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What this also means is St. Petersburg is more or less irrelevant as a military port as is Kalingrad as what you use there you must build there as getting thru the Danish straights is even less of an option now as Sweden is far less likely to protest about it. Also if Russia pisses of NATO badly en...

Grinding advance in the Ukrainian side. 200m won, significant casualties,main russian defence line not reached yet. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/russian-missile-attack-on-odesa-kills-three-people-working-in-warehouse-ukraine It does not feel like a collapse and roll up of Russian l...

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2023-05-28 04:20pmYup. The reason I said Stalingrad was you'd think the Russian's would know how to avoid repeating Paulus' mistakes.

I'm not convinced the higher echelons of the Russian military are capable of learning from their own mistakes, let alone those made by their fathers' and grandfathers' enemies.

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2023-05-23 12:12pm"Allow the enemy to overextend and focus on one position, then crush their flanks" - isn't that pretty much exactly what the Red Army did to Paulus at Stalingrad?

Ever heard of a place called Cannae?

Oldest verified human was 122 years, 164 days. Precisely my point. One human, out of the countless billions who have lived, recorded as scraping past 120, and she died over a quarter of a century ago. Yes, the average is going up, yes more are getting closer to that limit, but she's the only one wh...

I'd expect the curent batch of royal grandkids to live to be comfortably over 120 years old at the current rate of tech development. Why? Average life expectancy has been going up, but no human in history has lived to be "comfortably" over 120 - that seems to be something of a hard limit,...

Lord Revan wrote: ↑2023-03-28 07:23pmIIRC the version used currently is the M1911A1 that was developed in the 1920s

I thought there was a SF version developed in the last 2-3 decades?

Didn't the M1911 stay in service until the 1980s (and might still be in service with some troops) and it's even older then the M2 HMG, but yeah sometimes it's a case "if it isn't broken don't fix it". Still in service (at least in a modified version) AFAIK. Likewise, the British army used...

Batman wrote: ↑2023-03-28 05:38pmYou don't break out antiques if you have modern equipment available.

That depends on what the antiques are and what the modern stuff is. The US Army has repeatedly rejected modern HMGs on the grounds that Ma Duce does the job better.

Solauren wrote: ↑2023-03-07 03:03pm... the hired Goon vs the actual military.

The hired goon's thugs seem to have been more successful than the so-called "actual military" recently. While making General Melchett look like the reincarnation of Caesar and Alexander combined by comparison.

Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan specifically all have a signed agreement with Russia, the UK, and the US guaranteeing their territorial integrity and sovereignty. As a caveat, because the memorandum is vague to security obligations, and is also unratified, there's an open question as to whether it...

LaCroix wrote: ↑2023-02-14 03:17pmOh, and another General is dead... "Suicided"...

Did he jump out of a window, or shoot himself in the back of the head a few times with a revolver?

This is something I've got a problem with most depictions of Vader in the comics -- they always default to making Vader being "Atrocities for breakfast, lunch AND dinner" along with "kicking people's puppies to show how evil he is"; when in the 30-45 minute screen time we see in...

They currently seem more interested in retaking more recently captured area than Crimea. Back at the start of September they seemed far more interested in Kherson than Kharkiv, and at the start of June 1944 the western allies seemed far more interested in the Pas de Calais than Normandy. None of th...

"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it first appears."

When you say they have to be in, where exactly does the ballot have to be when the polls close ? In the ballot box. If you expect the post to take a while, get it posted early - that's one reason why there's a legal minimum time between the dissolution of Parliament (or death/"resignation"...

How does the UK manage to get the votes counted overnight ? My guess is that there aren't any races close enough for the special votes to change the winner. So the count on election night is close enough to know who won. If "special votes" are the NZ term for postal votes, they have to be...

Can it ? Because to me it looks like there are still a few house seats that haven't finished their first count yet. Not sure why, but I'd guess it has something to do with postal votes needing to get through the post before they can be counted. As well as a Senate runnoff election scheduled for Dec...

Batman wrote: ↑2022-11-12 11:35amSo they have time to determine who won the election and do the occasional recount?

That can be done overnight.

Either way, I think we should keep a gap between Election and Inauguration, because counting votes is still not fully automated, and there's always a need to have time for a physical recount in a close race. Why do you think a lack of automation and the occasional need for recounts justifies a gap ...

NOTE the Russians claim they ID'd the bomber. I wonder if they are telling the truth. Well, there's a lot of possibilities. They may have ID'd the lorry by it's license plate and tracked it back to the owner. If so, you get the following : 1. owner was driver and in on it. 2. owner sold truck, new ...

What I'm saying is that how much or how little Russia needs to be treated with kid's gloves because of their nuclear arsenal isn't a precedent we need to worry about being applied elsewhere in the future because they're pretty close to being in their own league in that respect. The big worry here i...

I can see Putin doing the meat grinder routine through winter, and then demanding a ceasefire What makes you think the Russian army is capable of this? They were turfed out of Kharkiv a couple of weeks ago, the Lyman position has collapsed, they might be about to suffer another Kharkiv-scale boot u...

I said they're trying to reach the power and status USSR had at height of the Cold War I'm not sure it's case of "trying to reach" so much as "acting as if they've still got", including working from the premise that Ukraine is a de facto part of Russia, and therefore the entire ...

I was surprised that unlike with binoculars or telescopes, you don't have your eye pressed up against the eyepiece when looking through the scope. It's one of those things that's surprising at first glance, but obvious when you think the whole thing through - when you pull the trigger the weapon wi...