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The Oldest Man posted:Chinese pilots haven’t been tested in a fight MacArthur: untested yellowskins won't win in Korea either
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Palladium posted:MacArthur: untested yellowskins won't win in Korea either I believe the last air to air kill made by an American pilot was in 1994 wasn't it lol
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The Oldest Man posted:I believe the last air to air kill made by an American pilot was in 1994 wasn't it lol I dunno but an Iraqi Mig-25 shot down an F-18 in 1991
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The Oldest Man posted:I believe the last air to air kill made by an American pilot was in 1994 wasn't it lol Nah it was on 9/11
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Danann posted:
Meskvich Kelkhez? What?
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Danann posted:
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lmfao that's the decal I put on all my russian vehicles in war thunder
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i say swears online posted:lmfao that's the decal I put on all my russian vehicles in war thunder Hell yeah comrade
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So is War thunder different from the "World of WarX" games? because I played those back in the day and they sound identical.
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I think war thunder is the og version and also started with planes and expanded to tanks and most recently the ships but I don't think I've played since like 2013
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Retromancer posted:So is War thunder different from the "World of WarX" games? because I played those back in the day and they sound identical. World of Tanks and World of Warships are from the same developer, but those are two different games, and their monetization/grind is pretty brutal. They tried to do a World of Warplanes game but I think it flopped and died. War Thunder is by a different dev, and began its life as mainly focused on planes. They did branch out to tanks later, but it was well-planned-out enough that they're better integrated into the same game/ecosystem. I think the monetization scheme might be a little less punishing than what WoT does, and War Thunder's other distinguishing gimmicks are that A. it doesn't limit itself to just World War 2 and the timeline of available tanks and planes actually extends into the modern era and B. it has explicit modes for "arcade/casual" versus "realistic"
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and also sim mode but gently caress sim mode lol cannot express enough how fun dogfights in biplanes are
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Realistic mode is best for tanks; arcade mode is super fun for planes
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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1508499560427048963?s=20&t=9qM-_pQp6VOIaXPZDXTx1g Welcome back to the MIC, Canada
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Endman posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1508499560427048963?s=20&t=9qM-_pQp6VOIaXPZDXTx1g they'd be better off restarting the Avro Arrow project
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Endman posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1508499560427048963?s=20&t=9qM-_pQp6VOIaXPZDXTx1g 88, huh
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8 is a lucky number for Chinese people and we have a large Chinese demographic. We also have a sizeable nazi demographic. It's probably just a coincidence though.
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Endman posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1508499560427048963?s=20&t=9qM-_pQp6VOIaXPZDXTx1g any time an F35 is sold I should get a return on my loving investment
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France is the last major hold out now. Also, the USN wants to halve its orders of f-35, it would rather keep the f-18 for some reason.
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Endman posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1508499560427048963?s=20&t=9qM-_pQp6VOIaXPZDXTx1g just buy god drat super hornets ffs this country is so stupid
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Wheeee posted:just buy god drat super hornets ffs We already ruled those out last year. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/boeing-fighter-jets-1.6262851 quote:Boeing has been told that its bid to replace Canada's aging CF-18s with a new fleet of the American company's Super Hornet fighter jets did not meet the federal government's requirements. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 04:12 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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I'm reading David Stahel's book on Army Group South during Barbarossa, and he goes into a little detail about how the Romanian Army basically exhausted itself trying to take Odessa with frontal assaults and other bad tactics, to the point where they took a hundred-thousand casualties just trying to take this one city (and they didn't even "take" it because the Soviets evacuated their coastal army over the Black Sea) and it got me thinking: what are good tactics and strategy when it comes to taking a city/urban combat? Like, strategically maybe you want to destroy the enemy army before they ensconce themselves inside a city if you can help it, and politically you might want to see if it's possible to get them to not fight for the city block-by-block. Operationally you'll want to invest/siege a city so that you starve them out instead of having to root out defenders out of every last basement and attic. Specifically the Axis failed to do this at Odessa because they never isolated the city from sea-borne resupply and reinforcement, and you kinda see the same thing happen with Stalingrad. But assuming you DO have to start taking an urban area in house-to-house fighting... what is the playbook on that? how do you do it without going down in history as a dumbfuck commander that threw away his men's lives in frontal assaults?
