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    The War in Ukraine

    "Blame the training not the tool' They have been over used for virtually any bleed not just arterial and unstoppable venous (with appropriate clotting gauze packing and pressure - which CAN be applied by a tourniquet but a lot less tightly. Also some studies have found loosening to get some...
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    The War in Ukraine

    Hopefully they take the advice and add NVG lights and a NVG / IR display screen for the driver. Those lights have been standard on CUCV etc since the early 80's
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    The War in Ukraine

    Very interesting interview of a Ukrainian 25th Airborne drone pilot and navigator. The West is way way behind in EW, drone operations, drone deployment and acquisition.
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    The War in Ukraine

    South Korea getting into the AI semi-autonomous drone game
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    The War in Ukraine

    How many of these 7 steps have our current crop of political masters leaders managers even attempted? Let alone become proficient in? Yet they still demand our respect (votes)
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    The War in Ukraine

    Just add AI for when out of FPV range, more lithium for range, beefier motors to spin dual 45° offset props per shaft and a frag grenade. Stir, update from 2018 tech and give to Ukraine as an anti drone SHORAD. No, wait, they did that already
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    The War in Ukraine

    That bag on the front of the crashed decoy/drone (likely not one of the shot down ones) is a partially empty extended range fuel bladder replacing the warhead to attempt (unsuccessfully, other photos show about 20% fuel remaining (to enable deeper penetration. But like (or so I have been told)...
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    The War in Ukraine

    Cost/Benefit thumbnail sketch: USSR 2.0 drones about 50k each (average of decoys to live drones that attempted to return to the Belarus Oblast arbitrarily set at $50k as likely many more decoys than drones were used and there is a cost difference between them) 4 drones shot at successfully...
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    The War in Ukraine

    Any chance of the Lithuanian railway fire being non-accidental?
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    The War in Ukraine

    $100 says he does not try to enlist now that he is not anymore. Double it if he gets through processing to basic in under a year.
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    The War in Ukraine

    However, only 3 of 19 drones were shot down with a 4th damaged. As Perun might say, that level of economic asymmetry is not sustainable. What is the total cost of all the NATO F16 ($27k an hour), F35's ($34k an hour), E3 ($66k an hour x 9) and whatever KC46/135 or weapons were used? Or the...
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    The War in Ukraine

    Analysis of when the Crimean Beach Party will occur
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    The War in Ukraine

    Crimean strategy is a long game so don't expect a sudden use of Flamingo missiles on the Kerch bridge.
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    The War in Ukraine

    Some more good news for Ukraine. The FSB (and Putin) is dismantling the military command structure. So more incompetence on the front line and at some point a shift in direction away from Ukraine to attack the FSB. Whether it is a civil war leading to a continued Federation or a collapse of the...
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    The War in Ukraine

    TRADOC must be consuming a lot of energy drinks to even keep the doctrinal changes in sight on the horizon...
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