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Ukrainian frontline units trade drone kills for more drones
This is wild, they're gamifying combat effectiveness. It's also an interesting way of streamlining logistics to fast track more drones to the more effective units and pull back on units that use them less. This does come at the cost of more work in the background for someone to verify the results before the points are credited to the unit. Overall it seems more efficient!
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[Combat] The scale of Russian meat assaults.
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Something to keep in mind is that these people chose to fight for one reason or another. They made a conscious choice to join a war of aggression and imperialism for money, patriotism, desire to fight, etc. There aren't any innocents at this point that don't know what's happening or why the war is going on, they can't claim ignorance or that they didn't want to be there. They know fully well what's going on and chose to sign up anyway. These are not people like you or me because people like you or me wouldn't join a fight to subjugate and destroy another country for money. Feeling bad for human suffering makes you a good person, but just remember at the end of the day their goal is to conquer all of Ukraine and destroy its people through violence.
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[Combat] The scale of Russian meat assaults.
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Currently, no there are very few conscripts in Ukraine. Most of the conscripts are used to defend border regions like Belgorod. What often happens is that conscripts will be given the option to sign a service contract after their conscription call up ends. If Moscow implemented a broad conscription effort to send troops to Ukraine it would be incredibly unpopular but as it stands now that's a possibility in the future because some articles I've read indicate that there's fewer people willing to sign contracts even with the rising amount Moscow is willing to pay.
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Would a VTOL design like this actually work?
The major issues I could see with this design are:
