rammer

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[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago

I am really glad someone got it.

Thank you!

 

Tippy Hedren

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago

There are several types.

Spotter drones for surveillance and artillery correction. More expensive sensors. Sometimes can deploy other drones.

Grenade dropper drones. They drop several types of grenades. Sometimes several of them. Can be reloaded&reused.

Loitering munitions, basically drone guided artillery munitions. Also there are smaller ones with just grenades. They explode on contact/command. Not reused.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, on this particular part of the front they've advanced 14 kilometers in two years with horrific casualties and loss of materiel.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They usually use several drones to take out a T90. But it is still a good ROI.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You need at least two drones for every Russian. You have to account for misses, malfunctions, EW, interceptions etc.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

I am glad that it is a proxy war. Which is why it baffles me to no end why Europe doesn't support Ukraine more.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Work inside all of the political institutions to bring about constitutional change. Abolish electoral college etc.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

They have been trying to avoid conscripting from Moscow and Saint Petersburg. But they are running out of able bodied men outside those regions. There have been videos of men over 60 and men with health conditions that would preclude them from serving in a sane country. So I don't think they are that far off. Because when they start conscripting from M and SP they are seriously hurting their economy.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

This is quite understandable since pandas only eat a specific type of bamboo which does not grow in Finland. So had to fly it in every few days from the Netherlands. And they eat quite a lot of it. So costs mounted over time.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US have the benefit of essentially limitless immigration

Except that even in the Americas the population is declining. There is a limit to it. The US can outlast many other countries because of immigration but it too has to face the same problem as everyone else.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A prime example of this is the current Finnish government. The traditionally moderate right-wing party has allied itself with the more extreme populist right-wing party. And even though the moderate party won the most votes. It is the populist party that seems to be making all the important decisions. All the while they are both dismantling the welfare system that allowed Finland to become what it is.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except that is not what has happened here. X has refused to follow Brazilian law. And was given ample opportunity to remedy the situation. They refused.

There are plenty of other fora on the Internet. Banning Twitter will not stop discussion.

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