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[redwallzyl]

well shit.

[Starver]

The USA will one day obey the International Cricket Council

They'll have to take my baseball bat from my cold, dead hands!

[martinuzz]

Three police officers and a civilian were killed and 7 people seriously injured by a terrorist attack in Almaty, the largest city of Kazachstan.
Russian media reports a man dressed in black opened fire at the police with a machinegun.
A police source in Kazachstan says that "a religious extremist, probably not a follower of traditional islam" walked through town, shooting around.
Another shooter killed a civilian, stole a car and is on the run.

Almaty authorities have declared that the city is under terrorist attack and have asked citizens to stay indoors.

WARNING, GRAPHIC.    https://www.rt.com/news/351790-shooting-almaty-police-kazakhstan/

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Now we know how Russia "won" Winter Olympics 2014

 

[Loud Whispers]

The integrity of the Olympics received one of the most devastating blows in its history on Monday after a state-sponsored doping regime was shown to have effectively sabotaged the Sochi 2014 Winter Games and left Russia’s place at Rio 2016 hanging by a thread.

Tbh they'd be saving Russian Olympians from dying in Rio

WADA have just released a full statement following the publication of the McLaren report, after Ben Nichols, the Lead Spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Agency, earlier declared that "there can no longer be presumption of innocence".

WADA pls, that's not how this works

The Executive Committee also notes with great disappointment that, today’s Report reveals that, despite all public undertakings that were claimed by the Russian Government, they were so confident in the inability of outsiders to detect what was going on, that they operated in the same manner during the time that WADA’s 2015 Independent Commission (IC)  was carrying out its investigation. This conduct shows a total disregard for the international community; and, reinforces the urgent need for true and demonstrable commitment by the Russian authorities for a change of culture.

Hahahahaha, the madmen! The absolute madmen! Arrogance is the downfall of man

[Sergarr]

Unknown drone breaches Israel airspace, gets shot with two Patriot missiles and one air-to-air missile from a fighter jet, escapes unscathed to Syria.

git good scrubs

[martinuzz]

Anti air weaponry needs to downsize

Inb4 Israel invades and colonizes Syria for it's own protection.. Mosulehem and Tel-Raqqa, it doesn't even sound that odd.

Expensive misses, 2 patriots. I think each shot costs half a million euros.

[Loud Whispers]

Who named them patriot missiles? They made in the USA?

[Sheb]

Yup.

At this point, if I was Hizbullah, I'd buy a ton of cheap drone and try to bankrupt Israel.

[Loud Whispers]

Well, that's a pleasant... What's the opposite of surprise, confirmation?

[martinuzz]

It's NATO's primary anti air weapon.  There's still quite a few NATO Patriots stationed in Turkey too. (And US nukes   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing)

[Sheb]

Martinuzz, you were wrong too. Each Patriot PAC-3 costs 3+ millions dollars. That drone ended up costing up to 8 millions to Israel (and one of the Patriot injured a girl).

Why doesn't Hizbullah by a fleet of trolldrone?

[Sergarr]

Martinuzz, you were wrong too. Each Patriot PAC-3 costs 3+ millions dollars. That drone ended up costing up to 8 millions to Israel (and one of the Patriot injured a girl).

Don't forget that it also escaped without any apparent damage or loss of functionality. So the cost can potentially be even higher, depending on whenever it decides to go back and troll Israel air defences some more.

Why doesn't Hizbullah by a fleet of trolldrone?

Probably because most commonly available drones drop down after a single missile, and fly low enough to be shot with gunfire?

I mean, these missiles have a Pk of >80% on high-attitude, high-velocity targets, and two missiles are a virtually guaranteed kill, even with counter-measures accounted for. Drones are not supposed to ignore anti-air missiles like that.

[martinuzz]

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[Max™]

It's why they're actually called Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept on Target as I recall, so they can go with PATRIOT for the system.

Also, yeah, dodging one of those is damn impressive, two and an air-to-air? Some drone pilot downloaded The_Force.bin apparently.