Born Hunter
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The origin story of Natasha Romanoff....
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Your hatred of the Tories blinds you. If it hadn't been for the UK and US led military aid then they wouldn't have been able to force Putin to the negotiation table. The EU were still pretending to be pacifists while Russian armour was rolling over the border. People would listen to what you said if it wasn't continually partisan. If it was up to the anti-Tories we'd have no military deterrence.
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I actually read the OP and was totally 'meh, another day another shitty headline' and moved along. I've read before yours and others words on the incident you reference above and just sort of registered it and moved on in a similar way. But after reading that post for some reason it hit me very graphically how f***ing utterly disturbing it must have been to deal with. A scene of a little girl literally mutilated by an animal... Jesus Christ. I couldn't handle the stress of keeping such weapons, I'd end up flattening everything. The only people that should own such dogs are those with t
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Being reported now that it was a ballistic missile used to strike the ship, not a drone strike. So other than education, forget everything I said.
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Thankyou. Yes, certainly it was a rare target of opportunity. Most warships would/should not expose themselves in such a way. Obviously I'd prefer the addition of a proper ship killing missile with a 500km range and a 300kg warhead, lol, but this incident goes to show what can be done with intelligent targeting of small munitions, and SPEAR 3 stands to be incredibly intelligent in comparison. Interestingly this type of amphib was abandoned by Western forces years ago. It's designed to literally beach itself with mechanised units driving directly off. Western forces abandoned this because
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This is one of those events that changes or reinforces military doctrines and procurement decisions. Disclaimer, I'm going to bang on about technology and strategy now but I expect 99% of you haven't read this far anyway. The UKs carrier strike capability has all the sexy flash bits but is really lacking in actual 'strike', i.e. missiles! The fast air component is made up of stealth F-35 jump jets and they are destined to be equipped with the new SPEAR 3 missile. This will be their primary strike weapon, but it's essentially an anti tank weapon, a really smart 100km range mini cruise mis
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The newest build of frigates have been named the Inspiration class. But that's about as far as they have let all that nonsense go so far. Generally not realised by the public but the mine hunting fleet is named after foxhound packs. A local pack has a life ring from a decommissioned vessel named after that pack in their kennels. Also, I'm told the horses of the mounted regiments of the Army that were at the Defence Animal Training Regiment would spend all winter hunting with the local packs not so long ago. Just a bit of hunting related military trivia.
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Noteworthy those fellas only threaten non nuclear states, even though they are NATO members, it's testing the resolve of the nuclear armed members... I'd say ten years ago the appetite for the UK maintaining a nuclear deterrent was genuinely controversial, certainly amongst millennials who had known nothing but peace and prosperity in Europe. It was a factor in Scotland's indy ref and left wing politics generally. I wonder if the estimated £100B for the new Dreadnought subs and sustainment of Trident over their lifetime is generally considered ringfenced by the public now? P.S.
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I said right back at the start of this thread (maybe a different thread) that if the invasion goes ahead it'll be an interesting test to see if heavy armour/tanks are obsolete on the modern battlefield. The problem is, from the commentary of experts that I have read, the Russians are not demonstrating any degree of modern tactical thinking in their use of tanks, and armour generally. It's almost like they have absolutely no in depth training. There will have been a lot learnt from this conflict by the West, and I expect warfare academics will be using it as a case study for years, bu
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To get all those quotes must’ve been a mission. I respect the effort.
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Russian
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A pro Kremlin news channel also reported nearly 10k killed. It’s half looking likely that the death toll is actually as severe as the Ukrainians have been claiming.
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I probably am.
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Anti air won’t be everywhere in Ukraine, it’ll be focussed in the battle space on threat vectors and high value areas. Russian intelligence will be constantly mapping this so mission planners can design flight paths to minimise the threat of these systems. They just don’t need to maintain supersonic flight. And that’s the reality in almost every war unless the enemy have total situational awareness of the air domain. Which frankly neither side have here.
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No to the food, probably a substantial yes to the other people one.
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His name is Dmitry, but he’s in Gulag now…
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You literally said it’s strange it’s flying subsonic! Then came out with all sorts of reasons to justify your ‘joke’ that it must be an old gen missile. It’s totally fitting the MO of the missile it’s alleged to be. But apparently you knew that. LOL f***ing hell like, is it you or me that’s autistic here!? LOL
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With respect, the only claim I made was that super sonic missiles utilise sub sonic flight. Which is factually correct. You claimed the fact it was travelling sub sonic meant it wasn’t a super sonic missile. Which is incorrect. You could’ve just said “huh didn’t know that, fair” but you wanted to be clever.
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Every statement in the history of humanity has been based on assumptions. That doesn’t make everything a guess. You said that it must be an old soviet era missile because it’s travelling sub sonic. Which is ignorant to how modern cruise missiles are designed to work. Even next generation cruise missiles are being designed to utilise sub sonic flight.
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I’m not guessing, it’s allegedly a kalibr cruise missile which has been extensively used in combat and has reasonably well known performance. It’s totally standard for super sonic cruise missiles to fly sub sonic and had nothing to do with ‘tech’. Sub sonic speed has benefits, regardless if ‘new tech’ allows sustained super sonic speed.
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Where you saw it was low threat. That’s why it was sub sonic. The entire flight path of a cruise missile for any given mission is designed to minimise risk before the weapon is even fired.
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Not for the entire flight time they don't. They often only utilise super sonic speeds in their terminal attack phase to reduce the risk from anti-air defences. Sub-sonic is more fuel efficient when travelling in a low threat environment.
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If I was in that crew my arse would be twitching on re entry!
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That’s a bold statement… A message to Ukraine? Cosmonauts wear yellow-and-blue flight suits for trip to space station | Space WWW.SPACE.COM Was it a show of support for the besieged nation?
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Seen pictures of a working type cocker spaniel that colour. f**k knows where it came from but it'll be a gold mine I reckon.
