Born Hunter
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Warspite still makes me tingle.
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From a weapons product development point of view, it’s a perfect field test opportunity. If successful it’s a great story for sales and marketing. Despite left wing scoffs to the contrary, the UK is visibly front and centre on the world stage with supporting Ukraine. Standing by our obligations of the Budapest memorandum and standing by a nation we had deals with bolsters soft power. It makes other nations looking to align with a global power value the UK. If they enter a trade deal with us they are confident we will provide some muscle if things get a bit hot for them. If they are lookin
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I’ve read into this when it was announced. Unfortunately the UKs anti ship missile options are a bit lacking. For small small enemy ships (fast attack up to corvette) we have a number of either operational or well developed options, sea venom/sea spear/martlet. But in the heavyweight category we only have the obsolete harpoon, with any home grown replacement 10 years away from being operational! It’s a bit of a sore point. Harpoon seems to be on par with Neptune. For land attack the RAF have the storm shadow, and in good numbers, but that is not designed to target ships. Now that’s not to
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They’re not Ukrainian are they!? Are the bio labs secure!?
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I could do some damage with one.
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I think the yanks still use them or similar generation man portable rockets. Other countries have sent similar stuff to Ukraine too. I thinks it’s fair to say they still have their uses for anti materiel, anti personnel and against soft vehicles. But they’re obsolete against modern armour and tanks. Stuff like reactive armour has explosive tiles to ‘explode back’ against the rockets warhead on impact. Or non reactive systems like slat cages stood off from the armour making the rocket detonate at a stood off distance which fucks the shape charges effectiveness.
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I can only tell you what the literature says, I’ve never used one. Both are fire and forget, ie once fired require no operator input. Javelin is actively guided by heat seeker on board the missile to the point of impact. I think NLAW would technically be considered unguided, but is very smart for an unguided weapon. It uses ‘predicted line of sight’ targeting, that is it calculates the lead required like with shotgun shooting. The rocket once fired has no guidance actively seeking the target, it just follows the line it was fired in but has inertial guidance built in to keep it
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Not sure what that is, if it was a javelin I’d expect to have struck from above. Have you read about the NLAW that the UK has provided? Very innovative bit of kit and now thoroughly field tested. Unguided but uses a fairly sophisticated but simple lead calculation for the unguided rocket. The really clever bit is that it can be programmed with two different attack profiles, either a direct lateral attack for soft targets, or a flyover where magnetometers in the rocket detect proximity of the target and detonate directly above where armour is weakest. Normally this would require a guided
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Whether they lost the Moskva through accident (RUS claim) or through missile attack (UKR claim) they appear incompetent. The Neptune missiles are essentially obsolete given modern air defences. For years people have sized up countries military strength by counting assets. “This nation has more tanks/jets/soldiers than this nation so they’re more powerful”. Russia have played heavily to this sort of thinking. Retaining aged hulls and up gunning them to f**k with things that go bang. Seems impressive but there’s a huge and complex chain of systems that go into firing a missile, and it’s the
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Another major warship lost by the looks of it.
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It’s war at the end of the day. During the Iraq invasion, yank tanks buried alive Iraqis in their trenches! Just filled the trenches with earth to save having infantry clear them.
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I know what you’re saying. But on the other hand, what’s to be gained? Russia seems to have accepted the overt arms, training and intelligence support from the West and it’s working. There’s always escalatory options that don’t involve declaring war. I don’t know what’s to be gained really by using force of our own at this point. And it’d come with enormous risk. If anything I’d expect weapons aid to be escalated. There’s talk of sending weapons that aren’t even operational in our own military yet…
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People getting swallows tattooed on their hands is as much proof! It’s so far below proof.
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It’s not even close to proven then.
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That still sounds like conspiracy nonsense. It hasn’t predicted anything yet. Wr aren’t being forced to have our right hands or heads marked! LOL
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I’m thinking soak them till the skin wrinkles and then leave them in the sun till it goes like old leather. Squeezing the head down a size! Bet the eyeballs pop out…
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How the f**k do you even shrink a head!? LOL
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How’s that a conspiracy?
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Just read the Azov Battalion have been greasing their bullets in pig fat to face the Kadyrovite Chechens! LOL As much bad press as the Azov mob have gotten, the Kadyrovites are utterly f***ing savage. Ukrainian fighters grease bullets against Chechens with pig fat WWW.ALJAZEERA.COM Video shared by National Guard of Ukraine shows Azov fighters dipping bullets to be used on Chechen fighters in pig fat.
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Look at the discipline of the Russian soldiers, they leave absolute shit tips of where they have been. They’re not professionals. They’re an invasion force with no discipline for the most part. Of course some of them are looting, raping and murdering. It was expected. Whether that particular story is true who knows. Imagine dragging the average British ‘lad’ out of a club, giving him a rifle, a civilian population to dominate and the nod to crack on. It’s anarchy and basically a free license for deviants to do what they want.
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Russia should know their limits by now, and the nordics wouldn’t be an easy time. I reckon the Swedish Gripen fighters would lay waste to Russian combat air and their subs have scored US carrier kills in naval war games.
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Seems like the world has acclimatised to overt weapons aid, and so it's being stepped up. It'll be interesting to see how much of a fight they can put up in the south and east and how far the West is wiling to go in terms of offensive weapons. Also talks of security guarantees from European states to avoid NATO officially being involved. Europeans weigh scope of security guarantees for Ukraine WWW.DEFENSENEWS.COM The comments come as talks between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators last week teed up the question of... It'll have to be more tang
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I assumed it was slatted tbh. Very simple setups. Usually chain link too. Even for the proper pens I’ve seen on dirt or a base. It must just be down to what’s considered an acceptable budget/standard in different countries. In the UK that sort of setup would be frowned on.
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Standard kennel system as used in NZ too. Sometimes I wonder what the colonies must think to UK kennels? Over-engineered or just different requirements/standards?
