• Valbrandur
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    262 months ago

    Because we are tankies, not truckies.

  • Oppo
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    212 months ago

    Because tankie I think

    • @Shrike502
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      142 months ago

      Why not a more old-school, pre-revisionist flying tank?

      • @ComradeSalad
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        92 months ago

        Hmm, good point. But Mi-24 makes the funny helicopter noises…

        • @Shrike502
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          92 months ago

          Oh it makes all sorts of funny noises! Wup-wup of the rotor, scary twirling of the YakB or GSh-23, distant sounds of westerners coping

  • @DamarcusArt
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    132 months ago

    Katyusha sound lives in my head rent free.

  • @Magos_Galactose
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    132 months ago

    Well, thel called us “Tankie”, so…

    I mean, I’m more of a “nuclear submarine-kie” myself, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it.

  • @lorty
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    132 months ago

    Add a mig-21 too and we have a deal.

  • D61 [any]
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    92 months ago

    Straws here! Gotcha’ REAAAALLL big straws here!

  • @EuthanatosMurderhobo
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    82 months ago

    As other comrades explained it’s about “tankies”, but you might be onto something here. Solntsepyok has T-72’s chassis…