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Z the IVth posted:So as the Russians roll through the Fulda gap the entire NATO F-35 fleet is grounded because their auth servers got hammered past capacity and crashed? Many years ago it turned out that Lockheed Martin servers were not handling what was needed for normal maintenance (downloading files or whatever) and it would take so long to get anything done, soldiers just started using usb drives on normal laptops. This is supposedly how one of the early leaks to China happened. So this would 100% happen if F-35s were ever in a real war.
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500excf type r posted:"On page 127 of the technical manual, what is the 8th word on the 5th row?" The F35C variant uses the Dial a Pirate code wheel from Monkey Island.
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russia landed a missile near zelensky https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/europe/russia-missile-odesa-greece-russia-zelensky-intl/index.html ansarallah landed shots on another ship https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/three-missing-bulk-carrier-off-yemen-four-badly-burned-shipping-source-2024-03-06/
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Ukrainian Karl Donitz taking over would be funny, admittedly.
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Mandel Brotset posted:russia landed a missile near zelensky drat the crew has abandoned the ship, is this the 2nd one? Also, big Zelensky!
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now reading Marc Milner's "Stopping the Panzers" ...  ...  seems like most of Canada's top guys in WWII were artillerymen
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stephenthinkpad posted:drat the crew has abandoned the ship, is this the 2nd one? when agitated Zelenskys will puff themselves up in an attempt to appear larger and deter predators
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gradenko_2000 posted:now reading Marc Milner's "Stopping the Panzers" Another top tier book, btw. The humble QF 17pdr broke the back of the Panzer arm in Normandy. McNaughton and Crerar were and are the model Canadian officers. Politics of Command: Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939–1943 In December 1943, Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton resigned from command of the 1st Canadian Army amidst criticism of his poor generalship and of his abrasive personality. Despite McNaughton's importance to the Canadian Army during the first four years of the Second World War, little has been written about the man himself or the circumstances of his resignation. In The Politics of Command, the first full-length study of the subject since 1969, John Nelson Rickard analyses McNaughton's performance during Exercise SPARTAN in March 1943 and assesses his relationships with key figures such as Sir Alan F. Brooke, Bernard Paget, and Harry Crerar. This detailed re-examination of McNaughton's command argues that the long-accepted reasons for his relief of duty require extensive modification. Based on a wide range of sources, The Politics of Command will redefine how military historians and all Canadians look at not only "Andy" McNaughton but also the Canadian Army itself. A Thoroughly Canadian General: A Biography of General H.D.G. Crerar General H.D.G. 'Harry' Crerar (1888-1965) was involved in or directly responsible for many of the defining moments of Canadian military history in the twentieth century. In the First World War, Crerar was nearly killed at the second battle of Ypres, was a gunner who helped to secure victory at Vimy Ridge, and was a senior staff officer during the pivotal battles of the last Hundred Days. During the Second World War, he occupied and often defined the Canadian army's senior staff and operational appointments, including his tenure as commander of First Canadian Army through the northwest European campaign. Despite his pivotal role in shaping the Canadian army, however, General Crerar has been long overlooked as a subject of biography. In A Thoroughly Canadian General, Paul Douglas Dickson examines the man and his controversial place in Canadian military history, arguing that Crerar was a nationalist who saw the army as an instrument to promote Canadian identity and civic responsibility. From his days as a student at the Royal Military College in Kingston, to his role as primary architect of First Canadian Army, the career of General H.D.G. Crerar is thoroughly examined with a view to considering and reinforcing his place in the history of Canada and its armed forces. Crerar’s Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45 At the height of the war in 1943, the future head of the First Canadian Army, General Harry Crerar, penned a long memorandum in which he noted that there was still much confusion as to “what constitutes an ‘Officer.’” His words reflected the army’s preoccupation with creating an ideal officer who would not only satisfy the immediate demands of war but also conform to pervasive, little-discussed notions of social class and masculinity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and exploring the issue of leadership through new lenses, this book looks at how the army selected and trained its junior officers after 1939 to embody the new ideal. It finds that these young men – through the mentors they copied, the correspondence they left, even the songs they sang – practised a “temperate heroism” that distinguished them from the idealized, heroic visions of officership from the First World War, and also from British and even German representations of wartime officership. Fascinating and highly original, Crerar’s Lieutenants sheds new light on the challenges many junior officers faced during the Second World War – not only on the battlefield but from Canadians’ often conflicted views about social class and gender. DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 18:23 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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Every fired missile requires the pilot utilize their LensLok on the Heads Up Display and enter the code within fifteen seconds or the plane self destructs
