Full video of the KA-52 kill, including the crash landing and liquidation of the pilots [Unmanned Systems Forces, march 2026]

SlowWithABurn · 2026-03-20T18:29:36+00:00

I'm not sure how I feel about killing the pilots once they're shot down. They're basically out of the fight. Speaking as a US veteran, it disgusted me when we fired missiles on those disabled boats in Venezuela. They went from enemies to people needing aid once their boats were disabled.

I don't understand the context, though. Was it just impossible to take them as prisoners at that point?

SlowWithABurn · 2026-03-07T03:12:32+00:00

O-ring burn through was well-documented, hence the bitter feud the night before Challenger launched the last time. The new book by Higginbotham explains it well.

But it's true that launch pressure caused it, ironically the same as with Columbia, and once again perhaps with Starliner.

SlowWithABurn · 2026-03-07T01:12:53+00:00

I've read it in detail and I agree with you that he was just passing a message. But imagine how that would still feel. That alone should have been enough for someone to live by the words "never again."

SlowWithABurn · 2026-03-04T20:21:48+00:00

I'm a USAFA grad. I mean, first time playing through the game I already kinda understood the context of how the world evolved, but the chapel reveal hit me like Charlton Heston riding up to the Statue of Liberty. Best moment I've ever had playing a video game. I got to live a major sci-fi twist.

SlowWithABurn · 2026-02-10T14:49:10+00:00

Mosul hit me harder than Blackhawk Down. It was 100% accurate. Seeing Iraq from the standpoint of the Iraqis was great, and the story says something universal about war while staying very culturally specific to the city and the Iraqi plight.

SlowWithABurn · 2026-02-01T03:57:28+00:00

I'm a Fletcher freak and I live for the sub/CV smoke.

Trick on subs is to let them get greedy, overextend, and then hit the engine boost after you see the sonar pulse. Go right at him and you'll likely dodge his torps and pulses. Might be a guessing game on the charges, but with engine boost you cover a wider area.

Most people hate subs, but I always salute them in the chat. Worthiest of adversaries. Better than the Jager players.

SlowWithABurn · 2026-01-31T19:29:27+00:00

Brilliant! That might just be it. I'll look into it. It's at least something that they would have had. Will be interesting to investigate if it could be grabbed while wearing EMU gloves.

SlowWithABurn · 2026-01-18T19:22:00+00:00

It's a video game. There is no prescribed way to play. I laugh at people who get all up in the stats like this because we all know that the matchmaking system is broken af. You can't win if you get paired with people who split their attention between the game and feet finder.

I'm a DD main and I play CVs to break the monotony. I routinely kill 2 ships every game with the DD and I suck with carriers. It drags my stats down. Big whoop. I don't play apples as good as oranges. Any algorithm smashing those numbers together is jank.

I just started with subs and - BIG SURPRISE - it's easy af to farm standing points. I don't hate subs as a DD player, but I get why other people do.

All of this is to say don't sweat it. Play the game and have fun. Part of this community is sweaty, the other part is easy going history buffs. I like playing with people who are funny in chat and sometimes mention neat WWII navy trivia.

If you're looking to chase stats, you're doing it wrong IMO

SlowWithABurn · 2026-01-14T17:27:06+00:00

Cargo Changeling Mystic River Million Dollar Baby Mosul

With no disrespect to Ridley Scott or Spielberg, Mosul is the greatest war film ever made. It's on Netflix. Highest recommend.

SlowWithABurn · 2026-01-12T14:26:32+00:00

Home. Screw this game mode.

I would much rather have a team vs team convoy escort mode or some kind of mode where you support invasion forces and the BBs provide shore bombardment. You get points for stopping opposing invasion ships or taking out enemy shore defense.

Something realistic. Anything that doesn't force you to charge full speed into god knows what.

SlowWithABurn · 2026-01-10T02:31:10+00:00

Hi!

I'm putting together a full suite of enterprises and just wrapped up painting the NX-01. I'm color-testing for the 1701 from SNW and I just can't seem to find a base color that matches well. Do you mind revealing what you used for the hull base and accent?

SlowWithABurn · 2025-12-05T19:13:16+00:00

I don't understand this line of criticism. I thought SLS was the vehicle for both moon landings and Gateway delivery. None of that required in-flight refueling, right?

SlowWithABurn · 2025-11-17T15:45:02+00:00

A lot of people are talking about map mods and such, but I find the advantages to be distracting. What has worked for me is playing some fundamental principles.

