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Military Thread: “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”

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Malcador

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3 hours ago, ShadySands said:

My mother-in-law is absolutely terrified that Russia will invade Estonia. They believe that when Trump gets reelected he won't commit the US to defending their tiny and largely unknown NATO ally against Russia.

Not an uncommon fear, does seem like that'd end NATO (article 5 because some towers got dropped but not The Red Tide??)

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Gorth

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Just something for the aviation enthusiasts... from this years Riverfire in Brisbane

 

 

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Guard Dog

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@ShadySands Happy Birthday my brother! We are older, grayer, and likely heavier than we were. But we carried the legacy in our time! More than that no one could ask!

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34 minutes ago, Guard Dog said:

@ShadySands Happy Birthday my brother! We are older, grayer, and likely heavier than we were. But we carried the legacy in our time! More than that no one could ask!

Thanks to you and Shady, and any other veteran's we have here, for your service. :)

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@ShadySands Happy Birthday my brother! We are older, grayer, and likely heavier than we were. But we carried the legacy in our time! More than that no one could ask!

Hope all is good with you :)

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

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Gorth

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I thought about putting this video in the Ukraine thread, but it's more about military hardware than the politics behind the war...

 

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Sarex

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Or, just maybe, the western tech is not used as freely as the old soviet era. Highly subjective video in my opinion, but than again I don't follow the conflict that closely. What I did hear is that Kursk is the biggest graveyard of western weapons so far in the war, which would make sense as the Ukrainians were on the offensive there.

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Malcador

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Usual rah rah stuff. YouTube isn't the place for analysis, either way.

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Zoraptor

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Kursk is definitely the biggest graveyard for western weapons as Ukraine has mostly used their best units there and they're mostly armed with western weapons.

(The only weapon system that is 'dominating' in Ukraine are $1000 chinese drones. The vast majority of everything else on both sides has massively underperformed in both absolute terms and in terms of expectation. In terms of the video things like the Strid122 are dominating so much that Ukraine are down to 2 (two) operational vehicles... and barring a couple of artillery strikes they've all been got by those cheap drones)

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