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Delta-Wye posted:tbf i think you could make a pretty competent cruise missile tug off of the c130 platform getting 12 irreplaceable jassm-ers blown up en route because you put them on the mic equivalent of scooty puff jr
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The Oldest Man posted:the mic equivalent of scooty puff jr i have spent a lot of time around/on coastie c130s and this is apt
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Danann posted:https://www.twz.com/air/rogue-1-is-one-of-the-marine-corps-newest-kamikaze-drone Idk wtf makes these so expensive because according to Ukrainians the switchblades we sent sucked rear end and were susceptible to jamming, not that these are the same but those were equally overpriced bs (yeah I know it's grift but like I'd love to see a BOM/assembly drawing to see just how egregious it is)
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Justin Tyme posted:Idk wtf makes these so expensive because according to Ukrainians the switchblades we sent sucked rear end and were susceptible to jamming, not that these are the same but those were equally overpriced bs (yeah I know it's grift but like I'd love to see a BOM/assembly drawing to see just how egregious it is) The Switchblades also used an experimental explosive known as CL-20. It was discovered a while ago but the Chinese discovered how to stabilize it only recently. I bet that drives up the price a lot. CL-20 is also supposed to be used on the JASSM-ERs mentioned earlier.
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Justin Tyme posted:Idk wtf makes these so expensive because according to Ukrainians the switchblades we sent sucked rear end and were susceptible to jamming, not that these are the same but those were equally overpriced bs (yeah I know it's grift but like I'd love to see a BOM/assembly drawing to see just how egregious it is) its not that the units cost a lot, its that development costs a lot because it needs investment capitol. that capitol needs to see a return of a certain amount or it will exercise it's rights to the free market and invest elsewhere. also, obviously grift. you've got to give enough money to the right people to even get any notice at all, even if you have a solidly beneficial product. merit alone won't get anyone poo poo
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RaySmuckles posted:its not that the units cost a lot, its that development costs a lot because it needs investment capitol. that capitol needs to see a return of a certain amount or it will exercise it's rights to the free market and invest elsewhere. Yeah, same excuse pharma uses, maybe we should have army labs to develop these sort of things on the governments dime, oh well, there's no better way under liberal capitalism
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https://twitter.com/BillKirbyHBS/status/1788624722718060999 i guess the plan is to rely even more intensively on nafo and reddit to yell at people that the chinese trains and factories your lying eyes perceive don't actually exist
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Yeah, the problem is if they start learning the language, they may start actually learn about the country and its history...you can't have that. That was a failure of Soviet/Russian studies, you actually started having specialists with language skills go into the archives and read material they shouldn't be reading.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/BillKirbyHBS/status/1788624722718060999 we cannot allow a China Expert gap Orbis Tertius has issued a correction as of 09:53 on May 10, 2024 |
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, the problem is if they start learning the language, they may start actually learn about the country and its history...you can't have that. That was a failure of Soviet/Russian studies, you actually started having specialists with language skills go into the archives and read material they shouldn't be reading. having actual china experts would mean them learning dangerous facts like the 2nd half of the tank man video or the charred unarmed PLA corpses on trucks in TAM can't have that
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gradenko_2000 posted:The US will lose ww3 cinematic universe the US is already losing the Period piece race.
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Stairmaster posted:Did you miss the scene in the 800 where they fly the roc flag while Japanese fighter craft strafe them he has bad eyesight. He thought the blur was from censorship instead of cataracts.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/BillKirbyHBS/status/1788624722718060999 Ardennes posted:Yeah, the problem is if they start learning the language, they may start actually learn about the country and its history...you can't have that. That was a failure of Soviet/Russian studies, you actually started having specialists with language skills go into the archives and read material they shouldn't be reading. meanwhile Chinese Marxist schools have thorough historical-economic analyses of NATO countries lmao
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Tankbuster posted:the US is already losing the Period piece race. The Washington elites are basically like Ridley Scott, way too old and refuse to go.
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Real hurthling! posted:why spending money teaching white kids chinese when there are thousands of chinese immigrant kids that know it already you can teach bitchass cia poo poo to thousands of people who need all sorts of security waivers for having relatives in “enemy” states you say? and a communist state at that? No, that will not do. security clearance denied.