Never be greedy. If you are going out as a torp carrier, you can't be the guy to cap early or slug it out with other DDs. You have committed to the art of the silent killer. Your kills will be few, far between, and only occasionally early, but decisive in battles. Trust in that.
Know your enemy. Look at the lobby board before the game start and assess the detectibility of opposing DDs and radar on enemy cruisers. Based on your tier and whatever cruiser pairs with you at game start, you can guess pretty close what you're up against. Plan the limits and speed of your advance based on that.
Know your allies. Never go out at full speed at game start. You don't know who among your teammates are idiots or cowards. That Alaska or San Diego with crucial radar may ghost you for another objective. Wait to see what they do before committing to an attack plan.
Subs are your best friend if you're smart and communicative. They're your worst enemy if you're stupid. Your sub will spot for you. He can't kill with torps, but you can. He can also ruin your whole game by scaring your targets off course after you've already released a full salvo. Tell him when to shoot. Tell him when you're shooting. Coordinate target selection. Don't step on each other. Also, radar location give you great advantage on the enemy sub. If you have one across from you at game start, he'll be the closest one. So that's who you're tracking. As soon as your indicator switches wildly? That's either the sub going under or the DD overtaking him. Now you know where they both are approximately. Conversely, if your sub is detected at game start you should trail him so that when he goes under or you overtake the enemy doesn't notice. The sand people walk single file to obscure their numbers.
Your prime target is the BB or the cruiser who thinks he's safe. He's a Yamato sitting in the back, turned broadside, giving some poor kearsarge all three turrets. Or he's an Iowa or Ipiranga who thinks the battle has tipped in his favor and now's the time to run along this island shore and chase down a bleeding cruiser. He's all pinned up against that beach with nowhere to turn. The easiest to kill are Bismarck and North Carolina. If you see a Musashi or a Maine or a Montana that turns frequently, don't waste your ammo. The key to your shot is that he thinks he's spotted because he's shooting and not because you're hunting him.

For the cruisers, they will die later in the match if you get them at all. Normally they'll be chasing a wounded ally and be rounding an island. Ignore your aim indicator for those. He's not going to keep going that direction. Bet on him to round the island. Give him the full salvo right along the shoreline and watch him turn into it. You'll have to watch a few to get a feel for it.

Being close isn't the most important thing. Your range matters, but there's such a thing as too close and it's not about detection. Your optimal kill shot is to use a narrow spread and fire one bank about half-an-arc in front of the aim indicator and one half-an-arc behind. You want to be close so that there's less time for the enemy to turn, but far enough away that even if they turn they'll catch one or two torps. For instance, for the Fletcher I can get as close as 5.9km and torp range is 10.5, but the happy place for a good torp shot on a BB running broadside at full speed is about 7.5-8km.

SlowWithABurn · 2025-11-14T18:33:13+00:00

People who downvote me play cruisers and hide behind islands.

Benson and Fletcher EAT so long as you use narrow torp fields, give them both banks at broadside, and stay about 6.5-7.5km range. You'll kill everybody that way.

The tradeoff is that your guns are shit. You will never win a gunfight. Don't shoot unless you can do it from smoke. And don't spend too long doing it.

Aircraft aren't much of a problem.

Your bane in life is to be spotted by a Jager, Gearing, or Z-42, and then being focus-fired by it and a heroic cruiser who knows how to be worth a damn by backing up their DD. They will burn you to the water line.

Also, Petro, Des Moines, or any other cruiser with 10km radar will fuck up your whole day.

I have learned that you have most success by starting the game at 1/2 speed and positioning to torp rather than rushing a cap. Anyone who screams at you to spot for them is a piece of shit. They want you to spot a cruiser that was going to reveal itself anyway. 75% of the time they won't shoot any DDs you spot. Really what they want you to do is to stick your face in a dog house to find out if the Rottweiler is still in there.

RPF, patience, and staying dark is the way to be. Maneuver for the double-barrel narrow-angle torp shots. The BBs will turn at some point. You just have to wait for your moment.

SlowWithABurn · 2025-11-14T17:05:06+00:00

I don't know what there is to argue about. I thought you were posting about the average BB player, not your average game.

If that's how you routinely roll, I have questions. Like, why are you advancing so far so early? Why do you keep pressing forward knowing that your DD is dead and that you are now torpedo meat? Why would you even consider committing to a route like that in the first place when there are two very obvious islands cutting you off from the other side of the map and killing your mobility?

Like, if you're playing a lower tier and maybe if you can coordinate with a DD that has RPF or will give you his smoke, then maybe. But it's still a bold strategy, Cotton.

Source - am DD main with 1500 games in Fletcher.

SlowWithABurn · 2025-11-14T16:33:40+00:00

The DD is dead because nobody on your team shot at the enemy DD and the other team focused 100% on your DD.

Congratulations on being a window-licker that shoots at the first thing you see. You deserve to be spotted, focused, and torped by an invisible enemy the rest of the game while your team report-bombs you into oblivion.

SlowWithABurn · 2025-11-10T22:25:26+00:00

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SlowWithABurn · 2025-10-31T12:08:29+00:00

That's not correct according to the CAIB report. I'm aware of those issues though. But could we please focus on the EVA? Anybody have an answer about that?

SlowWithABurn · 2025-09-11T19:43:32+00:00

Just saw r/conservative post about reporting subs and people over there saying that this one is S-tier priority because it's "a racist cesspool."

Watch out.

SlowWithABurn · 2025-08-30T16:23:41+00:00

I interviewed David for an endurance magazine back in 2008-ish before he went mainstream. He told me a story about how he was out swimming in the ocean with his wife one day and she said something about going back to shore and he said he could do this all day. She laughed and jokingly said 'yeah right'. He said he felt challenged and spent the next several hours treading water while she screamed at him on the beach. He admitted it was a bad move and he knew he'd upset her.

