Youtube hearted comments of SonsOfLorgar (@SonsOfLorgar).

  1. I love how their tails barely even changes shape when they rest their paws on them, I can barely imagine how unbelivably dense that fur is and how tiny the body of a manul is underneath!
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  2. When it comes to well designed mortars, our Finnish sibblings are simply the best in the world without competition. 🇸🇪🤝🏻🇫🇮
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  3. Less than 10% vehicle losses and no crew losses over 2 years of active frontline service in Ukraine for the oldest retrofitred vehicles in the family is one hell of a sales argument for a "light" AFV...😊
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  4. Mat, as a conscript trained Swede with exp. of both the CG and AT4, I would presume that telescopic front brace of the NLAW was added, not for supporting the weight of the weapon itself, but to prevent unintentional depression of the tube as the missile is launched and it's weight in the tube shifts forward during launch as that's the main source of shorted shot misses on the CG and AT4, both of which lacks that kind of brace.
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  5. Not just Poland and the Baltic states... My family was on the Soviet Spetznaz elimination list when I was a child due to my fathers profession as a Lt. Col. in the Swedish costal artillery on Gotland... Blissfully ignorant at the time, one of my earliest memories is of two allegedly Polish art students trying to sell charcoal portraits at the door of my parents house... except they only visited officer's families... Moskovy is our last remaining arch enemy, and has been one for over 800 years. The only thing that has changed is the colours and symbols on the rag they call a flag over their tyrants palaces and the labels and titles they use to disguise their corruption.
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  6. Never trust Spanish quality control on anything that isn't vegetables or fruits... Just put the Ajax turrets on Warrior or CV90 hulls?
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  7. Two Carthaginian dislikes so far ;)
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  8. Swedes never claimed to be sane 😉😅
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  9. Yup, the CV90 is far more quiet from the front than an AFV has any right to be. You feel it through the ground many minutes before you hear it, which is unnerving as you don't know where it comes from until it's too late, and that's the A/B version with steel tracks on bare ground. On thick snow (it effortlessly traverses up to 1m deep snow), it's even more quiet, and the vibrations are dampened out...
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  10. That Humvee towed mortar system looks really cumbersome and slow to handle compared to the towed old (entered service in Sweden in 1941) Finnish made 120mm mortars that the Mjölner replaced.
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  11. My experience of Swedish MREs tends to be the opposite... where you do all you can to contain the gasses until you get to the toilet, because you can't trust your sphincter to release only the gas...
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  12. And on the other end of the radio chain, in case the data link doesn't work, there's someone like me taking notes, reading back the data and passing the form to the ballistics computer operator when confirmed correct.
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  13.  @florkiler6242  FN2000 uses the same 5.56x45 rounds and mags as the AR ;)
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  14. ​​ @allenliu8820  the NEMO, it's double tube big brother AMOS, and their cheapskate Swedish cousin Mjölner, all has the ability to fire Swedish SAAB/Bofors/Nobel designed "STRIX" homing EFP rounds... Self-guided rounds that can be pre-programmed with a target priority reference list so that it, for example, prioritise counter-battery radars or engineering vehicles over SPGs or SPGs over IFVs SAMs/SPAAs over IFVs or the standard list: mine roller MBTs over regular MBTs over IFVs over APCs over Supply trucks.😁
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  15. Unlike the original Hellfire AGM that provides the missile body and laser riding targeting system, the Rb17 missile has, iirc, a reduced HEAT warhead supplemented by a substantial secondary HE/FRAG charge. The reduced HEAT warhead scaled to penetrate post WW2 ship hulls and allow the HE/FRAG charge to blow up inside the hull and shower the crew and equipment with thousands of metal pellets.
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  16. Keep up the good work! 🤣
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  17. Brass casings remove quite a lot of heat from the breech end of the system so that you can sustain longer barrages before risking cook-offs, and make no mistake, the moskovites do use bagged increments, inside the brass casing. Drones and artillery spotting radars make that feature obsolete vs peer or superior tech adversaries as anyone trying to sustain barrages longer than 3-4 rounds per piece and then relocate is just begging for a buggering by counter battery fire or drones.
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  18. Best shoulder fired cannon ever XD
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  19. I almost feel sorry for the troop leader at 0:23 Not a single soldier in step or tempo and every one looking at eachother instead of him when trying to correct themselves... Hell, even my grade school class marched lock step better than that during brass band practice, and we were just 7years old, these guys are adults ffs XD
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  20. If it's in late spring next year, I might end up in the same exercise, if not, have fun!
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  21. Regardless of the symbols or colours on the rag flown over the Kremlin, the stink from the sewage inside has been the same for over 800years...🤮
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  22. My favourite version of this concept would be a fully automated semi-autonomous re-iteration of the Strv 103 upgraded with a 140mm main gun and bouoyancy tanks (for suspending the vehicle at ~1.5m below surface) instead of the DD-style floatation screens that broke the surface.