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Are Power Ranger belt buckles regulation in the US Navy https://twitter.com/ChowdahHill/status/1765090284571083018?t=rZxRLSEevFvDBhcNSM5sVg&s=19
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america is a nation of adult children
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yellowcar posted:america is a nation of adult children
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Atrocious Joe posted:Are Power Ranger belt buckles regulation in the US Navy warrior sailor is not a great multiclassing option because they're both martials with the same proficiencies. i would combine something that gives me spell slots, like warrior wizard or warlock sailor.
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Atrocious Joe posted:Are Power Ranger belt buckles regulation in the US Navy sir the ships you're supposed to be escorting are sinking
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:We're running Air Defence Artillery Gunner and ADA Officer courses with no equipment to train on this year, essentially sidelining guys' careers upon enlistment/commission. They want to run like 3 serials of each this year. That means there will be almost 300 people who have no actual job to do in the military, because they were trained in a blackboard course, talking about theory and doctrine* - that is all hypothetical, because they deemed the existing doctrine obsolete along with ADATS, Javelin and 35mm** - with no way to test it, no actual training, no actual unit to be assigned to, though they'll be dumped on 4 RCA**. this rocks. i hope we lose more wars in super embarrassing ways.
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Puppy Burner posted:this rocks. i hope we lose more wars in super embarrassing ways. There is nothing more embarrassing than losing a war to Yemen. Until that Salmon movie I didn't even know about the country Yemen.
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Danann posted:sir the ships you're supposed to be escorting are sinking lmao
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Atrocious Joe posted:Are Power Ranger belt buckles regulation in the US Navy You have yet to see the to of the iceberg
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is that 30 years of good conduct and e5? I'm not sure the math checks out
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they changed it so you get gold no matter what at 12 years/3 stripes iirc
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Homeless Friend posted:they changed it so you get gold no matter what at 12 years/3 stripes iirc I'm glad they're making more things available to people who haven't bought the season pass.
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https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1765585500184736152quote:The gunman, Robert Card, was a grenade instructor in the Army Reserve. In 2023, after eight years of being exposed to thousands of skull-shaking blasts on the training range, he began hearing voices and was stalked by paranoid delusions, his family said. He grew increasingly erratic and violent in the months before the October rampage in Lewiston, in which he killed 18 people and then himself.
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Atrocious Joe posted:Are Power Ranger belt buckles regulation in the US Navy I genuinely don't understand soy fascism
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giving troops CTE for the lulz
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rudecyrus posted:I genuinely don't understand soy fascism when facism comes to America it will not be under the swastika but with the funko collection
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Getem Ansar Allah, you have the support of Americans because we're not a homogenous nation in any capacity.
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rudecyrus posted:I genuinely don't understand soy fascism yes the commanders of the death platform being insufferable cringe is very weird to me
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rudecyrus posted:I genuinely don't understand soy fascism they share no defined beliefs except that they all want to get their way
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Atrocious Joe posted:Are Power Ranger belt buckles regulation in the US Navy he doesn't even bake the cookies himself? he's giving out cookies as PR stunts and he has other people bake them?
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What if we gave Aaron Hernandez worse CTE and firearms training
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I'm not a Warhammer 1776 nerd. Can you please explain what these stripes mean?
