Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. They put an ad for a German speaking actor and all the responses were frontmen for Rammstein cover bands, please understand.
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  2. The UN should immediately send the Blue Helmet Polar bears to deal with the situation. (Sorry for ruining the joke but penguins are not native to the arctic, they exist on the Southern Hemisphere and Galapagos islands exclusively, with polar bears not being natural predators as they are from the arctic)
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  3. ​ @newonevery740  Okay, if stories don't satisfy you we have high res combat footage of an "unarmed" Russian pulling the pin on a grenade while surrendering to a Ukrainian soldier. It's not just a story. We have cold hard evidence of such things happening.
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  4. There's pictures from the 2010s of American vehicles covered with anime stickers on the inside during GWOT deployments.
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  5. "Full blown Christian state without foreigners" they have a strong Muslim minority and invited immigrants from central Asia to join the Russian army as a fast track to Russian citizenship lol
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  6. ​ @davidkottman3440  if you have to give the "good" (PR) answer, your actual answer is too sus to say out loud
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  7. At some point they made radios that wouldn't tune into the station, but it was possible to hack it.
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  8. ​ @sirex9244  lmao straight for the as hominem
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  9. ​ @twolessba1087  It's not a dogwhistle. You people see a buzzword and start immediately misusing it. A dogwhistle is something that will skate by unnoticed by most people except those in the know. Like whistles meant for dogs use a frequency that is heard by dogs but not humans. This is just an off color joke delivered through subtext. Subtext is MEANT to be understood by the audience. The offensive joke: the West are the reincarnation of the Nahtzees. The subtext: rather than directly calling the West evil, it uses the WELL KNOWN connection between fashion brand Hugo Boss and Nahtzees.
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  10. ​ @Tyrant_13  Right. But ever since Eisenhower made the speech about the military industrial complex, the military industry actually shrank by an order of magnitude.
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  11. ​ @kathleenrobertpogue6818  So if the proxy is out of ammo, and the powerful countries are out of ammo, why isn't Russia achieving victory? Try answering the actual question in a way that makes sense.
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  12. ​ @majungasaurusaaaa  Nobody else had to abide by any dress code.
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  13. ​ @Erakius323  Because drunken riots and accidents would make the aid efforts harder.
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  14. ​ @stevet5785  Nice change of subject. Were you told what the Serbs did to the Croat Serbs?
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  15.  @BRANFED  Not what happened. Basically Van Riper decided to borderline sabotage the exercise by "playing the MILES game". When BluFor jammed his comms he switched to bike messengers. But the simulation was not meant for that so they still worked like electronic communications. Bike messengers take time to travel, they get lost, they fall, they get intercepted, etc. but in the simulation it worked like unjammable radio. Then he had massive anti-ship missiles installed on small boats. In real life it would not be possible, but the simulation wasn't programmed to prohibit it. Then when the "game" started the BluFor navy had their defenses shut down to avoid them locking up civilian air and sea traffic, and the simulation spawned the boat swarm right in front of BluFor. So nobody had time to react when the simulated attack began. It was basically cheating on a computer game, and Van Riper threw a tantrum when he was asked to reset the scenario.
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  16. ​ @Canuck96Myster  You want Ukraine to violate their constitution because an American said so? How do you feel about Europeans saying the Second Amendment should be changed?
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  17. ​ @Roamingeast  if I'm flying a drone and you're getting carried on a stretcher by two combat capable soldiers, I'm dropping. I need to get those two. It's cruel? Too bad.
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  18. Bellingcat was already doing great work. Unfortunately bad actors like Mac Blumenthal and Aaron Mate smeared Bellingcat as a "NATO trolllfarm". Almost as if every Russian accusation is an admission.
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  19. ​ @RustySchackleford-m5o  There was a Russian ship with a mini-sub seen in the area.
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  20. ​ @philip5940  To recover a tank in a battle zone you have to expose your recovery vehicle and combat engineers. That means you have to advance to get a safety buffer. Finishing it off prevents Russian recovery.
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  21. Actually the American pilot was baited into a dogfight by a Chinese pilot, who climbed into a loop and jumped out while whipping his 50 cal sniper rifle, quickscoped the pilot and fell into the F-35 cockpit. I have 5000 hours in Battlefield games so I know it can be done.
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  22. ​ @187Rajah  if it's failing why do you need to demoralize? Hmmm almost like you're begging for the west to stop supporting Ukraine.
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  23. How many diplomats do you know driving around in anything bigger than a U-haul?
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  24. ​ @sumduma55  Complete nonsense. They're fighting because Ukraine has fought Imperial Russia and Bolshevik Russia in the past. This conflict has existed longer than politicians have and it's the culmination of the Russian imperial dream.
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  25. Read "Eric Shun" out loud. If you don't get it, read slightly faster until you do.
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  26. Muh dogwhistles.
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  27. ​ @mrsam0496  How many calls has he failed?
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  28.  @Formulka  They can be directed at different targets.
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  29. ​ @AlexKarasev  Ukraine wasn't the frontier of Russia. It was the frontier of Europe. Beyond Ukraine you had bad mofos in the Caucasus, the steppes, there were pirates, etc. so you don't go East beyond those lands. That's why it was labelled Ukraina in maps before Russia existed.
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  30. ​ @bartunthegreat2999  Of course the criminal thinks people joining the neighborhood crime watch is "hostile".
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  31. ​ @stevenobrien557  The 1991 Kuwait oil fields pumped black soot into the atnosphere and the effects were 1) localized and 2) short lived. Plus, modern cities aren't built of wood like 1940s Japan.
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  32. Reminds me of a Chuck Pressburg story. Mortar lands behind him and his guys. Then mortar lands ahead of them. He turns to the guy next to him "are we being bracketed?" "Seems like it" "well then let's get out of here!"
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  33. If a third party gives you 50 free Hellfires and you waste one, you're down to 49 (quick maffs). Are you sure that only 49 high enough value targets will show up until the next batch? While you may not think of monetary cost, you think of supply. The dollar signs are worthless, if you need 50 Hellfires to complete your mission and you decided to waste one, you're gonna feel like a real jerk.
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  34. Fun fact the Rossiya 1 channel ran that story and later issued a retraction. But with 15 other sources parroting the story the misinformation seed was planted.
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  35. ​ @eriknervik9003  The best stockpiles were pulled first. Whatever is coming now is degraded to hell and back.
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  36. ​ @bilic8094  You don't drive across a country in a forklift. You use them to take pallets out of aircraft and train wagons. And put them on a vehicle. I can't fault people for not knowing stuff but you MUST have seen the loading docks for trucks at a supermarket. Forklifts don't deliver cargo. They take cargo out of the vehicle that delivers it. Otherwise you have to do it by muscle, which is long and back breaking work.
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  37. ​ @sumduma55  The money has to be spent either way. Old stockpiles are dumped into the sea to make coral reefs, current equipment is stored, and new equipment is bought. New equipment has to be purchased every year. All the Ukraine conflict did was frontload purchases by a few years. Also, the rest of the money wasted goes to American workers, who then use that money to keep other American workers employed. Government spending is inefficient, but that's because of the economic calculation problem and the government does tend to make bad choices when picking stuff for the private sector. However, the govt doesn't have to calculate supply and demand for military gear. They are the demand. And there's no private US Army.
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  38. ​ @warhorse03826  Considering the Feb/March 2022 blunders they really went to war with no maps, apparently.
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  39. Without the cultural context of Korea human waves, to me "meat wave" sounds like a term inspired by videogames where you fight off waves. Like zombies/horde mode. You play the game to see how many rounds you can last, knowing you can never truly win. So Ukrainians have to defend territory knowing that eventually they will have to abandon it, because the waves will keep coming.
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  40.  @ericfleming5522  and if you check the 2018 video, you can see thermal footage of the telephone pole that us a GMLRS rocket from a HIMARS hitting them.
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  41. But didn't the courts side with the troops? You take a laundry list of shots when you deploy to countries where diseases we have erradicated exist. But in part we have erradicated them because we had decades of well developed shots which blocked transmission. The stuff was experimental, so the discharges could be reversed. At least last time I checked, I haven't kept up with the legal challenges.
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  42. ​ @opensocietyenjoyer  It is true, it just so happens the guy saying it is an expert in Slavic history
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  43. ​ @jpx1508  the MiG-29 variants lost the upper wing intakes to make room for fuel.
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  44. It's not doxxing when the information is public. There's a difference between your name and profile photo and actually having your address, where your workplace is, your number, etc
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  45. ​ @sykessaul123  Iraq wasn't a NATO operation. Most of NATO refused to go until the peacekeeping phase started.
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  46. ​ @diverr69  there's photos of shells where different drawings are superimposed over paint blobs and chips that match on the anti corrosion paint. It's the same picture of the same shell used multiple times.
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  47. ​ @fredmdbud  Is Halliburton part of the MIC? There's a difference between politicians diverting contracts to a company they have ties to, and military industry companies creating wars to sell weapons. Halliburton got infrastructure and delivery contracts. That's not MIC.
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  48. ​ @Tentacl  People throw around the term "media literacy" waaay too often these days, but it does bother me you're the only person who correctly interpreted what the guy was saying.
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  49. Oblastposting is a gem.
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  50. So Japan, South Korea, Germany, etc don't exist anymore?
