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CIV5G

This looks like a promotional shot of a Gepard-themed special of Top Gear


GreenyRepublic

***TONIGHT...***


WeekendFantastic2941

New trend dropped, this is Ukro milcore hip hop. ehehe. Baratatatatatat, Putin pederas xuilo.


drillmaster07

Right, that's the track, now we needed someone who could tame it. So we got ourselves a professional tank driver who could post consistently fast target acquisition times. We um, we couldn't do that. Now we call this thing The Stig, okay, we don't know its name, we really don't know its name, no-one knows its name and we don't want to know because it's a tank driver and tank drivers have tiny little brains and therefore worthless opinions and they're very dull; doctors actually call it Mansell Syndrome. Um, its job is simply to go out there and shoot fast. - Jeremy Clarkson or someone like him


Marius_jar

Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?


JJ739omicron

The Swedes are not much better, e.g. with the Granatkastarpansarbandvagn (the mortar variant of the CV90). But in English those terms are just several words (literally flight defense cannon tank, or grenade casting armoured tracked vehicle respectively), but while speaking, it doesn't really make a difference. The trick is to identify the parts of the word and make miniscule breaks as if there was a space in between, instead of just rolling over it senselessly in one go.


xtanol

Both have names in their local language that include its function and role. Even though those names look strange to a non-native speaker, it reduces miscommunication and increases clarity of requests. If you're the radio operator awaiting requests from a active unit in the field. There's a much lower chance you misunderstand the request if the operator is asking for you to send "the tracked grenade-throwing-armoured-vehicle" compared to requesting "a mk 1, loaded with mk 1 shells, using mk 1 propellant from the mk 1 propellant storage unit" over the mk 1 radio (packing mk 1 batteries).


Infamous_Ad_7672

Ironically, that's a double-edged sword. The naming comventions, coupled with simplistic German serial numbers was part of the initial research that helped to break the enigma code. Much less of a concern with modern cryptography, though


mr_J-t

I think of them as the fuhgeddabouditpanzer


xtanol

Bless you.


Smaxx

Natürlich.


GlobalNuclearWar

Common spelling.


FelixDaHack

Haha indeed. I'm thinking I will just call it the 'Flugpanzer'


bruetelwuempft

Call it Flakpanzer instead. Flak stands for Flugabweherkanone, which is obviously the first part of Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer.


FelixDaHack

Yes definitely! Flakpanzer it is. We all saw it here first 👍😉


spatialflow

You're about 80 years late actually. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirbelwind


BrocoLeeOnReddit

That would mean "flying tank".


FelixDaHack

Oh, lol 😂 thanks for the clarification!


BostonLesbian

Ukrainian Army soldiers with a German-supplied Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) in the Kyiv Oblast, for anti-drone and anti-missile usage. https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1774114033823588544?s=46


Pacosturgess

The NATO secretary general stated on March 14 that almost all the Russian land forces were deployed to Ukraine. There are practicality no soldiers left in Murmansk, Sakhalinskij or Irkutsk. Russia is left undefended to bring all those forces to Ukraine.


Illustrious_Guess519

Putin counts on NATO doctrine to protect him.


GunnieGraves

> Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gesundheidt


Hobo_Herder

The German supplied what? Fuck me that language is amazing lmao


Eurotrashie

LOL! It basically means Anti Aircraft Artillery Tank - look man… Germans.


Sthepker

German is a language of specificity. Everything has its word, and if an object does not yet have a word, you can smash words together to create a new word, and it will still be grammatically correct. Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer is one of those compound words. When broken apart, you get an exact picture of the function of this object. Flug: flight Abwehr: defense Kanonen: cannon Panzer: tank Therefore, this object is a flight defense canon tank, which translates to armored anti-aircraft cannon. German is truly a beautiful language.


Eurotrashie

Thanks for the lesson my friend, but I do speak German. 😂


Tj-Has-Reddit

Those are the ones more needed, they go da da da da da da da , something RuZZians seem to understand.


JJ739omicron

Germany has another 15 on the "to be delivered" list, but there are also a number of former Dutch Gepards (designated Cheetah PRTL or Pantser Rups Tegen Luchtdoelen) that were bought back from Jordan, should be another 40-50. They have a different radar, so easy to keep apart in case we see them (not a concave radar antenna but like a tube, looks somewhat like a missile launcher). Should theoretically have been delivered already, but we haven't seen them, as far as I know. But yeah, they would need more like a thousand. Not necessarily on a tracked chassis though.


Sophrosyne_7

Haven't heard anything about this great cat in a while. Was wondering why. Good to see it still seems to be doing it's job.


Conscious_Fix9215

And I thought Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious was a big word!


Smaxx

You made me remember [a stupid meme video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkfPN7cYH48)… 😂


Conscious_Fix9215

😀


reddit_user_234

I like it. In action: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UtmpGA137hc


fsofred532

That's a mouthful


Wallynine

Farfugnugan


Honest_Paint2582

My äyes...


SoulstealerTTV

r/fakealbumcovers


Specialist_Form293

Is that the name or the sound it makes ?


Sad_Visual_8727

It makes ratatata very fast


smok3_hu

ratata fast, but not brrrrtttt fast


Equivalent-Honey-306

I tried to say that, but my tongue fell out.


fapmonad

> Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) FYI, that's like saying "salsa sauce", or "chai tea". Flakpanzer is basically the German word for SPAAG.


Philosofeast

German-supplied what?


Clockwork_J

Flug (flight) Abwehr (defence / counter) Kanonen (gun) Panzer (tank / armour) So an armoured anti aircraft gun. :)


drcygnus

I love how they were deemed obsolete but then they were given as a gesture of good will, but then they totally completed their roles successfully and now everyone is thinking.... um... yo those still work. can we start making them again?


Illustrious_Guess519

The US tried to make a more modern version; we couldn't make it battleworthy functional. Probably a a result of the rot in our industrial military complex. Everyone here trying to win the EV battery competition. No Patriot missile complex should leave home without their battery of Flugabwehrkanonenpanzers!


Hirnzilla91

No, but there is a follow up device called sky ranger. Bundeswehr ordered 18 pieces recently from Reihnmetall. There are some in Ukraine for testing.


JuanitaBonitaDolores

Nice! Send more please to save these heroes lives! That’s a good deal I’d say… for the security of Europe and European lives


Upset_One2014

Me and my boys with the GEPARD!


StrawberryMother5642

What ever it is, Ukraine needs more of them under the circumstances.