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Pidgin Englishman posted:Battle of Kursk, famous for only being the first 10 days of the 2 month conflict. Wonder how the other 1,000 tanks were lost in July and August? I may be mistaken, but I recall the radio war nerd on kursk saying that the tank loss numbers for Germany are a big ol' unknown, because all they have to work with is reports from commanders saying how many operational vehicles they have. You can do some subtraction on that to work out the losses, but it doesn't account for what's operational via repairs/replenishment.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/AEI/status/1785017847011533148 [tripling all weapons procurement prices] "checkmate, commies"
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/AEI/status/1785017847011533148 here's the research: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uplo...ding.pdf?x85095 quote:As seen in Figure 1, IISS’s approximation is slightly higher—$360 billion, since it considers some form of purchasing power parity and different areas of uncounted expenditure, such as defense research and development (R&D).13 The IISS estimate excludes some expenditures that the SIPRI estimate includes, which contributes to differences in the figures. they multiplied China's spending until it was much as the US's lol also added in the People's Armed Police, because they're totally the military, duh. and the pension costs because its unfair that China funds their pensions through the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
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Now I’m imagining a sci-fi story where America’s plan to defeat invading aliens to spend their entire GDP buying a single normal bullet from themselves.
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Wait till they factored in the "MIC grift index" in the Chinese spending again, it will blow your mind.
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"every one of ours is worth three of theirs" but not so much in fighting spirit as retail price markup
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drat china can spend that much militarily AND have high speed trains everywhere and renewable energy? they own even more
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lmao, finally we can outsource maintenance engineers to india
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like, if the goal is the dubious efficiency of having 1 wrench turner be able to guide a dozen remote ditch diggers at different bases on maintenance tasks, how is strapping 3 pounds of poo poo to your face a huge leap from just pointing a camera at it? to say nothing of "we need these vehicles back up but the wifi is out and we don't have a qualified tech billet at this base. just do your best with faith based maintenance." been said a lot in this thread but the lostech/machine spirit tech priest stuff of sci fi wargames is real and happening lol
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quote:But, Reventlow noted, Marines are not the first to conduct telemaintenance. The Army has been assisting Ukrainian maintainers during their war with Russia to fix systems on or close to the front lines using remote connections.  The best thing to do when facing a deadly, peer enemy is to emit tons of radio signals. You'll look just like a civilian. They'll never expect it.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/AEI/status/1785017847011533148 https://x.com/_arenio/status/1785053130280820863
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D-Pad posted:Towards the end japanese pilots had like two weeks of training never having shot their weapons or done a carrier landing. Also surprising to find out how many kamikaze pilots were university students who were not at all fanatics, didn't really support the war, and wanted a western style democracy but volunteered anyway. They weren't really volunteered as much as voluntold. I think the right wing government wanted a post-war environment where the leftish antiwar types were dead so they were compelled to serve.
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Cerebral Bore posted:its opposite day i see I remember being appalled when I took Electric Circuits junior year. I got a 45 on an exam at the start of term and was really worried I should drop, and then realized it was an A. Students were passing with 10-15% solutions. Just pages of nonsense diffeq submitted, and professors were like ... well you tried and attended. That's a C.
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don't worry guys we have way better engineers than the guys we get to make everything
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Vijay Prashad also calculated that US defence spending is much higher than the reported figure, and details the ways they obfuscate that, which makes things a bit funnier.
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they sell us cheap crap and we lap it up, ergo all they can make is cheap crap simple as
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like the whole argument of the report is that chinese defense spending goes 3-5x further than USA defense spending lol
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Military spending and why it's important brought you by the guys that can't figure out why North Korea surpasses their artillery shell production.
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I mean if there is at least partial data on personnel costs, procurement, and the overall size of the PLA, how is this such a mystery?
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Sanlav posted:I remember being appalled when I took Electric Circuits junior year. I got a 45 on an exam at the start of term and was really worried I should drop, and then realized it was an A. Students were passing with 10-15% solutions. Just pages of nonsense diffeq submitted, and professors were like ... well you tried and attended. That's a C. Yeah u of t was notorious for treating intro calc physics etc like this, write brutally hard exams and have international student TAs who don't have time to teach or get paid to do so, and if you can get into the top half you passed! Even if the pass was like 30%
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Isentropy posted:Yeah u of t was notorious for treating intro calc physics etc like this, write brutally hard exams and have international student TAs who don't have time to teach or get paid to do so, and if you can get into the top half you passed! Even if the pass was like 30% I have some funny stories about this, but let me preface by saying U of T publishes their disciplinary reports online, one semester behind, and the amount of cheating that goes on there is staggering. Even in the humanities, I got a 30% on my final exam in a course on the Hannibalic War, which dragged me down to a C, because my department was trying to prove some point about how tough they were so they could get funding for a dig in Greece.
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Sanlav posted:I remember being appalled when I took Electric Circuits junior year. I got a 45 on an exam at the start of term and was really worried I should drop, and then realized it was an A. Students were passing with 10-15% solutions. Just pages of nonsense diffeq submitted, and professors were like ... well you tried and attended. That's a C. It's funny tho because at the end of the year when everyone is giving their capstone presentations on stage in their lovely rented men's wearhouse suits the absolute dumbest motherfucker 10 percenter 2.0 GPAs have to show their rear end in front of everyone with the sloppiest worst engineering you have ever seen
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Sanlav posted:I remember being appalled when I took Electric Circuits junior year. I got a 45 on an exam at the start of term and was really worried I should drop, and then realized it was an A. Students were passing with 10-15% solutions. Just pages of nonsense diffeq submitted, and professors were like ... well you tried and attended. That's a C.
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cat botherer posted:I TA'ed a number of math classes. Professors would always pressure me to grade creatively to pass students who had no idea what was going on. That wasn't an issue for me, because I didn't give a poo poo and was getting paid peanuts anyway. It truly is a mystery why American infrastructure keeps falling down. Meanwhile in racist land undergraduate engineering has a ~80% attrition rate due to the difficulty of the course but every graduate comes out ready to work competently in their specialisation.
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We've just ritualized all the hazing so they paint themselves purple and RMC engineering students play increasingly expensive and criminal pranks on their Queens counterparts. That and the Masonic ring presentation ritual thing, the flight suits, and the "callsigns".
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cagliostr0 posted:It truly is a mystery why American infrastructure keeps falling down. weird how BYD has more car R&D personnel than rest of the world combined
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Palladium posted:weird how BYD has more car R&D personnel than rest of the world combined I doubt China would waste engineers on most of the car r+d. They are far too valuable on structures and dynamic systems to waste time in something a research chemist could handle fine.
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Lostconfused posted:Military spending and why it's important brought you by the guys that can't figure out why North Korea surpasses their artillery shell production. the VA alone had spent $2 trillon over a decade yet there's still homeless vets which means china must outspend us and suck at whatever they are doing, because
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it’s very much a thing of political economy, I’ll post something more elaborate once I get home
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