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Maybe it's just the angle of the video, but I can't help but wonder if the intended target wasn't the dome itself but rather the flag above it. (Hey, if you're doing an operation that's mostly symbolic anyway, you may as well go all out.)
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[edit: beaten x like 4 times :/]CainFortea posted:Fly by wire was first used in 41, I don't think that was a huge deal by then. It's more in the sense that it needed to be fly-by-wire because a computer was necessary just to keep it under control. Jaguars! fucked around with this message at 22:57 on May 3, 2023 |
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Jaguars! posted:It's more in the sense that it needed to be fly-by-wire because a computer was necessary just to keep it under control. Its this. Without a computer literally constantly adjusting the whole thing, it falls down.
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Found video from saint Basil's cathedral showing this to be inside job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=embf9HpTtPg
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Rinkles posted:Per Wikipedia According to Skunkworks, another factor was that most people in aviation at Lockheed simply had no interest in the subject. Radar cross sections were, according to the author, seen as weird trivia of no use to anyone. He cited that it was one of his engineers who not only read the paper, realized that Lockheed had the resources, and, critically, that it would lead to something useful. The author notes that he, and the rest of Lockheed's leadership, was intensely skeptical it would be useful until this one engineer ran some rough calculations and proved just how wild things could get.
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May 3, 2023 23:01
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Russia dumbdome go gently caress yourself
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Herstory Begins Now posted:I wonder which version of the Sims they guided the drone with 
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My favorite Skunkworks RCS story is that the A-12’s profile was designed to reduce RCS, and it did! … but the enormous amount of turbulence and heat from traveling through the air at mach 3 reflected radar real good regardless of the actual plane’s profile.
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I like the story about them using a newfangled kodak camera with an ultrasonic autofocus, and finding out all the photos of their scale model were blurry.
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Looks like ISW and Prigozhin are saying that Ukraine is down to the last square mile of control for the area of Bakhmut city.
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Powered Descent posted:Maybe it's just the angle of the video, but I can't help but wonder if the intended target wasn't the dome itself but rather the flag above it. (Hey, if you're doing an operation that's mostly symbolic anyway, you may as well go all out.) The false flag theory is weird to me, because that was my immediate takeaway as well. You couldn't possibly get a more symbolic gesture of counting coup than flying your drone over the very well known seat of power of your enemy and just blowing up the flag on top of it. SerthVarnee posted:Could be some great trolling opportunities here though. Wasn't one of the TV movie Dirty Dozen sequels about us killing a rogue German general to save Hitler, because he was so frigging incompetent he was speeding the end of the war up for us?
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GD_American posted:Wasn't one of the TV movie Dirty Dozen sequels about us killing a rogue German general to save Hitler, because he was so frigging incompetent he was speeding the end of the war up for us? Yes, Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission.
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in a well actually posted:My favorite Skunkworks RCS story is that the A-12’s profile was designed to reduce RCS, and it did! IIRC they had the same problem with the Sea Shadow too. They could get a RCS from the wake and waves around it so you just had to look for the mysteriously quiet small patch of water.
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While there might be nuclear sabre rattling from the usual suspects, I think that if this is a false flag operation (and I suspect it is) it's being done to help manufacture consent for another round of mass mobilizations as the Russian army has sustained ghastly casualties around Bakhmut and is going to need another huge wave of conscripts to try and bog down Ukrainian forces wherever they advance. Russia's losses during this whole self-made tragedy must be astronomical. Probably around 200k casualties all told, plus another quarter of a million or more that fled the country and who won't be able to return for a very long time even if they want to?
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Fearless posted:While there might be nuclear sabre rattling from the usual suspects, I think that if this is a false flag operation (and I suspect it is) it's being done to help manufacture consent for another round of mass mobilizations as the Russian army has sustained ghastly casualties around Bakhmut and is going to need another huge wave of conscripts to try and bog down Ukrainian forces wherever they advance. those numbers are so goddamned insane
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:those numbers are so goddamned insane I feel like those are rookie numbers compared to WORLD WAR ONE but like yeah this is Olympic level for the modern era for sure
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I dunno, they haven't had a full court press of propaganda with the guys they caught in record time who absolutely, positively did it using multiple copies of Sims 3. I'm leaning towards internal partisans or an opposition faction that wanted to embarrass Putin.
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kemikalkadet posted:IIRC they had the same problem with the Sea Shadow too. They could get a RCS from the wake and waves around it so you just had to look for the mysteriously quiet small patch of water. I don’t know about that ship specifically, but yeah that’s a problem for stealth surface ships. We used to run into it with pleasure crafts a lot - they’re mostly fibreglass so depending on settings a navigation radar might not get you a good return. But their wake, though? That’s bright as day. Big V pointing where the boat is.
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Zelensky went to (might still be there I guess?) Helsinki to meet the Nordic leaders, wonder what flight path he used to get there. Guessing he didn’t overfly Belarus. Would you dare go through that gap in Poland between Belarus and Kaliningrad, probably not right? It’s polish airspace, but all it’d take is an AA launcher on the russian side of the border with a leaked flightplan. Train to Poland and out into international airspace over the Baltic with a NATO escort?
