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Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022): Thread 1 - Ukrainian Liars vs Russian Liars with Air and Artillery Superiority
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Nuclear plants don't 'blow up.' Usually the issue is a meltdown that causes radioactive material to escape the sealed core. The danger and its extent would be determined by how much damage the reactor core had sustained as well as how much the damage opens up the core to the outside world.
There's relatively little damage in this case. The reactor probably isn't going to melt down and most reactors are designed to take a lot of damage before they become structurally compromised. But if both things did happen, and we're talking about a bomb blast landing inside an active reactor core - Europe wouldn't be inhabitable for a generation.
Highly unlikely scenario though. The Russians would have to commit to flattening the plant which they're obviously not going to do.
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Lol Ukraine apparently has really low-resolution trees.
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I don't know what it is about games from the very late 90s and early 2000s, but they have a certain charm to it.
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Well, I'm an idiot when it comes to warfare. So my question is why then we still have infantry? If it's so useless as you say, sure spending all those money on soldiers and their gear is dumb.If anything man-portable could have shifted the outcome, it would have been Stingers, and lots of them.
What a lot of people don't realize is that most man-portable weapons are shit in general, and in modern warfare, rifle fire, on average, takes thousands of bullets of misses and suppressing fire before it kills one single person.
GAO: U.S. Has Fired 250,000 Rounds For Every Insurgent Killed
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The most effective weapons of modern warfare are GPS-guided bombs, missiles, and artillery shells. Most firefights in the Sandbox consisted of US troops shooting literally thousands of bullets at dirt and sand before hooting and hollering "YEAH, GET SOME" as an F-16 screams overhead and drops a JDAM on whatever makeshift fortification insurgents were firing from. It's not like COD at all. Even ARMA fails to capture how utterly bullshit modern warfare is, with most enemy infantry conveniently standing silhouetted against hilltops or out in clearings and not hiding in ditches, behind low walls, or window sills like they would in real life. You cannot see shit. The only warning you have that a firefight has begun is the supersonic crack of a rifle bullet passing overhead, causing you to reflexively flatten yourself against the ground. This is immediately followed by a dozen men emptying their entire thirty-round mags in the direction where they thought the fire came from. That's 360 rounds right there that just hit precisely dick.
Rifles don't do shit. Missiles, shells, mines, bombs, and grenades do all the real work.
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You have basically a perfect example of *worst case* scenario in Chernobyl, so adjust accordingly.
And if you're not right up the border of Russia, you can wave to the missiles as they go to destroy the US.
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To hold ground. And make sure other infantry with shit like javelins don't get close to the real killers. Also it's pretty hard to clear a house in a tank.
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And that's why peace talks don't do anything. Zelensky is a middle manager who doesn't have the power to lift sanctions. He can only tell Russia, "Sorry, but sanctions came from the US. You'll have to talk to them" when they ask him "Get us our SWIFT bank accounts reactivated." He ain't got no carrot and his stick is of dubious quality overall given int'l support is more virtue signaling than anything else. Russia realizes that if they do withdraw, there's a good chance they'll get invaded themselves. Russian generals aren't happy with Putin, but they have no idea if assassinating him doesn't cause bigger problems in the future.
I pity Zelensky. His entire country is being used as a chess knight to Zugswang Russia.
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Tbf Russia has always been obsessed with Ukraine.
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Interesting that they are not using BVR missiles here. Old school Nam dogfighting with heat-seekers. Surprised they weren't using guns.
Nuke plants don't blow up like bombs. Chernobyl was a steam explosion. Fukushima was a hydrogen explosion. Neither of these are likely to happen. They will just turn them off. Pumps will cycle for a day to remove decay heat. After a couple hours the heat load will be removed enough to enter cold shut down passively.
People are hysterical morons when it comes to nuclear plants.
How does one light Uranium Oxide on fire?
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It's fake and gay. Video game footage.
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Wrong. It's The Pixels of Kiev.
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That poor, innocent interior decorator.
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Never thought I would see rhe day Trudeau looks manly.
The core would melt all the way to the Earth's crust and trigger a world wide volcanic eruption with radiation spewing everywhere. Trust me, I'm an expert.
Is anyone shocked a people fucked over by NATO support a war against NATO expansion? Here's to the Serbs starting shit and the US pussyfooting around it, though since Serbia isn't a nuclear power they'd just get bombed to shit again and maybe get another chunk of land with minorities in it taken away.
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These two are nowhere near Aryan enough for the Lebensraum.
IIRC, you need a sufficient level of enrichment to actually achieve the necessary chain reaction for a nuclear explosion, which fuel rods do not have.
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