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OG Star Trek was intentionally made to appeal to WWII navy folks in language used and structure of the bridge. edit and explicitly in the sense of gene Roddenberry saying on film.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:OG Star Trek was intentionally made to appeal to WWII navy folks in language used and structure of the bridge. the last thing i would do in the ST commie luxury gayest universe is join starfleet
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May 13, 2022 01:56
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Didn’t Truman rise to prominence by cracking down on the MIC genuinely endangering the war effort in WW2? I remember he went after Curtis for the Helldiver being garbage and producing the P-40 long after it was obsolete.
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May 13, 2022 02:00
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Frosted Flake posted:Didn’t Truman rise to prominence by cracking down on the MIC genuinely endangering the war effort in WW2? I remember he went after Curtis for the Helldiver being garbage and producing the P-40 long after it was obsolete. The Second World War was also the last time the US was genuinely under pressure and couldn’t just let the MIC do what they wanted. Also, yeah, early during the war the US military was a complete mess.
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May 13, 2022 02:05
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Breakfast All Day posted:this one rots in seawater too. you might be confusing the new independence-class, which rots, and the new freedom-class, which rots, with the new zumwalt-class   SHOULD'VE GONE WITH RELIABLE STEAM. WE LOVE OUR STEAM DON'T WE FOLKS? 
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May 13, 2022 02:28
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is this one of those times hes right though?
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May 13, 2022 02:38
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i can only guess but steam probably is 100% fine but oops the f35 has terrible launches with it or something and we can't have that. railgun plane launchers at any cost please.
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May 13, 2022 02:51
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Steam has a better selection of games but Epic has a lot of freebies
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May 13, 2022 02:55
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The magnetic catapults break a lot but also the arresting gear breaks a lot and also the elevators break and because of this the newest US carrier is currently unable to handle F35s and will only run with F/A-18s and older planes when it launches later this year. This parade of problems probably makes it the most effective carrier, the ones with F35s are just expensive maintenance hangars. Pryor on Fire has issued a correction as of 03:00 on May 13, 2022 |
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May 13, 2022 02:57
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Pryor on Fire posted:The magnetic catapults break a lot but also the arresting gear breaks a lot and also the elevators break and because of this the newest US carrier is currently unable to handle F35s and will only run with F/A-18s and older planes when it launches later this year. Don't worry the latest Chinese carrier also has electro magnetic catapults! I'm sure theirs break just as often. In a war situation the carriers can just park next to each other and stare angrily whole their planes fail to take off.
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May 13, 2022 04:09
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Don't worry the latest Chinese carrier also has electro magnetic catapults! I'm sure theirs break just as often. You could probably move the fighters enough to point the weapons at the other carrier and shoot them. Basically just turn the F35 into a fixed turret on the deck.
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May 13, 2022 04:22
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Bar Ran Dun posted:OG Star Trek was intentionally made to appeal to WWII navy folks in language used and structure of the bridge. Sure yeah I mean Constitution class ship Enterprise. But later it was more "space" themed with like Galaxy and Nebula.
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May 13, 2022 04:44
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Southpaugh posted:is this one of those times hes right though? yeah i think sometimes his brain was kinda working right but the bit that controls his speech is mush for sure
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May 13, 2022 11:36
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hmm. should our giant floating $10B anti-ship missile clay pigeon not launch planes like this or not launch planes like this
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Is the broken carrier also the one with the high death count? Just a matter of time until a F-35 catches fire or a LCS is cut in half.
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May 13, 2022 13:40
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skooma512 posted:https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43069/metallurgist-admits-to-falsifying-navy-submarine-steel-strength-test-results-for-36-years oh hey, i'm a plank owner of one the boats in the article
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Frosted Flake posted:Is the broken carrier also the one with the high death count? Just a matter of time until a F-35 catches fire or a LCS is cut in half. yes it has a high body count because its in dock for repair and is in an uninhabitable/unsanitary state during repairs while sailors are still compelled to live on it
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No the broken carrier is the newest one that is supposed to launch this year. The one in maintenance for years longer than planned is also broken, but not as much.
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Pryor on Fire posted:No the broken carrier is the newest one that is supposed to launch this year. The one in maintenance for years longer than planned is also broken, but not as much. Yeah, the Ford was commissioned 5 years ago, and it is suppose to be combat operational this year but I wonder if they just aren’t going to slap a “good enough” sticker on it and generally keep it out of harms away. The George Washington is where the sailors are killing themselves because of living conditions.
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Ardennes posted:The George Washington is where the sailors are killing themselves because of living conditions. 
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skooma512 posted:https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43069/metallurgist-admits-to-falsifying-navy-submarine-steel-strength-test-results-for-36-years Do you really think that other countries MIC isn't full of grifters and weasels? Have you looked Russian performance in Ukraine?
