Comments by "James Neave" (@JamesNeave1978) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. I believe Poland even has a full technology transfer allowing them to design, build and sell their own variants to other nations. Poland will become the arsenal of Europe.
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  2. The legacy is: You managed to make the Chinese PLA look really stupid. Well played America, will played
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  3. I'm pretty sure reason the US started using this "Universal Camouflage Pattern" digital Camo was to trick it's enemies into using one themselves, causing them to be easy to spot and shoot... https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/raw/p03ny45f.jpg
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  4. Ghost what now ballistic fibre poles?? Hey dude, I heard you like tactical so I put some tactical in your tent poles
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  5. OK, the thing about us (🇬🇧) not using APCs before the cold war. During the second world war we built and used the 'Universal Carrier' Tracked, lightly armoured (7-10mm) 3 ton open top vehicle. It is, in fact, the single most produced fighting vehicle in existence at 👉👉 113,000 👈👈 Ford 4.0L petrol V8 Many different configurations, Scout, Machine Gun, Mortar, Artillery, Battle Taxi, 40mm anti-tank, flamethrower. Used by 33 different nations from my 1935 to 1960.
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  6.  @EE-kt8sh  Pretty sure we defended Kuwait against Saddam pretty well, tankie. All of us members of, oh, wait, the UN?!? Goodness, guess you don't know what you're talking about....
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  7. Not true, Russia makes a fancy new gun.... Shows off photos of it and then quietly puts it away because somehow that single one cost 35 billion rubles??
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  8. Indeed, I have a friend who has flown one, they are wonderful to fly around in, the closest you can get to actually being able to fly. And it's STOVL, very STOVL Not quite VTOL but close, you can use your garden as an aerodrome.
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  9. Fire control was from Thales though? So French, I don't think there's anything from America on this tank, which is not surprising because of their Draconian export controls.
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  10. Who'll give me good odds on, "After 2 years of investigation and purchasing foreign systems to test, the US Army has decided to stick with M777 and M109 but paint go faster stripes on the barrel and soldiers manning them"
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  11. Wait, hang on, has anybody checked to see whether SIG Sauer makes helicopters? 😱
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  12. I am so god damn proud of the Ukrainians. They rebuilt their army with a hybrid doctrine, this is their victory through and through. I hear way too much "NATO this NATO that" as if NATO is the ONLY reason they are doing this will. It's not and this is a magnificent victory for Ukraine. I mean, it's 3 days later and even Twitter map updates can't keep up, this video is already ancient history. It's very foggy at the moment but we're seeing Ukrainian units where they can't possibly have got to yet except in one scenario, a total collapse of the LNR held front. And that's it for supply routes, they have I think one railhead left? And their Northern flank is now utterly exposed, they might be able to roll up the whole Eastern front. And that's it, it's over, Russia is a surrounded pocket of troops North of Crimea.
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  13. Correct, our land based telescopes use three or four reference lasers to measure atmospheric jitter. A computer then calculates the required inverse optical device to cancel those aberrations out. Finally, servos in the adaptive optics reshape the optics to match the computer model and now your telescope behaves such that there is no atmosphere. And this process is completed hundreds or thousands of times per second. It's why we're building bigger and bigger land based telescopes instead of launching them into space ala Hubble or JWST.
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  14. It wasn't just a 105mm canon. It was the 105mm cannon. The Royal Ordinance L7!
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  15. They don't give these guys guns, right?
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  16. ​ @just-incase3483  I think you'll find it's actually Parrrrrrrrrents
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  17. What began as a war over the transference of mind from flesh to machine...
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  18. Technically until you've observed, it can be both the best and the worst stealth fighter at the same time.
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  19. At first my brain heard double action and thought that included rotating the chambers...
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  20. It was the British snipers who started using camo to hide first in ww1. They were Scots, stalkers and gamekeepers and they wore their Ghillie Suits.
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  21. During the Falklands War my father was at the tail end of his time on HMS Coventry, a Type 42 Destroyer. He was supposed to disembark on the way at Gibraltar but was unable to. He was finally helicoptered off Coventry on the morning of 25th May, 1982. She was sunk a few hours later and was hit in the engine room which was his duty station, the engineer that took over his station was killed.
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  22. Bay Systems? Nah, it's Bee Aay See Systems, British Aerospace Engineering. As far as I know, and it may have changed now, it's the world's largest arms manufacturer
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  23. Yep. Convection Heat Transfer describes how most fluids and gases (which are also a type of fluid) move heat setting a system. There will be hot air blasting out those holes while pulling cold air in probably through somewhere underneath. And I bet building a good trigger isn't that difficult. Just needs something better than "an rod". A proper linkage to transfer forces, or maybe all the trigger feel bits are up front and just a link to a hammer at the back. Doesn't sound difficult.
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  24.  @Tounushi  It's the bright blue MRBM TELs that get me. Do they float??
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  25. Great grandad was a First World War veteran, army. My grandfather was Army, British Parachute Regiment. He fought in the Korean War and built bridges in what were, at the time, British Empire Colonies (Malaya, Borneo, Singapore) My father was Royal Navy, serving mostly on our carrier HMS Invincible. He was present for the Gulf and Yugoslavia, he was a marine engineer. I almost joined the RAF throughout the UAS (University Air Squadron), but by the time I had researched it and gone to apply, I'd missed the cut-off date by 2 days! I could have waited a year but decided against it and just went to university. And nobody else in my family cohort (nan and granddad's grandchildren) joined the military, my father was the last.
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  26.  @tbthedozer  We are, we have been for years, a lot of these Polish deals were already in the pipeline. The Poles do NOT fuck about with Russia, all of East Europe and the Baltics have long memories
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  27. Will, don't forget that the Ukrainians (and Poles) are already skilled in: 1) Maintaining high tech military weaponry 2) Operating a LARGE military logistics system 3) Training new staff to perform all of the above 4) Defending all of the above 5) Doing all of the above while at war Don't, for even a second, compare Ukraine to the Iraqi or Afghan situation. These guys are for real and have spent a decade rebuilding their military from the ground up. From the ground up and very successfully too. They had prepared for years for this and when those first strikes came in and the West was drooling on the floor, the Ukrainian military ghosted Russia. They preserved most of their air force, air defence, rocketry and artillery, feel back in good order, extended the Russian supply lines and then spanked them in front of the world. And that was planned and practised. In Putin's wetest dreams his "modernised" military isn't this good. And then they sunk an air defence cruiser with no ****ing navy Yes Russia's navy is hot garbage, but that's still somewhat like sinking a Ticonderoga with bad language. I don't think parts with English names and mph on the dial are going to phase them.
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  28.  @josegaucho2830  Family who turned up one day with terror weapons and made home movies of Uncle Frank committing sexual violence, torture and murder against cousin Benny. Family who set fire to your city Family who rounded up three Joneses and LITERALLY locked them in a room and SET THEM ON FIRE. Then PHOTOGRAPHED it, sent this the photos and said, "look what you did" Is this the family you're talking about? Child, I think you need an education.
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  29. One of the myriad reasons Moskva sank was all the firefighting equipment was locked up to prevent theft and only the captain has the key, who wasn't present 😂
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  30. 7:30 Apparently, due to drones, the scoot part has stopped. You're safer camouflaged and behind an anti drone screen than on the road that's being watched
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  31. ​ @TinyBearTim  Ground pressure is directly proportional to weight, half the weight, half the ground pressure. However, ground pressure is inversely professional to the area of the tracks, so the inverse square law comes into play, a small increase in task length gets you a large decrease in ground pressure. But, ground pressure means nothing to bridges where it's only weight. The biggest obstacle to river crossing, though, is preparation of the entry and exit, which needs lots of work otherwise you just beach getting into or out of the water.
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  32. And they're completely deaf too
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  33. If this story I've read is true, it's a stunning strategic use of their artillery, which I'm assuming is their new batteries of M777s located in 6 the high ground west of Severodonetsk. The infantry in the city drew the Russians in Then, when they had exhausted themselves, the Ukrainians counter attacked, pushing them back But then, they opened up with the artillery, cutting off the Russian infantry's paths of retreat. The Russians were sandwiched between infantry and artillery Oh and apparently they're advancing artillery has destroyed all the cover they could have used to batten down. If this is true and not retroactively declaring it their plan all along, well, round of applause. Encircling units without risking your infantry
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  34. Yeah, this seems strange to me, the ak47, as in the 1947 pattern, was retired in the 50s. 40s: ak47, 7.62 WP 50s: AKM, 7.62 WP 70s: AK74 (1974 pattern) 5.45 00s: AK12 with more recoil suppression Soviet and subsequently Russian doctrine calls for massed fairly accurate fully automatic fire from a conscript army. Russia's moved to a professional army with reserves but kept the fully automatic requirement. You can see this in the recoil impulse of the 5.45, much smaller than the 5.56.
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  35. Oh wait, Navy, no, of course not.
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  36.  @Taskandpurpose  I saw an Firearms Unit shopping for his lunch is Asda the other day. Seeing a policeman with a pistol and a taser is really weird in the UK. Although I used to work where they made the credit cards and if anybody even scuffed their knee near that place, G36s with police attached materialised like magic.
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  37. "I'm not biased to one tank or another, they're all equally terrifying to me and my small arms fire"
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  38.  @Taskandpurpose  Think you need to put some girth on those bones there, sailor.
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  39. I want one: "In 2019, Ford launched an mHEV version of the 1.0 EcoBoost engine first fitted to the Puma SUV, which uses a belt-driven integrated starter/generator-motor (BiSG); which is in essence a starter motor, alternator, and propulsion motor in one. Fundamentally, the engine is identical to the 2018–present 1.0 EcoBoost, but features the electric starter/generator and its battery system. The motor itself is not used to propel the vehicle on its own, and is mainly used to increase efficiency by reducing engine load, provide extra power during acceleration, and to reduce the perceived ‘turbo-lag’ at certain engine speeds while accelerating. The starter/generator makes use of a 48-volt battery system in the car, although vehicles fitted with these engines are not plug-in hybrids or full hybrids. Further developments introduced include a more comprehensive ‘start-stop’ functionality, which was previously available but did not cut the engine off until the vehicle was completely stopped. The new engines can turn off while the car decelerates, at a maximum speed of about 15 mph. The new, electrified engines are available with a manual- or Ford’s new seven-speed dual-clutch PowerShift automatic transmission, and are available in either 125 bhp or 154 bhp outputs."
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  40. ​ @jblob5764  No, they both refer to MDMA, or one of the variants or isomers.
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  41. No K11?
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  42. I'm just going to stick an oar in and say Ford of Britain is an absolutely amazing car maker. I've had both a 2nd Gen Ford Focus C-Max with just the best French common rail turbo diesel, 2.0L straight 4 16V VG Turbo through a six speed manual and remapped to 185bhp and infinite torque it accelerated like this driver off a cliff. And sat 5 Real Adults comfortably for a 1000 mile trip plus their luggage and looked great doing it in black. All seats folded down, then up and even removed and it was a transit van. She was replaced by a Ford B-Max Titanium with its 1.0L straight 3 Turbo, called the Fox platform it's got an A4 footprint and is a wholly British piece of enginerding. So freaking cool and even the B-Max is gone Fox lives on in its combined 48V Starter/Hybrid version, I'll dig the stats up for the Ford Fiesta ST with it in.
