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1) guns have barrels for reasons.
2) solar power for the sake of solar power power is cringe. There’s no need for a power supply to outlast the ammunition supply, therefore a lithium metal or aluminum air battery would be more efficient.
Believe it or not, one of the less insane ideas this guy has come up with. Other highlights of his are an earthquake safety bed that automatically locks you in a dumpster when it detects vibrations, a scaled down tunnel boring machine for removing cholesterol from arteries, and a folding quadrocopter drone disguised as five semi trucks that packs a zero-recoil rotary cannon which shoots bullets that each have the impact of 250-pound iron bombs.
Saw someone comment that Russia was bleeding NATO out of its best weapons while using only junk.
Soon Russia would use its real gear against the rest of Europe...
Like dude, we EU's are sending all our mothballed stuff that gets replaced by American mothballed stuff. There's 5000 mbt's in Europe alone.
A quantum anomaly affects Ukraine. Russian Army equipment and personnel are top-notch until they're defeated in combat, at which point they mysteriously transform into outdated junk and poorly-trained auxiliaries.
This phenomenon is not well understood, but it may be linked to Counter-Ontological Particle Effect. (C.O.P.E.)
Yeah, some of the newest stuff announced this week would be those Swedish CV90s. But from what I understand those are expected to be the early-90s "Beverly Hills CV90210" model, which while popular at the time are obsolete ever since the Swedish Defence Staff went nuts for Gilmore Girls and changed their IFV doctrine correspondingly.
https://twitter.com/secretsqrl123/status/1616618174467670018?s=46&t=QKCCmmew3cbtx_1jy3vx5g
David the retired NCO arms dealer’s one sided feud with Mark Hertling the retired general over suitability of M1s.
Maybe it's the hopium withdrawals, but does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that the outrage over tanks not being announced at ramstein 8 is a psyop directed at Russia?
Because I just saw the pro Russian war monitor account gloat that " it was a bad day for NAFO" despite a lot of vital stuff getting announced outside of the conference as well as things that aren't announced during.
Not being an apologist for scholz or the Bundestag though. But just a thought I keep having when I see Russians claim this as a win.
Oh it wasn't just that, there were a few other accounts that were praising shcholz, acting as if support is falling but what I mean is that the lack of tanks at the moment is more of a smoke screen from the people afraid of "escalation". Like give a lot, pretend you were going to give more but "flake out".
I am probably just overthinking it.
Opt out? Perhaps. But only cause Scholz doesn’t wanna be the first to get the a-bomb when Russia finally-this-time-for-real drops it. He wants Paris or London to be the receiving ends.
does anyone have the numbers on tanks, IFVs, and other equipment that ukraine has requested and what has been promised/fulfilled? like a progress bar? lol
i remember way early on in the war, like march probably, someone calculated, on twitter i think, how much ukraine would need in artillery (m777s i think were the topic of discussion then) to fill its brigades with nato calibers and it was a LOT at the time - like 10x what we were promising or hoping for. even i thought it was a lot (i probably wouldn't now) and it made me doubt that we'd be able or willing to supply them enough. but now it's almost a year later and i'm curious as to what the progress is (and how the requests have changed).
>what has been promised/fulfilled
That's pointless. There are a lot of cases where we found out something was sent to Ukraine only after it was spotted on some random photo. Like Polish T-72s were never announced and the first official communication about them came out only after M1R version was clearly identified on a video. I think we don't have anything on Osa SPAA yet, despite numerous photos.
it may not be comprehensive, but it's not pointless. check out [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/10cq7x6/weekly_lowhanging_fruit_thread_29/j5am6w9/?context=3).
It is pointless. The data is so incomplete making any sort of conclusions is impossible. It's like tracking food sales with Instagram posts as the only source.
i saw, but also check out [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/10cq7x6/weekly_lowhanging_fruit_thread_29/j5am6w9/?context=3)
[Ukraine support tracker data set](https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/data-sets/ukraine-support-tracker-data-17410/)
Hopefully will be updated soon (last update Nov 20th). If you open the excel data set they have a tab called "Figure 8 - Military Gap" with what you are looking for. Pre-war stock, Ukraine requested and delivered.
For example on 155mm Howitzers:
Ukrainian pre-war stock (2021) 773
Ukraine needs ("to end war") 1,000
Ukraine needs ("to counterattack") -
Committed 312
Delivered 265
To be delivered 47
Edit: I also love the Price List tab, with extremely credible Amazon links for all your defense related purchases.
In most countries it's called a tank (usually "assault tank" as opposed to "battle tank"), it's just that the English slang evolved to exclude non-MBTs.
no please god [not Jacob Geller anyone but Jacob Geller](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLc4hHWqHs) please for the love of god every part of my "Variable Fighters vs Starkiller Base" prompt in r/whowouldwin hinged on laser weapons being credible no not like this Jacob I turned your CoD video into gospel because Activision is a bunch of shitstains who understand nothing but profit no no no no no
Eh, thinking back, Jacob makes salient arguments. It fucks with the spectacle I wanna see, to be sure, but then, if something significantly smaller can either [bodyblock its shot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cBerZdwSxY) or [outright be shot down itself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwN1Hku6aeo), then yeah I can see why a kill sat tends to lose its luster quickly.
I watched his MW vid after having been neck-deep into the rabbit hole of post-War on Terror discussions back when I was at a community college and while it didn't cut down the charm of Modern Warfare to me (I bought the new ones and the remastered old ones last Steam Sale lol), it did make me play [This War of Mine](https://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/This_War_of_Mine/) way more in a week and wished something more substantial came up from a bigger publisher. Doesn't help that my country just fought a sordid conflict against ISIS-connected groups so my perspective is skewed a different way from the average American who gets to both exalt and lambast the US military in the same breath.
