Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. While "душка" is indeed Russian word, I've never heard Russians calling it that. Seems they only pronounce the letters D-Sh-K "deh sheh kah" (дэ-шэ-ка). Sort of like "krinkov" is American only thing, never used in Russian parliance or by anyone else.
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  2. At which point screaming obscenities at each other becomes a good FOF discretion tool.
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  3.  @HooptieHoop  mēs esam visur, no mums neizbēgt! XD
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  4. ATGM launcher makes sense, if their fire control system for the main cannon and the accuracy of cannon itself suck, then a guided missile might at least partially compensate for the lack of long range fire capability.
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  5. For several days in early July of 2022 Russians were running cyber attacks on Latvian TV and radio Internet structure.
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  6. I was wondering, how many soldiers do they have per capita, as 84'000 seemed a lot for a small country. Turns out, not that much, mere 1,6 times more, than armed forces and national guard combines of my country, which has one of the smallest armed forces in Europe and NATO both by absolute numbers and be share of population.
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  7. I wonder, if pretty often a "Super Tucano" will not be a better alternative as a counter-insurgency weapon, than a F-35?
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  8. At first I was puzzled by that weird first word "ShNCh", until I realised, it's "WHY", just spelled in Cyrillic letters. XD
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  9. Unlike in Ukraine, it would be MUCH harder for Russian fascist invaders to pretend to be local militia in any of three Baltic states, as they have no Soviet weaponry left, thus no claims of "trophies taken from gpvernment fprces" are possible, like they did it in the East of Ukraine 2014-2022. And yes, Russia is sort of important in Latvian economy, however notice, how Russia is only #5 there, not #1 despite being th ebiggest meihbour. And it's not just because Russia runs batshit crazy politics, but also because Russia is a broke as shithole - they simply don't have all that much money, to be worthy partners, unlike Nordic coutries and Gernamy.
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  10.  @вячеславВагин-к4т  Во! Вот это больше похоже на правду - Светка, Ксюха, Дашка.
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  11.  @Hashishtani  There is a system to it, official names for artillery are all plant ones, while AA systems bear names of rivers.
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  12. Two sides? But the M14 was never it's main competitor in the worldwide 7,62x51 market, the 3rd option - G3 was.
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  13. "Cuts in armour", make perfect sense, if the angular outer shell is jus that - a shell over the actualk turret - either old rounded one or of a newer welded kind.
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  14.  @arvedludwig3584  AK uses a long stroke piston system, not a short stroke one.
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  15. A new strategy? Is it "new"? Like jeeps used during WWII for deep raids or buggies in 1991 "Desert storm", light vehicles make perfect sense - increased mobility, speed and range.
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  16. Well, war underground can't really reach you (other than some insurgents infiltrating you city's communications below). And whoever controls surface will take upper hand anyway, as "moles" need supplies, so this does not render aviation and tanks absolete, this just demands special training for infantry. Also, infantry will not arrive on spot walking on foot, s again we will still need water, ground and air transport, and that will need cover, so tanks, CAS and armed ships will still be there. BTW, given historical record of fighting undergournd and in caves, what about flamethrovers?
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  17. Israel might sort of stay o the side, yet Israel does provide intelligene to Ukraine and some medical services to injured Ukrainians.
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  18. 1:33 - no, it would not be like that, since Ukraine was one of the four original participants, who established USSR.
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  19. The greatest threat to democracy in India is their own nationalist / populist government, not some outside influence.
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  20.  @Hashishtani  Индиид, тфу, бля! Indeed, those are names of trees, river names bear systems like Silka and Tunguska and... Well, Pantsir does not for that sheme, for some reason.
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  21. I don't like the shape of the upper part of XM8, I'm strong believer, that most major parts of a gun must be parallel to the barrel, no matter if they are box shaped or a tube, as it helps for intuitive aiming, thus in my opinion M4 (and most AR-15 based weapons) and G36 are good designs (especially versions with a rail on top instead of a built-in optic), while XM8 was not.
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  22. Seems like China run into similar problems like Russia did - they want to cosplay a great power and to have large navy, air force, nuclear weapons (which then demand at least ballistic missiles and perhaps nuclear submarines too), but that leads to their expensive toys not being top notch compared to Western ones and to the neglect of their conventional land forces, because they can not afford all of those at the same time.
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  23. How come no other countries have such problems? Our armed forces use G36KV3 as standard issue rifle. I've seen a video with two of those G36Ks after an improvised "torture test" - guys out of boredom shot all ammo they got (as I understood, time for regular maintenance approached anyway) so their hand-guards melted a bit and got deformed. Armourer changed only burned out barrels and left the rest as is, to teach them a lesson, adding "shit like this never happens on missions, only here back home". No issues with lost accuracy even after all this. And the only thing soldiers do after returning from Afghanistan is re-zeroing their rifles at 400m range, since here we are at a couple of kilometres lower altitude, that's it.
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  24. Since my in-laws got a garden in one of those big red spots in Latvia, the situation is this - you stick a spade in the ground, and it comes back with a big, heavy chunk of clay, which doesn't even fall off. This is also one of the reasons why Latvia bought refurbished CVRTs - they are light.
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  25. That's a weird concept, especially for urban warfare, given it's recoil. It almost seems like guys with old WWII era SMGs will have an unfair advantage over troops armed with these SIG rifles.
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  26. It really feels like American command yet again has fallen for the fairy tale of sharp shooter superiority over ability to use suppressive fire, once upon a time this misguided belief led them into adopting 7.62x51 round and M14 rifle, which later got partially fixed by switching to M16 - still too long, so it evolved into M4. I do agree, that US troops will not be forced into trench warfare, as, unlike Ukrainians and Russians, they almost certainly will have complete air dominance, however that also means increased range is not all that much needed and close air support and artillery will likely take out bigger targets before infantry even encounters them, which often will leave infantry with a cumbersome weapon in close quarters fighting indoors and they will hate it, but yes, they should love the occasional ability to turn some BMP into a wreck reminding a tea strainer or a pepper box, yet one is only occasional, while the need to clear out building from adversaries will be in demand often.
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  27. Isn't 338 Lapua famous for having a really powerful blast, which can influct almost a cuncission to shooter? And that's when fired from a rifle, now on full auto... Then it's a good thing the gun is this long - the further muzzle is from you, the better.
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