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May 14, 2022 11:24
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Fish of hemp posted:Do you really think that other countries MIC isn't full of grifters and weasels? Have you looked Russian performance in Ukraine? When a Chinese shipyard screwed up their carrier they executed the guy, so, you know Other countries have State Arsenals which means there’s no grift by virtue of bureaucrats and civil servants running the show for Good Boy Points instead of profit.
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Fish of hemp posted:Do you really think that other countries MIC isn't full of grifters and weasels? Have you looked Russian performance in Ukraine? at least the bad russian gear was sitting around for 50 years and not brand new
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Real hurthling! posted:at least the bad russian gear was sitting around for 50 years and not brand new brand new t90s didn't fair any better than the old t72s against saint javelin and comrade bayraktar
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May 14, 2022 16:46
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chairface posted:saint javelin and comrade bayraktar 
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skooma512 posted:https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43069/metallurgist-admits-to-falsifying-navy-submarine-steel-strength-test-results-for-36-years in this lady's defense, i really can't figure out a reason why the steel for a submarine needs to be tested at -100 degrees, i think you'd have bigger problems to worry about like "the entire loving planet has iced over" or "help my submarine has beached itself in antarctica".
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redneck nazgul posted:in this lady's defense, i really can't figure out a reason why the steel for a submarine needs to be tested at -100 degrees, i think you'd have bigger problems to worry about like "the entire loving planet has iced over" or "help my submarine has beached itself in antarctica". I hope the people testing the H-bombs feel the same way. ww3 happens and all the ICBMs just crash into each other or explode on the launch pad like Don't Look Up Rutibex has issued a correction as of 17:02 on May 14, 2022 |
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Rutibex posted:I hope the people testing the H-bombs feel the same way. ww3 happens and all the ICBMs just crash into each other or explode on the launch pad like Don't Look Up tom clancy theorized that all russia's silos were underwater from disrepair, so it would be fine to nuke them without retaliation
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redneck nazgul posted:in this lady's defense, i really can't figure out a reason why the steel for a submarine needs to be tested at -100 degrees, i think you'd have bigger problems to worry about like "the entire loving planet has iced over" or "help my submarine has beached itself in antarctica". brittleness in cold is historically a reason for steel failure leading to cracking and catastrophic failure in vessel hulls. the term for it is ductile to brittle transition temperature it’s that margin excessive?...probably but subs are going encounter the highest pressures and will be in some of the coldest water at depth. they may also have increased it for cyclical temperature stresses and to account for the lifespan of the vessel. it’s also strongly possible they didn’t account for what was actually obtainable for strengths of materials.
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chairface posted:brand new t90s didn't fair any better than the old t72s against saint javelin and comrade bayraktar http://www.reddit.com
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i say swears online posted:tom clancy theorized that all russia's silos were underwater from disrepair, so it would be fine to nuke them without retaliation Lol Russia isn't the one bumming rides to the international space station
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Frosted Flake posted:When a Chinese shipyard screwed up their carrier they executed the guy, so, you know There's absolutely grift, but there's usually more consequences when it gets exposed. I think the most recent scandal from the Russian side is that they overpaid for their radios? Some general is taking the fall for it.
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yea while grift exists everywhere, the main difference is that in most countries grifting too much gets you punished but in the us grifting too hard means that the government will reward you with even more money to fix the problem you yourself created
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Lostconfused posted:There's absolutely grift, but there's usually more consequences when it gets exposed.
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Cerebral Bore posted:yea while grift exists everywhere, the main difference is that in most countries grifting too much gets you punished but in the us grifting too hard means that the government will reward you with even more money to fix the problem you yourself created How fast we have forgotten Fat Leaonard and his thai seal team.
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dont subs need to go under the ice caps? probably cold there
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Real hurthling! posted:dont subs need to go under the ice caps? probably cold there
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Real hurthling! posted:dont subs need to go under the ice caps? probably cold there probably not that cold, actually. seawater reaches its maximum density at about 0°C, so in polar waters the water is actually at its coldest at the surface and the deeper you go the closer it gets to zero
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Just thinking back to Cold War US sub accidents and I’m going to firmly side with “steel quality matters”. USS Scorpion might have been structural failure, right?
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Frosted Flake posted:Just thinking back to Cold War US sub accidents and I’m going to firmly side with “steel quality matters”. USS Scorpion might have been structural failure, right? it’s unknown on that one. but yes it matters and it’s a finicky thing. as you use higher strength steels that allows you to use thinner plates, things get less tough and more brittle and cracking becomes more of a concern. so the navy’s quest to meet performance criteria can be self defeating as it bumps up against the properties of materials. this is the root of the major issues with the littoral combat ships . but those were conceived 30 years ago even if they are newish now. so does the navy still have this conceptual flaw in what it wants... yes probably
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