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My impression was that even leveling the city doesn't work (short of like nuclear weapons) because you're not gonna kill everyone and the ruins are even worse to fight in than buildings
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StashAugustine posted:My impression was that even leveling the city doesn't work (short of like nuclear weapons) because you're not gonna kill everyone and the ruins are even worse to fight in than buildings Especially when you rely as heavily on armor as the Russians do. Sure, you might be able to roll over that demolished building, but it still slows you down and leave you a vulnerable target.
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The best way to take a city is simply the element of the surprise and be able to enter it before the other force can seriously mobilize (this is what the Russians did in southern Ukraine.)
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Ardennes posted:The best way to take a city is simply the element of the surprise and be able to enter it before the other force can seriously mobilize (this is what the Russians did in southern Ukraine.) Or the brilliant strategy the Taliban used to get whole cities to defect and switch sides instead letting them get turned into urban warzones
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Real hurthling! posted:but they called it the raptor when jurrassic park was cool so im good. dont even miss health care or roads They made video game real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDxssLBC_tQ
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quote:1. The jet that rusts part is specific only to the F-35C variant, or the aircraft carrier variant. If our Air Force(AF) gets the F-35, it would be the A variant. And there's really nothing you can do about nature. And even though it rusts, as it said in the link, it will do little to affect it's radar cross-section and it will still be the top aircraft carrier fighter until the 6th gen fighter come. And also, it's the F-35Cs very first carrier deployment so there really are bound to be mistakes seen.
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I’m sure the F-35 will eventually be revised into a decent plane in a couple decades after another trillion dollars have been spent and manned fighters have been made completely obsolete
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The more you avoid combat the more invincible you are
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At least the F-22 fuckin worked eventually
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The real advantage the F-22 has over the F-35 is that it's much more aesthetically pleasing, the dobermann to the F-35's pug.
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Seriously tho the F-35 is the latest iteration of "bloated piece of poo poo that doesn't do what it was intended to do" just like the Bradley fighting vehicle it will not be the last Grandpa Palpatine has issued a correction as of 03:41 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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Its purpose is to make a whole heap of cash for defence contractors and the people they give kickbacks to, and it's a roaring success. They've even convinced the stupider parts of the anglosphere to buy in as well!
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Grandpa Palpatine posted:Seriously tho the Pentagon Wars Cinematic Universe
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Grandpa Palpatine posted:Seriously tho there was an HBO movie about some of the bullshit procurement corruption behind the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle it starred Cary Elwes and I liked it at the time I saw it but that was a long goddamn time ago apparently the Bradley wasn't handling rpg hits well, so the brass' big idea was to switch to using older, obsolete Soviet missiles in the testing so the Bradley could pass its tests
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When Denmark was deciding on its F-16 replacement, the options were the Super Hornet, Eurofighter or F-35, and Lockheed and Boeing would advertise their plane next to diaper sales. Of course we went with the shittiest and most expensive option. When the Air Force borrowed a simulator, one of only four in existence, it caught fire and was totally destroyed. 
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SplitSoul posted:
Are you really saying that you would have preferred Eurofighter?
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denmark selling greenland to trump would be smarter than buying the F35
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outside of thread context, but re: Denmark Chat, Nicholas Winding Refn's Pusher trilogy is up on Prime now, I'd been waiting ages to see it and now you can too Mads Mikkelsen plays a very convincing junkie failson, maybe there's a Hunter Biden biopic in his future
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Fish of hemp posted:Are you really saying that you would have preferred Eurofighter? I honestly thought he was talking about the Eurofighter
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A while back, but part of Romania’s problem was that they had a political need to accomplish as much as possible, with as little help as possible and so prove themselves a valuable member of the Axis, and that they wanted to ensure that they firmly controlled the areas of the Soviet Union they wished to possess after the war, and not ask Germany to grant it to them. This wasn’t unique to Romania, all of the “Minor Axis” countries struggled with this one way or another, because the coalition wasn’t nearly as well, - allied - as the Western Allies. I think the military performance of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Italy to an extent has to be viewed through the lens of this bizarre Team of Rivals dynamic.
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Posting Russian BTG OOB visualization in here for easy reference in the future ( and also because globalsecurity gets annoying with the paywall):  
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apparently there are carrier killers on surface botes now https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1516520842334720006
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Real hurthling! posted:why did america allow a hypersonic missile gap No nazis left to make good rockets for them
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Real hurthling! posted:why did america allow a hypersonic missile gap it starts with an F and ends with a 35
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pictured a typical infantry soldier in the PLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxnC6jkJyEM
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Oglethorpe posted:it's the intergalactic weapon of choice stargateguy uses p90s and doesn’t afraid of anything
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I would buy a P90 for fun but the bullets are like $1 each lol
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 huh that's a lot of stuff i didn't realize was important for industrial applications
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Danann posted:
im getting EVE online flashbacks from this list
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Lastgirl posted:stargateguy uses p90s and doesn’t afraid of anything Having an assault rifle or any weapon effective beyond 100m would cause feedback effects in the gate and make it explode
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Rutibex posted:im getting EVE online flashbacks from this list same except System Shock II
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same except Protostar
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Fish of hemp posted:Are you really saying that you would have preferred Eurofighter? what's wrong with the Eurofighter?
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Any fighter is better than the one that is always in the hangar because it needs 1,000 unplanned maintenance hours and you have neverending parts shortages and personnel shortages. This is how the US Air Force describes the F22 and F35 in their own scathing reports year after year.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Any fighter is better than the one that is always in the hangar because it needs 1,000 unplanned maintenance hours Yes, that's Eurofighter. Making modern fighter jet is hard.
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Fish of hemp posted:Yes, that's Eurofighter. it’s really unfair of the oppressed nations of the world to invest in drones and hypersonic missiles, I’d go so far to say it’s cheating
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Fish of hemp posted:Yes, that's Eurofighter. Sure is when the main goal is grifting as much government money as possible and not building an effective plane
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I thought this was pretty interesting and wasn’t sure where else to post it. I have access to the PE of Command Modern Operations but never use it because I’m not an air or naval guy, and other than research for a paper on “Field Artillery in the Coastal Role” have not read too much on boat stuff. Anyways I was going through their databases, checking out the modern Chinese navy, whatever whatever it seemed neat. You know, impressive how quickly they built those two new carriers, taking a look at their new ASMs. PE has hypersonic weapons in the database but I barely understand CMO let alone the actual systems. It turns out there is a huge Chinese community for CMO/CMANO. Like, massive forum, just on CMO, that has posters painstakingly translating not just the game - including decrypting the exe and database files to add localization - but translating the names of all of these western weapons systems, their descriptions, and then translating western reference books and papers too. Their reference book thread is pretty amazing, and that they found and translated all of this stuff on their own, wow. I don’t know if Grogs are a thing in China, or if these are university students or whatever, but the work that went into understanding naval affairs, just to play this English language game with no localization, it’s incredible. All of that to say, I would guess the Chinese people are really proud of and engaged with their Navy. It kind of reminds me of the 1910’s when there were books like Jane’s for regular people since the British public wanted to know every ship in the Royal Navy and the latest developments in ship design. Forum is called something like The Operational Art of War, which is confusing since TOAW is already the name of a completely different wargame in English.
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