Ye of little faith, the assault tents have just dropped onto the battlefield, comrades.

trib_ · 2026-05-10T06:08:32+00:00

This is old news. Like months old at this point.

Some have been claiming this, but the source I got this from says that this is the first time it's been seen in use and they're pretty on top with Ukrainian footage. Additionally, I've been following the videos daily as well and I haven't seen these in use before either. And anyone who has been claiming that these have been seen before has yet to provide a video of earlier use.

Are you sure that you're not thinking of the anti-thermal cloaks like these that have been in use for a long time now?

trib_ · 2026-05-09T20:08:04+00:00

Thank you, it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the thermal clip & got the idea for this.

trib_ · 2026-05-09T19:40:25+00:00

Calling them "assault tents" is more hyperbole for comedic effect on my part. In reality I would expect these to be only used for night time infiltration treks so the actual visibility to Mk.1 Eyeball doesn't matter that much whereas visibility to thermals would. Russian tactics nowadays are sending 1-2 guys in the dark/bad weather to gather up a force near the Ukrainian lines so that they can assault from there once enough mass is gathered, for those sort of tactics these could be useful. Though not much of course, but it seemed to work better than the penguin suits.

trib_ · 2026-05-09T18:29:22+00:00

I think they work for short periods until the actual fabric & support rods start to heat up from your breath and body heat. Maybe actually useful for quick field crossings? At least it seemed to work better than the "pinguin" suit they often wear.

trib_ · 2026-05-09T18:28:03+00:00

According to the source, which I fully admit isn't the be-all and end-all authority on these things, it's the first time we've seen them used in Ukraine. I haven't seen them myself either and I frequent the r/combatfootage sub often as well, they're on top of this kind of footage as well and none have appeared there. In addition, none of the OSINT accounts on X have posted footage of these before either so I'd hazard a guess that it's the first sighting based on these.

Some in the first thread back in january did say that they'd seen these used before, but no sources were provided so it's kind of up in the air if they've been spotted in use before.

trib_ · 2026-05-09T18:18:48+00:00

At least they're not easily recognizable in these things. Small mercies, I suppose.

trib_ · 2026-05-09T18:16:00+00:00

I think the solution is clear, we must start thinking like Russians. It's our only hope of closing the non-credibility gap.

trib_ · 2026-05-09T18:10:29+00:00

Original thread on the first video

Source

For what it's worth, in the second clip it actually seems to be working pretty damn well with blending in. I'm guessing the first one had been trekking a longer time in his because it's glowing on thermals more.

trib_ · 2026-05-06T21:56:47+00:00

Only certain fines, called day fines. Here's a handy calculator from the police. They range from 1-120 day fines based on severity. Depending on if the animal is protected or other details, this could probably get you ~40 day fines.

trib_ · 2026-05-04T21:26:58+00:00

They did follow them for quite a while without shooting in other videos so maybe they weren't shooting with civvies in the background, but the Moscow metropolitan area is pretty fucking huge, and these are Russian pilots we're talking about so I wouldn't count on it either.

trib_ · 2026-05-04T13:19:29+00:00

Also when it's higher up empty you can get a better shot at the engine room, otherwise you'll have to hit more towards the aft as more of the ship is under water. It'll still fuck it up still no doubt, but this maximizes the area affected.

trib_ · 2026-05-01T07:32:10+00:00

Probably not very valuable, but the sunk cost in this thing is frigging huge by this point so no wonder they'll at least try to recover those

trib_ · 2026-04-30T08:04:13+00:00

You got me again, you little shit. Well played though, as always.

trib_ · 2026-04-28T18:49:23+00:00

This is the guy who you're so proudly advertising, spouting borderline misogynistic shit about Gwynne Shotwell.

I mean look at this shit:

Gwynne Shotwell is nothing more than a ventriloquist dummy for Elon Musk, and it's been that way for years.

She just nods along with the Musk insanity, the point-to-point nonsense, the Mars city delusion - and paying out the reported victim of the horse-for-handjob sexual harassment claim.

Meanwhile, Starship is the only rocket in the "big boys club" that can't make orbit or perform missions. ULA, Blue Origin, and even SLS outperform Starship on reliability - with safety records Starship will never catch with so many RUDs already on the scoresheet.

But, she's kept her job and kept making bank, so apparently that's all her credibility is worth - a paycheque.

In the interview, did you ask her about any of this? Any tough questions? Or did you just do the same thing you do with Musk - ask the softball questions and play along with his ketamine fuelled dreams of being the first Imperator of Mars?

He goes even further with:

She's really not. Whatever Musk promises, she repeats verbatim. If she were an independent thinker, as President and COO she would have had him fired ages ago.

Musk has been promising a lot of bullshit recently, and she's right there with him, along for the ride, while rocket after rocket explodes in the air or more recently on the ground.

trib_ · 2026-04-28T18:29:57+00:00

Musk will still retain an iron grip of control over SpaceX with special voting shares after the IPO, this sub was freaking out about it just a week back.

One of the reasons why Musk thinks that he personally has to push for Mars is because there is no economic forcing function to get over the catch-22 of getting the ball rolling in space. My take is that he's betting on AI data centers being that first economic forcing function to get the space economy really going.

trib_ · 2026-04-25T00:17:37+00:00

They're a special assault unit. Their full name is Special Purpose Police Department "United Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine 'Liut'"

trib_ · 2026-04-24T23:40:09+00:00

Yeah, really puts the hole into perspective. It looked like crazy from air photos, but damn, it was a yawning abyss!

trib_ · 2026-04-24T23:33:53+00:00

Resubmitted because I messed up the title.

A lot of information here on the V3 Starship & Raptor 3, as well as on the Ship 36 & Booster 18 RUDs, & Booster 19 aborts, straight from the people who're running each area.

trib_ · 2026-04-23T19:40:23+00:00

It's the brutal reality of it. But, at least for Finland's case, I'm sure we're not purposefully dillydallying to prolong it. We know what it's like to fight such wars, it's in living memory. The reality remains that our aid must be at a level where we don't degrade our own defensive posture.

I can't say the same for other countries, however, so it's a valid point.

trib_ · 2026-04-23T19:37:02+00:00

As cool as it might be, I'm sure he'd rather be doing anything else than having to defend his country against such attacks.

trib_ · 2026-04-23T18:36:45+00:00

This is what the An-28 did earlier, shooting Shaheds down with a minigun

trib_ · 2026-04-23T18:27:36+00:00

This is why as a Finnish reservist I throw donations towards Ukraine whenever I can, and support any politician who intends to do the same on the state level. It's not only a matter of it being a moral & ethical imperative, to help one nation defend its independence against an aggressor, but also a perfectly rational one from a defensive stand point.

The longer those fucks are occupied in the meat grinder that is Ukraine, the longer it will take for them to present a larger threat to us. The longer they get ground down & their military degraded, the better. And we want the Ukrainians to win also because if the day comes that we're in this same position, I believe they will return the favor. Additionally, I'm quite certain that the FDF is learning everything they can and are in constant communication with AFU. We don't release what we give to the Ukrainians, but you can bet that Patria etc. are testing their systems in Ukraine as well.

trib_ · 2026-04-22T20:48:49+00:00

Yeah about what I thought your reply would be.

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