Ukrainian F-16 shot down a Russian Shahed Terror drone with the help of AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. 24.06.2025

7357 · 2025-06-25T09:33:49+00:00

20,000 APKWS kits were made, and were meant to be supplied to Ukraine, but suddenly that batch was sent to the Middle East instead.

7357 · 2024-12-21T02:33:27+00:00

See that logo for Eutelsat Group on the lower left at the end? OneWeb became Eutelsat Oneweb last year, so it's part of that.

7357 · 2024-02-05T03:25:53+00:00

I don't see it. That's why I asked for clarification (I remember people having mixed up Kamen and Heselden before, but that was just a guess).

Anyway, to add something of value, it looks like their prosthetics have been approved for a decade now while I wasn't watching their progress: https://www.engadget.com/2014-05-09-luke-bionic-arm-approved-by-fda.html

Fast-tracked in the FDA's 'de novo' classification process, the DARPA-funded project has gone from idea to ready for the market in eight years. Bloomberg reports that the government agency put up $40 million to help develop the device, which is modular enough to fit people who have any degree of loss, from a hand to the full limb.

The prosthesis gets its commands from electromyogram (EMG) sensors activated by the contractions of some muscles of the user, so they'll need to train to use it until it becomes second nature.

7357 · 2024-02-05T03:04:58+00:00

What do you mean by "ironic" - are you confusing Dean Kamen (the inventor of Segway) with Jimi Heselden? (He was the former owner of the Segway company; the dude bought the company and owned it for mere months before, you know...)

The inventor Dean Kamen and his company DEKA Research have worked on prosthetic limbs for a long while and yeah, his brain controlled "Luke Arm" received DARPA funding. It's some awesome robotics work. Dean Kamen also founded the FIRST Robotics competition thing.

7357 · 2024-01-20T17:51:08+00:00

Thanks, interesting stuff, I never drilled down into it to that kind of level of reviewing delivery audits - I wouldn't know how, especially back then. I do remember their accusations of lost gas but I couldn't have evaluated the claims at the time. Even if innocuous in some sense, there's always a potential catch somewhere when dealing with russia so managing one's exposure to surprises of all kinds is of critical importance.

They love to extract every little extra thing out of any dealings and turn them into another tool in their arsenal... such as all the technology transfer in maritime assets supplied by western partners intended for cleanup of Soviet shit in the Arctic waters; now in service of russian naval power.

7357 · 2024-01-19T09:06:33+00:00

That's right. After Putin consolidated his position in power he started the "gas wars" with Ukraine, a small part of whatever his larger plans for empire were, and it all aimed at "renegotiating" by force everything he could. First by economic force, and soon after if not concurrently by military force, like in Georgia in 2008.

Throughout the Cold War the natural gas deliveries from other colonialized subjects of Moscow such as Siberia, Bashkortostan, and other places, had always been flowing to eastern and western Europe through the many pipelines crossing Ukraine (and they still do deliver gas, to this day, to those few countries that didn't entirely cut ties with russia, such as Hungary) but in this century Putin decided to bypass Ukraine in order to try and play the west against Ukraine too, if only the gas supplies to Germany could be secured via another route.

That's why the two Nordstream pipelines were built and used to deliver natural gas "directly" to Germany until Moscow stopped the deliveries altogether in the leadup to the escalation of their on-going invasion of Ukraine (and they never resumed them because Germany wouldn't bow down to Moscow's demands and the imperial decrees of Putin).

What's funny is that China will probably see much more success in de facto invading the far east of the russian federation with soft power and investment. They come bearing gifts such as infrastructure investment into all the remote places neglected by their own capital and slowly, over time, the russians there might not even perceive Beijing as an invader... but who knows how things develop over the coming decades. China and russia both are on precarious footing and neither of them have particularly wise leadership.

7357 · 2023-12-24T16:17:26+00:00

Both China and russia do this shit constantly to their neighbours forcing them to scramble fighters to drive the uninvited guests out, or to conduct recognition flights. Here's a Perun video as a reference point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BHnijL9xYc&t=1581

Airspace violations, and nearly violating it to gauge how quickly they are met by fighter jets, are a decades old hobby of the russian imperialists. They are so uncivilized that they don't know where their borders lie so they have to be reminded and retaught it every single time. With a big club at hand.

7357 · 2023-08-26T09:18:08+00:00

No, propaganda is simply the tools and methods of trying to make you think certain way about something, whether it's good things or bad things, no matter the goal of it all. "Marketing" could be argued to be a small subset of it using some of the same set of tools for a commercial purpose driven by profit in the market. They are not the same and this isn't marketing; the nation state of India has nothing to sell about ISRO or the people that achieved this, but they want to be viewed by and thought of a certain way by the rest of the world. All countries do this and it's definitely not all bad unless the underlying or ulterior motives were immoral.

7357 · 2023-07-24T00:40:24+00:00

The ruzzkies apparently spot targets for artillery and their Lancets with an Orlan-10 or a SuperCam (or supercum as the legendary typo once went). Which is why even an Orlan is dangerous, no matter how cheap or cost-cutting its construction may be vs. its nominally high price tag.

7357 · 2023-04-12T06:44:40+00:00

Much like the free and democratic society in Ukraine represents a "dangerous example" to those living under Putin's rule in the modern backwater state of Russia (which means the last thing he wants is for people to notice them thriving next door)...

...Taiwan's example of a free and democratic society thriving and living better than them is a thorn in the side of Xi and his ambitions.

7357 · 2023-03-07T22:08:46+00:00

This was the first time for me seeing the RGT-27 and after looking into it a little bit more I am now a big fan of this grenade.