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  51. They essentially threw their professional military into the wolves. Plus we kind of publish our tactics in manuals. Pdfs are available.
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  52. Russia should have respected Ukraine's sphere of influence and not engaged in CSTO expansion.
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  53. The wages and bonuses can't be higher than revenue unless someone has found the cheat code (fraud).
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  54. ​ @benjauron5873  A true gun nut would know that even combat arms don't get that much trigger time. The National Guard sniper team sometimes beats the Army and Marine sniper teams simply because they have more time to dedicate themselves to their passion.
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  55. Clearly you've never met a brass goblin. Some wet tumbling and a run through a roll sizing die restores most shells.
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  56. The controversy isn't working at McDonald's. It's lying about it.
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  57. Wagner, Redut, etc removed military service from their entry requirements due to manpower issues.
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  58.  @teamsdownfall9644  We're already doing that by flying Rivet Joints and providing satellite intel. We point, they shoot.
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  59. It's not blind fire. You can watch the videos, the nail what they aim at. Russia has so much, they need to use Shaheds lol.
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  60. But modern doctrine is to win with missiles alone, because if you go for guns the chances of eating a missile are too high. High off boresight missiles with all aspect seekers make gunnery extremely risky.
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  61. Train how you fight. Which means having to do it drunk and naked.
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  62. Darkness... at night... is disturbing?
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  63. ​ @Davidrodriguez-vb1zk  you don't get given the keys to armories simply from being a service member. If a single M4 is missing from inventory they put the base on lockdown.
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  64. ​ @lexslate2476  Job growth measured relatively to what? Of course jobs grew after lockdowns ended.
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  65. So they had the day off? lol
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  66. If you're not pointing out the mistakes that's just drive by criticism. No substance.
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  67. ​ @jameshenderson4876  Not a weird reference. He's calling the USMC "Nazis" through subtext. Freaking Russell Brand made that joke at a fashion show once.
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  68. ​ @jacmeg1845  Even a person who isn't smart can eventually learn. It may require time and different techniques, but it's possible to break down knowledge to the point a 5 year old understands it. People who use the internet like that are sitting on the sidelines to double-down in conspiracies in every event that interests them, and claim it's a distraction from another conspiracy when it doesn't.
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  69. 1) Not only has Putin said it himself in 2014, the Hostomel gameplan was the same as the invasion of Czechoslovakia invasion. The runway was shelled which nullified the transports landing more troops and armor. 2) Not a fact check. 3) Yeah just like the number killed during Kherson. Yadda yadda. Meanwhile the Pentagon's leaked estimate had almost 3x more KIA on the Russian side. 6) It is a strange argument. Missiles fired from anywhere have a 30 min delivery time. Submarines can get close to coast. The Baltics are already NATO. The red line has been crossed a long time ago. Why is Ukraine special? Also, the US did not invade Cuba over the missiles, it just handled it diplomatically with the Soviet Union. 7) Russia's economy is now supporting a war rather than benefiting the people. They're not decoupled from the West, they're forced to beg for sanctions busting to get the much needed western parts. The global south? Even Brazil and South Africa are wishy-washy on Russia and Australia is opposed to them. There goes the Southern hemisphere. 8) Russian-built air defense has been neutralized by the US before. Ukraine has Soviet aircraft which were never made to hunt down defenses. Russia's air defense works against air forces that lile Russia did not invest in air power as much. 9) AT4s are common in militaries worldwide. Mexican cartels are known for pulling weaponry out of armories. That question is still a waste of time because anyone who's been informed knows cartels had heavy hardware for decades prior to the Ukraine war. 10) Because Hersh can't find anyone to publish his lies. He got the ships wrong, the aircraft wrong, the air mix used in diving wrong, he claimed that Jans Stoltenberg had been working for NATO since he was 16. It was pure fantasy, like bad Tom Clancy knockoff literature. And it wasn't ignored, it was reported by other outlets. But nobody can confirm it because, as you know, the prose is full of lies.
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  70. Borrowing ahead of permission.
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  71. ​ @willmannn  "move on and get a life" says person who had nuclear rage about this issue back in 2021 lul You people were the ones who wouldn't want to just move on and let go. Still waiting for that winter of d3ath and darkness or whatever the Pres said in that speech. Ominus stuff, really.
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  72. A big issue is that the water turning into steam would cool the engine, essentially robbing the energy the alcohol puts into the compressed air. Water/methanol injection is a thing. But it is done ahead of the combustion section, so that evaporative cooling cools the compressed air.
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  73. The platform you're probably talking about is not meant for theaters where air defenses are active.
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  74. ​ @LastEarBender  The verbal agreement was about EAST GERMANY. If you remember, there was a time period where the USSR had not collapsed, and the future of Germany was up in the air as reunification would merge a NATO and Warsaw Pact nation. There was a Moscow proposal to leave Germany as neutral but the NATO thing was going to happen - what the US assured was that instead of NATO advacing towards a new Iron Curtain in the border of Germany and Poland, the NATO bases would remain in West Germany and East Germany territory would only have Bundeswehr bases. If you think about it, it would make zero sense for the US to promise to not expand into Poland and the Baltics/Ukraine since Poland was Warsaw Pact and the others were part of the Soviet Union. Not only would the US not ask for "hostile" nations to join, they also wouldn't ask to join as they were all controlled by a Party that had to answer to Moscow. The promise only makes sense in EAST GERMANY. Curiously even though NATO has taken in members from the East the NATO bases are still in the West Germany side. To this day NATO has not built additional bases in East Germany.
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  75. They tried it in the first day of the war and missed half the shots. Also, runways can be repaired in less than a day.
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  76. ​ @sixgunsymphony7408  the US tested the 30mm against M48 tanks (to serve as T-55 analogues) and achieved very few penetrations. Drones carry a significant warhead and the pilot and pick and choose where to hit. An A-10 pilot would have to weave through terrain, dodge incoming fire, and aim at a tank 2500-2000 ft away with his naked eye.
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  77. ​ @captainbean3114  How is it a dog whistle? Virtually everyone knows about the Hugo Boss thing. Russell Brand (ironically) made that Hugo Boss joke in a fashion event a decade ago.
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  78. "MUH NOOKS!"
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  79. It's literally the opposite of imperialistic.
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  80. There's plenty of video. And aftermath photos. Look man, you're either trolling with denial, or you're not used to the dark corners of the internet.
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  81. F-16s are extremely common, Gripens were not an export success. Old Saabs were cars made by engineers for engineers, GM was the beginning of the end for their automotive division.
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  82. The issue is that Delta would be wasted in the frontlines. Russia fell for the special forces meme, and lost high quality personnel in mundane attrition battles. Lindybeige has a several part interview with a British man who fought Russia in Ukraine. He did it out of his own volition and technically the British government disavows going to Ukraine to fight but they're also not criminally prosecuting anyone.
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  83. Kind of public information already.
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  84. Nice fanfic but the term has been around for decades. It's always been tied to insane takes.
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  85.  @DeNihility  Aircraft can be manufactured in lots. For example, there's F-16s which are newer than the oldest F-35s.
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  86. I don't think flamethrowers are a big issue in crime stats.
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  87. If you have no thermometers with Fahrenheit you have to use the Celsius readout. No matter how uncomfortable you are with Celsius, if you're asked the temperature and you're holding a thermometer with a °C readout, you're answering in °C instead of trying to convert it to °F in your head. If the road signs are in km he's not going to use miles either. It's not about comfort, he literally doesn't have the information about miles.
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  88. The A-10 has good turning abilities but dogfighting also happens in the vertical plane. A fighter jet pilot who knows what he's doing will not outturn the A-10 horizontally, he'll use the vertical climb abilities.
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  89. ​ @BusesAreFatCars  bruh Russia did to Ukraine what Britain did to Ireland. The separatist in Eastern Ukraine are basically the UVF.
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  90. Ten Percent True podcast has several episodes on F-4G Wild Weasels.
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  91. ​ @mosh.4245  Weren't the guys who disobeyed reinstated because of a technicality?
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  92. Cope. They made a line towards Kiev and tried to use Hostomel to land troops outside the city. The Russians killed the Russian speakers by forcing them into conscription and using them as meat shields.
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  93. ​ @ajkulac9895  I remember when it was Trump's jab and people were refusing it because Warp Speed was Trump's program.
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  94. ​ @Tphive  So nobody gets in trouble for causing a miscarriage?
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  95.  @sykessaul123  But it didn't. The US, UK, Australia (not even in the North Atlantic) and Poland (small amount of troops) were part of the invasion force. Most of NATO didn't care for the Iraq war, France famously stood against it. It's not a technicality, NATO flat out refused to take part and one of the biggest contributors to the US lead coalition isn't even NATO. Serbia can arguably be called defensive too, because peacekeeping forces were routinely held hostage and threatened with artillery if they did not allow genocide to be conducted in the area.
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  96. Could be AI trained off pictures found on google, hell they could save time just building a 3d render and make the AI look at the CGI footage as if it was real.
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  97. Okay, what did he say that was a lie or distortion?
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  98. ​ @sixgunsymphony7408  Close means the friendly troops are in close contact with the enemy. You can drop munitions from anywhere to do CAS.
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  99. A-10 doesn't have A-A radar. It's got a cannon and a refueling port in the nose, where do you put the radar? It has a radar ALTIMETER, is that what you mean?