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  43. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there really was an autostereogram (magic eye picture) in UCP that said "I can't believe you idiots bought this off us" I can make magic eyes, so if anybody has a good hi Res image of UCP I can make one. That's a good T&P t shirt idea
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  44. ​ @Dingusdoofus  NLAW is not a tandem HEAT, it's an overfly top attack EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrator) Coped up tanks stand no chance because: 1) the heavy Tantalum EFP goes through even proper armour like tinfoil, mild steel bar armour may add will not exist. 2) Bar armour is designed to trick the stand off fuze of heat Warheads to fitting early. NLAW is magnatometer driven. 3) even if there's multiple layers of ERA between the tank and the NLAW, EFPs don't need a tandem charge as they rely purely on brute force. Dense tantalum slug going Mach 3 does not get deflected by ERA because ERA is pretty drained to disperse a high pressure liquid copper jet. It's like putting your finger over the end of the hose, you can turn deflect the water jet. The slug would need more of a baseball bat to deflect it
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  45. Sergeant Dipprasad Pun held off a Taliban attack, killing 30 of them. In all, he fired off 250 machine gun rounds (from the hip), 180 SA80 rounds, threw six phosphorous grenades and six normal grenades, and one claymore mine. I've no idea whether the claymore he threw at the enemy worked as intended. He did, however, choose that before he picked up his sa80. Which eventually jammed, at which point he engaged the enemy with the machine gun tripod Pretty sure he also used his bayonet at some point So it works as advertised these days https://www.businessinsider.com/gurkha-dipprasad-pun-took-out-30-taliban-2016-5
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  46.  @Taskandpurpose  It's the guys who were pissed at no ammo that you don't call back next year. They were probably looking forward to heroically shooting looters.
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  47. Although we did learn we needed to carry more ammo in the Falklands, we've been trying to get nato to switch to intermediate cartridges and bullpup assault rifles since, um, 1945. Sa80 actually started development in '76 I think? I think it was just dumb luck that we had one ready (for given values of ready) shortly after our Falklands adventure
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  48.  @samoldfield5220  In regards to the 2 day timetable, the reason this was reported as such in because Ukraine captures lots of enemy documentation with timetables. Lukachenko also noted it out on TV and the propaganda corps trotted out their victory speech on the calculated day only remembering they hadn't actually won when people started reporting on it. Then they removed it but it was already too late, archive had taken a copy They really did believe their own hype about Nazis and the public throwing off the oppressors when they drive into Kyiv unopposed! 🤣
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  49. Have you seen the photos of the damage done to a Chinese hypersonic missile that flew through rain? Took quite a lot of damage and that's just being hit by hypersonic water droplets. Imagine if you threw up a cloud of steel particles to fly through!
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  50.  @SayakMajumder  I actually learnt about the UC from, er, crap I forget his name. ... Lindybeige! That's it!
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  51. ​ @ferday11111  Please educate yourself about the USSR. It doesn't exist anymore, their seat at the UNSC should be deleted, Russia is insignificant and should be treated the same as other small nations.
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  52.  @arthurmosel808  Er, no, what we predicted would happen to the climate is happening. Right now. As a regular human you are not equipped to comprehend these issues, you think nothings happened and that predictions 30 years ago were wrong. They were not You also think 30 years is a long time, even ten years. They are not, it is a tiny fraction of a blink of the eye There is no time left, it has to be done now And indeed is being done with the upcoming ban of internal combustion engines in cars.
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  53. Who wouldn't want to arm their infantry with APSFDS though?
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  54. Hell yeah FV103 Spartan APC! Those things are badass. Shame they don't have the light recon tank version, FV107 Scimitar with its 30mm RARDEN canon. They do, of course, come with the British BV for making hot drinks and meals. They couldn't ask for a better suited vehicle.
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  55. Indeed, the cost necessary to upgrade an 80s jet to get a handful of aircraft, that may no longer be able to press their mission, would be astronomical. A lot of what they learnt went into what makes the F-35 so great, it's modularity. And what they learnt about implementing said modularity is being built into NGAD (And FCAS and Tempest etc) Although FCAS et al. will be all evolution of 5th gen fighters, I suspect NGAD will be tailored for the Pacific, focusing on range, payload, stealth and sensors & effectors.
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  56.  @andrewbeketa4418  "That has nothing to do with the conflict" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍 Course not. Totally irrelevant, nothing to do with it being under Donbass and Kharkiv. Nothing to do with denying Europe energy security. Nope nope nope. 🤣
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  57.  @archer1133  Apologies for this being a bit wordy. Reaction Engines primary project is the SABRE engine. The aft section is a rocket engine, fairly normal in that it's a rocket bell fed by hydrogen and oxygen pumped by turbos. Hydrogen comes from the fuel tanks. The forward section is the fancy bit, there's a turbine compressing incoming air which is the oxygen source for the rocket, not onboard fuel tanks However, they melt at Mach 5. In front of that is the magic, the pre-cooler. It takes the 1000°C incoming air and knocks it down to -150°C in 1/20th of a second, without the water in the air freezing up the cooler. It uses the liquid hydrogen to do the cooling. That gets compressed and liquified by the turbine and the heat is used to run the rocket turbos. They also have an idea to use the pre-cooler with a regular jet engine, which will allow the jet engine to run at much higher speeds. Note that while SABRE does indeed get some compression from its forward motion it doesn't rely on it. Which means unlike a ram or scram jet it can ignite and create thrust from zero speed up to Mach 5. No need for a booster.
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  58. ​ @TheRisingEagle93  You cannot possibly believe that 1 Chinese soldier is worth 3 NATO soldiers. 😂 A nation that has never fought a war outside of meat waves in Korea.
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  59. That's crazy, every soldier's had a scope here in the Europe for at least 40 years, where the hell has America been?
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  60.  @Del_S  exactly Most 'APCs' of the day (maybe just call them mechanised infantry vehicles or battle taxis?) Were truck or half tracks with cloth between the meat and the metal. I'll take the 10mm of steel thanks! The light machine gun conversion even gave you a mini redoubt/sponson to sit behind and poke your bren or your Vickers through. A pair of Vickers find on two of these behind a hedgerow with overlapping fuels of fire will certainly put the fear of god into any advancing infantry, especially if caught in the open life without an RPG of some kind. Designed to stop rifle rounds certainly.
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  61.  @vanguard6498  3 crew actually!! 🤣 But when they're in the 10s of thousands, I think you're good. Crew of 3, driver, gunner and assistant gunner And when it's this or walking? I'll take 10mm of armour over nothing too! Maybe the pure battle taxi version can carry 5? 4 maybe, the engine just sits in the middle. Most of them were mobile heavy weapons platforms and artillery tractors.
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  62.  @Taskandpurpose  Can you imagine the fun of advancing entire units with these? 30mph The one with a mounted Vickers sound fun.
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  63.  @McHackBot  It's crazy to think about, half a million Russian casualties in Ukraine, think how many rifles are just littering the countryside now. There's going to be finding old AKs for a hundred years...
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  64. This is also a vehicle that I very much hope have been built with Rasputitsa (Ukrainian Mud Season) in mind. They're about to need that!
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  65. ​ @amilesangweni3823  Fighting Russia is MUCH easier.
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  66. I think the tank in it's current form is approaching obsolescence If the armour cannot protect you when taking a hit, something needs to change. Ever increasing armour weight is a bad choice Further killing mobility and over stressing logistics chains used to transport the tank to the front Maybe it's time to ditch passive armour in return for mobility and active defences It's purpose of direct fire support during combined arms operations gets no benefit from that armour once it doesn't stop incoming fire. That armour doesn't help in the situation of 'who shots first, wins' Maybe it puts you on the back foot because low mobility makes it harder to choose your ground when trying to get that first round in on the enemy Turn it into the direct fire equivalent of the shoot-n-scoot self propelled indirect howitzers
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  67. Mortar launched smart munitions that hop over buildings and top attack tanks. That's what you want mounted on a BTR. Sit it behind the house the infantry are securing. It's in cover for loading those troops if it's time to make a quick getaway.
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  68. ​ @DylDoYo  Only if they're equivalent. If it's Western Stealth Vs Eastern Stealth, Western sees first and shoots first.
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  69. So America needs to get much better at mothballing new factories and their tooling after this?
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  70. Um, they were already allies. Now they're turbo no backsies allies
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  71.  @rusticbox9908  That would be from satellite photography genius. You know we can see you right? We can see every unit, every vehicle, every building. Putin has a choice, invade Ukraine and end Russia and probably his life Or pack up and go home and get quietly murdered.
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  72. So they're not $132 billion each then. Yet
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  73. My bugout bag contains nothing because I'm British. We're a touch more resilient. Also it's an island.
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  74.  @michaelccozens  Ultimately it turned out that pretty much zero of their weapons were actually functional.
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  75. Aluminium magazines! I love this story, check it: It was initially decided to start using disposable magazines Yes, loaded at factory, uses once, dropped on floor So, they were specc'd for that, X amount of alu and y amount of spring steel, enough for one use But then, the MOD had a brilliant cost saving idea, can you guess what that was?? 🤩🤩🤩 Yes! If you pick them back up off the floor and but moar bullits in them, you can use them more than once!!! God bless the mod salutes Nur n' nur nur nur nuuuuuuuur Oh wait, that's your song isn't it?
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  76. Of course the MOD over here will do something even worse, look, apparently they've... Er... They've given ALL of our howitzers to Ukraine. Aaaaand.... Ordered a whole load of Archers?? No that can't be right. That would be competent. Erm. Sorry I think I need to go have a cup of tea and lie down... ☕😳🤌
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  77. 2:45 It's more than just preserving your most elite troops. By putting green troops, currently 75% of their armed forces, into close defensive situations like Bakhmut your blooding all those new units. You quickly cycle them in and out and now every soldier has months of experience rather than the elite troops only getting slightly more experience. Now every Ukrainian soldier in that 1,000,000 men and women are battle tested and hardened. Russia's gonna think it's been fucked by a train.
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  78. If there's even any Russian air defenses still standing by the time they get there. Their vaunted S-400 got knocked out, twice, by loitering munition drones and Neptune missiles. If they can field F-16s correctly configured for SEAD/DEAD missions I think the AFU will be onto a winter winner 🏆
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  79.  @Maddog-xc2zv  Urgh, 240 would have been much easier to remember
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  80.  @MGZetta  Allow me to introduce to you the concept of Newton's Third Law of Motion: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" Combined with laws of equivalence, we get this: A Mach 9 missile colliding with a stationary depleted uranium ball bearing is equivalent to a stationary missile being hit by a depleted uranium ball bearing traveling at Mach 9. Anti tank kinetic rounds hit at Mach 5.0. This things hits an nearly double at Mach 9.0 At these velocities the missile may as well be made of water, it will splash as the DU passes through, igniting the warhead and fuel as it passes through. The missile will fragment, surface area increases exponentially and the whole device turns into a superheated expanding cloud of burning gasses, instantly trading velocity for heat. It'll look amazing briefly And that's the end of that. 😉
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  81. Even if they lose bakhmut there will not be a breakthrough. There's heavy defensive lines behind the town and I think there's also a river cutting off part of it too?
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  82.  @Someone-lr6gu  Indeed, I believe they've run away for the moment
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  83.  @АндрійЧ-д1д  That was nice of them, demolitions expensive. You should return the favour.
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  84.  James Harding  Yeah, I know, right? I thought the whole point of police using 9mm parabellum fed weapons is you don't get the over penetration where your shoot one and the three in a line behind them Seems like a daft weapon to payroll am airport with.
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  85. 🤣🤣🤣 Ukraine already has a beachhead on the East Bank of the Oskil river! That defensive line has already been penetrated! Nobody can make content fast enough to keep up with this, it's fantastic!
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  86.  @Truspio  I think the rubles get as far as General Kleptopovic's Cayman Islands account and that's about it.
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  87.  @jgw9990  2? Try 4 decades. It was designed in the 80s, F-22 is 80s tech. It's the last of the monolithic avionics jets, which require everything to be ripped out and rebuilt for upgrades. F-35 is the 2 decades old jet, but the first (American) modular jets, first jet to have it's software not written in FORTRAN 🤣
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  88. The USSR has a seat at the security council. Russia does not, we should stop letting them play make believe
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  89.  @SpicyTrifongo  If we actually committed to this properly Ukraine wouldn't be having these problems.
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  90.  @kirknay  There is rain repellant that's used on airliners though. Bonds to the glass, it's great, I use it on my car.
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  91.  @828enigma6  It does seem a strange design.
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  92.  @tylerrobbins8311  Yep. Have a read about the MBDA SPEAR-3 and SPEAR-EW cruise missiles, the F-35B will carry eight each. Really clever anti-A2D swarm. Coming with Block-4!
