#smart bombs

[tomorrowusa]

The US is providing Ukraine with kits which effectively convert dumb bombs into smart bombs.

The US is providing Ukraine a long-range GPS-guided Jdam-ER bomb kit that’s capable of hitting targets 70 kilometers away, industry officials told Bloomberg. The Jdam-ER can be bolted on unguided bombs ranging from 230 to 910 kg.

JDAM-ER = Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended-Range. 

Wing Kits For Ukraine’s JDAM Bombs Would Be A Big Problem For Russia

Ukraine is reportedly set to receive the U.S.-made Joint Direct Attack Munition — Extended Range, or JDAM-ER, an air-launched precision-guided bomb with a supplemental wing kit that means it can hit targets at around 45 miles. The disclosure follows previous announcements that the JDAM was headed to Ukraine as part of the supply of arms flowing there from the United States and its allies. Until now, however, it had been expected that a more basic version of the munition would likely be supplied, with a much more limited standoff range.

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As well as opening up a new range of Russian targets to the Ukrainian Air Force, including second-echelon rear areas beyond the front lines, the JDAM-ER should help keep the launch aircraft further away from much of the deadliest Russian ground-based air defense systems. The presence of these — as well as Russian fighter jets with long-range air-to-air missiles — has forced the Ukrainian Air Force to fly most of its offensive missions at extremely low levels, for their own safety. This, in turn, makes it harder to hit targets and greatly reduces the range of any munitions that are launched. As we noted in the past, this would also have had an effect on JDAMs, which achieve their standoff range through launch at higher altitudes and at high speeds.

So the JDAM-ER allows Ukraine to fire heavier munitions at Russian invaders from safer distances.

The quick acting Ukrainian Air Force survived the initial assault by Russia a year ago and has prevented the invaders from gaining air superiority over Ukraine. Now those jets can fire JDAM-ER equipped missiles at the enemy in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

This is an effective move. Give Ukraine whatever it wants except nukes.

Russia is still trying to gaslight the rest of the world through its dupes like Tucker Carlson. When the slippery Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed at a conference in India that Ukraine launched the war against Russia, the audience responded with laughter.

The war will not end until Russia is forced to end it.

[n64retro]

Star Fox 64 Nintendo EAD Nintendo 64 1997

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

Taco Tuesday: Hazbin Hotel

Angel: (busts into the hotel with five bags of Taco Hell) Bitches, prepare your guts! It's Taco Tuesday!

Husker: Motherfucker, it's fuckin' Thursday.

Angel: To-may-to, po-tay-to, you gonna help me demolish $100 hellbucks worth of bad fast food Mexican or not?

Husker: .......Put me in.

Angel: (tosses bag to Husk) Here, go!

Cherri: I'm all in, dickhead! Toss me a bag!

Angel: (tosses another bag to Cherri) Here ya go!

Charlie: I'll have one or two if you're offering. I've never had Taco Hell before.

Angel: (throws three individual tacos to Charlie) Head's up!

Charlie: Ah! Ouph! (fumbling the tacos) Shit! I got 'em!

Angel: Al, ya in or what?

Alastor: You wouldn't catch me double dead eating that garbage.

Angel: What? You can eat rotten deer, but Taco Hell is too gross for ya? Hmph! (drops a bag in Vaggie's lap) Here ya go, Vags.

Vaggie: Wow, way to just assume I would want my own bag. Is that you being sexist or racist?

Angel: Realist. I've seen you demolish a whole pot of taco meat during monthly taco nights here when you think no one's lookin'.

Vaggie: And I fully intend to obliterate this bag, which doesn't change my initial statement. (unwraps a taco and practically inhales it)

Angel: Yeah, that's what I thought. Big Daddy Luci want in?

Charlie: (slowly eating her first taco and shakes her head) Mm-mm. Dad doesn't do well with spices or hispanic cuisine in general.... or fast food....

Angel: Alright, well, we got a spare bag for anyone who wants more. (digs into his own bag)

Husker: (unwraps a taco and tilts his head left and right to figure out how he wants to eat) Hmmmm.... When you guys eat a taco, do you tilt your head left or right?

Vaggie: (already halfway through her bag) Neither, the thighs typically keep my head firmly in place.

-Record Screech-

Hazbins: (absolutely shocked)

Charlie: (beet red and horns out as she hides behind a taco wrapper)

Vaggie: .......I said that out loud, didn't I?

Angel: Yeah, you did! Hahahahahahaha!!! Playing up that stereotype, ain'tcha, bitch?! This is almost as good as Selma Hayek playing the lesbian taco in "Sausage Party"!!!

