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Lostconfused posted:That's not an Abrams, just look at how tiny that turret is Fat tank can't see its turret genericnick has issued a correction as of 11:59 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uouEMFIlDCs It's a loving iPhone commercial
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I see Model 1 and Model X, what happened to models 2 through 9?
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Frosted Flake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uouEMFIlDCs you're not kidding jesus
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Frosted Flake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uouEMFIlDCs they adopted a smart phone naming scheme so why not
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Hey Abram, battle mode.
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Hey Abrams, play me some music by John Williams Ok, I will kill some brown civilians Goddammit, ah well
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So when is the abrams production line moving to china?
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Lostconfused posted:So when is the abrams production line moving to china? Additional question: how many of the components don't already come from China?
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usmc = united states marketing corp
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Frosted Flake posted:Hyperbole (ὑπερβολή, superlatio) is a deliberately exaggerated phrase: quod erit vobis luce clarius, iudices, tum cum eos ipsos produxero qui dederunt (it will be clearer than light [i.e., crystal clear] to you, judges, when I have called those who have paid, Cic. Verr. 2.2.186). can I get ὑπερβολήs superlatio) snap? hook a brother up
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I don't know what to do with this information
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palindrome posted:speaking of, many people have probably read about the planthopper insect that has interlocking gears for super jumping. I am imagining clockwork creatures with differential gears and flywheels and poo poo several hundred million years from now. Or things even stranger than I can imagine. that reminds me of the weird second book of His Dark Materials where those animals evolved to roll around on giant nuts
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't know what to do with this information does this include omegas?
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Hence The Hunt for Red Oct is the best book. Where is Bear and Dragon?
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't know what to do with this information this is good news for ukraine
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palindrome posted:speaking of, many people have probably read about the planthopper insect that has interlocking gears for super jumping. I am imagining clockwork creatures with differential gears and flywheels and poo poo several hundred million years from now. Or things even stranger than I can imagine. For anyone wondering but too lazy to dig deeper, young planthopper insects have gear teeth on its legs(adult insects have friction pads that do the same thing) to keep them synchronized when it jumps (otherwise if both legs aren't applying the same force at the same time in the same direction the insect will go flying off in a random direction). They aren't arranged 360° around a circle like a mechanical gear. Nature hasn't figured out how to create a biological wheel...yet... I like how when the MIC has to sell the future of weapons it's always angular (and not for radar stealth reasons). You know its the future of warfighting when it looks like something out of an early 2000s RTS. Extruded hexagons aesthetic.
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Now I can't find the academic paper on it (love that government funded science often sits behind paywalls!) rather than the crummy pop-sci articles, but various moths have all sorts of counter-measures for bat echolocation. Survival countermeasures include: -moths with fuzzy bodies to absorb some level of dB -Dangling decoy tails, which aren't fatal if lost to a bat -The moth making buzzing or even chittering back false returns to the bat, to throw off the bat's ability to range and time its strike. Think jamming that gives direction, but not distance. these moths don't do this just all the time, but instead make these sounds once they hear bats closing in and starting to echolocate more frequently. -shaped wings and bodies to deflect soundwaves away from the source (i.e. denying the return directly back to the bat) -mimicking the sounds of other species of moths that are poisonous or otherwise undesirable to eat
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mlmp08 posted:
The moths a few generations from now will become living F-35s  .
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Danann posted:The moths a few generations from now will become living F-35s Suicidal and useless?
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KomradeX posted:Suicidal and useless? Same
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Danann posted:The moths a few generations from now will become living F-35s No we just found the next MIC boondoggle with a sky high price. The biomechanical f-36 super moth. With actual VTOL.
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The British navy is teaming up with the US to build a new 'Dreadnought' for a totally different battle at sea
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KomradeX posted:The British navy is teaming up with the US to build a new 'Dreadnought' for a totally different battle at sea Watch it actually be downsizing from a dozen agile platforms to 2-3 fat whales. Only 1 seaworthy at any given time. Rule Britannia. Their mission? To do lazy figure 8s in the north sea until they rust out.
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They will never finish a single submarine, I will toxx on it
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How many military shipyards are left in the UK? It's only BAE at this point, isn't it?
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The country supposedly helping Australia with their future subs are getting help from the USA with their own sub project. (Sniffs air, wrinkles nose)
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Everyone who actually knows what they're doing with subs retired or found other jobs. It's just unqualified project managers all the way down.
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KomradeX posted:The British navy is teaming up with the US to build a new 'Dreadnought' for a totally different battle at sea The British government has also set up a contingency fund of about $12.75 billion, money that can be "re-profiled" to keep the program on track. The MoD has already accessed about 20% of the fund gently caress I wish I was allowed to run projects like that.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:The British government has also set up a contingency fund of about $12.75 billion, money that can be "re-profiled" to keep the program on track. The MoD has already accessed about 20% of the fund We need to set aside another 20% for our Audemars Piguet watch procurement team I mean next generation technology working group.
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DancingShade posted:The country supposedly helping Australia with their future subs are getting help from the USA with their own sub project. They just added "UK" into Aukus to make the project more of a global collaboration instead of just AU paying for US used nuclear subs station in AU doing 100% the jobs of the US navy for the US.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:The British government has also set up a contingency fund of about $12.75 billion, money that can be "re-profiled" to keep the program on track. The MoD has already accessed about 20% of the fund *salivating at the image of bombarding the PLA at the coast of hong kong completely unopposed*
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Did someone say subs https://www.businessinsider.com/socom-working-on-dry-combat-submersible-to-carry-navy-seals-2023-8
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The Oldest Man posted:Did someone say subs "'Warm, rested, hydrated and ready'" The Nixon class of submarines
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't know what to do with this information Clancy was a Roman Catholic. The plot of his novel Red Rabbit revolves around John Paul II.[43] In a June 27, 1993, interview with The Washington Post, he was quoted as saying, "I've had [sex scenes] in my books before, but you had to look real fast because, you know, I'm a married Catholic and I don't do that."[44] In a 2002 interview with Lev Grossman for Time magazine, Clancy lamented what he perceived as society's double standard in the way Catholics are viewed by some people in society in relation to other demographic segments: "You can't hate black people any more, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals any more, but you can hate all the Catholics you want."[43]
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Proust Malone posted:"'Warm, rested, hydrated and ready'" Warm rested hydrated thriving ready moisturized in my lane canoeing
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They are going to be so disappointed when they find out that their elite naval demolitions commandos have been ruined by 20 years of just murdering people and calling for air support while growing beards and bragging to everyone within earshot in Virginia Beach bars.
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mlmp08 posted:Now I can't find the academic paper on it (love that government funded science often sits behind paywalls!) rather than the crummy pop-sci articles, but various moths have all sorts of counter-measures for bat echolocation. I think some moths also have a quick epileptic fit when hit with echolocation, resulting in erratic evasive manoeuvering.
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