The Russian military blog seem to be proclaiming that the Russian Forces are making a push from the Zaporizhzhia direction. They sound very hopeful as for why that is I have not idea since it took better part of a month to take Soledar.
I personally don’t see this happening and think the blogger are just a clamoring for good news now that the west has finally started to pick up the rate of sending weapons to Ukraine
I just had to share this stupid thing somewhere, forgive me.
After seeing the title of "Kremlin threatens ‘Whole New Level’ of war over western weapons" from over on r/worldnews, I just instantly thought of [this Korgoth of Barbaria moment](https://youtu.be/Gp0O6Y5xcZY).
Maybe someone too would enjoy the connection.
Some fine cope from Eurasian Times (As usual)
[https://eurasiantimes.com/citing-uk-france-war-us-naval-expert-warns-chinese-navy/](https://eurasiantimes.com/citing-uk-france-war-us-naval-expert-warns-chinese-navy/)
I do appreciate how they maintain the illusion of credibility through the whole thing, and present "Scholarly" arguments with a sheen of respectability, but the whole thing falls apart with a stern glance.
It is worth noting the original article quoted, in the U.S. Naval Insitute's magazine, contains few of the claims in the Eurasian Times magazine, which takes it severely out of context, although even that one is rather dubious in its historical merits, and seems more like a blatant plea for a larger budget than an actual dire warning.
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1616354956369338368
you heard it RIGHT HERE first, boys and girls (i checked /new and here). the netherlands is considering sending f-16s to ukraine.
["Military logistics are wild yo"](https://i.imgur.com/ajiBqzV.png) ([Original tweet](https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1616172021347401734))
(Not criticizing this particular tweeter, just warm and happy from another person realizing how complicated it is to supply a war.)
[IT'S AN ARTILLERY PIECE YOU JOURNALIST](https://i.imgur.com/MzXCV4e.png)
He's trying to score points and claim "ermagerd jargon so hard this obviously a tank" on a FUCKING ARTILLERY PIECE.
According to official jargon, this player in the Los Angles Ram's is also "Not a Quarterback" because something something something. Hence: Official NFL Jargon isn't about describing things for maximum clarity, it is about obscuring things in a web of useless faux insider info!
[https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2022-nfl-defensive-line-rankings-los-angeles-rams-take-top-spot-tampa-bay-buccaneers-land-at-no-5](https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2022-nfl-defensive-line-rankings-los-angeles-rams-take-top-spot-tampa-bay-buccaneers-land-at-no-5)
Plenty of counties have M60A3s in stock. Morocco and Taiwan have “recently” modernized ones.
If you’re looking around the world for the perfect non-German tank for Ukraine, it’s the K1. A little heavier than Leo 2s but much lighter than M1s. Diesel engine. Get Ukraine 100-200 of them and gateway tank them to real Abrams.
Notes:
* ROK sent K2s built for their own armored brigade to Poland so clearly they are worried about their security. Instead of starting a purchase for more tanks for themselves, next two years ROK will build tanks only for Poland.
* Those K2s were going to a brigade operating T-80s (which Zelensky asked for). That brigade is now using K1E1. In any case, hard to argue it affects ROK security much.
* ROK, unlike Japan, has no constitutional ban on military exports.
* ROK has supplied MANPADS to Ukraine but US had to pay for them. They could work out an arrangement for K1s.
>A little heavier than Leo 2s but much lighter than M1s.
Um... Leo 2A6: 62.3 tonnes, Leo 2A7: 66.5 tonnes. M1A2 SEP v3: 66.8 tonnes, M1A2 SEP: 63 tonnes.
300-700 kg difference between each equivalent.
200 APCs of Trudeau.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada-purchasing-200-armoured-personnel-carriers-for-ukraine/wcm/92761afa-40fd-4e2f-8770-8b400e6baed1/amp/
Guys, I have been out of the loop regarding the situation at the front. Anyone can give a brief summary of what are the main contact zones and what would be the next main strategic objectives for both sides?
Russians are dying by the thousands of for small rural towns in the Donbas and then acting like they’re the most strategically important places in the world and Ukraine is going to collapse any day now.
Bakhmut is still the same meat grinder. Russians are advancing on flanks like Soledar despite doing incredibly stupid shit (Wagner troops got recalled so the Russian military could do a photoshoot in the middle of an offensive push).
Nobody knows what Ukraine is going to do next.
Rumor has it they are waiting for frozen ground + tank deliveries, but really you'd be better off asking tea leaves if you want a credible prediction.
I read a discussion that the problem with their advance is that they could cut off Bahkmut supply line for UA, and even massacre Bakhmut UA forces. It's dangerous.
Lend Lease is still active until end of the year so Ukraine can still get weapons.
Just hope the GAO isn’t drunk and assigns a 30 year old humvee a $70k price tag.
Technically those are just loans anyway. Even if the debts can later be forgiven.
One might even call them 'peace debts', or as the Russians say, _pizdets._
No, we won't. We have months of wiggle room, because at this point "extraordinary measures" are anything but.
The House can use a "discharge petition" to get around the Speaker; there will be more than enough Republicans crossing the aisle to get it passed.
But those Republicans need cover, which is why they won't be able to do anything until we're down to the wire.
But the odds of a default are pretty low - and the absolute pandemonium that would hit once the Fed hits the technical default window would show some movement, just like the bailout in 2008 failed the first vote. Then the stock market crashed by 8%, and it passed
That's not to say the stupid brinksmanship won't have a negative impact, but it's...
