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printer
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Difficult? Yeah right. Not from my seat.
DIY-HP-LED
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Checks not arriving sends the biggest message along with all those missing men. It's like America, the older ones watch state TV (foxnews) but it's the only TV option. Lots of people have been conditioned to an imperial outlook, even many of the younger ones, but the younger they are the more they tend to know about the truth of the situation, now that many are coming from Moscow and other larger cities. They have their POV, but they also have telegram and even YouTube in Russia (apparently, it's still there). Morale in the army is at rock bottom and I suspect it is not much better among the civilian population as the war directly affects more and more of them. There is a reason a half million military age, mostly informed young men left Russia, and several times more would want to if they could.
printer
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Please show where the government is concerned.
DIY-HP-LED
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Believe it or not authoritarians actually fear the people and try their best to keep them happy, even Hitler did it and it is why they need to control the flow of information so tightly, if they didn't give a fuck, they wouldn't bother with censoring shit so much.
DIY-HP-LED
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Ukraine could threaten ‘vulnerable’ Crimea within months in ‘biggest blow’ to Putin
115,490 views Mar 27, 2023 #TimesRadio
“The Russians will have think about how far they’re going to push this war because if it would cost them Crimea, then clearly the war would be massively counter-productive.”
Ukraine could be in a position to “threaten” Crimea within the next few months in what would be the “biggest blow” to Putin, Professor Michael Clarke tells #TimesRadio.
DIY-HP-LED
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Cutting rail bridges along those red marked routs would cripple the Russian war effort in Ukraine and cut off Belarus, it amounts to about a dozen targets including the Kerch bridge, if multiple bridges are struck along the seven or so routes into Ukraine. Some in the north and leading into Belarus don't need to be hit at all, since they are already driven to the borders there, so a few in the southeast will have the biggest impact.
DIY-HP-LED
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Roger A. Shrubber
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perhaps a successful anti drone missile strike?
or a spontaneous explosion of a drone loaded with HE?
which ever, too bad it wasn't smoke from a successful strike.
cannabineer
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I suspect a smokestack fart from a suicidal coal-fired boiler.
Sativied
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You’d probably be surprised how easy it is. Simply put, you make each individual entity (virtually) magnetic and track their distance to only a small amount of nearby neighbors in the swarm. Repel when too close, attract to when too far. Simple math that requires just a tiny amount of processing power and produces a reliable yet seemingly organic outcome. Basically mimic a swarm of real birds. The bandwidth limitation applies to the numbers of cameras far more than the actual number of drones. Aside from tapping a “Charge!” button it wouldn’t require any human intervention to for example have a swarm of drones attack tanks with a big white Z on it. It’s not about programming the drones but the apps that control them, for which the drone manufacturers provide easy to use SDKs. The drones don’t have to understand what they see, they need zero programming. Software on your mobile device or PC does the image processing, distance and route calculations and just translates it to the basic commands the drone (or just the remote controller) understands. Whether it’s a white Z or anyone carrying a shovel, in a video game or in reality, is just a small difference technically and financially.
Roger A. Shrubber
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in the twitter thread, one of the answers is scud clouds...which i had never heard of before.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/what-are-scud-clouds/198999
not really visually similar to the one over musco....but as good an explanation as i've heard so far.
cannabineer
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Those look gnarly! I thought “tornado weather” until I read the link.
I’m still going with some sort of explosive exhalation through a sooty tube. The ring was preceded by a bang. Missile silos can produce some quite cohesive smoke rings too.
Roger A. Shrubber
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that was my first thought, something formed from an explosion of some sort.
DIY-HP-LED
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General Mark Hertling - Russia Is Losing Soldiers At An Alarming Rate
printer
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Of course they are repressing the population. I never said they were not, have posted many articles about it. But show where the public is doing anything to challenge the government. Protests and the like. Oh right, the occasional video from women complaining their husbands did not get their training or equipment before being sent to the front? Who has more sway? The soldiers and their women, or the milbloggers? The people getting six years in jail for calling the Special Operation a war? Who wants to be the next nail that stands up to have the hammer come down on them? The Iranians have more to fear from their population than the Russian elite.
DIY-HP-LED
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I dunno how it plays out, but in China they responded to lockdown protests and Hitler paid particular attention to it, Stalin not so much. One can look at Paris I suppose with mountains of garbage in the streets. However, I think the system and economy will breakdown before the people rise up, then there will be all those Ukrainian war vets and pissed off elements in the army. We will see how things pan out after they get their asses whipped in Ukraine and driven out with Crimea cut off. The shockwaves will be felt in Moscow just a few hundred miles away, they can't project power that far from their capitol and only on their wide gauge rail network, no rail network on their borders and they will stay inside their borders and not be able to get out. How did the old Soviet Union fail? Russia will fail in much the same way I figure.
DIY-HP-LED
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I wonder if anybody is making these in drone size, who cares about a rechargeable battery for a suicide drone with 3 or 4 times the endurance of a rechargeable battery! Even regular drones dropping shit could go for many miles behind enemy lines with disposable aluminum air batteries. They look feasible now for certain military applications like suicide drones or other types that need long range and endurance, just toss the old battery when it gets back.
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Aluminium–air battery - Wikipedia
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BudmanTX
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printer
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China has a population that actually produces something. If Russians rise up and stop exporting stuff who would notice? It is not like civilians have any power as long as the police state that Russia has would cart them off to jail. There was a case before the Russian courts saying the police were keeping the detained in conditions that violated the people's rights (the detention facilities could not cope with the amount of people rounded up who 'protested' the war). The judiciary told the citizens that they can pound sand.