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Danann posted:the us brought some robodogs off the shelf for a few grand with flamethrowers these arent for military use theyre for fpv human hunting
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BearsBearsBears posted:The F-35 has an honest to god touchscreen, I always assumed it was just a multi-function display. Touchscreen-operated and doesn't work in the rain, it really is the Cybertruck of fighter aircraft. Have there been any studies on on touchscreens Vs tactile switches/buttons/knobs and usability in a stressful environment? Touch screens suck, and I can't imagine how much more they suck if someone is shooting at you.
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mycomancy posted:So...what happens during a mission when the codes expire? Do they just fall out of the sky? explains what happened when that japanese guy flew over the date line lmao
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fatelvis posted:Have there been any studies on on touchscreens Vs tactile switches/buttons/knobs and usability in a stressful environment? A bunch of the US navy ships that crashed had touchscreens for rudder control
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Anyway, the subject of the PLA came up, and particular its ground force and it is interesting to see how much it has changed since 2017. The PLA used to have a army-division-regiment structure to army groups (army corps) and brigades with a couple divisions here and there remaining. This is arguably in some ways similar to the BTG reform that happened to the Russians and the BCTs in the US army. Arguably, the Russians mostly unwound that though while the Chinese seem to be sticking with brigades for the time being. The Russian army is also changing by the year so it is kind of hard to get at what exactly they are going to settle on in terms of formations until the war is over. ----- Anyway, the PLA's core ground force is divided into light/medium/heavy combined arms brigades with about 6 to every army group (with some exceptions plus artillery and support detachments). The mix is a little all over the place but they are significantly more medium and heavy combined arms centric army groups than light. This is in contrast with the US army where the emphasis is still on its 15 IBCTs which are all light motorized infantry, 6 stryker brigades, and 12 armored brigades. This US professional army force is roughly about 1/4th of the size of the comparable portions of the PLA ground force (numbers are hard to find, and there are always changes etc etc but about 140-150k in terms of the core elements of the US Army about 550-600k in terms of China). But really the other issue is just how they are shaped, where as even the Chinese light combined arms brigade pretty much has much more firepower from the squad to brigade level, from the individual soldier to crew serving weapons, to the vehicles themselves. The Chinese to use a light Humvee-analogue but usually they just put far more on them in armaments and have the troops inside them carry far more as well. In addition, they include large amounts of AD in all of their formations. The medium combined arms brigades are as stark with generally with IFVs as heavily or more heavily armed than Strykers and usually more support elements with more heavily outfitted infantry, alongside the fact there are just a lot more medium mechanized elements in the army. The heavy combined arms elements are more comparable to their American counterparts is just that the Chinese also can put more tanks in the field as well and again they have more AD in them. (Also, the Chinese have just more SPGs/MRLSs etc both in their brigades/group armies and as far as their total force etc). Then you get into the fact that the Chinese have other long-range AD systems than the US is light on along with their own 5th generation fighters etc, you can see the issue if the F-35 is supposed to "erase" everything on the ground. Arguably, the US wouldn't try to be seriously put foots on the ground in mainland China, if China actually decided to intervene anywhere near it on land near it, such as in Korea...it would be telling. Likewise, even if somehow NATO got its poo poo together, China could easily tip the scales if they felt like it. It is a good question of the Chinese keep the same structure or take some lessons from the Russians and combine some brigades back to armies/divisions. Arguably, the Chinese want to be flexible (sort of their entire mindset) and prefer a swiss-army knife approach where they can conduct light intensity warfare with their lighter elements while still having a powerful mechanized/armor force backed with AD elements and artillery if they need it. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 14:00 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Truga posted:explains what happened when that japanese guy flew over the date line lmao The dateline is like 1,000+ miles east of where that plane crashed. It did not cross a dateline when the pilot crashed it. Ocean’s big.
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mlmp08 posted:The dateline is like 1,000+ miles east of where that plane crashed. It did not cross a dateline when the pilot crashed it. Ocean’s big. So it crashed because of a pop up warning about the dateline?
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"date has changed, you have 10 minutes to enter new passcode" welp, time to afterburn to japan
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Truga posted:explains what happened when that japanese guy flew over the date line lmao is this a new dateline issue? i was thinking of the older f22 story https://www.itnews.com.au/news/stealth-fighters-hit-by-software-crash-74081 corner cases? our heavily tested well documented safety-critical software forgot to check for those 
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Delta-Wye posted:is this a new dateline issue? i was thinking of the older f22 story I might doxx myself here: one of the checks used in the area of safety critical software I worked in that required a security clearance and wasn't military was "does the software need time of day to do it's job"
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Skill issue, just switch off NTP and turn back the clock a little. Enjoy the eternal F-35 trial version. The real winner though is it also works on WinRAR
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Isentropy posted:I might doxx myself here: one of the checks used in the area of safety critical software I worked in that required a security clearance and wasn't military was "does the software need time of day to do it's job" let me guess, nsa or export regulations inspector?
