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Bar Ran Dun posted:I wanted to come back to this. you can visually see this with vessels. but the Matson ships are kind of a different use case than the mega container ships. they charge way higher prices for faster shipping times and dedicated docks.
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Ardennes posted:The new replacement for the m113 only fits 6, I guess the idea is they are going fit more equipment in it. look if you want to transport a whole squad all you need to do is buy two of the darned things! Built in redundancy and operational flexibility!
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Lostconfused posted:China is still limited by what heavy machinery they have. 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.
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Pryor on Fire posted:The magnetic catapults break a lot but also the arresting gear breaks a lot and also the elevators break and because of this the newest US carrier is currently unable to handle F35s and will only run with F/A-18s and older planes when it launches later this year. Don't worry the latest Chinese carrier also has electro magnetic catapults! I'm sure theirs break just as often. In a war situation the carriers can just park next to each other and stare angrily whole their planes fail to take off.
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Delta-Wye posted:the best thing about the 3d printing is its easy to do onshore manufacturing. build a factory floor, stock with 3d printers and technicians, and you have a domestic supply of manufactured suppressors. 3d printers don't work like that. Besides some fringe cases, raw parts from a 3d printers are still going to require a ton of machining and post processing in order to achieve any kind of tolerances that can be used. anyone that wants to actually make money with 3d printing will be using a chinese 3d printers
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Bar Crow posted:They really want to believe in the promise of 3D printing: the output of industrialization without any of the workers. It's just another machine tool.
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Real hurthling! posted:whats that huge cylinder in the back floor standing air conditioner
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double nine posted:out of curiosity, why is drone warfare (of the predator/remote flying missile platform type) possible without getting jammed by the enemy? Is jamming that much more difficult technically or is it bc both sides use the same type of frequency & no one wants to adapt? Drones have only been used against brown people with no real air defense or EW capability. There was a recent article saying how Ukraines Turkish bought drones have now become virtually useless now that Russia had gotten some of its poo poo together in regards to air defense.
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StratGoatCom posted:Share with the thread? https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukrainian-fighter-pilots-call-bullshit-on-need-for-mq-1c-gray-eagle-drones anecdotal, but who knows.
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Austal seems like a great and competent company. https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pacific-screw-up-race-to-repair-faulty-boats-gifted-by-australia-20220630-p5axzc quote:
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i think you are underestimating america's love of bombing civilians. it's grift, cruelty, racism, and video footage of explosions for toby keith videos. the only thing more american is donald trump. except this time the people being bombed can bomb the US back.
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Ardennes posted:Also, the German fleet is also pretty much a bunch of frigates that would have to be dragged across the world and probably wouldn’t be tremendously useful in a blue water war. most of their frigates are only armed with a cannon and no VLS capability whatsoever. A glorified coast guard.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:the more interesting thing to me is the reactionary internal nationalist push in China over Pelosi’s visit, not dissimilar to the same thing occurring (over other issues) basically in every other country right now. not sure how much pushing is needed, this is a pretty sore point and US action against china geopolitically, economically, and technically have left a nasty taste in the mouths of a lot of Chinese. Hell, I’m not even a a Chinese citizen and I’m feeling nationalistic over this poo poo.
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Pryor on Fire posted:The Royal Air Force appears to have contracted away most of their ability to train pilots Isn't this the desired outcome? The UK has no independent foreign policy and now its military will need to depend more and more on the US based entities for training and equipment.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:do any of these lasers work, let alone work better than a phalanx at anti-drone work the Saudis shot down a drone with their laser defense system…which they purchased from China…. I think the appeal is that instead of shooting a missile or tons of ammunition at a drone which costs significant toy less than your missiles and ammo you instead use light which theoretically only costs some electricity. GlassEye-Boy has issued a correction as of 05:09 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:that’s sort of the problem anyway. once they got their own region in Iraq that’s what’s happened. it’s a “region in Iraq” but it might as well be a Kurdish state. what could go wrong, we have a perfectly good example in Israel!
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Regarde Aduck posted:lol at shrike82 finally pushing his luck just a prob.
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Weka posted:I'm late to mortar chat but did someone say 120mm vehicle mounted mortar? too big, too expensive. Need something more mobile, something cuter.   
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Proust Malone posted:and voila like magic, the women of Iran are rising up against the hijab and need to be rescued from their captors But it's genocide when china does it.
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this is the fallacy, made in china products in the Us and other places are often cheaply made because the purchaser specified to the Chinese manufacturer that they need so and so million widgets at this price, meet it or we will find another manufacturer who will. You then end up with a lovely product. Chinese manufacturers are perfectly capable of producing high quality products, just loom at the items sold under their own brand names, DJI, Hisense, Nio, BYD etc.