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  93. OK, my wife is bouncing up and down on the sofa, pointing at Spartan and shouting "I want one I want one". Specifically the 30mm Scimitar... So I guess we're getting a tank now?
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  94. That's odd, I've never heard it pronounced as anything except High-Un-Die.
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  95. OK some fascinating information from the wiki. Regular jet engines, in order to not melt at high air speeds, "use heavy copper or nickel alloys, reduce pressure ratio and throttle back at higher air speeds to avoid melting" So strap on their pre-cooler and you have a jet engine that's lighter, had a higher pressure ratio and can run at full throttle at higher speeds and in denser air. That sounds useful.
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  96. The US DOD is working with Reaction engines to create air breathing jet and rocket engines. They're pre-cooler quenches 1000°C air in 1/20th of a second. It's going to power their air breathing rocket And I suspect when strapped to a regular jet engine they could make hypersonic jet fighters and cruise missiles. No scramjet needed.
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  97. Who remembers that fireworks-display-inna-box looking thing by metal storm that was this but biggerer? Line a 600 shot pre-aimed-at-a-square mortar. I can't find the little CGI mock up they made but there's a few snippets in this video: https://youtu.be/NLNuBq0NQJE Metal Storm was mostly a bad idea but this Guy Fawkes (4th July) Box of Doom is a great idea. I cannot believe they didn't build this. Probably just waiting for the patents to expire.
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  98. ... sits and stares at u 🧐
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  99. I'm sorry, "small radar and thermal signature"?!?? 🤣🤣🤣 No, just stop, no. Modern heat seekers can target coasting missiles from any aspect, they are going to see a dude on a petrol motor powered gyrocopter like it was the freaking Sun ☀️!!! As for radar, same argument, we can see missiles so we can see a filthy great spinning rotor. This thing is instant dead meat
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  100. And there we have it!
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  101.  @BlackPill-pu4vi  And due to interference, they couldn't use internal Comms and radar. And although their naval S-300 was functional with the radar up, the next two layers of defense, short range SAMs and CIWS, were also all but non functional! It was a floating junkpile.
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  102. I remember, as a kid, being shown around and given a thorough explanation about how the Goalkeeper CIWS worked. Goalkeeper is Phalanxs bigger, meaner cousin and wields a GAU-8. We saw it engage phantoms on deck (no ammo though, boo) Then we were shown the weapons station for someone mid level. There is a 3 position switch. StandBy ◀️ Semi Auto Auto is your friend. If it's deemed a threat, it dies. Sadly Goalkeeper never caught on and I'm beginning to wonder these days if the GAU-8 has the accuracy for this sort of task.
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  103. The difference is here in the West they went to great technological and financial cost to build the very best low collateral weapons that they could. Yes civilians still die, yes the Iraq invasion was a very bad thing that we did, but I feel the different intent is important. We at least try to minimise casualties. Russia just saturates the area in HE and AP shells and deliberately aims at civilians. This is important.
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  104.  @vanguard6498  Will do.
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  105. https://youtu.be/6H6TaztPvdA
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  106. "he was in a warrior for his whole career" They never let you out, just welded the doors. You're still there, we push cake down the barrel for you to suck out.
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  107. You could triple the number of carriers available but moving to something more like the Queen Elizabeth class. It would create a lot less jeeeeeerbs though 🤷‍♂️ Probably double the number one they were made nuclear. Now that EMALS is looking better, with about half the crew count. Not too mention moving to a more drone swarm based air wing too. Would need a new, slimmer, AA Destroyer class to go with it and lots of those new frigates.
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  108. Also showed a picture of HMS Queen Elizabeth instead of a Chinese carrier!
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  109.  @daddyandy9591  No, Russian missile tech is most definitely NOT generations ahead of the US, let alone NATO...
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  110.  @darylgifford460  😂😂 You can also sharpen them for boar hunting Change the TV channel when the batteries in the remote are lost Make spikes for traps Create rudimentary spear.
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  111. The T90 is just a T72 in a dress.
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  112. There was a 183mm gun on the FV 4005 Centurion tank.
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  113. Well they better be lightweight improvements, Chris, because the SEP4 weights 70 fricking tons
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  114. Funny thing is, there were no Technicals in Mogadishu, they were added for the movie.
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  115. That Chinook carrying an M777, is all the crew and supplies in the helicopter as well? Because that would be amazing.
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  116.  @streamobject0014  That's just cos the finns ARE the trees... Actually it's because they have no space for defense in depth and have to rely on a fighting retreat across valleys and rivers. Except now they get to do that with the rest of NATO charging in the other direction. Although I'd like to think we'd have done it anyway, Ukraine is starting to sour my opinion of my NATO brethren. Even my British siblings have not exactly lived up to my expectations.
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  117.  @nematolvajkergetok5104  You are very Wrong in several interesting ways. Let's count them shall we? They captured hundreds and hundreds of vehicles disabled by one of: 1) No fuel 2) No battery 3) No tyres 4) Mud 5) No Spares But make no mistake, many MANY MANY vehicles had no fuel. I don't understand why you don't know this.
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  118. Can't believe they didn't take MANPADS on those raids. If the jet is in strafing range its well within MANPADS range!
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  119. Should we be discussing this? This doesn't seem very OpSec. Oh ok you've just mentioned this! 😂
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  120. It seems to me, and this is just my interpretation, is that there were multiple stages to the "setup" for the attack. They started off with MLRS attacks on Logistics, C&C and, critically, plinked at Crimea. Russia seems to have responded in exactly the way intended, they pulled back their large A2AD systems and their accompanying SHORADS (Buk, tor, etc) Only then did they attack the bridges, stranding A2AD over the radar horizon. Then they appear to have "mopped up" with HARM attacks. This appears to have given Ukraine regional air superiority over the Kherson Oblast. I personally think this was a deliberate strategy by Ukraine and I'm very impressed. Opinions?
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  121. Ukraine is absolutely desperate for more 'protected transport' for infantry, these will be a god send. Fast, stealthy and proof against near misses with artillery. But no, these are not 'fighting vehicles' and should not be used as them. For quickly moving blocks of infantry between hotspots while defending and moving troops from the front lines to rear areas for various reasons quickly and without guys getting wiped by artillery.
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  122. Once Russia leaves all of Ukraine territory, sure.
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  123. Ukraine is a bear trap. Kyiv will be a death maze. At night they'll be planting all sorts of fun surprises.
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  124. I've seen footage of Ukraine regulars, they're prioritising hitting supply trucks instead of tanks.
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  125. It didn't 'flip in a matter of decades from East To West' I believe what actually happened is after 1991 the USSR broke up and we found that all the science, research, missile design and manufacture wasn't done in Russia, but Ukraine! 🤣🤣🤣 And all the marine diesels and has turbines too, which is why Russia can't build anything bigger than a frigate now
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  126. Stealth AND Canards? I question this.
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  127.  @tylerrobbins8311  Having grown up around HMS Invincible and her Harriers, I've always been the most excited about the F-35B. Not a popular view but I love them nonetheless! 🤭☺️ Supersonic Stealth STOVL 5th gen! 🤤🤤🤤 The RAF applies the envelope knowledge gained by the RAF and FAA during the Falklands Conflict, they push the range to the limit because they know they never need to do a go-around, unlike a CATOBAR F-35C, so no multi-ton fuel traction required for landing 🛬 🚢
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  128.  @voidtempering8700  What would you like Sources to? I probably have some I can dig up.
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  129.  @tylerrobbins8311  And that's just with today's F-35. Frankly the pre-block-4 F-35s are, to my mind, still unfinished aircraft. With the weaponry and capabilities coming for Block 4 the F-35 becomes truly scary. The UK's F-35s will carry eight 120km swarming cruise missiles as well as two Meteor BVRs, which is a scary anti-anything load out. America will be getting the AIM-240 is it? As well as those new glide bombs and upgraded decoys. Great stuff
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  130. Battle Management Systems are the COOLEST, you take that back!
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  131. What, the WS-15 that they've still not finished? And matches the performance of the F-22'S F119, a 40 year old design? And doesn't come anywhere near the performance of the F135, a 90s update of a 40 year old design? That WS-15?
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  132. One on one? Not a chance. But if they have countless hundreds of them, that becomes a problem
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  133. OK, got pen and paper? Write this shit down, umma lay you down some gold, 'K? ... Give civilians good reasons to join the military and they will join the military. Good Ideas: 1) College tuition in practical, marketable skills once they're back out in civvie street. Without the soul crushing debt. 2) The best healthcare which continues for the rest of your life 3) Base salaries more inline with regular high school graduation salaries 4) Increasing bonuses for long term service. Here in the UK, in the Royal Navy if you join at 18 and stay in until 50 (I think, maybe 55?) You get your gratuity. Lump sum of tax free cash into your bank, equal to your final salary. So if you finished on $50,000 that's a $50,000 cheque made out to you. 5) Military Mortgages, Military Housing Services. Give them the ability to buy some land and build a house on it, cutting red tape like HESH through a T-62. 6) Portray you're military as a force for good, for positive change around the world. Explain how the mistake of the past are consigned to the past. You need to softly rebuild trust in the American Military. Bad Ideas: 1) Appealing to their patriotism. Doesn't work, we were raised but Boomers and Xers and taught how to greed. 2) Saying "Woke Culture". I'm an old millennial and even I get fucked off when one of our defining social features is to practice equality for all. This shit is important to us. 3) Dispel the stench of being more with the Right than the Left. You're going out there to be a force for the protection of our Rules Based World. To rid the world of the shadow of authoritarianism. AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL All of this must be done with the UTMOST sincerity We are perceptive, we can see and smell bullshit a 100km away. There will be a rule in the contact that says if you are not held to your portrayed values then we are not held to our contractual obligations of service. We can walk if all you do is talk
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  134. Go for it Cappy! Get over there!
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  135.  @Talishar  The L7 was a sweet gun. Not sure it's good enough against even the oldest T-72s though.
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  136.  @hisredrighthand5212  Polish MALE drones sound like robot strippers... Also, holy shit, where did all you people come from?
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  137. Wasn't this what the P90 and FiveSeven were invented for 30 years ago?
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  138. Nobody's talking about Reaction Engines working with the US DOD yet. They're going to strap their pre-cooler to a jet engine. This opens the very real possibility of hypersonic jet fighters or air breathing hypersonic cruise missiles without the need for a scramjet and booster stage, 0 to Mach 5 with a single engine "During the latest series of tests, Reaction Engines’ unique precooler successfully quenched airflow temperatures in excess of 1,000°C (~1,800°F) in less than 1/20th of a second. The tests demonstrated the precooler’s ability to successfully cool airflow at speeds significantly in excess of the operational limit of any jet-engine powered aircraft in history."
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  139. Yeah, NATO doesn't seem to like ERA. NERA and advanced composite armours seem to be more their thing.
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  140.  @MrGary10k  That makes it the same as Dorchester on Challenger 2 and they took an absolute pounding in Iraq with no losses and only a single (enemy) penetration. They'll do just fine.
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  141. US Army and Marines: uses high tech spider mines to stop getting overrun. British Armed Forces: Uses Gurkhas: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/repelled-30-taliban-400-rounds.html
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  142. I was wondering, can the XM5 come with an "everybody can be a precision marksman" super-scope and would this be useful against these new Iranian suicide drones?
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  143. You know what happens when a spawn point gets hit with 8 pounds of Comp B RDX/TNT high explosive? Same as everything else...
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  144. Is SDM just another way of saying DMR (Designated Marksman Rifle) Or is it just the SDM carries a DMR?
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  145. The Mk47 (and Mk19 with a nammo mpu) can fire the Nammo air burst smart grenade, which is just absolute death incarnate.
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  146. ​ @MichaelKng-fk5jk  Somebody should invent a set of cooking utensils specifically for the BV! Like a set of square saucepans, a square pot holder A wire basket for boiling eggs A steamer? Ultimately there should be a way to use it to cook a round of bacon sandwiches too with the tea! Oh, and it all collapses and folds and stacks to be stored in the BV when not in use. 😂👨‍🍳🤌
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  147. And instantly made obsolete by drones
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  148. And let's face it, all of NATO should have adopted the G11.
