Ok that there was pretty bad to be seen...





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Ukrainians destroy Russian ammo trucks in huge explosion

There are gas and oil reserves in the north sea, greenies won't let them drill for it.

<This and hurricanes aren't doing damage for eight straight months.

People who complain about foreign trade should check everything they own for a "Made in America" sticker. Nobody forces us to buy foreign products, we voluntarily do so because of the value they offer. If anyone thinks inflation is bad now, just imagine a ban on foreign goods. Wages in the developing world would make the average American homeless and starving. As consumers, we take advantage of those lower costs.

The Swiss have backed off freezing Russian assets as well. First rumored to be close a trillion dollars by some, the Swiss now claim only 3 to 4 million is being held in their banks.

They need to decide if they are part of the West or if they are not. If not, we can sanction them as well.

Shouldn't Germany have checked their ammunition supply chain before involving the Swiss?

The Swiss need only supply the technical data package then and allow NATO to ramp up production. We could reverse engineer the ammo as well.

With the Swiss being land locked they need to make some serious decisions.

100% correct. We've backed ourselves into a corner, and at some point we're going to end up paying the price for it. I don't know how long it would take us to get production of things going at a good rate again, but it isn't going to be a short process.



It's possible. What I remember about that incident was the opinion it was a "dry run" for a bigger attack, very well organized and executed, but they didn't have enough knowledge of the equipment to really destroy it. The speculation was they were using thermal equipment, because they hit the transformers in the hottest parts...the cooling radiators. That kind of damage can actually be repaired. If you hit the main tank and even touch the windings inside, it's a different matter. The entire thing would have to be un-tanked, repaired, re-wound, etc. Years of work, and probably fast and easier to simply recycle the materials and build a new one. I don't know for sure though.


I doubt it. I'm not bullshitting you when I say that, when I wake up in the morning and the power is still on so I get to go to work, I'm pleasantly surprised.
It's so stupidly easy to cripple us, I'm shocked it hasn't happened yet. And that's just considering bad actors, not things like CME's and such.
My fellow operators and I joke that we'll either be the very first people out of work (grid destroyed), or the very last (failed economy, but we have to keep the power going).


Pretty much this. During a hurricane, when the power goes out, it's not really much different from a regular storm. Lines get dropped, automatic relays sense faults, PCB's open to protect the important equipment like LPT's, they don't end up damaged. Repairing poles, lines, etc. is a lot easier and faster than replacing huge, important, hard-to-get equipment. It still takes quite a while, but we're talking weeks, not years.

Someone else did mention we're having trouble sourcing the steel cores for the aluminum lines though. I hadn't heard that. One more problem to add to the list.



EVERY local utility is a monopoly, or almost. It's pretty rare to have a choice where you get your power from...once one company has infrastructure in place, no one comes in after and tries to build all-new competing infrastructure. It's just not worth their time and effort.
If you're lucky, you'll live where there's a not-for-profit company (PUD, Co-OP, etc.) selling you your power, and it'll be cheaper and likely more reliable. But, yeah, there's a lot of monopolies out there and little overlap between service areas.

I'm not sure what's going on with that Coke can.  Special improvised fuse mechanism?

From what I just read, the Swiss are bound by former military agreements to remain neutral. They can't take a side.

Russian combat monk is teaching to how sacredly load the AK ammo in an Orthodox fashion. pic.twitter.com/jvWZ4AXvTX

Dmitri  (@wartranslated) November 6, 2022

It would be bad if Ukraine just went around them.

new video from RU  VDV of them getting fucked up

had to edit it into what i thought seemed like order. VDV have just experienced homestel and kyiv suburbs everywhere theyve gone since pic.twitter.com/aV6NLzPl85

Lost Weapons  (@LostWeapons) November 4, 2022

You and me both, there’s no useful description other than “the holidays are coming” or something like that.

https://t.me/the_warshal/7324

I don't know what the typical grunt's loadout was in Iraq/Afghanistan, but, assuming that was all the same soldier, he was carrying a rifle, RPG, and LMG.
That's quite a lot of weight, and I presume they have to do that because they're operating in smaller teams where you can't have one guy who "only" uses the LMG, and one guy who "only" uses the RPG.  Nobody is performing as "just" a Rifleman out there.  Pretty impressive.  

Another video of a recon team I watched a while back had a guy carrying an AK, a Carl-Gustav-looking tube, and a Dragunov.

Greenies need to be liquified and rendered into usable fats and oils for fuel… in Warcraft of course.

Wonder if that'll work for hunting deer?

Cultivating and encouraging the environmentalists in Europe would be massively helpful to Russia. If I was them, I would have been working on that for decades. I've heard that is exactly what they've been doing. It's cheap. It's a good value for russia and their twitter bots.

That isn't *quite* as stupid as that idiot who ended the prayer with "Amen, and Awomen" in Congress... but it's pretty damn close.

Your tanks on fire..

How about that congresscritter that was afraid the island of Guam would "tip over" after we pulled out?  Does that rate?


CMOS

VOG grenade fuze next to it. Could be an improvised grenade.

Yea, it makes sense now how Germany was using the diplomatic wording for Switzerland to supply the Gepard ammo because it was being used to keep food shipments open in the Odessa area, as a humanitarian aid.

thats not a hog hunter, its just a guy with a rifle and nice scope, shooting shit. Bout like someone shooting deer on a depredation permit claiming to be a deer hunter.

goddamn, I'd love to see a pov video of some mechanical K9 terminators turnt loose on some mobiks. I have the weirdest boner right now.

Party time in the #Russian army: A song by the famous Soviet band "Kino" is performed on a pile of straw. pic.twitter.com/jbucOoQUzA

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 7, 2022

I'm no tanker but I have been sometimes puzzled by tanks just sitting static when shooting starts. Like there is no immediate action drills or any mention of what to do when the lead tank gets hit or when arty starts to land.

I've seen very few examples of tanks taking any evasive or dynamic action. Again, I'm no tanker so maybe the gunner and TC are peering through their scopes or vision blocks trying to find targets. If I was the driver, I'd be zigging and zagging all over.