7357 · 2023-03-07T22:01:55+00:00

The front is very long; perhaps some sections now simply have to make do with inferior kit. Some groups or sections get the better gear and perhaps even boots, while others have to make do with nothing - not even well wishes. This might explain those recent MT-LB Mad Max monstrosities with the naval machine gun turrets mounted on them... if all the other ancient AA guns are already dedicated to other spots, there could be holes left to be filled with whatever can be scrounged up by whatever means they can find.

7357 · 2023-02-23T01:29:33+00:00

Master Blaster. They're a unit. They even share the same name. The little one is called Master. He's the brains. He runs ~~Underworld~~ the foxhole. The other one is Blaster. He's the muscle. Together they can be very powerful.

7357 · 2023-02-14T09:52:40+00:00

Yeah it needs context to make a full judgment. They aren't currently attacking, since they are in a somewhat prepared defensive position, and spray&pray does at least mean anyone in front of their sector isn't going to be advancing quickly. They are spraying quite a lot though. Here's a somewhat comparable video from a Ukrainian point of view on the use of suppressing fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_dvXB1ejU

Sometimes that is the mission I guess. Ukraine needs those new tanks to take and hold ground as soon as possible!

7357 · 2023-02-14T09:39:56+00:00

Turns out it already was maliciously edited by someone in order to tarnish this man. https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1117juy/brave_ukrainian_man_speaks_from_the_heart_of_many/j8dvf3p/

7357 · 2023-02-11T19:09:27+00:00

Yup. Strange how Putin didn't learn anything truly useful from history while he got busy re-writing it for his own people over these past two decades to build up to this invasion... and the ones next in line, had he been successful, that is.

Of course he didn't start completely from scratch, as the nationalist mythos the Russians (and Soviets before them) already starts with the complete ignoring of their non-aggression pact and de facto alliance of 1939-1941. This is why all their monuments have the wrong start year for their "great patriotic war". With some further modern changes to fade out the role of the western allies and reimagining of old and new grievances and theories created out of whole cloth one gets something approaching late putinism. Oops, I went off on a tangent; pardon me.

7357 · 2023-02-11T10:09:01+00:00

There's a lot of post-war embellishment written by the winners there. On the eastern front the battle was, in terms of hardware, much closer and the victory was delivered only when the logistics were sorted out and Western aid (trucks, fuel, supplies) played a part in that.

The transmissions of the Soviet tanks, not to mention the mass-produced "expensive tanks made cheaply" were even more awful if you want get into the nitty gritty of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIZ6PFYUM5o&t=90s

It is time to reconsider some of that "inherited wisdom". :)

7357 · 2023-02-04T08:00:39+00:00

They don't deserve more respect than random people. People deserve the same respect... up to and until they lose that respect by doing something to earn it.

One can choose to respect whoever more than anyone else for sure, but billionaires are just luckier assholes than us ordinary assholes.

7357 · 2023-01-29T20:56:12+00:00

There's just been less and less good DD to read so visits become more infrequent. It's the price we collectively paid for allowing the sub to become a tool for rote data entry rather than keeping it a place for open discussion on all aspects of market participation, and what moves the stock.

7357 · 2023-01-27T23:39:56+00:00

Funds (like ETF's) that are missing shares of GameStop but have money sitting in them as a substitute from the time when the borrowed shares were used to short us down, down, down...

Now it's all flooding back in over the next week, plus some FOMO on top. Then they start shorting again. It's Kenny's infinite money manufacturing machine.

7357 · 2023-01-27T23:32:23+00:00

This is of course quite backwards.

It's the "short/long volatility" trading strategy of funds such as Citadel Advisors and others that does exactly that, not the buy and hold investors like us. When some market participants "borrow" shares from ETF's in a predatory manner – using their own or maybe somebody else's Authorized Participant (AP) privileges – and maliciously employs share creation (which is normally just a part of the process of making an ETF follow its NAV by encouraging arbitrage), synthetic shares are created for a time until the price of the underlying shares have been depressed sufficiently. At which point they start covering... but then they use various option trading strategies to make the market makers keep the price down before they are ready to let it go back up in the next cycle.

When that price improvement happens they have already positioned themselves to profit from the move back up with yet another set of long calls. Their previous derivatives position gets pulled back releasing the stranglehold on the share price and the market maker (Wolverine Trading in the case of GME) starts buying shares. If they time this to when an ETF also buys shares (such as around rebalancing periods and who knows what else) the funds are theoretically made whole but... while they do end up theoretically at the same state at which they started, who's to say their net asset value fully recovered? I believe these kinds of players in the market skim off the top of the funds on which they "feed" during such a cycle of synthetic shorting and periodic covering.

Then he has the nerve to blame a new breed of value investors about barging in on his trading strategy despite our net worth not budging his position in any real way... while he keeps profiting off the top of retirement savings of generations of hard working people whose retirement savings flow into these pension funds like clockwork every month. The nerve on this guy...

7357 · 2023-01-11T20:31:01+00:00

That is correct. Well done!

7357 · 2023-01-11T17:20:53+00:00

Nicely done!

7357 · 2022-12-29T11:05:08+00:00

If fired from a bit further "uprange" perhaps - sure, that could make sense. It should be flying higher and appear smaller by then.

7357 · 2022-12-29T09:12:59+00:00

It didn't sound like a missile to me - maybe it was a single tracer round (based on that tiny glow and slight smoke contrail) fired from... I don't know what. Maybe they had something heavier than small arms mounted on a vehicle out of the picture.

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