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  149. They do, even the Americans have scopes on their regular rifles. However the reason why they don't do what you suggest is a lot of fire is just there to keep the enemies heads down while your squad maneuvers. So they're counting bullets that were never supposed to hit the enemy when they count that huge 50,000 rounds number
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  150. Should just buy a CV-90 factory! 😂
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  151.  @BlackPill-pu4vi  "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" LaserPig has an excellent summary of all the OSINT metaphorical 'holes' found in Moskva's readiness. Although to summarise 'nobody's going to fight us anyway, so why bother' Thankfully this war is the final nail in the coffin that contains the myth of Russia Stronk. Oh, Perun's videos on Russian military corruption are also a must watch and include information on the Moskva. I think it even had its own video.
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  152. And apparently without BIC biros you'd be screwed. So don't piss off the French? Seriously, what's with all the biros?
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  153. Wait, I thought the Stark had all is CIWS in Standby? For anybody interested, goto "uss stark incident" on Wikipedia are read reference number [1] DOD letter, formal investigation into blah blah blah 23 July 1987. I'm going to start reading it now.
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  154. I wonder if Ukraine would like some. Surely Ukraine would bite your hand off for these?
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  155. They should drop C-RAM into the zaporizhzhia power plant and just make it a demilitarised zone.
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  156. Two years before the Falklands. I don't think we could have afforded to put them all over the fleet even if there were enough to sell to us.
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  157.  @nickwilson8429  Yes, if you walk around with a gun it's a crime, you go to jail. Our violent crime rates are lower than America. Because, and this is really important, violent crime rate is a function of inequality not insufficient guns. People being sensible with their guns? That's a function of social cohesion (government and people as one) There's no reason to carry a gun here because nobody is going to attack me, there is no reason to defend myself.
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  158.  @pahwraith  Depends. Reasonable defense of your life is considered and part of law. But, this just doesn't happen here. People kill themselves with their guns, not other people. Thieves are there for your TV, not your life.
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  159. Also, hot take everybody, guns are not banned in the UK. All firearms are licensed and some are restricted. So, restricted: Pistols. Automatic weapons. Destructive weapons (high ex, canons, missiles, weapons of mass destruction) Magazine size Everything else is licensed, tough need an FAC for each firearm. FAC requires you to apply to something and the police. You must provide a valid reason for owning said firearm. Valid reasons: Hunting Pest control Competition and recreational shooting Weapons of historic significance and value That's it. Apply for FAC. Install secure storage. Get interviewed. Storage inspected. Receive FAC Buy gun. Shoot gun. Your local gun club helps you do all that. That's it, now you own a gun 🤷🏻‍♂️ There's some rule about owning semi automatic in 22. If you do anything stupid, like walk around with your gun, leave it unattended and insecure, you go to jail forever and ever amen.
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  160.  @nickwilson8429  Oh no, right now it's a Covid thing, the police are our in force. Which is a good thing, the bloody Tories have ditched thousands of police over the last decade. Now we don't have enough to patrol in an emergency like covid so the even the ARUs are out. The ones that respond to incidents near the credit card factory do it because, will, it's a credit card factory
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  161.  @hatework4282  Yeah, that's why they're allowed to be deployed on your soil isn't it? That and it makes them sound like wooden post enthusiasts and weekend warriors! 8/
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  162.  @jrhandley  Yeah but it's supposed to be made up My Fellow Americans isn't it? It's supposed to be made of you're neighbors. They're not supposed to be an untrustworthy breed apart.
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  163.  @jrhandley  Ask, yes, but we're British dear boy... https://youtu.be/FkF_XpA5P48
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  164.  @jrhandley  You know I was able to shoot a few times when I was young with my dad in the navy. The good old days when they have 8 year olds a battle rifle to play with. So I've shot the L1A1 SLR (inch pattern FAL, my shoulder stung a bit in the morning) and the L85A1 (the bad one of the SA80 family) which was like during an air rifle, no kick at all. Then everything was restricted. People think that means banned but if it's bolt action it's still legal but your need an FAC, FireArms Certificate. So once I've moved house I'm going to take up competition shooting with an SMLE. I can even get the Pakistani copy that they chambered for 762! Looking forward to that. But they're tools to us, like a hammer or a car. In no way do we consider them as weapons for attack outer defense.
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  165.  @jrhandley  In the cloak room of course. Next to our S.M.L.E. No.4.
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  166.  @Taskandpurpose  Hey, you guys know that we've always equipped our tanks with BVs (boiling vessel, for tea and heating MR.E Meals) right? You've added BVs to your M1s.
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  167. Also I live in Portsmouth. Portsmouth is an island itself, we'll just blow the bridges
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  168.  @jrhandley  We've been here for 80 years!
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  169.  @jrhandley  Well of course we have tea. That goes without saying. If you look at the history books, the British isles is where you big out to, not from. My family bugged out to the UK in 1940 something. Which makes me very ashamed of all the 'no more freedom of movement there's too many Polish here now'
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  170. It's not even a joke, one idiot tried to kill a hospital ship with a train. I'd be in a tank. In Canada.
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  171.  @rokuth  Unless you're in the Navy or the Air Force. For... reasons? 🤷‍♂️
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  172. Make it for the Mark 19 and have 100 x 40mm grenades in the backpack... 🤣👍
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  173. It's loads of ammo, but, what happens when you run out? It looks like a real bitch to reload.
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  174. Here's what the British Army had: Disruptive Pattern Material https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_Pattern_Material https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/DPM_Combat_95_Camouflage_Material_MOD_45149982.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/British_forces_practice_CBRN_procedures_in_a_US_Army_facility_150226-A-BD610-004.jpg Replaced by: Multi-Terrain Pattern https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Terrain_Pattern https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/British_Armed_Forces_Multi_Terrain_Pattern_camouflage.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/40_Commando_irrigation_ditch.jpg
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  175. Hey America. You wanna know why VHS won the format war? It's because only VHS was long enough to record a full length American Football match. That's it.
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  176.  @mondaysinsanity8193  Well, they can shoot at you by accident!
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  177.  @Taskandpurpose  Of to the side, have you ever been shot at in anger?
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  178.  @Tounushi  https://youtu.be/OPdDdC4go6c?t=22
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  179. What I don't get is it's so easy to build affordable Frigates. Just look at the Type 31. Build it big, empty and overpowered (engine wise) Give it good sensors. Done, cheap. If you then need to upgun it, it's easy, lots of spare space, freeboard and power.
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  180. You forgot "and fill them with farmers" after Cheap and A Lot!
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  181. Big difference between this and the current houthi situation is Reagan had the US financially back the shopping insurance companies, keeping the insurance costs down. Biden needs to do the same, otherwise ships still won't use the Suez canal.
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  182. What began as a war over the transference of mind from flesh to machine...
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  183. 7:42 Ah, that's exactly the idea i had. Just cover the roof in low pressure mortar tubes filled with smart munitions and drones.
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  184. And a decent anti drone active protection suite.
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  185. Also if you look at per GDP percentage values, it's not that much different to other NATO nations. America's just a lot bigger. If you look at, say, the UK and the EU, the numbers start to look somewhat similar.
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  186. Do you think they'll arms it with the 40 CTAS? Ooh, maybe a scaled up version, 50CTAS? That would be so damn cool https://www.cta-international.com/the-40-ctas/
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  187. And no, Russia would get absolutely wrecked in a fight with NATO
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  188. Dunno about everybody Got us the NLAW here in the UK
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  189. So, how does it knows which tank you aimed at? If there's a column? Same IR Sig, which is those 6 did you point at?
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  190. Would it be good to counter cheap drones attacking the roof I wonder? Forget bolting it to the sides, right now a $500 drone with an RPG warhead strapped to it will kill an Abrams!
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  191.  @cj64343  I cannot, for the life of me, remember why I asked this question! 😂 Thanks anyway!
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  192. "Newsflash, America invents Stug"
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  193. It's called the SCAR. What more do you want? Also, it's by FN so you know it's good. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Belgians. Known for their chocolate, cuckoo and penchant for making the best deadly murder sticks
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  194. Wasn't the reason they ditched stuff like the XM25 was that it contravened the Geneva convention? Or that other one? No exploding or expanding bullets?
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  195. Is it more reliable that an M2? What about accuracy? Both immediately after servicing and then after a few thousand rounds in in awful muddy conditions?
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  196. Not as terrible as you may think. If you've seen the movie Zulu, you've seen the British armies most powerful 19th century infantry rifle, the breach loading Martini Henry. The first breach loader used by the British Empire Still in regular use by rear guard units in WW1. A million produced over 20 years. Still in use by the Taliban in Afghanistan. About 4 kg or 10 lbs. Chambered in .577/450 Martini–Henry with black powder. Wars Anglo-Zulu War Mahdist War First Boer War Second Boer War World War I 480gr bullet going 1350 ft/s (2,630 J)
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  197. Well, the digital fire control AND the fact that it is British! ,☕🧐👍🇬🇧 🤣😏😉😉😉
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  198. But, if M982 requires the computer, they don't have that computer AND Canada is sending their M982 rounds, well, what's going on? Do Canadian 777s have a different computer which they're happy to hand over?
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  199.  @ForOne814  I don't know that. And, frankly, neither do you. I mean, the story I read was by somebody there and connected And it does fit the events. And it does match the strategies Ukraine has used to great effect. Ultimately, they have taken back large portions of the city. Their elevated artillery positions were in the perfect spot, easy targets behind the Russian front lines and well out of range of Russian artillery several hundred yards closer to sea level. Not to mention the fact that this strategy of artillery behind the lines and raining death on the enemies supply lines and exit routes was described in this very video as what commanders want from their indirect batteries. Time will tell?
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  200. Well, if you can build a tractor to be remote disabled over the internet there bloody well should be a function on this that causes it to explode when you send the correct command over the internet. Also, if the computer doesn't receive regular pings, created using public asynchronous key encryption (to prevent spoofing) it automatically self destructs Also destruct on: 1) Opening the case without first sending a message to disable self destruct 2) Not receiving regular disable commands while the case is open 3) In any way touching the self destruct bomb 4) Failed user authentication when booting the computer And so on
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  201. Blondie at 13:38 doesn't look sus at all... 😂
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  202. And there's 450 "excess" M1A1s they can be "sold" (via the EDA) to Ukraine for $100 a piece + transport costs.
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  203. You forgot to ask, "also can the Finns have these tanks plz?"
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  204. So.... If I put a 2 meter vertical cage Infront of the NLAW... It works?
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  205. Oh and there's no more pro Russian sentiment in Donbass either now apparently. They charged wave after wave of them into Ukrainian strong points, mass slaughter.
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  206. The best I've managed to find out: Ukraine has shoulder launched STARStreak 1 (although there has been several revisions of 1) I believe this system requires an operator to point at the target, however you can consider it to be "wireless wire guided", it has rear facing optical sensors looking at the laser energy emitted by the CLU. So like any SACLOS system, it's un-jammable, flight time to 1km out is 600ms. So once the trigger is pulled, that's it, near instantaneous death. People have a bit of a Hollywood image in their head, but Mach 4 is ludicrous speed, even 3km out is still under 2 seconds, there's not really any "tracking" involved, the target barely moves in that time, let alone traverses the 'targeting grid' The fancy versions, TLL, Thor etc They have automated target identification and tracking, you just delegate. I would have thought that would be a much better idea but oh well.
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  207. Water? Like in the toilet?
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  208. Very nice. Give it to Ukraine. Now.
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  209. Watching Drone Wars in Ukraine, i think the A10 is officially done, yes?
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  210. Can't wait to see Ukraine sof rip those pipes apart and set them on fire
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  211. You think they're adults and can correctly decide what's true and what's misinformation?? Cappy, dude, what fucking planet do you live on??
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  212. Hmmm, butv what about the bit where you don't want to look threatening? You know we do that for a very good reason, right? ☕🧐🇬🇧 That's why we arrive in a car instead of an MRAP.
