Sadly, it will be many, many decades until it’s safe to walk anywhere in the currently active areas of Ukraine. Many of the mines are not detectable by metal detectors
I think we’ll have to train a lot of dogs to deal with this problem, and use bacterial biosensors. Ukraine is also developing modern 3-D mine detectors which can do much more than detect just metal.
ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine, Aug 3 (Reuters) - When they found the bodies of Russian troops at an abandoned position, something about the corpses looked wrong.
The kitten is a folding steel hook that sappers use to dislodge booby traps, nicknamed for its retractable tongs that spring out like cat’s claws.
Occupying Russian troops have sown landmines and booby traps across hundreds of miles of Ukraine’s front, a tactic that Kyiv’s commanders describe as the primary reason why their long-awaited summer counteroffensive has slowed to a crawl.
For mine-clearers like Volodymyr, every day brings deadly risk, trying to make the ground safe, first for their fellow soldiers to advance, and eventually for civilians to go home.
Landmines inflicted a colossal toll in the first month of the counteroffensive launched in June, said Oleksandr, an anaesthesiologist with the 128 Brigade who treats battlefield wounds at a front-line field hospital.
In addition to the “kitten” hooks, Volodymyr’s unit has been sent “spider boots”, which lift each foot off the ground on four metal legs, so any blast they set off will not be triggered directly under a sapper’s body.
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You try and sell your copy of windows 10 and Norton anti virus to make ends meet.
LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Britain’s biggest defence company BAE Systems (BAES.L) upgraded its earnings guidance for 2023 to growth of 10%-12%, saying increased global uncertainty had driven military equipment orders to a record level.
BAE Systems said its strong operational performance plus demand from its customers - the biggest of which in order of size are the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Australia - meant its full-year results would be better than expected across the board.
For 2023, BAE, which makes submarines, fighter jets, combat vehicles and other kit, said earnings per share would grow 10%-12%, compared to the 5%-7% increase it had forecast in February, while it also lifted sales guidance to 5%-7% growth from 3%-5%.
Chief Executive Charles Woodburn said BAE’s broad spread was key to its growth, highlighting its provision of defence across the air, sea, land, space and cyber theatres of war.
During the period, BAE won an order from the Czech Republic for 246 infantry fighting vehicles and its MBDA unit was contracted by Poland to supply missiles and launchers.
Not that surprising, the 1990’s saw a large drop in black voter turnout also
There is a difference though between midterms and Presidential elections. Midterms are always brutal because no one ever shows up for them. It’s a chore to get 50% of the people to get out for midterms, which really are equally as important as Presidential elections
These narrow “roads” perched precariously on the edge of sheer cliffs are harrowing. It doesn’t help that there are sometimes cattle just hanging out in the middle of them
I have an idea. Make a new summer solstice celebration in the Nordics, where instead of burning wood, we burn copies of every religious text in existence - including the Qur’an, but also every version of the Bible.
Make it an all or nothing affair. Then I bet a whole crapton of politicians would find a way real quick.
When 3/4 of traffic stops are warnings you know most of them are just the typical person making dumb mistakes since warnings are typically only given to people with no recent record.
No idea why “resonable suspicion” crimes are such a big focus.
Better roads help prevent crashes. People won't change just because they got a ticket. "Drive as fast as you can afford" is a warning I got when learning to drive. If all it is is a $300 ticket there are people who are more inconvenienced from being stopped than paying the fine. People don't care about car crashes.
Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, China, are all socialist projects that have succeeded to some extent. Most of them have pretty concrete plans to fully sieze the means of production by 2050 or so.
By “succeed” you mean the 1000s of countrymen and women that were slaughtered to silence by the tyrannical leaders’ armies because they were an actual threat to their grip on the people. The “success” that so many outsiders take as fact is nothing but cleverly crafted lies to make communism and socialism seem better than it actually is. The REAL truth is told by the citizens that successfully fled said countries and fled to America and other free countries. Listen to their stories and the things they experienced. THAT is the truth of what goes on in the countries.
US police kill around a thousand people who arent in prison every year. The US contains 25 percent of the world’s prisoners despite only making up 4 percent of the world’s population.
By “succeed” you mean the 1000s of countrymen and women that were slaughtered to silence by the tyrannical leaders’ armies because they were an actual threat to their grip on the people.
2A) lots of those people were right wing or fascist assholes who should be repressed.
2B) This is what every state does, capitalist or socialist. Socialist societies aren’t yet communist so they don’t get rid of the excesses of the state, they only get rid of the violence of capitalism.
The US cuban regime was a horribly violent dictatorship. Now, Cuba has a thriving democracy which just overwhelmingly passed a family code by referendum that makes it the most progressive country in the world on lgbt and family rights. Before it was voted on, it was developed starting on the local level and where each citizen had input on the process and then moved up into larger committees.
The US was responsible for four million vietnamese deaths by waging their illegal war there. Vietnam is now a flourishing democracy despite still cleaning up unexploded ordnance and chemical weapon contamination. The vietnamese people have a strong anarchist tradition and decentralized community armories to resist aggression. Every citizen is trained in basic warfare and college students are required to study more advanced military knowledge. If they didn’t want their government, their government wouldnt be around for long.
Laos was bombed to shit by the US despite never being party to war. Laos is currently a one party socialist democracy that is doing well for itself and well for its people.
The US killed 20 percent of the Korean population after the dprk tried to liberate the south, which had become a US puppet military dictatorship that was killing thousands of peaceful protestors and tens of thousands total, including random people and justifiably violent protestors. The DPRK has more democratic institutions than modern South Korea. South Korea’s military is still subordinate to the US pacific command.
The socialist Chinese government has stronger democratic institutions than the US. Over a hundred million people are members of the party. The Chinese people overwhelmingly approve of the party: news.harvard.edu/…/long-term-survey-reveals-chine…. Which makes sense, given that China has gone from an impoverished semi-feudal country to a modern nation massively improving the quality of life of everyone within it, all while breaking the US stranglehold on the world by merely being an economic alternative.
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