It's pretty damn cold in Siberia

[Speaker to Animals]

Cold weather sucks for most military hardware. It's the worst time for aircraft maintenance. Jets run like a champ in the Arabian desert.

[TheReal_ND]

I would die as soon as I broke a zipper.

So day one.

[Speaker to Animals]

Extreme cold environment survival is actually a very interesting subject. It's worth learning for its own sake, though you might want to focus on conditions likely in most of CONUS.

[Penner]

Deep freeze in Siberia pushes temperatures down to 85 degrees below zero

http://abcnews.go.com/US/deep-freeze-si ... d=52378722

Almost cold enough for CO2 to freeze

It seemed (at the time) a reasonable statement. The freezing point of CO2 is -109.3 degrees Fahrenheit (-78.5 degrees C). There’s been mentions of this supposed phenomenon of CO2 freezing out of the air before on other blogs and websites. One of the best examples was even an entry in the website “ask a scientist” where the question of CO2 freezing out of the air was posed, and the answer from an Argonne National Laboratory scientist seemed to indicate that CO2 could indeed precipitate as a solid from the air if the temperature was low enough at Earth’s south polar ice cap, specifically at Vostok Station, which holds the record for the lowest surface temperature recorded on Earth at −89.2°C (−128.6°F)

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/13/ ... -possible/

[GloryofGreece]

Extreme cold environment survival is actually a very interesting subject. It's worth learning for its own sake, though you might want to focus on conditions likely in most of CONUS.

When you say shit like this it freaks me the fuck out, maaaan.

[heydaralon]

Not really super cold. Shit its supposed to get down to 29 in Florida tonight. That's degrees farenheit. Not that I'm complaining. Some of those Siberians could take a page out of my book and be grateful that they aren't dealing with the weather I am. It is supposed to get 3 degrees below freezing in the panhandle tonight!

[Speaker to Animals]

This is an interesting hack:

[heydaralon]

Siberians sure do like to complain, that much I do know. Starting with Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov. They are a bunch of losers. I don't feel the least bit bad for them. Its called a theme park guys. Just go to a Six Flags or Wet n Wild Water Parks. They have heated pools. They probably dont have those in Russia, fucking idiots.

[Speaker to Animals]

That's why they are trying to resurrect the mammoth. Siberian mammoth hunts are going to be a thing. Sharpen your atlatls, boys..

[Smitty-48]

This is an interesting hack:

Why bother? You can buy a Canadian Forces five man arctic tent surplus for $300-$400. Ten man for $500-$600.

More kit than you need really, I just use my hooped bivvy bag, single burner coleman stove, and a candle lantern, Recce owns the night.

Here's your winter warfare drill in a nutshell, while you're moving, don't wear your cold weather kit, just wear light windproofs and thermals, when you stop, then you put your cold weather kit on. When you camp, you break out the bivvy bags, one hooped bivvy as a tent, another for your sleeping kit, then you put wet windproofs and thermals between them to dry at night by your own body heat, don't wear anything in the sleeping bag, strip right down because that's the warmest. Then when you wake up, you unzip and fire up the coleman stove, wear your cold weather kit until you start moving, when you start moving, you switch back to windproofs.

It's all about evaporation, so long as you stay dry you stay warm, the biggest mistake people make, is wearing their cold weather kit on the move, which then gets soaked with sweat, so when they stop, they freeze.

We never used those tents on recce, too slow, too much kit for one man to carry, we were one man one kit, self contained, no need for winter tent groups at all, we just blazed on skis/snowshoes and lived out of our rucks.