that’s like the Time Cube of diagrams, holy fuck

Well, they could do better.

They literally couldn’t

Oh yeah I was specifically talking about all these new technologies, not just incremental improvements on the existing ones. Hybrid organic cells have been promised for a long time and it’s not just a question of scaling etc., but that they have had serious issues that have so far meant that they were a complete non-starter for any actual real-world use. I didn’t look into this any further so I don’t know of Longi solved the stability problem, though, so it may be that they’re finally actually ready to even start leaving the lab

Yeah, all these super-efficient panels are all well and good but like you said they’ve been promised for over a decade and have yet to leave the lab due to a bunch of different problems such as stability for these organic hybrids. I wonder if these newest ones have actually managed to solve the stability problem, or is this yet another cell revolution that’ll be coming Real Soon Now™ in 2034

It’s not like literally all Russian artillery gets destroyed before firing off a single shot. Fuzing absolutely does make a difference

Not all that cute though

Yeah, there’s a reason why they suddenly have a lot of trouble selling their military hardware even to countries that haven’t sanctioned them.

Well, other reasons in addition to the fact that the stuff they’re fielding themselves in Ukraine keeps getting blown the fuck up and they have had to replace it with something that was initially being built for an outside customer. “Yeah you remember those tanks you ordered? Weeelll you’re not going to be getting them quite on schedule, there’s been some… uh… complications. The turrets… they, uh… experienced rapid unplanned disassembly caused by… uh… assembly workers smoking in the crew compartment. Definitely not caused by inferior westoid antitank missiles in Ukraine, our cope cages work against those 100% of the time and it’s not like we’d use your tanks in combat, no siree Bob”

It’s not “Brussels” pushing for this, it’s braindead MEPs who were lobbied by various shady organizations

Reportedly the Russian factory workers are being paid quite well.

Paid well for Russian factory workers

And the lack of quality is just a myth I think. There’s no indication that’s actually true.

Then you haven’t been paying attention.

Yeah. Government-owned companies producing shells that probably wouldn’t pass QC in “the west”, and paying employees a pittance in comparison. Also at least based on aerial photos, Russians seem to use contact fuzes a lot (you can see the difference from the “splash” patterns) which are a lot cheaper than airburst / multifunction fuzes, but admittedly those might well have been old Soviet stock and their new production could well be more modern.

Still, regardless of the fuze used it’s no surprise that Russian production is cheaper.

Or a FAT meme you’re too young to understand? I honestly can’t remember if NTFS needs defragging or not, I haven’t used Windows since Win7

Hmm, good point. Maybe use Russian PoWs to scrape off the pitch afterwards?

I think hot pitch is vastly underapprectiated in modern warfare; we could maybe just pour a cauldronful of it over Crimea

It’s almost like the rules don’t apply to the moneyed class

Considering that C-suite executives are usually fantastically expensive, they’d be a logical position to automate (assuming AI worked like suits think it does). For some veeeery strange reason no board of directors has suggested replacing themselves with AIs

Exactly so. Even though visibility from MT-LBs isn’t great, the problem isn’t so much lack of visibility but Russians being Russians

I don’t know what the visibility from an MT-LB is exactly but chances are it won’t be as good as an Abrams, and even if it was it’d still mean that someone lying prone right next to the tracks most likely wouldn’t be visible

Honestly they probably didn’t see him. Visibility from even modern non-shit APCs isn’t great, and they’re noisy bastards – especially the Soviet shitboxes like MT-LBs

They ran him over.

Average Russian moment