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The HESA Shahed 136 (Persian: شاهد ۱۳۶, lit. 'Witness 136'), also known by its Russian designation Geran-2 (Russian: Герань-2, lit. 'Geranium-2'), is an Iranian-designed one-way attack drone, also referred to as a kamikaze drone or suicide drone, in the form of an autonomous pusher-propelled drone. It is designed and manufactured by the Iranian state-owned corporation HESA in association with Shahed Aviation Industries.
The munition is designed to attack ground targets from a distance. The drone is typically fired in multiples from a launch rack. The first public footage of the drone was released in December 2021. Russia has made much use of the Shahed 136/Geran-2 in the Russo-Ukrainian war, especially in strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, and mass-produces its own version.
Description
The aircraft has a cropped delta-wing shape, with a central fuselage blending into the wings, which have vertical stabilizing rudders at the tips. The nose section contains a warhead estimated to weigh 30–50 kilograms (66–110 lb). An Iranian-made Mado MD-550 engine sits in the rear of the fuselage and drives a two-bladed pusher propeller. The MD-550 is reverse engineered from the Limbach L550E, a 550cc four-cylinder two-stroke petrol aircraft engine made in Germany. The munition is 3.5 metres (11 ft) long, with a wingspan of 2.5 metres (8.2 ft), flies at over 185 kilometres per hour (115 mph), and weighs about 200 kilograms (440 lb).[16] The drone's appearance resembles that of the Drohne-Anti-Radar (DAR) developed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke in Germany in the 1980s, but whether there was actual copying is an open question.
Its range has been estimated to be anywhere from between 970–1,500 km (600–930 mi) to as much as 2,000–2,500 km (1,200–1,600 mi). The U.S. Army unclassified worldwide equipment guide states that the Shahed 136 design supports an aerial reconnaissance option, although no cameras were noted in the Geran-2 in Russian service.
Electronics
The Shahed 136 navigates by a commercial-grade inertial guidance system, corrected by civilian GPS and GLONASS. December 2023 remains from the drones were found with SIMs and 4G modems of the type used in mobile phones.
Deployment
Because of the portability of the launch frame and drone assembly, the entire unit can be mounted on the back of any military or commercial truck. The aircraft is launched on rails at a slight upward angle with initial rocket launch assistance. The rocket is jettisoned immediately after launch, whereupon the drone's conventional piston engine takes over
Loitering munition
A loitering munition (LM) is a type of self-destructive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a warhead that is typically designed to remotely loiter by a human operator using electro-optical targeting sensors or camera suite and data-link until a target is designated, then crash into it and detonate. Anti-radiation (anti-radar) loitering munitions are a type of loitering munition that employ either an anti-radiation seeker by itself or in tandem with an electro-optical targeting system to locate enemy radar by loitering and destroy it after detection. Common terms like suicide drone, kamikaze drone, or exploding drone are used for both loitering munition and one-way attack drones. They enable attacks against hidden targets that emerge for short periods without placing high-value platforms near the target area. Unlike many other types of munitions, their attacks can be changed mid-mission or aborted. Loitering munitions are typically aerial platforms, but include some autonomous undersea vehicles with similar characteristics.
Loitering weapons emerged in the 1980s for the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) role, and were deployed for SEAD by some military forces in the 1990s. In the 2000s, they were developed for additional roles, from long-range strikes and fire support to short-range tactical systems that fit in a backpack.
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Police Chief Rafael Salas Cañizares, Cuba, 1950s
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spoilers Roll Over and Die, or the yuri anime that was my favorite this past season spoilers
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CW: slavery bullshit, lots of gory violent shit, like literally in the second episode Flum gets her arm twisted off multiple times (I kept going "Ugh! Oh my god! Oh god, ugh!" to the point my partner called from another room asking if I was okay)
just wanted to shill for a cool show I think people here would like. I almost didn't watch it because I read the synopsis and the MC's name is "Flum Apricot" and that makes me go like 
in so many ways. BUT I watched it and it was actually very good and it's actually been consistently the most interesting and looked-forward-to anime for me this past season, except for maybe Jujutsu Kaisen (I like my action shounen fight slop okay)
It's about Flum Apricot, who was chosen by the church to join the Hero's Party to go fight the Demon Lord. But she's got 0 stats and no useful skills and is, from a combat perspective, entirely useless. Some dickhead asshole she worked with lies to everyone else and tricks her so that he can sell her into slavery, because he's a dickless loser who didn't appreciate all the nice shit she did for him. Apparently this is entirely legal in this shithole pottery kingdom, so she's just like, a slave now, permanently branded
BUT the dumb fucker who bought her used her as part of a sadistic game where he unleashed ghouls on slaves, telling them they can fight to survive, but only giving them a cursed sword that melts them to death if they touch it. Flum isn't just gonna let them eat her, so she grabs it, and it turns out her reversal skill does exactly what it says, reversing status effects, so the cursed attribute malus becomes a bonus for her, and the "melts your body" effect gives her overpowered regeneration abilities
so she frees herself and another slave named Milkit and then the rest of the show is about them overcoming their tremendous personal traumas, loving and supporting each other, building a menagerie of comrade-waifus (no men (I guess Ed and Johnny are ok)), and dealing with the eldritch lovecraftian horrors seemingly being spread by the Church
yea that's right this yuri love fest has some fucked up fucking horror vibes, VERY early on she encounters a chimera that's possessed by some fucked up, incredibly powerful spiral force, with nothing but an Uzumaki-like flesh spiral for a face. Every time it hits Flum, it infuses her with what seems to be rotational energy that starts twisting her limbs off where she's hit. It's super grisly and gross and as much as I find her abilities cool and get that they wanted to show them off, fuck it was fucking gross.
Anyway uh yeah so like that's basically it, emotional healing with the power of yuri love (despite asshole men trying to bring them down) while investigating otherworldly horrors propagated by a powerful state church, who here isn't signed up for that, am I right??
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian (commentary/summary of recent events of the Iran war)
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So of course, the Nazis had the same exact propaganda about Czechoslovakia as the Western World uses against Iran
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The problem with Iran is that they expect average Americans to be intelligent and reasonable, we are not.
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Please, stop.
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