Rutibex posted:

the american revolution wasn't about taxes. mostly it was about the colonists thirsting after more native land and the crown making treaties that prevented this

OK baizuo posted:

I'm close enough to a strategically important air force base that I'll be in the 5 psi overpressure zone (along with the eastern half of the Denver metro) if China drops one of their 3-5mt icbm warheads if things really pop off, very cool and good

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/AnnQuann/status/1565208630256816129

what an unusual attachment for a heavy machine gun

https://twitter.com/AnnQuann/status/1564483156576575490

edit: also vietnamese army food

Cuttlefush posted:

i think the f-117 shootdown was a combination of the air defense either getting information on where the f-117 was going to be or it flying routinely, the radar operators tinkering with them enough to actually get a return above background, and the electronic warfare aircraft that would normally support the f-117 being absent that time. stealth isn't actually hyped up that much militarily unlike most of the modern wunderwaffen. it's a legitimate part of any survivability onion. there are probably a lot of things within stealth that take on wunderwaffen characteristics within the modern western military but the real big failure point is operational/logistical fuckups like the f-117 shootdown. which is how the us will lose ww3

indigi posted:

why didn’t they want to get involved in Cambodia? if you're fighting the war "intelligently" wouldn't you have to disrupt this supply route?

KomradeX posted:

Who needs infrastructure when you can end the world.


You know with the persistence of accepting Nazi myths about the war, maybe poo poo like this is a bad idea

Rutibex posted:

It's not like historians are any better at analysing history than anyone else. They never tought me the secret phychohistorical methods during my degree anyway. It's just "read these old books then post about it" anyone can do that

Lostconfused posted:

I guess everyone forgot about Australia, but there's some choice quotes here.

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/12/will-us-supply-australia-with-aukus-subs-thats-not-going-to-happen-key-us-lawmaker-says/

sullat posted:

Yeah they sent 50000 soldiers to Haiti and well, a few hundred made it back.

redneck nazgul posted:

yelling SHAUN to blow up a tank while it's aiming at me

Weka posted:

Dang that's sick. Video showing it shoot down multiple drones at once.

http://twitter.com/OedoSoldier/status/1592131815300825088

From this pretty interesting article here, which also mentions it has an integral radar. Looks like this is China's answer to suicide drones.

https://eurasiantimes.com/edited-china-unveils-new-shorad-system-armed-with-missiles/

gradenko_2000 posted:

Trabisnikof posted:

we did it boys

croup coughfield posted:

goons dont set national policy anywhere

Frosted Flake posted:

Blarghalt posted:

The Greenlandic shadow state rules all, unseen

Basic Poster posted:

I had some exposure to the hypersonic issue. When China had first announced its working prototype, and Russia shortly thereafter (may have that backwards) a lot of folks in the DoD and congressional community were saying that it was either bullshit or a non issue. behind the scenes, the DoD and DoE were panicking trying to figure it out.

Just to clarify, ICBMs do like mach 30+ on re entry but are only in atmosphere for less than a minute before impact, usually way less. they are ballistic though so their trajectory is known and can be intercepted hypothetically anywhere after launch. The new vehicles announced by those dastardly reds is a cruise type object, meaning two things. 1) It spends most or at least more of its time in the atmosphere and 2) it can turn.

The technology hurdle is basically about material science. for something yo sustain those speeds in atmosphere has to withstand temperatures of like 3000c for an extended period of time and it cant be reactive with oxygen (lol). certain odd configurations of carbon were being tried at the time but they would react with the atmosphere and become brittle and decompose in flight until failure. They were them messing with some ceramic doping of the wild carbon, but at least last I heard, the figured the reds had solved the material heat tolerance at extended duration problem and the west had not.

KomradeX posted:

I just remembered about the Zumwalts and how they planned for 30 of them ans built 2. lol all around



Being succeded by another iteration of ship you replaced is funny. Especially since I remember the 90s and how this was going to be just like F-117, an unsinkable Navy