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StiHacka

Compensating for something
Jan 4, 2013
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In hell. Welcome!
Learn some new languages, pussies! :D

1st image: Polish TV titles Putin "War criminal, leader of russian regime"

2nd image "Zdravstvuytye (hello in russkie), how's the situation in Kaliningrad?" "What ahoj?" (hello in Czech)

Apparently both the Czechs and the Poles are having fun with fake annexation of Kaliningrad by the Czech republic.
 

gonefirefightin

free wieners
Thought this was interesting,

Between the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), US Space Force (USSF), Northrup-Grumman, Lockheed-Boeing, falcon 9 platforms, and a few smaller intelligence/defense contractors there have been 400x the normal amount of US defense orbital payloads delivered this year and most of it has been due to the Ukraine development in the last 3 months.

Nearly 90% of these US/ally payloads are unknown or classified. Thus far the actual # of known payloads sits in the 320 range with an estimated 82 that were never verified or recorded coming from ally countries such as New Zealand, Australia, The Marshall islands, Canada and Japan. At least 25 payloads were specifically never recorded since they were launched via conventional fixed-wing methods such as "launcher one" (virgin Atlantic) and only verified via spotters and locals near normal launch locations.

Not to mention the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), has been put into use a year early by the US Army and Navy.
The Army has developed it onto M983 trucks and trailers each holding two missiles in launch canisters alongside a command vehicle, This system has been dubbed Dark eagle via the Army

The Navy has already implemented the LRHW launch tubes for Zumwalt-class destroyers and Virginia-class submarines

I can only imagine the tech that is up there pointing down on Russia and is poised for whatever is about to unfold.

4 years ago I spoke at a couple of very hush-hush DOD contract companies and the tech back then was staggering. For example. One of the 3 gimbals/cameras on an RQ-4 Global Hawk is roughly the size of a basketball and can read the text on a bouncing tennis ball at 25k feet, and that was 4 years ago.
 
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Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
Jan 14, 2002
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4 years ago I spoke at a couple of very hush-hush DOD contract companies and the tech back then was staggering. For example. One of the 3 gimbals/cameras on an RQ-4 Global Hawk is roughly the size of a basketball and can read the text on a bouncing tennis ball at 25k feet, and that was 4 years ago.
What we really want to know is if it can see blowjobs.
 

Sandro

Terrified of Cucumbers
Nov 12, 2006
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The old world
Pretty well reasoned scenario for an end to the war by Timothy Snyder:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-does-the-russo-ukrainian-war

tl;dr is that an internal power struggle will eventually force Putin to withdraw from Ukraine. So no bullshit off ramps, no giving in to nuclear blackmail, just let Russia disintegrate on its own.

Let's hope that propagandists increasingly losing their shit on TV and events like this are early examples this type of power struggle and growing division:
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1577797361014669313
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Russia bombs an apartment building on what it claims is it's own land and kills what it claims to be their own people. No where near an active military operation.

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