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  23. The hills are alive, with the sound of shilkas... XD
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  24.  @wadadli4sun  nice I did my conscript training at P18 as a signals specialist in a Tgb 1321 (Mortar battery control vehicle)
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  25. Here we observe a brass band of the Brittish armed forces performing a cantabrian circle skirmish formation in three dimensions without horses.
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  26. Nah, i call your fake chicken cat and raise it with my own chicken sphynx... ;)
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  27. Heh! In my final exercise of conscript training, we got overrun by AFVs twice without previous warning... Only we crewed 12cm mortars with a 300m physical min range, so no direct fire option. First time by a T-72 run by a crew from the army ground combat school. Second time by two CV9040, we knocked the first one out, the second returned the favour... Good side is, first encounter was just at the end of that day of exercises, so we got to chat with the tank crew and watch the vehicle up close. And the second encounter took place near a training field administration complex where the commisary field van was located, so we spent the time until 'revival' snacking, smoking and resting in the warm (~18°C) spring sun on top of our Volvo ATVs with most of our combat kit stowed on our seats. If we didn't keep our rifles, helmets and gas masks within arms length at all time during field exercises, the seargeants (who in the Swedish army are officers cadets in field training) got creative to drive the lesson home. The consequence of the latter was apparent at least once among swedish peace keepers in the balkan wars when at least one Swedish soldier engaged the attackers of his outpost in nothing but helmet, webbing and boxer shorts as he'd been resting when shit hit the fan. And he stayed in his position for a few hours until he got relived.
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  28. Main difference would be that modern trenches are occupied for a few days at a time at most compared to the months and years of previous millenia. Because trenches as a tool of battle has been around since the bronze age.
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  29. Sorry for the loss of your family member. It reminds me of when we had to part with the cat who had been my constant companion from my third to my nineteenth summer. Take the time you need and let the mourning take the space you need it to. The rest of us will still be here at the other end.
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  30.  @wadadli4sun  seconded, also, the one at Arsenalen is a prototype, but there's a retired service version in a museum just south of Kristianstad And the Strv 103-0 is sitting at the barracks camp at Ravlunda military training field about 20km further south of Kristianstad.
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  31. I'd watch the hell out of that series.
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  32. What does the line infantry do when the artillery corps go to the yule ball? They dig foxholes as if they were living on borrowed time... 0;)
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  33.  @curtist919  there is only one delta worth admiring in my book, and it's not gen4. It's a gen2.5-gen3 interceptor: The SAAB J/A37 <3 Mainly because one of my uncles flew it during the cold war and the roar of it's fly overs of my home town several times a week when I grew up has become a comforting sound of reassured independence :)
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  34. I'd say let the first crew to score top grades with a tank name it, then keep a separate honour roll plaque with the tank for each task category where each crew that qualifies get to put their names and with each anual re-qualification that they maintain the excellent standard, they add the requalification year to their names.
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  35. Spent 10 months of conscript training in the battery control squad of a 12cm mortar platoon back in 03-04, not in any commonwealth forces.
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  36. High geostationary orbit ;)
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  37. Sounds like you need a bigger tree to fit that gift wrapped Grande Batterie... A Redwood might be the the right size... ;)
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  38. One "green" country is Sweden, with more than 800'000 local variant G3 rifles alone produced under licence during the cold war and more than 50k of those still in used with second line armed forces along with limited numbers of MG3s(as anti personel weapons on Leo2) Mp5s, G36s and 416s in service with police and special forces. I bet Finland is too.
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  39. INCOMING! ;)
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  40. Time to elevate the Bofors guns to max...
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  41. What I don't understand is why they chose the 40×311R round that was already too weak to reach the ground engagement altitude of early jets and then reduced it's volume for propellant further instead of going for the improved 40×364R round and just necking it down to 37mm, or whatever shell caliber they wanted.
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  42. I'd want to see you collaborate with Tod Cutler to toss an enclosed ceramic urn of greek fire with a tied on slow match around it's neck as a pilot light using his trebuchet ☄
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  43. Pbv302 will always be the diamond standard of APCs in my book 😊
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  44. Curious that the Canadian army has a 400+rnd allowance between barrel changes, my country only has a 250rnds continous fire allowance between barrel changes... My country also mainly use german pattern 49 round modular steel belts as opposed to infinite desintegrating links.
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  45. Forgive them, for what they know not what they have done...😉🥲 Congratulations Sir!
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  46. Reg. Tank telephone: as long as it doesn't weighs one down significantly, one simply can't have too many backup coms options when shit hits the fan. Hell, just a couple of lead connectors for old dual lead telephone wire to allow the infantry to hitch up a 50'ies field telephone to the intercom when there's a known hostile electronic warfare unit in the region.
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  47. Rolling in on a bombshell there Mat ;)
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  48. Extreme range + extreme capacity for precision payload -> extreme endurance over very many targets if using bases closer to the theatre of operations = high availiability and reliability of air support. Any allied trooper on the ground loves the confidence in battle provided by that presense.
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