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Yea, none of those are their latest equipment.
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Huragok posted:PLAA plays ARMA ARMA developers better watch out, their gonna get sanctioned by the US for providing training aid to the PLA.
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Weka posted:Yeah the report has most planes being lost on the ground. The USA's operations are all mostly focused on stand off strikes. stand off strikes from what? anything within standoff strike range will be in range of Chinese assets including anti-ship ballistic missiles.
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Hatebag posted:If the taiwan strait is about 160 km wide and a torpedo has a 40 km range, an ohio class sub (biggest sub which wouldn't be used in this scenario) has a draft of 10.8m. based on that map even a giant rear end sub would have plenty of room to operate. I doubt they could get the number of kills the exercise assumes but i don't think that's due to the topography There is nowhere to hide in the strait, besides the Chinese subs which are much better suited for litoral waters the entire strait is pretty much guaranteed to be covered by a Chinese passive sensor system which will make tracking subs there incredibly easy.
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ClassActionFursuit posted:The section 301 tariffs are still in effect and have increased since Biden's been in. They just got extended through September 2023 (and will be extended again before then) Right, and China US trade is at a record high. China side ain't hurting from the tariffs, but the US consumer is since all that extra cost is being passed off onto them.
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Weka posted:Dang that's sick. Video showing it shoot down multiple drones at once. nah, China’s answer to suicide drones is more and better suicide drones. https://youtu.be/Ma3ya_lqCLM
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Frosted Flake posted:lol I mean they're making it seem upbeat and inclusive but her CoC knows she'd miscarry and she's too much of a #girlboss to give a poo poo. That's loving wild. Dyess Airforce base is in texas, you know how hard it is to get an abortion there?!
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Bar Ran Dun posted:well you know what they say about US shipyards… no one else will do it slower, but at least no one else will be more expensive either. Look, the US can't keep up with China because they're using slave labor to build their most advanced warships. https://twitter.com/tshugart3/status/1628392753779425280 oh wait.... https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd57w/a-military-tech-giant-is-using-prison-labor-to-make-electronics quote:A Military Tech Giant Is Using Prison Labor To Make Electronics
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Palladium posted:huh im confused by the lack of context Senior exec at one of the shipyards building china's 2nd carrier was caught selling secrets to the Americans.
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Filthy Hans posted:https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/1632805799725772802 Does not apply to the US. Only bad when the commies do it.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:they’d do nuclear first strike if it meant avoiding imposing rationing in the US it’s a good thing china also has nukes and should be significantly increasing their numbers in the next few years.
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genericnick posted:Wait, China is breaking into the expensive as gently caress drone market? They've been there for a while now. Probably ahead in a lot ways if their civilian drone market is anything to go by.
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palindrome posted:In my opinion the "spin off some of tiktok just for usa" sounds the most likely. They can mint a new US company, declare that ties are severed from their parent company, everyone makes money, government has some oversight and a little alphabet agency involvement. more stories about how joining armed forces is good, the end. Nah, gently caress that. Forced sale of a Chinese company by the US government? Rather see it burned o the ground.
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Lostconfused posted:I don't know about three, China might be making a go of it for five. this is at one of their shipyards. currently they have 3 which produce destroyers and frigates fairly regularly.
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Ardennes posted:I don't know if I would be as worried for China as a much smaller state (Iran or DPRK if they really want to play with fire), China has a plenty of high powered radar arrays along their coast and strategic centers that are feeding data links along with drones, together they are putting together data points on anything that crosses their airspace. Even a more advanced bomber isn't going to be invisible from every angle. I mean by the time of a theoretical conflict China's own advanced stealth bomber should be ready.
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Ardennes posted:I would say the issue in the future is going to the type of environment you have to plan for. Mobility is useful but then the question become when you have to deal with heavy fortified/urban environments when you have to potentially cut through concrete apartment buildings. It seems like the blast potential for 152/155 would simply be higher even if it is more awkward. If the Chinese needed to turn a city into dust what would be the best solution? rocket artillery, which the Chinese have a ton of.
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Ardennes posted:The problem at that point would be accuracy, that you want to level a specific building. Obviously, there are more accurate rockets but they usually also cost significantly more. Trade off i suppose, how much efficiency do you need when leveling a city.
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Filthy Hans posted:the new one has a catapult launcher so it should be able to launch heavier aircraft than the first 2 carriers Will see if they get their EMALS working faster than the US did on the new carrier.
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