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Whooops time to spend another trillion dollar developing a jet that can actually evade chinese radars I guess
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The era of tanks is over btw
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Austal seems like a great and competent company. They want to make their own nuclear submarines lmao
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/china-acquiring-new-weapons-five-times-faster-than-u-s-warns-top-official Weve been saying this for a long time!
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I was in the DoD up until recently (promoted into another agency) and when I came in as a civilian we were working off a trailer because they were renovating the building we were supposed to work out of. The turn over was delayed for like 2-3 years, and the contractor kept cutting corners that did not pass muster. Eventually they fixed it up as much as they could and the corp of engineers relented (with the contractor being blacklisted). I spent little over a year in building before I left and it suffered from tons of HVAC issues with our server room sometimes suffering from tons of humidity (at best) to potentially catastrophic heat sometimes. Now when I was still in the military they renovated the USARC I was in too, but that time it was mostly done in time. Well the HVAC also crapped out with one entire wing of the building not having AC most of the time, and the offices not having any windows you could open up. Then Maria hit and for some god forsaken reason they had the top floors with some weird transparent plastic light catchers in the ceiling that got blown off and flooded the top floors of the building. DoD infrastructure is probably the biggest scam after weapons procurement.
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OhFunny posted:The country is going to slip into recession soon and that's always a boom time for military recruitment so this won't be a problem in my opinion. Its more than not whats going to happen but at the same time a part of me is saying that Gen Z is going to rather starve to death than join the military and I'm sure that there are some generals in the components that share that sentiment with dread. Cao Ni Ma has issued a correction as of 15:10 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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Rutibex posted:that doesn't make any sense it's 13 extra Fs. You gotta pay for that The F16 was cheaper than the F15 and they were contemporary. I mean so is the f22 with the f35 but it feels like the F35 is still in the oven with all their maintenance and production issues
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A Bakers Cousin posted:Whatever did happen to f23 - f34? Even the F35 name was literally marketing. They decided to port over the experimental number instead of calling it the F24. The F23 technically exists, it never went into production because the F22 won
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Pryor on Fire posted:The Royal Air Force appears to have contracted away most of their ability to train pilots Militaries constantly contracting out work always feels like bullshit to me. Contractors get paid more than soldiers and theres more inherent waste by having the chain skim money at every link in the chain. Its just an accounting thing to make "government smaller" by having a bigger pool to the side to make some people richer and just not call that pool part of government.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:the logistics of oil don’t work that way. You safeguard the oil fields so that separatist can get the oil to the people you want.
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The us is replacing the blackhawk with a loving mini osprey lmao
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I dont know why you'd need military coders/ data engineers / scientist or whatever in uniform. These are garrison jobs, you can fill them with DoD civilians and they wont have to meet any of the military physical standards. Yes, some IT positions will be required in the field for maintainer/operators of information systems. And those are already fielded and I dont think they are having any particular retention issues than the other branches arent also going through right now.
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KomradeX posted:The US Navy's struggle to keep ships in fighting shape is leading sailors to 'cannibalize' more parts from other ships Was gonna post this just now. Some idiot would argue that congress forcing the navy to keep certain ships on the roll when they are requesting early decomisioning means the ships would be usable. No, the reality is that they would just rust at drydock or end up getting its parts "controlled substituted" to make another of the same class barely functional
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Palladium posted:making planes hard to maintain is an intended MIC grift feature Its insane, you go inside a small wing that has lilke 3 helis used only to ferry the academies generals around and there are like 8 contractors there to service them full time.
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Danann posted:https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/largest-navies-in-the-world Did they tell the readers that the chinese navy is basically built to hard counter carrier battle groups?
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https://www.reuters.com/world/aukus-needs-pool-tech-resources-us-edge-erodes-australian-intelligence-chief-2023-04-04/ Your vassals sharing your Ls to the world
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Some idiots were going "The gas tanks are full therefor there isnt an energy crisis in europe" what they didnt account for was that the gas tanks were full because de-industrialization I posted elsewhere about a french baker having to pay like 5 times as much for energy as the year before AFTER government subsidies (9x times as much before)
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Cerebral Bore posted:not even jupiter can resist the heavenly wisdom of xi jinping thought Its literally Xi thought. China WANTS Europe to be a third power to counter balance against the US. It is both in Europes and Chinas best interest, but some people are really scared of the CIA. You'd think saudi arabia telling the US to go gently caress itself should embolden europe but no
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I swear I remember reading something like this some time ago
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Things seem kinda hosed up if the army is suddenly saying "Hey you know how you were expected to end your military service this year? Surprise after all this time we've been doing it wrong, you actually owe us 3 more years" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/army-aviators-ready-leave-military-are-told-owe-3-years-instead-rcna81796
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/03/us-air-force-retreats-from-taiwan-as-china-builds/ Gotta love when even UK right wing rags state the obvious about the sorry state of the US military branches
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stephenthinkpad posted:2500km is longer reach than F35's range? Probably if the F35 doesnt refuel in mid air? Who cares though, the lawnmowers are orders of magnitude more efficient at doing their job.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQVR4epfBQ Great video about the challenges of military procurement and while he does make a ton of examples from multiple armies. But its not a concidence than when he's talking about poo poo theres a picture of an f35 or zumwalt destroyer
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Slavvy posted:That is totally normal and fine actually https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/06/navsea-comments-on-rusty-u-s-navy-ships-and-new-paint-coatings/
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Did the Ukraine thread vanish cuz I can't find it anymore. Did they gently caress with the title? someone took the suggestion that the thread was hard to find and decided to make it even harder to find see it changed names AGAIN. At least this one is better I guess Cao Ni Ma has issued a correction as of 22:29 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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China knows how to make boats. The US has forgotten how to make boats The mandate of heaven is clear
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Polikarpov posted:They're offering a 22k signing bonus + an annual salary over 130k for steward-cooks. Anyone want a job? You'll be stuck on a ship for 10 months out the year though. Wonder why they cant get people. That just means you dont get to pay rent for 10 months. Pretty good deal
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Tankbuster posted:well what is it? I don't have twitter. Viagra for are troops
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lmao only two dfacs open in a base as large as that. Also this isnt the first case of soldiers getting hosed with their food, there was another case less than a month ago! https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/07/14/fort-knox-cadets-taste-army-life-walkouts-expired-mres-water-issues/
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Lethal, compact, stealth
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Crazycryodude posted:https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-launches-new-tactical-nuclear-attack-submarine-kcna-2023-09-07/ And lots of assumptions they didnt you know, change the propulsion system to something thats more modern and quiet. Downplaying adversaries constantly is how you get china popping a sub a few miles from a US naval battle group without anyone noticing and whoops china has like 50x time naval production we do
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Votskomit posted:https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1702858454870941740?t=ybcHJeKLh49OniUGpbpwtg&s=19 Basically what a lot of people have been quietly saying but theres still a contingent of current officers that are now generals that have only known afghanistan and iraq that still think that small lean mean high speed force is what its needed.
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Mr. China is helping me find my jet
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stephenthinkpad posted:I thought both the J20 and the upcoming J35 are twin engine fighters. How much can you copy from the single engine F35? Also the protype J31 thing looked much more like the F35. Every designer Ive heard talk about the j20 has said that its a unique design and that probably scares them more than them being carbon copies of existing us crafts
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