Weird how sheβs off centre in a photo of her by herself.
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What's up with the disembodied hand on her shoulder?
What's up with the disembodied hand tucked up high on the right of that tall heap of grass?
That's just some Ukrainian men eating pampers grass.
Pretty impressive she has the energy and agility to do that at that age. Suit looks awesome too!
agility
More like aghillity
Age-ility.
Iβm sure sheβs had lots of practice over the decades
Over the century too
What suit?
Post-war she could easily pivot to making Chewbacca suits.
Wonder if she did that when Germany invaded, too.
She sees the Russian invasion, dusts off an old trunk, and when she opens the lid it's full of natural fibers and sewing patterns.
Yeah I'm sure she's lived through some shit.
She is very talented
That's what I was thinking. I'm not a ghillie suit aficionado, but that seems to be a pretty darn good one.
Bet she starts selling worldwide after this
She looks like she's got another 20 years in her. What a unit.
My grandmother died at 99 years old and until about 5 months prior to her death she was still pottering around the garden and doing housework. Some people just seem to save getting old up until the final few weeks of their life.
Do not mess with Mrs. Liubov. She has friends. Who are snipers. In ghillie suits.
We all wish we could be that badass.
mw vibes
How effective is a suit like that (specifically like the one in the image)? The fact that it appears to be all brown seems like it'd be poor cover in a field or forest. Wouldn't you want something that has a mix of different colors in it? I mean, it looks like a rotting hay bale, which works if you're surrounded by lots of rotting foliage, but what if you're not?
Depends entirely where the sniper intends to use it.
If youβre interested, look up Carlos Hathcock, a USMC sniper during the Vietnam war, and considered one of the best snipers for a very long time. I donβt recall the details offhand but one of his confirmed kills was a high ranking military officer. He spent something like 3 days in a gillie suit crawling something like 1000 yards across a field, took out his target, and successfully evaded troops searching for him that walked within feet of his location.
Keep in mind he's thousands of feet in the distance. Up close yeah it's fairly obvious he's not a real plant, but as a speck on the horizon you're fukt
An old favorite helps to answer this question:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/feb/19/sniper-camouflage-simon-menner
It's nice and helpful and all, but maybe it's time to let Mrs. Liubov retire?