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This is a canonical Erebus quote as far as I'm concerned.

NonCredibleDefense dipshits and NAFO perverts will talk about Russians using human wave tactics and their officers not caring about the lives of their troops and will then be completely silent on this shit

He also added the ones that were any good were also too by the book with no freedom to operate independently based on the mission.

There's probably a grain of truth to this, apparently the Americans and Soviets alike were shocked at how effective North Vietnamese pilots were and both established advanced air combat schools to try and teach their pilots similar tactics (Top Gun in America and the 1521st Aviation Base in Turkmenistan for the Soviets).

I could be wrong but the thing about them training pilots wrong deliberately to stop them defecting sounds like bs in my opinion (surely if Soviet military morale was that bad they'd be more worried about whole ships, submarines or military units regularly trying to cross over?), reminds me of nowadays where people go on about Chinese pilots being rigged up with bomb collars so they can't defect, just seems incredibly made up.

Russian industrial capacity has literally collapsed, I never realized they were this weak

That's a relief, guess we can cut Ukrainian funding and maybe even consider disbanding NATO if the Russians are this little of a threat.

Dudes citing promotional photographs from the single first unit being built in as though that's indicative of the actual machining throughput.

Same energy as when redditors find a picture taken in 2004 of a run down Khrushchevka in a half abandoned mining town and use it as evidence that the Soviet Union/Russia is one giant slum

Somehow the stupidest thing happened and we live in the Watch_Dogs imagined future where hackers will be able to kill you with your internet-of-things connected vegetable juice machine.

The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-related disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.

"We helped the West get a good night's sleep and they will never forgive us for it" - Xi Jinping

Looking forward to being tranquilised by the PLA and fultoned away to Dengism motherbase to be made to read The Governance of China until I defect or whatever.

I like to imagine he has a no show leftist podcasting job a'la the mafia

H P Lovecraft MMORPG

Mass Effect character creation neurosis got me feeling like a phrenologist

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I see Carl of Swindon is as coherent as ever