GuyIncognito @ GuyIncognito @lemmy.ca

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I'm starting to think that he's "wartime" in the Petain sense

To an extent, but drones are also making them more effective with spotting. Artillery can be dug in and camouflaged very well, too, making them less vulnerable to drones

Traitor, sure, but not to his party. The Democrats always have a designated villain so that they can pretend like they tried to do something, or stop something, but oh shucks looks like we just didn't have the votes this time :(

Irrelevant is too strong a word. Obsolescent, sure, but the same gun is still in use in the Ukraine war. It's a WW2 design, but the only real deficiency compared to a modern equivalent is range. It only has an 11 km range, while a modern M777 is double that. Note that the M777 isn't a direct equivalent since it's a 155mm gun while the C3 is a 105mm gun, so it will naturally have less range and explosive payload, but the C3 is lighter and easier to handle, more robust, and owing to the smaller shell, has a higher rate of fire.

Another big advantage of the older C3 (and older guns in general) is that they don't give you brain injuries. The idea behind the M777 was to pack a 155mm gun-howitzer into the lightest carriage possible, and to do this they needed to attach a really big muzzle brake to control the recoil, which directs all that overpressure backwards and toward the crew. It's the equivalent of getting punched in the head every time they fire, and a few times is fine, but for prolonged fire they get TBIs.

The light carriage causes other problems, mainly regarding reliability. Titanium, while strong, is weaker than steel while also being much harder to weld. A repair that could be done in the field on a steel carriage might have to be done at a specialized workshop for a titanium one.

My read is that it's mostly due to NATO having standardized all of its artillery to 155mm, at which point old 105mm guns were put in reserve. Then, with the Ukraine war, they probably sent most of the remaining 105mm shells there. Personally, I think it would have been smarter to keep the C3s and put them in fortified bunkers in the mountains to defend against possible US invasion.

"inexplicable": a higher manganese content causes a secondary passive layer to form at approximately 720 mV

The bullet pierced my ear, but I can still hear the voice of the party

Hanging nathan bedford forrest alone might have been enough

The political opponents would from Europe be a point to the positive side, at least pre-1917. German immigrants after 1848 tended to be radical Republicans, anti-slavery and pro-labour. One post-1948 German immigrant was August Willich, a German communist (he had previously challenged Marx for a duel for being "too conservative") who went on to become a general in the Civil War.

it's so perfect that it can't have been anything but preordained. note that I just repeated it, I didn't coin it

Nah, the former is just ghoulish. The latter represents both hope and divine retribution

Seems stupid to me. The artillerymen get practice and avalanches get prevented. Silly thing to cut

Seeing drone footage from Ukraine war: "Ugh, I don't want to see this snuff shit. What a senseless tragedy"
Seeing Hezbollah drone footage: "Yes... Yes! DIE! DIE MOTHERFUCKER!!!"

If you do what you love, you never work a day in your life

Death to england

The Claude Delusion

They're actually just really enthusiastic about Hindu luck symbols. Also skulls and lightning bolts, which are all well known democratic imagery. 10 pinocchios

i dont give a wooden nickel what elissa slotkin thinks

They're not sending their best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzhPGM1KedU

Controlled opposition of course. The prevailing ideology can reinforce and sustain itself anywhere, even in a completely decentralized media environment. Dissenting opinions can be safely relegated to smaller venues while liberal orthodoxy prevails in the more visible ones. Thus, reddit is recreated.

However, don't read too far into this, I was basically just making a joke about how "piefed" has "fed" in it.