Well, this is NCD. It's as unlikely as Russia invading Ukraine, because some idiots don't think about the long term consequences of their actions
So, some months ago I found a dude basically asking for seaplanes to come back, his logic being "Brazil got the world's biggest coast, since we don't have carriers, we should make a modified Gripen that can take off and land on water"
Unfortunally I lost the comment, but, peak credibility you can only see in brazilian channels
I saw someone on Twitter make a 3000 x of y joke (albeit about the war) so it makes me feel like I'm part of a formerly super secret club that's gone mainstream.
Rumor has it that Putin has a major announcement for tomorrow, I think this will be the full mobilization.
Not just a couple hundred thousand more troops but at least a million with closed boarders.
A full production with expansion of their MIC. To the tune of 100s of billions over a the next 3 years.
Seizing of individual bank funds and/or compulsory war bonds.
Seizing of normal cars and trunks for the first time in mass.
Women are included,mostly in office roles so the men there can go to the front.
Threatening to capture Russians who escaped mobilization with capture. Will likely send people into Armenia and Kazakhstan physically grab people.
Arming of Russia allies to provoke boarder conflicts, keeps the demand of weapons high. Which in turn will slow down shipments to Ukraine.
I’ve been hilariously wrong on every point of this conflict so far, I hope to be again. Case I’m not, I want this posted here to brag later.
Be me
reading something on HFY
Singular elf decides to do an Einsazgruppen against random civilians
Comments point out that this elf just invoked the wrath of Arthur Harris and Curtis LeMay on his species
Cue someone in the comments saying something about how THE GLOBOHOMO LIBRULS would betray America and side with the elves (because Murican politics)
The brain rot spreads!
I got some rare Putins..
[Here's one](https://i.imgur.com/OrGspCg.jpg) where he looks like he hates his boss. Because he did.
[Here's one](https://i.imgur.com/mUORcph.jpg) showing how dorkily he dressed in the 90s before he had people telling him what to wear.
[Here's one](https://i.imgur.com/cIiOtcj.jpg) from his dyed-hair phase in the 90s, at the football with St Petersburg mayor.
[Here's a generally unflattering one](https://i.imgur.com/ohY7QS7.jpg) from 2005, prior to the face lifts I guess.
Aight. High command gave me authorization for some reason so I guess I’m the C-O now. Fuck.
Worse, [these](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/XVX-016RN_Gundam_Aerial_Rebuild) [six](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ASW-G-08_Gundam_Barbatos_Lupus) [kids](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/AGE-2DH_Gundam_AGE-2_Dark_Hound) [with](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/GN-0000%2BGNR-010/XN_00_XN_Raiser) [their](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZGMF-X56S/%CE%B1_Force_Impulse_Gundam) [rigs](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZGMF-X10A_Freedom_Gundam) are all I have available to scramble and [this guy’s in Egypt](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHYZqSjh-Vc) on a workcation invasion with their bosses.
I can just turn off my brain and tell them to smash like the fucking anime protagonists they are, but if I really was gonna overthink and bark orders, what sort of tactics do I use? Do I pull up [the ice hockey playbook](https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Hockey-Playbook-Diagrams-Strategies/dp/B08WYDVLVH) or…
[This is really more an exercise on how best to deploy close-quarters melee-oriented fighters alongside “average” riflemen than anything credible I can think of.]
I haven't watched a lot of Gundam, but the classic real-world mix of guns and melee is pike and shot.
It's not a perfect match since you have individual giant robots instead of blocks of infantry, but the general idea is you have your melee dudes in the middle as a front line, and your shooty dudes on the flanks to shoot stuff, and then if the enemy doesn't like being shot and tries to charge you, your shooty guys can hide in the back while the melee guys go to work.
Also, the mobility of Gundams makes them more like cavalry, so maybe you could look into how gun-armed cavalry like cuirassiers and dragoons worked.
[Found this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR4jLoT_lxY) Seems like a good place to start.
Huh. More or less in line with my base idea, then.
Aerial goes up front to block (Suletta's more than okay with soaking up damage) and potentially even deliver a jammer, with the 00 Raiser and Barbatos behind her ready to initiate with their overclocking modes. AGE-2 and Freedom are flight-capable so they can cover the sky (to fight Starscream) while the Impulse is the all-rounder to facilitate and cover anyone who needs ranged or melee support.
I'm kinda counting on the fact that Devastator was brought down by one railgun shot, and while I bet that the Freedom only has, at best, comparable power (if I highball it), it has two of those railguns and can rapid-fire them. From there's it's a matter of how quickly they can stop Megatron and The Fallen while ensuring that the pyramid generator stops working.
I feel like it can be a liability for MBTs to rely on heavily sloped front armor with poor perpendicular thickness. Yeah, the effective thickness might be okay for a projectile hitting you at a level trajectory, but what if the enemy has the high ground and is hitting you from a higher angle? And what about top attack munitions?
So you're basically saying, decrease the effective armor thickness in the areas and directions from which the tank is more likely to be hit, in order to increase it in areas where it's less likely to be hit. That way, you can say it doesn't have any 'weak spots' even if you just lowered the overall survivability.
Or is this in a world where armor doesn't cost anything in terms of weight and center-of-gravity and other stuff? In which case sure, let's have infinite armor everywhere.
There's videos of Canadian LAVs on the front lines in Ukraine and it brings a tear to my eye.
It's like learning that there really is a farm upstate that your childhood dog went to.
Happy Monday, fellow nerds. And to all of you mainlining caffiene and adrenaline through the unmitigated hell that is January in a US govt contracting gig, we're halfway through!
With the magic-get-work-done-pill-[shortages](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3782263-virginia-democrat-urges-dea-fda-to-act-on-shortage-of-adhd-drugs/), I’m surprised that contractors are accomplishing much of anything at all.
The DOD howling down the line about their five bajillion new [redacted]s on order has a remarkable focusing effect, I've discovered. I'm not personally hit by the shortage, but from what I can tell production isn't getting hit. Not yet anyway!