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  100. Like getting a Chinese tattoo saying "honor" but it's actually "eggroll".
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  101. ​ @Butter_Warrior99  Gotcha. Gacha is a type of game.
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  102. ​ @gfys756  The black market in Ukraine is selling to... Ukraine. Almost a million men fighting a war want weapons, ammo and gear. They will have a lot more demand and purchasing power. Makes no sense to sell halfway around the world when a unit an oblast away is willing to pay for supplies.
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  103. ​ @KN-xl6lw  You only need a license to drive in public roads.
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  104. The elites don't want you to know this but the geese at the park are free. I'm carrying two geese on my vehicle right now.
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  105. ​ @ttyler2014  "Huh banning experimental and unstandardized procedures which cause permanent change??? That's like banning all medicine!"
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  106. Enriching itself off spent NLAW tubes and wreckage of missiles?
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  107. ​ @domtweed7323  So you're gonna just talk back to anyone who disproves your argument. The military isn't homogenous, not everyone is expected to kill.
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  108. Not 3x the normal price. The price is the "nominal" cost price, which is higher than actual value. You buy a 50k car. It depreciates to 20k over time. You decide to give it to a friend in need because you needed to buy a new one at one point. Obviously when you buy a new 50k dollar car that's because it's the cost of a new car of the same kind (assuming no inflation). So when the US sends a 20k dollar weapon to Ukraine and writes down 50k, that's because the value you'd get on the global arms market for a used piece and the cost of a NEW replacement are different. Most likely the US would either destroy the weapon/vehicle, sell it for a really discounted price to a poorer friendly county, or even just give it away for free as military aid. So Ukraine getting the stuff instead of it being blown up or shredded to pieces costs "nothing". But replacing it costs more than the weapon/vehicle.
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  109. ​ @ohcrap2222  "anti-Ukraine war" yeah I also want to stop a race when I'm in first place and my opponent is catching up
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  110. ​ @WarpigA23  you don't have to outrun a missile - you only need it to run out of energy by the time it gets to you.
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  111. ​ @thomaspinney4020  the other fixed wing aircraft shot dow as much as the A-10 were the Harrier (subsonic, massive IR signature) and the Tornado (low level attacker). While the Harrier and Tornado had to "learn their lesson" the A-10 gets praise. Tornados were reaasigned to mid altitude missions as the danger of low level runs forced the doctrine to be revised. But the A-10? Everything's fine.
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  112. ​ @pjhgerlach  Not how it works. Once you rob the aerodynamics out of a flying object, atmospheric drag will force it to stop. Simply knocking an aerodynamic object off axis at high altitude will make it airbrake and eventually lose momentum to enter free fall. Besides, ballistic weapons often come in at near vertical angles.
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  113. ​ @Walczyk  the election was in 2020 his channel blew up in 2022
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  114. They usually fire twice at maneuvering targets.
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  115. ​ @ubershredder1989 You say you're not pro-Russia then parrot the Russian propaganda line of "muh 8 years of Bombass". Nevertheless, the AGM-88 HARM is a missile that locks onto radar emitters. Only a massive failure in the guidance system could send a missile of that kind into a civilian area because HARMs are primed to seek military radars and have a library of emittion patterns and frequencies used by such equipment.
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  116. So to reject socialism you support the guys with USSR flags on their tanks...?
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  117. Did you watch the video?
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  118. Yes if he had no thermometer with a Fahrenheit readout. Would an AZ native read road signs in Europe in km or miles?
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  119. ​ @goreignak  this was also what was said about T-62s
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  120. I doubt they have thermometers in Fahrenheit over there. I remember when mercury ones sometimes had dual scales but now everything's using a digital readout.
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  121. No. IFF will tell you that a contact is sqwaking correctly, but will not prevent you from telling the radar to lock.
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  122. Those drones have been shot down by inferior foes. They're sitting ducks.
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  123. Pretty sure that the UK is closing ranges where 50 cal can be used. Last I heard there were 3 ranges where you could shoot 50 cal so justifying that license is getting harder.
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  124. Russia is a very procedural country. If you force them to join without the country being at war, that's technically illegal. Nobody would get in trouble, but the families would write letters of complaint to the prosecutor's office and Wagner would eventually let them go. Make it volunteer only, tell the young guys who get letters of authorization from their family, etc. and there's no responsibility if they die.
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  125. Not all countries have signed that convention, and countries which have signed the convention have argued their cluster munitions do not fall under the spirit of the convention so they reserve the right to manufacture and stockpile them.
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  126. Buddy you're gonna ban Super Soakers?
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  127. ​ @tedarcher9120  That's not what instability means. They don't fall like bricks, they are still aerodynamic. Stable aircraft will almost shuttlecock into incoming air to remain level while FIGHTER aircraft (military cargo aircraft are stable) will keep maneuvering if pushed out of level flight. That doesn't mean they don't want to fly, they just require more workload to fly straight. With fly by wire it is possible to fly unstable aircraft with hands off the stick as the computer does the auto trim.
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  128. ​ @TheDaniel9  Something is not likely if the evidence does not support it.
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  129. In the "forced conscription" videos the officer/senior enlisted who beats up people is always the same actor, same gait in every video.
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  130. ​ @clarencek3658  If you want to look through any cabinet with a fine tooth comb you're gonna find despicable people.
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  131. ​ @jesuszamora6949  You can upload the video hours later. It's harder to go back in time and post a video you haven't filmed yet, but posting it afterwards is just a matter of letting time go forward.
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  132.  @B.D.E.  Two aircraft. One 34 (has "platypus nose") and one 35 (fighter).
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  133. And the strict education standards makes them highly skilled but suppresses innovation. At an institutional level these highly skilled students are discouraged by superiors once they get a job. And the Chinese scientific paper mills are also a known issue. The fact that the West is in shambles doesn't mean China will rise above.
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  134. Putin says Trump was being brutalized to signal to Americans two things (a) Trump supporters will see Putin as an ally (b) Trump haters will see Trump supporters as Putin supporters. It's a really basic way of driving a wedge between people. Accept your controversy and use it to poison a side.
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  135. If there's a fighter covering it, the A-10 is redundant. The fighter can do the mission.
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  136. ​ @rucker69  It's okay considering a bunch of 18-19 year olds will lose stuff over the course of a few years. Don't lose stuff, you don't pay. You just won't have the foresight as a young kid. My advice? Have the foresight anyway. Life's gonna kick you in the nads. Wear a cup.
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  137. ​ @ParoXyzmm  the F-35 radar is LPI.
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  138. My brother and mother had like a year of heart palpitations after taking it. It wasn't serious but messing with someone's heart like that is BS.
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  139. ​ @JarrodFrates  Seekers have been around since the 70s.
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  140. ​ @Zach0451  This strike was more justifiable than the one on the van full of kids during the Afghanistan withdrawl.
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  141. Actually, they do. Harriers are an early Cold War relic, they're as useful in the air as a dodo. Also, all fighters cost 100 million these days. That's the cost of aviation unless you buy used planes a country is already retiring.
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  142. The M270s fire the same rockets as HIMARS and they're older, Ukraine has already received a few.
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  143. That sounds like a failed air assault. You need the follow through to succeed.
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  144. That drone is gonna cost 60 million, minimum.
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  145. There will be no nuclear response. All the Russian rich kids live here. They love the West, the oligarchs. The Russian military would be slaughtering the sons and daughters of billionaires.
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  146. We actually haven't recovered anything from deep space. Voyager 2 is the only man-made object that went into deep space and it will never come back.
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  147. ​ @trevorsomers8344  To get them up to speed on Western doctrine. It's possible to train skills in a hardware-agnostic way.
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  148. Several Russian speakers on twitter translated it and they all agreed 99% with each other.
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  149. The Marines are no longer Army 2.0 and are focusing on the Pacific. Can't drive tanks over the ocean.
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  150. In the Zaporizhzhia offensive you could see even failed attacks by Ukraine were more surgical. Russians have really no options - it's attack until the objective is captured. Even if it takes two months of assaults that get wrecked.
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  151. Like a record baby right round round round
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  152. Sorry but Soviet stuff is a nightmare to operate. You think MiGs and Sukhois are not a mess?
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  153. Lmao India and China are enemies. So are Iran amd Saudi Arabia.
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  154.  camencowogh8333  Okay but Russia is still losing where it matters - the battlefield. While you count drone hits for entertainment, you forget the Russian soldiers are being whacked non-stop and Russia is destroying itself in this nonsense.
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  155.  camencowogh8333  Tell me why you're moving the goalposts?
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  156. Lmao collapsing since March 2022.
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  157. How do I unsubscribe from people announcing their departures like it's a goddamn airport?
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  158. ​ @TacoSallust  but Ukraine uses combat aircraft.
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  159. Did you miss the part where EVERYONE was mishandling classified files?
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  160. ​ @jerseyshoredroneservices225  Grim Reapers are plopping down units in a video game. In real life you don't get to pick neat enemy placements.
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  161. People burn aviation fuel (leaded) just to jump off airplanes. You want to talk about how wasteful hobbies are?
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  162. Why would Albanians attack KFOR?
