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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1504109029831987200?t=7SWbR6aErrshTUyBvuaoZA&s=19 Pentagon has slashed its annual order of F-35s by one-third.
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Mar 18, 2022 01:54
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The Oldest Man posted:Yeah I'm sure LockMart wouldn't like, have designed the stealth fighter to emit while it's flying just to pick up some additional data points on the seat-belt tension level in flight that they could use... to... cut their own costs... https://youtu.be/GNPo6S5uwZQ Said Air Force general made those comments in the above video and at around 34min the interviewer notes Chinese pilots are getting double the flight time as American pilots. At 48min the general says Chinese pilots are flying the J-20, "pretty well" and he is "relatively impressed" by their command and control. The most eye opening part comes at 52min where he says the Air Force's E-3 fleet really struggles to maintain operations because of how much maintenance they require (these planes are 35 years old.) He said, "We have four of them in AFPAC and often times all four of them are not able to fly due to maintenance issues." Also that it can't see the J-20 far enough out to provide an advantage to US fighter planes. OhFunny has issued a correction as of 06:29 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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Mar 18, 2022 05:36
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GlassEye-Boy posted:there’s been significant progress on the metallurgy associated with turbine blades evidenced by the roll out of the wholly domestic ws10 engines on thee latest Chinese fighters. chip manufacturing will come soon enough as well with the amount of investment china is putting into it. Speaking of China's turbofan engines. It looks like trials for the WS-15 have finished and newer J-20s will be powered by it. All J-20s with Russia's AL-31F will be replaced with the WS-15. I'm not sure from the wording if that means just replacing the engine of the plane or decommissioning those with AL-31Fs as more WS-15 powered J-20s roll off the factory floor.
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Mar 20, 2022 03:27
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Senate Defense Authorization Bill Halts Half of Navy’s Planned Ship Retirements House Appropriators Want Navy to Save 5 Littoral Combat Ships From Decommissioning quote:The bill “directs a report on alternate uses of these vessels, such as missions in the [U.S. Southern Command] and [U.S. Africa Command] areas of responsibility; and permits the decommissioning of four ships, which would also allow the Navy and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to explore the possibility of transferring them to partner nations,” according to a summary from the committee. Looks like the US Congress will force the USN to keep the LCS among others.
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Jun 17, 2022 07:20
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Danann posted:https://nypost.com/2022/07/20/citing-recruiting-woes-army-will-shed-up-to-28000-troops-by-2023/ 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.
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Jul 24, 2022 14:35
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https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/sta...ingawful.com%2F The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. -Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Raskolnikov38 posted:montreal, quebec and luisbourg would probably be less deleterious to soldiers Probably, but those places couldn't grow sugar. Which is what made Haiti France's most profitable colony.
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Dec 7, 2022 19:30
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Bar Ran Dun posted:it’s a huge percentage of the total production since production started. I’ve seen it vary between 24 to 60 su-35 for the drones in articles. they’ve been making them for 14 years and made 151 in that time period. Sukhoi only produces the Su-35 when it has orders for it. Sukhoi began production for Egypt in May of 2020 and the first five Su-35s rolled off the line about a month in a half or two months later. Although as Danann points out Iran is probably getting the planes from Egypt's cancelled order.
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Jan 2, 2023 06:58
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US fighter jets shoot down ‘octagonal object’ near Canada border A fourth shoot down of something.
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Feb 13, 2023 03:01
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I do remember reading an article in 2004/2005 about how the Iraq War was causing an ammunition shortage in the US and how some police departments couldn't refill the stocks because the army was buying everything they could get.
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Mar 17, 2023 19:46
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quote:A recent fire disrupted the assembly line at one of the two remaining suppliers, Aerojet Rocketdyne, causing further delays in delivering the SM-6 and other precision missile systems, even as Pentagon orders for thousands of new missiles pile up. quote:That habit has also extended to European allies such as Poland, which has committed to buying F-35 fighter jets, which cost about $80 million each — but not enough missiles to use them for more than about two weeks in a war, said Hayes of Raytheon, whose Pratt & Whitney division builds engines for the fighter. What a dysfunctional shitshow.
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Mar 24, 2023 21:55
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French dreams of a French-led independent Europe go back to de Gaul. It will never be.
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Apr 10, 2023 12:28
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Why would Iran be in the anti-China column?
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Apr 14, 2023 02:28
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America’s Navy Remains Crippled by Service and Repair Delaysquote:Currently, an alarming eighteen of the Navy’s forty-nine fast-attack subs are out of service, awaiting repair and servicing. Fast-attack subs fire torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles, which are essential to winning a potential fight against China over Taiwan or South China Sea lanes. The USS Connecticut is one of those attack subs. It hit an underwater mountain in 2021 while in the South China Sea, and repairs won't be complete until 2026.
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Jul 5, 2023 16:28
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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? It's called Mass Shootings now.
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Jul 5, 2023 22:20
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China puts advanced WS-15 engines through J-20 stealth fighter paces quote:After two decades of development, China’s most powerful engine has had its maiden flight in one of the country’s most advanced stealth fighters, an upgrade that defence analysts say narrows the technology gap with the United States. It's been a long road for the WS-15. The J-20 was first manufactured with Russian-made AL-31 engines and then switched to the WS-10C due to the delays on when the WS-15.
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Jul 6, 2023 02:12
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The whole thing with Japanese and Korean shipyards is moot unless the US Congress lifts the ban on USS ships being produced in non-American facilities. I don't see that happening.
