• makyo@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Huh: Baba Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character from Slavic folklore who has two opposite roles. In some motifs she is described as a repulsive or ferocious-looking old woman who fries and eats children, while in others she is a nice old woman who helps out the hero. She is often associated with forest wildlife.

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    I once read that during WW2, German tank crews in North Africa would drive over camel dung piles (for luck?), so the Allies started making AT-mines that looked like dung piles. And when the Germans found out and started only driving over piles that had already been driven over, the Allies made driven-over-dung-piles AT-mines

    I’m not checking, though, so the whole story might be camel dung

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    6 hours ago

    An effective countermeasure would be retreating to within Russian borders.

    They could enhance the effect further by forcing a regime change at home.

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    4 hours ago

    Lol I love the idea of the witch flying around in a mortar and pestle dropping AT mines and cackling.

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    5 hours ago

    Good. They can put this in their “educational vr combat simulators” to show school kids what it’s like

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    Oh no, the horror! Disguised anti-tank mines! Don’t they know those are supposed to be as brightly colored as possible to prevent detonations?

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    Honestly, that would be pretty hard to spot out of the little tiny viewing slits one gets in an APC or Tank. Hell, even unobstructed that could be tough at speed.