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  163. ​​ @DreadX10  in fact Stalin issued the "not one step back" order because not even the Soviet Union had infinite territory to give up in a retreat Contrary to the pop culture depiction "not one step back" wasn't about punishing those who refused to advance, but the commanders who retreated from strategic locations and gave them up easily to Germans
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  164.  @mikeradu2010  I think they're doing theatrics on purpose. The CEO goes directly to the "low level". Prigozhin told the media he leaves flowers on the graves of the Wagner guys, even the convicts. He gives an "Inglorious Basterds" style speech. I think it's a deliberate attempt to wow the potential recruits by making them feel important, and also what was said above - subtly send the message that he's "getting the job done". Ramzan Kadyrov also posted a message on social media saying that each district in Russia should raise 1000 volunteers to help with the manpower shortage.
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  165. That's a total rehash of the "being a feminist only means you support equality" from back when radical feminists had their writing and speeches seen by a wider internet audience and people were baffled at their extremism.
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  166. ​ @JustMe-gn6yf  How many western tanks and artillery had they worked on prior to the war? They learned. Same principle applies.
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  167. Considering that most missile strikes against Ukrainian runways missed the tarmac, I'm not worried.
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  168. Purchasing power parity skews the data. American goods and labor cost a lot more than Chinese. So China can have an arms buildup while hiding behind the US costs just to keep its military at the same size as the year before.
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  169. People send him those. AgentJayZ does videos on jet engines and his shop also has flags sent by viewers hanging.
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  170. Should have gone to Ukraine. Natural distrust of government resulted in 50% jab rates while most countries had 80-90%.
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  171. Look up the scene from the TV show Yes Prime Minister "salami tactics" or "nuclear deterrent". The Russian playbook is to do things that wouldn't trigger war to get what they want.
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  172. American F-16s landed in Ukrainian runways during their joint training there.
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  173. Neither. Damage is consistent with a fire but not explosion. Car windows are seen intact when a detonation would have blown them out.
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  174. I watched that episode when it first aired and that scene still pops in my head 2 or 3 times per year.
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  175. No but the Army raised the limit for enlistment. I think they went as far as accepting 39 year olds.
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  176. ​@tristqnejdjeh7278 Here in Europe opinions are split on the pope too.
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  177.  @deuspax  "under continuous shelling they will leave the dangerous zone (check kherson experience)" - in Kherson the UA had to use the incompetence of Russians against them, the intelligence provided by the allies, and then launch dangerous assaults into suboptimal terrain. So basically you're gambling all in on your enemy being dumb, having the US use wallhack cheats for you to know where everyone is, and then you still have to fight uphill battles to cross the plains against a defending enemy. Even if your foe has no tanks, they can still defend and not leave. That's like expecting WWI to end because the enemy will just leave the trenches.
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  178. An accident with the weapons would kill people too.
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  179. A swarm with only "basic armor" will get shredded by autocannon rounds dispensing tungsten cubes.
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  180. ​ @TTKDMS  a private American citizen can call Twitter anything he wants. People to this day still talk about Blackwater as if it didn't rename to Xe and Academi.
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  181. ​ @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я  Terminal velocity is not weapon velocity. It's the max velocity an object can achieve when free falling. Weapon velocity of a Khinzal is achieved by rocket boosting into thin atmosphere to reduce drag, and then fall on target before drag can slow the warhead down to subsonic. If you shoot down a weapon, the loss of control will lead to atmospheric drag and thus slow it down to the terminal velocity.
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  182. Another aspect is that now Russians will have to send some kind of EOD team to check for explosives in those large buildings, slowing them down even if the place is empty.
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  183. Losing a war isn't genocide. Russia has engaged in genocide by declaring Ukrainian children Russian, not because of collateral damage.
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  184. ​ @bilic8094  He's so well respected he never made it to General and now has to do livestreams to make a living.
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  185. The structure is more G-limited than the human. Humans have cracked airframes.
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  186. It's been replaced. The A-10 does 11% of CAS missions.
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  187. ​ @redbeard5939  No. It's not satire, it's just a reference. Many people prefer to stay anonymous online and use a pseudonym. For example the person who writes the blog Zero Hedge pens his articles under "Tyler Durden". It's a reference to Fight Club. It's not satire, the people behind the accounts want to be seen like those characters. The picture of Smedley Butler is another hint.
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  188. Second amendment?
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  189. India wouldn't take that deal.
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  190.  @poiu477  "armored" ground attack aircraft have been brought down by MANPADS with 1kg warheads.
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  191. ​ @oceanaxim  It's hogwash. Conspiracy bait.
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  192. Then the Soviets and the US made an agreement to remove nukes from Turkey and Cuba. If the Soviet Union could negotiate, then Russia has no excuse.
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  193.  @moritamikamikara3879  Wagner actually can't even exist. PMCs are illegal in Russia. They are in a grey zone.
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  194. Way back then football had pretty weird rules and wasn't as different from rugby as it it today. For example the goal not having a cross beam on top, allowing yo to score by kicking at any height. Without looking it up I'd assume the sport of football only standardized the ruleset to the sport we have today after it already been in America.
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  195. ​ @alphaspartan  It wasn't celebrated in Greece, just "tolerated". Either way stuff that happened hundreds of years or even two thousand years ago have nothing to do with the topic. The topic is MAPs. MAPs weren't a thing until the 2010s. Nobody called themselves MAPs. People with the same intentions had groups like NAMBLA. They didn't use the term "MAP".
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  196. You do realize that it was stated, clear as day, no ifs or buts, from the very start that it didn't prevent transmission, right? Initially the mask mandates would be dropped for those who had taken it but it was reversed in about a week. If you had become infected you'd still have transmitted it and infected your relatives. It was an "egotistical shot", it only protected YOU and YOU ALONE. This was reiterated multiple times in 2021.
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  197. ​ @realfoggy  You can literally track Forte on flightradar
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  198. The US has the land mass and industrial capabilities to have black project aircraft and test them in remote areas.
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  199. The tank sights are already monitors, though. Gunner and commander have their own.
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  200. Post the full quote.
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  201. An anti tank gun can take it out. A panzerfaust can take it out. A RPG-7 can take it out. A wire guided missile can take it out. A command line of sight missile can take it out. Every single time this was said, the tank survived.
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  202. The radio is usually on the aircraft. Pilots don't carry a Kenwood in their fight suit.
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  203. ​ @BearMeOut  CYMA airsoft used to be like 120 bucks.
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  204. ​ @criticalevent  One more for you in the cheap seat, you have already been told the background of the video so it's not about the hospital. The thread started specifically by retelling the original context if the footage. Not the events since Oct 7. Try to keep up.
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  205. ​ @criticalevent  Thousand dollar airsoft rifles are the absolute top end, using 6061 or even 7075 aluminum in AR clones. Kids get into airsoft with replicas with ABS plastic bodies or sometimes easily castable alloys (disparagingly called "pot metal").
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  206. The Graveyard of Superpowers is overstated. The Mongols invaded, obviously couldn't control the tribal regions, but it didn't become their graveyard. The mountainous region works against the invader, but those are the lowest value lands. The Mongols rampaged through the main population centers.
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  207. The land bridge is about to be cut at Tokmak. Look at the map. The rail link is within range of tube artillery now. The three layers of defense are nothing without manpower. Russia already sent in reserves to prevent Ukraine from reaching the first line.
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  208. ​ @leongao5120  Nah. Even an off center hit would knock the object into tumbling, and the atmosphere would force it to slow down to terminal. A supersonic airplane diving will be hitting the ground at supersonic speed. A supersonic airplane struck by a missile can spin around, take several minutes for the airframe to reach the ground.
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  209. He was DEMOCRATICALLY voted out by the Verkhovna Rada after fleeing the country. If Yanukovych wants to challenge his dismissal in the courts, all he has to do is come back to Ukraine. He won't because he will face murder charges.
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  210. The 400km range is limited by the horizon. Due to the earth's curvature and other phenomena, a quality weapons track at 400km is only possible against very high altitude targets.
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  211. Antiradiation missiles are exclusively radar weapons. The AIM-9 isn't anti-radiation because it seeks IR, and explodes near the target which makes it glow even more. There's more radiation than before. Anti-radiation missiles are meant to shut down radars, killing the source of radiation.
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  212. I mean it's a 2013 game.
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  213. Do Americans have a built in Fahrenheit sensor in their skin? If your thermometers and weather reports are all in Celsius, you WILL use Celsius. You have no choice unless you're acoustic to the point of whipping out your smartphone's calculator app every time to do the conversion.
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  214. No. Russia invaded with 150k, aided by PMCs and the DPR/LPR forces. Ukraine had around 250k. And Russia sent extra forces to replenish losses, they had troops from far east bases, sailors, strategic rocket forces, etc. so while Ukraine had to mobilize forces Russia had an army they could just draw from and send to Ukraine as needed. It was later that the Ukrainian army expanded to 500k-700k.
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  215. The sons and daughters of the oligarchs live in the West.
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  216. That was Disney's excuse to lock movie reviews at 86%.
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  217. Forget about good and bad. Who's still insisting on conflict after most of the region is starting to come around and prefer negotiations? Who's orchestrating massacres in their opponent's soil? Who's using proxy forces to ruin diplomacy gains?
