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AreWeDrunkYet posted:...does that count? Like in previous wars, if someone shot down a guided missile was that credited the same as taking out a plane? fun fact, back in WWII the 8th Air Force started counting planes destroyed on the ground as kills in order to encourage pilots to strafe airfields more often.
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mlmp08 posted:In the days of modern radar, this goes not nearly as well for helicopters unless just sitting as a kind of ambush force waiting for ground strikers to fly by in a valley whoa re more worried about hiding from other fighters and SAMs than they are looking for helicopters. Dedicated AESA radar capability on CAP aircraft looking down on helicopters is mean to them. It’s important to emphasize that radars could not be pointed towards the ground and get useful information until the 70s when solid state electronics meant you could actually do signal processing on an aircraft. This was called “look down, shoot down” capability and was a big deal at the time. The F-4 was upgraded with radars that could do it and it was one of the big new capabilities of the F-15 and F-14. So, when you look at information from a 1979 NATO exercise imagine an F-104 doing a low level strike mission*. If its air to air radar is even on it’s not going to ever pick up a helicopter just above the trees of the fulda gap. The helicopter however would have pretty decent IR sensors and the F-104 will be easily seen. So the helicopter gunner can take their time to put their cannon on the fighter or wait for a good sidewinder/stinger shot. By 1991, an F-15 up in the flight levels can obliterate that helicopter with an AMRAAM from like 20 miles away. *allow me to preemptively head off the joke: exercise results are “helicopter should wait for the luftwaffe starfighter to crash then proceed with its mission”*
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hobbesmaster posted:By 1991, an F-15 up in the flight levels can obliterate that helicopter with an AMRAAM from like 20 miles away. I thought you were heading for this one
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I realized that right after I wrote the starfighter joke and hit post. I was thinking of the Iraqi Air Force being able to be destroyed as soon as they took off which was pretty new at the time.
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Political poo poo today: Trump Org verdict likely on Friday. Special Counsel looks like he's going to testify to the House at some point and hack it up. Mayorkas got impeached by one vote. A Democrat missed the vote because she caught COVID. That's kind of funny because the other bit of political news: https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1757601844572963014?t=5kH4fosOT9ZQbicv-hzYkw&s=19 So Republicans lost the Santos seat. Hard to know the Big Takeaways because it was a Biden seat that flipped, and lots of data people think specials are now skewing democratic and it's not a good example for the general (there was also a snowstorm). It was also a road-test of the "damnit, we had a immigration deal and Donnie killed it" strategy on the Democratic side that's been pissing off progressives. Lots of hot takery to follow, most likely a flavor of This Is Bad For Democrats Because The Senate will take up the impeachment in a week, then probably dumpster it without a trial the next day. The Senate would only have a week to do another CR, so they're going to can that thing quick. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:fun fact, back in WWII the 8th Air Force started counting planes destroyed on the ground as kills in order to encourage pilots to strafe airfields more often. Do you have a source or somewhere I could read more about this? This would be a neat WW2 fact to share with other people.
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facialimpediment posted:The Senate would only have a week to do another CR, so they're going to can that thing quick. lmao almost forgot about that.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:fun fact, back in WWII the 8th Air Force started counting planes destroyed on the ground as kills in order to encourage pilots to strafe airfields more often. This gives me a simple solution to preventing spawn camping
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Spoggerific posted:Do you have a source or somewhere I could read more about this? This would be a neat WW2 fact to share with other people. oh god I'm sure I originally read it in the Time/Life "America in the Air War" book, I did do a brief google and it also showed up in a Quora post so I don't think I'm crazy, but I'd have to do more digging to find a better source.
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There were a number of republican voters in the NY special election that voted for the democratic candidate specifically because republicans spiked the border bill.
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Mr. Nice! posted:There were a number of republican voters in the NY special election that voted for the democratic candidate specifically because republicans spiked the border bill. My pet theory is that the big, liberal cities shifted rightward on immigration once Abbott started bussing in migrants and the local media got them riled up about whatever scary story they could drum up. I personally don't think Democrats will never win a single vote from immigration single-issue voters, but Republicans spiking that bill probably stopped more Democrats from converting into single-issue NIMBYs on immigration. Also, the comedy is arriving because the House is still in session: https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1757763577681776701?t=QTV2nS5sujYvToK8JsUVGw&s=19
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facialimpediment posted:My pet theory is that the big, liberal cities shifted rightward on immigration once Abbott started bussing in migrants and the local media got them riled up about whatever scary story they could drum up. I personally don't think Democrats will never win a single vote from immigration single-issue voters, but Republicans spiking that bill probably stopped more Democrats from converting into single-issue NIMBYs on immigration. The GOP leadership is going to become even more useless since they've kowtow'ed to Trump and he's just putting in yes-man cronies who are absolutely incapable of doing the job.
