#Artillery Shells

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

The factory in Iecava parish plans to produce up to 50,000 shells per year(..)

[lavender-is-a-killer]

Giant bullet.

[remyfire]

Today's morning bubbling emotions are about Margaret who is the only one wearing a piece of protective equipment here, but Trapper who still keeps a hand on her back the whole time they're running, then not only tries to keep her a little covered when they have to hit the deck, but also dips his head to say something in her ear once he sees they're safe for the moment. Extreme husband behavior.

[plate-armoredpangolin]

I have played Lancer only once, and have a rather erratic understanding of the rules, but I'm already creating homebrew. Which is probably very unbalanced, though I am trying (if you want to see it lmk it's coolllll)

[letsruinher]

[davidcashuk]

[dead-generations]

it's ironic that we went from shellshock isn't real, to shellshock is real, to shellshock wasnt real it was actually PTSD, to where we are today where shellshock is now a well documented phenomenon seperate from PTSD, but which we simply lump into "TBI".

[praetorianxxiv]

On my recent travels to the Nothe Fort in Weymouth (UK). I picked up a fantastic artillery shell, travel bottle. From kombat military priducts.

I could not resist, and being an Imperial, wat to do next 🤔 😉

This is the way. Imperial issue shell case =v=

[tomorrowusa]

Pro-Putin stooges in the West are trying to rile up public opinion by claiming that aid to Ukraine will provoke World War III.

In fact, it is Putin who already considers himself at war with the West. His agents have been assassinating critics in the West since the 2000s. And since his illegal invasion of Ukraine, Putin's agents have engaged in acts of sabotage and terrorism in NATO countries.

The attempt to assassinate German arms executive Armin Papperger is just the latest blatant act of aggression by Russia.

The plot was one of a series of Russian plans to assassinate defense industry executives across Europe who were supporting Ukraine’s war effort, these sources said. The plan to kill Armin Papperger, a white-haired goliath who has led the German manufacturing charge in support of Kyiv, was the most mature. When the Americans learned of the effort, they informed Germany, whose security services were then able to protect Papperger and foil the plot. A high-level German government official confirmed that Berlin was warned about the plot by the US. For more than six months, Russia has been carrying out a sabotage campaign across Europe, largely by proxy. It has recruited local amateurs for everything from arson attacks on warehouses linked to arms for Ukraine to petty acts of vandalism — all designed to stymie the flow of weapons from the West to Ukraine and blunt public support for Kyiv. But the intelligence suggesting that Russia was willing to assassinate private citizens underlined to Western officials just how far Moscow was willing to go in a parallel shadow war it is waging across the west. Papperger was an obvious target: His company, Rheinmetall, is the largest and most successful German manufacturer of the vital 155mm artillery shells that have become the make-or-break weapon in Ukraine’s grinding war of attrition. The company is opening an armored vehicle plant inside of Ukraine in the coming weeks, an effort that one source familiar with the intelligence said was deeply concerning to Russia.

People constantly pooping in their pants worrying about World War III have probably forgotten that World War II was triggered by people endlessly trying to placate Hitler.

As a practical matter, consider that Putin's "3-day special operation" is now 866 days behind schedule. At the time the invasion began he had the second most powerful military in the world; he now has the second most powerful military in Ukraine.

Even before Western countries responded to the invasion with additional arms to Ukraine, resourceful local farmers were a factor in thwarting Putin's planned conquest.

Putin was not capable of defeating Ukrainian farmers in 2022 and he's even less capable of defeating NATO in 2024.

Ignore bullshit scares from Russian bots or MAGA weasels. Russia produces second-rate military equipment which is operated by poorly trained personnel who are little more than cannon fodder.

[gromky]

what a waste of army dreamers oh what a waste of army dreamers army dreamers army dreamers army drea

[selfmaderibcageman]

what would the android battery plushy for boys look like

gun

[madnessofmen]

Pigeon message

To C.O. 308th Infantry From 1st BN 308th Infantry We are along the road parallel 276.4. Our artillery is dropping a barrage directly on us. For heavens sake stop it.

The Lost Battalion

[delicateartisantrash]

Fanfic Scene Sketch

Nova, always thinking ahead. There’s a soft side somewhere under her cold armor.

she’s supposed to be very aloof, but i keep ending up with writing her during scenes she is, for contextual reasons, less aloof. Partying with the other Seekers might have contributed to this one.

please pardon me yeeting through a bagillion typeface styles in my doodling

[highlights-of-the-lowlife]

so china has completely dropped the mask when it comes to wanting peace in ukraine. currently the russian minister of defense sergei shoigu and a chinese delegation are in north korea to make an arms deal. its long been the case that north korea can’t do anything on the international stage without china’s permission and assistance.

as a side note chinese shell companies are the reason why sanctions against north korea have to be updated every few months. once a company is proven to have ties with north korea its shut down, renamed and reopened for business. but thats how sanctions actually work in the real world. china taking their cut ensures that north korean import/export power is reduced. a similar dynamic is working with shell companies in georgia and kazakhstan aiding russia.

at least now we can put to bed the idea that china wanted a peace negotiation to end this war. point blank they profit from it too much to halt it. rock bottom oil prices from russia in exchange for (so far) plausibly deniable aid like electronic components, generic body armour and gun accessories. but now china gets to skim off the top of a new north korean partnership with russia.

there’s a lot of speculation that china sees the russian invasion as a legitimisation of the plans to annex taiwan but firstly the CCP has never really cared about international law but the biggest reason for their shallow support of russia is the profit margin. but its apparently only the US military industrial complex funding the war for stock prices if you listen to the tankies,

[wakingfromthewater]

I was watching something where a character has a sudden moment of dizziness and sarcastically thought Am I pregnant?? because I'm so used to this being the beginning of that reveal being teased out in an interminable manner.

Then I remembered that there's actually zero way this cis(presumably het) male historical figure is going to have a pregnancy reveal.

[silpol]

The Economics of Artillery Shells in the Russo-Ukrainian War