An ounce of high explosive won’t take down a plane. Even at cruising altitude.

The problem with useful idiots is that they are still idiots.

Apparently, the solution to this is retrorockets -

Once clear of the plane a single large main chute opens. The deployment of the main chute triggers the deployment of four long rods which hang beneath the pallet. As soon as the rods touch the ground fires, slowing the BMD to a descending speed between 6 m/s and 7 m/s and giving it a relatively soft landing. This system entered service in 1975 and allows a BMD to be relatively safely parachuted with both the driver and the gunner.

Fuck off right off with that briefcase shit, the only non-cringe nuke is the Davy Crockett. Russia’s got fuck all to say to the atomic recoilless rifle of freedom.

This comment managed to age poorly really fast.

Shorts and crocs. All he needed was a cigarette in his mouth while he did it.

Yo, the mods here are all big jerks

Say what you will about the guy, he’s got more experience shooting down civilian jets than almost anyone.

he was on a plane that crashed in Russia today, possibly because it collided with a a2a missile.

Air defense was also active around Moscow, where it allegedly shot down a plane full of mercenaries.

Hahaha.

Also, per the BBC’s reporting:

Earlier, a Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported that the jet was shot down by air defences in Tver region, north of Moscow.

Surprisingly not surprising.

I like that they didn’t even try to translate boy kisser into Russian

Ok, but that caption is completely wrong about what, “the dictatorship of the proletariat,” means.

I like that they had to bring Ukraine into it for no apparent reason.

Good point, a nuclear holocaust can only improve the economy of Russia.

Pringlecan’s head really does look a big ol’ testicle

Probably because adapting a boat is easier and cheaper.

FWIW, this isn’t the first mention I’ve heard of Ukraine using S-200s for ground targets. See here. It’s certainly plausible.

I wonder what that building is.

Everyone who uses Chrome (or Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, or anything else that uses Chromium as a base) - you’re helping google extend their power over the open web, and those helping them do this.

It’s a small thing, but Google’s power over the web derives from each of the the millions of people who continue to make Chrome the standard that webdevs cater to.

If those accounts aren’t doing anything detectable (spamming, etc), what’s the problem with their existence?

Hitting a pasture and landing in cow shit would account for “non-human biologics.” I’m incredibly skeptical.