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  213.  @kameronjones7139  Indeed, it's a terrible design, wasting space and weight on two identical 30mm ACs because you can't build a proper dual feed or open bolt or some other stupid reason. Still just a T-72, still going to get destroyed by an RPG or atgm.
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  214. T-62 however, is a slightly upgraded T-55. Ones an advanced MBT (for the 1950s, world's most advanced tank by a long way at the time) The other is a medium tank and of the same line as the T-34.
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  215. Any concession to Russia is a disaster They get something for nothing, free land because they attacked. Once it works, they can just take forever. That's why you're giving Ukraine all that money, because you can't fight then yourself.
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  216. 100 thousand dollar tractor but yeah (tractors are EXPENSIVE)
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  217.  @belisarius1453  Say hello to... Modern flak cannons.
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  218. NATO should help. We have one chance to show the world that this won't stand. If they do nothing, he'll take everything and settle into a new cold war. This is the only chance to settle it. Sacrificing Ukraine and the Balkans is unacceptable
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  219. Yeah, they're not justified. This is simply because he wants to feel special again. He's KGB remember? He cannot stand the fact that Russia is completely irrelevant now. Once people crack green energy, that's it, Russia is as poor as the poorest nations of Africa, they have nothing else.
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  220. What is this website with the live conflict map?
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  221. Wait, so they just added rails to the 74? This is just kickbacks for Putin's mates isn't it?
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  222. Russia, hey, i remember them. I feel they won't be able to afford any of this for much longer.
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  223.  @Silver_Prussian  20k? They're looking at 200k casualties And I'm sure they're going to staff them with mobiks missing legs and arms. We also now know that Russia's army medical system is quite literally non existent, so KIA numbers are astonishingly high. Latest intelligence gathered from POWs shows a 40% casualty rate for Russian defenders. D-day attackers experienced 17%. So it looks like the Russian army is just straight up dead, there's no sugar coating it.
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  224. Maybe he means the Russian ones, because, to know, all dead.
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  225. So after all that. All those decades, all that work. It's got an elevation of.. 45 Degrees?!? 😮😮😮 IS THAT IT?!? 😂
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  226. Right, so, all of NATO can interoperate and are really effective on the battlefield. Except America? With their own incompatible tactics? So a colossal waste of money then.
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  227. Surely though, if you got in there and did what the Russian military needed, you'd absolutely clean up?
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  228. Why didn't you just hand out cash in the street rather than to Jake McSheik? Or ask them what they wanted and get that. Unless it was Tanks and SAMs, then you say how about water, food, school and investment?
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  229. Wagner is pronounced "Vagner" W == V
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  230. Because sometimes the answer to, "should we do this or buy this" is No.
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  231.  @Lobotomies4sal3  Aaaaand YouTube deleted one of my comments. I hate it when it does that, especially when I've put effort into a joke
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  232. 13:01 With the black sea fleet trapped in port, there's no more blockade.
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  233. Just send 155mm DPICM already! That's how you solve the shell hunger problems.
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  234. Meanwhile, at Royal Ordinance in 1948 they created the 7mm intermediate. It appears America went the long way round... 😉
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  235. What makes it so effective? Hmmm, I dunno, lemme have a think.. ✌️🇸🇪🤝🇬🇧👍
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  236. "Day-oo" Not Daaawoo 🤣
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  237. No K11?
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  238. Maybe the first rifles were a bit junky so they gave those first rifles to the TDF 😂😉
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  239.  @Taskandpurpose  I think Carolina Patriot just called you fat...
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  240. Corruption and bureaucracy is endemic in certain types of States, dictatorships mostly, like China and the old Soviet. Or Religious States. Many nations here in Western Europe, well we have our States run things just fine. Strangely, the USA also seems to suffer somewhat from bureaucracy and corruption. Not sure why.
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  241. I've always wondered this about tanks. They have these ridiculous ranges of 300km or so. They must have to follow them with a gas station. And it must be so easy to fuck that up. Blow up one tanker that's several tanks that just stop moving and you're down a tanker truck. One guy and an RPG can do that. Or a landmine planted in the night. Or a civilian with am IED. You can't guard the whole road over night ... What is even the point of tanks in this case? Why even bother with them, what even is the military advantage they give you? The gun is mostly an anti-tank weapon so useless, if you need anti fortification I bet there's something better and lighter and cheaper. Take that away it's a very very expensive and dangerous way to transport a light and a heavy machine gun. Right? I just don't see what they have tanks for.
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  242. Ah, highly explosive ammunition stored in a carousel under the crew's feet. Working so well in Ukraine.
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  243. AND that giant gaping panel gap at the root of the canards too! 😂
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  244. So interceptor then.
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  245.  @acefreak95  I know right? Maybe 0° nose on its stealthy but yeah, nah.
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  246. Wait, so, where's the Burger King Trailer?? 😮
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  247. They could be waiting until Russian GPS EW is so degraded that GMLRS and, especially, JDAM can just annihilate any fortification. I can't see a home in the ground standing up to 500lbs of ground permeating pgm.
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  248.  @DreamyCheshire-up9rf  Mines don't fight, genius.
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  249. And 2nd rate Russian forces means 4th rate.
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  250. Not impressed. Heavy, slow, poor optics, obsolete trajectory, manual operation and leaves operators dangerously exposed. It might be a bit lighter in warhead, but Stugna-P, javelin and NLAW are streets ahead of this old Soviet stuff.
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  251. Yeah Spartan and Stormer! 🇬🇧🧐☕
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  252. But can you unlock a bipod on that bipod?
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  253.  @manwithgun9768  It's 30% on a good day for Russia. And it's never a good day.
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  254.  @Jorge.A.12  Russia really does have a finite military and everything modern is already used up and the trained professional soldiers are nearly all dead. I'm not sure they are going to make it to Christmas. North Vietnam has the USSR giving it infinite resources. Russia has nobody. No allies.
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  255.  @josegaucho2830  No, that's not genocide, you've swallowed too much Russian propaganda. The Donbass accusations were lies, paid for by Russia because states in the East were turning away from them because, well, let's just say you don't want anything to do with Russia at the state level. Russia has started that Ukraine is not a real country and it should be erased, absorbed into Russia. If that doesn't press every genocide fear button on your brain there's something wrong with you. At the very VERY least this is ethnic cleansing. The war crimes and terror attacks also point towards how they feel about other people, these are not good people.
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  256.  @josegaucho2830  Although that's accepted logic, it's like trying to trade with organised crime to stop them being criminals. So no, that wouldn't have helped. Russia riddled every dollar of gas money because they thought having Europe dependent on gas would make us leery of supporting Ukraine. To them, it was all a criminal enterprise, maneuvering to prevent them from opposing them. Trade with Ukraine would be seen in the same way as trade with the EU. At leverage, not progression towards peace and a richer world. They're a Mafia state, a fascist hold-over from WW2. We defeated Hitler, we probably should have defeated Stalin next.
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  257.  @1337flite  Maybe they can just wrap some 120mm rheinmetall rounds in some cotton bandages? 🤣
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  258.  @Taskandpurpose  Don't forget Hanlon's Razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Did America concoct a clever plan to "Vietnam" the Russians? Or are they just incompetent? 😉😉
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  259. On the NATO bit at the end. If the choice is between Ukraine joining NATO and Ukraine keeping a nuclear deterrent, it's NATO every time. Surely you can see that? They can't secure then, they can't maintain them and do they even have the knowledge to train soldiers to use them? Like, literally the manual? Do you really think soviet Russia should let Ukraine have all of this? No, NATO membership is a much better deterrent. You can't fix Russia, but you can at least contain them.
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  260.  @iii7702  It's a technology transfer. They aren't South Korean tanks now, they're Polish tanks. You get to build them and sell them, probably the most advanced tank in the world is now Polish. Yeah you could still fuck it up, but hopefully not?
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  261. I would have thought the P90 would be the right choice. The 5.7 was designed specifically to go through body armour. Didn't they just say they needed something to go through body armour?
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  262. Can you dual wield them?
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  263. Is that a V10 in the CGI bmp3?
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  264. It's a real shame STARStreak only hours Mach 4.5. Just so we could say we have hypersonic MANPADS herein the UK 😩🤣
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  265.  @archer1133  Ha! And MBDA (European missile consortium) is refining and testing the inlet shock cone thing that slows the incoming air and heats it to 1000C as a consequence. They are totally thinking about military allocations.
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  266.  @kennethng8346  I mean, even if plasma deflects (really? How can it detect radar away from the transmitter when it's a blob? There's a reason stealth bombers are angular and very obviously designed) or absorbs radar energy. Does anybody really think dumping Mach 9.0s worth of energy into the atmosphere is in any way subtle. If it's shining like the sun then it's screaming across the entire EM spectrum. Sounds like the Russian Defense Industry noticed that there was a wiki page called Plasma Stealth (which nobody has made practical) and added it as a "feature" in their child like marketing material. When all they are really doing is turning Iskander upside down and strapping it to a Mig31.
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  267.  @kennethng8346  No doubt it has some real science behind it. Doesn't sit well though, does it? Something that hot and fast just doesn't sound like a stealthy thing
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  268.  @Xandros999  Āiyāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā!!!
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  269.  @saltyfloridaman7163  Yeah, at the time challenger 2's gun was being selected there was no good anti obstacle round, there was only HESH which requires a rifle. Early 2000s America developed an anti-0bstacle round from the multi purpose HEAT round, but in the 90s there was only HEAT for the M256 and they only punch small holes through concrete. Now, decades later, there is the anti-anything programmable smart rounds which has finally obsoleted HESH, HEAT, HEAT-MP, anti-obstacle and Canister all in one round.
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  270.  @sleepingninjaquiettime  The effective range of the 120mm smooth bore gun in Abrams has a maximum effective range of 3,000m not 5,000m. A Challenger 1 tank made a five kilometer hit, possibly due to it having a rifle, during desert storm but that's very much the exception, it would probably usually miss that kind of shot.
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  271. Holy crap a 19" barrell. Bullpups really are the mutz'.
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  272.  @fajile5109  The reason would have been, "it doesn't add enough tactical use for it's cost in acquiring, maintaining and retraining" Because that's always the reason However the fireworks doom box clearly fills a niche the XM7 was built for.
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  273.  @Taskandpurpose  Hey Cappy. Put yourself in that role, it's dark, you're alone and under attack. What Would Cappy Do?
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  274. But if the submarine is guaranteed strike, why do you need the other two? Votes and the military industrial complex! 😂
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  275. There are other aircraft than the A-10, you know, besides it also being completely obsolete...
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  276. The mitiniztifet is for keeping same out of their massive rasta hair
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  277. 11:21 Why does the remote weapon system have a built in Cat Carrier? Is it to launch angry cats at the enemy? Or are they sneaky recon cats with cyborg eyes?
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  278.  @tvgerbil1984  Indeed, it is much more effective than the HEAT-FS rounds everybody else is forced to use as anti-obstacle rounds. HEAT is specifically designed to focus all that explosive energy into making small holes through thick armour, there is very little in the way of secondary effects. After a brief discussion on R slash tanks it also appears that all the secondaries from HESH are in fact secondaries from spalling. So, sadly, HESH is completely obsolete against composite armour 😔 Thankfully we now have programmable effects for HEAT-FS smart rounds fired from 120mm smooth bores, so Challenger 3 no longer requires HESH and its rifle.
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  279. So, hesh is defeated by spaced armour, no more spalling. But, can it still ignite fuel, hydraulics and ammunition when it's behind spaced armour? Or were those all secondary effects of the spalling?
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  280.  @scotty20040  I am.
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  281.  @scotty20040  It's not a tea brewing kettle, it's a water boiler. Literally anything you want to do with hot water, it's there for you: 1) Making tea 2) Making coffee 3) Making Bovril 4) Heating your MREs 5) Hot water for washing up 6) Hot water for washing your filthy mug 7) Making Ukrainian soup It has a tap at the bottom, see? You heat the water then pour the water on whatever.