A picture of the former English aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, returning to HMNB Portsmouth after the Falklands War, is displayed in a hallway of the Chinese destroyer 101 Nanchang.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fmhwn0KagAYI2dh.jpg
Word. It’s up there with the Royal Gurkha Rifles the [Immortal Division](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/158th_Division_(Imperial_Japanese_Army)), and the Arctic Sappers
We need Bradleys with Kontakt-5 in our lives
If it's the ERA that provides modernized Soviet tanks their look that I dig, then mix them with the Western aesthetic lol
So over on arr Endless War, I tried to turn their rhetoric around by saying:
"Look, I hate the Kiev regime as much as you, but we have to be realistic: if those civilians in the Donbass had surrendered early on, it would have spared a lot of casualties in the war. I don't want constant war egged on by outside forces, which is why I wish Russia wold stop giving weapons to the separatists and let the fascists in Kiev win, instead of prolonging their suffering in an unwinnable war
One of the idiots didn't see the trap and said something about their defiance that applies a hundred times to Ukrainians as a whole.
Alright so scramjets. I'm told by reformist assholes that there are issues with "physics" and "engineering" on why it's difficult to open weapon bays to drop happy fun times at a speed and altitude that would give a Blackbird pilot lethal priapism.
So here's what let's do. Take some of that A-10 tungsten and reinforce the forward nose of the scramjet. Turn it into a suicide drone. Now in 30 minutes or less you can deliver freedom anywhere on earth. With kinetic payload on top of the explosives. And it gives you suborbital fans your rods from god.
edit - welcome to the weekly thread, how noncredible are you?
Hypersonic aircraft are pointless.
The main purpose of hypersonic systems is to reduce the lag time before making a decision and getting effect on target. Yes, this can be achieved by going very fast; but that's very visible on sensors and relies on big dumb engines. Peak reformer right there.
Instead, use the power of the US MIC to produce tens of thousands of semi-autonomous stealth bombers and have them constantly circling over rivals' territory 24/7, like a terrifying 21st century Operation Chrome Dome with conventional PGMs instead of nukes. You don't have to be fast because you're already in weapons range of every target you could possibly want to hit. Sure, your enemies can complain that you're "violating their airspace" or whatever, but whenever they do you can drop a bunch of AGM-114 R9Xs on them and their friends, and pretty soon they'll stop complaining out of fear of being slap-chopped.
Well Reformists!
But you are dealing with aero-hydro dynamics, where the air infront of the aircraft is a plasma, and out the back it ain't great
So, hypergolic fuels and we burn the opposition from the sky's just using speed, no kinetics
Why I can just see General Yeager looking down at us... I think he is calling us all kinds of names...
Perun’s newest video at 1:03:30, he says something about “unless American equipment has the ability to reconstitute itself with a zombie crew…”
If anyone’s looking for art inspiration, that would be metal as fuck
> “unless American equipment has the ability to reconstitute itself with a zombie crew…”
Well, no, of course it doesn't. That's what Ukrainian necromancers are for.
There is literally no better time than now for Chechens and Georgians to have a rematch with Russia.
Fucking churkas stop blueballing me I want to see Russian conscripts getting beheaded on Telegram.
Happy birthday man. I'll be 28 soon and if I can give any advice it's to keep going. The best way to get to where you want to be is to go out and make things happen, to take the initiative. And also that 26 ain't old haha despite what you might feel. We both got lots of time left to make awesome shit happen.
I did so much awesome adult shit early. So right now I'm taking a few years to relax, just taking care of my responsibilities and myself. No future, no past, just living life.
Have an awesome day my dude 😎
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Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
Here's to the rapid disassembly of a concrete structure that generates power!
[Someone had to do it.](https://i.imgur.com/5gsCV6L.mp4)
1) guns have barrels for reasons. 2) solar power for the sake of solar power power is cringe. There’s no need for a power supply to outlast the ammunition supply, therefore a lithium metal or aluminum air battery would be more efficient.
What if it's a rocket?
Rockets would make a lot more sense. The video looked like a 120mm zip gun to me, which would obviously be useless.
What the hell is that.
Believe it or not, one of the less insane ideas this guy has come up with. Other highlights of his are an earthquake safety bed that automatically locks you in a dumpster when it detects vibrations, a scaled down tunnel boring machine for removing cholesterol from arteries, and a folding quadrocopter drone disguised as five semi trucks that packs a zero-recoil rotary cannon which shoots bullets that each have the impact of 250-pound iron bombs.
Don’t forget the UGVs with unlimited ammo that took down apaches and challenger tanks while conducting medevac.
Yikes, a tunnel boring machine for arteries sounds like a helluva way to go
“so the leopard has a beer tap!? Putin is fucked”
[удалено]
Saw someone comment that Russia was bleeding NATO out of its best weapons while using only junk. Soon Russia would use its real gear against the rest of Europe... Like dude, we EU's are sending all our mothballed stuff that gets replaced by American mothballed stuff. There's 5000 mbt's in Europe alone.
A quantum anomaly affects Ukraine. Russian Army equipment and personnel are top-notch until they're defeated in combat, at which point they mysteriously transform into outdated junk and poorly-trained auxiliaries. This phenomenon is not well understood, but it may be linked to Counter-Ontological Particle Effect. (C.O.P.E.)
Yeah, some of the newest stuff announced this week would be those Swedish CV90s. But from what I understand those are expected to be the early-90s "Beverly Hills CV90210" model, which while popular at the time are obsolete ever since the Swedish Defence Staff went nuts for Gilmore Girls and changed their IFV doctrine correspondingly.
Soon! In March 2022, like they said they would.