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  218. Countries "rich" in natural resources often ended up subjugated through history. Development as a whole is a better predictor of success as a more developed country can purchase the resources it needs, while a country rich in natural resources often has to wh0re itself out to scrape by. Look at Russia being scammed by India, China, Iran and North Korea. Russia is rich in natural resources yet forced to sell at a discount while paying a huge markup for rusty North Korean shells and hundreds of thousands of $ for cheap Iranian drones.
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  219. Lmao only countries like North Korea and Iran support Russia. Even China is neutral at the UN.
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  220. How does that improve his case?
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  221. No need for hypersonics, just a launch from Belarus
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  222.  @Dazzxp  Can't monitor everything all the time. Otherwise zero missiles would hit Ukraine.
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  223. If it was an oopsie, that parking lot would have been leveled.
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  224.  @godfunk  Okay, we have both footage of the rocket failing and the little crater that it made by impacting the ground. The cars in the parking lot burned down but glass wasn't shattered. Not a bomb. Burning rocket fuel.
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  225. Russia's HIV rates. Look it up. That is all.
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  226. Okay. You're gonna do 2000 Abrams? Are weekends good for you? The problem is that you think about outfitting one tank, and don't realize you have to extrapolate this solution.
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  227.  @andreiiasi  But those millions were spent what? In the 1960s and 1970s? I need tanks, I need them now, we're gonna do what we can and hatches open it is. I'm not going to wait on a McGyvered solution people on youtube tell me is really easy.
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  228. No. The Javelin is a tool to remove a particular chess piece from the chessboard. It cannot replace tank rounds.
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  229. Sim rounds is better in close quarters, MILES is better for open fields.
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  230. Cope. The YouTube algorithm also deletes half my comments. Either you're spamming or you've been reported by other users for hate speech.
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  231. ​ @nevisstkitts8264  if you spend 30 seconds searching it on youtube you'll see F-16s doing off airfield in Taiwan.
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  232. ​ @556deltawolf  It's "wasteful spending" today but if we didn't spend money Ukraine would still be fighting with former Soviet everything. We in America and Europe bought a bunch of stuff we didn't need so now we can pull it out of warehouses. If we didn't buy that stuff, then the VDV would not be an endangered species and would be headed to Lisbon right now.
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  233. Pretty much all weapons are weapons of aggression. Do you want to arm the country with landmines and Javelins only? Tanks can be hull down in defensive positions or charging the enemy lines. Defense and attack are required, if you defend your homeland you are required to go on the attack at some point to retake lost territory.
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  234. ​ @Soren015  When I mess up events between 2003-2009 that's not lying. When I tell stories to make myself look cool I am lying. I don't tell such stories.
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  235. Some people go above and beyond the job requirements.
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  236. To quote Blade, "some mf'ers always want to skate uphill". Some people have to be pacified by force.
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  237. Those work, though.
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  238. Why would aliens travel all the way here to mess with us rather than just take our lunch money and move to the next planet?
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  239. One who doesn't have access to a thermometer or weather reports in °F. If all the readouts say Celsius you use Celsius. If all road signs say kilometers instead of miles you use kilometers. You have no choice unless you do every single conversion on your head. The number in Celsius could be utterly meaningless to him. But he doesn't have the number in Fahrenheit so he can't use that unit.
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  240. ​ @wpjohn91  You make a claim, you provide the evidence. Otherwise it's useless. You made the claim, why you asking others?
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  241.  @wpjohn91  Again, what did you say? What do you want to be taken seriously? Until you decide, nothing can be believed. Decide. This is your game, you should know how to play it. We're not playing your game, Ivan.
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  242. One guy did one. Now try a 2000 unit sized fleet and just 1000 for foreign orders to start with.
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  243. No. Ukraine used tank offensives to break through in Kharkiv. It's not a symmetrical struggle, because Russia is defending an entire line, Ukraine has to punch through with concentrated mass. There's your asymmetry. Russia, learning? They're still committing the same mistakes they did in February. The asymmetric nature also has required Ukraine to take in unnecessary casualties when they are forced to stand and bang. If they had more means at their disposal, they'd suffer less. Less losses, less time necessary to lick wounds, more time causing successive frontline collapses.
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  244. It's not excuses, it's reality. You go out there to move supplies, nobody knows if they're civilian or military. The hammer is looking for a nail, don't go out looking like a nail.
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  245. No, he isn't. Much like his drunk video after the Kharkiv offensive, man's running damage control. The videos don't lie. Russian attacks are doomed to catastrophe and their success comes from wearing down the defenders and depleting their ammunition.
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  246. ​ @nuttbag6658  Nobody in politics gives one either. Why vote at all, then?
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  247. My favorite moment was when Napolitano realized McGregor said something that didn't make sense and asked him to clarify, and McGregor started getting angry.
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  248.  @Nike-nm8jc  There are instances of Van Riper attempting to metagame by knowing ahead of time the only places where amphibious landings could be performed. The problem is that most people assume these exercises are like a game of laser tag. We put Red vs Blue and see who wins. But the more important aspects of these exercises are: when you start taking casualties, can you send the medics and blood bags in time; or if a Navy ship has their computers go down in the middle of combat, can you get the IT experts to fix it under fire? In the end of the report the game's outcome was Red team actually accomplishing many of its goals (retaining political control of the country being the main one) and Blue team failing some of its goals. Van Riper seems to have blown a lid and demanded some kind of pat in the back for achieving a huge Pyrrhic victory against Team America, while all the US Navy did was say "You know we enjoyed having you around to run Red team but this circus is costing the taxpayer millions of dollars per day so we better restart and get proper data about our new concepts". The exercise isn't based around "can you win under this circumstances?" but more around "war is getting more complex and now we have computers to help, can we make sure this all works under stress or is it going to be a catastrophe?".
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  249. It's okay to pass the time but I stopped caring like 10 seasons ago. Best episode for me is when they have to surgically remove a live RPG-7 warhead that speared a guy but failed to detonate.
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  250. Gell-Mann Amnesia.
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  251. G forces bend airframes before they make pilots pass out. What exactly do you think happens to the engine mounts or weapon pylons when you pull 9 Gs? Everything gets 9x heavier. Put an AI pilot without G limiters, it will rip everything apart.
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  252. ​ @leongao5120  Baumgartener jumped from 71k feet and spent 3 minutes 43 seconds in free fall. 3 minutes is plenty of time for something to slow down. Remember, the faster you go, the more drag you suffer. And drag increases as the atmosphere gets thicker.
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  253. Vietnam literally won by INVADING South Vietnam. If all North Vietnam had done was defend, South Vietnam and North Vietna would be like Korea today or agreed for reunification in a mutually benefitting way. Afghanistan tried to defend and lost to the ATTACKING Taliban. Maoist China attacked the Republic forces and forced them to flee to Taiwan.
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  254. Leaking classified intel isn't protected by free speech. Assange also played a dangerous game by siding with Russia.
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  255. Extremely unpopular with the youth.
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  256. Says the guy who wants manned missions to Mars.
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  257. ​ @nunopereira6092  You missed the joke. Mustangs plow into crowds at car meets, it's tradition.
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  258. He's wrong. Ukraine used tank offensives in Kharkiv.
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  259. He'll yeah BRÖTHER preach! Sent from Tapatalk for iPhone
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  260. No, he's wrong. He claims that without air superiority, tanks can't breach through lines and it's WWI all over again. However, Ukrainians breached the lines in Kharkiv with tanks. And they forced the Kherson retreat with tanks.
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  261. The F-35A can carry 2k lbs more than the A-10. Everyone forgets the billions it costs to keep the A-10 flying. They've had airframe rebuild programs and now re-winging contracts. They're extremely old.
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  262. Because wealthier Western European nations are associated with higher quality goods/services so the German surgeons would be the best and Ukrainian doctors wouldn't be trusted, also there's the "vampiristic" fable of bleeding the poor to feed the rich, stealing organs and selling them to Westerners makes us look evil and the Ukrainians like pawns who don't even get the organs for themselves. Also not-very-subtle hint at voodoo Nazi science.
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  263. If you're that low, people in the ground will fill the air with lead and eventually score a hit. In Vietnam many jets were downed because they were forced to fly low due to SAM threat, and ground fire took them out. F-18s can so the CAS mission while self-escorting so sending the A-10s is redundant.
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  264. It was America that was afraid of Ukrainian nukes getting lost. America got involved.
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  265. There's a ton of stuff the government can't say because adversaries are listening too... why is it troubling that the govt won't do foreign spies' jobs for them?
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  266. Hypersonic only works when it follows design conditions. Once shot down, terminal velocity is handled by atmospheric drag.
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  267. The thing is that there would be a lot of non-hostile posting of pro-vegetable posts.
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  268. Then the code needs approval. Then the systems need to be brought out of the frontline to have their systems replaced and re-checked.
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  269.  @chh4516  lol
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  270. Ukraine has Su-25s. They used them where they could. Any area the A-10 could operate on, Su-25s were there. As far as I know, both sides have lost Su-25s. Desert Storm involved a complex SEAD/DEAD operation plus aggressive Fast FAC F-16s diving on AAA to bomb them as they couldn't ve suppressed by HARM.
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  271.  @comfortablynumb9342  Sniper rifles have less range than artillery and mortars. Too close for comfort.
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  272.  @comfortablynumb9342  They are effective, and used by Ukrainians. Because if they get killed (and they do, it's war) it's unthinkable for Russians to find an American. You're changing the argument. Nobody said snipers weren't effective. The problem is, snipers hunt each other. And it's too close to the frontline. So Americans don't do it.
