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Tankbuster posted:Like whats gonna happen when all those F-35s crash due to inclement weather or the newly upgraded fighting falcons get zapped by russian air defenses? we pay 500 billion for new ones deliverable in 2054
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the lcs was so reactive with sea water it dissolved itself
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they should just make a missile that shits out a huge rear end cloud of radar visible crap over miles and miles and have some normal rear end jets fly through it so the anti air cant target them by they i mean the level designers at bandai namco project aces cause that would be a fun ac level.
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Centrist Committee posted:yeah I’m sure they’ve been meticulously maintained for the past half a century things got really bad and they said they cleaned house and modernized but whos to say
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they forgot how to make all these special foams and other stuff for the warheads tooquote:In 2007, as the government began overhauling the nation’s stockpile of W76 warheads—the variety often carried by Ohio-class submarines—officials at the National Nuclear Security Administration realized they couldn’t produce an essential material known as “Fogbank.” What purpose this substance actually serves is classified, but outside experts have suggested that it’s a sort of exploding foam that sits between the fission and fusion portions of hydrogen bombs. The Government Accountability Office reported in March that NNSA’s effort to recover its Fogbank-making ability had resulted in a yearlong, $69 million delay in the refurbishment project. And a government official with knowledge of the situation tells Mother Jones that further Fogbank-related delays are imminent.
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Rutibex posted:how much you want to bet someone skimped on the fogbank or whatever, knowing it could not legally be tested by international law some retiree passes off his wifes lemon bar recipe to uncle sam and collects the bounty
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hmm what will we use to catch the ions coming off the steel once this goes into a medium?? oh! how about the very hull itself! genius!
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wolfs posted:why, because they have impeccably vetted security clearances? where do nuclear missile skills transfer rocket science is the thing people compare to the hardest thing you can do
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it was americans little brother holding the controller that time. now hes really playing
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empire is about stealing and killing to steal more. the rest is just what they tell the rubes to carry out the mission
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Nix Panicus posted:Imperial Rome had a massive industrial waterfront for bringing in all the raw goods the city needed to survive. they had one at ostia for loading goods from ships on to barges and then another upriver for unloading the barges
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america doesnt need any weapons for a real war because we will abandon our allies immediately and pretend its not happening
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imperial life was a great read
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ww3 is going to be a collapsing america invading and enslaving western europe to work in the McNugget mines since they have all the bases and troops already there.
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Retromancer posted:How dare you question the brave Ukranians when they say they've killed 3x the population of Russia in defense of their homeland. begun the clone wars have
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Bar Ran Dun posted:you’re not making the point you think you are. why would russia occupy ukraine? i dont think they give a poo poo about that.
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StashAugustine posted:This is kind of related to chat in the Ukraine thread arguing if Russian fuckups in Ukraine are particularly incompetent or just the result of a modern war against a military that doesn't immediately fold: I was kinda under the impression that US planners thought the Gulf War was gonna be way worse than it was, was that the case? And apart from that, what made the US so decisively win that war- fatigue from the Iran war, poor Iraqi morale, technology, etc? we told iraq they could invade kuwait after decades of helping them fight iran and then annihilated their whole army immediately cause it was all in the open going to kuwait and we knew everything about it
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the littoral combat ship is an epic boondoggle they made them out of an alloy that dissolves in water and didnt use the right corrosion control measures
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they also cant stop crashing
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gradenko_2000 posted:stealth became a thing because you can always make a missile that can fly higher, and fly faster, than any plane just fly waves of cheaper planes to exhaust their missiles first. balsa wood replica drones with lawnmower engines
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the fighterjet of the future is a truck full of missile
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i say swears online posted:if i was in cornwall i would have simply not let the late bronze collapse happen big tin conglomerate hiring pinkertons to kill sea people and precocious iron workers
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the secret plot to use mommy influencers to spread fears about super tetanus
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Endman posted:The F-22’s major problem was its colossal expense in not just initial purchase but ongoing maintenance. but they called it the raptor when jurrassic park was cool so im good. dont even miss health care or roads
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why did america allow a hypersonic missile gap
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also losing one just means we get to pay for even bigger shittier ones
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i believe in a world where rogue terrorists have anti ship missiles. thank you ukraine war zone
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why isnt the crew assigned to other stuff?
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why are they living on it tho?
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are they installing the digital launch system? im against it. "give me the goddamn steam!" a handsome man once said
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KomradeX posted:Wait this isn't the LCS that also rots in seawater? this is the plan b to that
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i can only guess but steam probably is 100% fine but oops the f35 has terrible launches with it or something and we can't have that. railgun plane launchers at any cost please.
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Frosted Flake posted:Is the broken carrier also the one with the high death count? Just a matter of time until a F-35 catches fire or a LCS is cut in half. yes it has a high body count because its in dock for repair and is in an uninhabitable/unsanitary state during repairs while sailors are still compelled to live on it
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Fish of hemp posted:Do you really think that other countries MIC isn't full of grifters and weasels? Have you looked Russian performance in Ukraine? at least the bad russian gear was sitting around for 50 years and not brand new
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dont subs need to go under the ice caps? probably cold there
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Frosted Flake posted:Just thinking back to Cold War US sub accidents and I’m going to firmly side with “steel quality matters”. USS Scorpion might have been structural failure, right? i read a book 10 years ago claiming theres acoustic evidence for macho bullshit cold wars bumper cars that we know took place between russian/american subs on the day the scorpion was lost
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Cerebral Bore posted:probably not that cold, actually. seawater reaches its maximum density at about 0°C, so in polar waters the water is actually at its coldest at the surface and the deeper you go the closer it gets to zero right like it might be 50 below one day if they need to come up through an ice sheet to launch the missiles
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Trump is a baby who sees things with innocent eyes so he's like "can you believe the korean war never ended? We should end it!" which is correct but he literally didn't know that until someone told him. That can be a good thing but also a very bad thing when he tries to nuke China but hes donald the dove.
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the trees turned red at a time of year. thats how they saw them
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Filthy Hans posted:I've never heard of ammo casing that has steel, copper and aluminum parts together before will those metals react and rust if the ammo gets wet in the field?
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