Yes lmao, if they didn't ignore the minsk agreements and do a coup (maidan) to install a CIA handpicked government, this would not have happened.
Pretty awkward to be the guy in the Russian government tasked to call up the Americans and tell them they're lauching ICBMs but they're conventional warheads don't actually start a nuclear war thanks.
Lsf might as well be r/destiny at this point, they're obsessed with Hasan
I learned cyrillic from a single page infographic on leddit many years ago, and learned what the words actually meant by trying to navigate Russian torrent sites as well. Don't ask me how to carry a conversation in Russian but I will instinctively click the "скачать" button.
This makes a lot of sense on the ZTQ-15 since its already a light tank with pretty thin armour, it wouldn't be expected to hold up to modern ATGMs or APFSDS anyways, but this is a lightweight and cheap way to afford some drone protection.
They can push an entire train across Pyongyang, and get executed by anti aircraft gun and revive months later, you can't underestimate the DPRK.
I tried one out of curiosity after the label said they were just made out of starch, and yeah, tbh add some artificial flavouring and you could sell them as cheeto shaped shrimp chips or something.
Its genuinely a good look at what goes on in a language learner's mind, it's almost identical to what happens when I try to make sense of Kanji but read it in the Hanzi meaning but in reverse.
Yep, most countries during WW2 that had enough industry to produce tanks figured out a fairly decent medium tank that you could churn out quickly and cheaply was better than a handful of really expensive good on paper heavy tanks except the Nazis. The Sherman and Cromwell for example. Meanwhile the one chance Germany had of making an actually practical tank after the panzer IV was the panther, but Hitler was such an incompetent micromanager he insisted on giving it enough armour to rival heavy tanks, nullifying the mobility benefits of a medium, making the transmission constantly break, and causing the price and production time to increase.
You see the same thing going on in Ukraine, where western media makes fun of the T series tanks and saying that their Abrams and Leopards and Challengers are so much better. Turns out, that doesn't mean shit when the primary purpose of an MBT is (still) to lob HE at clumps of infantry, and their 70 ton behemoths can't cross bridges or go through mud, and get disabled by drones just like any other tank.
Meanwhile you can say the T-72B and subsequent modernizations are worse in raw specs, but they fulfill their job as mobile fire support for mechanized infantry just fine.
Compared to German tanks with their overloaded transmissions and interleaved road wheels the T-34 is a Toyota Hilux. I should clarify unreliable by modern perceptions of reliability. Even in the cases where the T-34 was hastily churned out under pressure where consistency suffered, e.g. Stalingrad, the ease of repair and abundant spare parts made it far better than Nazi wunderwaffe big cats.
In all fairness, the T-34 was unreliable, not as quick as on paper, and had subpar optics and situational awareness until the T-34-85.
The problem is western propagandists keep looking at the tank as it exists in a vacuum, and not how it fits in Soviet doctrine, where the ease of mass production coupled with it having above average armour, decent mobility, and a good HE shell made it excellent within that context.
It was such a successful design it directly inspired the modern MBT through the T-44 and T-54/55, because while it was unexceptional in any particular role, it could do all of them good enough
Modern aircraft fly too fast and too high for TV guidance to be practical for the most part (also the sky is big so target acquisition is more important in the first place), and if you were to make a really fast drone that had radar or infrared guidance, you just have a regular anti air missile. The reason drones work so well for ground forces is their ability to do recon and loiter over a target area until a target presents itself. A loitering anti-air munition could certainly be possible, and may already exist, but it would have limitations to its range, size, or manoeuvrability since a large amount of its weight would need to be fuel, which ends up leading to the conclusion that you might as well just use regular fighter aircraft, and in some cases putting air to air missiles on larger drones (e.g. Iran's Karrar drone, which mainly carries bombs or anti ship missiles, can be adapted to launch anti air missiles as well).
Yeah quantify shitload, it's probably like, average American gun nut amounts of guns, which is still excessive sure, but not unusual.
I went to a hobby store in China that did in fact, have 40k stuff, and some of that stuff was off brand unofficial funko pop 40k stuff. I wish I remembered to take a pic of the funko pop ultramarines.
So is Putin too neolib to try and curb this? Or are the Russian bougies too influential for him to do it even if he wanted to?
James workshop is also very bad at scale in their own universe though. You'll have 100 year full scale wars over entire systems and the lore will say some shit like "3 million casualties of IG over the course of the war"; like that's probably not even in the top 10 casualties list of imperial Chinese rebellions.
Worse is their space marine treatment, where apparently a million known space marines is enough to serve as shock troops over the entirety of their holdings in the galaxy.
Rule of cool and all, but every time I see a 40k novel mention numbers I have to add two zeros to the end for it to actually make sense given the quadrillions of imperials and the other quadrillions of their enemies.
This sounds aggressively German lmao