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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Imagine making fun of western tanks saving their crews' lives, while at the same time Russian tanks completely wipe out the own crew because they sit on their ammo. That said, I think tank manufacturers need to come up with new ideas to protect tanks against the cheap suicide drones. All the tanks are vulnerable to them right now.
Active Protection Systems are a thing and probably can deal with such stuff as well, but they are not widely used at the moment.
The most modern tank Ukraine got is probably the Leopard 2A6, it only has an APS since 2A7A1...
I don't think any new ideas is needed to stop slow moving targets like that, either you use EW equipment to jam out the signals to the drone or an old fashioned AA gun should be able to handle it. The problem for both sides in Ukraine is that they don't have enough of these available.
Nice little thread about the IRIS-T SLM system:
Most important in the context of the war is the fact that the third unit is finished and will soon move to Ukraine, the more general news is that the training center has now officially opened and Diehl keeps increasing the production rate of this system.
Nice detail, the third one is the first one purposefully built for Ukraine and therefore got the green camo, the first two were originally intended for Egypt and therefore have desert camo. I guess it works just as well in urban areas, otherwise I am sure Ukraine would have repainted them by now.
Most important in the context of the war is the fact that the third unit is finished and will soon move to Ukraine, the more general news is that the training center has now officially opened and Diehl keeps increasing the production rate of this system.
Nice detail, the third one is the first one purposefully built for Ukraine and therefore got the green camo, the first two were originally intended for Egypt and therefore have desert camo. I guess it works just as well in urban areas, otherwise I am sure Ukraine would have repainted them by now.
And a new war crime, while NATO Erdogan calls Putin my dear friend.
Obviously nothing is going to happen over this but Romania's communication was odd.
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Bravo, @VorZakone, for your dedicated work in this thread.
Can't wait to read all the articles you've posted today.
Can't wait to read all the articles you've posted today.
Cheers.
Sarcasm, right?
No, I appreciate his tweets & find the articles interesting.
Don’t think so. I second that @VorZakone - this has become my main source of keeping up with the news these days.
Fair enough. Its just the endless use of possibly/probably made up "officials" as sources in pretty much every one of his links that winds me up a bit.
I get ya.
I hope the Abrams go through fascists like budda.
Why does it wind you up? Quotes from officials in the NYT, Reuters, BBC etc are some of the closest sources we can get and they give a feeling of the mood in governments.
Unless you think the NYT is "making up" these officials.
No one is saying you should believe what these officials say. They can be wrong and have been wrong. But that in itself isn't new.
I don't believe they're making them up, but sometimes I question the importance of anonymous officials. It could be some actual general on duty, some high ranking politician or just a veteran from some ancient war with nothing but his own opinion.
Ukraine is now beginning to retaliate quite frequently. This was probably the answer on yesterday's terror attack.
The perfect anti drone weapon.
According to the UN, they have not enough evidence of a genocide.
I was about to post this. What a piece of shit.
If he knows so in advance what operations Ukraine is involved with and he acts unilaterlly against it at his own judgement, what prevents Musk to pass any critical information about the counteroffensive to Russia?
I'm pretty sure he did. Personally, I would love it if Musk, now an American citizen, is caught red-handed in violation of the Espionage Act and then is arrested. Some of the sensitive information that Ukraine has prior to those ops may be directly linked with US intelligence, any interference could be seen a ground for an indictment.
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