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  273. Escalate how? There's been indiscriminate bombing of civilians, summary executions, forced relocations, false flags, torture, etc. Russia has already made this conflict an absolute hell. There's no escalation.
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  274. Were hundreds killed? The only source are the Gaza authorities.
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  275. If there was a secondary explosion like the other comments said, they were armed.
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  276. And we also have overhead ISR drones and don't send out armored vehicles without support so we don't face the problem those screens are supposed to solve.
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  277. Would you be recruited into an organization that gets you arrested over nothing? What does the average person think? The people who stand against Israel can't even tell East from West. If they're wrong about that, certainly they can be wrong about a whole lot else.
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  278. Cheaper than 4th gen fighters.
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  279. Radium paint, discontinued a long time ago.
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  280. A HARM fired at a Patriot radar to defend himself from friendly fire? Hell of a story I was not aware of, thanks!
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  281. Wasn't a random target. It was a convoy. Targeting enemy supplies is basic warfare.
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  282.  @Hrafnskald  Name these American diplomats driving around in supply trucks. Honestly I'd expect them to be in SUVs.
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  283. The only missile it could employ would be the AGM-122 Sidearm, which is no longer in inventory.
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  284. How many people with unimpeachible credentials ruined it all? People who became a laughing stock had one thing in common - they weren't a laughing stock before whatever they did.
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  285. Missile could already be falling. The terminal phase of a ballistic missile is almost vertical from an observer in the receiving end. Alternatively, the missile being knocked off balance could make it fall as it lost control authority, but terminal velocity due to drag makes it fall at a set speed.
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  286. ​ @clivedoe9674  Reacting to cheat powers is like learning to react to 540 tornado kicks when you're about to fight prime Mike Tyson. You're not gonna get a Taekwondo kick to the face, don't bother.
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  287. Slugs have worked on hogs for decades before 300 blk came out.
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  288. Dang I'd roll with the "Havana" callsign no problem.
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  289. No, it isn't. IFF is one of the major problems in warfare.
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  290. It's not an oversight, the A-10 began as a A-1 Skyraider replacement for COIN where only 14.5mm and occasional 23mm guns were the threat. The project requirements eventually changed but since it had never been expected to operate inside air defenses the low flying would protect it from Shilkas and the tail would mask the engines while flying over MANPADS. Integrated air defenses came after the A-10 had already been designed.
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  291. TB2s ended up getting shot down, but they brought hell on the invaders. Money well spent.
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  292. To avoid confusion let's just call it Xitter.
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  293. The problem is those refusing to understand and intentionally confusing others.
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  294. Made in the Soviet Union and Russia won't sell them parts.
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  295.  @max_galingumas9409  Not the entire thing. If you make all the parts for a car except the engines, you have a nice modern art piece but not a car.
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  296.  @orionide4032  That's a beyond insane comment to post. Yeah, the Russian fleet is actually using ships built in Ukraine, which means they couldn't be able to rebuild them. Just like Ukraine can't rebuild things that require Russian corporations/factories.
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  297. The problem is that instead of dispersed capabilities, they neatly placed their assets in a location where we can simply lock them into a basement. A neat thing strike pilots do is put the laser right "behind" the blast doors where concrete meets the rock face. Bomb plows through concrete and skips off rock.
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  298. I've also seen "then vs today" pictures of the land taken by Russia from Finland, a church bombed during WW2 is still in the same state nearly 80 years later.
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  299. They weren't proven wrong, though. The Phantom got 90% of kills by missile.
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  300. Not really. If you look at Desert Storm figures alone, the A-10 did around 8,000 sorties and six were shot down, while F-16s did 12,000 sorties I think with only three shot down.
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  301. If the logos were not IR reflective, they can't be seen at night. Ever seen non IR treated camouflage under night vision? Especially desert camouflage? You look like you're wearing a white pijama. The blobs of dye that are supposed to make you hard to see vanish, because the entire uniform reflects the same "color".
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  302. They turn in the vest because it was issued. If they ask to wear a personal item and buy their own, it's theirs.
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  303. ​ @battleburger  Not only did nearly every government representative discourage it (it's even technically illegal) the definition of mercenary requires him to be paid more than a regular soldier. Russia does offer lucrative mercenary contracts to foreigners. In Ukraine, foreigners sign a contract with the Ukrainian military and are treated as Ukrainians earning the same pay. Much like France has a foreign legion which is NOT a mercenary force.
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  304. No. It's extremely expensive to keep flying, the deception of sweeping billion dollar contracts to rebuild entire structural components to keep aging aircraft airworthy has fooled people into thinking we have anything to gain from upgrades or research. It was originally set to be retired in the 90s, we squeezed all the juice we could. Boneyard. Now.
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  305. They're being fired in pre-programmed mode. The missiles get close to the known position of the radar by themselves, which makes detection easier. The only limit on range are the fact that they have to shoot from relatively low altitude rather than a neat straight line supersonic flight at high altitude to boost the missile further.
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  306. I vent my frustrations online by dreaming up about Chinese spies and defectors to Havana under presidential orders 🤡
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  307. It's cheaper to clean a rifle at the end of the day than blast blanks for 8 hours x number of soldiers. Blanks will make the rifle dirty anyway.
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  308. What do you mean without casualty rates? It's one of the most shot down airframes in the conflict.
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  309. Drones have slight stealth shaping, and they can fly outside S-400 reach. The S-400 capabilities do not match the brochure.
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  310. Doesn't matter if they're easy to find. If his job requires a security clearance he can't risk losing it on a technicality.
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  311. I'm not a botanist, but aren't there perennial trees in Russia??
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  312. Trump said to take it. It was a good vaccine, the best vaccine.
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  313. The F-16 is absolutely configured for the role. Many nations have F-16s as their primary CAS delivery aircraft. Strike Eagle pilots dedicated themselves to learning the art of the gun run, and so far none of them has been taken out with a rifle. In fact, most of the bells and whistles in the A-10 that allow it to do CAS are straight up similar to the F-16.
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  314. You're not trying to brag about being working class to secure votes.
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  315. American planes only flew over North Vietnam because a defensive war in South Vietnam is fighting with the hands tied behind one's back. At some point logistics had to be targeted.
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  316. ​ @leogaskell3138  The enemy doesn't identify itself for your convinience. If something is unidentified it means there's no way to verify if it's friendly. Which is exactly what happens when you see the enemy.
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  317.  @tomlobos2871  I'm going to try to be brief. The A-10 was made to be a A-1 Skyraider replacement. Like Lionel Mandrake posted, it was originally meant for Vietnam. The A-7 was an excellent CAS aircraft but too fast to escort helicopters, and too fuel hungry to stay on station. The A-X program was even originally a turboprop engine aircraft because turbojets were inefficient at low speed, and halfway through the program the requirements were changed and turbofan engines allowed them to be reasonably fuel efficient at low speeds. In the Fulda Gap, the A-10 pilots would be estimated to be all dead or captured by two weeks. They were merely a delaying action, not expected to survive the onslaught. In a war against insurgents, the A-10 does fine. In a full scale war, you want the F-16. One pass, haul ass. There's no loiter time. You drop hate on target, turn back to base to bolt more under your wings and take off again. The Su-25 is forced to perform the "cowardly" role of firing unguided rockets from friendly territory and turning back. Their losses are proving exactly the opposite of what you think. They're easily shot down, and aircraft are complex enough that it's preferable to strip them of usable parts than trying to repair damaged aircraft. "Add A-10" so an airframe that's been flown beyond the original retirement timeline, has lack of parts because the company that made it went out of business two decades ago, and is even slower than the Su-25 is going to be an "addition"? I think it would be a subtraction. The A-10 as a bomb truck? It's extremely slow and thrust limited. It's not very survivable because a modern missile can slice it in half, negating all the fancy shmancy armor. When the nose is physically detached from the tail, it doesn't matter how much armor the pilot or the engines have. Fighter jets are survivable by kinetically outrunning the threat. You can't loiter in Ukraine. You arrive, fire rockets into the air, turn back or else you die. You have 30 seconds to get in and out or else a missile gets you.
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  318.  @tomlobos2871  "UA needs numbers as well, any airframe that is available, modernised" - The A-10 is lacking in parts because the company that made it went out of business two decades ago. Half the fleet is still up for wing renewal under Boeing contract since 2019. "reasonable strike capabilities" - The A-10 is at most a battlefield interdiction aircraft, not a strike one. "airframe itself is second here" - But it's not. Airframe shapes capabilities. And the A-10 is hindered by its morphology. "we see that in use as a main asset on both sides" - With unnecessary losses. They don't use Su-25s because they're good, they use them because that's what they have. "if you're offered a western ground attacker, would you say no and prefer not having it?" - If the aircraft is even slower than the Su-25, they can keep it. Furthermore, the lack of spares and the fact that the USAF has divested from the A-10 really make it unable to survive the high op tempo.
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  319. No, it doesn't. Russia has lost the war. Ukraine still has to win.
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  320. It sounds like a large object falling. You really trying to identify weapons by the sound air makes when pushed out of the way?
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  321.  @Otyrr  Again, objects sound based on the speed of the air whistling past them. You can't identify objects like that. We have the video of the rocket failing. It's over. You were wrong.
