Recent content by Sandor

I guess I was not clear. My point was that this lady is the perfect living and breathing personification the Dunning-Kruger effect. Either that or she's a sock-puppet for someone else. She has zero background in this stuff but posts tens of detailed twits every day for at least 6 months (can't...

Ain't Sachs. Clinton/Bush2 x3/Biden x2 (two un-named CURRENT US official) aides actually... The idiots are across the spectrum. Wrong ones. I think the correct ones are Halo effect All you need to know Not sure about M109A6 as the announcement just says 155mm howitzers. That can be towed...

Nitpicking, but I hope it's just an old photo, as the officer in the picture has a full colonel rank not a major-general (O-7 equivalent, brigadier general). And the shoulder tabs look to me like artillery not paratroopers, but that may be just the angle... Maybe he just got promoted to...

Lots of posts about T-34s in Ukraine before the summer. But I have higher hopes for putin and his gang. They should be able to find a ghost or two in some Siberian warehouse resembling a BT-5 or a T-26. Spanish civil war era меланхолия (melancholia)...

Hmm, no. I know that wikipedia is not the authoritative resource, but I think their definition for MBT is pretty good: a tank that had the firepower of a super-heavy tank, the armor protection of a heavy tank, and the mobility of a light tank, in a package with the weight of a medium tank. The...

T-72 lineage is coming from T-64, which was a brand new design, first to use auto-loader and quite a few major design paths from the T-34/T-44/T-55/T-62 lineage. But it is still an MBT, so a direct follower of the medium tanks (T-34) and not a heavy tank (as in IS-2). IS-2 lineage starts with...

Pre-NATO ascendance, in the 1992 Transnistrian original conflict, Romania did intervene both on the sly (equipment transfer, brand new painted Moldavian APCs showing up out of thin air :) ) and openly (military advisors and volunteers). But now in 2023, as a full fledged NATO member, Romania has...

Long but very good scholarly analysis re war, history, reasons and outcomes from a Romanian diplomat via Google translate...

Belarus has some river ports that are decent size (still a land locked country). But: Brest is isolated now from pretty much all the destinations as Bug River goes thru Ukraine and Mukhavets doesn't really gets you anywhere useful but thru canals to Dnipro. Oops, that's Ukraine going south...

Ahem, that depends on the definitions. In the loosest sense, Constantin Cantacuzino war the top Allied ace with 69 (possibly 77) victories, but that was fighting on both sides. One of the most colorful pilot characters in the whole war, the only guy that managed to fly a BF109 and a P51 in the...

You guys do realize that RealSubtitles @R82938886 it is a parody account, just like @DarthPutinKGB? Darn good parody at that, that's one of the top to date in my opinion :)

In the words of the grandfather of the blitzkrieg (before Guderian even was even born), "Keep up the skeer!"

100 years? Try more than 1100? Since the very beginning of the Rurik dynasty, the russia was an absolutist state. They never, ever, experienced democracy. They got a whiff of kleptocracy laden free-market in the 1990s followed by the full fledged Putin kleptocracy since 1999. That's it; no...

Exactly why should I assume that they'll be asinine enough to force EXCLUSIVE usage of the charger for a single customer at a time (bolding mine)? While having the other spot ICE'd... Just curious, you don't own a red M3 too in addition to the MSM? Anyways I vote with my wallet and it's not like...

From personal experience, this is as bad an idea as it gets. Last month I stayed at a hotel that listed a Tesla destination charger. Given the location and the charger availability I decided it should be a nice choice to enjoy couple of days stay. Nowhere listed was the fact that you could...