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  • russians were trying to pass north koreans as buryats (both are east asians, but buryats are usually russian citizens). they are getting one interpreter per 30, maybe they won't go straight to frontline, maybe they'll be doing earthwork or whatever

  • nowadays you can't just eldest son enemy's coal because most coal fired generation grinds coal as a first step (necessary in fluidized bed furnaces) and ships just run on oil instead

  • there was also older effort of making cast iron bombs that looked like lumps of coal. these had no initiator and instead were supposed to detonate in furnace from heat. it was developed during american civil war by confederates and was mostly useless due to intel leak. it was also used in ww2 and as late as vietnam war with little success

  • in this case, it seems that the target was supposed to be towed decoy, but somehow missile locked on plane instead

  • polish armed forces not beating allegations of competence

    they also managed to burn down a leopard, during training. no, they weren't shot at

    what happened was that gunner loaded a main gun shell, but wasn't supposed to. so he tried to extract it, but it broke, and because there was already some shooting that day, propellant fell on bucket of hot stubs, igniting immediately. it was decided that it was fault of ammo that was not up to spec. (2015)

    they also managed to burn down a 2S1 at the same training ground two years before

  • i have no idea what they were cooking but it's not coolant, unless temperature there never drops below 0C

  • mildly concentrated sodium hydroxide solutions would corrode the living fuck out of aluminum pretty quickly (https://www.calpaclab.com/aluminum-chemical-compatibility-chart/), especially when hot and circulating, so no

    could have been a kind of additive maybe? but then it won't be a lot of it. borax forms a gel or at least high viscosity solution when mixed with glycols so both can't be used at the same time as a coolant

    Dye might be fluorescein, it fluoresces under UV (duh) could be useful in checking what's this thing

  • that means that hungarians have delivered weapons of mass destruction (100 pack of Madyar's antennas)

  • some COTS drones have had grenade release mechanism wired to auxiliary light output

  • Putin has continued to invoke Nuclear Orthodoxy on various occasions, such as a 2018 claim that Russians would "go to heaven as martyrs" and foreigners would "simply drop dead."

  • probably has a clause in terms and conditions that you agree to sell your soul to nestle

  • the chart is in GW, not GWh. energy would be more useful there, because these are entirely uncomparable things. NPPs work best at constant high power, batteries can run out in what, 2h at peak power, which might be what they have shown there

  • thank brexiters for that, it's illegal in eu

  • dropped into titanium tetrachloride? Not much else fumes this badly

  • I think this could be benzoyl-something, and hexane was a crystallization solvent

  • nvidia executive called saltman a podcasting bro

  • That aint it chief. Judging by context and looks that flask is being cleaned with something that i wouldn't use

  • yuo see, it's asymmetric warfare

    alternatively

    if we don't know where we'll be shooting at, then neither will enemy

    i've seen one russian tank ramming its barrel into a tree head on. this probably doesn't matter because it'd be destroyed by now anyway

  • update 2: there were 50.45% votes for EU integration after counting 99,7% votes