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  6. Posted

    32 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    The Wehrmacht invaded the West mainly using PzI,  Pz II and Czech tanks.   It wasn't until late 40 in North Africa that PZ III started to be the default.

    Given what the West had to respond with, Pz IIs and Czech tanks largely did fine. And PzIs worked just fine as long as they mainly did recon and exploitation. Frontal assaults they did less well with.

  7. Posted

    On 9/7/2024 at 5:23 PM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    If for any reason Putin is no longer able lead, would anyone who has a shot at seizing the top seat be any better? 

    Sadly this question sounds a bit like asking whether any potential replacement for Trump would be better if he should no longer be capable of leading. Then again inability to lead has never stopped Trump before.

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  8. Posted

    On 9/7/2024 at 2:51 AM, mlooney said:

    The Netherlands haven't made their own tanks since before WWII.  US surplus, then German

    For some reason I am getting a mental image of German industrialists in 1938 and 1939 quietly sniggering as they sell the Netherlands obsolescent Panzer Is and IIs while the Wehrmacht is preparing to invade them with far more powerful modern armour.

  10. Posted

    3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    I find it unbelievable that Putin has the brass balls to not go to the peace table at this point. St. Petersburg and Moscow are both within range of Ukrainian strikes.

    It is not that he has brass balls. It is more that he is terrified of the consequences if he should go to the peace table. His oilgarchs are not best pleased as it is; if he shows 'lack of resolve' they will descend on him like a school of rabid piranha. So he keeps doubling down, hoping that no-one will notice that he is running out of chips to gamble with.

  11. Posted

    3 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Technically the "holiday resort" for the US president is Camp David.  Which has no air defenses.

    In fairness to the US, it doesn't routinely attack neighbouring nations and then bombard them with storms of missiles. Now if POTUS launched a war against Canada and subsequently botched it so it dragged out for years, then the Canadians might have some motivation to fire missiles back into the US.

  13. Posted

    This just in from today's Dubiously Reliable News.

    Dateline: Hogwarts, Pigstank School of Horseshit

    Noted deranged transphobe and serial liar J. K. Rowling has named the pet black mold she keeps in her home. She now calls it Voldemold.

  14. Posted

    On 8/30/2024 at 11:31 AM, mlooney said:

    As opposed the the US which just a few batteries of NASAMS (which you should note, is not a US system) for all of the DC metro area and a few Stinger teams around the White House.  Granted there is a major amount of USAF fighter A/C in the area. 

    There is also another difference. The White House is not a holiday resort built to bolster the fragile ego of a  putative strongman1. It is part of the political heart of the United States and as such requires defences for wholly valid political and strategic reasons.

     

    1 I feel that it should really be called a 'weakman' instead as these uniformly tend to be desperately insecure, constantly in fear of losing face and craving adulation on a full-time basis to soothe their nerves.

  15. Posted

    On 8/29/2024 at 10:30 PM, The Old Hack said:

    Just the notion of using Arlington for a photo op is already so grotesque as to boggle the mind, but of course the deranged orange howler baboon always has to make things even worse.

    He is currently claiming that everything that happened was due to Joe Biden setting him up for it. I wonder if he realizes that he is loudly proclaiming that Joe Biden can play him like a fiddle.

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  18. Posted

    On 8/28/2024 at 4:02 PM, mlooney said:

    Rule one about doing crime. Don't write down your crimes

    https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/08/26/marine-vet-arrested-after-self-publishing-book-about-storming-us-capitol-jan-6.html

    This is like Kristi Noem proudly writing in her book of how she shot a puppy for not being grown up and subsequently shot a 'dangerous' goat but failed to kill it and then left it behind in horrible pain because she was out of ammo. As Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post puts it, "This crowd blows themselves up more often than Wile E. Coyote."

    Incidentally, seeing that worthless toupéed snake oil salesman stand grinning next to a tombstone in Arlington while making a thumbs up gesture is more or less the most perfect visual image of his utter contempt for and lack of comprehension of the Armed Forces imaginable. Just the notion of using Arlington for a photo op is already so grotesque as to boggle the mind, but of course the deranged orange howler baboon always has to make things even worse.

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  19. Posted

    So I saw a video discussing whether you could get a decent technical out of a Cybertruck. After subduing an impulse to make jokes about sloped front armour I watched the video and it was surprisingly informative. The videomaker didn't seem to be particularly either pro- or anti-Musk and discussed the issues fairly. He arrived at the conclusion that you could probably use it as one but that it wasn't particularly well suited for it (sloped front armour notwithstanding (argh, I gave in to the impulse!)).

    But it did give me a funny idea. Which vehicles would people here think would make particularly funny/good/unusual technicals? How would you go about turning your own car into a technical? What weapons would you mount on it? Imagine that you have access to the most common weaponry of a modern army and the necessary tools to add it to your technical. And come to think of it, isn't a James Bond car just a really souped up and extra expensive technical?

    (I myself would like to modify either a Ford T or a Volkswagen Beetle. Not because I think they would be very good at it, just for the humour value.)

  21. Posted

    I would like to express my irritation with recent news.

    I have in recent times in part due to the efforts of the GOP been accused of grooming, pedophilia and being a sexual predator for no other reason than my trans identity. The Republicans have not been the only ones doing this but they have certainly put great effort into slandering, libeling and defaming me and other trans people. J. D. Vance has obviously been at the forefront of this malicious persecution against trans people, queer people and simply drag queens in general. It is worth mentioning that many drag queens are cisheterosexual and find enjoyment in their pastime without in any way wishing to alter their identity.

    Now pictures of J. D. Vance in drag have surfaced. Please note that I in no way condemn Vance merely for having worn drag. That is entirely his own affair and if he has gained enjoyment from it he is welcome to it. However, I deeply resent that this man, having worn drag himself, has nonetheless eagerly participated in the GOP's defamatory assault on not only queer and trans people but also other cisheterosexual drag queens. It is a flagrant display of utter hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy.

    I am very, very tired of these ghoulish and mendacious grifters and con artists making political hay out of their lies and slanders.

  24. Posted

    7 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Of course this happened right after that.  They got 3 orders of magnitude more POW then.

    What I was actually implying was that taking 700 prisoners with only 1500 men is FUCKING IMPRESSIVE. Mind you, I seem to remember that Wavell's forces were also outnumbered so you have a point, too.

    I do note that Mussolini blamed the incompetence of his generals for the state of the Italian army. While forgetting exactly who it was who had appointed them to begin with. Spoiler: His name began with 'M' and ended with 'ussolini.'