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  282. ​ @tomk3732  Well the Dorchester armour was definitely tested in Iraq, repeatedly. All RPGs but one bounced. And we know both Challengers were very accurate, killing up to T-72s at extreme ranges. And the up-time was incredible, we easily maintained them and kept them running around the clock. And fighting the tank, even though it was against an inferior (if numerous) foe, proved its excellent ergonomics and the quality of their training. Yes it wasn't fighting T-90Ms, probably the only tank it would have difficulty killing, but it was never designed to. And had it been required, it would have been upgraded, for which is was designed, and taken it a step above every tank it could have faced.
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  283. ​ @allanchapman7986  "PLEASE ACCEPT THESE BISCUITS AS A PEACE OFFERING AND THEN FUCK OFF THANKYOU"
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  284. ​ @aluminumfalcon552  It's actually a water heater, you don't brew anything in it per se. You just pour hot water over whatevers in your mug. Like Bovril.
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  285.  @orcice  Er, are you talking to me?
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  286.  @Axel-fh7ph  So... You're saying they used waves. Of meat After attempting to locate a weak point in their opponent. Glad we agree
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  287.  @TheRisingEagle93  I disagree, western military training is second to none. The PLA are a show army, nothing more and corrupt to the core, in a stand up fight against a western power they would quickly collapse.
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  288.  @epicguy-nk7dd  Apart from a few border skirmishes over the years, the only real war they fought was the Korean war. That's their only war.
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  289. ​ @FuKuntt  Well it's how they fought in Korea and we have no reason to believe they've improved. They'll probably be just as meatwave as Russia
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  290. Is this how to get the South to put on masks? I approve.
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  291.  @warrenflood2809  Er. France, Germany and the UK are in the top 7 economies. We're world leaders. Funny kind off demise.
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  292.  @tailung9841  Is that what your "internet" tells you?
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  293. It's noticeable that by default, they only have iron sights. Maybe it's just an old video though but it would be inline with their quantity over quality strategy.
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  294. Can the fancy Bradly screen be used with gloves though?
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  295. "The boys go abroad"?? 😮 cues up Vindaloo by Fat Les Oh yes, here we go boys
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  296. Ukraine has been "mum"?? 😂 You hung around with us too much in Iraq, didn't you old boy? ☕🧐👍🇬🇧
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  297.  @chazdoomy1512  Unless you're in Social Russia. In which case DMR carries...
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  298. #29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less. 😉😉
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  299.  @Bikeadelic  Yeah, spoke to a guy who said it was jetboils for hot drinks and BV for rations. People joke about the tea but hot water is essential for many tasks. Thanks for the info.
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  300.  @Bikeadelic  Apparently you all just have jetboils in your webbing now?
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  301. You sound like yours have a pretty good Ringo Starr accent rather than British "RP" He's still British, just not what people immediately think of as British (they think RP, you're trying to do an RP accent)
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  302.  @almac9203  Gyrocopters? No, they are usually open cockpit.
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  303. They do tend to land safely though through auto rotation though
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  304. Do it! Build it! Fly it! Put it on YouTube!
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  305. Who are the RLI?
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  306.  @Barabel22  They also have that problem with the M4 and 5.56mm green tip ammo. Go and find the article that inspired the book Black Hawk Down. Green tip 556 is high velocity composite rigid armour piercing, has a tungsten core. As they engaged local militia who were wearing just no armour, they found they had to empty entire magazines into their targets, about 20 rounds to put someone out of the fight. It's why they are moving up to larger, longer ranger rounds, 556 NATO is just not suitable anymore, peer or no peer.
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  307.  @Barabel22  I think the biggest fear is still the need to be a clockmaker just to clean it! 🤣🔎🕰️
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  308. 40 cruise missiles a month is not chicken feed. If Ukraine can't be supplied with at least 40 SAMs a month then they'll all hit.
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  309. But. Even if they used a short stroke, g36 rifling and all the other g36 bits. It's still not a g36, there's no patents on any of that stuff.
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  310. Exactly, it might be good new but they can't/won't maintain it. Too busy underfunding the next white elephant
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  311. Er, YouTube just tried to sell me a SAM system... Should I buy it?
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  312. Actually, especially with the robots this is surprisingly like brannigan's tactics https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=yCP7uNYbxuQ&t=545
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  313. MOUT vs a well entrenched and trained army: https://youtu.be/85t3aLQzTsI
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  314. I also liked damcon and cic (ops here) Dark, fill of radar screens and I get to have a jolly time pushing all the buttons.
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  315.  @user-pq4by2rq9y  I was talking more generally about bullpup triggers but you're probably right. I suspect it's the same as the difference between pushrod and overhead camshaft engines or switching a light switch with a broom handle.
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  316.  James Harding  Which makes me wonder why they have actually weapons of war. Seems unnecessary?
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  317.  @jrhandley  Well, nations are their cities and towns so, yeah. It doesn't matter if a politician is career or urban, I'm a career engineer, doesn't make me a bad engineer. Mostly we see red state turkeys voting for Christmas. Every republican senator and your entire executive branch need to be voted out and sterilised. What we don't understand, it's that even though the American right is so clearly and obviously revolting, why it still continues. It's not like you don't have mountains of evidence of them being literally revolting people. Like, they are the worst I saw an interview with Jon Stewart of the daily show, he was asked by journalists how they found the video evidence off politicians saying what they promised they hadn't said. He said, "we have VCRs and TiVo, there's just guys looking back over what they said and we catch them in lies" He then opined that he wished he could say the things they did. To which Jon replied, "why don't you?" I think you're watching the wrong door. You talk about 2nd amendment and tyrannical government. But, none of you are ever going to turn your guns on real people. Who do you shoot? Why? When? All together? One by one? Are you literally expecting trump brand storm troopers to march into town?? I think that you are watching the wrong door
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  318. I tell you, that mistrust you all harbor against each other is seriously holding you back. You need to start working together, not planning how to kill your neighbour.
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  319. Gas cutoff has already failed. They have us too much notice that they were going to use energy as a political weapon and we filled out reserves, currently at 80% capacity in the EU. Germany is crash building LNG terminals for LNG ships and immediately remove temporary floating LNG facilities. Russia can't over charge, because then LNG is just cheaper.
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  320.  @dmoney8602  Nah, how about you piss off? The Spartan is fantastic, exactly the right tool for the job. Not sure what you're for, but you most certainly are a tool. I mean, what are you even saying? Do you even speak English? Your response makes no sense whatsoever, it's so stupid it hurts my heart to read it.
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  321.  Fidd88  Yeah, but... Who doesn't want a drop top APC? Suns out, Guns out! Throw another shrimp on the engine and away you go. The Bren carrier sounded like a great idea, high speed mobile suppression, turn up and light up. The mortar carrier also sounded like a fantastic idea, it's indirect, so not in the front line. And brings all the scoot you would ever want for your shoot. Both of them could carry tins of ammo and even if you don't use them they can deliver ammo to your dismount bren and mortar squads. Bet you could make a mean anti tank one too, with a bazooka team. I've probably already mentioned this but they were also listed by Ford flathead V8s. So hands down coolest military vehicle ever made
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  322.  @tonyclough9844  Originally tisit were multiple different 'carriers/variants' coming off separate factory lines. The Universal Carrier was an improvement, the UCs are all identical and could subsequently be turned into an ambulance or a bren carrier or mortar carrier. And turned back again I believe, you just re-equip them when needed.
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  323.  @vanguard6498  Of course it now that I've been back in time and made it bigger.
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  324. Indeed, somebody find the technical drawings for the UC. I want to build one from scratch.
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  325. https://youtu.be/j1nW1xhEuF8
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  326. Did Warrior go to the Falklands?
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  327.  @iaind6139  Don't you mean the desert at Red Flag? They were high flying laser pointers in the Gulf
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  328. 🤣 Zelda is the Princess That's Link.
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  329. We totally used the Universal Carrier as Bren Carriers, PIAT Carriers and Mortar Carriers 🤣 CHARGE!
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  330. "In ways you might not expect" ... Is it Russia?
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  331. 13:59 Wait, are you seriously telling me that HAMAS is better equipped with actual body armour than Russia is? 😂 That's hilarious.
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  332. Does Hamas not use the RPK? Wouldn't the RPK be more of a Russian equivalent to this weapon rather than the PKM?
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  333. That's Britain, not England. ☕😤🇬🇧
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  334.  @thomgizziz  Aw... Yeah, I know. Amusing though. Lots of footage of all those starving NK proms getting shredded in Kursk now too. Ukrainian trenches appear to be a foot deep in spent brass now. Imagine how long they're going to be finding empty shell casings on the floor in Ukraine for. Centuries I suspect. Crazy to consider.
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  335.  @davidgoodnow269  What south African robots movie?
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  336.  @luigimrlgaming9484  "I believe this was somewhere around the start of the war, yes?" No, current numbers "forcibly ambushing people in the streets for conscription" No, they're looking for people that have not responded to their mobilization call, they're not arbitrarily press ganging people. It's illegal to dodge the draft, these people are being arrested "Ukraine has been through 13 different mobilizations" Nope, 3rd wave started in April '24 "The AFU is still around a million strong, and Kyiv has been calling for ever increasing numbers of more conscripts." And? They're fighting for their lives, they need the numbers and NOT because of too many casualties, million strong army, ~60,000 casualties. But they need more than a million. "The AFU is suffering significant manpower shortages" Currently it's an issue, yes, they should have started the 3ed weave much sooner. Russia has exactly the same issue, worse in fact because they have no training infrastructure left, they sent all the instructors to die in Ukraine. "Ukraine often performs suicidal assaults for PR purposes, and it costs them a lot everytime." Nope. Russia does, although in their case it's because they're a crap, weak military, always was always will be. "Do the math, you'll find those casualty numbers are impossible." Math? The fuck are you talking about, you read reputable sources for casualty numbers Russia has all but exhausted its training infrastructure, medical infrastructure, artillery guns stockpile, tank stockpile, BTR stockpile and already can only fire missiles as far as they can produce them, real paint-still-wet stuff. Their massed terror attacks with ballistic, cruise and loitering weapons have have been neutralised, Ukrainian GBAD is now the very best of the best in the whole world. Russian air defence has failed though, they are powerless in the face of Ukrainian arial attacks on their oil infrastructure And now Ukraine and seized 1200 off square kilometres of Russian oblast because their defences were paper thin. Russia is not coming out of this a winner! 😂
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  337.  @luigimrlgaming9484  Not true, Ukraine has released casualty figures, read "Ukraine war: Zelensky says 31,000 troops killed since Russia's full-scale invasion" as you can't post links. Ukraine and UK agree that it's been 600,000 Russian casualties America puts that at 350,000 But these are very typical numbers, Russia's attacks, Ukraine defends. Attackers expect to lose 3:1 soldiers of all else is equal. But it's not equal, Ukraine has troops hardened by 10 years of trench defence, all of Russia's troops are green as grass. Not to mention the wildly obsolete equipment Russia is fighting with
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  338.  @user-m3hwh6t3v3r  Eh? No mate, Russian has not suffered 500 million casualties. There's only 144 million Russians in total 500 to 600 thousand Russian casualties, dead AND wounded. 60 thousand Ukrainian casualties. Current casualty rate for Russia is approx 1,300 a day. Up 30% from January '24 And their artillery fire density is down 20% over the last few weeks. It seems they have finally reached the bottom of the rusty barrels barrel Last thing I saw was 1938 towed artillery pieces being fielded. They have ⅓ the range of 155mm systems and they are being explosively dismantled about 50 a day.
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  339.  @luigimrlgaming9484  Russian casualties currently stand at 10 to 1 against for Ukraine. 10 russian casualties for every 1 Ukrainian casualty. It's 500 to 600 thousand foot Russia, 60 thousand for Ukraine.
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  340.  @picmedic  Er, JDAM IS a GPS kit for WW2 bombs. JDAM-ER is a winged GPS kit for WW2 bombs. PJDAM is a jet Powered JDAM. JDAM: 28km JDAM-ER: 72km PJDAM: 300km 🤩 JDAM-ER
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  341.  @ShadowCider  MOD DI, UK Ministry of Defence Defence Intelligence put it at 500,000 casualties, that's dead AND wounded remember. But due to a critical lack of Russian casevac, the liked percentage is higher than it is for regular armies. I don't know what that IS right now, but it was a target unhealthy 6 figure number last time I saw it.
