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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:As above, the ration started with beer or port iirc but rum kept better, particularly for long voyages and in tropical waters. Also the lime juice was mixed in with the rum so it served as a delivery method for the antiscorbutics.
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The original spirit used by the British navy was I believe brandy but they switched to rum once they started operating more in the Caribbean. It was originally served straight but began to be served mixed with water (grog) because drunkenness was a problem. NZ didn't abolish the rum ration until 1990.
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DancingShade posted:Key problem I see is you still need to buy lots of expensive multi million dollar interceptors to load on it. That's really the current problem, crewing aside. Uh, and material reliability issues aside too. Submarines solve this problem. On that note, lol
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If they can run the ships with AI and remote control then the poor slobs left on board (because you know there will be a handful even if just sentries) to keep the rust off should definitely have a rum ration come back to make life semi-bearable. Most likely however the neoliberal approach will be to cram all the remaining humans into a freezing sardine closet with one toilet and uncovered bare metal. And a robot that admonishes them if they eat a muesli bar.
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Delta-Wye posted:boy howdy are they gonna be surprised when they command their magic ai-powered robot ship to protect their maritime trade routes, and it begins a harassment campaign against US military ships in the region the west activating the terminator Skynet but instead of destroying humanity it decides the most rational course of action is to join the PRC
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Skynet doesn't need to nuke everyone just set everyone's electronic bank accounts to zero.
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So the crew optional boats will be controlled by what? Depressed sailors over Starlink? What if the Starlink get jammed like in Ukraine?
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stephenthinkpad posted:So the crew optional boats will be controlled by what? Depressed sailors over Starlink? What if the Starlink get rammed like in Ukraine? Depends, what's the scrap metal value?
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stephenthinkpad posted:So the crew optional boats will be controlled by what? Depressed sailors over Starlink? What if the Starlink get jammed like in Ukraine? lol they're building the naval tesla
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Service might soon guarantee citizenship quote:The “Courage to Serve Act” creates a pilot program that would allow a qualified and vetted set of migrants to receive an expedited path to citizenship in exchange for military service, provided they:
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it will go great
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Megamissen posted:why did rum become the alcholic drink all the navies used? lotta answers, but I'll add one more: rum is sweet and easy to drink, which is why you generally find sweet drinks as traditional ship hooches
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genericnick posted:why is it "air defences", what are the quotes for? These mountain primitives with their moon god haven't got real weapons like our Maxim gun innit? TeenageArchipelago posted:Lmao I was trying to find the clip and found this bit from a CNN article Love to do self-defense strikes in another country on the other side of the planet.
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Weka posted:Service might soon guarantee citizenship not even that though i have to admit it is p peak shitlib to offer access to an expedited path towards citizenship as an incentive for signing up as cannon fodder
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Weka posted:Service might soon guarantee citizenship Service grants means-tested access to an expedited path to citizenship
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Weka posted:Service might soon guarantee citizenship enter(the military) for a chance to win(citizenship)!
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Access to expedited processing and assistance for citizenship application for Special Forces Ranger Marine Seals who lead a brigade on a military base in a disadvantaged community for at least three years.
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TeenageArchipelago posted:Lmao I was trying to find the clip and found this bit from a CNN article america: oopsie-doodle we're investigating an unmanned-aerial-vehicle-involved collision uwu houthis: check out my sick 360 no-scope instant killcam on tiktok, remember to like and dta
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corona familiar posted:america: oopsie-doodle we're investigating an unmanned-aerial-vehicle-involved collision uwu acskhually quote:The link you posted says that the US is investigating the cause of the crash, not that the US is making the claim that it crashed without enemy action. shits just getting sad lol
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BULBASAUR posted:lotta answers, but I'll add one more: rum is sweet and easy to drink, which is why you generally find sweet drinks as traditional ship hooches At least for the British, and other colonial powers in the Caribbean, they also just had access to a ton of raw sugar, which is relatively easy to make rum from and was accessible outside Europe or North America. By the 20th century, it probably mostly tradition.
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You can investigate your drone "crash" by watch that Ansarallah posted video 100 times frame and frame.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Service grants means-tested access to an expedited path to citizenship Don't serve the empire, it will betray you.
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DancingShade posted:To imply that rather than having actual defence sites, industry, technical knowledge, radars and all the other pre-requisites of such capability that Yemen is instead firing ramshackle tin soup cans bolted together into a vaguely rocket shape and stuffed with loose dynamite sticks from the saddle of a straw chewing camel.
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Important enough to sell weapons to fight, but too pathetic too ever win anything or challenge supremacy.
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The Osprey has a really hosed up transmission system, doesn't it? Someone tried to explain it once and it just seemed worse than either a twin engine plane or twin rotor helicopter in every way, though I'm not very mechanically inclined.
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The osprey is the funniest and stupidest thing to ever be put in the sky, they basically fail constantly and aren't good for anything iirc
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:The Osprey has a really hosed up transmission system, doesn't it? Someone tried to explain it once and it just seemed worse than either a twin engine plane or twin rotor helicopter in every way, though I'm not very mechanically inclined.   Each pod on the wings has its own engine but the engines are linked through the center to an auxiliary power unit by segmented shafts
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Bar Crow posted:24 Crashworthy Troop Seats I was trying to come up with a good joke about that but nothing that comes to mind has been funnier than the plain text.
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Bar Crow posted:24 Crashworthy Troop Seats
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there has to be some other reason for the transmission, surely just giving each nacelle its own APU isn't the easy fix to this piece of poo poo e: quote:The V-22's two Rolls-Royce AE 1107C engines are connected by drive shafts to a common central gearbox so that one engine can power both proprotors if an engine failure occurs.[76] Either engine can power both proprotors through the wing driveshaft.[75] However, the V-22 is generally not capable of hovering on one engine.[113] If a proprotor gearbox fails, that proprotor cannot be feathered, and both engines must be stopped before an emergency landing. ah its because its literally incapable of landing safely if it loses an engine Raskolnikov38 has issued a correction as of 18:20 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Weka posted:Service might soon guarantee citizenship this will be very useful when the empire turns its gaze back home and needs nonlocal forces to quell unrest
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Raskolnikov38 posted:there has to be some other reason for the transmission, surely just giving each nacelle its own APU isn't the easy fix to this piece of poo poo Or glide, if I’m reading the bit about feathering correctly. Can it autorotate?
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I don't think it's so much that they're unreliable (they are, but for the usual declining empire reasons) but more that they can't glide OR autorotate so the moment they have any mechanical failure they just drop out of the sky like a rock. This might not be a problem if they were super reliable but see above.
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Or glide, if I’m reading the bit about feathering correctly. no lol
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They already solved the "make helicopter go fast" engineering problem, it's called a pusher prop. The army had a prototype attack helicopter back in the cold war that was fast as gently caress and kicked rear end, but it got killed because the air force was crying about how it would infringe on their cas job E: this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AH-56_Cheyenne Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 18:32 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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how does one stop both engines, in an aircraft that cannot glide or auto rotate, before performing an emergency landing....? i mean i guess we have our answer, lol
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