Vikthor

joined 2 years ago
[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

As long as they control the government, military, police and other stuff putin and his regime are russia. If russians don't like that they can make their own Maidan.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This statistic alone doesn't tell you anything because according to a Land forces production overview table here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II

USSR had Germany beaten in artillery pieces production 5:1.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I think the unwillingness to switch Ukraine to 155mm caliber prior to 2022 has less to do with the west trying to not provoke russia and more with Ukraine's desire to use existing stocks and tooling in domestic ammo factories. They themselves ordered DANA M2 in 152mm caliber in 2020. Only after the invasion they realized they will need much more ammo then they can produce domestically and west started providing 155mm systems. Already in 2022 Ukraine has been given German PzH 2000, Slovak Zuzana 2, French Caesar and eventually Swedish Archer. The ammo problem simply took time to solve, but it seems European productions is ramping up and the Czech initiative is still ongoing.

The need for armoured cabin is now well understood and I would say that Swedish and Czech solutions go even further with autoloaders and targeting computers reducing the crew needed to as little as 2 and removing the need for the crew to leave the cabin during a fire mission.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Germans called infantry the queen of all arms, soviets called artillery the god of war. We know who won.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Interesting, the article somehow presents this as something new and groundbreaking, but wheeled self-propelled howitzer was introduced by Czechoslovakia and South Africa already in the 80's. And indeed Czech and Slovak howitzers derived from the original DANA are used by AFU since at least 2022.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Does he even ha~~s~~ve a say? Doesn't Polish stance on Ukraine's entry depend on the government & parliament rather than the president?

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That might be funny if you can show an actual contemporary quote, otherwise it's just your non-historical babbling.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

When Rosa Luxembourg was murdered fascism wasn't an international threat but a local Italian movement at best. Or is everything you don't like fascism to you?

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

You may know IPv6 is ridiculously bigger, but you don’t know it.

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

No matter whether we are talking about real space or IPv6 address space, Douglas Adams' quotes always come handy.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And how long are you going to survive in the no man's land, operating your scissors?

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

...and stay there.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No he wasn't. It's just because of his pride and idiocy that he thinks he was.

 

Czech police stopped a Russian tennis player from entering the country ahead of the WTA Prague Open tournament, organisers said on Friday, as a new government resolution banning athletes from Russia or Belarus caused the event to scratch other competitors.

 

Let's start this community with something positive:

Game publisher THQNordic released a trailer for a game developed by Ashborne Games from Brno. In this RTS and management game you will command one of the trains of the Czechoslovak legion on its way to Vladivostok.

The developers cited games like UFO/XCOM as one of the sources of inspiration for the gameplay. As somebody who enjoyed these, CoH2 and also Bluebyte's Historyline:1914-1918 I will be looking forward to the release.

Not to mention that this is a good way to remember family history as my ancestors were a part of the legion.

How about you?

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