Raskolnikov38 posted:

we got trump elected

Regarde Aduck posted:

i think they tested it in so much as they dropped one in a pool of water and it didn't immediately flood

whether it would work when dropped in the channel and you were totally blind and had limited time to reach the coast and then hope you can actually drive up and out... ehhh i would let someone else do it

KomradeX posted:

They bolted a snorkel onto a Panzer III, it didn't work

KomradeX posted:

Its really funny that Europe is less of a vassal state compared to Europe

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Foot wraps are honestly better in a lot of rugged environments, but you need to know how to wrap properly and a lot of soldiers are dumber than their rifles, that kind of goes with every army.

Oglethorpe posted:

does the H20 land on water?

gradenko_2000 posted:

(skipping some incidental material, but there are also sections that go into how abysmal the performance of the F-14 Tomcat was, despite what Top Gun might have you believe)

Ardennes posted:

They can do damage, but not when they are being thrown into AD. The KA-52s do fine if they have at least a few kms between them and the front line, but one got recently got taken out by a MANPAD when it pushed too far up.

Danann posted:

Just realized that the M10 Booker Light Tank Combat Vehicle has the worse 105mm that can't fire the latest APFSDS that has a chance at defeating T-72s with ERA.

It's also only slightly lighter than a Patton (which can fire said APFSDS when it was in service) so where did all the weight go to. Is it supposed to only shoot at T-55s and naked T-72s because god forbid anyone put some ERA on their tank.

Animal-Mother posted:

this guy would take prospective nuke officers out to eat and wait to see what they did with the salt. if they salted their meal without tasting it first to see if it even needed salt, he wouldn't hire them.

Lostconfused posted:

This could be a surprise to some, but the war Russian-Ukraine war isn't over yet, despite what it might look like with the news coverage.

FuzzySlippers posted:

Ukraine today isn't really running out of warm bodies

Zeppelin Insanity posted:

Does anyone have any basic primers\interesting quotes about Iraqi performance in Gulf War 1?

They were definitely outclassed, outnumbered and taken by surprise, but I would think that Iran-Iraq would have given them a decent amount of combat experience and helped work out organizational\doctrinal issues.

FuzzySlippers posted:

They aren't actually running out of ambulatory people they can shove towards the front (their population isn't that small). They are running out of the people they consider disposable and who can be persuaded or forced to enter the war.

gradenko_2000 posted:

"The Americans won Midway via airplane wave tactics" would be an incredible bit to troll with

Frosted Flake posted:

Do you think the whitewall tyres are the same as the standard tyres but with appliqué, or do they have a production line and supply chain for whitewalls?

Regarde Aduck posted:

Jesus Christ gas this loving thread

Regarde Aduck posted:

lol at how fast a thread can implode

Slavvy posted:

?? You're the only one saying this

Danann posted:

IIRC weren't the latifundias functionally blackboxes that ate up the economy while contributing very little to the greater economy?

gradenko_2000 posted:

(I'm also trying something new with the highlighting but idk if that looks better or worse than what I usually do)

EDIT: this is what the last segment would look like if I did it the old way

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

DancingShade posted:

Literally attacking everyone in sight lol jfc

The Oldest Man posted:

Nothing screams "dying empire" more than an ancient emperor who has clearly lost his ability to govern also losing his ability to keep his pets from mauling his own guards

FirstnameLastname posted:

trains

Orange Devil posted:

Don’t need a god king. Need a central planning bureau and a dictatorship of the proletariat.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

NATO really did seem to believe / does seem to believe that they can stage military forces against China while relying on China to produce the goods and deliver the trade that makes that possible, until the moment of NATO's choosing.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Jfc.

Complications posted:

Grift. Theoretically, jetpack infantry could do some incredibly sick moves in very vertical environments like mountain regions and cities provided they have light enough jetpacks that let them carry heavy weapons and other useful poo poo. So the SF brained DOD has been drooling and companies detected opportunity. That jetpack just makes human skeet.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lol

Owlbear Camus posted:

these people should be subjected to the clockwork orange treatment of a double feature of threads and the day after. if they aren't cured by that powers of ten shot of steve guttenberg in the gymnasium respice ward then there's no helping them

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Having highly restricted interests and having sensory peculiarities in ASD may possibly set the stage for developing fetishism and other paraphilias in individuals with certain sensory profiles among other factors. Non- sexual restricted, repetitive interests and behaviors in childhood may morph into sexualized, if not frank sexual, restricted, repetitive interests in adolescence. The same tactile or olfactory peculiarities manifested by various stereotypic behaviors seen in childhood may similarly influence the development of sexual behaviors later on. That is, early, inadvertent conditioning to sensory stimuli that is appealing during pre-puberty may lead to a powerful union between specific ASD sensory-seeking and sexual arousal through masturbation. This notion of early conditioning to deviant stimuli is not a new concept [51]; it just has not been isolated as a factor and empirically studied.
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Morbus posted:

*me, after watching the ukraine/russia war intently for the last 2 years*

"you know, we'd really better get to work on self-propelled, autonomous 58mm robot cannons for use by special operators in entry operations"

Ardennes posted:

The issue isn't that they have identified problems...Western artillery is in some ways either behind or not ready for peer to peer conflict, it is just the solution of a fully autonomous SPG drone is a little bit out there if you want anything larger (which seems like a decade+ grift in the making).

Ardennes posted:

It is just it doesn't work under the current ideological framework where the state can't conduct actual direction and at best you could throw billions at some contractors to maybe do something in a decade or two.

There was talk about how bogus GDP is, and it is, but I would argue the US is also undercapitalizing on whatever industrial strength and resources it still has as well. Some of this is the limits of infrastructure, but even then it is really about ideology.

Scarabrae posted:

she' a-yellen, but dey ain’t biden

Boat Stuck posted:

Lol

https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1777819316219494857

Can't do the obvious (increase wages) without lowering shareholder returns

stephenthinkpad posted:

It's turtle tank all the way down.

Jon Pod Van Damm posted:

If a country can deploy enough ocean scouting drones it will be more difficult for foreign submarines to travel near their coast and remain undetected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbOueBTnS5w