That short guy on the corner at the back in the middle of the photo is only shoulder height but stacked with medals.

Desk warrior or unseen assassin? We may never know.

Was that their nannying uniform or are they part of the nursing medical staff?

In my opinion it’s “advertising”; To the doubters; To their own people seeing friends not come back that the sacrifice is worth it; To the EU showing the damage to Russia; To other countries interested in buying some capability.

If you never advertise your wins, people think your just getting rolled.

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Completely agree. Absolute hell on earth.

And people ask why the French didn’t want to go through this again 20 years later…

Neat! Today I learnt…

Why is this a shit post? This is a quality post!

The white and yellow corn is the sweetest and in my opinion the best of the conmon corn types.

The fog of war is extra thick on this one.

In my opinion, What do we know with 90% certainty? A F15 was downed and one of two rescue missions attempted.

50%? A second rescue op was conducted

0.1%? How many people on each side were killed in this series of events.

In the ukraine conflict people wait for video or sat proof. We’re getting very little actual proof from either side. It’s a mess!

That’s really neat, thanks for spending time to write that up.

Makes sense that they had the military hierarchy and that integrated a secondary acceptance that you listen to your logistics experts (that obviously includes the engineer corps).

I just feel old when I see it, that’s all. Your good :)

Your killing me with 1997-2001 being “history” haha.

There are other versions of this infographic that do exactly that.

Not too difficult to find hopefully.

This is demonstrating trust in each other as much as trust in the equipment.

Yes. But remember if you hump your wagon in to a road, it will likely get humped from behind by the next wagon when you least expect it.

Be careful humping.

Nerd time. Hump yards or hump shunting is when they push a rail wagon down a hill and use gravity to push it.

Then there are a bunch of switches to go through to make it go into a particular road.

It then runs into whatever wagon was already there (and automatically couples together).

This impact is very bad for wagon mounted equipment and sensitive cargo.

I hate hump shunting. So I agree with this post. DO NOT HUMP.

The context of this rebate is the tax is designed to pay for roads. These companies have to split their diesel use between vehicles that use roads and those that do not (e.g. mine trucks).

So they managed to get someone in government many years ago to say “why yes, you don’t use roads so you don’t need to pay the roads tax on fuel”.

Considering how profitable these companies are … well.

Happy to be corrected in this background if someone knows better.