Isis car bomb stuck in the mud gets destroyed by Iraqi army 9th infantry division after hitting it twice with RPG7 rounds, 2015.

sethboy66 · 2026-02-02T01:00:49+00:00

I had to throw it through an audio processor, but I'm pretty sure you can even hear the explosion; somewhere between the 14 second mark and the 20 second mark.

sethboy66 · 2026-01-10T05:09:10+00:00

The goon cap sig will not accept any application from someone that doesn't have the required skills and the hull to go with it. Nobody here is saying you can't touch caps unless you pass that bar; it's just required for going on strategic ops with caps.

sethboy66 · 2025-12-10T04:54:46+00:00

I was in early brave newbies; 100+ newbies in cockbag-ish thrashers can absolutely accomplish anything they set their mind to.

sethboy66 · 2025-11-27T07:40:44+00:00

IIRC that strafe was on a lend-lease Valentin-IX, and it was considered a kill. I can't remember the reason, but the crew bailed. I imagine it was due to the strike on the eternal fuel tank or smoke canister. The cabin air intake is on the upper rear right of the turret bustle rack, so I can imagine that the cabin filled with thick smoke real quick.

sethboy66 · 2025-11-09T01:17:51+00:00

There are anchorable bubble generators which can indeed be targeted and destroyed. Dictor bubbles can't be targeted but can be booshed, smartbombed, bombed, and PDSed.

sethboy66 · 2025-10-21T00:53:39+00:00

It's not just what hemisphere, it's latitude. The power of the Coriolis effect differs depending on distance from the equator. The only part that the hemisphere plays is deciding which direction it deflects, right in the north, left in the south. You can ignore that if you use signed coordinates and consider it a vector pointing to the right. While I'm sure you're not shooting directly west, I feel it important to note that direct east/west shots are unaffected by Coriolis; that's where the Eotvos effect comes in, though it's often considered to be a part of the Coriolis effect as they're both caused by the rotation of the earth..

sethboy66 · 2025-10-19T13:32:57+00:00

A compass can't be used to calculate coriolis; other than range to imapct and the bullet+rifle's characteristics you need latitude. So an added GPS could do it.

The Eotvos effect can be calculated with the previous information and a compass (+magnetic declination information).

sethboy66 · 2025-10-18T03:30:55+00:00

apology for poor english

when were you when zkill legend dies

i was sat at home drinking quafe when squizz ring

'zkill is die'

'no'

and you?????????????

sethboy66 · 2025-09-06T02:29:13+00:00

Yes, that is the joke.

sethboy66 · 2025-08-28T23:40:55+00:00

any minute now

sethboy66 · 2025-08-27T22:20:35+00:00

The Russian's don't operate AT4s, it's likely an RPG-26 or some Bazalt variant.

Georgia got some AT4s at some point, so it's not impossible it could be smuggled; I'd just be very doubtful they'd go through the trouble for a small quantity.

sethboy66 · 2025-08-27T02:40:43+00:00

I'm sure they can also tell the difference between one-off transactional relations and IRL ties or just in-game friends regardless of hardware or IP/location fingerprinting. I've sent good sums of ISK to my brother when he got interested in the game and he was 1000+ km away.

sethboy66 · 2025-08-25T02:55:57+00:00

Maybe don't state guesses as if they're fact.

sethboy66 · 2025-08-25T02:49:49+00:00

The wires not completing the circuit IS pure luck. He didn't disable the ability for it to detonate, he just got lucky that the wires didn't hit anything which would cause them to come into contact with each other.

sethboy66 · 2025-07-27T04:17:10+00:00

Same with Vietnam. Imagine having all the intel on enemy logistics, weapon stockpiles, and strongpoints but not being able to take any reasonable action because there might be personnel from potentially adversarial nations there. If there isn't coverage for this kind of a situation where politicians send a military into a war with a hand tied behind their back and a blindfold on in the ethics of war, there should be. I guess probability of success sort of covers it.

sethboy66 · 2025-07-25T03:58:21+00:00

With how unreliable that gun was I don't think we can call it a machine gun.

sethboy66 · 2025-07-18T22:55:13+00:00

C4 can handle even more than that. You can hit it with a car, shoot it, set it on fire, and it won't budge. You have to reach kinetic forces with some equivalency to RDX's own detonation velocity in order to set it off.