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  342.  @user-McGiver  I mean, yeah, it is now, but that's their own stupid fault! 😂
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  343. Is it me or is there just no footage of the M4 Sherman Gun Stabilization? Was it secret? Or did it just not work? Anybody got any footage?
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  344. Poland. Do a Soviet, ship the factories East, you know the Poles will happily build that stuff for some active de-russification. Or over in America, Lend Least Baby!! 🤩🤩🤩
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  345. You know, homemade, like Cappy's teleprompter skillz? 😈😈😉😉😉🇬🇧🇬🇧 ❤️❤️ 🎩EE
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  346. It's a bit unfair to call it, "home made, ", yes? That would make the AbramsX Ahmed SEPv4 homamade too now, would it Cap? 😉😉😉😉🇬🇧
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  347. Ooooh, two stroke diesel! 🤩🤩🤩 Double up those power strokes boys, the Ukrainians are here to ruff up the jungle.
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  348. UCP did exactly what it was designed to do. China copied it and now they look stupid.
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  349. Here's what's going to happen: SIG will make a few bil off of M5 (unless the US desides to maybe not bother much with the M5) But Tru Velocity are going to become bajjiolionairs selling placcy ammo to every gun nut in America and every NATO member. They should team up with RAROG who make plastic disintegrating links for 7.62x54mmR in Ukraine. Make plastic 7.62x54mmR for their plastic links, it'll weigh nothing! Also they can lend their polymer expertise to each other and make lots of linked ammo safely over the Atlantic, vintage lend lease style. Nice.
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  350. But less powder and flash as well? Incredible. Tru Velocity will be the real winner from the trial and the M5 may still turn out to be the 21st century M14
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  351. DPICM are equipped with anti armour shaped charges though, yes? And surrounded by fragments for killing infantry.
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  352. As for the Littoral part, I think the solution should have been to go abroad. There are lots of engineering companies and shipwrights in Europe and the UK. That's who you go to for a reliable littoral hull form and pump-jet base.
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  353. And room temperature super conductors are about to change lasers forever
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  354.  @sarkybugger5009  Um, solid state lasers have come further than you can imagine. We're already deploying laser defense systems and they've been used in combat. It's a solved problem now, just endless scaling of power next.
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  355.  @bashkillszombies  Um, solid state lasers have come further than you can imagine. We're already deploying laser defense systems and they've been used in combat. It's a solved problem now, just endless scaling of power next.
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  356.  @coreyleander7911  Yeah, self assembling ones that will use a crater in the same way arceibo used a valley. Very cool.
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  357. The fulda gap? Right, so we've got about 66 years for Russia to break through Ukraine. Then Poland is another century.
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  358. The Iraqis had a few up to date RPGs. Don't remember hearing of any pierce challenger or Abrams though
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  359.  @viktorD4  I don't think Russians get to point fingers and talk about trust. Russia invaded a free sovereign state with Ukraine and it wasn't even the first time. Trust? Don't make me laugh, child. This is the end for Russia, hopefully we can save your prior from your dumb arse leaders
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  360. It's a boom tube
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  361. Their planned tactics of getting trapped in an elevator?
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  362. Bypass and surround Tokmak. You don't need to take it to cut off logistics.
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  363. I think you'll find every single idea there has ever been was first thunk by the British... ☕🧐🇬🇧
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  364. What happened to the T-14? Their retarded leaders army in a few jolly invasions of their neighbours and in retaliation we tanked their economy. It's their own stupid fault.
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  365. OK, you should do a video on the foxhound. We built that in 2 years. But a formula 1 company. And because it's F1 tech, you can change the engine in an hour.
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  366. And this is what they want to replace the Foxhoud with in the British Army? Great.
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  367. "It completely erases your thermal signature" Thermodynamics called, they'd like to discuss what that would actually mean.
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  368. And it'll be really easy to add an AI gunner too. Commander assigns targets, AI gunner destroys. AI spotter should be ready too, picks out and highlights the targets too
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  369. Even though they've emphasised speed and manoeuvrability over armour, I hope they've ensured it's at least survivable Get hit, get knocked out but get the crew out alive.
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  370. Um, they already put missiles in shopping containers. So yes, logistics trucks are already missile slingers. And they're talking about arsenal cargo ships
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  371.  @luketfer  Same, also we had 3 PCs on a LAN in a shared house death matching into night. Cue soundtrack
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  372. A 30mm will kill anything on the battlefield except a tank. And you can easily disable a tank with a 30mm, with a few exceptions it's as big as autocannons get. There's the 40mm on some CV90s, an experimental 50mm and the CTAS40.
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  373. You might be able to sever the link, but that's it. And it's not nearly as easy with decent military gear as most people think.
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  374. They've taught their troops to goose-step. Nations that do that lose wars.
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  375. I think the difference is that American corruption makes bullets expensive whereas Chinese corruption means that money gets spent on coke and companionable ladies.
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  376.  @Taskandpurpose  Does Last Tier mean that when everything else has failed they turn to you to go in to get the guys who went in to get the girls that went in to get the guys?
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  377. It's not just less Chinese soldiers coming home, they'll lose, overall, against a peer. In which case, 100% of all that money spent was a total waste. Like, they literally shouldn't have bothered. Same with Russia, their entire military budget only allowed them to lose slowly in Ukraine. They're not coming out of this with a win, all they can do now is spend enough to not lose too badly.
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  378. America's problem with homeless (and similar problems) are nothing to do with a lack of money or too much money being given to other nations. It's not any kind of money problem, it's a socio-democratic problem, you simply refuse to help these people because it's "soft" and people shouldn't get "hand outs" It's why it's food stamps instead of food money, you feel you have to punish somebody for requiring help. Drugs? Jail instead of help. Poor? Stamps to embarrass. Health? Just die already, loser. One day, hopefully America will catch up with the rest of the West.
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  379. Ok, ok. Serious Question: "Why the fricking frick are they ferkin' BLUE?!?!" https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/raw/p03ny45f.jpg
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  380.  @drosendahl  I don't mean no armour, just stop trying to stop AT munitions with armour because it's a losing game. I just see a small, light, fast, stealthy and battlenet integrated direct fire support unit. With built in single use surveillance drones. Like how they say F35 is the quarter back? But a land one. Give it a 120mm, maybe some VLS silos. Around that is the squads with their IFVs and they get and disseminate intelligence. The central unit is packed with computers and runs the local battlenet WiFi, collects, merges and broadcasts the intelligence to the unit(s) Maybe have separate direct and indirect versions. The indirect can have computer controlled VLS for, say, mortars, grenades, suicide drones, passive drones, data relay drones. The mortar rounds can be GPS/INS/Laser targeted, called in by a squad leader. The suicide drones can launch and loiter, AI examines the battlenet for targets, presents the unit commander with targets who gets to give the kill order. I wonder if you could have quadcopters autonomously restock your squad. "I need ammo/AT4/etc"
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  381.  @coryhoggatt7691  exactly and have you seen the direct fire version of the German ifv? Puma is it? Fast, light, stealthy, will take any hit that isn't anti-tank and has the 120mm gun off leopard.
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  382. It's like an AT4, but it actually As Ts.
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  383. And Nammo airburst and EFP 40mm grenades. Now the Mark 19 can kill tanks.
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  384. Do NLAW! Do NLAW!
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  385. Growing up with my dad in the Royal Navy, my childhood swimming lessons were with the navy themselves. Their teaching methods were bracingly, er, direct. 8 years old, 10 foot deep end, chuck in a rubber brick, "go get the brick" Followed by a 1.5 kilometer endurance swim. Great stuff.
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  386. Do the IBCTs not have Bradley IFVs with the Bushmaster?
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  387. They're losing 50 artillery guns per day. All the shells in the world are no good if you can't make artillery barrels.
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  388. Russia is losing about 1,250 soldiers per day And 50 artillery pieces a day. And their barrel production is a joke, they're rolling out what's left of the 1950s 130mm guns. 3 million shells is useless once there's nobody left to operate the guns that no longer exist. And their AFV numbers are fast bottoming out too.
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  389. Nope, Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868
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  390. Hague convention, not Geneva
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  391.  @SuratMaidah  You can also read the letters written by Eversman I think? No trainings l technicals in his visual account of the battle
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  392. Go to the wiki page, under Forces you'll see that all Somalis had were light infantry with AKMs and RPG-7s. No Technicals listed
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  393. It won't let me post links
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  394.  @SuratMaidah  Why the fuck would I lie you weirdo? Here, links, go, read:
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  395. Russians Eunt Domus I love it, partisan Monty python fans
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  396. So the M4, in 556 or maybe rechambered for whatever the new thing is, will be around in rear guard units for a long while
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  397. If your frontal armour has been penetrated and you DON'T have the engine there, the crew dies instead of the tank. So who cares if it increases mobility kill frequency? There's no point in a functional tank if the crew is dead!
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  398.  @Taskandpurpose  At the end of the day, all that happens to the M982 in the breach is a text file gets copied onto it. The file will contain coordinates, trajectory, atmospheric and local weather data and detonation effect. Patch the Ukrainian software running on their native computer to be able to collate the data, generate the correct data file and how to handshake with the M982. Then, pull trigger! 🤷‍♂️
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  399. Heh, beer-o-crats
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  400. Let's face it, they just stole all the money. What little made it to Kalashnikov was then spent building a few thousand.
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  401. I don't believe the SA80 (at least the IW) has any remaining issues.
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  402. So, the job turned into: Add rails to AK-74 Which, remember, is a solved problem, you can already just buy aftermarket furniture with rails for the AK-74. And they screwed it up. Good job, Russia.
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  403. Looking at the Royal Marines, yes, this is exactly the right thing to do. Otherwise the USMC is just More Army
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  404.  @The_Annoyed_chef  Very nice. Also start stockpiling drone parts in all those bunkers.
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  405. The STO/VL version of the F-35, the B, was specifically designed for the US Marines and The Royal Navy. It is the only replacement for the Harrier. You cannot replace the Harrier with an F-16, 15 or 18. Marines are built around the fast response times of Harrier CAS from a unrefined FOB. Fuel, Bullets and a Shed.
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  406. Yeeeees, Marines + F-35B, get some.
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  407. So far I feel you've given far too much benefit of the doubt to Russia. You should probably start these videos with corrections to mistakes in earlier videos. I mean, they're not mistakes mistakes. They weren't errors, you said what you thought was going on and it turns out bits were wrong.
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  408. Dammit Cappy, you just wrote a How-To guide for Xi!! 😂
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  409. Belgians. Chocolate, Cuckoo Clocks and big scary guns.
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  410. The Ukrainians have tandem ammunition for their RPG7s! Double Trouble
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  411. "How do I know if they're being serious?" My wife: Use rude gestures 🤣🤣 🇬🇧👍
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  412. Foxhound is so damn cool, built with Ricardo Motorsport it uses F1 design cues allowing battle damage to be stripped and repaired in no time at all.
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  413. Wasn't it also range? 556s from m4s was just too short range in Afghanistan?
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  414. 4:47 Exactly, what the hell is the point of pitifully short range guns, even Iowa's, when compared to what an aircraft carrier can deploy? You get responsiveness, but that's it. You know what really was useful for sure bombardment? WW2 Rocket ships. If you wanna see high density, quick response, short range shore bombardment? Rocket ships! Now, seeing how the fast response of HIMARS in Ukraine is now seen as critical and an essential partner to air power, they should build GMLRS/PRSM rocket ships. Littoral capable, deep magazine, give them to the marines.
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  415. Chosen men. hums Over the Hills
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  416. "Digital Camo" is actually multi-resolution camo. Lots of detail for when you're close to the enemy, that can't be seen at long ranges, leaving only the low resolution pattern to blend into other large features like rocks and trees.
