Putin in Russia (II): Spicy Island Liberation Front

**Athas** · 2022-08-15 15:42

Are these high precision weapons Russia keeps boasting up either really shitty or are they deliberately targeting random fields and shopping malls and hotels?

**Andalusian girls** · 2022-08-15 17:03

pourquoi pas les deux

**Zealot** · 2022-08-15 17:31

Hey, if Russia says they've made a good rifle... they've probably got a good fucking rifle.

**Tymon** · 2022-08-15 20:38

Originally Posted by Zealot

Hey, if Russia says they've made a good rifle... they've probably got a good fucking rifle.

Funny you say that. I don't have a source, but apparently the conservative gun nut group was eagerly awaiting the supposed "new AK47" Russia was producing. Turns out it's completely shit and among the worst Russian guns ever. They're in shambles right now.

**Andalusian girls** · 2022-08-15 20:49

Russian/Soviet military tech has been uniformly inferior for the better part of a century now. overpromise everything, underdeliver every time

**Yuri-G** · 2022-08-15 23:08

which is bizarre considering how much detail and research went into the guns in Tarkov

**Cail** · 2022-08-16 06:50

https://twitter.com/ikhurshudyan/sta...pdZy_n4FuDcbzA

**archibaldcrane** · 2022-08-16 08:46

It's wild that it's genuinely not understood how the Ukrainians are hitting targets this deep into occupied territory, beyond the "known" range of HIMARS.

**Anoat** · 2022-08-16 09:17

Is it wild though? I mean they are definitely getting weapons from the US and/or other NATO allies

**archibaldcrane** · 2022-08-16 09:20

Most of those weapons transfers were pretty public, if longer-range HIMARS rockets or some other weapon system is being deployed here it seems like nobody knows what it is.

**archibaldcrane** · 2022-08-16 09:24

(my guess is they are using regular HIMARS and simply firing them further than the "listed range".) The Ukrainians have not shied away from just trying stuff, whether it's grenades on civilian drones or anti-tank missiles shooting down helicopters.

**Xno Kappa** · 2022-08-16 10:01

Another fun theory is it being disgruntled Russian soldiers sabotaging their own equipment so they can be sent home. Ukraine definitely benefits from leaving how all this is being done ambiguous lol.

**6souls** · 2022-08-16 10:37

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-...ost_type=share

Russia’s security agency has accused Ukrainian “saboteurs” of destroying six electricity pylons in the country’s western Kursk Region in recent days, impacting operations at a nearby power plant.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) said the pylons had been blown up in Kursk's Kurchatovsky District on 4, 9 and 12 August.

It said the incident had led to a “violation in the technological process of functioning” of the Kursk nuclear power plant - but gave no further details.

The accusation comes on the same day Russian officials alleged an "act of sabotage" had led to explosions at a military base on occupied Crimea.

**Lucavi** · 2022-08-16 16:39

To quote from Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3:

"The enemy is penetrating deep within the Motherland's tender nether-regions!"

**NotGreyheim** · 2022-08-16 17:13

Originally Posted by Xno Kappa

Another fun theory is it being disgruntled Russian soldiers sabotaging their own equipment so they can be sent home. Ukraine definitely benefits from leaving how all this is being done ambiguous lol.

This. Everyone is wondering what kind of sorcery Ukraine is pulling off when (imho) this was just as likely the result of Russian incompetence/negligence.