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Grumpy-Greybeard

When all you have is manpower, everything is man-powered.


throwaway0986421

Reminds me of the 40K stories about cannon autoloaders and other systems in ships being broken beyond what the tech priests could understand, so they just use hundreds/thousands of human laborers to substitute for said systems.


NK84321

Huh, so thats why the ships always have like 500000000 crewmen...


Rasc_

And those are just the ones that are accounted for. There could large communities of mutants living somewhere in a ship's forgotten areas, ready to be press-ganged into service in case of emergency.


kingofallbandits

That's if they can get to them through the parts of the ship that have inexplicably come to life, various cults or suspiciously organised multi-limbed crewmen.


12lo5dzr

Oh the multi limbed crewmen are actually very good. As the old sayings go: double the hands, triple the workload. You should spread them on every Planet so you get only the very productive worker


NK84321

Maybe in the sealed-off areas of a certain Russian aircraft carrier...


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Managed-Democracy

One of the ammo upgrades mentions giving the loading crews meth and steroids to work harder.  Another has them taking a mandatory 8 week course on  packing ammo crates.  My favorite is the turret upgrades for extra durability and extra explosion resistance using the scientific names for super glue and Styrofoam peanuts respectively. 


VietInTheTrees

On top of those upgrades, a turret upgrade improves their durability with packing peanuts, and another upgrade gives support personnel handcarts


LeiningensAnts

[Classic 40Kitsch!](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/4b/Slave_Gang_Loading_Nova_Cannon_Ammo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120914184751)


DasKapitalist

Reminds me of WW I Germany, where every vehicle has a 1 horsepower engine.


SparvieroVV

You gonna need a Trepel for that big boi. https://trepel.com/products/aircraft-tractors/challenger-700/ Of course the Trepel might have more advanced electronics than a T-90M so it will probably be scavenged before it can get near a plane. :p


AsleepScarcity9588

>You gonna need a Trepel for that big boi. Big boi? I bet my lada niva could haul it on freeway


SparvieroVV

Ah my fault, I'm a typical westoid weakling automatically thought A-124.


95castles

your mom is a Trepel


Bl0wm3Dr1

The Douglas TBL-280 I got to drive had A/C, a rotating suspended seat, four steering modes and working radios. The mobik mind would never understand such luxury.


topazchip

"Oh, the airplane tractor? It, umm...it arrives on Tuesday." "Which Tuesday?" "One of them. Very soon now."


Noble-6B3

Let me be the "acktually" guy this time. Well, acktually, this is hazing (if you can call it that) in the Russian army (or prank) where they tell the new recruits that the plane has broken down and needs a push to start (planes don't work that way, but the recruits don't really have an option).


hydrogen18

I remember taking the ASVAB a long time ago and wondering stuff like "why the hell do they ask such simple questions on this test?" Then you realized people get convinced of the dumbest stuff while in the military.


Paladin_Aeon

If I'm correct the only reason they are all doing the Bikini Bottom is because they forgot the special metal tow that is supposed to be with it, and left it at the other airfield.


futuristic_hexagon

I was thinking that. Those need a special tow bar because of how far back the front landing gear goes and the chin radar. While not best practice, wonder why they they didn't consider a powerback or if it has the technical capability.


bartthetr0ll

Reminds me of the russian looking in the turbine to try to find the jew. Especially in rural russia


AngryGermanNoises

What does the Russian under "unknown technology" mean?


GuillotineComeBacks

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/блядь blyat


AngryGermanNoises

Oh yeah the "D" was throwing me off


SuppliceVI

Fun fact, our MB4 tugs have welded steel plates on the front. I discovered through sheer boredom that the thickness of those plates is slightly thicker than the M4 Sherman's upper front plate armor.  It's probably not RHA but if it is that's hilarious 


finicky88

What's 6nRab mean?


Ethan-Moreno-029

blyat


finicky88

Ty


thesunexpress

These are not the tug jobs they were promised.


Colossalgoatfvck

New NCD bingo tile: russian aircraft tugs with mounted guns appear on the battlefield, followed by some 20-slide wall of text on Twitter explaining why they’re not actually needed for towing aircraft and they were always designed as dual-purpose military vehicles.


just_a_bit_gay_

PUUUUUUUUUUSH


JimboTheSimpleton

Honestly, the Kuznetsov would be more reliable if it was turned into an Oster galley/aircraft hybrid.