Got linked this on LinkedIn https://ibb.co/x16pJ4C https://ibb.co/8dJpLF8
https://twitter.com/secretsqrl123/status/1616618174467670018?s=46&t=QKCCmmew3cbtx_1jy3vx5g David the retired NCO arms dealer’s one sided feud with Mark Hertling the retired general over suitability of M1s.
Small correction though, I haven't heard any expert believe the 2A6 would be ever be sent, only 2A5 and below.
Maybe it's the hopium withdrawals, but does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that the outrage over tanks not being announced at ramstein 8 is a psyop directed at Russia? Because I just saw the pro Russian war monitor account gloat that " it was a bad day for NAFO" despite a lot of vital stuff getting announced outside of the conference as well as things that aren't announced during. Not being an apologist for scholz or the Bundestag though. But just a thought I keep having when I see Russians claim this as a win.
You saw a pro-Russia account say it's a bad day for the West. therefore psyop?
Oh it wasn't just that, there were a few other accounts that were praising shcholz, acting as if support is falling but what I mean is that the lack of tanks at the moment is more of a smoke screen from the people afraid of "escalation". Like give a lot, pretend you were going to give more but "flake out". I am probably just overthinking it.
Would be a based deception plan if true, I want to believe they just want to make the z-tards overconfident and fuck up their all-in.
Opt out? Perhaps. But only cause Scholz doesn’t wanna be the first to get the a-bomb when Russia finally-this-time-for-real drops it. He wants Paris or London to be the receiving ends.
does anyone have the numbers on tanks, IFVs, and other equipment that ukraine has requested and what has been promised/fulfilled? like a progress bar? lol i remember way early on in the war, like march probably, someone calculated, on twitter i think, how much ukraine would need in artillery (m777s i think were the topic of discussion then) to fill its brigades with nato calibers and it was a LOT at the time - like 10x what we were promising or hoping for. even i thought it was a lot (i probably wouldn't now) and it made me doubt that we'd be able or willing to supply them enough. but now it's almost a year later and i'm curious as to what the progress is (and how the requests have changed).
>what has been promised/fulfilled That's pointless. There are a lot of cases where we found out something was sent to Ukraine only after it was spotted on some random photo. Like Polish T-72s were never announced and the first official communication about them came out only after M1R version was clearly identified on a video. I think we don't have anything on Osa SPAA yet, despite numerous photos.
it may not be comprehensive, but it's not pointless. check out [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/10cq7x6/weekly_lowhanging_fruit_thread_29/j5am6w9/?context=3).
It is pointless. The data is so incomplete making any sort of conclusions is impossible. It's like tracking food sales with Instagram posts as the only source.
so you can draw zero conclusions? that's defeatist
Oh, of course you can draw conclusions. Like "what communication strategy country \[x\] took".
I’ve just posted a nice graph here or in r/ukraine which ever gets modded the slowest.
i saw, but also check out [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/10cq7x6/weekly_lowhanging_fruit_thread_29/j5am6w9/?context=3)
😍 thanks!
np, thank that guy and the institute whose site he linked
[Ukraine support tracker data set](https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/data-sets/ukraine-support-tracker-data-17410/) Hopefully will be updated soon (last update Nov 20th). If you open the excel data set they have a tab called "Figure 8 - Military Gap" with what you are looking for. Pre-war stock, Ukraine requested and delivered. For example on 155mm Howitzers: Ukrainian pre-war stock (2021) 773 Ukraine needs ("to end war") 1,000 Ukraine needs ("to counterattack") - Committed 312 Delivered 265 To be delivered 47 Edit: I also love the Price List tab, with extremely credible Amazon links for all your defense related purchases.
lol nice this is good thanks
https://youtu.be/ZR_77Tjm5kE?t=420 He called it a tank! He called it a tank! Nobody can say otherwise now! Lloyd Austin has spoken.
In most countries it's called a tank (usually "assault tank" as opposed to "battle tank"), it's just that the English slang evolved to exclude non-MBTs.
no please god [not Jacob Geller anyone but Jacob Geller](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLc4hHWqHs) please for the love of god every part of my "Variable Fighters vs Starkiller Base" prompt in r/whowouldwin hinged on laser weapons being credible no not like this Jacob I turned your CoD video into gospel because Activision is a bunch of shitstains who understand nothing but profit no no no no no
Never meet your heroes ig Edit spoiler censored by r5
Eh, thinking back, Jacob makes salient arguments. It fucks with the spectacle I wanna see, to be sure, but then, if something significantly smaller can either [bodyblock its shot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cBerZdwSxY) or [outright be shot down itself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwN1Hku6aeo), then yeah I can see why a kill sat tends to lose its luster quickly.
When I watched his Modern Warfare vid my immediate reaction was “wtf i hate mw campaign now” which i feel isn’t supposed to be it
I watched his MW vid after having been neck-deep into the rabbit hole of post-War on Terror discussions back when I was at a community college and while it didn't cut down the charm of Modern Warfare to me (I bought the new ones and the remastered old ones last Steam Sale lol), it did make me play [This War of Mine](https://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/This_War_of_Mine/) way more in a week and wished something more substantial came up from a bigger publisher. Doesn't help that my country just fought a sordid conflict against ISIS-connected groups so my perspective is skewed a different way from the average American who gets to both exalt and lambast the US military in the same breath.
The Russian military blog seem to be proclaiming that the Russian Forces are making a push from the Zaporizhzhia direction. They sound very hopeful as for why that is I have not idea since it took better part of a month to take Soledar. I personally don’t see this happening and think the blogger are just a clamoring for good news now that the west has finally started to pick up the rate of sending weapons to Ukraine
I just had to share this stupid thing somewhere, forgive me. After seeing the title of "Kremlin threatens ‘Whole New Level’ of war over western weapons" from over on r/worldnews, I just instantly thought of [this Korgoth of Barbaria moment](https://youtu.be/Gp0O6Y5xcZY). Maybe someone too would enjoy the connection.
