#leo2

[angara-mfrp]

Hello! Mods, I'm Leo. I want to go ahead and reserve Prospector (Norton Campbell) from Identity V. Today's 1/7 and you can find me on my twitter @BR0KENBL0SSOMS !

Hi there Leo!

So, imagine my surprise when I saw that we got an existing member doing a name change to Leo and a reserve from a brand new Leo in the same inbox. It's a common enough name, but same inbox? Definitely unexpected!

Before we proceed, do you have another preferred name? As a smaller group, we've never run into this before, and the only thing we can really think of is Leo2. So we'll go ahead and tentatively place the reserve under that, but please do reach out to us if you have something else you'd like to be called!

Prospector (Norton Campbell) is reserved for you through 1/14!

Mod Dingo

[indomitableblackdragon]

Regardless of what happened beforehand NJ was prepared to get some R&R with the seasonal ball. Although asking someone to go did sound somewhat enjoyable the other part of the BB wanted to just go out solo. And with the perfect dress she was already completely prepared to rock the night away.

Everyone was looking their absolute best, almost jealous of some dresses and suits. But she spotted one individual pretty quickly on the roof all alone causing NJ to shimmy on behind him and planet herself next to Leo.

"Looking sharp there Tiger~~" The last time she seen him was a few months ago. But that was all bummed out in everyone's usual casual clothes. Here it was almost like a different person entirely.

"Got a date for tonight? Partner in crime to show off too? Or, once again, are ya' just trying to show off your style." One would assume with what she was wearing NJ was waiting for her own date. But things were never that simple with her.

@shufflevision

[minutes-cut]

😥😥 திரிஷா எடுத்த மோசமான முடிவு இதுதான் | Trisha | Vidamuyarchi 

[kremlin]

germany announced a new military aid package for ukraine, and it's weird, uh, don't get me wrong, it's great, stuffing euro notes/coins into mortar tubes wasn't working at all, and this new one is still better than what the west initially provided

i really don't know how we got those initial aid packages all f*cked up, we sent them scant handfuls of NATO tanks that were just new enough to be completely alien to ukraine's warsaw-trained soldiers and just old enough to not hold any overwhelming advantage to whatever russia shows up with. we also didn't give them very much ammunition either, not that twelve tanks will ever make difference, but it was bizarre considering ukraine was the soviet state that designed the actually-wortwhile soviet tank designs and built them as well. the f-16s would have been a nice idea, twelve jets will do a lot more than twelve tanks proportionally, if not for the fact that putting a frogfoot or ****** pilot into an f-16 would be like putting george washington into a cybertruck with zero instruction, except he doesn't speak english and the car moves in three dimensions. the kicker is that any relevant airspace has been pretty much closed to all parties except for the very peripheries where you can only launch weird british missiles, or (in the case of russia) literal dumb bombs with wings welded on to them. (sure, no problem, let me just stick weld this thin steel egg filled with a thousand pounds of TNT)

even stranger still is, some other things we gave them, things you'd expect by extension would also not work, they've turned out to love. they can't get enough bradleys (a convincingly tank-shaped object that does a completely different job). i don't know wtf they're doing with them, they don't even put TOWs in them, but hey, if it works.

anyways, this is what they got recently:

100+ MRAPs, ~50 "dingo" MRAPs very puzzling. these things are the result of an overcorrection fighting insurgents in the 00's, we learned that humvees with zero armor aren't the best idea against combatants indifferentiable from civilians, so the fix was to engineer a fuck-off huge stupid wheeled vehicle that can resist giant IEDs under it and i guess dudes firing AK-47s from the sides. if you've ever seen tiny-penis police departments roll out those things that look like the combine trucks from half-life 2 during riots, those are MRAPs. sure, you're doing logistics in a bus instead of a jeep, a bus that costs 20x as much, but you're alive. anyways. what use a vehicle designed to fight in desert climates in urban environments will do on a battlefield where fighting seasons are separated by harsh winters and "mud seasons" is questionable. where the hell did germany even get them from? where did they get several hundred of them??

~100 leopard 1's. a west german NATO tank from the late 70s using a third new type of ammunition that isn't the modern stuff nor the soviet-era stuff that's actually available and familiar. nato doesn't really tend to hold on to crap they've obviated, so where the hell the found a hundred leo1s is a mystery. even moreso is where the hell they got the 105mm ammunition for it, which has a shelf-life, insinuating new production of a long-obviated standard

a bunch of 120mm leo2 ammunition to service...eighteen leo2s. wtf. but at least they nutted up and gave them post a4 models (2 iterations from the currently-fielded model).

