admin of an instance can still police their own users on external communities, this happened before (once i think) with lw (ie lw admin removed post of lw user on ncd@sjw)

it looks like a bastard kid of PL01 and Abrams-X

are lead-free primers a thing in 5.56?

aerosolized lead bacon 😋

Loader died month later, the rest was burned but survived. Driver went home the same day. Ammo used was past expiry date

russians were trying to pass north koreans as buryats (both are east asians, but buryats are usually russian citizens). they are getting one interpreter per 30, maybe they won’t go straight to frontline, maybe they’ll be doing earthwork or whatever

nowadays you can’t just eldest son enemy’s coal because most coal fired generation grinds coal as a first step (necessary in fluidized bed furnaces) and ships just run on oil instead

there was also older effort of making cast iron bombs that looked like lumps of coal. these had no initiator and instead were supposed to detonate in furnace from heat. it was developed during american civil war by confederates and was mostly useless due to intel leak. it was also used in ww2 and as late as vietnam war with little success

in this case, it seems that the target was supposed to be towed decoy, but somehow missile locked on plane instead

polish armed forces not beating allegations of competence

they also managed to burn down a leopard, during training. no, they weren’t shot at

what happened was that gunner loaded a main gun shell, but wasn’t supposed to. so he tried to extract it, but it broke, and because there was already some shooting that day, propellant fell on bucket of hot stubs, igniting immediately. it was decided that it was fault of ammo that was not up to spec. (2015)

they also managed to burn down a 2S1 at the same training ground two years before

that means that hungarians have delivered weapons of mass destruction (100 pack of Madyar’s antennas)

some COTS drones have had grenade release mechanism wired to auxiliary light output

Putin has continued to invoke Nuclear Orthodoxy on various occasions, such as a 2018 claim that Russians would “go to heaven as martyrs” and foreigners would “simply drop dead.”

yuo see, it’s asymmetric warfare

alternatively

if we don’t know where we’ll be shooting at, then neither will enemy

i’ve seen one russian tank ramming its barrel into a tree head on. this probably doesn’t matter because it’d be destroyed by now anyway

it’s just deeply entrenched hazing, with all the cultural borrowings from prison culture that you can expect

some of yall acting like “maskirovka” was invented in russia in 1907 and no one had lied before

having a headless militia running around doesn’t have to be a good thing, because you might end up in a situation where no one is in actual control and there’s no one to negotiate with. not only here but in general

yahya sinwar, big boss of hamas got killed in a random encounter by idf

I don’t want to be remembered at all. If I’m being remembered, it means that I’m dead

at the same time in some cash-fueled thinktank in dc: