https://twitter.com/olliecarroll/status/1517394419468705793
In 2 months they’re more than 1/3 of the way to the total US losses in the Vietnam War and 20% more losses than the worst year of the Vietnam War.
Imagine being drafted and shipped off to that hellhole in 1968.
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Night vision, 6-hour endurance, and enough firepower to take out armored vehicles. Seems like Russia’s fucked if these things go into mass production.
“Big Safari”? Why not just “Air America” straight away?
You and what army, bro?
https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1517507082806861829
I didn’t realize these things could shoot 25 miles. I thought only ships could do that. Sheesh. Ok I guess they’re rocket-assisted.
Do people think it’s Ukrainian saboteurs?
Seems like some pretty weird coincidences. Probably not a false flag because those tend to be against civilian targets.
OTOH:
A rocket research campus seems like it wouldn’t be a high priority target, as opposed to the factories where the rockets are being made. Could be sabotage, but who knows.
Fire in a rocket manufacturing facility is a big deal. [Funny, I think I wrote this exact thing about boats last week.] I started an aerospace job after several people were killed in a fire that started when they were extracting a core from a rocket motor.
In our building we had a pellet press that would occasionally cause a fire. I think it would only involve like a pound of material but it would make a bang and bring a little dust down from the ceiling. Everybody knew what it was and we’d all mosey out and down to the assembly point to wait for the fire guys to show up and confirm yep, the press went off again before we walked back up.
Anyway, it doesn’t look like the fire in the video could involve a lot of rocket fuel or components. There are too many nearby buildings. That would be poor siting.
At least 7 dead in yesterday’s fire. It was an administration building. You don’t need 100,000 lbs of rocket fuel in a building to kill people.
Russia internally acknowledging 20 000 deaths means there should be at least 45 000 wounded as well.
350 russians are dying every day from this war. What a disaster.
That’s nearly 10x more than Vietnam.
https://mobile.twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1517387374115926017?t=rer599rg-67u3iP0qSlqMw&s=09
Hard to compare this war with Vietnam. If we make the large assumption US quoted their own deaths accurately, they were just mainly pushing napalm bombs out the back of planes at 20,000ft so of course causalities might be lower