• Awoo [she/her]
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    601 month ago

    “The changes posed by drones are so fast that concepts we implemented just a month ago no longer work now,” said an infantry battalion commander, whose call sign is “Cuba”, with the 13th Khartiia brigade.

    Khartiia is one of two fascist corps btw, it’s not a brigade. The National Guard of Ukraine was recently reorganised into two 15,000 member Corps. One is Azov Corps (azov brigade no longer exists and is now a much larger fascist-led corps) and the other is Khartiia, also fascist-led.

    Here is a picture of a Khartiia ceremony.

    This interview is conducted with fascists.

    • Horse {they/them}
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      The National Guard of Ukraine was recently reorganised into two 15,000 member Corps

      that’s about division size, unless ukraine uses smaller size for corps
      2 fash divisions making up the national guard corps

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        Ahh yes i stand corrected, either way not a brigade anymore. 2*15,000 fascists running are the entire national guard and they perform the same role the SS performed, they are not frontline deployed.

    • Sleepless One
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      141 month ago

      What is that ominous symbol on their flags? I can only assume it’s something fashy like the wolfsangle, but I don’t recognize it.

    • T34_69 [none/use name]
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      41 month ago

      Lol they look like the bad guys in x-com 2, wouldn’t be surprised if they’re a bunch of giant snakes under those human skins

    • @merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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      31 month ago

      Just like clockwork, the fascists took the opportunity of the crisis to place themselves closer to power. Expect these two factions to make light work of any post-war government

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        21 month ago

        I’m quite sure that they’re a major component of the problem for bringing an end to the war. How do you form a post-war government when there’s a 30,000 strong national guard of fascists that will coup it immediately?

        The only way to bring peace to Ukraine is to eliminate the organisations of nazis. This guard will need to be disbanded as part of the peace agreements and then any insurgency they hold will need to be fought to destruction.

        • @merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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          11 month ago

          absolutely. If Russia’s “denazification” rhetoric were to be believed (which we shouldn’t believe at face value) then this should be a shared goal between Zelensky and Putin. Especially if the former wants to survive the war with his head.

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            I don’t believe that zelensky hasn’t joined those circles as a result of the war tbh, maybe he’s not authentically fascist but he could certainly have joined them opportunistically or simply because it’s so normalised in Ukraine.

            That time he said he wanted Ukraine to be Big Israel was an eye opener for me that he’s worse than people realise.

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              21 month ago

              Yeah there’s either a part of him giving into the fascist elements out of terror that they may punish him after the fact, or because the typical opportunist liberalism kicked in and he’s convinced that he can tame the Nazis

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                11 month ago

                Or just the usual liberalism conforming to the dominant culture in society. A liberal could very easily rationalise ultranationalism as a necessary feature of the patriotic defence of the country.

                Someone here once wrote this passage on absorbomorphs and it always stuck with me:

                Liberals entire thing is “uphold the status quo”. This is the position of pretty much every single politically illiterate liberal who really doesn’t understand what any ideology actually is. They change their shape in order to fit themselves into whatever the existing social paradigm is.

                This is why LGBT people got absolutely nowhere with liberals until they literally bullied them with riots and pride parades saying a big visible fuck you to everyone that ever tried to make them invisible. They could not be asked to change they had to be bullied and forced. Once the social paradigm is changed they then accept it.

                This is why anger and cancelling on twitter became a thing. It bullied liberals into new social paradigms.

                This is why it works for dirtbag leftists.

                And this is why they picked up guns and shot at whoever the nazis told them to shoot at. Not because they were true believers. But because mussolini or hitler and every other fascist simply bullies them into a new social paradigm… and once the paradigm is changed they accept it.

                Liberals are absorbomorphs. Their ideology is absorbomorphism.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    Love the propaganda around Russia. In one source they’re saying the Russian army is direly undermechanized and using wheelbarrows and horses for miles for logistics and the Russian army will soon collapse, and the other source says there’s hyper deadly drone swarms and the end is nigh

    I’m just like ok look at the map seems Russia has the most territory so… 🤷‍♀️

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    It’s nuts that they fly while attached to a 10 km long fiber optic cable. Corded drones! 🤣

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      231 month ago

      Fuck offfff there’s no way they’re doing fly by wire at that range surely?

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        cable that can extend 10-20kms

        I wonder how strong it is, and what kind of waste is left on the terrain. Do they retract the cords after the explosion, to avoid giving away their position?

        • carpoftruth [any, any]M
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          301 month ago

          No, the fiber wire stays out afterwards. It leaves a huge mess. There are photos of busy fields and hedge rows on telegram with a spider web of wire everywhere

            • Mindfury [he/him]
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              141 month ago

              complaining and getting moved to a different division because their drones have 165hz monitors and you’re only getting 30fps on an android tablet

          • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any]
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            If the spool has the ability to spit out wire fast enough (faster than the drones top speed) with minimal latency (the spool can accelerate faster than the drone) it shouldn’t be an issue with getting caught on static objects. The main concern would be getting the wire caught on moving objects, like cyclists/motorbikes, cars, tanks, etc. Then you could end up with scenarios where the wire can’t be spooled out fast enough due to the movement of the object the wire is caught on. Apparently when Ukraine tested out this concept, they had big issues with that.

            • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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              161 month ago

              From what I understand of Russian telegrams that discuss this, fiber optic drones are most effectively used when you control the high ground (as with artillery). If you launch from the highest position in the surrounding 20km radius then you can hit wherever you want without the fiber optic cables touching anything outside of power lines and trees. If you use it in an urban area it’s very different tactics.