Malcador

https://www.newsweek.com/us-vet-fighting-ukrainian-forces-its-1916-type-artillery-war-1722367 Started reading a quote of this, then realized it was Newsweek. So this guy probably doesn't actually exist, maybe 70% chance. Is a fun article if you keep it being total BS in your mind "There is no training for this. I've seen guys that were Tier I, SF guys, GSG 9, SAS guys, but that artillery will just eat you up and spit you out," Elvis said. "It does not give a f**k about training. If you're at the wrong place at the wrong time when that round comes in, you've got about three, four seconds to impact. You're done. "If you hear the whistle and it gets louder and louder, everything will start shaking like a f***ing freight train," he said. "The longer the whistle, the closer it is to you. If it's a short whistle, you've got no problem. But if it sounds like it's just coming right at your face, you're in the kill zone. There's no sense in running. "But the good thing is, you're dead before you know it," Elvis said. "The guys that I've seen take direct hits, we have nothing to identify them by. We find like, maybe a pinky finger. We found one dude's genitals splattered up against the wall. It's gruesome, but that's the reality of it. We got to the point where none of us really wore helmets, because if something like that hits the building you're in, you just hope that it kills you quick"

I'm surprised they have equipment for 1 million. Well or have trained them to be useful in combat.

Yes, I played a bit in EA then left it so as to not get burnt out on the game and it's nothing really new. I didn't even encounter of the AI nodes they warn you about in the tooltip. The story is on the nose, yep, I guess one thing they should have done was play up Hal and LYNX being bigger and bigger **** to you, rather than just you seeing him bully Kaito, Dee Dee and Lou. I didn't really find the unskippable VO to be so onerous, but am in a minority looking around

Finished storyline of Hardspace, was fun enough, although a bit rushed the mission where you stiff the company by blowing stuff up was great fun. Reactor detonation did a lot less than I had hoped for. Fun game, needs more variety in the ships but even doing the same ship you've done over and over is enjoyable in a relaxing way as you go through the motions. Sort of amused people were grousing about the story or game being woke. I guess a lot of people see Communism when a union is mentioned

Thought I'd pasted it, still in clipboard https://t.me/strelkovii/2908 Is just complaining about HIMARS and such.

Still having fuel tanks randomly explode on me in Hardspace, pretty sure I flushed the tanks too. In Act 3 of the story, the soulless middle manager is being a colossal **** to my team, but they literally own our bodies.

I wonder if the S-300 in land attack is an attempt to improvise a counter battery. It is fast, decent range but the accuracy isn't that great. Reading Girkin's latest rant I wonder when he's going to be calling for nukes on Kiev

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/books/book-ban-librarians.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytbooks

We just need to evolve warfare to be like the Clans in BT.

Wonder where the Aurora rumour started.

Guess you have it on faith that US systems always work Probably what would happen is either or both sides run of their fancy ammunition as it's not exactly churned out. The logistics train for the HIMARS in Ukraine would be interesting to see.

NATO, you mean, not the EU. Not even sure they are compromising it, unless Russia suddenly has Space Marines and will execute some sort of Schlieffen plan on steroids and sickle cut through Scandinavia to devastate western Europe. Would be interesting to see how a conflict would pan out though, everyone tells me NATO air power would win it.

Obviously a Russian sleeper agent.

Erdogan deciding things are boring - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/turkey-threatens-to-veto-sweden-and-finland-s-nato-bids

James Caan

Did final interview, if this place extends me an offer they are devoid of ambition

Gamers still whinging about SJWs ?

Speaking of fun with fireworks

More resignations from BoJo's cabinet. Guess Zelenskyy's going to get the SAS.

Or he is just being overly pessimistic for Russia. He's not a truth teller because his slant is appealing, after all. Seems mostly the retreat went well though, pro-RU social media saying mostly gear lost rather than people killed.

Guess he's off to Kiev again.

From the RUSI report, found this funny. Although maybe it's just GLONAS not working "Interestingly, the Iskander 9M727 cruise missile – and this may be true of the others also – relies on GPS and GLONAS for its satellite navigation and is unable to receive BeiDou signals. The GPS is the primary navigation tool for the missile, probably because Russian satellite coverage over target countries is intermittent and because it is assumed that the enemy will not deny GPS signals over territory that they control."