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46·13 hours agoUbisoft: we make your favorite video games less appealing
2·1 day agoI did a search and just posted the article I found to this community, it seems like a good guide to what is helpful to donate along with some suggested locations to donate to!
just make sure to water it
4·3 days agoI would prefer to title it “Gravity’s Rainbow Of Vibe Coding” as this is hardly a cycle, more like a denial committed with force that will eventually give out and cause regression into a shattering of identity.
This is major, these AFVs/IFVs stomp on anything russia has and anything Ukraine is replacing with these.
Imagine being previously stuck in a tin can MT-LB, BTR or BMP and being upgraded to one of these, it would be quite the rush indeed.
Just considering engines alone, the engine in this thing shits on the engine output capability of most russian main battle tanks…
Here is a rundown of the KF41
Depends on the context, armored AA is still relevant, so is the Gepard for that matter.
Long live the Logitech K780!!!
Why? I think Ukraine could find plenty of human tankers who would love to step into a challenger 2.
That is why the self propelled and towed bohdana howitzers exist.
However, 44 of these is a lot. Not enough, but 44 of these vehicles when placed into the context they can play forms a devastating capacity especially as 155mm guided extended range artillery ammunition becomes more available.
long response no pressure to read just more context
The most terrifying thing about artillery is with modern communication systems… you never actually know if you have been spotted and an artillery barrage is being dialed in to fire on your position.
Most of war most of the time is paradoxically boring, which means that the unpredictable onset of an artillery barrage infuses every moment of downtime with the latent question “am I being targeted?” like the thought of “are there sharks near me?” can totally fill up your mind when swimming in the ocean even if the chance of there being a shark is remote.
What a system like the Archer does is amplify that uncertainty because in the past you could develop through reconnaisance a picture of the enemies artillery capacity in an area and at least have an idea of how much pain the enemy could drop on you all at once out of nowhere. Further after a traditional artillery battery fires on you at least that intel can be fed back up the chain of command to develop a picture of where the enemies artillery and spotters are deployed and where the other weak spots must then be. This is doubly true if you have counter-battery radar like Ukraine does.
In the past counter-artillery work was often done by friendly artillery but obviously drones, particularly lancet type loitering drones have changed that. A less appreciated revolution are US supplied counter-battery artillery radars employed by Ukraine to quickly locate russian artillery (that Ukraine is developing domestic equivalents for). These counter-battery radars allow rapid location of enemy artillery after sensing incoming barrages and give Ukrainian drones and artillery the ability to quickly punish russian artillery that is out of position and vulnerable.
Not only is Ukraine better at hunting artillery and quickly capitalizing on the vulnerability that comes from the trajectory of artillery shells giving away the location of the cannon, Ukraine has already fielded a superior counter to their own counter… in highly mobile artillery systems such as the Archer and RCH 155 where even if a loitering munition receives the coordinates of an artillery battery within seconds of it occurring, it still might not be relevant unless a drone gets lucky and happens to be very close to the area.
You really have to step back and think about how to counter a system like the Archer or RCH 155 to appreciate how powerful artillery systems like this are. Extremely expensive guided long range missiles or air dominance are the only easy answers since even if you get the precise coordinates of an Archer or RCH 155 that just fired on you from 50km away, you have to be able to capitalize on that in a matter of minutes or else the highway speed capable self propelled artillery systems will be long gone. Locating the firing position is almost meaningless if there aren’t nearby assets since the location was likely chosen by the enemy to be unimportant to their static positions given the highly mobile nature of the self propelled artillery.
Systems like thus also allow what the US military calls “gun raids” which is where highly mobile artillery is used offensively and temporarily deployed far forward to decisively strike the enemy. An Archer artillery system may spend most of its time far back from the frontline, but that doesn’t mean that under certain operational conditions created by a synchronized advance of friendly forces an Archer can’t be brought forward for a brief window to fire deep into the enemies’ backline.
7·6 days agoYes? What is the downside here? Heatlamps?
2·6 days ago“We have demonstrated that jawed fishes only became dominant because this event happened,” says senior author Professor Lauren Sallan of the Macroevolution Unit at OIST. “And fundamentally, we have nuanced our understanding of evolution by drawing a line between the fossil record, ecology, and biogeography.”
I agree, what this means I think is Russia is going to fire a lot of ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles and other assets in a bigger salvo than normal. These aren’t assets anybody can stockpile that quick, so when they are used in a pulse it is noteworthy even if the use of those systems isn’t new.
Unfortunately a plausible explanation is that the US is effectively warning Ukraine there will be retaliatory strikes by Russia on Ukraine after Israel or the US strike Iran. I hope that isn’t why…
2·8 days agoI would rather describe it as polyphony breeds more diversification.
The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord’s IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.
That will be a glorious day!
While this is a russian ugv this is still a perfect example of why unmanned ground vehicles are a crucial battlefield innovation, when a logistics robot blows up no one dies…
The new idea is that the moment that any big group of organisms first appears, evolution speeds up.
211·9 days agoI say this as a freedom loving citizen of the US…
Do this now, you will regret it if you don’t.
But I don’t know how hard it actually is to gun down a drone
For an attack helicopter with a turret, trivial especially if automated targetting assistance is integrated.
I fear theory vs reality in this one. If a couple helicopter pilots are trying to save a city, they may not have the bandwidth to deal with all th drones in the airspace at once and get too close, even with vastly superior technology.
To be clear I think the future is helicopters + drones not one or the other so the question to me this scenario poses is why didn’t the helicopters have a screen of protecting cheap loiter/surveillance drones or interceptors already in the air waiting?
I am sure this kind of thing will eventually happen, I just doubt it will be broadly effective.
ughh imagine a Riders Republic without Ubisoft and with mod support?
Same with Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint…