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Bar Ran Dun posted:so does the navy still have this conceptual flaw in what it wants... yes probably they're still making aircraft carriers lol
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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? i read a book 10 years ago claiming theres acoustic evidence for macho bullshit cold wars bumper cars that we know took place between russian/american subs on the day the scorpion was lost
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# ? May 14, 2022 20:03 |
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Cerebral Bore posted: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 right like it might be 50 below one day if they need to come up through an ice sheet to launch the missiles
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# ? May 14, 2022 20:04 |
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animist posted:they're still making aircraft carriers lol Aircraft carriers “work” doctrinally insofar as their purpose is to rapidly bomb small states or non-state actors within small states. Their stated doctrinal role in major power conflict has been obsolete since the 70’s with the Tu-22, and only increased with time and the potency of ASMs and those massive Soviet anti-ship missiles. However, the Navy has engaged in magical thinking since the early 80’s to work around this, stating than an Alpha Strike from a supercarrier is a real thing that will happen in wartime.
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# ? May 14, 2022 21:26 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:yeah i think sometimes his brain was kinda working right but the bit that controls his speech is mush for sure I mean Trump is a dumb guy, but his saving grace was that his attention span prevented him from absorbing the logic of the MIC, even when they blared it at him. Thus he could reiterate extremely obvious ways the Great Satan is hosed up like “we kill people too,” “a trillion dollars for a plane that can’t fly is a bad deal,” and “the US being the only country to pay into NATO is a bad deal.” Of course he’s too dumb, lazy, and greedy to do anything about it, which is why he left office getting banned on twitter as opposed to getting Dallas’d.
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maybe we should just have a series of outwardly beligerent and stupid presidents to chaperone this decrepit and evil empire into its sunset years and prompt euthanasia???
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# ? May 14, 2022 21:45 |
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Riot Bimbo posted:maybe we should just have a series of outwardly beligerent and stupid presidents to chaperone this decrepit and evil empire into its sunset years and prompt euthanasia??? biden is basically emperor Tiberius, a weirdo ancient pedophile doing nothing from his palace. which means up next is Caligula
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# ? May 14, 2022 23:23 |
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Frosted Flake posted:When a Chinese shipyard screwed up their carrier they executed the guy, so, you know Well have they made a working aircraft carrier after that?
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# ? May 14, 2022 23:29 |
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Fish of hemp posted:Well have they made a working aircraft carrier after that? 2 in service 1 under construction iirc
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# ? May 14, 2022 23:31 |
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Frosted Flake posted:2 in service 1 under construction iirc but do you really think their asiatic authoritarian mindsets can really produce a proper carrier like our free western ones can?
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# ? May 15, 2022 06:10 |
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it is only 2012 they could land on one. that’s a lotta doctrine to work out in a decade
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# ? May 15, 2022 06:18 |
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The Navy should have gone with figurative combat ships.
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# ? May 15, 2022 06:37 |
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A Russian troll farm posted:but do you really think their asiatic authoritarian mindsets can really produce a proper carrier like our free western ones can? No, I'm pretty sure their supreme collectivist communist morality will make them even unable to contemplate grifting and cutting corners to their own advantage.
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# ? May 15, 2022 12:02 |
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Southpaugh posted:is this one of those times hes right though?
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# ? May 15, 2022 17:10 |
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Bar Crow posted:The Navy should have gone with figurative combat ships. lol
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Trump is a baby who sees things with innocent eyes so he's like "can you believe the korean war never ended? We should end it!" which is correct but he literally didn't know that until someone told him. That can be a good thing but also a very bad thing when he tries to nuke China but hes donald the dove.
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Bar Crow posted:The Navy should have gone with figurative combat ships. rhetorical combat ships are the new fad these days
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# ? May 15, 2022 19:58 |
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the navy has laid down the new blackpill-class cruisers
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# ? May 15, 2022 19:59 |
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the navy doomscroller
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# ? May 15, 2022 20:16 |
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There is still a use for carriers outside bombing small nations, fighters can still launch their own anti-ship missiles and try to intercept other missiles but it is a numbers game. The issue the US is having is not only many of its carriers need to be retired soon but tbh f-35 is a complete mess that has a sustainably low readiness rate while the US can’t buy more f-18s. In addition, the US is having to retire its cruisers and now is being distracted by the Russians. Basically, the US’ strategy in the Pacific is hoping Japan/SK/Australia do all the heavy lifting because the US doesn’t have the fleet strength to challenge China directly.
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1525892925384601600
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# ? May 16, 2022 00:17 |
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Fish of hemp posted:No, I'm pretty sure their supreme collectivist communist morality will make them even unable to contemplate grifting and cutting corners to their own advantage. correct
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# ? May 16, 2022 01:28 |
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Man that architect was either really subversive or really loving dumb.
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# ? May 16, 2022 01:42 |
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Or, y'know,
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# ? May 16, 2022 01:43 |
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I, L, H and U shaped barracks buildings are pretty common for reasons I can’t remember - something about hallways, so I can see trying to place 4 in a square block like that would lead to that, but only pre 1940 or whatever when nobody considered the combined shape.
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# ? May 16, 2022 02:40 |
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that’s Coronado and I think that building is from the 60’s
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# ? May 16, 2022 03:00 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:that’s Coronado and I think that building is from the 60’s so the architect was probably just a Hogan’s Heroes fan
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# ? May 16, 2022 03:47 |
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If I'm remembering correctly that building didn't initially look like that, but there was an addition made to it that they did nazi coming.
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# ? May 16, 2022 15:24 |
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I remember reading of a town that planted a bunch of trees in the shape of a swastika in their forest during ww2. 50 years later someone notices these trees from a helicopter because they grew up. so the local town council pays to have the trees cut down, leaving a swastika shaped hole in their forest......
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Rutibex posted:I remember reading of a town that planted a bunch of trees in the shape of a swastika in their forest during ww2. 50 years later someone notices these trees from a helicopter because they grew up. so the local town council pays to have the trees cut down, leaving a swastika shaped hole in their forest...... the nazis did that loving everywhere they invaded, they are still found in the weirdest spots
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# ? May 16, 2022 18:10 |
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the trees turned red at a time of year. thats how they saw them
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Rutibex posted:I remember reading of a town that planted a bunch of trees in the shape of a swastika in their forest during ww2. 50 years later someone notices these trees from a helicopter because they grew up. so the local town council pays to have the trees cut down, leaving a swastika shaped hole in their forest...... i learned about it from a ytmnd meme lol
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Trump is a baby who sees things with innocent eyes so he's like "can you believe the korean war never ended? We should end it!" which is correct but he literally didn't know that until someone told him. That can be a good thing but also a very bad thing when he tries to nuke China Speaking strictly from a materialist perspective he's the greatest american president of my life time (cos he hated hilary enough to ignore dem foreign policy)
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# ? May 17, 2022 02:27 |
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Southpaugh posted:Speaking strictly from a materialist perspective he's the greatest american president of my life time (cos he hated hilary enough to ignore dem foreign policy) trump gave the american people $2000. thats more than any president i can think of in my lifetime
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Rutibex posted:trump gave the american people $2000. thats more than any president i can think of in my lifetime $1800
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Real hurthling! posted:right like it might be 50 below one day if they need to come up through an ice sheet to launch the missiles good news; soon USN won't even have to worry about breaching ice sheets to first-strike russia from the arctic circle! indigi posted:so the architect was probably just a Hogan’s Heroes fan the architect was probably oberst klink himself courtesy of Operation Paperclip
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# ? May 17, 2022 11:32 |
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So the 4th Psyops group put an ad out for itself https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw&feature=youtu.be I thought this poo poo was going to be a movie ad or something. loving insane
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Real hurthling! posted:the trees turned red at a time of year. thats how they saw them Yeah the Brandenburg forest swastika were made out of larches surrounded by pine. Larch turns yellow in autumn before shedding their leaves even though it is a conifer. Only got discovered in the 90s after they did a bunch of aerial surveys for all state-owned land. Wonder how much longer it would have gone unnoticed if the survey wasnt done in late autumn. By now i guess they probably would have been discovered with all the eyes in the sky? That it was planted on a boring forest in nowhereville, East Germany probably helped it remain hidden. Falukorv has issued a correction as of 03:06 on May 21, 2022 |
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Chinese (military) rocket science is pretty neat https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1528196063122886662 quote:Since I've been talking about artillery systems today and since there seems to be some interest in the topic, I'm going to take this opportunity to talk about one of the most overlooked segments of the global arms market - Chinese MLRS.
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Soviet technology? I don't think so
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