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Syncopated posted:Zelensky went to (might still be there I guess?) Helsinki to meet the Nordic leaders, wonder what flight path he used to get there. Guessing he didn’t overfly Belarus. Would you dare go through that gap in Poland between Belarus and Kaliningrad, probably not right? It’s polish airspace, but all it’d take is an AA launcher on the russian side of the border with a leaked flightplan. Train to Poland and out into international airspace over the Baltic with a NATO escort? Nice try Russian targeting officer.
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Syncopated posted:Zelensky went to (might still be there I guess?) Helsinki to meet the Nordic leaders, wonder what flight path he used to get there. Guessing he didn’t overfly Belarus. Would you dare go through that gap in Poland between Belarus and Kaliningrad, probably not right? It’s polish airspace, but all it’d take is an AA launcher on the russian side of the border with a leaked flightplan. Train to Poland and out into international airspace over the Baltic with a NATO escort? He's in the Netherlands now. His flight routes to and from Finland are in fact known, these were published by Helsingin Sanomat. Here's how he flew from Poland to Finland:  And from Finland to the Netherlands: 
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GD_American posted:Wasn't one of the TV movie Dirty Dozen sequels about us killing a rogue German general to save Hitler, because he was so frigging incompetent he was speeding the end of the war up for us? yeah, and the allies at one point pondered about assasinating hitler, but they thought that letting him live would shorten the war
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TheWeedNumber posted:I feel like those are rookie numbers compared to WORLD WAR ONE but like yeah this is Olympic level for the modern era for sure Oh yeah 27k French dead in a day during the Battle of the Frontiers. No wonder they had mutinies. ChubbyChecker posted:yeah, and the allies at one point pondered about assasinating hitler, but they thought that letting him live would shorten the war Still crazy how one of the attempts on his life in November 1939 that came razor close was just one dude acting alone. That would have been an odd timeline.
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this is a modern peer versus peer war where one side has nukes. These numbers are incredibly low all things considered.
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Someday Ukraine will have a functioning IFF system...someday https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1654187275226435597
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Borscht posted:Someday Ukraine will have a functioning IFF system...someday Official word seems to be that the operator lost control and they blasted it out of the sky to be safe.
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https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1653747936667262976?s=20quote:The emergence of unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles at energy facilities or on Kremlin’s territory can only indicate the guerilla activities of local resistance forces. As you know, drones can be bought at any military store... https://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2014/mar/06/ukraine-gross-violation-russian-troops 2014 posted:Russian president Vladimir Putin, at a press conference this week, refused to confirm they are Russian regulars and suggested they were spontaneous groups who could have acquired the uniforms from army surplus stores. Putin actually was the target after all. They're really trying to get under his skin.
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Prigozhin is very very mad. Filmed a video released just now in a field *covered* in Russian bodies, explicitly blaming Shoigu and Gerasimov. Profane fury unusual even for Prigozhin, who usually talks like the ex-con he is.  Covering his rear end because he knows Ukraine's about to come calling. Still, issuing a video like this would get literally anyone else in Russia arrested. Lum_ fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 5, 2023 |
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Plz dont share video of corpsefield
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Tunicate posted:Plz dont share video of corpsefield sorry, I'll repost with just the second tweet. Didn't know it would post the first one.
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Lum_ posted:Prigozhin is very very mad. Reading this in Werner Herzog's voice.
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Nessus posted:So is his problem that he's not getting to do the gorging and Youtubing? He's painting himself as the REAL Russian military defender, not like those effete not-even-Russian scoundrels in Moscow (Shoigu is Tuvan). The whole past year he's been trying to be an alternate power base, fighting on and off with the Russian MoD who have variously demoted, ignored, and promoted figures associated with him -- the logistics guy fired this month was widely assumed to be siphoning goods off to Wagner and now is on Wagner's payroll officially, for example. He's been untouchable because Putin likes him, Wagner gives Russia a justification-free military force to do warcrimes all over the globe with and he up until now knew just how far to push the line. This bit today is on a whole other level though and is going to be hard to walk back. Prigozhin may have decided that Russia is going to *badly* lose to the Ukranian offensive and no longer cares what Shoigu and Gerasimov can do to him.
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Ah so we’ve reached the stage of the collapse where the alternatives to the current leader appear. Of course these guys will all get murked, and the challenger will come out of the shadow at the last minute. Reminder that the guy who took over for Hitler had been the guy in charge of submarines for most of the war.
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FrozenVent posted:Reminder that the guy who took over for Hitler had been the guy in charge of submarines for most of the war. Well, they wanted the guy who had sunk the most time into his career.
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Parkingtigers posted:Well, they wanted the guy who had sunk the most time into his career. Not sure how long you’ve been waiting to drop this doozy but I appreciated it.
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Parkingtigers posted:Well, they wanted the guy who had sunk the most time into his career. Holy poo poo how long have you been sitting on that one?
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Parkingtigers posted:Well, they wanted the guy who had sunk the most time into his career.
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