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Nix Panicus posted:How much human suffering is down to the basic inability to call someone in a position of authority a stupid fucker to their face? The advent of hierarchies was a mistake from which humanity has never recovered.
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Cost of Sustaining Lockheed’s F-35 Jet Now Forecast to Exceed $1.5 Trillion Now that price is for operating and maintaining the F-35 through 2088, buuuuttttt its 44% higher than what the estimates were six years ago. Amazing quote here from the Pentagon. quote:Pentagon officials told auditors that “significant F-35 program cost reductions will only come from flying the aircraft less or reducing the number of aircraft in the fleet.” The readiness rate of the plane is also really bad. 52% for the USAF and 62% for the USN. They were targeting 80% and 75% respectively. The whole article is just an example of the military-industrial complex wringing out as much money as it can.
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Nix Panicus posted:How much human suffering is down to the basic inability to call someone in a position of authority a stupid fucker to their face? All of our institutions depend on following orders from the higher-ups. Questioning them is only tolerated to a degree. Refusing them gets you fired, imprisoned, or shot. The Cossacks work for the Tsar.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:American liberal elites like FDR and Keynes I think had a genuine belief that western would could peacefully transition from capitalist social democracy to communism and given how friendly FDR and Stalin were and how subordinated capital in the US was briefly to the war effort it was a totally reasonable and comforting/self-serving belief at that time. nah, Keynes hated Communism, and believed the capitalist mode of production was the beall and end all of things. Keynes was fundamentally an intellectual working for capitalist coin and a lot of his writings in the tailend of the Great Depression was trying to get people not to kick out the economists that helped bring it forth. quote:And it’s just over 100 years since the great 20th century economist John Maynard Keynes wrote about Marx’s contribution. Keynes wrote then: “how can I accept the (Communist) doctrine which sets up as its bible above and beyond criticism, an obsolete textbook which I know not only to be scientifically erroneous but without interest or application to modern world.” [2] I think we can see that Keynes had a low opinion of Marx’s ideas. https://redsails.org/marx-and-keynes-in-berlin/
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Owlbear Camus posted:I think the framing was more "in the event that they lose an officer, the noble unterfeldwebel/staff sergeant has the initiative and know how to take over effective command of the platoon which makes them less tactically brittle, unlike dumb moron armies who just immediately tip over like star wars battle droids without a command ship" but your version is probably an easy sell for any infantryman who's had to do land nav with a freshly minted 2lt. As a former NCO I endorse any framework that encourages violence toward officers (sorry to our Canadian friend)
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OhFunny posted:Cost of Sustaining Lockheed’s F-35 Jet Now Forecast to Exceed $1.5 Trillion I’d bet my life the disparity is because the Air Force is reporting more accurately than the navy
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Yeah, from the article those seem to be partial mission readiness, so they can't even use their full capabilities. I remember from GAO reports that the full mission capable rate was even lower, with the Navy and Marine Corps versions being absolutely abysmal.
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Hey, is this relevant to the US ability to produce 155mm artillery shells? https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/stat...948%2Fpage-2105
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a munitions factory? that's where you least want a fire
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:We destroyed half of China because they boarded and searched the Arrow and lowered the Red Ensign. please, we're Americans, not monsters like the English
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one day the great world war will come out of some damned foolish thing in the middle east
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OhFunny posted:operating and maintaining the F-35 through 2088 So good it'll last 75 years, just like the b-52 
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Owlbear Camus posted:a munitions factory? that's where you least want a fire to be fair from everything we've seen there's a not insignificant chance that they've just been filling the shells with concrete or something
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but to be less flippant a good high explosive doesn't actually go off when set on fire, you need a dedicated primer for it to detonate
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BULBASAUR posted:please, we're Americans, not monsters like the English As a successor state you keep the traits
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frozenphil posted:The Ft. Sill ammo facilities are gargantuan. fwiw family that still live nearby say you basically never hear the guns fire there anymore. Whether that’s because they don’t have much ammo or it’s too uncool and boring to bother training on artillery anymore I dunno.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:As a former NCO I endorse any framework that encourages violence toward officers (sorry to our Canadian friend) That's fine. Uneasily lie the shoulders that wear the pips and crowns.
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when do we expect to change the thread title to [REALTIME] The US Is Actively Losing WW3
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Cabbages and Kings posted:when do we expect to change the thread title to [REALTIME] The US Is Actively Losing WW3 the first combat deaths they aren't able to explain away as a training accident or a seal slipping on a banana peel
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Hey, is this relevant to the US ability to produce 155mm artillery shells? Open fire!
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Hey, is this relevant to the US ability to produce 155mm artillery shells? Sounds like it was pretty small and contained quickly. https://www.wnep.com/article/news/l...dc-d13f7eca7e1f quote:SCRANTON, Pa. — Flames broke out at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant Monday afternoon.
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It is not so much the damage to what I believe is America's only 155mm shell factory but what it says about the quality of said factory. Although the damage is nice too.
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mlmp08 posted:Sounds like it was pretty small and contained quickly. Cease fire!
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Hubbert posted:Open fire! Hubbert posted:Cease fire!
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Hubbert posted:Cease fire! We can only call for a temporary cease fire.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:when do we expect to change the thread title to [REALTIME] The US Is Actively Losing WW3 I think we should save that milestone to whenever a navy ship gets severely damaged or a F35 gets shot down by Ansar Allah. Comically running your F35 into the sea doesn't count.
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how many shells does the US's biggest 155mm shell producer even make per month, is it as many as russia gets from NK per day yet?
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Hahaha
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Owlbear Camus posted:a munitions factory? that's where you least want a fire Pretty sure you're supposed to fire munitions
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Cerebral Bore posted:but to be less flippant a good high explosive doesn't actually go off when set on fire, you need a dedicated primer for it to detonate like I know c4 wont explode if set on fire, but doesn't it burn easily and really hot?
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Yes and the smoke is very toxic.
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I suspect rather like ammonium nitrate if you have a gigantic amount of the stuff on fire it will eventually explode, people are just generally slightly less cavalier about it.
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i think c4 is a lot more stable than ammonium nitrate and i don't think they store it in giant piles like they did in beirut though
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Book learning? in my OSINT?
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Flournival Dixon posted:i think c4 is a lot more stable than ammonium nitrate and i don't think they store it in giant piles like they did in beirut though Those are some big assumptions for the United States with 0 evidence to be that confident
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actually fires at munitions factories are extremely normal and mild
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The Oldest Man posted:actually fires at munitions factories are extremely normal and mild With the fire, not OF the fire
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you should do a controlled burn every couple weeks. it's good for the shell factory ecosystem
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