Punished Turtle posted:

it’s this

gradenko_2000 posted:

Propublica: The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the "Little Crappy Ship"

mlmp08 posted:

About this many. https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/51535-breakout-figure2_1.pdf

Regarde Aduck posted:

and then what?

What do you want anyone to do about it?

galagazombie posted:

It was okay to murder an American citizen without trial because it was in “combat” against a warring power.
What’s that? We haven’t declared war on Yemen? We haven’t declared war on anyone in 70 years? It was a drone strike and no one was actually engaging in hostilities? He was just sitting around and not actually engaged in hostile action? There wasn’t a battle or anything?

Of course now that they’ve “admitted” it was “collateral damage” while assassinating someone else that immediately makes it beyond reproach.

yellowcar posted:

gonna start some western anti-dprk style rumours that the sec of def fell out of biden's favour and he was executed by getting mauled by Major

Fish of hemp posted:

OK, but you didn't tell me how Europe would fare better.

Of course I'll support any one who will make life better.

VoicesCanBe posted:

The schools or whatever you want to call them are mostly shut down at this point, right? Like the whole thing is pretty much over.

It'll be weird since it will never be "disproven" in the West. So the average American will spend the rest of time assuming that China killed hundreds of thousands of Uyghers and that we just can't somehow find any proof of it because the See See Pee is so good at hiding evidence.

There's a very funny AP article from a couple of years ago that basically describes normal life in Xinjiang, but with a sinister overtone because of course it MUST be sinister.

Hubbert posted:

skooma512 posted:

I've noticed all the pictures coming from the Red Sea are of F/A-18s launching, no F-35s. Are they just not using them or are they using them and not depicting them in the media?

Pistol_Pete posted:

Wi-fi enabled bullets.


(The bullets need a connection to check back to the company servers that there's a valid subscription to the service when they're fired. If they can't find one, or there's no wireless signal, the propellant cuts out, and the bullet plops to the ground.)

mlmp08 posted:

For the SU-75 in general, it's basically a design and mockup (hasn't flown or matured yet), so the idea is try to sell it to whoever will buy it, but no country has signed up to buy it sight unseen. Rostec hoping to be able to sell it in South America, Africa, Iran, etc, but Iran also just signed up to buy about 3 squadrons of SU-35s, which are a proven design. The SU-75 was supposed to fly for the first time in 2023, but that has been delayed to some unknown date in the future.

India is in a weird place where they don't want to purchase from China (obvious competitor reasons), are not satisfied with quality and pace of production of Russian equipment, but do not want to end up dependent on Western nations (especially not the US if they can help it, more amenable to France), and also India wants to develop its own domestic build capability for both national defense / economy reasons as well as avoiding political entanglements with any of the above. So for now India buying a couple squadrons of French Rafales while building out plans to build about 100 of its own domestic design, the HAL Tejas Mk2. It has foreign components like GE engines and was designed and built with assistance from outside India, but the majority of the components are made in India. India kind of goes through this dance with most new combat aircraft procurements, but they are working toward having greater and greater domestic independence to build their own aircraft.

Hubbert posted:

and for everyone taking notes at home, the past two pages are why the us will lose ww3

Hatebag posted:

i don't know how many nukes it would take to blow a hole through a foot of reinforced concrete but i found this amazing drawing from a 1990 paper from the army about dividing walls

fizziester posted:

"We are not ready for an enduring war, do you accept that?" Francois asked, to which Magowan responded, "Yes, absolutely."

"We could not fight an enduring war against Russia, drop all these euphemisms about peer adversaries," Francois continued.

The Voice of Labor posted:

I would rather have infrastructure and health care and education. the fantasy weapons won't get made either way

FuzzySlippers posted:

I needed a non sicko source on dprk history so I just started listening to this. Thanks