Because, Nordic Countries

[TonyE]

23 hours ago, Stefan Fredriksson said:

Win and win. 😀

As I have now learned, she was elected, but never entered office, best described as "primeminister elect".

😁

Yeah sure🤣, NOW they say that. When the announcement was made they were firsting themselfs into a frenzy, but with the total embarrassment it turned into they are moving the goal posts just enough so that they can have a "real" first later.🤣

[rmgill]

 

18 hours ago, Ssnake said:

- the basic assumption that a suspect is armed is not a necessity,

so Euro LEOs usually have a few more tools in the box than just the hammer. But also the hammer.

But in this case you know he was armed. Which other tools do they have in the tool box? 

[Ssnake]

A car, for starters.

[rmgill]

6 hours ago, Ssnake said:

A car, for starters.

Yeah. US Cops don't have those at all.  🤔

 

 

Edited November 27, 2021 by rmgill

[BansheeOne]

Ah, the good ancient tradition of airborne royals.

[Ssnake]

Seems like they're having fun, but it also seems to be a very Finnish thing to do.

Frozen lakes, check.

Rally course, check.

Overall silliness level: Elevated.

[Tim Sielbeck]

It was very fun but hard to hit anything while doing uncontrolled power slides.

[rmgill]

 

[Ivanhoe]

[Stefan Fredriksson]

In Swedish. Calling a pizza "Cheesus Christ" is not blasphemous. 👍👍🍺

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/7d4Emo/helt-okej-att-dopa-en-pizza-till-cheesus-christ

Edited January 12, 2022 by Stefan Fredriksson

[Ivanhoe]

No mention of pineapple or mayonnaise, therefore innocent of blasphemy.

Ruling stands.

 

[Laser Shark]

They’ve finally landed on a candidate:

https://soldiersystems.net/2022/02/09/oskar-pedersen-as-wins-nordic-combat-uniform-contract/

One uniform system for all Nordic countries except Iceland (though they have acquired Norwegian uniforms in the past, so it’s possible/likely that will get their hands on these eventually), but everyone will also use their own camo. For Denmark and Finland it will be the patterns they’re currently using (Multicam and M05). Norway, however, has selected a new pattern (looks a bit like a mash-up of the existing pattern and Danish M84), and Sweden might have done the same but I'm not entirely certain on that.

[rmgill]

Why do these uniform designers abbreviate the pattern on the center of the chest of the shirts? 


Are they trying to make this stand out? 

http://getdrawings.com/img/silhouette-target-printable-9.jpg

 

[Laser Shark]

I’m not sure if I understand the question, but these are combat shirts designed to be more comfortable when worn together with bulletproof vests/plate carriers, so they probably figured that you don’t need camo on a part that’s going to be mostly covered up anyway.

[rmgill]

It's the idea that soldiers sometimes have to doff gear to do things even under combat conditions. It'd be like issuing them all white t-shirts and underwear. 

[Laser Shark]

5 minutes ago, rmgill said:

It's the idea that soldiers sometimes have to doff gear to do things even under combat conditions. It'd be like issuing them all white t-shirts and underwear. 

Good point. Hopefully, they'll settle on another color that's not too different from the camoed parts.

[Ivanhoe]

On 2/10/2022 at 10:00 AM, Laser Shark said:

I’m not sure if I understand the question, but these are combat shirts designed to be more comfortable when worn together with bulletproof vests/plate carriers, so they probably figured that you don’t need camo on a part that’s going to be mostly covered up anyway.

Yep, standard thing here in USiana;

https://www.cryeprecision.com/ProductDetail/aprcse02lgr_g3-combat-shirt

[TonyE]

It was Haute-couture on the fields of glory we sought in the hallow field of Hindu Kush, the pure pinnacle of human warfare in all its forms, so it will remain until the 'stan-veterans have found other fields of work.

[Simon Tan]

It is so successful that the shalwar kameez has been dumped by the Taliban in favor of the mountains of Multicam left behind.

[Ivanhoe]

Multicam; the Universal Couture.

 

[17thfabn]

On 10/17/2021 at 9:46 AM, BansheeOne said:

after the various rampage events and terror attacks over the last two decades or so, everyone in Europe seems to have gotten around to the first two or four officers on the scene going in without waiting for the special squirrels as it used to be done. Obviously that becomes more difficult if those first officers have to equip themselves with the bare essentials first. 

Same in the U.S.

In active shooter incidents the first or first two police on scene are supposed to engage. They found that many times people were being killed while waiting for the SWAT team. 

[rmgill]

SOP now. First two officers on scene, pair up and go in. Next two officers, pair up and go in. I have a friend who was 1st of two officers on scene in the Atlanta Financial Center Shooting. 

[Laser Shark]

Article about the development of the new Norwegian camo patterns (forest, desert, snow). There's also photos of the deal deal now, and I'm happy to say that the end product looks a lot better than I feared it would, particularly the desert pattern (wow, we actually managed to come up with one that isn't godawful).

https://forsvaretsforum.no/forsvarets-forskningsinstitutt-innenriks-uniformsreglement/slik-ble-forsvarets-nye-kamuflasje-utviklet/246364

[Ivanhoe]

Rather strange, at least to me; American retailers are now getting Vihtavuori smokeless rifle powder back in stock.

With what's going on, shouldn't Vihtavuori be helping crank out 7.62x39 for the FDF?

Anything to deter Mad Vlad...

 

[Yama]

#Swedengate! On Reddit, somebody posted this tidbit:

Someone else forwarded this on Twitter, and because it is Twitter, it was presented as an example of SWEDISH RACISM  and soon the platform was alive with other people posting their experience of deep-rooted Swedish cultural discrimination.

That is seen as completely normal in Finland too, the expectation is that unless someone is specifically invited (eg. agreed-upon sleepover), then every family feeds their own kids.