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Antigravitas posted:Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! He no longer slumbers in Rlyeh; he awoke in 2016, and the eldritch horrors have been spreading ever since.
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I'm late to the party, but Top Gun 2: Tomcat Boogaloo did use Tomahawks to smash the airfield. Why they didn't just use a handful for that and target the other air defenses as well...I'll just chalk it up to Navy planning. Also re: modern aerial combat, the last US kill was a WVR engagement that opened with an IR missile (which missed). Dogfighting isn't dead, it's narcoleptic along with aerial combat in general.
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Soul Dentist posted:That's why Tycho Brahe thought the sun revolved around the earth His astronomical model is absolutely insane. Not only did the sun revolve around the earth, other planets revolved around the sun to account for the changes in planetary distances. This involved a crazy amount of handwaving, just so Earth can remain the centre of the universe.
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Godholio posted:I'm late to the party, but Top Gun 2: Tomcat Boogaloo did use Tomahawks to smash the airfield. Why they didn't just use a handful for that and target the other air defenses as well...I'll just chalk it up to Navy planning. The last US manned air to air kill. All kinds of aerial kills since that one, both air to air and surface to air of manned vs unmanned.
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Fragrag posted:His astronomical model is absolutely insane. Not only did the sun revolve around the earth, other planets revolved around the sun to account for the changes in planetary distances. This involved a crazy amount of handwaving, just so Earth can remain the centre of the universe. Retrograde action. When the math works out but makes no loving sense whatsoever. Sure, every year the planets just go backwards, why not?
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That's just because everyone back then was in the pocket of Big Orrery, gotta sell the latest set of gears somehow.
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mlmp08 posted:The last US manned air to air kill. All kinds of aerial kills since that one, both air to air and surface to air of manned vs unmanned. Like the F-22 vs balloons.
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Godholio posted:I'm late to the party, but Top Gun 2: Tomcat Boogaloo did use Tomahawks to smash the airfield. Why they didn't just use a handful for that and target the other air defenses as well...I'll just chalk it up to Navy planning. I also liked that the film correctly points out the most advanced fighter in the world don't mean poo poo if someone takes you by surprise
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I also liked that the film correctly points out the most advanced fighter in the world don't mean poo poo if someone takes you by surprise All you gotta do is some of that pilot poo poo.
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Godholio posted:I'm late to the party, but Top Gun 2: Tomcat Boogaloo did use Tomahawks to smash the airfield. Why they didn't just use a handful for that and target the other air defenses as well...I'll just chalk it up to Navy planning. The thing they were aiming for was just the cover on the death star's thermal exhaust port and the bombs had to bounce down the 45 degree angle airshaft until they blew up inside the actual nuke factory if memory serves. Just collapsing the 2 meter wide air duct wouldnt be good enough or something? from my memory. It was a lot of controvance but planes went FWOOooshhhhhhh zoom zoompewpewpew kabloom so whatever
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Stravag posted:The thing they were aiming for was just the cover on the death star's thermal exhaust port and the bombs had to bounce down the 45 degree angle airshaft until they blew up inside the actual nuke factory if memory serves. Just collapsing the 2 meter wide air duct wouldnt be good enough or something? from my memory. It was a lot of controvance but planes went FWOOooshhhhhhh zoom zoompewpewpew kabloom so whatever Yup. 
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mlmp08 posted:The last US manned air to air kill. All kinds of aerial kills since that one, both air to air and surface to air of manned vs unmanned. "Aerial combat" specifically means air to air (unlike aerial warfare, which is much broader). It's how the F-15 gets credit for never having an aerial defeat despite losses to SAMs. I was ignoring drones (e: and balloons) because we were talking about dogfighting, but those are usually also engaged up close. Godholio fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Dec 17, 2023 |
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it was wild to realize how far away aerial battle is visible, I watched that ballon get popped from over 50 miles away
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1736432568080445583 A video about Ukrainian artillerymen, they talk a bit about the M109 but also about the work of the artillery in general.
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PurpleXVI posted:A video about Ukrainian artillerymen, they talk a bit about the M109 but also about the work of the artillery in general. Good link, thanks.
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PurpleXVI posted:Austria does have Europe's best food, that I will give them. The only European country where I've never had a bad meal and never left a table hungry. …never left a table hungary was right there.
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GEEKABALL posted:…never left a table hungary was right there. I was in a Russia to get some Turkey because I was Hungary, but it had too much Greece.
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PurpleXVI posted:The only European country where I've never left a table hungry.
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Wienerschnitzel mit pommes: the apotheosis of continental cuisine.
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Herman Merman posted:I can't tell if this is a "I've got the palate of a child and won't eat strange foreign foods" or a "these portions cannot have more than 2000 kcal in them, how am I supposed to survive until dinner?" Hey, I like strange foreign foods, I cook a good number of them myself, but I also like a big pile of carbs with a meat and some garlic that I can eat while looking at a mountain and listening to polka.
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PurpleXVI posted:Hey, I like strange foreign foods, I cook a good number of them myself, but I also like a big pile of carbs with a meat and some garlic that I can eat while looking at a mountain and listening to polka. I want a burrito and some micheladas so bad right now
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Just like some vegetables with a poo poo ton of hot peppers and citrus to counteract this claim, please.
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Austria as a country is very pro-Russia and the government is heavily infiltrated by Russian agents. So yeah I would treat reports coming out of there with heavy scepticism. https://www.ft.com/content/bd74a542-3ce3-44de-a93a-36dc5929912b quote:Austria is a “veritable aircraft carrier” of covert Russian activity, said another. Its BVT intelligence agency is regarded as being so compromised that for a time it was cut out of much European intelligence sharing activity, according to one Vienna-based European diplomat. The country’s defence ministry is “practically a department of the GRU”, the diplomat added.