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm reading David Stahel's book on Army Group South during Barbarossa, and he goes into a little detail about how the Romanian Army basically exhausted itself trying to take Odessa with frontal assaults and other bad tactics, to the point where they took a hundred-thousand casualties just trying to take this one city (and they didn't even "take" it because the Soviets evacuated their coastal army over the Black Sea) and it got me thinking: what are good tactics and strategy when it comes to taking a city/urban combat? so yeah in a modern context, if you go all american on their rear end you just bomb it to smithereens until there isn't much left and bing bong now you "took" it.
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Lostconfused posted:We already ruled those out last year. oh drat those must be some wild requirements quote:The Liberals promised in 2015 not to buy the F-35, but to instead launch an open competition to replace the CF-18s. They later planned to buy 18 Super Hornets without a competition as an "interim" measure to ensure Canada had enough aircraft until permanent replacements could be purchased. oh
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Wheeee posted:"requirements" good ole grifting
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm reading David Stahel's book on Army Group South during Barbarossa, and he goes into a little detail about how the Romanian Army basically exhausted itself trying to take Odessa with frontal assaults and other bad tactics, to the point where they took a hundred-thousand casualties just trying to take this one city (and they didn't even "take" it because the Soviets evacuated their coastal army over the Black Sea) and it got me thinking: what are good tactics and strategy when it comes to taking a city/urban combat? Yeah it's either starve them out or you level the city, anything else is going to involve heavy combat. You could also get cute with it and use poo poo like artillery and firebombs to kettle them but that's risky
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Endman posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1508499560427048963?s=20&t=9qM-_pQp6VOIaXPZDXTx1g https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-force-just-admitted-the-f-35-stealth-fighter-has-failed/?sh=2e828d2c1b16 lmfao
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I remember when the F-22 was the poster child for a hyper expensive MIC boondoggle but next to the F-35 it looks like a goddamn masterpiece.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm reading David Stahel's book on Army Group South during Barbarossa, and he goes into a little detail about how the Romanian Army basically exhausted itself trying to take Odessa with frontal assaults and other bad tactics, to the point where they took a hundred-thousand casualties just trying to take this one city (and they didn't even "take" it because the Soviets evacuated their coastal army over the Black Sea) and it got me thinking: what are good tactics and strategy when it comes to taking a city/urban combat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb
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Retromancer posted:I remember when the F-22 was the poster child for a hyper expensive MIC boondoggle but next to the F-35 it looks like a goddamn masterpiece. Well, making moder jet fighter is hard.
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latest photo of the JXY/35. Wonder if the Chinese MIC overshoot their budgets as well.
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Retromancer posted:I remember when the F-22 was the poster child for a hyper expensive MIC boondoggle but next to the F-35 it looks like a goddamn masterpiece. The F-22’s major problem was its colossal expense in not just initial purchase but ongoing maintenance. Turns out trying to make a cheaper F-22 doesn’t work. It’s also not cheaper lmao
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Endman posted:The F-22’s major problem was its colossal expense in not just initial purchase but ongoing maintenance. but they called it the raptor when jurrassic park was cool so im good. dont even miss health care or roads
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GlassEye-Boy posted:latest photo of the JXY/35. Wonder if the Chinese MIC overshoot their budgets as well. is that weird lighting or is that jawn green
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indigi posted:is that weird lighting or is that jawn green it's unpainted, it's that colour because that's the colour of the primer
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The F-22 existing means that we will always have a bomb rear end endgame plane in Ace Combat, so clearly it was worth the $70 billion. Even the arcadey flight game where planes carry 60 missiles into a sortie, routinely involve anime superweapons, and wars are turned on the actions of 1-2 ace pilots can't pretend the F-35 is good.
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Retromancer posted:The F-22 existing means that we will always have a bomb rear end endgame plane in Ace Combat, so clearly it was worth the $70 billion. I can't wait for another Ace Combat game, the cheesy cutscenes and also addictive unlock system as you go through the campaign. Project Wingman was a similar game that captured the best of the Ace Combat formula
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