yellowcar posted:

remember when nurses and doctors were wearing garbage bags because there weren't enough medical gowns

Turtle Watch posted:

I can sorta almost maybe if I squint see your point that all Americans are permanently tainted by Americanization and are unable to transcend it due to their base nature of birth, but lmao that definitely also applies to Canada and Europe, countries whose only goals are to debase themselves to Amerikkka thought.

Frosted Flake posted:

The idea was that it was supposed to be amortized and everyone would get a cut and keep their aviation industries alive by building at least subassemblies under licence like with the F-104 and F-86. However, Lockheed put an end to that on both counts while the US cranked up diplomatic pressure for everyone else to buy it anyways.

mlmp08 posted:

Raw Flight Time can be misleading as well. For a while, F-15E squadrons were getting more flight time than anyone, but flying a 5-8 hour missions every other day and zero sim time burning holes in the sky over Syria or Northern Iraq in case ISIS shows up is less useful for major combat training than 6-10 hours of live flight time per month plus training and sim where the flights are training high end conflict and a variety of missions.

Yeah, the F-15E crews will be the most practiced in stuff like takeoff, landing, and insurgency-level CAS, but they might be LESS capable when it comes to advanced A2A combat training or SEAD/DEAD or long-range strike compared to crews getting less hours, but training instead for high end combat. F-15E squadrons still deploy to the middle east, but a lot of the focus over the last couple years has been getting them back into training the kind of skills required for a Pacific conflict.

Pulcinella posted:

Was the the whole “oops, it’s not invisible to cellphone towers” thing actually real?

Frosted Flake posted:

Germany paid Hiram Maxim and John Browning for their licences, at least during the Great War. No idea how that would work now.

Rocket artillery is also usually (much) less expensive than guns of the same calibre. If you were to design a gun to fire a firework, you would need a built up tube, chamber and breech mechanism to fire the same projectile as a waxed cardboard tube, when it’s attached to a rocket.

That distinction is more obvious with things like Congreve and Hale’s rockets, WW2 rail launched rockets etc. but systems like the Type 63 as well



Because acceleration takes place over time, both the launcher and projectile only have to withstand the impulse of firing, which is much lower than a gun’s which must produce enough energy to sustain the projectile through the whole flight in an instant.

Granted, that changes with liquid fuels or more complex solid fuel designs, guidance units etc etc.

e: It would be more fair to say rocket artillery is intended to be simpler and less expensive than guns of the same calibre.

Frosted Flake posted:

"BMW was one of the first brands to introduce artificial engine/exhaust sound into the cabin. Using speakers to play an artificial version of the car’s own engine noise, every modern BMW adds at least a little bit of engine noise to the cabin. This is due to the fact that customers expect quiet cabins but quiet cabins reduce the amount of engine noise you can hear. So if you want to have your cake and eat it, too, you need to use some fake engine noise. However, BMW has gracefully added a new feature to its performance cars and it makes a world of a difference — adjustable engine noise."



jfc

Ardennes posted:

It's also useless information since between 2014 and now there has been a massive capital ship building program in China. Also, China actually has carriers, 2 are commissioned and another one is fitting out for sea trials.

Cuttlefush posted:

suppressors are baffling

Griz posted:

https://freerangeamerican.us/silencer-for-howitzers/

I grew up in central NJ and the army base would post notices in the newspaper when they were gonna do night artillery training to reduce the number of 911 calls about explosions because you can hear that poo poo 20 miles away if the weather is right.

croup coughfield posted:

just stop paying taxes altogether

gradenko_2000 posted:

If I recall correctly the reason why the VTOL model has the weaker engine is that any stronger and it'd destroy the runway it'd be trying to take off from. The naval version, which does short takeoffs, can afford a more powerful engine and is better off for it

Palladium posted:

The marines ahould retrofit themselves out of existence

skooma512 posted:

Is there a way to take and occupy a megacity, anywhere but especially China?

Kiev has like 3 million people and Shanghai has 27. The Russians didn't even get to Kiev

Frosted Flake posted:

There are guys with one leg working HQ and school jobs and Battalion is filled with guys with crippling PTSD. On the other hand, I know an honest to God operator who was discharged for developed lactose and gluten intolerance.

Recruitment and retention are the two biggest deficiencies and the medical side bears that out.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/TheHidingGhost/status/1646016462170079233

the us will lose ww3 because it has a mass illiterate population

Slavvy posted:

The number one source of casualties will be illiteracy because they don't know what 'this side toward enemy' means

gradenko_2000 posted:

Best Friends posted:

What the gently caress??

going to go out on a limb here and say it: being in the red army sounds bad

Hatebag posted:

The j-31 is funny because if they did rip off the design they got rid of the absolutely brain dead single engine design

Hatebag posted:

Yak-38

BitcoinRockefeller posted:

I'm thinking he meant traditional twin engines, not 1+2 vertical ones.

Cuttlefush posted:

so thrust vectoring only, two engines only?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-14?useskin=vector should fit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy2o10g1H6Y

Shrecknet posted:

today I learned so.ehow the Philippines elected another Marcos!

mlmp08 posted:

US is working on a few hypersonic weapons now.

The main versions: A shared army and navy round called the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, which uses a boosted glide body payload. Army would launch it off a trailer, Navy the same round off a ship. The army fields its first firing battery this year. Navy probably a couple years out from putting it on ships. About 1,700 miles range at hypersonic speeds.

One of the USAF efforts failed often, so it is likely dead if its remaining funded tests go poorly. The other USAF effort is a hypersonic air-breathing cruise missile, which shows more reliability promise.

And technically all different sorts of ballistic missile are hypersonic, but that’s usually not what someone is talking about when they say hypersonic weapon.

Cuttlefush posted:

us was also pretty busy with this through the cold war and there are an absurd number of ramjet/scramjet projects going through the 50s/60s/70s. From https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/V11-N3-4/11-03-Gilreath.pdf and https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/content/techdigest/pdf/V18-N02/18-02-Waltrup.pdf it sounds like they were busy.

there was a hypersonic missile program started in 1962 that got into wind tunnel/engine tests at up to mach 10 (https://sci-hub.ru/https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.23952?journalCode=jpp)

i'm not sure how that compares to the soviet/russian program but if they got that far in 1978, canned that program, but kept f unding others it doesn't seem like a whole lot of progress? i'm inclined to just call it a MIC grift casualty, but that still sounds like a weird gap. i don't know how close that hypersonic ramjet (ironically not scramjet) missile actually diverges or what the difficult parts here are. had expertise, lost expertise, replaced with rentgineers?

Frosted Flake posted:

The US government has done a lot of things in the hopes of India being a strategic rival to China. Not a great track record of it panning out.

mlmp08 posted:

Do you mean Pakistan instead of Afghanistan? If so, yes

mlmp08 posted:

Aesthetics. Look at these things. Inspirational. Maybe not to the US, but certainly inspirational to the IRGC naval force designers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus-class_hydrofoil

Frosted Flake posted:

X-posting



They added tiers to the meetings I have to attend with the MIC