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  322. Stop the "only the USA" crap. Sightings and conspiracies exist all over the world. You'd need to start looking in foreign languages to notice.
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  323. He exploited the simulation itself. It was a complete debacle. Basically the game started out of nowhere with the OpFor swarm attack in position to fire, while BluFor had the defenses shut down as they were locking into civilian aircraft and ships nearby. Basically a suckerpunch.
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  324. Tanks are still useful for direct firr support.
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  325. Russia's army is now using donkeys for transport. Putin will sign whatever.
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  326. If you want to bang about "horrors" you have to be factual. If you have to lie about nuclear war to make it sound scary, you lose credibility.
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  327. ​ @toneth353  There's limits to gun depression. Sometimes using the vehicle as a weapon is the only way. In Iraq they formed a defensive line with a large trench. The US gave the Iraqis ample chance to surrender then came in with armored bulldozers fitted with RPG cages and buried the enemy soldiers in the sand. It's not pretty, but trying to use guns and explosives to clear the trench would be just as violent and expose coalition troops to greater danger. So if the vehicle can be used to crush or bury an opponent who refuses to surrender, it will be.
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  328.  @toneth353  I watched the video and the interview. They spent the ammunition because there were more enemies in the area than expected. It's not sadism. Once over the trench, they cannot depress the gun. They only had one shot left and needed it in case they had to fire back at someone else. So tracks it is. I'd drop bomb on the wounded to score a hit on the two health soldiers carrying the stretcher. I don't care. If it were me having the country invaded, I have to continue to add numbers to my count, because the faster I get numbers the sooner they leave my land. Why should I show mercy and spare two fully combat capable soldiers? Next day they could kill my friends, or execute civilians like in Bucha. I'm dropping. The wounded guy doesn't deserve it? Life's unfair. Wear a cup. Bad timing. Should have stayed home.
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  329. A helicopter would beat this any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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  330. There could be explosives daisy-chained or the ambush location pre-sighted for mortar fire.
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  331. Crack open a book, there were reasons why they did that.
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  332. Thanks for the FUD, Ivan.
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  333. ​ @comradericefarmerhao2269  It wasn't a myth in Korea, and meat wave isn't human wave. Human wave is using mass to trade short term casualties for long term success, meat wave is overwhelming defenses with constant assaults.
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  334. It's like weathering the cold because the rest of your classmates said your jacket looked "gay". We mocked them so hard they stopped using them.
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  335.  @ericmcquisten  Yeah, because a Spitfire would be garbage in a modern dogfight too. Context matters. If something can't hold up its own except under exercise conditions, it's not worthwhile to pursue such capabilities. What do you mean low enough to get a lock? An AMRAAM would be fired from tens of miles out. The lock isn't the limiting factor, it's the motor of the missile. With speed and altitude, range of a high Pk missile shot against an A-10 is actually greater than against a fighter. You can't "avoid" an eye in the sky that can see you from 60 nautical miles away. Hugging the terrain does nothing when the radar is coming from above and Doppler filtering removes the ground clutter. Chaff is a tool of desperation because as it hits the air, it slows down and allows radar to instantly tell that it's chaff rather than a speeding aircraft. Tight turns don't matter when the missile simply knows you'll be at position x,y,z when you finish your turn, and head towards that position.
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  336.  @ericmcquisten  And the A-10 is a Vietnam era aircraft built for an age that doesn't exist. Holding up fine in exercises meant to give the A-10 a chance isn't a good indicator. Create an exercise where the fighter has freedom to engage the A-10 in any condition it wants. Some missiles are heat seeking indeed. But the AMRAAM is there. Modern heat seekers do not work like Vietnam era seekers. The AIM-9X can see the actual aircraft with a thermal camera, it won't be fooled by the ground. Look down shoot down has existed for decades. Low flying does not protect aircraft anymore. How would the A-10 pilot know the bearing of the missile? He'd get a RWR warning a few seconds before impact. Missiles don't make use of turning radius as if they had pure pursuit control logic. They simply measure your movement and predict where you'll be. If you turn right, the missile simply calculates where your turn will put you, and flies straight for impact. I'm not talking about drones. Fighter aircraft have their own radars. Every fighter is an eye on the sky, sweeping for easy pickings. Aircraft have radar. Radar isn't just a ground technology. Yes, air to air missiles use Doppler filtering. Sophistication? Your cellphone is more sophisticated than the Apollo era computers. Missiles are crammed full of sophistication. Why do you still believe it's the 1960s?
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  337. If one person went to prison it was a war crime. Or are you saying he's innocent?
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  338. ​ @estoy3300  Did you specifically go to a broadcast show and tell you weed smoking stories to look cool to the younger voters so you can get elected to the highest office in the country? Your youtube comment would get a pass. Hardly anyone will read it and you're not seeking glory. You're confusing inconsequential small talk and political campaigning.
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  339. You can't just land it. The thing has the world's most powerful blowtorch sticking out the back and a fan that really shouldn't ingest hot air or debris. A small stretch of highway is flat, reasonably smooth and won't have a lot of debris beyond little bolts that fell off cars and empty cans tossed out of windows. In the middle of a wooded area or rough terrain? Not worth the risk.
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  340. ​ @SebastianHaban  the M193, M855, M855A1, Mk 262 and Mk 318 ammunition for 5.56 and some European M80 ammunition for 7.62 deform on impact. Yet those are used and not considered war crimes.
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  341. You're not a pilot, you're a Glavset agent.
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  342.  @joshuaalistair3193  So you're indeed a traitor. MacGregor claimed that Ukraine was finished March 2022. Why do you claim his skills now in 2023 are somehow more reliable than in 73 Easting. There were scientists working for America in the Manhattan Project who later fed the secrets to the Soviet Union. You think you can't become an agent for a foreign power AFTER you've served your country?
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  343. Video was recorded at night but uploaded at 9 AM.
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  344. ​ @Sacto43  I saw it. Some dude confirming things he knows nothing about, then deleted the post. Happens in Ukraine too, during the Kharkiv offensive some Brosint accounts "confirmed" the Ukrainians were assaulting Donetsk airport and Lysychansk.
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  345. ​ @zaidtayeh4888  Jackson Hinkle's Russian girlfriend pulls his strings. Dude's compromised.
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  346. Precision bombing with drones? Does this pilot have millions of dollars burning a hole in his pocket? A drone is fine when fighting an unprepared or less capable foe.
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  347. Honestly, back in 2016 the dems pushed reps to Russia. Refusing to acknowledge that Hillary was unpopular and blaming the election on Russia made the "deplorables" feel like Russia couldn't be that bad if the Clintons hate them. Ever seen that meme of the libertarians and communists playing tug of war and then monopoly man grabs the rope on the communist side and a nazi grabs on the libertarian side? It's like that. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.
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  348. Russia violates airspace all the time. It's a probing of defenses, even Portugal has had to intercept Tupolev bombers.
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  349. The blank firing adapter has a steel rod that goes into the barrel. If you attempt to fire a live round it will get your attention.
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  350. Telemetry could be trying to phone home but have no line of sight to any receiver or repeater. That can also happen when you're not at high altitude.
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  351. A convicted sex offender and a former RT contributor.
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  352. Those turrets are powered by ship hydraulics. The Humvee is gonna win easily.
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  353. The issue is even if a bot is writing, they have to build the accounts with a following. That's the hardpoint limit.
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  354. Large drones cost the same as an aircraft. Womp womp.
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  355. Could have been purchased from the West through sanctions busting or from a government willing to export, which marks them in English for the international market.
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  356. The problem is that anyone with a RPG now has a huge target to shoot at.
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  357. They have people acting as "resistance" behind enemy lines who report locations, the US also uses satellite images and communications surveillance. There's electronic warfare aircraft flying close to the Ukrainian border to spy on enemy movements.
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  358. No, Russia should bleed more.
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  359.  @WalterWiperi  And what is better? Dying for freedom? Or bleeding for a rich man who will never pay you for your sacrifice?
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  360.  @WalterWiperi  This is nonsense. Doesn't matter who is the president of Ukraine, people who want Ukraine to exist and not get bullied will fight. Zelensky doesn't matter. Meanwhile, the Russian people have no business being in Ukraine. What does it matter to them? Ukraine negotiated peace. Russia does not want peace. When Ukraine asked for the separatists to stop fighting, Russia said it wasn't their problem. They send money and weapons to keep the fight going and refuse to talk, tell Ukraine to talk to the separatists. Well, the separatists obey Russia. All you have is a hit piece on Zelensky... but he doesn't matter. He's just one man. What matters are the millions of people who are being denied a home by Russian aggression. And every day Putin or Lavrov beg to be taken seriously by the West. They say the West is irrelevant and they don't need them, but then turn around and act like puppies saying everyone hates Russia, poor weak Russia, it's us versus the world because the world is so mean...