50 m113s. an m113 is an aluminum box on tracks. manufactured since the beginning of time in huge numbers. delivering twice as many leo1s as m113s?? one is like the odd alfra-romeo or citroen you see on the road once a year vs. toyota corollas

that is basically all the stuff that stuck out as weird to me. looking at the full list of equipment now, there's a lot of actually worthwhile crap getting shipped over (over 50 gepards, vehicles they love so much their only gripe is the time it takes them to reload), a crapload of patriot SAM missiles and several new launchers which is great, these are the things stopping cruise missiles to hit department stores at peak hours. a lot of arty as well, enough so to offset the fact its all NATO standard. i think it's a good package. in my opinion. as a guy with no military experience nor dodge charger purchased with enlistment bonus. and who knows, maybe they find some great use for whatever teh f*ck a "dingo" MRAP is.

[mayoiayasep]

do i even want to ask where leo and ritsu's solos ended up on that ranking .

....

leo2 - 57

leo1 - 38

ritsu2 - 33

ritsu1 - 23

[zimmerberg]

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-soldiers-capture-leo2-bradley

[rhoenblick]

Russian Soldiers Capture More of Ukraine’s Leopard 2 Tanks and Bradley IFVs - New Footage

Military Watch is a provider of reliable and insightful analysis into military and military related affairs across the world. From Asia-Pacific tensions to conflict in Europe and Africa, an understanding of military developments is key to fully comprehending foreign relations and politics today. — Weiterlesen militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-soldiers-capture-leo2-bradley

[dekuinthelake]

Fav creatures i found tonight

[dario-novak]

Where: Max’s house When: Evening Who: @leoxdawson​

It had been another long day in a series of long days but that was basically Max’s life at this point. He loved his work, liked being able to help people and to ease suffering where he could, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t exhausting. The shift lengths were intense even at a small hospital like the one in Wolford, sometimes especially because of that. It wasn’t like doctors were flocking here so the ones they did have ended up putting in extra time. Somehow, he managed to make it work and generally survived on caffeine and force of will, though he knew how important sleep was. There just weren’t enough hours in the day. 

Leo had dropped Beatrice off at the house today after Max got home and then she’d talked him into staying for the whole bed time ritual (not exactly a hard sell - Leo was generally a softie for Bea) and now she was in bed and Max had told Leo he could stay for a drink and some company, if he wanted. That had gone over so now Max had his feet kicked up with a beer and he’d somewhat surprisingly found a bottle of wine in his fridge and had poured Leo a glass. When had he bought wine? It was hard to remember small details but at least he had it. 

“Seems like we never get to chat unless Bea’s around.” Max noted, glancing over at his brother. “So in the spirit of adult conversation: how are you?” He took a sip of beer as he waited for the reply.  

[julietbenci]

when: 8 November 1980; afternoon where: 8 Eversley Way; Folkestone who: Jennifer + Leonora ( @leonxra​ )

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

With haste and no thought, Jennifer slammed the wooden door of the cottage to a secure close. Charms constantly protected the home, but a few extra would do her sanity well. The hazel wand settled into her palm and she went to work, calling over slender shoulders to Ruthie once her shaky vocal chords had reigned themselves in, “Please send an owl to Leonora. I request her presence, most urgently.”

Jennifer waited on the couch, eyes shifting towards the windows or doors at every gust of wind. She hated the refreshing blows suddenly, but there was no other option when beachside. The handwritten note stayed clutched in her left hand, while the jagged dagger that’d pinned the threat to her door stayed nestled into the right one. Her knuckles turned a shade of ghostly white as she clutched it close and for dear life.

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

Ah. Cool. I'd see these in use with the 47th Mechanized for a while, in company with Bradleys, but the 47th seem to have swapped over to Leo2 now.

Tank Man, this is in Ukraine rn, but what is it?

M-55s, Slovenian MBT, 2022, Elbit systems

This is a bit of a blast from the past, and I'm really surprised to see this in any sort of modern conflict, considering it's more likely to rub shoulders with a Patton or a T-72 than any modern armored vehicle. This is a model that underwent the 1999 modernization program, but that still only means a 105mm gun and a DShK that can be operated remotely.

[walter-e-kurtz]

Διαγωνισμός Ουλαμών Αρμάτων Greek & US tankers contest. Greece Nov 2022

[zimmerberg]

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-soldiers-capture-leo2-bradley

[kremlin]

!!! leo2s and even weird italian ones!!

europe highly overdue for invasion by horse archers eliminating 25-30% of the population

horse archers aint shit anymore. we got tanks now dummy

[stephanocardona]

Underwater by PollastriniSimone

[raavasgf]

Ur url is so powerful 🥺

Thank you leo 🥺❣️