• Buelldozer
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    12 days ago

    The Russians are such fucking whiners. They’ve been importing weapons from several countries and using them in Ukraine for two years but when Ukraine does it then suddenly it’s a big fucking problem.

    It’s like your brother punching you several times an hour for two years straight and when you finally slug them back they lose their shit and start threatening to cave your skull in with a bat.

    Fuck 'em. If they didn’t want the smoke they should have stayed home.

  • @[email protected]
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    4212 days ago

    I’m pretty sure that’s what’s happening already. The Ukrainians didn’t just develop completely new generations of UAVs in a year.

    • hondacivic
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      12 days ago

      I thought they just spawned them in

      /give @p military:UAV 1000

    • mozz
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      Hm… I actually think Ukraine is probably at the forefront of UAV development worldwide at this point (both mass scale domestic production and innovation in design / tactics).

      At the beginning of the war they were using bayraktars and commercial quadcopters, and maybe a handful of officially-military-designed western drones. Obviously they drew on established technology, but I actually think at this point developing a completely new generation of UAVs is exactly what they’ve done (primarily in the aspect of how to keep them tactically effective while making them small and cheap so they can be produced at scale at a limited tech-tier, which isn’t something the Western manufacturers really specialize in.)

      I think the vital stuff they’re importing is tons of artillery rounds and cruise missiles, stuff where you can’t really cheap it out in the same way, but if the Kremlin starts getting hit with ATACMS munitions I don’t think it’s gonna fly to say “naw we found it refurbished bro, nothing to do with the West.” IDK, give it time, maybe by a couple years from now they’re gonna find themselves at the forefront of production of glide bombs that can reach hundreds of km after building on their exhaustive experience making FPV drones.

      • @gravitas_deficiency
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        12 days ago

        Yeah, for real, they’re doing stuff with drone design and warfare that have some western defense industry execs and flag officers all like

        • mozz
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          There’s not really a substitute for putting stuff into practice every day, with a heavy heavy penalty if you don’t get it right. All the money in the world won’t get you the same level of solution effectiveness as that will.

    • @[email protected]
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      1312 days ago

      They’re for sure getting parts and supplies for uav from the west, but they already had uav production in the beginning of the war. Most of their UAV are just commercial products assembled to carry more weight.

      You’d be surprised how modular uav are nowadays. You really just need to hook motors up to a control board and your half way there. The stuff that west is probably helping with is hardening them to electronic warfare defenses like broadcast jammers.

      • @[email protected]
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        412 days ago

        The complexity lies in motors, sensors and actuators and especially the software to tie it all together. I’m pretty sure they got help in all of those areas. Which is not in any way meant to minimise their own achievements.

        • @[email protected]
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          212 days ago

          I mean, they probably aren’t’t producing any of the hardware. You can pretty easily build very similar UAVs to the ones used in Ukraine just ordering through your local hobby shop.

          The difficult part is in assembly, but it’s about the same technical level as building a PC at home. Likely the only difference between what they have and what you can build at home is the hardware/programming they’re using to jump frequencies so they’re harder to highjack or shutdown remotely.

    • @[email protected]
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      -212 days ago

      Well AI did it for them… After being feed the newest generation of drone blueprints…

  • @[email protected]
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    3612 days ago

    Or just attack Russia regardless of them claiming you’re not allowed to?

    America isn’t pushing the button, they’re just doing the usual thing of selling weapons.

    It’s Russia’s fault they’re in this thing. They went full border war using their own citizens - when under Pax Americana you’re only supposed to do proxy wars in places not near you.

    Russia has been doing that in Africa, their mistake has been doing it with their own guys on their own border.

    • @[email protected]
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      1312 days ago

      This is the correct answer because Russia is going to claim they’re doing it regardless.

    • Echo Dot
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      1112 days ago

      When having a proxy war it’s always a good idea to ensure that you are the side with the proxy. Otherwise it’s just a war for you.

      Russia isn’t fighting a proxy war with NATO, NATO is fighting proxy war with Russia though.

      • @[email protected]
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        812 days ago

        Its not even exactly a proxy war this time, we don’t fund them behind the curtains we directly and openly support them and they are basically at our border. So in reality i would say that Nato does border defense with some help.

  • @JulesTheModest
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    3512 days ago

    This sounds like what auto companies do to avoid tariffs!

  • @[email protected]
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    2112 days ago

    Duh, just move the Russian border. Then they will be bombing occupied Ukrainian territory.

    • @[email protected]
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      912 days ago

      This is due to meme culture originating in country balls where Poland and only Poland is flipped upside-down. This drawing refers to that.

    • don
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      812 days ago

      Poland is in the middle of dire distress and instances of extreme danger to life or property. Also, Indonesia (a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania) borders Ukraine.

      Hope that helps!

      • Echo Dot
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        812 days ago

        Everyone always forgets about the Indonesian Ukrainian wormhole.

  • @[email protected]
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    712 days ago

    “Assembled in the USA” means, we put a sticker on the bottom of the product that we unpacked from a shipping container and placed in retail packaging. The sticker only said “Assembled in the USA.”

  • Destide
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    612 days ago

    Overly complicated just adopt the drop-shipping method slap different stickers on

    • @[email protected]
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      812 days ago

      You really think someone would do that? Just slap a sticker on a manufactured product that’s a lie?

      • nukeM
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        912 days ago

        Bruh all I’m saying is give me 15 minutes and access to a printer and I’ll show you a F-35 Made in Ukraine

  • @[email protected]
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    612 days ago

    Oops another Train of weapons got sadly send to the wrong rail and due to security it cannot stop or turn around until in Ukraine, furthermore, to flip the train around they have to throw off all the cargo, otherwise its to heavy… Sad.

  • @[email protected]
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    512 days ago

    I used to work for a company that did something like this. We had a product that was built overseas, and a major customer wanted one but would only buy it if it was made in America. So we had it built overseas, taken apart, shipped to the factory I worked at, the overseas assemblers flew here, they put it back together, and slapped a made in America sticker on it.