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CommieGIR posted:The GOP leadership is going to become even more useless since they've kowtow'ed to Trump and he's just putting in yes-man cronies who are absolutely incapable of doing the job. This poo poo is about to get a LOT worse for them. Donnie's running the entire Republican party like a mob boss now. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4467232-lara-trump-spend-rnc-funds-to-elect-donald-trump/ quote:Lara Trump on Tuesday doubled down on her support for her father-in-law, former President Trump, vowing to spend “every single penny” of Republican National Committee (RNC) funds to reelect him to the White House. He wants to pierce the RNC to shove his money funnel all up in there, and nobody in the party exists that can tell him "No" anymore.
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bird food bathtub posted:This poo poo is about to get a LOT worse for them. Donnie's running the entire Republican party like a mob boss now. he's going to be shocked and disappointed by how little money the party organs proper actually touch
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shame on an IGA posted:he's going to be shocked and disappointed by how little money the party organs proper actually touch I'm sure he knows plenty about touching party organs for money.
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Something's going on in Congress that has everyone spooked: https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1757814933167743303?t=rQXWKlUDzCJxwj0CRJZsQQ&s=19 Not seeing much about it, other than every housemember was told "yo, get to the SCIF to see some of this poo poo"
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facialimpediment posted:Something's going on in Congress that has everyone spooked: What the gently caress
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Arrath posted:What the gently caress It's all very odd: https://twitter.com/alexbward/status/1757824018000888047?t=V4w2J_6K-eAhHUi3rJBpbg&s=19 https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1757820504147177567?t=WRVKbVDFofyrZ7_Tqd3QWg&s=19
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Arrath posted:What the gently caress Taiwan HERE WE GO! 
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CNN is saying it's about some kind of Russian capability, but the Intel Dem ranking member is also saying it's not something to panic about, but is a serious issue. METAL GEAR?!?!?
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Its the piss tape
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It's Aliens.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Its the piss tape I want to pee-lieve
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A comet with a course that will directly impact Earth and end all life was discovered but won't get here until December 2024. Don't Look Up!
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its gonna be about climate change or something and the latest report says the sun is gonna blow in 150 years
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alternatively theyre finally going to announce that the mayans were right and we've been living in hell for the past 14 years
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Flikken posted:It's Aliens. Can they reschedule? I really don’t need a first contact scenario right now.
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If it was an Iranian Nuke test we'd have rumors all over twitter from seismologists. Maybe Putin Croaked.
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It's the piss tape! It fits the criteria of all three statements. It's disturbing. It's a longer-term issue. It's not an immediate threat but is serious.
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Maybe it's Trump posting whitewashed stories from Newsweek on fake Twitter: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1757765895365988842?t=ABlxKiOrZSZh2E2Y72MYqw&s=19
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:It's the piss tape! It fits the criteria of all three statements. I want to believe.
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It's going to be something stupid like Russia designated their nuclear powered cruise missile operational.
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Resplendentoops posted:It's going to be something stupid like Russia designated their nuclear powered cruise missile operational. Could you imagine social media in the dqy if the Soviets testing their first nukes?
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CBJSprague24 posted:Maybe it's Trump posting whitewashed stories from Newsweek on fake Twitter: Isn't Newsweek already mostly gargling his balls? e: sure enough https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/11/04/newsweek-embraces-anti-democracy-hard-right AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Resplendentoops posted:It's going to be something stupid like Russia designated their nuclear powered cruise missile operational. I was thinking along these lines, like nuke authority is now lower in the Russian food chain or they're moving them closer to the Ukrainian front lines. For as old as Biden is, at least he isn't pulling weirdo legacy bullshit like Netanyahu or Putin.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:It's the piss tape! It fits the criteria of all three statements. It is also destabilizing, because if most of the country starts laughing at the same time the world might tilt.
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