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Bar Ran Dun posted:they’re way cheaper just a bit above the Chinese yard cheaper. Have enough sailors to actually maintain the fleet ⚖️ "lol" expensive maintenance through contractors
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Bar Ran Dun posted:no my opinion is that if they want to match they build at Korean and Japanese yards and that’s the only way possible for them to match. there isn’t really a choice anymore and if they don’t pull the trigger on it they’ll lose blue water supremacy. that we’re even posting about this means they won’t and they already have
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 01:57 |
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Tuber's clogging the pipeline DOD Officials Highlight Risks to Force Posed by Senate Nomination Hold www.defense.gov posted:Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III underscored the risks to national security posed by the ongoing blanket hold on Senate confirmations for hundreds of military nominees in a brief phone call today with Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 02:26 |
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Who keeps yelling carnation revolution?
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 02:30 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Have enough sailors to actually maintain the fleet ⚖️ "lol" expensive maintenance through contractors part that problem I think is driven by gas turbines. it’s something I’ve thought a lot of about since the last time we seriously talked about it. think about trains what happened when trains transitioned from steam to diesel electric? the maintenance dropped dramatically. if one has ever interacted with historical railroads one can compare, it is hundreds of hours you will see 10s to 100s of hours of maintenance per hour of operation. on a diesel vessel most everything in the engine can be repaired onboard. they have spare cylinders, pistons rings, etc. but there are specific items like on vessel with a reduction gear, the reduction gear, that have to be done by vendors. on a gas turbine vessel, the gas turbine is like that, like a reduction gear rather than a diesel engine. One isn’t making or repairing a turbine blade on a ship. So between the plant changes and aviators being favored because of carriers. The way maintenance was thought about changed to more like aviation. im still angry about it personally because it’s driven by a hyper optimization for performance that doesn’t really matter because missiles exist. but it’s also consequence of plant choice.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:23 |
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Centrist Committee posted:that we’re even posting about this means they won’t and they already have yeah they’d have to do it right now or in the next handful of years .
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:24 |
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The point being that build contracts are simply higher paying than maintenance contracts, and while Chinese shipyards do whatever the government tells them to do, American shipyards are much happier building new ships, even if they are non-sense, than trying to maintain the existing fleet. Japan and Korea has that choice as well.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:31 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:part that problem I think is driven by gas turbines. it’s something I’ve thought a lot of about since the last time we seriously talked about it. You don't need the black gang to be huge to still have boatswains. Hell, more than half of the enlisted RCN trades have signing bonuses right now. The "cost" of berthing for sailors whose only job when not at their battle stations is maintaining the ship at sea seems minimal compared to the long term costs of rusting out and paying private sector, but what do I know? I'm no Jack Tar.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 04:04 |
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Frosted Flake posted:The "cost" of berthing for sailors whose only job when not at their battle stations is maintaining the ship at sea seems minimal compared to the long term costs of rusting out and paying private sector, but what do I know? I'm no Jack Tar. I’ve been looking into a bit more and I think some of what is going on is the new deck coatings are not things you can just needle gun and repaint. it looks like powder coats are being used on deck along with new non skid coatings. it’s the same process of hyper optimization with the coatings.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 05:19 |
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So if the US started doing maintenance/ building new ships in Japan and Korea (lol that this is a serious suggestion) how quickly qnd throughly do you think those facilities get infiltrated by Chinese intelligence?
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mawarannahr posted:America can't pay its military. where's the money go!! crepeface posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-scientist-allegations-tricked-contractor-into-hiring-sex-worker-2022-7
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Bar Ran Dun posted:I’ve been looking into a bit more and I think some of what is going on is the new deck coatings are not things you can just needle gun and repaint. it looks like powder coats are being used on deck along with new non skid coatings. I think you'll find Britain ruled the waves with a less durable paint formula:
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 07:05 |
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crepeface posted:
So what happened? He killed himself I take it? This poo poo only blew up because Gord threatened the Bangladesh immigrant contractor he would terminate his contract if he fired the hooker researcher, but the contractor reported him anyway.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 07:05 |
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https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1679599970507280390?t=C1Taz4ho2GoqIP4ZBj5MBw&s=19 MATH!!!
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:58 |
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andrew yang warned us...
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1679599970507280390?t=C1Taz4ho2GoqIP4ZBj5MBw&s=19 in it voted 5
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:37 |
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its hosed up that turkey is allowed to have a broad on their team. shes gonna distract the other nerds and theyre not gonna be able to add and subtract
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:41 |
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2023 United States Math Team Members:quote:2023 IMO USA Team Canada Math Team members: quote:Dhruv Basu,
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:53 |
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Maximus is letting down the nation
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 15:05 |
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jeff, derek, max, eric, alex, and alex are doing great
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Marvin Mao is a powerful name
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 20:25 |
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lol that one bengali dude in the top 3 teams.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1679599970507280390?t=C1Taz4ho2GoqIP4ZBj5MBw&s=19 NO! NOOOOOOO! no more math that's it i hate china and i'm team NATO. When you can't count then it doesn't matter how many ships you do or don't have
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 23:20 |
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Considering the navy can't seem to fully staff their ships they might as well have the Koreans/Japanese sail them too.
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 00:02 |
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Romania is in NATO right?
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 00:11 |
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FuzzySlippers posted:Considering the navy can't seem to fully staff their ships they might as well have the Koreans/Japanese sail them too. We should just outsource it straight to China, those guys seem pretty on the ball
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 08:30 |
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The Oldest Man posted:We should just outsource it straight to China, those guys seem pretty on the ball They do say the only people who make any real money in a gold rush are the ones selling shovels. Maybe China could arm both the USA and Russia and let them have their proxy war
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 08:58 |
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/13/meet-the-19-year-old-mit-drop-out-replacing-gunpowder-for-the-defense-industry/quote:
It is time to derisk and disrupt Chinese gunpowder .
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 23:39 |
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what is it with old morons being obsessed with dropouts “oh he’s so smart that he didnt finish school? must be a genius!”
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# ? Jul 15, 2023 23:54 |
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poisonpill posted:what is it with old morons being obsessed with dropouts 1. escaped from the woke indoctrination of communist professors 2. got to work instead of wasting time reading underwater basket weaving textbooks, stimulating the economy, disrupting the whatever
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# ? Jul 16, 2023 00:25 |
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lol was that article saying he's trying to use hydrogen as a propellant? I don't actually see anything specific in that article. Replace "gunpowder" how? For what? With what? It's all vague tech-talk when rather than his cool dropout story and disrupting the propellant industry, it would be useful to know what exactly he's pitching. Wait wait wait stop. Speaking generally in a recent interview with TechCrunch, Thornton described a solution that’s less expensive, and perhaps less exquisite, than the ultra-costly weapons programs of today. It’s a mindset shift embodied in hardware: Instead of thinking in terms of missiles, think in terms of something more like bullets. On LinkedIn Thornton has said that the company is “working to replace gunpowder,” and in our interview he described a less expensive approach to munitions. “Taking a missile [and turning it into] a bullet, every time you do that, you really, really decrease your costs,” he said. “That’s fundamentally one of the changes Mach wants to see happen: taking more away from the rocket equation — because you have to bring your own propellant, your own sensors, and things get very expensive — and back to actually an older model using more projectile-based systems.” Is this article saying he's proposing that miniature hydrogen fuelled rockets are his proposed replacements for smokeless powder propelling lead bullets? Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 00:54 on Jul 16, 2023 |
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yeah he’s such a genius he did some science project in high school with it. and didn’t need to learn anything in college (like why it’s an insanely dumb idea, for instance)
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# ? Jul 16, 2023 00:52 |
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croup coughfield posted:its hosed up that turkey is allowed to have a broad on their team. shes gonna distract the other nerds and theyre not gonna be able to add and subtract actually she's going to make all the difference
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# ? Jul 16, 2023 00:53 |
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I'm still wrapping my head around this brilliant idea. Sig Saur figured out how to charge the government $4 a bullet, but this... lol. Also, it was already invented and sucked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoffTmg9bxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98c2t_uK5Uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txKHJeDgDAQ
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Frosted Flake posted:lol was that article saying he's trying to use hydrogen as a propellant? You're missing the woods for the trees. He was insightful enough to see the traditional MIC was still running on the old, cumbersome grift model, namely over promising and under delivering on massively overpriced wunderwaffen. He saw the gap and exploited it - he's disrupting the grift market by bringing tech startup style grift to the MIC. There will never be a product or even a concrete promise of one, it's a purely hype based investment grift.
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https://www.baen.com/Chapters/1439133476/1439133476___5.htm I could pick a funny paragraph from the story but it's short enough and entirely relevant
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# ? Jul 16, 2023 01:03 |
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Frosted Flake posted:You don't need the black gang to be huge to still have boatswains. Hell, more than half of the enlisted RCN trades have signing bonuses right now. If you want a good laugh go look at the front page of the Military Sealift Command website. Massive bonuses for almost every rate. They only run all the dry cargo, ammo and fleet oilers that supply the USN. They're offering a 22k signing bonus + an annual salary over 130k for steward-cooks. Anyone want a job? You'll be stuck on a ship for 10 months out the year though. Wonder why they cant get people.
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Slavvy posted:You're missing the woods for the trees. He was insightful enough to see the traditional MIC was still running on the old, cumbersome grift model, namely over promising and under delivering on massively overpriced wunderwaffen. He saw the gap and exploited it - he's disrupting the grift market by bringing tech startup style grift to the MIC. There will never be a product or even a concrete promise of one, it's a purely hype based investment grift. It's the We company of MIC, get Softbank chip in 5 billions.
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# ? Jul 16, 2023 01:09 |
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Slavvy posted:You're missing the woods for the trees. He was insightful enough to see the traditional MIC was still running on the old, cumbersome grift model, namely over promising and under delivering on massively overpriced wunderwaffen. He saw the gap and exploited it - he's disrupting the grift market by bringing tech startup style grift to the MIC. There will never be a product or even a concrete promise of one, it's a purely hype based investment grift. I was thinking that, but you nailed it. Goddamn.
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lessons learned from theranos = not enough theranos
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