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Tempora Mutantur posted:imperial march but with a sad trombone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJlJayMi8kQ
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TheBuilder posted:and if I could slam dunk a basketball I'd have been a 5 season NBA MVP I wouldn't discount the PRC.
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StashAugustine posted:No that would be if the protesters shot themselves Protestors shot by the empire.
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Ardennes posted:I wouldn't discount the PRC. Everybody knows that the US's military bases and installations are entirely within the continental US and thus invulnerable to enemy long-range bombers.
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sullat posted:Everybody knows that the US's military bases and installations are entirely within the continental US and thus invulnerable to enemy long-range bombers. That is the thing, even if Chinese bombers are worse...it is very clear American air defenses are almost completely reliant on fighters. The US now have to devote more and more of its fighter fleet to protect its bases, possibly some on American soil, which frees up more and more of the PLAAF (also the RuAF and everyone who doesn't like the US).
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:There's probably none of the ground based radar and GCI infrastructure leftover from the F-106 days eh? That's probably expensive to rebuild, and might explain balloon mania a bit. The Nike system was completely dismantled in the 1970s and was not replaced by anything (there was a battery not that far from the Hollywood sign). T
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Ardennes posted:The Nike system was completely dismantled in the 1970s and was not replaced by anything (there was a battery not that far from the Hollywood sign). T There's also a battery just north of the Golden Gate bridge, you can go in and get a tour of it. I'm sure that lobbing nukes at the H-20 bomber is viable solution so we should get started on reactivating them.
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skooma512 posted:Yeah, the H-20 could be detected 100 miles out which means it will have big problems with US long range SAM systems such as … Surely they would scramble the F-35s and direct them with the radar
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/togdali/status/1783654267041005923?t=HZ9JH1rJOHj-738LVwR7sQ&s=19 i can see the 🔻now
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The protesters should be sending up drones to orbit those clowns. Just videotaping what they are up to would be good, but they probably would also freak out and run away.
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KomradeX posted:Surely they would scramble the F-35s and direct them with the radar I'm the f35 pilot trailing the bomber by 50 meters holding a radar lock networked to the nuclear missile battery gritting my teeth with the biggest psycho grin instead of switching to guns
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Cerebral Bore posted:the virgin us sailor: gets exhausted after a few months at sea and has to run home for treats the social media content gap cannot be underestimated, usn social media content is dogwater while ansar allah's is incredible
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Justin Tyme posted:I'm the f35 pilot trailing the bomber by 50 meters holding a radar lock networked to the nuclear missile battery gritting my teeth with the biggest psycho grin instead of switching to guns quote:On the F-35A this is mounted internally near the left wing root with 182 rounds carried; the gun is more effective against ground targets than the 20 mm gun carried by other USAF fighters. In 2020, a USAF report noted "unacceptable" accuracy problems with the GAU-22/A on the F-35A. These were due to "misalignment" in the gun's mount, which was also susceptible to cracking. These problems were resolved by 2024. The F-35B and F-35C have no internal gun and instead can use a Terma A/S multi-mission pod (MMP) carrying the GAU-22/A and 220 rounds; the pod is mounted on the centerline of the aircraft and shaped to reduce its radar cross-section
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Mike Pompeo sent his book to President Xi. The title "Never Give an Inch" seems to be an accurate summation of the US approach to diplomacy. https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1784222251941838979 Some poor low-ranking diplomatic functionary is probably going to be assigned to actually read this.
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in china they call it "the little read book"
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Real hurthling! posted:in china they call it "the little read book"
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Real hurthling! posted:in china they call it "the little read book"
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BearsBearsBears posted:Mike Pompeo sent his book to President Xi. The title "Never Give an Inch" seems to be an accurate summation of the US approach to diplomacy. also an accurate summation of pompeo's sex life
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Real hurthling! posted:in china they call it "the little read book"
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FuzzySlippers posted:was the uss soy close enough to help shoot down Iranian missiles the other day? Could be part of why it’s heading back. Presumably they’d have exhausted most of their interceptors in that effort. Grand Admiral Schlomo Vile's 3rd Fleet. (nominal strength: 1 PT boat, in drydock)
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I'm reading Harry Yeide's "The Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II" and what the gently caress was going on with American amphibious assaults? they tried to land tanks alongside the infantry during Torch, but it barely worked because they didn't have any specialized landing boats for it. okay, understandable they landed in Sicily and there were no tanks coming in on the first wave they landed in Salerno and there were no tanks coming in on the first wave they landed in Anzio and there were no tanks coming in on the first wave they landed in Normandy and there were no tanks coming in on the first wave (from "Stopping the Panzers") and every time this happened, it explicitly caused difficulty for the infantry to not have them around and we know that they could have done it, because the Anglos did plan and execute their beach assaults with an armored fist coming in immediately but they never fixed it, unless someone's going to tell me they finally did in Operation Anvil
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm reading Harry Yeide's "The Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II" and what the gently caress was going on with American amphibious assaults? near as i can tell the same thing going on with american armies in general throughout our history: they ain't great
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the only wars the us has really won are against war ravaged euros or its own dumbest population
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frozenphil posted:the only wars the us has really won are against war ravaged euros or its own dumbest population Admittedly, the revolutionary war and the war of 1812 were about outwaiting the British. The Mexican-American War was just about bulling a significantly weaker nation. The Civil War is as was said. The Spanish-American War was pretty much the same thing as the Mexican-American War. World War 1 was pretty much showing up after the Germans had already spent themselves, World War 2 was the same. The Korean War was a stalemate against much technologically and industrially weaker opponents (beyond Soviet assistance). The US just lost Vietnam. The more recent wars have always been laughably slanted, and the US usually just slowly loses them anyway. Basically, the US does well when it kind of just wins by default, or it can just bully a bunch weaker country. The US is the frat boy who's dad owns a dealership of countries.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm reading Harry Yeide's "The Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II" and what the gently caress was going on with American amphibious assaults? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbX0AWKYMo
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Ardennes posted:The US is the frat boy who's dad (Britain) owns a dealership of countries (The British Empire).
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The son kinda beat up the dad and locked him in the basement though, and now only communicates to gaslight
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Dad has dementia though and absolutely deserves to be kept in the basement
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kyojin posted:Dad is a demented genocide machine though and absolutely deserves to be kept in the basement
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so the whole soviet “human wave attacks” was projection? this makes me want to re read catch 22 again, it being based in southern italy at the time
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