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"Aircraft carrier of Russian activity" is a very odd choice of analogy. That implies that it's on fire and sinking.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:"Aircraft carrier of Russian activity" is a very odd choice of analogy. That implies that it's on fire and sinking.
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No that would be a "Russian carrier of aircraft activity"
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Antigravitas posted:Hungary simply needs its voting rights suspended. However, Poland has blocked such efforts for long enough that Hungary could now find a new veto buddy. This is from a couple of pages back so I apologise but, Good News! https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sea-change-poland-donald-tusk-sworn-pm-2023-12-13/?ref=upstract.com Reuters posted:In sea change for Poland, new government is sworn in Goodbye, lovely nationalist right government. Hello boring centre right pro-EU government.
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https://breakingdefense.com/2023/12/theyre-also-learning-russia-ukraine-race-to-out-innovate-each-other/quote:“The electromagnetic environment in the eastern Donbas is the most complex in the world,” said Air Commodore Blythe Crawford, commandant of the Royal Air Force’s Air & Space Warfare Centre (ASWC). “If you’re turning out version 1.1, you’ve got eight weeks before you churn out version 1.2.” Fragrag posted:His astronomical model is absolutely insane. Not only did the sun revolve around the earth, other planets revolved around the sun to account for the changes in planetary distances. This involved a crazy amount of handwaving, just so Earth can remain the centre of the universe. The spheres within spheres within spheres model gave more accurate predictions of planetary motion than the heliocentric model until Kepler finally realized orbits could be elliptical instead of perfect circles. But even Kepler wasn't free from mysticism or theology in astronomy. From wikipedia quote:Kepler thought the Mysterium had revealed God's geometrical plan for the universe. Much of Kepler's enthusiasm for the Copernican system stemmed from his theological convictions about the connection between the physical and the spiritual; the universe itself was an image of God, with the Sun corresponding to the Father, the stellar sphere to the Son, and the intervening space between them to the Holy Spirit. His first manuscript of Mysterium contained an extensive chapter reconciling heliocentrism with biblical passages that seemed to support geocentrism golden bubble fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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golden bubble posted:https://breakingdefense.com/2023/12/theyre-also-learning-russia-ukraine-race-to-out-innovate-each-other/ I really want to contribute to this derail but here ain't the place, meet me in the space nerd thread
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knox_harrington posted:Austria as a country is very pro-Russia and the government is heavily infiltrated by Russian agents. So yeah I would treat reports coming out of there with heavy scepticism. There are elements of the Austrian government (FPÖ & ÖVP parties) that have had strong relations with Putin/Russia partly due to old fashioned corruption and in part historical reasons. As a country however, Austria is not pro Russian. There has been more vocal push back against Russian oligarchs who spend a lot of time here and the general corruption caused by Russian influences. But similar to most countries, getting rid of the rot is not an easy task. Oberst Reisner, whom initially sparked Austria chat, is by all accounts pro Ukrainian/NATO and represents a strong faction of the Austrian military that wants to move in that direction. There are of course the generals who most would rather spend their time hunting goats in military areas rather than think about the war in Ukraine and probably care little for what Reisner has to say. Unfortunately I cannot find any videos from him that are well translated, and the captions are not worth reading when translated. But he is a good source of info if you know german. All that being said, Austrian support (they have sent both government and private humanitarian aid) or lack of it, is not going to make a discernible difference on the war. Also, because of those historical and unfortunately current ties, Austria, by sticking to its neutrality, is one of the few countries that has open channels to Putin and hopefully is sharing that info with its European partners. And only children and tourists eat pommes with their schnitzel.
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Dick Ripple posted:And only children and tourists eat pommes with their schnitzel. 
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shame on an IGA posted:I really want to contribute to this derail but here ain't the place, meet me in the space nerd thread Nah, this is the thread to talk about spheres of influence.
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golden bubble posted:The spheres within spheres within spheres model gave more accurate predictions of planetary motion than the heliocentric model until Kepler finally realized orbits could be elliptical instead of perfect circles. But even Kepler wasn't free from mysticism or theology in astronomy. I miss the good old days of the natural philosopher.
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GD_American posted:https://www.semafor.com/article/12/18/2023/russias-economy-is-overheating quote:The 100-basis-point hike to 16% was the fifth rate rise since summer as the central bank grapples with accelerating inflation, which rose to 7.5% year-on-year in November. Fuuuuuuuuuuck
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*Joe "I did that" sticker*
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Hold on. That's a much more extreme measure than anyone else has taken even with higher inflation. Is there a qualitative difference in their inflation, or is the Russian central bank reacting to a state of the economy that isn't reflected in official numbers?
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Antigravitas posted:Hold on. That's a much more extreme measure than anyone else has taken even with higher inflation. Is there a qualitative difference in their inflation, or is the Russian central bank reacting to a state of the economy that isn't reflected in official numbers? TLDR: The rate of inflation is increasing rapidly, so they're moving quickly to squash it before it gets completely out of hand. It's going to be tough to do because Putin's government is driving up demand through the transition to a wartime economy, while manpower shortages caused by mobilization and supply constraints imposed by western sanctions haven't been overcome through grey-market imports. From The Economist: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/12/10/vladimir-putin-is-running-russias-economy-dangerously-hot quote:The history of Russian inflation is long and painful. After revolution in 1917 the country dealt with years of soaring prices; it then faced sustained price pressure under Josef Stalin’s early rule. The end of the Soviet Union, the global financial crisis of 2007-09 and then Vladimir Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 also brought trouble. Fast-forward to the present, as the war in Ukraine nears its second anniversary, and Russian prices are again accelerating—even as inflation eases elsewhere.
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