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How well is the war this going for Russia?

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blyatskrieg

    Votes: 249 10.6%

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I ain't afraid of no Ghost of Kiev

    Votes: 278 11.8%

  • ⭐⭐⭐ Competent attack with some upsets

    Votes: 796 33.7%

  • ⭐⭐ Stalemate

    Votes: 659 27.9%

  • ⭐ Ukraine takes back Crimea 2022

    Votes: 378 16.0%
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UVB-76 said:
Fun fact, the Western universities are under pressure to not fail Chinese students because of the income they bring.
Do you want to sail in a ship designed by engineers who got their degree through the No Chink Left Behind progam?
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This legitimately pisses me off. The amount of times I've had to do the work of other people plus my own share for a group project, complain and get told "they'll definitely be repeating", only to see them in the subsequent year is infuriating. Not just Chinese either, a lot of them are Indian.
 
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UVB-76 said:
Fun fact, the Western universities are under pressure to not fail Chinese students because of the income they bring.
Do you want to sail in a ship designed by engineers who got their degree through the No Chink Left Behind progam?
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Definitely not, I would much prefer to sail in a ship designed by engineers who got their degree because they are female or black :)
 
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Peter Piper said:
I think the commanding officer will have a bad time anyhow, likely scenarios are:

- Ivan and Oleg having a cigarette after a romantic tryst in the armory (irresponsibility)
- Famously sloppy Russian ammo handling (retardation)
- Missile defense crew jackin' it to tranny porn while ignoring the beeping sounds (complacency and incompetence)
- Weird accident (commander still getting blamed lol)
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Munitions are very fickle and need proper storage/handling, as well as monitoring, or they can cook off on their own, like when the humidity changes. They're at sea, and there's a lot of salt in the air and if sheathes disintegrate/break open then its merely a matter of time. Having a drunk gopnik of a sailor in charge just ramps up the odds of an accident.
 
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Sexual Chocolate said:
Definitely not, I would much prefer to sail in a ship designed by engineers who got their degree because they are female or black :)
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Please note that I went to engineering college and worked in industry. I've met one black and about a dozen female engineers. There's not many of them regardless of how much affirmative action is tried.
The women also aren't BAD at their jobs and were actually very good at college, they'd just rather be doing anything else. They're here to prove something and rarely last. Women always end up managing or sticking around the university system because they hate actually engineering.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
Munitions are very fickle and need proper storage/handling, as well as monitoring, or they can cook off on their own, like when the humidity changes. They're at sea, and there's a lot of salt in the air and if sheathes disintegrate/break open then its merely a matter of time. Having a drunk gopnik of a sailor in charge just ramps up the odds of an accident.
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The other considerations are NEW (net explosive weight), propagation distance, and compatibility. Some explosives aren't allowed to be near each other due to unforseen reactivity between different explosives and all explosive operations are to keep NEW to a minimum to keep propagation distance low.

Obviously this is more complicated aboard a ship, as the magazine can only be so big, thus making the above considerations difficult to maintain. Typically this shouldn't be an issue unless the magazine suffers a direct hit or the munitions are kept in the most negligent manner possible.
Unless, of course, your navy is staffed with overwhelmed and undertrained junior officers commanding around useless conscripts. All it takes is one drunken ordinance sailor dropping some ancient Soviet era fuze for the whole magazine to go ka-boom.
 
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