BombOmOm 21h ago • 0%
There are jobs that take weeks to learn, jobs that take years to learn, and there are even jobs that take a decade+ to learn. You ain’t putting the three-week old newbie in the latter two roles.
BombOmOm 1d ago • 100%
looks at the ever dwindling Soviet stockpiles and hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties
Well, I'm not confident enough to say Ukraine is winning, but Russia sure as fuck isn't either.
It amazes me at the start of the war, me and just about everyone else thought Russia had this in the bag. Crimean invasion 2.0. Now Russia is struggling to dislodge Ukrainians from Russian territory and shit deep inside Russia blows up on the regular.
I'm damn happy to support Ukraine and am doubly happy my government is supporting them as well.
BombOmOm 2d ago • 100%
My guess is they will be compartmentalized to their own unit(s), with dual speakers coordinating with Russian units/leadership. Though, like you say, there probably aren't very many of those, so these units will be particularly at risk if their rare dual speaker gets taken out. They could probably mitigate this a bit by having dual speakers in safer locations one tier up the command chain.
This all assumes they will be in front-line roles. It is possible they will get assigned to safer duties, freeing up Russian soldiers to go to the front.
BombOmOm 2d ago • 100%
It's good these are being made. One of the big downsides of the traditional cruise missile are they are expensive. Which means making them at industrial scale burns though quite a few resources. In many cases, having 10x-20x lower capability drones will do the job better.
Obviously you still want the high-capability cruise missiles for more difficult targets. But it's very good the west is producing the cheaper ones in volume too!
BombOmOm 3d ago • 100%
This is really more of a !asklemmy@lemmy.ml question. But, to answer it, no, you will need a friend willing to trade with you or an exchange service to do an exchange. Side note, they want ID info from you because there are tax implications when you sell capital goods. After a threshold, they report those capital sales to your government's tax office.
BombOmOm 3d ago • 100%
Which part? B2 strikes on the Houthis happened this week.
BombOmOm 3d ago • 91%
$42,000 per homeless individual
Woof. As a point of comparison, the average salary in the US is $59k.
BombOmOm 3d ago • 83%
The US has been hitting any Houthi poking their head above ground for the last year. Their available munitions and fighters are drastically reduced. You don't see them landing helicopters on civilian tankers anymore, no, now you see B2 bombers blowing up their hideouts.
Hezbollah is even worse off. Israel compromised their supply lines and blew up huge portions of their leadership up and down the chain. They then were forced to meet in person, where even more of their leadership exploded via air-dropped bombs. No, they won't recover for years. And this is while Israel launched a ground invasion destroying even more of their capability.
BombOmOm 3d ago • 100%
It certainly felt very tacked on. I never enjoyed having to interact with it, nor did it add anything to the story.
BombOmOm 3d ago • 67%
Those leaders are falling like flies; Iran's entire proxy network has been systematically dismantled over the last year. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis are all a shadow of what they were very recently.
BombOmOm 3d ago • 100%
NCOs and local autonomy is OP. The soldier with the most info is the one with a gun in his hand. The closer the command structure is to that information source, the better everything runs.
BombOmOm 4d ago • 92%
Yep. The type of people buying the horse armor are not the people who are complaining about what it means for a full priced game to have such and and the direction that pointed the company in. Given this is what he is talking about now, and not how they have lost their way and are working on delivering solid experience for players, unlike their last games, is telling.
But, I lost all hope for TES6 to be good when Starfield came out. Maybe I'll be wrong, hopefully I'll be wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.
BombOmOm 4d ago • 87%
Your best bet is to pickup a new flash drive. Luckily, a quality 256 gb flash drive is like $25 now.
7zip also allows for higher compression levels than the built in Windows tool. Would check that out as well.
BombOmOm 4d ago • 83%
The Houthis did the one thing one should never do when dealing with America:
BombOmOm 4d ago • 91%
Realistically, one would just dig down half a foot, break up the concrete, cut the post, then backfill the dirt. Put any new post you need a foot to the side. No reason to remove the boulder.
BombOmOm 4d ago • 100%
Supply and demand! Everyone went to college and is looking for white collar jobs, thus there is a labor shortage in the construction/contracting industry that is leading to rising prices. Getting a job in the trades is pretty solid right now.
BombOmOm 4d ago • 100%
I don't have a number for you, but get 2-3 quotes. Labor is expensive, it's going to be your main cost here, not materials.
Basically every quote I have gotten for anything has been a much higher number than I would have liked by a good margin. Been doing more and more stuff myself as a result. If you get sticker shock at your quotes, a fence replacement is very much so in the realm of something you can do yourself.
