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[–] solsangraal 115 points 4 months ago (2 children)

if you have to source your war machines from DPRK.... you might be losing

[–] [email protected] 88 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Russia is not loosing. This is just part of the 5D chess Putin is playing. Any minute he will make his master move and conquer Ukraine, destroy NATO and fingerbang your dad. Just wait. You’ll see.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (13 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Jokes on you, my dad behaves like he is already being fingerbanged by Putler.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

That's the problem. This is an old school war. If Russia can keep moving the front lines the correct direction them nothing else matters. I don't say this because I like Russia but because it shows how much more support we need to be giving Ukraine. The manpower difference is something like 4 to 1. The casualty ratio is something like 3 to 1 which is high but within Russian standards. If nothing changes Russia will win this in another few years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There's a lot of truth to that unfortunately. Historically, Russia has shown many times that any number of casualties is acceptable .

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, nothing changing is a big ask, on both sides. It's still up in the air, and hinges on the American election more than anything else at this moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah we're sorry about that. We still don't know how we let our biggest adversary of the last 70 years infiltrate an entire political party.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Official and recognized military taxonomists insist that a vehicle doesn't count as a tank unless it's classified manuals and specs have been leaked in the World of Tanks forums.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

It's not a tank unless it comes from the Tank region of France. Otherwise it's a sparkling armored vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How far will they go before completely shaking apart? In meters?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Meters plural? Aren't you optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

There’s always intertia

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Pedantry warning - we use the plural for decimal quantities less than 1 too. E.g. the tank only made it 0.8 meters before collapsing into a pile of low grade steel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

They may not be that bad. 7 cylinder engines with 5 valves per engine. Front engine, camshaft at the trunk. Revolutionary

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reported as "subject doesn't match headline", however since this case is a subject of translation and there may be variations in translation software, I'll allow it.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! Can't believe it's been a year since reddit imploded! 15 years there, walked away, never looked back!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It was 13 for me. My cake day was a month ago. Goodbye to Reddit forever as far as I'm concerned. I didn't even get an IPO offer despite being a "power user," probably because I changed my profile to say "FUCK REDDIT!" and gave lemmy.world's URL.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I shut down every subreddit I modded permanently and was publicly screaming "fuck reddit" and "fuck spez" until the last minute.

Still got an IPO invite I ignored and even a mod meetup invite

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh. I wonder why I didn't?

I don't really care since I wouldn't have taken up their stupid offer, but I'm curious now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I assumed they sent it to everyone, even my old reddit account with only 2000 karma got it

And even if i wanted, being not a us resident i couldn't even actually get it

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's called lemon day over here

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Technically the Bulsae-4 is an anti-tank missile carrier. Basically 8 TOW missiles on a wheeled BTR.

English source:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/07/30/in-a-possible-major-escalation-it-seems-russia-is-getting-anti-tank-missile-vehicles-from-north-korea/

They're probably extremely vulnerable to Ukrainian drone strikes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Those don't even look like tanks. Bad author. (OP's author, this article is better.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What should I change the title too?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Armored vehicles is probably a safe bet since that's a big catch all term

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love the post-reddit era, where titles can be changed if they are not correct!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Panzer" is a general term in German, meaning armoured vehicle, not limited to main battle tanks (Kampfpanzer) mistranslations are thus exceedingly common.

This in particular is a Raketenjagdpanzer meaning a Jagdpanzer (hunting tank) armed with missiles, not to be confused with the more general category Panzerjäger (tank hunter) which is any vehicle that hunts tanks, not just armoured ones, and not just ground vehicles, and not just vehicles but also units. That is, Jagdpanzer are Panzerjäger which are themselves Panzer.

Some Anglos also get their standard issue underwear in a twist if you call the Gepard a flak tank -- that's quite literally its official designation in German: Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard, short FlakPz Gepard, more or less literally "flight offwarding cannon tank". An "Infantry fighting vehicle", fuzzy term if I've ever seen one (in Ukraine that can mean a Hillux) is a Schützenpanzer, "marksmen tank".

IMO those translation errors shouldn't be corrected, they can only clean up English terminology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Western journalists when any vehicle has the slightest amount of armour: it's a tank!

Anyway, this is sad and hilarious. The "second-best military in the world", everyone!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

AR-15:Rifle::Tank:Armored Vehicle

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Were there also NK soldiers? Or they just gave them the vehicles?

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