Hopfgeist

Clearly you neither read my post nor looked into what the air baffle in the T320 actually looks like. So whats your point?

Is that the same woman who said they should nuke Siberia to create a NEMP to destroy all pre-1993 electronics (apparently, anything before 1993 survives any EMP, and anything after that will be destroyed, no matter where you detonate the bomb), so Russians could again live a simple life?

It's much more than a fan shroud. It's a baffle specifically designed to guide cooling air over the CPU heatsinks and the RAM modules. This kind of airflow design is very common in servers. I wouldn't trust it without, especially since the CPU heatsinks have no dedicated fans, but rely on the aerodynamic functioning of the baffle.

And yes, I know they are very similar, in fact I am quite (but not absolutely) certain that they are identical except for the actual second CPU socket. It's almost as if you didn't read my post. Even the soldering points for the second CPU socket are there in the single-CPU T320. They certainly won't have different PSU connectors. They even share part numbers for the case.

I'm not sure that's generally true. The ATACMS that were used operationally were the shorter range versions (M39), because these have more submunitions, which maximised the destructive effect on the airfields in Berdyanks and Luhansk. But I think longer-range versions (M39A1 and M57) will likely also be provided, as they reach their end-of-life, as Jake Broe explains.

That article is also six weeks old and talks about a decision to be taken "in two weeks". Which I think was still "no" at that time. Also, the "relatively easy" range reduction was just a theoretical answer, and German thoroughness means that it may take a few months, anyway.

We'll see what these great news from Germany are that Kuleba hinted at yesterday.

I'd have to check the baffle shape again. But thanks for the insight.

Thanks. And speaking of reduced range, my understanding was that delivering shorter-range versions required extensive and time-consuming technical modifications, and delivering the normal long-range version was contingent on the US delivering ATACMS. Again, just rumours.

I read that they could use the same mounts and interfaces as the Storm Shadow, but that may have been wrong.

Judging from the number of WW2 bombs still found in Germany today, things like this will remain a legacy for a century or more.

Sure, they're called thermonuclear weapons, aka "H-bomb". City-killers. Many hundreds of them.

Those that have a choice, and those that commit such atrocities, I agree, they don't deserve pity. But many will have some dignity left, and once in battle have little realistic chance to "just stop". We must be very careful not to vilify people solely based on their membership in a group. Each one deserves to be judged individually, when possible.

Kill them if they attack, or enable an attack, yes (this includes logistics far behind the lines: legitimate targets!), because it's a matter of survival of you, your comrades, and your country, but still recognise them as humans. Once going down the path of dehumanising the enemy, Ukraine will lose the moral high ground, which is paramount in maintaining the right to receive help from the civilised world.

I don't believe in "destroying Russia", besides its practical impossibility. Unlike Nazi Germany, Russia does have the ultimate doomsday weapon, and might use it if really threatened existentially (to paraphrase some propagandists: "If there is no place for Russia in this world, why should there be a world?"). That said, I have absolutely no idea how to deal with Russia. None. Every conceivable solution is terrible.

Thanks for the civil reply. I absolutely see your point. I do not have any first-hand (or even second-hand) information on that. I assume that conscripts who refuse to be drafted are most likely not shot, but imprisoned, although once on the battlefield, lured under false pretext, that may be a different story. I have a hard time, too, imagining a single conscript leaving his unit is called to surrender to the Ukrainian forces, especially when involved in a senseless assault on a stronghold.

Highest single-day casualty number yesterday. 1380 Russian soldiers in a day. This may have been part of it. I feel sorry for each individual soldier and their families, they likely had no real choice and were between a rock and a hard place. But as long as they continue attacking, Ukraine has every right to kill or at least repel them by force. War is a terrible, awful business, any way you look at it.