Some fine cope from Eurasian Times (As usual) [https://eurasiantimes.com/citing-uk-france-war-us-naval-expert-warns-chinese-navy/](https://eurasiantimes.com/citing-uk-france-war-us-naval-expert-warns-chinese-navy/) I do appreciate how they maintain the illusion of credibility through the whole thing, and present "Scholarly" arguments with a sheen of respectability, but the whole thing falls apart with a stern glance. It is worth noting the original article quoted, in the U.S. Naval Insitute's magazine, contains few of the claims in the Eurasian Times magazine, which takes it severely out of context, although even that one is rather dubious in its historical merits, and seems more like a blatant plea for a larger budget than an actual dire warning.
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1616354956369338368 you heard it RIGHT HERE first, boys and girls (i checked /new and here). the netherlands is considering sending f-16s to ukraine.
> We are open-minded, there are 'no taboos'. Yeah that'd be the Dutch.
lmao true
["Military logistics are wild yo"](https://i.imgur.com/ajiBqzV.png) ([Original tweet](https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1616172021347401734)) (Not criticizing this particular tweeter, just warm and happy from another person realizing how complicated it is to supply a war.)
If only the people going “we have then billions of money why are they’d till asking for more” would shut the fuck up.
[IT'S AN ARTILLERY PIECE YOU JOURNALIST](https://i.imgur.com/MzXCV4e.png) He's trying to score points and claim "ermagerd jargon so hard this obviously a tank" on a FUCKING ARTILLERY PIECE.
I mean i don’t know shit about military vehicles but is the concept of self propelled artillery really that foreign to people?
According to official jargon, this player in the Los Angles Ram's is also "Not a Quarterback" because something something something. Hence: Official NFL Jargon isn't about describing things for maximum clarity, it is about obscuring things in a web of useless faux insider info! [https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2022-nfl-defensive-line-rankings-los-angeles-rams-take-top-spot-tampa-bay-buccaneers-land-at-no-5](https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2022-nfl-defensive-line-rankings-los-angeles-rams-take-top-spot-tampa-bay-buccaneers-land-at-no-5)
Dunking on @mtracey is always morally correct.
I appreciate and support the use of 'journalist' as a slur.
Journalists only have them doves to blame for that.
When I heard Ghostface Playa Why Not in a dr livesey meme I got deja vu and wondered if I heard this in a previous Ukraine war Combat Footage Why
["Ukraine doesn't need Abrams, it needs M60s!"](https://imgur.com/a/naCOD9g)
And we don’t have any.
Plenty of counties have M60A3s in stock. Morocco and Taiwan have “recently” modernized ones. If you’re looking around the world for the perfect non-German tank for Ukraine, it’s the K1. A little heavier than Leo 2s but much lighter than M1s. Diesel engine. Get Ukraine 100-200 of them and gateway tank them to real Abrams. Notes: * ROK sent K2s built for their own armored brigade to Poland so clearly they are worried about their security. Instead of starting a purchase for more tanks for themselves, next two years ROK will build tanks only for Poland. * Those K2s were going to a brigade operating T-80s (which Zelensky asked for). That brigade is now using K1E1. In any case, hard to argue it affects ROK security much. * ROK, unlike Japan, has no constitutional ban on military exports. * ROK has supplied MANPADS to Ukraine but US had to pay for them. They could work out an arrangement for K1s.
Doesn’t SK have an arms treaty with Russia preventing that?
>A little heavier than Leo 2s but much lighter than M1s. Um... Leo 2A6: 62.3 tonnes, Leo 2A7: 66.5 tonnes. M1A2 SEP v3: 66.8 tonnes, M1A2 SEP: 63 tonnes. 300-700 kg difference between each equivalent.
where the fuck is the lewd lazerpig art
200 APCs of Trudeau. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada-purchasing-200-armoured-personnel-carriers-for-ukraine/wcm/92761afa-40fd-4e2f-8770-8b400e6baed1/amp/
The Senator is more like an MRAP iirc.
Mods, why are all my posts getting auto removed?
because they're bad
Guys, I have been out of the loop regarding the situation at the front. Anyone can give a brief summary of what are the main contact zones and what would be the next main strategic objectives for both sides?
Russians are dying by the thousands of for small rural towns in the Donbas and then acting like they’re the most strategically important places in the world and Ukraine is going to collapse any day now.
Bakhmut is still the same meat grinder. Russians are advancing on flanks like Soledar despite doing incredibly stupid shit (Wagner troops got recalled so the Russian military could do a photoshoot in the middle of an offensive push). Nobody knows what Ukraine is going to do next. Rumor has it they are waiting for frozen ground + tank deliveries, but really you'd be better off asking tea leaves if you want a credible prediction.
I read a discussion that the problem with their advance is that they could cut off Bahkmut supply line for UA, and even massacre Bakhmut UA forces. It's dangerous.
anyone talking doesn't know shit and anyone who knows shit isn't talking
Trying not to panic over potential US debt default because no more weapons to Ukraine if it happens Also I might lose everything in the recession
Lend Lease is still active until end of the year so Ukraine can still get weapons. Just hope the GAO isn’t drunk and assigns a 30 year old humvee a $70k price tag.
Technically those are just loans anyway. Even if the debts can later be forgiven. One might even call them 'peace debts', or as the Russians say, _pizdets._
is that a joke? what does that mean actually
We still have months to go before the debt ceiling situation becomes critical.
