It does however appear that Russia applying pressure up and down the entire front line even outside of the main advance around Pokrovsk. This means that the AFU can't redeploy forces currently on the front to plug up holes, and reserve forces must be held back for future potential holes, not just stabilizing the Pokrovsk collapse. In a way, Russia is checking to see how exsanguinated Ukraine is after two years of losses.

Hexbear is such a unique space to look at this conflict. There is no loyalty to any participant in the conflict other than a keen curiosity on its impacts on geopolitics, and what those impacts might mean for global workers movements in the future. The fact that we can sit here and evaluate sources based on their content rather than whether or not they align with our ideology is magical.

How dare someone call this cope, cope. Shoddy display.

I wonder if this is a way to do insurance/tax write offs for unsold stock? Seems like they filled their pre orders very quickly if they have stock sitting around.

Ukraine is starting to topple, and the US has to ensure the right sort of people maintain control of whatever is left.

Who would win in a coup, the depleted conscript armed forces, or well armed, ideological paramilitaries with outside funding and direction?

At least it's mostly populations relocating back and forth rather than waves of wholesale murder.

The major advantage of vertical launch systems is that they can dump their entire load of missiles within a few minutes.

The problem with intercepting large numbers of missiles is that you need to start intercepting them far away from the ship, because if, let's say your missiles work well and hit 70% of the time, your first wave of interceptors soaks 7 incoming objects, your second wave of interceptors gets 2 out of the bleeders from the first wave, and ideally you have time to launch a third wave to get the last target, or, if you're out of time, the CWIS/Goalkeeper intercepts it. But the smaller the incoming object is, the later you'll detect it, and the less waves of missiles you can fire. Small drones made of lightweight materials might not give out much of a long range radar signature, meaning you're only getting a chance to launch one or two waves. -- This is probably what caused a Yemeni missile to get through the interceptor missiles of the USS Gravely.

Sure, you could over react and fire like 20 missiles at 10 incoming objects and hopefully down all of them in one wave, but then you'll only be able to defend yourself against a couple of those attacks before you have to go home, and your ship is effectively, mission killed.

Here's an interesting future problem though: China is the sole industrial superpower. They can actually produce enough missiles for a protracted naval war, which the US can't. The US couldn't actually fill every launch cell in the fleet with a missile right now, technically. Given that Vertical Launch Systems are self contained units, they can be manufactured elsewhere and just dropped into a random cargo ship hull. The important part of a warship is the sophisticated radar and sonar suites. Given that China has about 2000 times the shipyard capacity, and triple the industrial manufacturing capacity of the USA, they could just fit cargo ships out with hundreds of missiles that are aimed by an actual PLAN warship.

Uncritical support to Palestine in the Arma 3 battlespace.

I think this NATO bot got lost, poor sweet thing.

Problem is you don't want your troops arriving cooked and hunched over. The BMP-3 also has a really awkward hatch arrangement that requires dismounting infantry to expose themselves on the top of the vehicle and run over the engine compartment. The BMP-3 was a replacement for a few marine vehicles, with the requirement that the engine was rear mounted, low down to improve water handling.

There's lots of cope here from the Russians.

Their capabilities are very similar, but the Bradley has much better situational awareness, and the BMP-3 has a couple more ways to kill you. Literally any infantryman you ask of any nationality will prefer the Bradley over the BMP-3 because infantry like the idea of being in a troop compartment with an actual door instead of crouched in an extremely hot cupboard.

Why are you linking an actual propaganda thinktank as an example as of Uyghur Genocide?

You could link any source, but you link one that is staffed by people who's careers have been purely to lie about American's enemies and push American interests?? I hope you're a little sharper than that and you're just linking that because you hope other people will swallow anything.

"HEY GUYS THIS ORGANIZATION THAT IS PAID TO TELL ME THAT CHINA IS BAD, GET THIS, SAYS CHINA IS BAD!!"

Come on bud.

Hexbear - "that's true, I see how our culture can be hard to decipher"

Lemmylib - "you guys are huge dicks without provocation"

Hexbear - oh well fuck you then :)

Lemmylib - "see, so hostile!"

If we respond to people being needlessly aggro with quip derision it's "so uncivil!" If we respond to people in good faith by trying to explain our differing views it's "wow im not going to read that!"

So what should we do?