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      Ukraine: Look at me, I’m doing the special military operation now

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    Ukrainians used drones and a complex planned out attack to destroy russia’s military equipment…russia just used a pencil instead!

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      Well you have to understand, Soviet Russia beat the US in the Space Race by sending cosmonauts with pencils. The Americans spent tens of millions of dollars developing a pen that works in space. They are wasteful. It’s not like pencils create any graphite dust that could potentially clog the air filters on MIR.

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        It would also be crazy if instead of spending millions on R&D, they just bought the pens from a company at MSRP…

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          Normal pens need gravity to work. IIRC NASA did actually buy the pens at MSRP, and the guy that invented the pens wasnt at all involved in the space program. He was solving a different issue, whos solution happened to work for NASA

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            “the guy” who invented the space pens is a whole entire company that makes many things and is staffed by many people.

            The “space pens” are just their normal pens but with pressurized ink cartridges and special ink (and the development was paid in full by Fisher) but they were bought at MSRP by NASA. And because everything NASA does is public domain, you can actually see the original PO for the pens! They spent $2.25/pen in November 1967 which would be worth about $28 today.

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    I swear to god. I was scrolling and read this and actually thought it was serious at first. Had a good laugh afterward, so thank you.

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    Wild picture, that reminds me, did you know that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through a Torpolev Tu-95?

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    Already anticipated by the Ukrainians as they wheel out their newest anti-plane drones.

    Fitted with a bouncy ball on the ventral side of the drone to allow for “skipping” into place under the plane prior to upward thrusting.

    Sometimes the charge goes off immediately, sometimes it takes a little floorplay to prime. Preliminary testing has resulted in 9/10 devastated planes and 1/10 hybrid plane/drone offspring with a nuclear family.

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      Vintage Story allows you to skip stones off of water, because they decided to model that. I wonder what the modeling code of a drone skipping across a battlefield looks like.

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    The amazing thing about this to me is these were aircraft worth hundreds of millions of dollars each, parked out in the elements.

    Even without the threat of enemy action, surely that would cause maintenance issues?

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      The budget for reinforced hangars is floating in the form of giant yachts around the world

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      The US basically stores hundreds of B-52 airframes out in the elements. Admittedly the worst those airframes see is the occasional haboob, aka sandstorm, or some torrential rain, but that’s only a few days a year.

      Of course that is the boneyards in NM and AZ. The operational ones are kept in hangers at Air Force bases in the middle of the Continental US. I don’t know if those are climate controlled, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were.

      Oh, right. The B-52 is the plane that the USSR was copying when they made the bombers that were just blown up.

      Also storing them in a hanger wouldn’t matter to most of these drones since more often than not the hanger doors are left open, and even when closed they are typically made of sheet metal. So the Ukrainians would have just blown a hole in the sheet metal before driving the next drone into the bomber.

      This operation was some serious Tom Clancy style sci-fi military intelligence porn come to life.

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      You could just store them in tarp tents or something. Also, build a bunch of fake tents around, now you doubled or tripled the amount of targets the Ukrainians have to hit.

      But Russians don’t think that way. Maybe, they don’t think at all?

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        The Ukrainians have satellite photos and live drone coverage. They have proven their abilities to penetrate both camouflage and Russian cope cages.

        Meanwhile the Russians can’t manage to produce their own microprocessors, electronics, or even basic fabrics. What makes you think they are spending their limited rubles on tarps?

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          I’m not sure that they can’t make basic fabrics. Tarps aren’t that expensive and they can make them themselves? They could also use things like bedsheets?

          If they had a lot of plane-shaped piles of fabric along the runway, it might be difficult to tell which ones hide an airplane beneath, especially if you moved them around every day during the night.

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      Hangar space is incredibly expensive in the bulk quantity and size needed for a large air force with some of the largest planes on the planet.

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        Yeah, but compared to the capital cost of the aircraft, is it really that expensive?

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          As far as I know Russia was moving planes around to maybe prepare a bigger operation. Since they can’t build hangars for all planes everywhere they parked them outside. And planes are made to withstand the elements so it’s not so bad for them to stand outside for a while. If the conditions were too bad for long time storage you could just fly the plane somewhere else aswell.

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    Where is fluffy spicy feeler tank – version

    I swear they are verifying results of failed ML models for Grok using a Code Bullet failed intern

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    The only thing that makes me even a bit sad is that much like the Anotov AN-225 Mriya, these Russian versions of the US BUFF can’t be replaced.

    I don’t approve of what they have been used for, and don’t approve of their use at all. Much like I don’t approve of the US using their B-52s, aka Big Ugly Fat Fucker, aka BUFF.

    I hope Ukraine manages to force a Russian surrender before all of the examples of halfway decent Soviet engineering are destroyed. We need to keep some of them, if only as examples of what NOT TO DO.

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    I think they are trying to protect against those spicy explody drones that keep landing on their cool toys.