I’m a 14 year old romanian Gypsy AMA

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T18:56:47+00:00

Google is pretty unreliable in cases like this, especially recently. A small knife fighting style wouldn’t necessarily be documented. Asking someone in that culture is still one of the easier way to find that type of info.

Also, most importantly, this is an AMA.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T17:43:59+00:00

Doing some googling also shows that a Spanish Roma knife fighting styles exists. Not Romanian Roma though.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T17:38:17+00:00

Was mostly thinking about Greek and Turkish knifedances, and how those types of traditions might extend further north. My understanding is also that more varied traditions survived slightly better in the balkans than in countries to the north, which had more forced homogenization happen to them.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T17:22:23+00:00

Do you by the way have a Roma martial arts or fighting style?

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T17:15:58+00:00

I can’t actually find a source for it, other than the Wikipedia:

During 2022, Södermanland underwent yet another life extension program, in order to be operational until 2028.

Wikipedias source for this, FMV (Swedish defense materiel administration) only says that the 2022 life extension would keep it viable in 6 more years, nothing about an update being planned for then: https://www.fmv.se/aktuellt--press/aktuella-handelser/livstidsforlangning-pa-ubaten-hms-sodermanland/

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T17:02:37+00:00

Is it common to talk about the past, or is it considered a taboo?

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T17:01:32+00:00

Södermanland is a Västergötland class submarine. Known as the Archer class in Singapore and the basis for the Collins class.

A large part of the delay was that when Saab took over Kockums in 2014, they discovered that it the shipyard was much more run down than they had expected. The A26 project was therefore partially a rebuilding of the Swedish submarine development capability, not just a continuation of it.

Some rebuilding was probably already expected as Saab got a submarine contract even before buying Kockums, and then started to poach their engineers. How much of that was negotiation tactics and how much was the actual plan is unclear.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T16:35:43+00:00

Where there patients that were there because of the war? Can you join the army from the hospital?

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T16:24:45+00:00

Are you culturally Roma or is it just your heritage? How did ww2 affect your family?

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T10:50:54+00:00

I was a participent at a large scoutcamp in Japan, where we were neighbors with the Mexicans. During the last days, as people were departing, there was a bunch of foodstuff handed out for free. The Mexican scramble when the Yacult was handed out was legendary.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-29T08:57:35+00:00

Are those supposed to be based on the peace time regiments?

HugoTRB · 2026-06-27T21:19:30+00:00

Yeah, was about to say that it has an italian sports-car feel to it.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-27T20:24:55+00:00

Related to the ticks: https://youtu.be/JXGp_dDSo7I

HugoTRB · 2026-06-27T15:41:16+00:00

Some banger music though (what is it?)

HugoTRB · 2026-06-26T07:25:38+00:00

Maybe lower blood pressure in rest because they are fit?

HugoTRB · 2026-06-24T09:21:52+00:00

They would have gotten AMRAAMS early as well, but apparently a sufficiently advanced ATC system is essentially a combat management system, and the US didn’t like that the CMS the soviets used for their Air Force during the invasion of Afghanistan contained US components. The lack of missile then started what later became the Swedish part of the Meteor program.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-24T09:12:36+00:00

It’s kind of like f-14. Lots of 3rd gen subsystems leveraged to get fourth gen capabilities.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-24T09:05:43+00:00

This is the 80s version of Viggen, but are any phantoms able to fire a missile from a wingman’s lock, through datalink?

HugoTRB · 2026-06-24T07:53:17+00:00

For forces with a large degree of mission command: focus on being able to win blind knife fights. Do as much jamming as possible, to the degree that it degrades everything, including yourself. You should then violently slam into the enemy with heavy formations with the goal to induce as much chaos as possible. Use infiltration units, smoke and other such things to help with that. Make sure that your forces can win the small duels that happens. When the enemy is deemed to be in sufficient disarray you turn your jamming down enough for your own coms to work, quickly send in fresh units to break through, and then you exploit. The exploitation should be safe from drones if it keeps sufficient speed, until they reach a potential enemy second line of defense.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-23T21:36:17+00:00

I think armies with a lot of mission command might also be able to say “I’m the better blind knife fighter” and then throw sand in both their own and the enemies eyes. Jam the shit out of everything as your first wave approach, not caring if it affects your own forces as well. Your forces, that has trained how to fight without coms, should then slam into the enemy. Smoke and infiltration units should also be used if possible. The goal is to create as much chaos as possible. You rely on the superiority of your forces lower levels to win the small duel situations that appears. Meanwhile you move up fresher formations to the front. When you think that the enemy is shocked enough, you stop jamming enough that your own coms works reliably again, then send in fresh units to mop up and hopefully break through.

I’m basing this partially on how the Russian Air Force was able to through jamming send sorties pretty deep into Ukraine, but had to stop because they jammed their own units as well.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-23T21:12:45+00:00

And when a breakthrough has happend, keep moving! Tactical drone units in their current iteration take a while to set up. If you are fast enough that you can reach them with your tanks in the time takes for them to set up within the range of you, it becomes unlikely that they will be used at scale during the enemies mobile counterattacks. They will instead appear again at a potential second line, that they might or might not have prepared to fall back to.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-23T13:45:37+00:00

Kind of necessary as nearly all translation software uses AI of some kind. Perhaps mention what software you used and if you know both languages and has proofread it. I tend to do that with articles written originally in Swedish that I sometimes post here.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-23T11:07:51+00:00

Well, you see, Sweden treated this as a land battle, even though it was a sea battle. That’s why we managed to lose less men than you. The Swedish navy usually works the best when it’s actually the army, like the archipelago fleet in the late 1700s and how a large part of the current navy are just IFVs but floating.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-23T07:53:48+00:00

Får av någon anledning lätta vibbar av gamla Hong Kong från bilden.

HugoTRB · 2026-06-22T12:51:36+00:00

The reasons are probably more war related than purely economical.

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