• Weedian [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Their cope cages

    Our ingenious improvised protection

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      I prefer "Munitions Stand-Off Fence" but I just call them cope cages normally

      • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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        2 months ago

        it's slightly cope to say that the iraqi army was incompetent imo

        like it was probably about as good as the nva, coalition just had an enormous advantage in sensors tech. proto-digital army vs analog army

    • newacctidk [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      can I see the pictures?

      found some of the aftermath

      Show

      could someone tell me what exactly I am seeing in this video? https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1766891196989706377/video/2

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    They should just do what I did in every game of Command & Conquer

    Send every single tank they have out on a Death or Glory strike

    Then when the Brotherhood of Nod (Russia[the bad guys]) is busy fighting the tanks, you send an APC holding a single engineer to capture their Mobile Construction Unit and win the game

      • vegeta1 [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        Shit against Russia's navy drones were pretty effective. Those things are something else

      • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        we need to retvrn to napoleonic warfare where both sides march in unison to the front lines, and only shoot when commanders on both sides give the signal at the same time

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          I know you're meme'ing but there were good reasons why warfare was done that way for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. WWI completely changed everything we thought we knew about fighting wars. WWII was where the technology of WWI was fully realized with the tactics to go with it.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        I seriously wonder if the future of warfare is going to be about who can field the most drones and there are few (if any) actual troops anywhere near the battlefield. Even a little 8" drone armed with a 9mm firearm could be more effective than having a rifleman that needs to eat, sleep, and is at risk of dying. If your drone "dies," it's not an issue because the operator with experience is 100 miles away and just switches to a different drone.

        Nations with more manufacturing capabilities and stronger economies no longer have to worry about troops. Their experienced pilots can't be harmed, so they're only limited by how much material they can send out into the field. Casualties become a thing of the past. Even better is you can salvage your damaged drones or even enemy drones. That's something you can't do with people.

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    Can't wait for the first F-16 to be shot down by the Russians. Ukraine already lost one, but it supposedly crashed instead of being shot down by the Russians. There is also a high chance that it was shot down by their own air defence lol, either way the air chief was canned instantly.

    These US/NATO wunderwaffe are not so wonderful when faced with an equal foe. Their biggest selling points were that they were tested in real world combat, but it's easy to look amazing against much weaker armies. Same thing with all these American mercs who thought it was gonna be another walk in the park like Iraq lol

  • copandballtorture [ey/em]
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    2 months ago

    Last week I had one of my libs grinning while talking about how Ukraine has Russia on the ropes after their own "special military operation" into Russian territory.

  • emiellr@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    The tanks can be as realiable as can be, but ain't nobody can do smth about the air being full of drones...

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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      2 months ago

      They suck anywhere that doesn't have infrastructure to support their 65+ ton heavy asses

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        I was like, "no fucking way", so I looked it up:

        it is one of the heaviest tanks in service at nearly 73.6 short tons (66.8 metric tons).

        capitaldcolon This motherfucker weighs more than a Ferdinand tank destroyer......... that is one thicc main battle tank...

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        They should have sat on them all and used them in the Kursk offensive primarily on roads instead of having them sink in soft soil across Ukrainian fields where they get wrecked by artillery and drones.

    • UlyssesT
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      2 days ago

      deleted by creator

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      electronic warfare is absolutely a thing

      • https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/increasing-number-of-us-smart-weapons-fail-due-to-russian-ew-systems-in-ukraine/
      • https://www.forsige.com/news/russia-electronic-warfare-and-air-defense-that-are-making-ukraines-drone-ineffective/
    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Seriously though I don't know why they thought a few dozen Abrams would do anything. The US deployed over 2,000 tanks during Desert Storm and that was basically a skirmish compared to what's going on in Ukraine.

      • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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        2 months ago

        My theory is that the NATO MIC is treating the war like a lab experiment. They give Ukraine a handful of export versions of all sorts of different hardware, then see how the Russian military takes them out for their own R&D purposes.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          IIRC there were reports done about that happening in the Middle East. Various NATO countries were testing weapons against whoever was in the way. I think one of the studies done was on the effects of depleted uranium ammunition.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    It is time to work on my stormworks tank again (has a tiny turret, light weight)