“We all have views and opinions, and everyone’s entitled to protest, but we’re also entitled to go about our business and we do it peacefully,” Mr Reddy said.

"They’re out there talking about Palestine and what’s happening out there. I understand their point of view [but] who’s talking about Ukraine?

“We’re here to defend democracy and to enable the peace loving people of Ukraine to stand up to Russian oppression. Why is no one talking about that? It’s only about Palestine for some reason.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-12/inside-the-land-forces-expo-it-s-business-as-usual/104344542

fucking cretins

The ex minister for defence was at this expo, now on the board of some defence company, didnt get alot of attention though

fucking gross seeing so many good journalists trying not to salivate over the big boy toys while they put to you: dont you care for the peace loving Ukrainian people?

a quick search shows the australian grubernment provided 70mil to Palestine (extremely begrudgingly, funding stops anytime israle says boo) in the last 12 months, and more than 150mil to Ukraine

  • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    OMFG i am going to shit myself laughing at that ‘minigun drone’, not only is there absolutely ZERO ammo supply on that drone, i don’t even think is has the car-battery sized battery that spins the barrels! Neither would likely fit on a drone that small anyway! do you know how fast those things shoot? you would need like an oil drum sized ammo container to shoot for more than like .5 seconds even with the relatively small 5.56 bullets this thing probably uses! i doubt this thing could carry even 1 or 2 standard ammo cans let alone a huge ammo belt drum! I am in absolute awe at the level of baldfaced grifting these defence companies can get away with LMFAO susie-laugh

      • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        i would imagine its 5.56, which is .223, which is still quite small for anything like a heavy machinegun which is the closest role something like this would fit. airplanes (like the AC-10 warthog for example) often have 30mm rotary cannons mounted in the fuselage, the 30mm shells fired from the full sized cannon at high rates of fire can take out tanks. in fact this drone gun looks even smaller than the M134 ‘minigun’ you see mounted on the sides of helicopters for ‘door gunners’ or in the movie Predator, which uses 7.62x51mm NATO ammo, full sized bullets closer to a hunting rifle bullet than an assault rifle’s intermediate cartridge. 7.62 is often used by western armies for HMGs and other larger-than-an-assault-rifle weapons like snipers, DMRs, etc. Even in the movie Predator, with a minigun modified to be carried, the actor could not carry the battery the gun requires to operate (which was wired up his pants leg) and even with an artificially reduced rate of fire (from 6,000 RPM to 1,250 RPM) the enormous backpack could only hold 4-5 seconds of ammunition supply.

        maybe its something like the XM214 Microgun? which requires a team of 2 to carry and operate like a heavy machine gun (usually mounted on a tripod or vehicle)

        and yea the recoil would almost certainly tip this go-kart over, especially with the gun mounted that high up. maybe if it had like ground spikes to stabilize itself it wouldn’t?