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The new OP should probably include Cold War-as-gently caress stories of various equipment or tactics, from various countries, to get the mood right. Nebucadnezzars effort posts, for example.
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We should probably
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And then it breaks apart and pieces of it are sold cheaply and bunch of really bad posters get a away to resurface later?
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slothrop posted:We should probably
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# ? Jan 7, 2020 11:13 |
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Just put a bunch of cool pictures, like this one:
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# ? Jan 7, 2020 11:30 |
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slothrop posted:We should probably
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# ? Jan 7, 2020 12:18 |
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I have no idea why, but for dumb reasons, this image reminded me of:
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# ? Jan 7, 2020 12:30 |
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IPCRESS posted:I have no idea why, but for dumb reasons, this image reminded me of: The fuel runs out..... so they send a....jet.
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IPCRESS posted:I have no idea why, but for dumb reasons, this image reminded me of: This looks amazing
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# ? Jan 7, 2020 12:36 |
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My contribution to a new thread, shamelessly stolen from the internet If you don't like the bone you can just
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# ? Jan 7, 2020 13:42 |
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woops
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# ? Jan 7, 2020 14:18 |
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https://twitter.com/danielmkim/status/1214559930499231744
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Cyrano4747 posted:Well, someone should make a cool OP that talks about swedish interceptors from the 70s or something. The "Swedish interceptors from the 70s were good" thing is just a canard.
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I support the wall coming down in 1991. Got a lot of good memories ITT. My personal favorite is when we were talking about volcanic eruptions and a climate scientist kindly educated me on some stuff I'd been wondering about Vahakyla posted:The new OP should probably include Cold War-as-gently caress stories of various equipment or tactics, from various countries, to get the mood right. Nebucadnezzars effort posts, for example. OK, well, here are some of mine. There are fuckin' scads of good effortposts ITT. One that leaps to mind is a British dude explaining WTF nuclear weapons and why MIRVs kinda killed gigantic bombs and that's not a good thing list of SSBNs, historical and current Beloved Doc: 1970s ICBM basing options The tenth time I was put on a government watch list CNN's official video to play in case "the world ends" Kirov class battlecruiser infodump 1 Kirov Class Battlecruiser infodump 2 Kirov class the Third: plus the Ural, one of many peaks of 1980s USSR rot Nebakenezzer posted:Sad news, friends: The Nuclear Security Administration Lost a Film Titled 'Skull Melting Demonstration' JcDent posted:A maybe more on topic question: so USSR has T-64, T-72 and T-80 being produced at the same time. What should be cut out/left out to optimize the tank production? Nebakenezzer posted:A few months ago, Xerxes17 in the mil history thread did some excellent effort posts on Soviet tank development. While the products were sometimes revolutionary (T-64) or quite useful (T-72) the story does talk about a poo poo-ton of needless competition, political shenanigans, and a process that has the Soviet Union fielding three MBTs with nothing common between them. If that's all TL;DR: Stairmaster posted:Don't bother with the T-80 at all in the first place. Stop the T-64 production once the T-72 variants are on par(So around the T-72B). On why Zombies are dumb, a microbiological perspective: That Works posted:I'll try not to write a whole essay on it but it's a fun teaching tool. Nebakenezzer posted:To get away from depression and Trump: Nebakenezzer posted:Hey, *I* was going to post a very long article, in this case, Russia's fascist inspiration: Nebakenezzer posted:OK, so Ivan Ilyin, this intellectual managed to combine fascist-style mystic Russian nationalism, fascist hostility to law and rational government, some assumptions that make communists nod in agreement, and a incredibly bizarre religious take. Here is a fascist who never really understood the joke of "there being no truth, and that is a Truth." The cash value of this insanity is that the dude believed "the ends justify any means" and "human life is as worthless as truth" (and that is a truth.) I've no idea how much Putin and co actually believe in this poo poo, but if you want to justify government-less authoritarianism combined with mythical nationalism and justification to do literally whatever you want , his thinking is useful, right down to his sex anxiety. His essays have been given to officials, and Putin has quotes him frequently in speeches. If you think fascism is an aesthetic political movement, then Ilyin appears to be a major style influence in the current government. Nebakenezzer posted:It's totally true that the only reason the type hasn't been given up is that it allows shorty carriers of dubious utility Nebakenezzer posted:The Cold War thread, a few years ago talked about this. There's a 1950s training film on youtube called "A Day Called X", a full dress rehearsal evacuation of - Portland, Or? A city on the West Coast. Anyway, by the video's account anyway, the evacuation was successful. Even people in hospitals and such were evacuated to designated areas - the entire municipal government also had a nuclear hardened shelter in under a mountain to coordinate, with several officials having the full-time job of evacuation planning. As part of the planning, they also evacuated all the city's utility trucks to help in disaster relief and reconnection of services. Nebakenezzer posted:Thyre be dragons:
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I can get behind 1991 as an end date for this thread. Also gives anyone who wants to write a kick rear end OP time to put their effort hat on.
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# ? Jan 7, 2020 18:36 |
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Any new op needs Genies, SR71s doing ATC speed checks, and unrealistic ejection scenarios.