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Atrocious Joe posted:Are Power Ranger belt buckles regulation in the US Navy can someone photoshop an exploding bulk carrier out the window
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Votskomit posted:I'm not a Warhammer 1776 nerd. Can you please explain what these stripes mean? In most services they're "years in service" where you earn one per a certain amount of years, usually 3-4.
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Votskomit posted:I'm not a Warhammer 1776 nerd. Can you please explain what these stripes mean? it means the madman had been in the navy for 40 years or up, potentially, 43years & 364 days
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Atrocious Joe posted:Are Power Ranger belt buckles regulation in the US Navy lol a Dr. Who and a Harry Potter tattoo, my lord
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stephenthinkpad posted:There is nothing more embarrassing than losing a war to Yemen. Until that Salmon movie I didn't even know about the country Yemen. Frankly I think if America manages to draw a war with Yemen they should be proud. Not many countries could do that. Owlbear Camus posted:when facism comes to America it will not be under the swastika but with the funko collection
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So yeah, it seems like the USAF is actually getting rid of the A-10. The size of the fleet (now in the Air National Guard) had been shrinking, but it really does seem they are going to be wrap up them up across the next couple years. It would be air to say that in a peer to peer fight they would take heavy losses and they are just an old platform period, but the Russians are finding use for their SU-25s even if they only do occasional runs. It has been said before, but the ability of the F-35 (A/B/C) do to CAS isn't possible and even tactical bombing probably is going to be pretty limited. The US is really banking on taking out the "brain bugs" and the entire enemy force folding.
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I absolutely think needs to be an A-10 like capability (long loiter time, large payload capability) for low to medium intensity conflicts for sure, and I think it's a shame the YA-10B was never adopted in the 1990s, but I don't know if it, or any of the 4th gen aircraft will be able to operate without heavy losses, casually "loitering for a long time & very close like we did in Afghanistan/Iraq" for a CAS mission in a near peer fight. SOCOM has bought a bunch of converted AT-802U planes for their special operations. Will they be very good in low intensity conflicts or limited counter-insurgency operations? Sure. Are they a full replacement for the A-10 capability? Nope. CAS is technically just the enemy in close contact needing to be suppressed, so what's dropping ordinance on them isn't platform specific. B-1Bs, B-52s, F-15Es, F-16, F/A-18s & A-10s have done CAS missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. If an US Army platoon needs accurate ordinance dropped in a major hurry against a near peer enemy with great air defences, then a F-35 might be the only realistic option of being able to get close enough to drop weapons and promptly get out. The F-35 can't loiter for very long & is fairly limited with its weapons whilst in in internal carriage mode, but it's a lot faster than an A-10 and has pretty good sensors. Would a near peer enemy with an IADS even allow most aircraft to casually loiter very close to the battlefield, for a long time to constantly attack/re-attack if requested? Or would a "Get within a few dozen miles of the location, drop some wing gliding SDBs or JDAMs to avoid the advanced SAM coverage and get out" be the more realistic option? The B-1Bs had a lot of hours plus wear & tear from being used constantly for hours doing CAS missions in the War on Terror idiocy, and there's not many of them: I doubt the USAF would be willing to use strategic type bombers on a "regular" impromptu CAS mission. Have a few F-16s or F-15s respond to a short notice CAS request in a major threat environment instead? They can do the trick, but without proper suppression of good air defences and a lot of supporting assets helping, it'd be very dicey. You'd lose a fair few 4th gen type aircraft doing that, so probably not a major option for all but the most dire situations. Counter-insurgency missions with a limited SAM threat and an stern understanding that wasting strategic bombers like the B-1B for it is idiotic? Hell yeah, A-10 & other aircraft would be great for that. Now, arguing the Key West agreement should be torn up & the US Army allowed fixed wing aircraft to do its own CAS like the A-10? Oooh, now that's a spicy argument!
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