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Wheeee posted:Pretty much everything the American military uses today is either cold war leftovers or make work projects to keep the defense industry companies' doors open. Military technology doesn't really advance in leaps and bounds like that, and WW2 going from carpet bombing to atomic bombing is a rare exception.
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May 17, 2018 21:48
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Ron Jeremy posted:What did the YALiberty one say? it was a few seconds before in the video, where donglover is entering through the door on the right but nothing has happened yet, and the choir was labeled "people interested in libertarianism" and donglover was labeled "libertarians" god why do i remember this, even on the same day e: I just re-read my own post and it sounds completely unbelievable that someone would own themselves that hard with a meme. But it really happened. emdash has issued a correction as of 21:57 on May 17, 2018 |
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May 17, 2018 21:51
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Maybe not leap and bounds, but e.g. the F-35 is supposed to serve until 2070, which is a ridiculous conceit to the military industrial complex and political agenda and not a reflection of objective reality. Imagine VIetnam but fought with the Wright Flyer.
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May 17, 2018 21:52
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 a very good cat who was extremely high
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May 17, 2018 21:54
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steinrokkan posted:Imagine VIetnam but fought with the Wright Flyer. Imagine making a comparison so stupid.
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May 17, 2018 21:54
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imagine ww1 but with the halo energy sword
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mlmp08 posted:Imagine making a comparison so stupid. imagine being such a military dork you pretend you cant comprehend hyperbole
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May 17, 2018 21:55
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i played hearts of iron 2 in high school and let me tell you about how war works
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May 17, 2018 21:57
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It was mostly the idea of comparing WW3 with that time the US flipped out and really stupidly forced its way into Vietnamese internal conflicts. A WW3 scenario has nothing to do with some dumbass, ill-advised war where because we're so freaked out about communism, we became nation number whatever to go gently caress with the Vietnamese, who really just wanted everyone else to gently caress off and let them determine their own fate. Couldn't give a gently caress about the rest of how dumb your post was.
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May 17, 2018 21:58
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mlmp08 posted:It was mostly the idea of comparing WW3 with that time the US flipped out and really stupidly forced its way into Vietnamese internal conflicts. A WW3 scenario has nothing to do with some dumbass, ill-advised war where because we're so freaked out about communism, we became nation number whatever to go gently caress with the Vietnamese, who really just wanted everyone else to gently caress off and let them determine their own fate. wtf are you going on about
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May 17, 2018 22:00
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im playing eu4, because i like maps
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May 17, 2018 22:03
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you cant fight in here, this is the war room!! hehe who gets that reference 
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May 17, 2018 22:08
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BONGHITZ posted:im playing eu4, because i like maps i play it cause i like to destroy europeans
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May 17, 2018 22:08
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May 17, 2018 22:09
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I can't be bothered to learn/understand the Battletech Feudalism maps. Just shoot mechs with mechs.
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May 17, 2018 22:11
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mlmp08 posted:It was mostly the idea of comparing WW3 with that time the US flipped out and really stupidly forced its way into Vietnamese internal conflicts. A WW3 scenario has nothing to do with some dumbass, ill-advised war where because we're so freaked out about communism, we became nation number whatever to go gently caress with the Vietnamese, who really just wanted everyone else to gently caress off and let them determine their own fate. im the war nerd postin in fuckin lf
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May 17, 2018 22:13
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Yeah this is why I stopped posting in TFR/GIP. Well, the weird war sperging and the fact that all the posters seem to be either Nazis or the most infuriatingly centrist libs imaginable. Mostly that bit, actually.
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May 17, 2018 22:37
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May 17, 2018 22:38
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Peanut President posted:im the war nerd postin in fuckin lf i actually remember a fair bit of war nerd sperging in LF but it ended up discussing the role of 200 foot tall anime robots in conventional war so it was actually way better
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May 17, 2018 22:42
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Peanut President posted:im the war nerd postin in fuckin lf I only wish Dr Dolan was here instead of you stupid fuckheads
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May 17, 2018 22:49
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May 17, 2018 22:53
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BONGHITZ posted:imagine ww1 but with the halo energy sword bad rear end
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May 17, 2018 22:55
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steinrokkan posted:Maybe not leap and bounds, but e.g. the F-35 is supposed to serve until 2070, which is a ridiculous conceit to the military industrial complex and political agenda and not a reflection of objective reality. Imagine VIetnam but fought with the Wright Flyer. Having stuff in service for half a century happens all the time. What's ridiculous is that they expect to use the F-35 specifically for that long.
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May 17, 2018 22:56
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Having stuff in service for half a century happens all the time. What's ridiculous is that they expect to use the F-35
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May 17, 2018 22:59
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mlmp08 posted:the USAF could give up 100% of the funding to all A-10 programs and pax and still the Army couldn’t afford it. The USAF offered that and the army did a cost analysis and said “nope” due to the insane cost just to bring the program into the Army fold, much less maintain it. I'd like to see that study, any links?
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Kurdish villagers quite like the sound of US air power, it keeps the Daesh away.
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SimonCat posted:Kurdish villagers quite like the sound of US air power, it keeps the Daesh away. Pretty sure they're more concerned with Turkey now
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SimonCat posted:I'd like to see that study, any links? I'd have to dig through a bunch of poo poo to find the report I meant, but this more easily searchable article mentions the USAF offering the A-10 to the Army (with conditions), and the Army walked away due to concerns over threats to long range surface-to-surface/surface-to-air fires and helicopter procurement. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a530838.pdf Probably wise of the Army not to take any kind of short-term "win" of owning CAS and the A-10 in exchange for ensuring that the USAF was long-term involved in the CAS mission.
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May 18, 2018 01:05
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mlmp08 posted:I'd have to dig through a bunch of poo poo to find the report I meant, but this more easily searchable article mentions the USAF offering the A-10 to the Army (with conditions), and the Army walked away due to concerns over threats to long range surface-to-surface/surface-to-air fires and helicopter procurement. Yeah. I'm reading "How much is enough?" which is an analysis of the McNamara Systems Analysis program and a similar issue was found in the late 50s and early 60s. The Army was very focused on CAS while the Air Force was very focused on air superiority against the Russians with no one setting the starting point of what the end state should look like. One of McNamara's big contributions was changing the role of Secretary of Defense into one that set the goals of procurement policy, rather than letting the individual services run with it.
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May 18, 2018 01:26
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:i actually remember a fair bit of war nerd sperging in LF but it ended up discussing the role of 200 foot tall anime robots in conventional war so it was actually way better I don't remember that but I believe it.
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May 18, 2018 01:26
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Rigged Death Trap posted:I just noticed that big rear end scope on the gun. it's a tool of self defense and the scope is necessary to gank undesirables at 75 yards
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May 18, 2018 02:27
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What do you guys have against scopes? Scopes are good.
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May 18, 2018 02:29
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noscope 360 headshot national guardsmen
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May 18, 2018 02:37
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https://twitter.com/Almighty_Prismo/status/997156611469840387
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May 18, 2018 04:11
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https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/997306478171127808 https://twitter.com/FOX26Houston/status/996838789451427840?s=19
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Volcott posted:Counterpoint: these things are all cool. i went to an air show once. there was a lot of weird military propaganda but the part where they dropped bombs in front of the crowd was cool
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May 18, 2018 04:23
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Darkman Fanpage posted:https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/997306478171127808 some people dont get fiscal
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May 18, 2018 04:24
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i went to a military parade in russia once and they flew some big rear end bear bombers like 400 feet above us at stall speed, you could feel the wash from the 8 props i wish they fell on me
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i wish they fell on you too 
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