This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

[Joes Place]

Interesting story about how the US is beginning to train front line troops to destroy small drones. Honestly, I'd love to take some shots at one on a range.
Also, I saw another story that ANG soldiers were doing some training at Vance AFB, so, I googled Vance AFB (Apparently Oklahoma leads the way in desolate military bases), and there were some interesting reviews. Such as don't go there, it's a small base and everyone knows your business. Well, sir, don't have so much business to talk about! And, this review from a concerned citizen. "Their pilots come 250 miles to do touch and go landings at Springfield, MO, airport. Those crazy Jay Hawks they use really hurt my ears due to the runway pointing at our home. Hurts my ears badly. Wish they would crash".
https://ca.style.yahoo.com/us-troops-shooting-balloons-figure-115414193.html

US forces need a standard ammo compatible w/ regular M16s which sends out a spray of buckshot like a shotgun.
Just a few shots toward a drone would take out one propeller and neutralize it, instantly.

Switch magazines, and you've got regular bullets, again.

 

[Joes Place]

More evidence. Nazi propagandists got more frothy too prior to Berlin falling and Hitler eating a bullet.

A German pils that I'd love to try out:

Same brewery makes Thunderpussy IPA

Where, at the very bottom of the can it says "International Pussy Ale"

 

[lucas80]

Biden needs to tell Johnson that so long as the SC is supporting his "absolute immunity", Johnson is on the clock for a President-supported assassination. Him and his whole family.

Bring the aid to a vote by 5PM tomorrow, or you are done. And it won't be a quick 'headshot' for you and the fam. It'll be painful and ugly. Then, Biden will pardon himself, and we will all move on.

Every day we get real intel on how Russian and Chinese equipment and doctrine would perform against the West. We are also critically weakening an imminent threat to the West, and the US specifically at the cost of no US lives. Only a fool, a cult member or someone on the payroll of the FSB is against aid to Ukraine.

 

[lucas80]

Ukraine's home built Punisher drone.

"Shock drone #PUNISHER , which according to "independent experts" does not fly anywhere and does not hit anywhere."

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That is a strong, sensible move. Protect the shipping lanes, and block off any possible Russian advance into Moldova and Romania. Put some in the areas Orban is looking to annex, too.

 

[HawkinK.C.1]

US forces need a standard ammo compatible w/ regular M16s which sends out a spray of buckshot like a shotgun.
Just a few shots toward a drone would take out one propeller and neutralize it, instantly.

Switch magazines, and you've got regular bullets, again.

Wouldn't work well. 5.56 ammo is tiny and it comes out of a tiny, rifled barrel. The barrels wouldn't even accommodate a single buck shot pellet. Shotguns have large bores, smooth barrels, and chokes to control the size of the spread.

 

[h-hawk]

No translation but it looks like it is another refinery, this one in Kaluga, Russia. Update-verification.



Anyone speak Russian-I think he may be saying "holy sh#t!"


Images from Belgorod today.

 

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TGIF

 

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They need to add a Russian refinery count.

 

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[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Was thinking the same. Could be the start of Putin dying by Russian hands.

Been hearing this for a couple years now.

I guess one can still hope.....

 

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[DFSNOLE]

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Sad thing is, there are US Congress people who would sign off on this.

 

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May be Russia that released it but it does show how that tank lost its track at the checkpoint and that at least some of its crew survived.

 

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FWIW

 

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Another poll protest.

 

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[TigerHawk33]

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Might need to add oil refineries.

 

[Joes Place]

Wouldn't work well. 5.56 ammo is tiny and it comes out of a tiny, rifled barrel. The barrels wouldn't even accommodate a single buck shot pellet. Shotguns have large bores, smooth barrels, and chokes to control the size of the spread.

This is what "R&D" is for...

And, you do not need standard "pellet shot".

You simply need a munition that fragments into small pieces within a few ms after it leaves the rifle, creating a 1-3m "spread" at distances a few hundred feet from the firing point. That would mean a handful (at most) of shots would take down a drone easily.

These would not be troop-lethal rounds; simply designed to take out 1 rotor on a quad drone, rendering it incapable of flying.

 

[Joes Place]

Savvy move, putting a "sub commander" in charge of a fleet that has primarily been "re-commissioned" into subs...

 

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Another poll protest.

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Another angle of the brave woman.

 

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"Glory to Ukraine and its soldiers, Death to Enemies"

 

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"Biological composite armor"....ewww.



"In Moscow, a voter burned her ballot paper on which she had written “give me back my husband”

 

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"In the Novgorod Region, a hangar burns after a Ukrainian strike"

 

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FWIW-100 APCs were promised last July. But then Bulgaria asked NATO to pay for transport which may have been the reason for the delay.





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[MitchLL]

Some of those videos of the poor bastards running in circles trying to avoid the drones are hilarious and sad. Brutal way to go.

Or just pretending to lay on the ground dead.

 

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"A new tradition in Russia: setting fire in the polling station."

 

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"The West wants to buy weapons on the entire world market in the future to support Ukraine under attack from Russia." (Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor) #NTV #Scholz #

 

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"UAV of the BUAR Unit of the 110th OMBr Brigade destroys a Russian military position near Avdiivka"

 

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Protest in Prague (not Russia).

 

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[noleclone2]

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Everything is fine.

Nothing to see here.

Don’t pay attention to the burning refineries and polling stations.

Or the suddenly found tough talk from Western European head of states and weapons transfers.

Everything is fine with Putin and his hold on power and their status as second greatest army on earth.