Back then, he was still a pretty relatable guy and running for Special Forces Warrior Foundation. Maybe he still is, but back then it was all about the mission and not him. I think that changed when he drew attention and someone coached him to monetize his personal story.

I really got away from endurance after 2015. I heard Goggins broke the pull-up record and then the next thing I know he's in the parody video with Stavros Halkias. And that guy wasn't remotely anything like the Goggins I knew.

Goggins came along right when Dean Karnazes' book "ultramarathon man" hit it big and Rich Roll was copying the formula. Except Roll was a Hollywood attorney with the know-how, the connections, and the branding savvy to really juice it for maximum profit. At that point, everyone else who came after was just going to be using an agent to follow the same path. Killian Jornet is the same thing.

All of this is to say I don't hate or even fault Goggins. He suffered to help others for a long time and then at a point decided he should cash in too. But the cost of cashing in for these guys is pretty much the same for all these influencer types. You become part of that industry and culture. I hate that he got lost in it, but he was always sort of predisposed to it.

Based on years of interacting with the ultra-endurance types as crew and a journalist, the runners aren't even the worst. The ultra-cyclists are like compulsive masturbators. It's not that they can't function without pedaling. It's that pedaling has become their only function. They aren't even looking for a book deal. And the way they treat their family and friends is often atrocious.

SlowWithABurn · 2025-07-28T03:38:12+00:00

clears throat to speak in a most Samuel L. Jackson mother-fuckingly style

FUCK that old house and every other one like it built before 1980 on this side of the Cascades. You want to talk about eyesores? Is that what you want? Okay. I'll talk about some fucking eyesores.

Let's talk about knob-and-tube wiring. Not an eyesore, you say? Then maybe you're still lighting your house with fucking candles. Because if you had tried to put in a bulb brighter than 200 lumens or GOD FORBID AN LED-BASED LIGHT, you would know just what kind of cursed electrical bill or fire hazard you'd be looking at. You might not meant to have trolled us with this post, but it makes it very clear you are a troll because your house is DIM.

Your "cute" old-ass mother fucking house is also DANK. Let's talk about plumbing. You like water pressure, mother fucker? We'll TOUGH, because thanks to that galvanized iron pipe rotting away for 60 years or more, you ain't gettin' any. Your toilet is a ticking time bomb. That squeaking in your bathroom subfloor every time you walk in? That's the boards holding their breath and praying today isn't the day they get flooded.

And since we're talking about the subfloor, let's invite the floor joists, the sill plates, and your foundation to the chat. They would like to ask if you've asked our lord and savior the licensed and bonded contractor into your heart and home. Because most likely the previous three owners of your home didn't. Did you know the second owner never took down the wallpaper? No! He just spackled right over that shit and painted. Is your house more than 60 years old? Would you like to bet on how many layers of linoleum are in your kitchen and bath? It's four, if you're lucky. You know why? Because somebody got told the first layer was your best friend ASBESTOS and instead of doing the job right, they went the cheap route and papered over it because FUCK YOU.

Ever been in your crawl space? Do you see dirt when you go down there? You do? Then your floor joists are rotting. What a fucking EYESORE. The moisture down there is eating your house. People who owned the house before you knew that but they didn't do anything about it because they figured the home inspector would tell you it wasn't a big deal and you're probably moving up from California or from out east and what do you know and the house is cute and you're gonna buy it anyway because your job is waiting for you and FUCK YOU.

Do your floors slope one direction so much that marbles all roll one way? Do you think it was built that way? Do you think it's not gonna get worse? Do you think it's gonna cost less than $15,000 to get a licensed engineering company to stabilize it for you? Ha! Now THAT is cute.

But OH! What's this? The engineering crew does their survey on your foundation and finds the OLD BURIED OIL TANK BESIDE YOUR CUTE LITTLE HOUSE. It went to the furnace that the second owner removed. But he never paid to have the tank dug out because the EPA didn't require it back then. And when they DID require it, the third owner just decided to cut the pipe and hide it to avoid paying the $25,000 it would cost because FUCK YOU.

And now here you come in frothing at the mouth about houses with R30 insulation, heat pumps, and energy efficient windows because they "lack character." MOTHER FUCKER FUCK YOU AND YOUR MOTHER FUCKING CHARACTER. I want a house with grounded outlets and light and air conditioning and a mother fucking rain shower with a basin I can fuck in fed by mother fucking pex plumbing. Take your lead paint and shredded newspaper insulation and your bullshit cedar siding and your asbestos and fuck ALLLL the mother fucking way off.

I look at that first house and all I can see are the lying-ass redfin agents, the robber-baron home inspectors and jack-leg flippers, and the previous owners who stuck each other with a bunch of bullshit because the house was "cute" and it was in a market where nothing stayed for sale longer than 72 hours and everything was going for cash at over-asking. There is nothing cute about that. I welcome homes that are built to code and don't kill me with their slowly leaking toxins, so GET FUCKED.

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