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Schadenboner posted:
There also aren't a lot of tails to tell about them.
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As we prepare to say goodbye to this thread, I would like to thank it for providing the most perfect pun lay-ups one could hope to ask for.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:There also aren't a lot of tails to tell about them.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I can get behind 1991 as an end date for this thread. Out of curiosity, what is the rationale behind locking old threads and starting new identical threads?
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Splode posted:Out of curiosity, what is the rationale behind locking old threads and starting new identical threads? The Cold War ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Splode posted:Out of curiosity, what is the rationale behind locking old threads and starting new identical threads? There's a few things. The most important is that it breaths life into things. A lot of users get really daunted by seeing a 1k+ page thread. It's hard to just jump in and inevitably you find that when they reboot you get a surge of new posters. gently caress, I just recently started actively participating in the GBS OSHA thread after literally years of trying to catch up with the old one. It's easy to say "just skip to the end" but the reality is that people dont. There's some forums backend stuff that it also helps out with. It's not as necessary as it used to be (once upon a time there was a hard cap that we didn't like to go over) but it's still good practice. Also forums culture changes over time in subtle and sometimes not subtle ways. Like, a few weeks ago I had a poster PM me a worried message about some hosed up poo poo they saw PCOS Bill post back in like 2014 or something. They were catching up on a thread and didn't realize that they were over five years behind on it and legit thought they needed to make a mod aware of what they thought was really lovely behavior that was uncharacteristic of TFR. So it's generally best to refresh things now and again so that dumb stuff from a decade ago isn't just perpetually hanging out and waiting to cause anther headache, even if it's a short lived "yo that was a long time ago" flavored one. The first bit is the most important by far though. Keeping threads fresh is a big part of how you make them accessible and welcoming to new posters.
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Iran just attacked an Airbase in Iraq https://twitter.com/Mahdiibakhtiari/status/1214683353540186112?s=20 https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/politics/rockets-us-airbase-iraq/index.html
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Per thread rules and not beating a dead horse, not going to say anything political. But I bet there's a whole lot going on in air defense artillery.
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Captain von Trapp posted:Per thread rules and not beating a dead horse, not going to say anything political. But I bet there's a whole lot going on in air defense artillery. The unfortunate part is outside of dedicated Patriot locations we’re kind of terrible at it
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Cyrano4747 posted:There's a few things. That's a lot of words to say "new decade new thread"
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Anybody got a good breakdown on Iranian SRBM forces or should I just wiki it?
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Smiling Jack posted:Anybody got a good breakdown on Iranian SRBM forces or should I just wiki it? I've seen early analysis that these are probably Fateh-110 missiles, but we should all doubt everything for now. e: That particular missile is believed to be a multi-generational development with ancestry back to the Soviet era Luna-M missile, which is cold war as gently caress. glynnenstein fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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Mazz posted:The unfortunate part is outside of dedicated Patriot locations we’re kind of terrible at it Honestly I was more thinking about whoever the poor Iranian grunts are who're manning their air defense. Whether anything happens or not, they're definitely earning their pay.
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Mazz posted:The unfortunate part is outside of dedicated Patriot locations we’re kind of terrible at it Patriot and the SM-2 are world class when it comes to long range air defense. The ESSM is a damned good medium range SAM. Stinger and RAM are excellent short range air defenses. It's medium range stuff on land we're terrible at until a system to do the job gets rolled out.
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man, i was reading twitter (i know) and it is kind of surprising just how badly misinformed the entire planet seems to be about patriotSmiling Jack posted:Anybody got a good breakdown on Iranian SRBM forces or should I just wiki it? https://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Power%20Publications/Iran_Military_Power_LR.pdf based on the very blurry video from CNN, they are almost certainly f110 missiles. they're solid fuel motors, being launched off the vertical, and assuming the reports of them hitting something as small as an airbase (and only the airbase) are accurate, that rules out the bigger unguided rockets. bewbies fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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bewbies posted:man, i was reading twitter (i know) and it is kind of surprising just how badly misinformed the entire planet seems to be about patriot Nobody understands anything about missiles, much less missile defense. National media outlets and expert(?) pundits regularly make statements that are not merely wrong but defy the laws of physics.
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I once got a phone call from a well meaning guy in Syria asking how to “call for fire” from the Patriot forces two countries away.
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So, this is only going to get worse and stupid...er, right? Please tell me my expert analysis is wrong.
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Captain Log posted:So, this is only going to get worse and stupid...er, right? Please tell me my expert analysis is wrong. Right now, your guess is as good as any. But that's roughly in line with what just about everyone else believes.
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Captain Log posted:So, this is only going to get worse and stupid...er, right? Please tell me my expert analysis is wrong. https://twitter.com/aliarouzi/status/1214723068377096195 Your expert analysis may possibly be wrong.
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What response could they have that would be, “crushing?” Iran has always been known for their extremely bombastic view towards words.
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Captain Log posted:What response could they have that would be, “crushing?” Iran has always been known for their extremely bombastic view towards words. Whipping those IRBMs at Saudi oil infrastructure would probably make a pretty serious mess.
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Captain Log posted:What response could they have that would be, “crushing?” Iran has always been known for their extremely bombastic view towards words.
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