🇻🇳 free-palestine 🇵🇸 i heard there are videos of this. Post that resistance porn!

    • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      God damn that is insanely brave to walk up to a tank and put a shell on it and pull the pin. Crazy. Sad that they have to risk their lives for basic freedoms.

    • booty [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      That shit's wild. When he ran back to the hole I figured his work was done, time to go somewhere else and maybe come out of a different hole. But nah, dude was just going back for a second explosive.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I saw somewhere that Israeli tanks have this missile deflection system called TROPHY that basically will shoot projectiles at a missile. The bomb I think was to disable it. The rocket was to disable or destroy the tank.

    • booty [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      By the way, aren't tanks supposed to be escorted by infantry in cars and stuff, just so things like this don't happen? Are they being negligent or am I just uninformed about the use of tanks?

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Nah they are afraid their infantry would be toast.

        • WayeeCool [comrade/them]
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          11 months ago

          Losing tanks and having infantry units wiped out in ambushes because they can't act like a professional military capable of very basic combined arms. These idiots are getting blown up in ambushes when their infantry are too lazy or cowardly to dismount and screen for their tanks. Even more ironic that the infantry screen literally rides inside Israeli main battle tanks and when the tank gets blown up, so do they.

          Seriously though... Israeli main battle tanks are also infantry carriers with rifleman riding inside a back compartment. It's one thing for the infantry to be sitting on their asses when traveling through open areas cross country but this is an environment filled with countless death traps for armored units. Apparently the IOF is only capable of making airstrikes from uncontested airspace and police actions raiding the homes of unarmed civilians in the middle of the night.

          • D3FNC [any]
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            11 months ago

            the IDF is what you get when you let the 12 year old screaming slurs at you on xbox from his family's home in the hamptons design a modern military

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      11 months ago

      It's fucking absurd, I'm pretty sure there's literally 3 separate tanks in the video too.

      Theres the one he presumably damages/immobilizes with the planted shell, then one just right behind that one, then when he fires the RPG the angle looks like he's firing to the left relative to the first tank.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I've seen some people say the charge disables the TROPHY missile defense system.

      • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        At 33-34s you can see the second tank at rear left then the third at rear right through the dust

    • nephs@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      https://nitter.net/ME_1948_Updates/status/1720147744197873913, for a better experience.

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Viet Cong shot down my Grandpa's helicopter 5 times (may have been north Vietnam). Helicopters are death traps. He said he begrudgingly respects their fighting abilities.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        You should maybe stop getting in the helicopters after the 3rd time or so.

        Then again, imperialist grandpa btfo.

        • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          He refuses to fly helicopters. After he got discharged because he kinda lost it (got he shakes), he became an airplane pilot. Loves planes, but hates helicopters. Told me to never get into a helicopter. He learned his lesson.

          • D3FNC [any]
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            11 months ago

            After he got discharged because he kinda lost it (got he shakes), he became an airplane pilot.

            airline vetting process: fuck it, it's probably fine

            • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              You could smoke on planes then so I'm kinda not sure if there was a vetting process.

              • D3FNC [any]
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                11 months ago

                to this very day it's illegal to not smoke while flying on Cubana de Aviación flights, those sweet ass, roomy as hell soviet airliners all still have the original ash tray

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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        11 months ago

        Helicopters are death traps
        shot down my Grandpa's helicopter 5 times

        I dunno man that sounds like a pretty good record to me

  • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I'd be fascinated to read about the Gaza tunnels. We have a lot of info now about the Viet Cong ones but I wonder what's changed since then and if the difference in the environments changes their construction significantly.

  • D3FNC [any]
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    11 months ago

    LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS

    all the drugs salvador dali, david lynch, Sting, and frank herbert did to get this movie made were completely worth it

    shout out to Toto (yes, rains of africa guys) for this clearly soviet national anthem inspired soundtrack