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RIP Syndrome posted:Skill issue, just switch off NTP and turn back the clock a little. Enjoy the eternal F-35 trial version. Frantically trying to get a hold of Razer1911 as the PLA swarm across the Taiwan Strait and the auth server is down for maintenance.
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Z the IVth posted:Frantically trying to get a hold of Razer1911 as the PLA swarm across the Taiwan Strait and the auth server is down for maintenance. razer's dead. Empress is the only one who can crack Denuvo.
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Ardennes posted:...even if somehow NATO got its poo poo together.... If they could get it together, how would they even start?
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AmyL posted:If they could get it together, how would they even start? Beyond doing the seeming impossible, fordism; probably putting conscripts at gunpoint in any scraps of armor they can get their hands on and charging the Russians and hoping they lose nerve. Even if all of that happened, and somehow they were able to claw their way through the Russian MIC, the PLA would just close the door anyway.
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quote:Beyond doing the seeming impossible, fordism; probably putting conscripts at gunpoint in any scraps of armor they can get their hands on and charging the Russians and hoping they lose nerve. https://www.luxcapital.com/securities/defense-fordism quote:Securities quote:...There’s the canonical line attributed to William Gibson about the future not being equally distributed, but what happens when the future is staring you right in the face and nostalgic blindness prevents a leap to the next generation? It’s a Brave New World out there, and the Fordism of the Navy’s past and all the rest of defense is running up against the Fordism of the future. Cheap and abundant will beat expensive and rare.... Sounds like a GG, RIP, and F against the Russians, PLA, and Chinese there.
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Ardennes posted:Beyond doing the seeming impossible, fordism; probably putting conscripts at gunpoint in any scraps of armor they can get their hands on and charging the Russians and hoping they lose nerve. I mean, there is no real technical difficulty. If you can still build cars you can build shells. It wouldn't take decades between the decision to do some industrial planning and shells rolling off the assembly line. And Russia isn't exactly the PRC. They just really really don't want to.
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quote:I mean, there is no real technical difficulty. If you can still build cars you can build shells. It wouldn't take decades between the decision to do some industrial planning and shells rolling off the assembly line. And Russia isn't exactly the PRC. They just really really don't want to. You still have to move the shells in the US using rail, you have to load them in ships using cranes, and you have to transport them to whatever theatre they will be in. There are a lot of other things involved but with the current condition of US rail infrastructure and ship-building even after infrastructure week... https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2021/09/29/why-the-us-armys-rail-transport-system-is-a-wreck/ quote:
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mawarannahr posted:South Korea's F35 fighter jet needs a U.S. password to start up every day - Straturka can’t sortie, software is updating
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your fire control system is updating please do not engage any targets while this update completes your fighter jet may restart several times during this process
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Clip-On Fedora posted:mawarannahr posted: South Korea will lose KW2.
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genericnick posted:I mean, there is no real technical difficulty. If you can still build cars you can build shells. It wouldn't take decades between the decision to do some industrial planning and shells rolling off the assembly line. And Russia isn't exactly the PRC. They just really really don't want to. It is a little more complicated than that, you need years and plenty of supporting infrastructure. The Russians could do it because honestly their rail system is not only less burdened but even before the war they had been building plants and that only accelerated. It isn’t just shells either but everything at a certain point including the guns themselves and AFVs. The West would not only have to spend a huge amount of money, there is no real reason Russia/Iran/NK wouldn’t scale either.
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tatankatonk posted:Could a touchscreen be disrupted by EW stuff? probably no more or less than a computer-controlled aircraft with mechanical gauges
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https://www.defensenews.com/land/2024/04/25/us-army-to-shift-aviation-force-structure-back-to-tailored-brigades/ More evidence that the US is moving away from the "Modern" brigade concept into the traditional division one
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mawarannahr posted:let me guess, nsa or export regulations inspector? Nuclear. 
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Owlbear Camus posted:your fire control system is updating How would you rate this ejection? * * * * *
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Isentropy posted:Nuclear.
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Just to be clear heavy water facilities and some US ones. Most of my work was for somewhere up north in Ontario, FF knows where.
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OctaMurk posted:i miss the good old days of shareware and infinitely long trials They're back with windows 10. I had to fix my parents computer and I changed too many parts so it thought it was a new computer, but you can just ignore the msg and it just watermarks the bottom corner of the screen but still works.
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Z the IVth posted:Frantically trying to get a hold of Razer1911 as the PLA swarm across the Taiwan Strait and the auth server is down for maintenance. e: lmao i was joking but of course razer now also sells chairs https://www.razer.com/eu-en/gaming-chairs/razer-iskur-v2 i wonder if they come with drm
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Everyone makes their own chair. They all come out of the same chinese factories. Steve made a video on how easy it is to get a quote from one of the companies to just select the type of shape, extras and then just slap on your logo on it.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Everyone makes their own chair. They all come out of the same chinese factories. Steve made a video on how easy it is to get a quote from one of the companies to just select the type of shape, extras and then just slap on your logo on it. the mre guy? he's got his chair merchandise now?
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