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  417. Bren 4 Life
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  418. 6:28 Yeah, bullet go very fast to go through tank armour. But guess what? Rockeye II cluster bombs practically float down on ribbon chutes and cut straight through 190 mm of tank armour. That's most tanks dead. Rockets, bombs and missiles kill tanks and infantry. The only good thing about the gun is the noise, the rest sucks. But I'll give you these two: 1) The survivability engineering is wonderful 2) It's a genuinely beautiful kite.
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  419. 5:48 Very reliable, yes, but hella inaccurate. You really don't want this thing Close Supporting with its gun anywhere near you... 😬
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  420. Pretty sure spaghetti armed weakling isn't any kind of slur? We'd just be comparing your arms to the titular carbohydrate. If I wanted to insult you I'd probably be using those little beef spheres in my jibes. The odd bada bing...
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  421. So... Why the hell are they just not using 7.62??? None of these are going to go live, America will never add a new ammo type.
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  422. ... OK, body armour. Why don't we make ammo with explosively formed penetrators? Like tank HEAT rounds. They don't really on kinetic energy from the launcher so you could make 5.56 rounds. They'd penetrate 56mm of steel armour. Why's nobody done that?
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  423. What about galvanic corrosion with two disparate metals next to each other?
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  424. Sounds like your regular case of NIH, Not Invented Here. They could have and would have license built them.
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  425. According to this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56%C3%9745mm_NATO#Performance You could knock another 128mm off the barrel length of the L85 and still extract the maximum performance of the ammunition. This would end up with the L85A4 at 657mm long (26in) That's still 181mm shorter than an M4! (6in shorter) That would be a fantastic weapon I think. Opinions?
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  426. I remember talking to American and British soldiers that were out there. There was quite a lot of jealously involved on the American side, they felt A LOT out gunned by the Taliban compare to the British.
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  427. The SA80 again Length 785mm Barrel length 518mm The M4 Length 838mm Barrel Length 368mm M4 is 53mm shorter But the barrel is 150mm shorter
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  428.  @wolves201  The British soldiers were at less of a disadvantage with their L85A2. L85A2 Length 785mm Barrel Length 518mm M16A3 Length 1,003mm Barrel Length 508mm w/ 1 in 7 twist They're you go, longer barrel in the SA80 but 218mm/8.6inches shorter. That's not a small difference, is it?
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  429.  @wolves201  The other 3 at the base looked up from their Tea, Biscuits and Scrabble and saw that it was only 30 Taliban so Pun had it all in hand.
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  430.  @wolves201  SLR was our name for the FN FAL (technically ours was the 'inch pattern FAL, multilateral deployments must have just flown by down in logistics) So it also fired 762, just like the argies FALs, which they had to be VERY careful to not take because they would have been metric FALs unless they bought them off of us (must of their armed forces materiel came from us or the Americans)
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  431.  @colcot50  They are a force to be reckoned with.
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  432.  @High_Lord_Of_Terra  You don't mean the EM-2 do you? Because they were completely independent from the SA80 project. The em2 couldn't be adapted for long rounds, USA demanded a full power rifle round for the m14. The L64/65 became the SA80 in 556. We could have had the em2 in .177 British in 1948! 😭
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  433.  @tommyfred6180  what's an SE2?
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  434. In Afghanistan, I've been told that every man in a British squad shooting full-power 556s from a 20" barrel attached to a 4x scope is a cherished advantage over their M4 wielding breathren.
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  435. Heckler & Coke? Cappy slipping in adverts off Broadway stand up improv show.
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  436. Guns and JDAMs? Try JATM, AARGM-ER, MALDJ and SDB-II. And next gen jamming pods too. Bai Bai s400 and 500.
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  437. It totally replaces the A10.
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  438.  @Taskandpurpose  ... It's the Thunderbolt 2 th.... Oh it's the lightning 2!!
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  439.  @introsriffssolos6975  We were will aware that the Invincible class was small, it was deliberate, as they said no more carriers. So we built 'through deck cruisers.' 😒 They were cold war ASW platforms
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  440.  @jaredcrotty251  But they're not small. Same deck size as a Nimitz, minus the fore catapults
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  441.  @sapiotone  Apart from our aircraft carriers. Which are the same size as the American carriers.
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  442. Well I get F35s and the NHS so I'm pretty happy ☕🧐🇬🇧
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  443. I'm sure javelins have been captured before, there's a lot of them around the world
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  444. The SAS bolt mk19s to their DPVs (Desert Patrol Vehicles) Affectionately known as Pinkies, because they painted them... Pink. Yes, the hard men of the SAS drive around there desert in pink land rovers.
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  445.  @yeoshenghong4802  We're going to laugh when the bmpt gets wiped out by NLAW from a high window.
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  446. The T-90M. Still a T-72. Still vulnerable to: NLAW STUGNA-P JAVELIN RPG-7 Carl-Gustav That German one. That drone + an AT grenade.
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  447. It's the same with the Russian navy. In the Royal Navy, they say routine is maddening, chalking seals every week. And you never really understand why unless you actually get shot at (by something that isn't instant death) That's why our stuff doesn't sink. And their BMPs do.
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  448. I know T-64 is old but T-64 and T-62 are VERY different tanks
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  449.  @SHN0o1  Because of a terrorist attack on New York and they didn't invade Libya. Sorry, America didn't invade either place 'for oil' Especially seeing as they have not taken any. Maybe next time don't let wahabist extremists attack free developed nations and you won't get your teeth kicked in.
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  450.  @randyross5630  Yeah, they pretend to soldier and Russia pretends to pay them. Sorry, no, there is no 'good bit' of the Russian army. What you're seeing now is survival of the fittest, those who are good at ducking.
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  451. Can't wait for these bmp-ts to get wiped out by RPGs.
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  452. Ah, but it was the British that stood up the Ukrainian army, America just got the bill for their new stuff. And we've been doing this longer than there's been an American.
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  453. Er, LegionPod is just a irst pod into which you can combine other sensor feeds, or other sensors? I'm not exactly sure. It sounds like a sensor fusion pod maybe? Primarily irst for when you're jammed. Don't see how that's something F35 can't do
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  454. They should have used the polymer ammo.
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  455. High velocity 7mm rounds you say? Why didn't we think of that! ... 🥶🇬🇧🥶
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  456. 13:58 i would not be happy handing that to these three. I think the guy in the left might actually be drunk... 😂
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  457.  @RaptorFromWeegee  Actually they bombed her, I think they only hit the Atlantic conveyor with Exocet. They made sure they couldn't get those missiles anywhere near the fleet and couldn't buy any more.
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  458.  @BloPsy_Actual  Yes, but did they throw away all of their M4s for M4s with rails because your President said so and one of his ex-CIA mates is a senator who just happens to own Colt? It's the McMafia conflicts of interest that are so funny I don't understand why Russians stand for this shit, it seems there's a selection pressure for being docile and easily distracted. Also vodka.
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  459. My opinion is thus. Direct fire support is not obsolete. But I'm starting to think 50 tons of armour is. If passive armour no longer works, ditch it for mobility and active defense. You can still kill enemy tanks and provide fire support. Shooting first wins, not eating rounds Focus on realtime tactical intelligence, find the enemy and kill them first.
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  460.  @Silver_Prussian  Well, I'm going to go with Actual Intelligence over your Vatnik cope soup of "nuh uh they're totally still all alive" We'll see when the counterattack bulldozes all the way to the border, won't we? Past all those empty trenches because, news flash, Russian mobiks are garbage with no equipment, no food, no musical support and no chance. 40% Russian casualty rate, defending, double the figures for two soldiers attacking on D-Day.
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  461. I'm always surprised they didn't make the Rifle grenade work with regular ammo, the bullet just pushes the grenade away
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  462. 15:16 "Turns out that 90 billion is actually being used to but America new stuff" surprised pikachu face 😮 (Actually this is a really good and smart use of money, America actually getting it right for once)
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  463.  @Vexas345  And during the cold war they had to Me Too everything.
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  464. ​ @dianapennepacker6854  The real takeaway from this war is 1) Russia is gone. They're literally nothing and never will be ever again, they can't even deal with a nation with almost no air force. 2) All of NATO is dangerously exposed with regards to suicide drones. 3) You need to harden GPS so if can't be spoofed. Forget this WW1 reenactment. It's an edge case. The only threat is China and they will bury you in drones. Solve the drone problem. Fix GPS. If you have to, launch a military only GPS system, no public access, no public documentation, very classified. Just add a 'MilGPS' transceiver and clock to every military satellite you launch. Or just add a separate system to each new GPS and Galileo satellite launched. Or have it added to starlink.
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  465. "BAE lands £450m U.S. Army contract for M109A7s" See! DO YOU SEE?!
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  466.  @chrishooge3442  See, I wrote a great joke about them ending up painting scary lion faces on the 109s and giving the marines a photo of an extra long range shell but YouTube bloody deleted it...
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  467. It's not because they were foreign systems, they said they're going to investigate wheeled autocannons so they'll probably get some foreign examples in. But it's the US army. They'll investigate it, they'll shoot them, the war in Ukraine will end, they'll lose interest and pay somebody to paint snarling lion faces on the M109s. And buy 5 of those 150km uber-shells, that's 5 for the Army and a photograph of one for the marines.
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  468. 5:34 You wanna know what's a harbinger of what's to come? Go stand next to a Russian GPS jammer. It's a harbinger for the home-on-gps-jam jdam you're about to catch. And yes, they're being sent to Ukraine.
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  469. 11:51 er, gps isn't starlink my dude... 😂
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  470. 20:00 Not only that, Ukraine has been doing really well destroying days Russian logistics trucks, at least a dozen every day. That's at least 80 trucks a week!
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  471. @Mark Branham They're killing the enemy, crushing their morale and getting experienced troops in return. How exactly are they fucked? Bear in mind that if they weren't fighting them in Bakhmut they'd just be fighting them one city over.
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  472.  @shamil14basaev88  It is and it isn't. It is over because their army is smashed, all the best troops and gear is gone. It's not because there still teens of thousands of soldiers left dug in and it'll be a hard slog to rout them. But yeah, fantastic job, magnificent strategy mercilessly completed. God damn heroes.
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  473. Further thoughts: We live on a ball, this enables the concept of "flying inter the radar" I think that, after Russian air defense was stranded on the East Bank, the AFU then started SEAD sorties with HARM missiles. So, they cleared out a small chunk of no air defense over Kherson, but how do you get drones out over the Dnipro? You fly up into the radar of buk, tor and as400 while over the river and let off your HARMs. Now you've cleared even more air space and your TB2s can roam over the river felt, sinking ferries by calling in very long range NATO Artillery.
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  474. I dunno, if i was one of the soldiers I'd be pretty happy with them trying hard to make it invincible! It is after all what sits between me and the bullets
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  475. Give them BAE's CTAS 40mm. That's already deployed, works great. Bit heavy.
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  476. I think the Himalayas would have the biggest effect on China. As in, they have no chance of crossing it at all
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  477. Apparently the weapon that is really putting those ruski tanks 6 feet under is Stugna-P. NOTHING survives Stugna. Everything else is being turbo wrecked by NLAW
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  478. Thales rhymes with Alice
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  479.  @brunojung1984  Wow, I thought it looked pretty good, it's not like they don't put normal grenade launchers on rifles, I would have thought it was of simpler weight
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  480. Steam turbines?!? 😂 Where do they keep the stokers?
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  481. Hang on, hang on. So the BTR requires infantry to carefully move forward and secure every house and junction, no doubt punishing urban contact, to protect the BTR. What's the BTR even there for? It's direct fire support once they've dismounted. Which means the enemy can see it. This seems a bit circular logic. It should go back for re-enforcements surely? Or maybe set up for indirect fire. Able to accurately lob 40mm and 120mm grenades and mortar rounds from cover.
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  482.  @seanobriain4070  You get it Mortar launched: Battlenet relay Drones AT weapons AP weapons IR smoke Sensor Drones Cluster sensors, covers everything in radar and camera sensors, image constructed from many sources. "A 30mm gun"? Please, what's that going to do except give your position away?
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  483. Hansoooon (He's so hot right now)
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