User blog comment:GSFB/Spetsnaz GRU vs Vampires/@comment-6308988-20130430155015/@comment-5232784-20130501000410

Well, everybody is allowed their opinion, and you did honestly convey your feelings (I like honesty). I have no ill feelings towards you.

However, we should remember of course that, even if women are not members of the spetsnaz (more on this below), Vampires are known not to exist, yet they were a part of the sim. It's a fictional battle, and fiction isn't always adherent to fact.

And sometimes the rules need to be bent a bit in order to make a good story. Case in point: when the Hulk twirled the Abrams Tank around and threw it like a missile in Ang Lee's "HULK", anyone knowledgeable in Physics would tell you this was baloney: no matter how strong you are, even if you could lift a tank like a guy could lift a ragdoll, you'd still need to be much more massive than the tank in question to throw it; its just a rule laid down by physics (don't ask me the details: I just relate what I read in this regard. However ifg you ask someone in physics, they will tell you the same). Hulk, weighing 1,000 to over 3,000 lbs in the film, was nowhere near as big as the Abrams, which weighs tens of tons. So Hulk throwing a tank like this is bogus, of course, but the physics would get in the way of a Very good scene in that movie, and I'm glad they left that aspect in.

And as for women not being in the Spetsnaz:

See "The SAS Combat Handbook" by Jon Lewis (Published in 2002), pages 54-55

See link below

http://books.google.com/books?id=aNeY6ijb8OMC&pg=PA54&dq=women+spetsnaz&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VFeAUdeZH-fR2AXfnYCoCA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=women%20spetsnaz&f=false

And "Encyclopedia of Terrorism in the world, by Ved Prakash, page 274

See Link below

http://books.google.com/books?id=-9iF9n2a80EC&pg=PA274&dq=women+spetsnaz&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VFeAUdeZH-fR2AXfnYCoCA&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=women%20spetsnaz&f=false

What I think you are tryint to say is that the Spetsnaz GRU, instead of all Russian Spetsnaz units or brigades or such, don't have women. This I think is possible, but I would need to see evidence for this in book or peer reviewed article or major news media story before I believed it, something modern, dating from the new millenium (when the sources above were published). Nevertheless, both sources state that they are found in at least some Spetsnaz units.

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