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BearsBearsBears
Aug 4, 2022

gradenko_2000 posted:

Strange New Worlds was incredibly racist towards the Gorn. Like worse than TOS-era Klingons are Soviets poo poo.


You mean these guys?

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KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/BowTiedDaddy/status/1755062087460495494

nobody wants to fly planes anymore so time to call in the retirees

Maybe Top Gun isn't so unrealistic with a 60 year old fighter pilot

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



Please chain probe the last 3 pages, tia.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

KomradeX posted:

Maybe Top Gun isn't so unrealistic with a 60 year old fighter pilot

Or that scene in Battleship where the old museum geezers manned a turret.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
even Chinese firefighters have more artillery than NATO

https://twitter.com/roaneatan/status/1754899421782016116

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!
FF I want tables to show area saturation requirements accounting for different fire fighting ordnance used & soil and wind conditions & type of fire STAT.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

DancingShade posted:

Or that scene in Battleship where the old museum geezers manned a turret.

battleship turrets explode if a gay person enters them. Did you know that? The US navy does.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Regarde Aduck posted:

battleship turrets explode if a gay person enters them. Did you know that? The US navy does.

Ah so that's why battleships were permanently taken off the USN menu.

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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Orange Devil posted:

FF I want tables to show area saturation requirements accounting for different fire fighting ordnance used & soil and wind conditions & type of fire STAT.

from the info i saw on the firefighting missiles they are reusable lol

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


jetz0r posted:

Please chain probe the last 3 pages, tia.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


I dunno if this is new or I’ve just never seen it mentioned

https://x.com/taiwandefenseu/status/1754905398090531278?s=46&t=NfFUqnrTGI_gdViBS3OzCg

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Seems like one internal faction has made and declared their move. Man I wonder how compromised their comms will be.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Lol both Taiwan and Israel have a 101st unit

Reddit rear end countries

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

gradenko_2000 posted:

Lol both Taiwan and Israel have a 101st unit

Reddit rear end countries

"Welcome to the 101st Private"

Where are the other 100 units sir?

"Uhh moving hastily on"

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

The Oldest Man posted:

if you replace "got sent to the other side of a space hole" with "covid happened," michael bay has you covered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZ6bpIjeLs

In an early episode they go to Guantanamo Bay for supplies but it turns out somebody let all the terrorists out and now the terrorists are in charge.

You can tell they're terrorists because they're all dressed like the Mujahedeen. Where they found those clothes in Guantanamo Bay is not explained.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Gripweed posted:

In an early episode they go to Guantanamo Bay for supplies but it turns out somebody let all the terrorists out and now the terrorists are in charge.

You can tell they're terrorists because they're all dressed like the Mujahedeen. Where they found those clothes in Guantanamo Bay is not explained.

Got it from the Hamas tunnel network, clearly.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

gradenko_2000 posted:

Lol both Taiwan and Israel have a 101st unit

Reddit rear end countries

Don't forget Ukraine.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
also putting troops in Kinmen and Matsu is far more provocative than anything that the PRC has ever done in the South China Sea

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

NEVER READY: NATO's Flexible Response Strategy, 1968-1989

Was Britain’s implementation of NATO strategy credible? After the adoption of Flexible Response in 1967 NATO relied on conventional forces to defend the West. Britain had a central role in NATO’s plans, but was British defence planning adequate for the task? How did the Government plan for the use of the conventional Armed Forces for the range of operations it was committed to? How were the Armed Forces to be Mobilised, and what was the detail of the planning for mobilisation?

In 1967 MC14/3 was adopted as the overall strategic concept by NATO. It relied on an escalatory deterrence, from conventional through tactical nuclear strikes to strategic nuclear attack. This is commonly known as Flexible Response and replaced NATO’s trip-wire response. The declared principal of the strategic concept was to reduce the chance of mistakenly starting a nuclear war, meeting force with like force, and raising the nuclear threshold in the event of actual war.

By using newly available documents from British and other archives, this volume will show that far from being a flexible strategy, in the event of a war it was doomed to failure. The concept was compromised by the failure of the Alliance members to provide one of the main legs of the conventional deterrent – sustainability.

This book analyses the paradox between the public face of defence policy and the practice. The book assesses whether the planning would have worked, and what would have happened in Europe if war had broken out. To answer this question the research looks at the conflicts in the Falklands and the Gulf to assess the feasibility of the plans in place.