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Justin Tyme posted:Idk wtf makes these so expensive because according to Ukrainians the switchblades we sent sucked rear end and were susceptible to jamming, not that these are the same but those were equally overpriced bs (yeah I know it's grift but like I'd love to see a BOM/assembly drawing to see just how egregious it is) they are built by white collar computer touchers whose mortgage costs them $6000 a month
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AECes9N9Wac c ~9:30 "The myth of the Tiger doesn't start during the war, it's started by NATO during the 1960's when they have to prove that less amount of good AFVs can somehow offset large amounts of less good AFVs"
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Regarde Aduck posted:and the example is always against China. As if such a conflict wouldn't be devastating for both sides. Them just really getting hype for a war that is going to kill 90% of current personal and 100% of the active ships and aircraft within the first month. I guess the plan is that the war would be limited but I don't know if anyone informed China. to be only slightly less dismissive, let me expand on this slightly both economic performance and military performance hinge on a lot of coordination and communication expertises. china has a lot of problems with these expertises. you can see this in things like the chinese GDP constantly being revised downward from publicly released numbers because there is a giant, overriding problem with communication in China: it is outright incentivized to lie to your superiors in many cases, both civilian and state. there are more effects. but frankly, what i am talking about is so fundamental to understanding the situation that i genuinely mistook your position as a low-effort troll. the edit convinced me otherwise. at any rate, though, i'll wait until someone actually gives a considered, nuanced explanation as to why china is rising and will take the crown of the world this time, for serious bro, before i devote any more words to the topic.
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Gripweed posted:to be only slightly less dismissive, let me expand on this slightly Can't imagine the dysfunctional system of the Orient where you are incentivised to lie to your boss.
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It is a mystery how a state with: - several times the population, - much higher manufacturing capacity, - a proven track record of installing vast amounts of cutting edge high speed rail tech over only a decade, - active experience in every form of production, - and supplies a huge amount of the US's raw, intermediate, and finished goods could possibly unseat the empire of the US. The US who is currently proving it can't deal with a handful of rebels in some arid mountains of the country with the worlds 123rd highest GDP and no navy in a naval conflict. Thankfully the perfidious Chinese just lie to each other all day long so they'll come undone any second now. We know they lie, that's why no other country will enter into any form of commercial deal with them.
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Real hurthling! posted:why spending money teaching white kids chinese when there are thousands of chinese immigrant kids that know it already you can teach bitchass cia poo poo to the spooks are too wildly racist for that Best Friends posted:thousands of people who need all sorts of security waivers for having relatives in “enemy” states you say? and a communist state at that? No, that will not do. security clearance denied.
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Gripweed posted:to be only slightly less dismissive, let me expand on this slightly first guess is gip second guess is tfr
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Gripweed posted:to be only slightly less dismissive, let me expand on this slightly is this a bit, r u doing some kind of routine, or are “insidious oriental” and “devil eyed gook” standard features in your everyday thought and speech
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Chonchon posted:is this a bit, r u doing some kind of routine, or are “insidious oriental” and “devil eyed gook” standard features in your everyday thought and speech Eye gook can be pretty terrible
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Danann posted:first guess is gip third guess is d&d tenth guess is pyf
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zetamind2000 posted:third guess is d&d Surreal that even the most negative opinion has to be couched in the unexamined assumption that the American military is ever invincible.
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I checked their post history. they're not sinophobic they just really like dancehall
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Being inherently sinophobic is kinda a part of the standard western intellectual toolkit at this point. I generally assume until proven otherwise that everyone in the world who speaks english as a first language probably has some hilarious stupid ideas about the perfidious chinese bouncing around their head, especially if it's someone who thinks that they have any kind of political knowledge about anything.
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Since I read Chinese Characteristics, I’m just amused by it. Things literally have reverted back to Boxer Rebellion caricatures of the Orient.
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Can you imagine the scandal if the US continually revised key economic indicators months after they'd already been used for headlines about big economic recoveries?
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Nix Panicus posted:Can you imagine the scandal if the US continually revised key economic indicators months after they'd already been used for headlines about big economic recoveries? lol
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Some cultures just incentivize people to lie to their superiors as a matter of course, and that is why they will lose any substantial conflict. It can't be helped, some cultures are just rotten. Now to take a big sip of coffee and look up the last Pentagon audit. I love to see accountability
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