspected. At least in Austin, Judges sit on call for this and they get that sample one way or another.
  2. Looks like a regular helmet? vs the tankie foam aerodynamic skull cap?
  3. Catching flying turrets is not recommended.
  4. I am by no means any kind of expert, aren't Iran's drones fairly capable? Possible it may be overestimates similar to pre-war Russian systems but they have had a fair amount of practice in the ME. Does this push the Israelis to step up support of Ukraine from protective gear to defensive weapons? Iron dome? Israel so far has refused but after (Lavrov?) blaming the Jews for the Holocaust and buying Iranian drones. Or is Israel protecting their tech from falling into foreign hands?
  5. I am loving the HIMARS action and not at all trying taking away from that, but I think the best/most important news of the last ~10 days is the UK fully training up 10,000 new Ukrainian troops. And I think I saw they are fully equipping them as well. Hopefully more NATO allies roll out similar programs so when the time comes, Ukraine will be ready to execute full combined arms operations and roll the orcs up.
  6. Agree and that's a full industrial war. Hopefully the munition factories have already been ramping up.
  7. Just finished Perun's new video. As always he does some great analysis. Interesting point he made was Russians brag how many shells they fire a day, even though we know that's due to accuracy and ISR problems, leading to barrels burning out faster. Seeing other Russian/Soviet systems, I doubt they have highly proficient way for barrel replacement and regular maintenance on the pieces.
  8. Was coming to add Kofman and Meduza is excellent. If you interested into getting some background on the Russian military before the conflict Kofman has some great lectures on YouTube about Russian attempts at modernization and reorganization. He also does a (sometimes) weekly podcast on War on the Rocks and some Sundays with Dmitri Alperovitch, including last night: Have we mentioned bellingcat? They are incredibly good investigative journalists that really go deep to call out Russian bullshit about all kinds of shit including assignations, MH17, fraud, etc. They are prominent in the HBO show on Navaly.
  9. Start putting a dent in those cruise missiles too. Don't believe either government but the OSINT community is pretty good at calling out bullshit fairly quickly. All that said, still a lot of fog of war.
  10. I think Melnyk was pretty controversial but no idea on the others.
  11. Ties in with them matching specific oblasts to regions/cities in occupied territory but having the local party instead from the whole region is hilarious bullshit. Like they need to actually promote the party.
  12. American weapon tribute video - Recommend having the sound on
  13. ATACMS! Fuck yea. Put the Kerch bridge clock back on.
  14. Awesome if they have C-RAMs in theater. The Russians using anti-ship and S-300 missiles for strikes is telling as well.
  15. Not saying that isn't what he is doing, but with the smoke behind him he may have just fired his rocket salvo and popping flares while turning for home? One or two incendiary artillery shells would lite that field a lot easier. Russians are evil pieces of dick.
  16. Someone had to save up for the last class.
  17. 1. Brunt ends ponies up the $200k 2. Harvest data to find an LB 3. ????? 4. Profit
  18. Close the canal to any ship carrying Russian cargo or under Russian flag. Or just confiscate the first nice one that rolls through. Regardless, fuck yo couch Russia, you go the long way.
  19. Agree. I think we recovered a good chunk of street cred putting Russian plans on blast before Feb 24. IMO, that had a huge impact on shaping the initial phase of the war. Props to everyone involved collecting, analyzing, and making the decision to release the intelligence to the world.
  20. The ole Tirpitz smoke generator strategy - bold move for a target that doesn't move like a huge fucking bridge and the world has GPS satellites and shit. Regardless, call 617 squadron in with some tall boys just to be safe.
  21. Would be nice to hit a few of the air fields down there while you're at it.
  22. Resupplying in Sevastopol, it would be nice for something to hit it. What do the Ukrainians have (if anything) to strike Sevastopol currently? OT: Soviets had an underground sub base near by in Balaklava. Link
  23. I would think Russia could still maintain the blockade with subs plus aviation and anti ship missiles out of Crimea.
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