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Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lol why are there fuzes that heavy rain will apparently trigger inflight

Sometimes you're shooting at a bouncy castle or hot air balloon and you don't want to over penetrate

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Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Weka posted:

I'm willing to believe trebuchets cause cancer but I'd like to know how.

Rotting cow corpses are bad for you, probably not cancer bad, probably something faster acting though

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Trade stern letter

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

:lol: yes yes, democracy, I love it now give me the rifle

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Bar Ran Dun posted:

it’s still amazing to me that some of y’all come out for explicit , Autocracy, Nationalism and Orthodoxy because America bad.

America is all of those things genius


Gives me hella farts

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Fish of hemp posted:

Does modern Russia have that?

No, they also don't have toilets or washing machines

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Frosted Flake posted:

lol deep cut, I like it

What was the movie with Meg Ryan and Denzel where he's traumatized from it? The General's Daughter?

This is as opposed to the other Patriarchates that...?

That would be courage under fire

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


The eagle having a mullet is just :kiss:

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

I'm reminded of how both Nazi Germany and imperial Japan did accurate assessments of one another's chances and correctly concluded the other guys were totally hosed but were systemically unable to apply that analysis to themselves or their immediate enemies.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Filthy Hans posted:

a lot of the Japanese knew they couldn't win a war outright against the US but thought an early strike would slow the US down enough that they could do what they wanted unfettered in Asia for a year and then negotiate a peace treaty with the US

that went right out the window when they botched the start by attacking Pearl Harbor without ensuring first that their declaration of war had been received, I don't know if that would have greatly changed the response to the attack though

They were operating on the one swift kick principle just like Germany

And just like Germany they had a few easy wins early on to convince them they were right about this



This is in no way comparable to the US rolling over Iraq

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

You say that but the rapid conquest of France was also basically an accident

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


What is the big stubby cannon for on this thing?

E: NM just zoomed in and realized it's a giant minigun, fucken rad

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

China will get there first

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

I 100% believe the dying capitalist empire will deliver on it's promises fully and on time, I am very smart

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Yeah the two superpowers involved in the new cold war are absolutely not trying to race, how silly of me

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

The ccp have read theory and therefore understand that they are in a life or death struggle with capitalism whether they want to be or not

Whether they think going to the moon is part of this or not idk

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Iirc the risk is overstated

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Everything coming out of china looks like the fucken sci-fi future

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Has strong x-32 vibes

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

KomradeX posted:

Its really funny that the UK seems to be at USSR in 1989 levels of dysfunction

It seems worse than that tbh

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Centrist Committee posted:

or graft

actually whats the difference?

Graft is the metric grift

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Ok because it came up in a different thread wrt the perfidious Chinese death balloon: is emp an actual thing that you can weaponise somehow?

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

BitcoinRockefeller posted:

Lol they really were afraid the pilot would crash into it, why use a missle and not the cannon otherwise.

A cannon would have perforated it without really hurting it

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Does nascar pay for the flyovers or is it marketing for the air force?

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Cuttlefush posted:

AA missiles are just spraying out a bunch of shrapnel anyway. cannons need to be fired much, much closer. way more things that could go wrong. various other reasons. AA missile warheads usually spray out a big circle of fragments, so it's just popping the balloon with a bunch of holes. The cannon ammunition is also going to include a mix of HE incendiary ammo which (not sure if it would at the given altitude) could set the balloon on fire or otherwise blow it the gently caress up more than the AA missile would have.

HE cannon rounds have impact fuses and would just pass through

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

4 billion is a loving bargain you need to up your grift game before you're taken seriously

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Sounds like the US needs to flip their COIN strategy

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


Homeworld scout swarm irl

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Grognan posted:

I mean couldn't there be a specialty 20mm round that just explodes into poo poo that would puncture and tangle? I feel like a contact fused silly string would do something to the baloon. we're not doing xcom poo poo I think

Of course sir, anything you like, that'll be six trillion dollars please

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

That's a logical next step because they already have the kind that change colour when you get them wet

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


I know I did something wrong but I don't know what so I'll try to look like an earnest idiot

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

The thing I worked on is the most important thing in the world!

The. Most. Important.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Definitely enlist in the Chinese space force

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Are you telling me the state saw a potential future problem and acted to mitigate it? And it worked? Preposterous, and even if they did, at what cost??

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

I think if it came to a ww3 scenario the Chinese government would win out over people's need for meat

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

They wouldn't even need to ban meat they could just ration it down to a level where they can produce enough indigenously

Like seriously, most of the 'problems' that countries supposedly face are entirely just made up bullshit you can get around by just choosing to do poo poo, provided you have the autonomy to have the choice in the first place which the vast majority of countries don't.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Nationalism is a brain ruining disease

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Frosted Flake posted:

More famous was their success in convincing the Americans that their first carrier, the Kuznetsov class purchased from Ukraine, was going to be used as a floating casino.

:lol: incredible things happen in China

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


Are you telling me a Ferrari doesn't work well as a tractor

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Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Hwhars, he's a 19yh century aristocrat

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