Elements upon which British defence depended were still being built more than twenty years after the new strategy was adopted. Defence policy in Britain was concerned less with the threats the country faced than with just how little could be spent on defence.

Never Ready is extensively illustrated with contemporary photographs, many in colour, and specially commissioned diagrams, colour artworks and maps.

"This is a fascinating if stark and very sobering analysis of Britain's Defence capability during the period and provides clear evidence of the failure to align higher level policy and plans with resources and budgets. I do not doubt that many who served, especially in more senior posts, during this period will find this a familiar if somewhat depressing summary of their Cold War service on the north German Plain and of life in staff appointments endlessly drafting "impact statements" in response to proposed cuts. There are many stark lessons here for today's Government Ministers and Defence Staff and it is highly recommended." Cliver Elderton, Military Historical Society, Autumn 2022

:thunk:

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1755579499318567148

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018


President Biden has approved retaliatory air strikes in Lebanon.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

gradenko_2000 posted:

Lol both Taiwan and Israel have a 101st unit

Reddit rear end countries

Probably both smuggled guns to Latin American dictators for CIA.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

BearsBearsBears posted:



You mean these guys?

We have fallen so far as a society

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1755518868741612007?s=20

every day thread title is not updated to present tense it gets wronger

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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The Oldest Man posted:

https://twitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1755518868741612007?s=20

every day thread title is not updated to present tense it gets wronger

im not saying your ships might get nordstreamed

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

The Oldest Man posted:

https://twitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1755518868741612007?s=20

every day thread title is not updated to present tense it gets wronger

Operation abject failure.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

The Oldest Man posted:

https://twitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1755518868741612007?s=20

every day thread title is not updated to present tense it gets wronger

It's time for US to surrender the mandate of heaven.

mycomancy
Oct 16, 2016

The Oldest Man posted:

https://twitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1755518868741612007?s=20

every day thread title is not updated to present tense it gets wronger

The translation doesn't load, what does it say?

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

mycomancy posted:

The translation doesn't load, what does it say?

quote:

Urgent | Maersk Company Director: The US Navy told us that it is currently unable to guarantee the safety of navigation of all ships in the Red Sea

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

mycomancy posted:

The translation doesn't load, what does it say?

Urgent | Maersk Company Director: The US Navy told us that it is currently unable to guarantee the safety of navigation of all ships in the Red Sea

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
No big deal. Israel just needs to buy all their poo poo from Europe and Northern Africa.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

stephenthinkpad posted:

No big deal. Israel just needs to buy all their poo poo from Europe and Northern Africa.

Maybe they could ask China nicely if that belt & road might have a turn off ramp to Jerusalem.

Also build some Australian style road trains.

Fellatio del Toro
Mar 21, 2009

we need to establish a whoopsie fighting task force to figure out how we can stop losing our best soldiers to big oopsies

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Fellatio del Toro posted:

we need to establish a whoopsie fighting task force to figure out how we can stop losing our best soldiers to big oopsies

Bursts through wall into conference room on a palanquin born aloft by 4 boston robotics humanoid robots.

"Have I got the solution for you!"

Points to unmoving atlas robot wearing ill-fitting combat uniform, poorly holding a rifle that barely fits into its crudly designed hands. After a few moments of silence it slowly topples over with a clatter.

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


The Oldest Man posted:

if you replace "got sent to the other side of a space hole" with "covid happened," michael bay has you covered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZ6bpIjeLs

The original book they adapted the TV show from where a nuclear war kills everyone, renders all the Americans sterile, and the world has to be repopulated by a bunch of Soviet submariners who are the only men alive left capable of impregnating all the female American sailors (on account of being shielded from all the rads underwater) was way better.

Votskomit
Jun 26, 2013

DancingShade posted:

Bursts through wall into conference room on a palanquin born aloft by 4 boston robotics humanoid robots.

"Have I got the solution for you!"

Points to unmoving atlas robot wearing ill-fitting combat uniform, poorly holding a rifle that barely fits into its crudly designed hands. After a few moments of silence it slowly topples over with a clatter.

I like these outcomes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZq7fW6ftlU

VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"
https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/1756075192990814558

Wow, interesting!

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

how many times can i say "iran-backed" in 60 seconds

BearsBearsBears
Aug 4, 2022
https://twitter.com/markets/status/1755513596933546045

McKinsey McKinseyed themselves.

BearsBearsBears has issued a correction as of 23:39 on Feb 9, 2024

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SixteenShells
Sep 30, 2021
a scorpion riding a scorpion's back

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