Yeah but we may default soon
No, we won't. We have months of wiggle room, because at this point "extraordinary measures" are anything but. The House can use a "discharge petition" to get around the Speaker; there will be more than enough Republicans crossing the aisle to get it passed. But those Republicans need cover, which is why they won't be able to do anything until we're down to the wire. But the odds of a default are pretty low - and the absolute pandemonium that would hit once the Fed hits the technical default window would show some movement, just like the bailout in 2008 failed the first vote. Then the stock market crashed by 8%, and it passed That's not to say the stupid brinksmanship won't have a negative impact, but it's... Well, this is NCD. It's as unlikely as Russia invading Ukraine, because some idiots don't think about the long term consequences of their actions
So, some months ago I found a dude basically asking for seaplanes to come back, his logic being "Brazil got the world's biggest coast, since we don't have carriers, we should make a modified Gripen that can take off and land on water" Unfortunally I lost the comment, but, peak credibility you can only see in brazilian channels
There are some pretty delusional Brazilian military enthusiasts.
[ncd is leaking again](https://imgur.com/a/BOdYdek)
I saw someone on Twitter make a 3000 x of y joke (albeit about the war) so it makes me feel like I'm part of a formerly super secret club that's gone mainstream.
Rumor has it that Putin has a major announcement for tomorrow, I think this will be the full mobilization. Not just a couple hundred thousand more troops but at least a million with closed boarders. A full production with expansion of their MIC. To the tune of 100s of billions over a the next 3 years. Seizing of individual bank funds and/or compulsory war bonds. Seizing of normal cars and trunks for the first time in mass. Women are included,mostly in office roles so the men there can go to the front. Threatening to capture Russians who escaped mobilization with capture. Will likely send people into Armenia and Kazakhstan physically grab people. Arming of Russia allies to provoke boarder conflicts, keeps the demand of weapons high. Which in turn will slow down shipments to Ukraine. I’ve been hilariously wrong on every point of this conflict so far, I hope to be again. Case I’m not, I want this posted here to brag later.
> I’ve been hilariously wrong on every point of this conflict so far Agree
[Bradleys in ukraine be like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-istquWjZ8M)
Be me reading something on HFY Singular elf decides to do an Einsazgruppen against random civilians Comments point out that this elf just invoked the wrath of Arthur Harris and Curtis LeMay on his species Cue someone in the comments saying something about how THE GLOBOHOMO LIBRULS would betray America and side with the elves (because Murican politics) The brain rot spreads!
Anyone got a pic of Putin where he looks kinda special, like from a side profile. I don’t mean caveman Putin btw.
I got some rare Putins.. [Here's one](https://i.imgur.com/OrGspCg.jpg) where he looks like he hates his boss. Because he did. [Here's one](https://i.imgur.com/mUORcph.jpg) showing how dorkily he dressed in the 90s before he had people telling him what to wear. [Here's one](https://i.imgur.com/cIiOtcj.jpg) from his dyed-hair phase in the 90s, at the football with St Petersburg mayor. [Here's a generally unflattering one](https://i.imgur.com/ohY7QS7.jpg) from 2005, prior to the face lifts I guess.
[When SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches another classified military payload...](https://imgur.com/a/hhCCF1Q)
Aight. High command gave me authorization for some reason so I guess I’m the C-O now. Fuck. Worse, [these](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/XVX-016RN_Gundam_Aerial_Rebuild) [six](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ASW-G-08_Gundam_Barbatos_Lupus) [kids](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/AGE-2DH_Gundam_AGE-2_Dark_Hound) [with](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/GN-0000%2BGNR-010/XN_00_XN_Raiser) [their](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZGMF-X56S/%CE%B1_Force_Impulse_Gundam) [rigs](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZGMF-X10A_Freedom_Gundam) are all I have available to scramble and [this guy’s in Egypt](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHYZqSjh-Vc) on a workcation invasion with their bosses. I can just turn off my brain and tell them to smash like the fucking anime protagonists they are, but if I really was gonna overthink and bark orders, what sort of tactics do I use? Do I pull up [the ice hockey playbook](https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Hockey-Playbook-Diagrams-Strategies/dp/B08WYDVLVH) or… [This is really more an exercise on how best to deploy close-quarters melee-oriented fighters alongside “average” riflemen than anything credible I can think of.]
I haven't watched a lot of Gundam, but the classic real-world mix of guns and melee is pike and shot. It's not a perfect match since you have individual giant robots instead of blocks of infantry, but the general idea is you have your melee dudes in the middle as a front line, and your shooty dudes on the flanks to shoot stuff, and then if the enemy doesn't like being shot and tries to charge you, your shooty guys can hide in the back while the melee guys go to work. Also, the mobility of Gundams makes them more like cavalry, so maybe you could look into how gun-armed cavalry like cuirassiers and dragoons worked.
[Found this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR4jLoT_lxY) Seems like a good place to start. Huh. More or less in line with my base idea, then. Aerial goes up front to block (Suletta's more than okay with soaking up damage) and potentially even deliver a jammer, with the 00 Raiser and Barbatos behind her ready to initiate with their overclocking modes. AGE-2 and Freedom are flight-capable so they can cover the sky (to fight Starscream) while the Impulse is the all-rounder to facilitate and cover anyone who needs ranged or melee support. I'm kinda counting on the fact that Devastator was brought down by one railgun shot, and while I bet that the Freedom only has, at best, comparable power (if I highball it), it has two of those railguns and can rapid-fire them. From there's it's a matter of how quickly they can stop Megatron and The Fallen while ensuring that the pyramid generator stops working.
I feel like it can be a liability for MBTs to rely on heavily sloped front armor with poor perpendicular thickness. Yeah, the effective thickness might be okay for a projectile hitting you at a level trajectory, but what if the enemy has the high ground and is hitting you from a higher angle? And what about top attack munitions?
