Gucci_Minh [he/him] @ Gucci_Minh @hexbear.net

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You see the same thing going on in Ukraine, where western media makes fun of the T series tanks and saying that their Abrams and Leopards and Challengers are so much better. Turns out, that doesn't mean shit when the primary purpose of an MBT is (still) to lob HE at clumps of infantry, and their 70 ton behemoths can't cross bridges or go through mud, and get disabled by drones just like any other tank.

Meanwhile you can say the T-72B and subsequent modernizations are worse in raw specs, but they fulfill their job as mobile fire support for mechanized infantry just fine.

Compared to German tanks with their overloaded transmissions and interleaved road wheels the T-34 is a Toyota Hilux. I should clarify unreliable by modern perceptions of reliability. Even in the cases where the T-34 was hastily churned out under pressure where consistency suffered, e.g. Stalingrad, the ease of repair and abundant spare parts made it far better than Nazi wunderwaffe big cats.

In all fairness, the T-34 was unreliable, not as quick as on paper, and had subpar optics and situational awareness until the T-34-85.

The problem is western propagandists keep looking at the tank as it exists in a vacuum, and not how it fits in Soviet doctrine, where the ease of mass production coupled with it having above average armour, decent mobility, and a good HE shell made it excellent within that context.

It was such a successful design it directly inspired the modern MBT through the T-44 and T-54/55, because while it was unexceptional in any particular role, it could do all of them good enough

Modern aircraft fly too fast and too high for TV guidance to be practical for the most part (also the sky is big so target acquisition is more important in the first place), and if you were to make a really fast drone that had radar or infrared guidance, you just have a regular anti air missile. The reason drones work so well for ground forces is their ability to do recon and loiter over a target area until a target presents itself. A loitering anti-air munition could certainly be possible, and may already exist, but it would have limitations to its range, size, or manoeuvrability since a large amount of its weight would need to be fuel, which ends up leading to the conclusion that you might as well just use regular fighter aircraft, and in some cases putting air to air missiles on larger drones (e.g. Iran's Karrar drone, which mainly carries bombs or anti ship missiles, can be adapted to launch anti air missiles as well).

Yeah quantify shitload, it's probably like, average American gun nut amounts of guns, which is still excessive sure, but not unusual.

So is Putin too neolib to try and curb this? Or are the Russian bougies too influential for him to do it even if he wanted to?

James workshop is also very bad at scale in their own universe though. You'll have 100 year full scale wars over entire systems and the lore will say some shit like "3 million casualties of IG over the course of the war"; like that's probably not even in the top 10 casualties list of imperial Chinese rebellions.

Worse is their space marine treatment, where apparently a million known space marines is enough to serve as shock troops over the entirety of their holdings in the galaxy.

Rule of cool and all, but every time I see a 40k novel mention numbers I have to add two zeros to the end for it to actually make sense given the quadrillions of imperials and the other quadrillions of their enemies.

Yes, regardless of if they win or lose, capitalism is maintained. Winning elections was never the point. That's why they will never court left wing voters, even if they know full well trying to swing the mythical "moderate" republican will never work.

I assume this doesn't include black powder cartridges? Still not bad though you can go for a cap and ball revolver which gets you 6 shots before you have to take the next 10 minutes to reload.

The very earth we walk on is Hezbollah.

Real revolutionary socialist states: "evil authoritarian red fash, why can't you be instantly perfect utopias?!!!?"

Failed revolutions: pure, good, unburdened by reality and the fact that every capitalist state wants you dead, totally would have established a worker's utopia in a week if it succeeded, despite being besieged on all sides.

Sounds great, can you grassroots me some air defense systems so my grassroots mutual aid non-state can stop getting bombed by the USAF? Thanks.

Someone needs to sink the gusano state of florida into the ocean already.

Please drink a lot of water lol

I am going to enter Comrade Xi's mind and implant thoughts to establish a couple container and tanker ships that only trade with Cuba so they don't have to deal with the blockade restrictions on docking in US ports. It will not be profitable, instead, every time Jack Ma gets a delusion of grandeur he gets fined another 5 billion RMB to fund this.

unlimited DF-41s on your imperialist settler state

death to amerikkka

amerikkka bad correct

america do be bad tho

Toronto has a project for metrolinx to build a 2km footpath that will cost 150million minimum. Not even a train, just a walking path. The grift in Ontario is insane, but from what I've heard its not even the most corrupt province lmao.