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I’d say that from what we can see here, Russian capabilities did not improve in general, but diverged.

They have much better drone recon allowing better precision nowadays, but are running out of good guns to follow up on that, so they are most likely doing blanket artillery saturation while also hitting valuable targets with glide bombs and ballistic missiles.

So vis-a-vis artillery, they need many more shells for the same effect, and it’s getting worse, but they are getting better with drones and cheap smart munitions.

The picture is neither a video game controller, nor manufactured by a UK company.

It’s a Chinese dedicated drone controller.

Nothing is really self-sufficient. Tanks especially so, especially today.

The idea that the Soviets had was to just have a Tunguska running around within tank platoons, that’s why it’s also a tracked system. The thing with drones is that we have been de-emphasising SHORAD systems since the West always assumed air superiority, while the East was more into asymmetrical defense against expensive platforms, imagine stuff like the 9K31 or the Osa. Somehow nobody thought that progress means that while more and more advanced expensive platforms become reachable, the knock-on effect is that already-available platforms become much much cheaper.

The 2A8 is capable of mounting TROPHY, there is a thing called Eurotrophy, I think that’s the company with the license?

The problem with stuff like TROPHY or ARENA is that they are last-ditch and expensive, shooting drones down with a Gepard or a Tunguska autocannon is cheaper, which can save lives if there are hundreds of drones going for you at the same time.

These small pushes are important to counter the narrative that it is only Russians making these small pushes.

That said, the front hasn’t moved significantly in a year. I hope this senseless killing will stop, but I am not hopeful. It really seems that as long as there is a Russia in its current form, war will not stop.

Yeah but technically New Zealand was named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, not the Danish island.

No, EU. It’s been in the works for a while, in fact it’s part of why the war started.

An EU member Ukraine would make the EU independent on Russia or the US for that matter. It also comes with better security guarantees that Article 5.

Which end to which end?

Coomers to the rescue

Thanks!

Does GPL/AGPL require you to publish the code even if you are not selling the software? As in I could run a library computer with my custom Linux distro without giving anyone the source, but I wouldn’t be able to publish it or sell it only as binary blobs, right?

Then you’ll be happy to know that Lemmy is 100% EU funded.

I have a feeling the French stepped up behind the scenes. There was a successful AS launch of a French spysat just a week ago, and I expect most non-orbital SIGINT stuff is just NATO, not the US.

Trump seems to be holding less cards than he thought.

It really is insane though. It’s more than double of all grants US and EU put together so far.

Huge big if true energy.

More like 1789, but right

In which direction? It seems like the correct reported amount is 700B EUR

Florida is damaged goods. Try selling it to China, they have less standards in what they buy.

It’s not stupid people, just people rightfully not giving a fuck IMO.

No such thing as too much pepper

That sounds good. Trump might be an idiot, but here’s hoping he will fuck over Putin as much as he fucked over every other of the people he owed.