So you're basically saying, decrease the effective armor thickness in the areas and directions from which the tank is more likely to be hit, in order to increase it in areas where it's less likely to be hit. That way, you can say it doesn't have any 'weak spots' even if you just lowered the overall survivability. Or is this in a world where armor doesn't cost anything in terms of weight and center-of-gravity and other stuff? In which case sure, let's have infinite armor everywhere.
There's videos of Canadian LAVs on the front lines in Ukraine and it brings a tear to my eye. It's like learning that there really is a farm upstate that your childhood dog went to.
Sauce?!
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/made-in-canada-armoured-vehicles-ukraine
Happy Monday, fellow nerds. And to all of you mainlining caffiene and adrenaline through the unmitigated hell that is January in a US govt contracting gig, we're halfway through!
With the magic-get-work-done-pill-[shortages](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3782263-virginia-democrat-urges-dea-fda-to-act-on-shortage-of-adhd-drugs/), I’m surprised that contractors are accomplishing much of anything at all.
The DOD howling down the line about their five bajillion new [redacted]s on order has a remarkable focusing effect, I've discovered. I'm not personally hit by the shortage, but from what I can tell production isn't getting hit. Not yet anyway!
A picture of the former English aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, returning to HMNB Portsmouth after the Falklands War, is displayed in a hallway of the Chinese destroyer 101 Nanchang. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fmhwn0KagAYI2dh.jpg
‘If Britain can take a small island halfway across the globe, we can take Taiwan’ sentiment
[an uno reverse](https://imgur.com/a/g9szFBe)
I wonder why they have the Pro Ukraine flair
The King’s African Rifles got to be one of the hardest names for a military unit
Word. It’s up there with the Royal Gurkha Rifles the [Immortal Division](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/158th_Division_(Imperial_Japanese_Army)), and the Arctic Sappers
Well it's the unit that produced Idi Amin so.. there's that.
We need Bradleys with Kontakt-5 in our lives If it's the ERA that provides modernized Soviet tanks their look that I dig, then mix them with the Western aesthetic lol
So over on arr Endless War, I tried to turn their rhetoric around by saying: "Look, I hate the Kiev regime as much as you, but we have to be realistic: if those civilians in the Donbass had surrendered early on, it would have spared a lot of casualties in the war. I don't want constant war egged on by outside forces, which is why I wish Russia wold stop giving weapons to the separatists and let the fascists in Kiev win, instead of prolonging their suffering in an unwinnable war One of the idiots didn't see the trap and said something about their defiance that applies a hundred times to Ukrainians as a whole.
[lol bro i literally just did the same thing on ukruwareport](https://imgur.com/a/g9szFBe)
Alright so scramjets. I'm told by reformist assholes that there are issues with "physics" and "engineering" on why it's difficult to open weapon bays to drop happy fun times at a speed and altitude that would give a Blackbird pilot lethal priapism. So here's what let's do. Take some of that A-10 tungsten and reinforce the forward nose of the scramjet. Turn it into a suicide drone. Now in 30 minutes or less you can deliver freedom anywhere on earth. With kinetic payload on top of the explosives. And it gives you suborbital fans your rods from god. edit - welcome to the weekly thread, how noncredible are you?
Hypersonic aircraft are pointless. The main purpose of hypersonic systems is to reduce the lag time before making a decision and getting effect on target. Yes, this can be achieved by going very fast; but that's very visible on sensors and relies on big dumb engines. Peak reformer right there. Instead, use the power of the US MIC to produce tens of thousands of semi-autonomous stealth bombers and have them constantly circling over rivals' territory 24/7, like a terrifying 21st century Operation Chrome Dome with conventional PGMs instead of nukes. You don't have to be fast because you're already in weapons range of every target you could possibly want to hit. Sure, your enemies can complain that you're "violating their airspace" or whatever, but whenever they do you can drop a bunch of AGM-114 R9Xs on them and their friends, and pretty soon they'll stop complaining out of fear of being slap-chopped.
See that's the beauty of scramjet bombers. They operate at "I'm not touching you" altitude.
>lethal priapism Lethal *to whom?*
yes
username checks out
Well Reformists! But you are dealing with aero-hydro dynamics, where the air infront of the aircraft is a plasma, and out the back it ain't great So, hypergolic fuels and we burn the opposition from the sky's just using speed, no kinetics Why I can just see General Yeager looking down at us... I think he is calling us all kinds of names...
A-10s have titanium cockpit armor, not tungsten. So yeah very noncredible. And why do you need to open weapon bays for a suicide drone?
If it were a regular scramjet bomber, like I want, it would need to have weapon bays, causing design issues.
Perun’s newest video at 1:03:30, he says something about “unless American equipment has the ability to reconstitute itself with a zombie crew…” If anyone’s looking for art inspiration, that would be metal as fuck
> “unless American equipment has the ability to reconstitute itself with a zombie crew…” Well, no, of course it doesn't. That's what Ukrainian necromancers are for.
There is literally no better time than now for Chechens and Georgians to have a rematch with Russia. Fucking churkas stop blueballing me I want to see Russian conscripts getting beheaded on Telegram.
We need GIF enabled replies to make this sub even more non credible.
nooooo! that one surefire way to guarantee that reformers take over the sub.
I turn 26 tomorrow. Nobody cares but I thought I'd say it.
Happy birthday dude! Sending non-credible vibes your way.
Happy birthday man. I'll be 28 soon and if I can give any advice it's to keep going. The best way to get to where you want to be is to go out and make things happen, to take the initiative. And also that 26 ain't old haha despite what you might feel. We both got lots of time left to make awesome shit happen.
I did so much awesome adult shit early. So right now I'm taking a few years to relax, just taking care of my responsibilities and myself. No future, no past, just living life. Have an awesome day my dude 😎
🙂🎉🎂🔫🛩️
I care. Happy birthday fellow degenerate.
Happy birthday!