[erzyu]

three two pretty best friends

[nshtn]

thank you very much! @destinationtrekk

wesker handles the hard cases. wesker handles the cases least likely to make it. he handles the very young cases in very bad conditions, and the old cases that nobody has time for, and the people who come in with makeup-applied bruises seeking attention.

do you know how hard it is to do your job with everything boiling and foaming under the pot lid? did you know it all builds like a natural geyser, and then it builds pressure and blows that lid off, all hydrogen peroxide and potassium iodide of it?

he has to keep the person who activates these feelings in him so incomprehensibly close to feel secure about his attachment that he'd do better to just consume them whole. now, he comes home from work sullen, pouting until he sticks his head into your chest, and moves his arms around your back, and with an ease very becoming of a man with Progenitor, he lifts you into his arms, making you wrap your legs around his waist as he silently buries himself in you and inhales greedily. when he finally lets his breath escape him it's almost a whimper, and you can tell he needs this like he needs air. he presses his nose next into the space between your cheek and eye, pushing his lips into the gap and leaving a trail to your forehead so soft with his pale, thin lips you could cry. "you are a necessary evil," he whispers, and you flush at his attentions as his hands seek refuge in your tousled hair.

in this moment, you are just faintly aware that you are the red string attaching him to empathy and sympathy and love and lust and interest, such a damnable, incalculable thing, you. so organic. so fallible... so beautifully fallible. but that's what he loves about you: you're not made to last, packed with preservatives in a laboratory for later dissection - the only thing he can do to pick apart your mind and label his findings is psychologically vivisect you to understand himself.

[they-hermes]

This is what motivational posters look like in decepticon bases

[mishacakes]

I don't know if you read the series Chainsawman but in the most recent chapter one of the characters says some that just screams Nekomama to me: "Children are their parents' property, no?"

Poor Tomi

OH I LOVE CHAINSAWMAN!! I’ve definitely fallen behind on the manga I really need to catch up, cause, yea, that’s very much nekomama thinking

I’ve drawn tomiko in reze/bomb girl outfits a couple times bc i love her so much. love interest who turns out to be a killer? more like hi i love you

(from oct 2022, and jan 2023)

[starliteonearth]

So there's this theory going around that Todd Phillips may have flipped the dynamic and made Harley the aggressor/manipulator in the relationship and Joker the down bad one instead. And before anybody gets their panties in a twist, I think we need to remember that this version of Joker is a Loser. Very much a Loser. He's not the aggressive, dominant type we're used to (in his dynamic with Harley). This is a sad, sad little beta male who has severe mommy issues, who has never felt the touch of a woman in his life, and who fully imagined having a girlfriend in the first movie. Do you really think he's gonna be aggressive towards the first woman to pay him any attention? And not only that but a woman who seemingly matches his crazy and perfectly understands him? Yeah, no. He's going to be head over heels, Madly in Love.

Now he can still snap and turn against her because you know, Joker, but I do think that for most of the movie he's going to be giggling and kicking his feet like a schoolgirl in love.

[lizlemondyke]

move over hannah einbinder and jean smart there’s a new weirdly flirtatious may december lady celbricouple and this time they’re PUBLICLY UNHINGED MEAN BRUNETTES PLEASE WELCOME AUBREY PLAZA AND PATTI LUPONE

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: F-Zero: GP Legend [2004]

[opal-owl-flight]

IF I HAVE TO BE SPAWNCAMPED BY AN E-LITER ONE MORE TIME IM GOING TO THROW A DUALIE INTO THEIR FOREHEAD SO HARD IT GIVES THE FUCKER A CONCUSSION

[greenerteacups]

i would love to hear if any readers had theorized guessed events in books 1 - 4? part of the fun with ongoing works is theorizing!

Oh, yeah. Several people guessed that Mad-Eye was real well before it was "revealed," though I guess that's not technically an "event" so much as a canon divergence that becomes evident later. Several people called Draco becoming a duelist as early as Book 3. People will also often pull out little lines or flourishes of description and speculate on what it means for the character's future development, especially Draco's nascent flirtation with Dark magic, often with successful results. Readers also tend to be good at predicting where character dynamics are going. It's so satisfying for an author to read! It feels like a little gold star for planting a seed successfully.

People have guessed stuff that happens in future books, too, but I come from the old school of "if people can grasp and interpret where your story is going that means you are successfully laying groundwork and they are excited to think about it more, good job," There is a different school of thought, which is "readers have predicted something cool might happen, so I must take away Cool Thing, denying readers who predicted it the vindication of being right (which they wanted) and denying readers who didn't a coherent story to begin with (which they wanted). I am very smart."

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

I hate my hangup with reading Wonder Woman comics bc I spent my formative years as a Greek myth lover and I know I'm not going to enjoy the feminist revisionism that seems to be the Greek Pantheon of DC

I want to read her stuff, but dear god I don't want how they write the gods in any story I've heard of

[sadiecoocoo]

I’m in the middle of a fic that’s echo and tech centric but one bit is in wrecker’s POV and oh my fucking god the mischaracterization is going to put someone in the hospital

They made it so he couldn’t read a fucking door panel. He couldn’t open a door. I wanna stop reading the fic but they wrote Echo really well and I want the Echo content but my poor baby Wrecker is being abused 😭

Guys he’s smart please stop doing this to him

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

I love smart tinkerer Junkrat. Like yes!!!! My baby boy made his hand one handed!!!! He’s a fucking chemist with the bombs he’s making!!!! He doesn’t just mix things and sees what happens he makes bombs!!!! Which takes a lot of science!!!!!

[cardworksartblog]

"To be praised by carnality and hunger incarnate...

... is to doom yourself to following it's teachings."