Hopfgeist

@Hopfgeist@feddit.de

Safety Engineer, Dad, Husband, Pilot, Musician. Not necessarily in that order.

Ingenieur für funktionale Sicherheit, Vater, Ehemann, Pilot, Musiker. Nicht notwendigerweise in dieser Reihenfolge.

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Dell T420 mainboard in T320? Differences? Heatsink? Air Baffle?

I have two Dell T320 servers, which work great. But I’d like to have some more CPU power, so think about upgrading to the T420. It is almost the same, except that on the T420 main board, which seems to be otherwise the identical PCB, the second CPU socket is actually installed. (In the T320 it’s just empty soldering points.)...

Hopfgeist,

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

Hopfgeist,

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

Hopfgeist,

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.

Hopfgeist,

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.

Hopfgeist,

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

Hopfgeist,

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.

Hopfgeist,

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.

Hopfgeist,

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.

Hopfgeist,

Sure, they’re called thermonuclear weapons, aka “H-bomb”. City-killers. Many hundreds of them.

Hopfgeist,

Nice. I hope they get enough supply, logistics is not trivial for this kind of operation.

Oh, and also, manegerie menagerie.

Hopfgeist,

When you fire, you create a huge flare, that can be easily detected and may draw counter-fire. So fire all that you want to fire in as short a time as possible, then pack up and leave.

Hopfgeist,

So, is it just literally more missiles to restock the launchers already in Ukraine? Or more complete Patriot systems? Even after reading the article I couldn’t tell.

Hopfgeist,

At first glance, it might seem wasteful to use a $200,000+ missile to shoot down a $10,000 drone, but if it can save lives, it’s much better than the alternative. Using a Gepard anti-aircraft cannon (literally Flak) system is more resource-efficient, but of course, these aren’t everywhere.

Still curious how and why air-to-air missiles are ground-launched. Then again, the German IRIS-T is also originally an air-to-air missile, adapted for surface-to-air use as the IRIS-T SLS and IRIS-T SLM.

Hopfgeist,

In general, only submarines and aircraft carriers are nuclear powered, plus a small number of Soviet ice breakers, and even fewer research vessels, now decommissioned. In case of Russia even their aircraft carrier is fossil-fuel powered, and generally just a joke.

Hopfgeist,

Ah, thanks for the additional info, I didn’t know that.

Hopfgeist,

Again?

Hopfgeist,

Possible, but how would the air defence know? I mean, know to a degree of confidence that they’d risk shooting down one of the most valuable assets? It’s not like Su-35s grow on trees.

Hopfgeist,

Ukraine can spare forces to fight in another country? That sounds wrong and inefficient.

Hopfgeist,

A small group of purpose trained soldiers can be hell for the Russian military abroad

Wagner Group isn’t “the Russian Military”, it’s a private paramilitary organisation. Mercenaries by any other name.

And how is that more efficient than fighting them in Ukraine? Where, besides creating “hell” for Wagner and/or Russian fighters, they would also directly protect Ukrainians’ lives.

Also, strong reddit vibes here with all the downvotes, just because people don’t like an opinion, or someone dare criticise anything Ukraine does. Or in this case, is alleged to be doing: none of the videos provides any kind of evidence. Just random people doing random war stuff.

Hopfgeist,

Right. Reddit has arrived. Ad-hominem attacks without addressing the actual points. Thank you.

Hopfgeist,

Thanks for at least addressing some of my points.

So all “Wagner” presence left in the world is now Russian MOD.

Then why even call it Wagner anymore? But that’s a minor point.

And if the videos prove it or not is separate from the point I made.

Fine. Then provide some other evidence, please.

Doing the most damage to your enemy and keeping them off balance is the “game”. And if the MOD has to retask troops to protect their foreign holdings, Ukraine wins double.

In this case, by MOD you mean the Russian MOD? That makes some sense.

Russians can stop all of that by withdrawing to pre 2014 borders.

Undoubtedly, and in my opinion that’s the only option worth discussing.

Hopfgeist,

“Advanced weapons”, showing a parking lot full of AK-style submachine guns. That’s about as un-advanced as it gets.

Hopfgeist,

Yes, it only works temporarily, or requires some additional clever means of carrying the body heat away in a less obvious way, such as ventilation. You can’t fool nature (i. e. thermodynamics).

heat builds up inside until either the person in it gets cooked

That’s how winter clothing works, in a nutshell. Eventually, all heat generated by the body needs to be shed; with better insulation, that equilibrium shifts towards a higher temperature on the inside.

Hopfgeist,

they drop down […] exactly like a rock

Since they are still a huge aerodynamic surface, they rather fall like a leaf, possibly in a flat spin, but that depends on many factors. Much slower than a rock, but for most practical purposes you are right: fast and uncontrolled and essentially vertical.

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