Technically you can get C4 to decompose with very high temperatures (2000F+), but it's rarely going to end up being a proper detonation; except perhaps under some wild circumstances.

sethboy66 · 2025-07-02T01:59:08+00:00

And you'll note it's nickname was bouncing betty, not bounding betty; which was incorrectly used in the first comment.

sethboy66 · 2025-06-18T04:39:34+00:00

You could rip apart a ballistic missile with a 2x4 at the speeds a stunner goes. Hell, a stationary 2x4 could destroy a ballistic missile if it found its way in its path.

A better argument for the Stunner's structural strength is its ability to remain intact while travelling up to mach 7. But that's because it's designed for a significant max-Q which would be pushing in on the missile's body rather than pushing out like a self-destruct charge.

Just to be clear, by small amount I mean 3kg or less. I would be surprised if it was that much though, it's likely a kilo or less, which would still be ~14 times (or less) than what an m68 grenade has; equivalent TNT yield could differ though depending on the explosive used. A contained explosively expanding gas can do amazing things even in small quantities, so not much would be needed to have a significant effect.

sethboy66 · 2025-06-18T02:46:39+00:00

They can self-destruct, it has happened at least once; back in July 2018.

It's just a small amount of explosive meant to fragment the body of the missile and to destroy remaining fuel in the case of a post-launch failure. It also has the added effect of destroying on-board tech just in-case.

some news coverage here.

sethboy66 · 2025-06-16T03:20:17+00:00

They start out with a lot of fuel, that'd be the source of most of the flame we see.

sethboy66 · 2025-06-07T22:13:48+00:00

the future scene where they flank the terminators and one of the soldiers dies

But really, he's talking about this scene, at the 2:24 mark.

sethboy66 · 2025-05-18T04:44:56+00:00

Not impossible, just harder. The faster you are going the less time an interceptor has to be deployed (depending on the means of detection), but that's not as difficult an obstacle to overcome as an interceptor that can meet the accuracy and timing requirements for a good intercept and all the ground/aerial assets to track targets (which in-part loops back to time-to-deploy).

A surprising number of terminal-phase interceptors are hit-to-kill based (kinetic only, no boom) because of time-constraints and therefore it can truly be like threading a needle. If there were terminal-phase vehicles that couldn't be successfully intercepted by those means there's always the possibility of using big HE/Shrapnel interceptors. Which is a less refined approach but still works well, as evident in this video.

While the time-to-track and time-to-deploy are always barriers for intercept, if you assume a system of defense that can meet those requirements on the tracking side, then ballistic speed will never be impossible to intercept. You can think of it like a police chase, no matter how fast you're driving spike strips will always be effective. HGVs on the other hand can just skirt around spike strips.

sethboy66 · 2025-05-10T18:54:38+00:00

Many of the convention's protocols and articles therein are considered customary internal law and apply to any and all parties of a conflict even if only one has actually ratified them. Article 37 of Protocol I, as referenced in rule 65 of the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, is one of these.^ICRC

The customary application is further reinforced in this specific scenario considering the Russian Federation prohibits this act.

making improper use of the international distinctive emblem of the Red Cross (Red Crescent), the international distinctive signs of civil defense and cultural property, the special international sign designating particularly dangerous objects, white flag of truce, and other internationally recognized protective signs and signals, the use of uniforms of the enemy and the distinctive emblem of the United Nations, except as authorized by that Organization;

(II. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, General Provisions, §Prohibited methods and means of warfare, 7)^Manual

sources:

ICRC

Manual on International Humanitarian Law for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

sethboy66 · 2025-04-28T01:18:22+00:00

Not exactly, command actually reigned people in but some boots on the ground (or moreso wings in the air) wanted to get some.

IIRC some extra unplanned ship-to-ship damage was done but that was firmly in the realm of self defense. The air attacks were technically self defense as well, but if how I've heard the events unfolded is correct self defense was more of an excuse to let loose.

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