BombOmOm 7d ago • 77%
People pay good money for that ‘junk’. A quality internet connection basically anywhere in the world, including at sea and in very remote areas, is far from junk.
BombOmOm 7d ago • 30%
Realpolitik: Pays to be an ally before the aid is needed. Israel and the US have long had a strategic partnership. Also helps to be against a country that basically everyone is tired of. Nobody backs Iran, parcularly with their proxies doing their best to fuck up world trade that everyone relys on.
Back to Ukraine: There should be a good bit of momentum behind another joint Ukraine/Israel lethal aid bill when the current one is up for renewal soon.
BombOmOm 1w ago • 13%
Yep. And that is a cool thing about choice. You can choose that as well.
> Oil price falls as kingdom prepares to raise output from December
Another source with more info: https://nationalpost.com/news/iranian-ambassador-to-lebanon-lost-eye-pager-blast-hezbollah > Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon lost one eye and suffered serious injury to the other when a pager he was carrying exploded on Tuesday
Title (auto translated): Germany no longer wants armament from Switzerland A letter from Germany makes a big wave. Swiss companies are excluded from applying for procurement by the Bundeswehr. ----- ::: spoiler Article Contents (auto translated) A Swiss company wants to participate in a large German tender of 100,000 stationary multispectral camouflage equipment for the Bundeswehr. The catch: The company's production facility must be on the EU territory, it means the tender. The company thinks a mistake. The European free trade association Efta with Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway was probably forgotten. It is addressed to the Federal Office of Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr. This is followed by the disillusionment: the Efta states had not been forgotten. They were deliberately decided in favour of a production facility in the EU. One will not deviate from that. Letter explains German "Lex Switzerland" A short time later, a letter from Germany to the Federal Armaments Armour Armour Armament Armours found, which "Le Temps" reported on. The Federal Office, which is under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defence, wanted to avoid an effect as in the case of ammunition for the cheetah air failure, which is under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defence. A production facility in the Efta states has been deliberately excluded. The multispectral camouflage equipment was one of the central technologies for the Bundeswehr. In addition, they would have to be able to pass on to a partner country in the event of war. With the letter to the hickhack between Germany and Switzerland, the German Federal Office referred to around 12,000 shots for the cheetah flight anti-aircraft armor. Germany wanted to pass it on to Ukraine. It had bought it in Switzerland, it needed the country's blessing because of a non-re-re-export statement. For reasons of neutrality, she said no. The letter is proof that there is a "Lex Switzerland" in Germany: the country no longer buys arms products from Switzerland. Arms head Urs Loher formulated it drastically at "Le Temps": "Switzerland is no longer trustworthy for Germany. In the German parliament, for example, "Swiss Free" is apparently used in the same breath as "China Free." Parliament has already decided in the Netherlands not to buy any more arms from Switzerland. Similar considerations are also available in Denmark and Spain. It is not yet clear in the VBS whether the German letter is a shot in front of the bow or just the beginning. Civil derivable blame In the case of the bourgeois parties, the situation ensures mutual recriminations. "We are definitely destroying the Swiss arms industry," says FDP President Thierry Burkart. The left had been working on it for decades with the tightening of the War Material Act. "The SVP is now their enforcer, because with the misinterpretation of our neutrality, it prevents the transfer of defence equipment from European states to Ukraine." Burkart had submitted a motion in 2022, in which he called for a non-re-export declaration to be completely waived if the delivery to states which were committed to our values. "It has nothing to do with neutrality if other countries want to support each other with weapons that they bought in Switzerland years ago." The SVP passes the hot potato to the middle. "The damage caused the defects to the war material law," says President Marcel Dettling. "The middle thing about it is due to it with its hat and hott: it intensified the law with the left, but wanted to return after the war has become." Without tightening, the export competence would have remained with the Federal Council. "This policy lacks longevity." The People's Party had been opposed to an increase in the law, but then had no exception to Ukraine, because it was not prepared to deliver in war zones. "Now we are offering a hand that countries that have purchased armaments in Switzerland may be able to export them again after a period of five years." The center takes the government to its duty. "The Federal Council may authorise the export of weapons purchased from Switzerland to other countries, based on Art. 184 and Art. 185 of the Federal Constitution," says President Gerhard Pfister. "The general increase in the arms export law still allows this. But the SVP FDP Federal Council does not want to do that." And Parliament has not yet succeeded in finding a solution that was capable of majority. Pfister counters the SVP accusation with a counter-question: "Why is it now fighting against the deliveries of protective vests for reasons of neutrality, but wants to allow the re-export of weapons?" The Swiss company now wants to produce in an EU country (aargauerzeitung.ch/lyn) :::
First maneuver kill I have seen by a drone.