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Jul 6, 2023 09:12
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China Might Have 250 J-20 Stealth Fighters This is another one of those, "China is lagging behind" articles where when you read it, you realize China most certainly is not lagging despite the author insisting they are. China has scaled up production of the J-20 to about 200 a year. The author concedes this is more than the US' F-22 fleet, but only because the US doesn't produce the F-22 anymore. If they still did, they would have 750! And yes, the author continues, China is producing double the number of J-20s vs. the amount of F-35s America is building per year. However, dear readers, the US has a fleet of 500 F-35s! Double the number of J-20s China has right now, so China is lagging behind.
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Sep 14, 2023 09:44
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:From the pictures thread There was a pre-boot camp for overweight recruits during the Iraq War. When the Army dropped the recruiting requirements to the floor.
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Oct 22, 2023 02:33
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sullat posted:Yeah he used his connections in the war office to get his son moved to the front lines because he didn't want his kid to miss out on the glorious upcoming battle (he was too young at the time you had to be 19 to go overseas and the kid was 17) and the kid got killed on the first day of the Somme. Talk about a whoopsie-doodle, which did make Kipling a bit more introspective. However looking at his earlier stuff is definitely an peek inside the mindset of an Imperialist and how they manage to otherize the colonials. Not just to young. His son's eyesight was really bad as well. He was last seen by other soldiers stumbling blindly in the mud of no man's land.
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Oct 26, 2023 04:03
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Was a pleasure posting with you goons.
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Oct 30, 2023 06:42
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Odd that the USCG is cutting back on partoling America's home waters, but maintaining ships and bases as far afield as the Persian Gulf and Guam.
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Nov 4, 2023 09:04
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Apple? Anazon, Walmart? How many tanks do they make in a day?
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Dec 8, 2023 07:43
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galagazombie posted:What’s going on between Venezuela and the UK right now exactly? Britian sent that warship as a show of force in support of Guyana.
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Dec 31, 2023 10:12
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frozenphil posted:What is pc in this context? Piece doesn't make sense and it seems unlikely to be percent. Outside of the US percent is per cent (pc)
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Jan 2, 2024 02:31
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The Oldest Man posted:Actually they did the stupid thing they wanted to do and now we get funny rear end declining empire headlines like this about it They stop it from sinking too or just tilting?
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Jan 4, 2024 09:17
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stephenthinkpad posted:So it's just straight up foreign legions. Wait, do French foreign legion or British Gurkhas brigades give out citizenships? Gurkhas can apply for citizenship after applying for settlement after they are discharged. They were first allowed to do so in 2004, but only for those discharged after 1997. That got expanded to everyone in 2009.
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Jan 6, 2024 14:22
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Oh, Austin has cancer. That's why he's been laid for so long.
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Jan 9, 2024 22:06
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 Decades ago saying you were going to disrupting the defense industry would be considered bad. Now. Now it's good.
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Jan 17, 2024 01:33
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stephenthinkpad posted:Were the biggest battleships in WW1 not get destroyed in a thunderdome style face-off? Only the big ships in WW2 get wrecked? The only naval fight that comes to my mind besides Juntland is the battle off the Falksland Islands. Where the German East Asian Squadron was almost totally destroyed without sinking or really damaging a single British ship.
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Jan 18, 2024 03:11
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Biden Slashes F-35 Jet Order 18% in 2025 Budget Request, Sources Sayquote:WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden wants an 18% cut in the number of F-35 jets the Pentagon buys next year after Congress' cap on the size of the upcoming defense budget compelled the administration to find savings, two sources familiar with the situation said. Is having fewer of these bad planes good or bad? quote:Biden's overall defense and national security budget request is expected to be $895 billion, the sources said, compelling deep cuts in a wide range of programs, delays to existing programs and slowing efforts to build weapons stocks depleted by wars in Ukraine and Israel. On one hand, a bunch of grift programs aren't getting funded. On the other, America can't even rebuild its weapon stocks at the glacial rate they said they could. OhFunny has issued a correction as of 23:00 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Feb 14, 2024 22:58
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/TomFisher37/status/1764427763115569634 A little further down is a ban on oil sales to China from the SPR. US funding bill blocks China from buying oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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Mar 4, 2024 05:35
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Tankbuster posted:No, they generally gave them land lol. Back then, those guys could pick their swords and shields back up if the Romans pissed them off by screwing them over. Now? Well, there's no legion of X ethnic group that's going to rise in revolt. The US can ship every immigrant veteran back to their home countries and not have to bother with the lifelong medical or societal costs of their injuries. It's cheaper that way. That's what matters in the end now. Whether you are generating value for the empire or not.
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Yemen’s Houthis Tell China, Russia Their Ships Won’t Be Targetedquote:China and Russia reached an understanding following talks between their diplomats in Oman and Mohammed Abdel Salam, one of the Houthis’ top political figures, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing private matters. The Americans sent a naval fleet. The Russians (and Chinese) sent a diplomat.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:04
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/CombatCavScout/status/1772613524981711283?t=kk1NJJCeIiD8pB-hiwm-dA&s=19 Why does the National Guard need a special forces team?
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Boat Stuck posted:Lol The Navy is losing the sub race to Subway.
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Cost of Sustaining Lockheed’s F-35 Jet Now Forecast to Exceed $1.5 Trillion Now that price is for operating and maintaining the F-35 through 2088, buuuuttttt its 44% higher than what the estimates were six years ago. Amazing quote here from the Pentagon. quote:Pentagon officials told auditors that “significant F-35 program cost reductions will only come from flying the aircraft less or reducing the number of aircraft in the fleet.” The readiness rate of the plane is also really bad. 52% for the USAF and 62% for the USN. They were targeting 80% and 75% respectively. The whole article is just an example of the military-industrial complex wringing out as much money as it can.
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The Russians used a wrench.
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Exclusive: Russian troops enter base housing US military in Niger, US official saysquote:WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel U.S. forces from the country. US forces now (unwilling) sharing the base with Russians.
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