[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Fucking, HOW!?

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

The cage is supposed to detonate the heat round (which both the rpg and javelin have to some extent) prior to impacting the actual armor. There's usually a shaped charge in the round and a stand off with the primer in it that ignites the round at the convergence point of the shaped charge. If you set that off prior to the round hitting the armor it'll just splatter against the armor rather than penetrate it. Some weapons have a tandem charge, that has two shaped charges to help it get through ERA or I imagine cope cages.

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago
[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 months ago

Fear and anger with absolutely no critical thought put into the issues. The two most primal feelings somebody can have.

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 months ago

Nah, you're not crazy. This round has 2048 ball bearings in it that are effective out to 300 meters.

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 51 points 6 months ago

Imagine how much further we would be as a society if we didn't have to deal with this stupid shit.

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago

We should have reconstructed harder...

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago

That's bullshit and a cop-out. Every country in NATO joined willingly because every country should have some level of self-determination. NATO grew because decade after decade, the Russian government proved that they act in bad faith in nearly every interaction with the international community.

Maybe if Russia acted in good faith and was willing to be a partner in the region, neighboring countries wouldn't have felt the need to join NATO, but here we are.

Pacifism doesn't work. We've seen it time and time again that it just buys our adversaries time, and we end up where we're at today.

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 months ago

Don't forget the confederate flag and everything in its likeness!

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 30 points 8 months ago

We accepted it in 2014, when Russia took Crimea, hoping that would satiate their dreams of the Soviet Empire and here we are nearly 10 years later. The Russian government does not act in good faith, and if we don't crush their capability to wage war we'll see them try to take the rest of Ukraine and beyond.

These guys may as well be the modern day equivalent of Neville Chamberlain.

[-] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 77 points 11 months ago

The crazy thing is that the Air Force, Army, and just about every other branch of the military has contracted or is looking to contract with Space X to get Starlink. He doesn't have a problem with providing the US with that capability because we're not in direct conflict, but will deny it to ukraine when it's in Russia's favor.

After this I, I would totally re-look those agreements.

Government contracts for Starlink services

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