thebestaquaman

Is this from the breach near Veseloye, or a new one? Good work either way!

Lasers are probably going to come out of testing to be the go-to defence against drone swarms in not too long. As you say, they would do what the Gepard is doing, but even better (at least against small drones), they just need to be finished first.

Just do a quick search for "mushroom cloud", and you'll find that all this combined is nowhere near what a nuke would look like.

The mushroom cloud formed from a small nuke like little boy (small by modern standards) reaches up to about 8 km. that's close to cruising altitude for an airliner. The reason the cloud from a nuke "mushrooms" in a different way than conventional munitions is that the intense heat is causing enough hot air to rise to form a literal cloud when it reaches high enough that the humidity condenses. This can even cause radiative rain shortly after the bomb has gone off.

The fireball of Little Boy is estimated to have been almost 400 m in diameter with a surface temperature approximately equal to that of the sun, and every building within about 1.6 km was instantly completely destroyed.

It is difficult to comprehend just how much more powerful even a small "tactical" nuke is than any conventional weapon. There's a reason soldiers that were shown blast tests of them during the Cold War have told stories of breaking down crying at the sight, because they just couldn't fathom what they were seeing.

There was no nuke blowing up here.

*Breaks the law

*Is convicted

*Refuses to pay fines

*Stops receiving funds

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At this point I really can't understand what is driving Orban anymore. He obviously must have known this would happen, and is likely doing it on purpose so that he can point at the EU as the "bad guy" back home, but like... what does he gain from this? Isn't it better to just get a shitload of free money from the EU that you can funnel to your friends and family than to not do that? If he legitimately dislikes the EU he can just leave.

Maybe he's just sticking around as long as he can grab cash? It kind of seems like he's going for the "see how far you can push it before you're kicked out" play. Essentially trying to find out how much of an obstructing, law-breaking, corrupt asshole he has to be before the rest of the EU finally has enough and kicks him out, at which point he can peace out to some safe-haven (I've heard there are spare rooms in some of Putins palaces).

Awesome to see the effectiveness og the Gepard like this. It seems perfectly suited for these kinds of slow-moving low-cost targets that you really don't to send expensive interceptors at.

Especially when the leading drone tactic seems to mostly be "send enough to saturate the air defences", having stuff like this that can rapidly burst down a bunch of drones at low cost, using ammunition that's quick and easy to produce, seems perfect.

At first it looked to me like he quickly sat up and had half the ammunition within a half-kilometer radius sent his way, with a grenade for good measure. It makes sense that the grenade was already there when he got up.

That's what major versions are for - breaking changes. Regardless, you should probably be able to fix this with some regex hackery. Something along the lines of

new_file_content = re.sub(r'(?<=\bprint)(\s+)(?!\()', '(', old_file_content)
new_file_content = re.sub(r'(print\(.*?)(\n|$)', r'\1)', new_file_content)

should do the trick.

For someone starting out, I would say that a major advantage of Python over any compiled language is that you can just create a file and start writing/running code. With C++ (which I'm also a heavy user of) you need to get over the hurdle of setting up a build system, which is simple enough when you know it, but can quickly be a high bar for an absolute beginner. That's before you start looking at things like including/linking other libraries, which in Python is done with a simple import, but where you have to set up your build system properly to get things working in C++.

Honestly, I'm still kind of confused that the beginner course at my old university still insists on giving out a pre-written makefile and vscode config files for everyone instead of spending the first week just showing people how to actually write and compile hello world using cmake. I remember my major hurdle when leaving that course was that I knew how to write basic C++, I just had no idea how to compile and link it when I could no longer use the makefile that we were explicitly told to never touch...

it would seem crazy to sacrifice it if it wasn't damaged

To be fair, the best kit you'll ever get is the right kit at the right time. If what you need is a tandem warhead that can track, hit and destroy pretty much any vehicle, or punch through a bunker, at anything from a couple hundred meters to a couple kilometres, and you have a Javelin... you're in luck! On the other hand, if what you need is a tandem warhead to destroy a static armoured target that you can't get line-of-sight to, and you have a Javelin... You're carrying a very expensive but useless rocket and tracking system that just happens to also contain the exact warhead you need.

Once a piece of equipment like a Javelin is in the field, it's only real value is in whether it can help you achieve your objective. Its dollar value seizes to be of relevance. The only relevant questions are "Do I have a large enough supply of this munition to prioritise using it for that target?" and "Do I have another munition that I can and should use instead?" If the answer is "yes" to the first and "no" to the second, you use the munition in whatever way is most practical.

Wow! I think this is the first video I've seen of active clearing of dragons teeth, and clearing of mines using line charges. This even has the follow up of lighter vehicles following through the breach! Do you have more footage like this and/or a geolocation?

What makes me feel most sick when something like this happens is the thought of how it must feel to be one of the family members on scene watching that happen. I can't imagine how it would feel to watch powerlessly while someone you love is slowly murdered. I honestly can't see myself doing anything other than at some point throwing myself at the officers and likely getting myself killed in the process... just thinking about how it would feel to be pleading with someone to stop squeezing the life out of a loved one like that just makes me sick.

I'm not quite sure what assumptions you're talking about, but I do want to hear what you have to say.

What you're answering to is about opposing external hostile forces, that wasn't what I was talking about. I'm talking about internal criminal environments that are dispersed in the population and make a living off anything from fabricating documents or scamming people to trafficking or smuggling. Just like modern organised criminal environments, these are not groups you can "wage war" against.

My question is related to how these will be dealt with if not by involuntary imprisonment/re-education/some other involuntary and enforced way of preventing them from exploiting society?