An angle that I didn't consider at the time of my post was China.
They could use this as an opportunity to look good on the world stage by sending some ships over to escort the shipments.
Russia wouldn't dare attack them, China looks good and protects their self interests and their navy get some invaluable and greatly needed experience on long distance missions.
You may be surprised given that they don't seem to be doing much, but yep. And it's fairly sizable: https://www.kchf.ru/eng/ship/today.htm
710 personel is a pretty big number. Must have been a big day.
Could be a while yet, in honesty.
None of the current major parties (and that's inclusive of Lib Dems) are totally commited to saying that they'll definitely and decisively go through the motions of rejoining. At least not that I'm aware of.
None have to confidence that it'll get them more votes than lost. Which is fucking frustrating. Especially since Labour seem to very quickly becoming much of a Tory mirror of late.
There is really little between them.
Seems that there are still ferocious and brave Chechnyans still around. They're just not the treacherous ones who jumped into bed with the Russians.
That said, however. That hasn't stopped me getting totally out played by snipers with long-range scopes equipped.
Either because I didn't think they saw me, or even they were just way better.
Re-reading the comments I realised I came across quite preachy and I fundamentally think that people should be allowed to play the way they enjoy (except main campers, they can go in the bin). So do whatever you're good at or find enjoyable.
Personally, as an example, I like to only play the weapons of the team I'm playing, even if it means I do badly.
I bet there's some generals who are now starting to wish they'd put their colours in with Prigozhin instead of either turning the other cheek.
Long range scopes have the glint. Unless you're looking to go for the extreme long range sniping battles then all it does is show everyone exactly where you are.
Most of the sniping I do I tend to go for around 200 - 500m shots using murderholes and tight angles where people won't expect. A big beacon showing everyone where I am isn't going to get me far and asking for a counter sniper to ruin my plan.
Close to 13 years, if not just over. Started as a lurker. Then saw something that I felt that I really needed to share my thoughts on. Of course it was just a mumble in a crowd, but it obviously meant enough to me to go through the effort of making an account.
I can't even remember what it was.
Over 100k karma and 3000 comments.
Reddit was by no means small in 2010, I don't claim to be a pioneer, but it was a different feeling place. Even back then RES was a must for desktop browsing. And 3rd party apps were the only option for mobile browsing. BaconReader was my choice. I think it was actually the first app I ever paid for.
Over time I tried different apps that were being developed and tried to bring a new thing to the table, such as card view (couldn't ever get away with that) or recently the ability to see deleted/removed comments (until Reddit started blocking certain API stuff that allowed that). Rather poetically found myself back on Baconreader just in time for the shutdown.
I don't think Lemmy necessarily feels the same as Reddit back then, but I wonder if that is more due to me changing and the communities that I follow, but it is scratching the itch of something to browse and occupy my mind, discover new information and feel like I'm among similar people when I'm procrastinating, shitting or something else.
Supposedly these things are able to target and hit HIMARs missiles, so a Mavic sized drone shouldn't be a problem for it.
What Russia say and what Russia do are very different, however.
Yes! It's an old friend's birthday, so going to make the pilgrimage down to visit.
With Covid and the birth of my daughter we've not been able to see each other much over the last few years, but I was determined this year. Not least because I'm desperate to get away briefly. Love a good road trip.
It's a limit to warship size/quantity, not a blanket ban on warships unless Türkiye close the Strait; which they haven't yet.
For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Black_Sea_incident Which involved a Dutch and British navy destroyer.
China may not have many blue water vessels, but they do have them, including carriers. While the carriers can't transit the strait (unless they call them cruisers, which the could since one is an ex Kirov class and the other is direct copy), they have enough vessels that support them in frigates, destroyers and such. All they need is one.