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It's tragicomic how often the police, while investigating someone for a murder, discovers that their search history includes stuff like "how to kill someone". It's never just the one hit either, they always try different search terms. I'm pretty sure most of the time the police didn't even need to use any special powers to access search logs (which has been very difficult to get in Norway), they just went into the browser history and there it was.
Please don't unexpectedly die in the coming days. I would be high on the police list.
Tanks made in Russia. That's a T-90.
Of course it is. I already wrote it once I think. Iran and Russia are working more closely together than at any time since the Ukraine war. The military coups in Africa, the refugee waves through Belarus, Iran backed terror organizations provoking a war are in my opinion all orchestrated between Iran and Russia in the last 12 months and we haven't seen the end of it. Both united by the hatred of the western world.
Did not expect that. Did it hit a mine?
I think an armor piercing projectile that hit the ammo storage. Could also be a mine of course that detonated the ammo storage. In any case, even the newer T-90 Russian tanks are death traps. We didn't see one western tank exploding like a bomb in this war yet. On the contrary, so far reports all mention that the crews of western made tanks managed to get out unharmed.
It does indeed explode in a way that'd be rare in an 80s made-for-video action movie.
Different designs. Russian tanks store the ammo in a ring around the turret feeding into an autoloader for a higher rate of fire and one less crewmember, but it means any hit sets off the lot. Western tanks store ammo deeper in the turret and isolate it from the crew compartment.
The autoloader is not the reason for this. Designs like the French Leclerc or the new German KF51 also use an autoloader and still have the same level of safety as the other Western tanks.
And Western tanks don't store it deeper, but instead so far outside that the ammo is stored effectively outside the main armour. It's Russian tanks that store them deep and that's what makes them explode once they are hit.
The Russian design makes tanks lighter, smaller and cheaper, but it puts the crew at a higher risk.
The autoloader is the original reason for that design. At the time it was seen as the best way to fit the system without compromising the crew compartment as in older tanks, but it places ammo next to the thinner side armour.
Western tanks store it well behind where its likely to get hit and they have isolation compartments. It's not kept outside the armour.
As I said, they could have built the tanks bigger than they could have it done like in western tanks.
But yes, calling it as being outside the main armour wasn't exactly correct, I was referring to the fact that the thin blowout panels to the outside are weaker than the internal doors, preventing an ammo explosion to go inside the tank.
That's why you use a container, proxy, tor network when looking up Holly Willoughby.
Idiots
Its cheaper, lighter, more compact and means it requires one less crewmember. Different design philosophies more than bad design. Russia has always seen its soldiers as expendable.
Our favorite russian doomsday crier Girkin has been passing his insight from inside the can. This is dated from 29th of September.
Says Russia is basically trying to freeze the conflict until US elections, putting any offensive plans on backburner until then and just trying to prevent any ukrainian breakthroughs.
Thinks there won't be any major changes in strategic gains over winter, just some positional changes for propaganda purposes and both sides clamouring that they've progressed and victory is near.
US wants low intesity conflict to continue to exhaust russian potential, ukrainian victory is not neccessary for them, maybe even dangerous, as it could cause Putin to escalate.
Thinks US will just feed Ukraine slowly, give Putin confidence, that west is getting tired and close to surrendering, but when the time comes, ramp up supply accordingly.
Only a miracle might save Russia from collapse at this stage, once that happens, lots if not all of russian elite will lose wealth/lives.
There still might be some "black swan" events that could change picture drastically within days, maybe hours just like it was in June (Prigozhins coup).
Oh, please, those no-names can spare me the bullshit about the integrity of the Russian state.
They wouldn't care less hadn't it been for the biggest nuclear arsenal on earth. Even 100 of those falling into nutjobs like the Khadirovs is rather unpleasant thought.
Just be thankful he didn't go the full Jill Dando.
So who was it this time, Ukraine, Russia?
Russia, pretty obviously. And it is rather meaningless pipeline anyways.
Meaningless or not, Finland is now a NATO member. Could be Russia is trying to find out how far they can go against a NATO country?
Reports coming in of Russian attacks on the whole eastern front. Somebody wants to use the moment when the world looks at Israel.
The senator mentioned here is Josh Hawley.
Of course it was.
Germany announces new defense aid for Ukraine worth $1.1 bln
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...-aid-package-ukraine-worth-11-bln-2023-10-10/
Just a few more cheeseburgers and that's a wrap.
A day after Russian offensives on the eastern front. 34 tanks, 91 APVs....Did they think Ukrainian defenders all watched Israel news instead of the front line?
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If Russia could ever run short on artillery or tanks, i would be more excited over news like this.
They will run short at some point or do you really think they produce as fast as they lose them? It will take a lot of time no doubt, but at some point they will run short. It's simple mathematics. It just seems like they have an endless supply because they built it for ww3 against the United States, but even those stocks are not endless. I've seen many photos of Russian military camps with empty spaces where hundreds of tanks were parked before.
I don't know, probably not, but they are increasing their military budget by a lot next year.
Yeah I know, according to reports every third ruble in 2024 will be spent on the military. An economy cannot sustain that in the long term, especially under sanctions. It's the first sign of a unavoidable collapse in the future if you ask me, provided the Western help doesn't dry up.
Most voters don't care about this conflict at all if we are being honest, not even in Europe, hence why Slovakia just voted in a certified Putin-shill.
Slovakia doesn't matter that much in the grand scheme of things, but it shows a pattern, right-wing populists are getting voted in all over the place, sometimes we are lucky when they don't support Russia though, Italy as an example.
US-supplied weapons to Ukraine have found their way to the Gulf, where they are possibly being used against Israel, America's closest ally in the region, according to a published media report - wondered how long this would take to raise to the top
Which report?