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  361.  @WalterWiperi  The government tyranny of a state fighting back after Russia put weapons and criminals inside its borders. Illegitimate coup? The democratically elected parliament relieved the president of his duties after he fled the country. Eight years... In the years prior to the war less than 20 people had died on average per year in the conflict. They were not told what language they could speak. Ukraine told Russia that Russia propaganda would have to be spoken in Ukrainian. Russian speakers in Ukraine could speak Russian with each other. Russian media in Ukraine had to speak Ukrainian. Big difference. Almost every country has language laws to promote their national language or else all the TV shows and music become English because of America. There was negotiation. The separatists ignored it. They get paid to fight and kill, they fight and kill. All on Russia's behalf. The DPR forces planned to assault Debaltseve the day after signing Minsk II. You can't deal with these people. They'll plan to stab you in the back before the ink is even dry. Nobody cares about festivals. Ukrainians are not fighting for festivals. They're fighting for a homeland. There's no negotiation possible because Russia has broken almost every negotiation they've been a part of. The only way they listen is by force. The DPR and LPR could have my sympathy, but they've decided to be a conglomeration of criminals, murderers, terrorists on the Kremlin payroll. Pushilin even looks like the criminal he is. Seriously. He looks like a movie villain. There's a reason Ukrainian cities are being destroyed. Putin wills it. It's fine. Ukraine loses the city. Russia loses its future. How will Russia's demographics recover after sending their boys to die? Occupation comes at a cost. Make sure the hole you're trying to fill with blood doesn't lead to the sea.
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  362. They merged because otherwise they'd go bust lol the companies didn't team up with their rivals because they're evil, they did it because the market is shrinking and dozens of companies can't stay afloat.
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  363. ​ @pogo1140  They had the A-7. The YA-7F Strikefighter program was canceled because the A-7 lost the flyoff against a YA-10.
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  364. That's a lot of "what ifs" brought on by absolute conjecture. The drone swarm could be defeated and the Marines still have air cover. What then?
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  365. Then the combined team can do the job and leave the A-10 home. Not all SAM threats can be suppressed by Wild Weasel. Only radar SAMs generate the emissions.
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  366. The Patriots in the Gulf were doing ABM duty despite being anti-aircraft. There were a few problems with the warhead and the computer clock which were fixed. Meanwhile you also study enemy air defense so you can defeat it, not to copy it.
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  367. Probably the stuff about the legal age of marriage debunk he did.
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  368. Probably got a first class ticket to Aberdeen.
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  369. Side characters getting their arc while the main plot stalls so that the writers can come up with a finale that wraps up this season.
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  370. Why are you asking people to prove a negative?
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  371. ​ @yjk1037  Atmospheric drag. Also, ballistic missiles come down at near vertical. They hit an apex and fall down.
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  372. What irony?
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  373. Name the crime. What's the charge?
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  374. The Bayraktar TB2 is flying again. Not really man portable.
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  375.  @Seth90  Yes it is. In just a few days, TB2s already destroyed 26 million worth of equipment in tanks, IFV and artillery. They are still useful now. Russian air defense? "What air defense doing?"
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  376. Yet politicians constantly cut burger production. The F-22 burger was supposed to have over 700 buns and patties made. But politiciajs cut the contract to just around 180 burgers. Hmmm.
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  377.  @mats66  Like you mentioned darkness. That has nothing to do with the fundraiser. Would it be better if done in daylight?
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  378. That should be the Third Army Corps.
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  379. I mean it kind of makes them look foolish. Not all publicity is good publicity.
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  380.  @raidermaxx2324  Yes. Material will turn into unstable isotopes, and as they return to a stable element they will emit radiation over time.
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  381. Yeah but you can't be forced to take an experimental one, that's messed up considering all the Cold War era testing the military did on troops. And I don't know a single soul who had Cominarty or whatever was the "truly approved" one called.
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  382. The fact that there's no Fahrenheit readouts anywhere. You're forced to drive a car with a tachometer in km/h. You're asked the speed. Will you answer in mph or just read what the thing says? 37°C could be utterly meaningless to him. He thought it was hot, and he read 37 in the readout or weather report. Since he had no number in °F he had to use Celsius. Even though he doesn't understand it beyond "it was hot".
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  383. ​ @keatonwastaken  Russia purposefully strikes refugee convoys as policy. They did it in Syria and Ukraine. And such convoys can't be mistaken by military ones because the civilians are driving their soccer mom vans instead of several ton trucks.
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  384. It would slow down due to something called drag. After you hit an aerodynamic object and knock it off course, it becomes an air brake. It's like a bullet being forced to go sideways. You went from a bullet to something with the ballistic coefficient of a brick.
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  385. 0.8 of a trillion is a massive cost, but check which percentage goes into training, wages and benefits vs purchases. Also mind that currently Europe is gearing up for military manufacturing because they let it atrophy with the US essentially bankrolling a huge chunk of defense for foreign countries.
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  386. Bomb truck applies to guided munitions. F-16s and B-1s have pulled bomb truck duty. The upgrades are just barely keeping the A-10 relevant, should have been retired in the 90s.
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  387.  @benpurcell4935  The A-10 also sacrifices a lot to carry heavy payload. It's a severely thrust limited aircraft, to the point it had to take off with a light load from locations like Bagram airbase. At 5k feet ASL the air is thin enough that if you tried to take off with an A-10 with full load, you'd hit the perimeter fence.
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  388. It's irrelevant. If you have air superiority but no proper targeting systems and PGMs (like Russia), tanks will breach through your lines. In Ukraine neither side has air superiority over the contested area, and yet tanks breach through lines. It's not that important, it changes nothing.
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  389. You expected thermometers to have a °F readout in Eastern Europe? He's forced to get temperature in Celsius so he has to use Celsius. If he's driving a car over there and ask him the speed on the tachometer, he's gonna use km/h instead of mph, and when he's filling the tank he'll use liters instead of galons. Simply because he has no choice.
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  390. It could damage optics and viewports, forcing the crew to open the hatches and put their heads outside the tank to see.
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  391. Imagine an autocannon shredding them all into pieces with airburst rounds.
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  392. But Saab never sold many Gripens while F-16s sold like hot cakes. The Gripen's support requirements being lower is undone by the fact that there's less support available. Saab is focusing on E/F models as C/D models age. What about spare parts? Is Saab going to open a factory just for legacy Gripens?
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  393. It should burn before apogee (you can't turn the missile 180 at full speed) and it falls ballistically with maneuvering capabilities.
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  394. You absolutely need armor against drones, because they can drop grenades.
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  395. ISIS did a drone drop on a tank hatch way back in the 2010s.
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  396. ​ @gophermaster  I don't have to prove claims I don't make. I gain nothing from claiming any job I had. Harris is trying to get votes off her student-worker cred. In that case yes, you have to prove the claim.
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  397. ​ @Just_A_Random_Desk  they all are
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  398.  @AnarexicSumo  It's not "incendiary" because the fuel is burnt in the air and adds to the explosion. On the other hand, normsl explosives can set fires anyway. Incendiary ammo and tracers also exist, and they can set fires.
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  399. Boyd never designed anything.
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  400. If a ship was close enough for gun use, the defending military would dedicate missiles to take out that threat.
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  401. ​ @randy804  Case in point lol
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  402.  camencowogh8333  missile AIR DEFENSE, why are you posting news of attacks?
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  403.  camencowogh8333  The joke is that the Russian air defense had the day off. Your ghoulish response is about attack. So yes, defense had the day off. You know who wins? The one who's defense still works. 20 punches in the guard, nothing - one punch clean on the jaw: lights out.
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  404. The problem is that both sides have a large collection of debris so showing them wouldn't even prove anything. Russians dragged GMLRS fragments to the Olenivka prison that burned down to "frame" Ukraine for the assassination of POWs.
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  405. Certainly there's no freedom of speech under Hamas rule either.
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  406. 1. Ballistic missiles are diving on terminal. 2. Atmospheric drag after being knocked off course.
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  407. Air superiority but still they can't prosecute. They launch air dropped missiles from Belarus/Russian airspace or hug the ground and use rocket lofting.
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  408. Cameras are cheap now. Most armor design dates back to the cold war.
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  409. ​ @danielallan8061  it was 15-16k KIA, the 40k were total casualties including wounded. The 15k came from Murz, on the Russian side. He was threatened for posting and he took his own life
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  410. They're not using the drones to chase a problem, they're using them to solve problems. That's the difference in attitudes, the ones who say "just do X" and the people who do.
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  411. You strike a Hamas convoy, you shave off weeks if not months off the conflict. Therefore minimizing civilian suffering. They can continue to be observed. And that's all you'll do when the vehicles enter a town. Now your high value targets can enter buildings, tunnels, or just mix into the crowd making the collateral worse. Remember when the US had a shot on Osama Bin Laden in Sudan back in the 1990s but the strike was called off? Imagine being the guy who had OBL on his drone feed. Before 2001.
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  412. It's something to brag about because the youth feels disenfranchised. Saying you worked a dead end job while studying, then get to the presidency is an inspiration for those who are struggling to get through their education and fearing the state of the job market.
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  413. Bombs don't do SEAD. Only DEAD. If you're laying hate on a SAM site, it's because it's already suppressed and you just want to trash the radar, generators, launchers, command trailer and make the trained crew go into forever sleepy time.
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  414. The issue is now setting up a program to upgrade a thousand vehicles.
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  415. That's not true. Post the evidence so it can be debunked.
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  416. Yes. Once knocked off course the atmospheric drag takes over. Mach 4 works when it falls for a few seconds and hits the ground before drag can slow it down further. Let the atmosphere slow you down for a couple minutes in free fall, all that speed will be gone.
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  417. ​ @JCo295  How is he a bot? The fact that people don't automatically respect their opposing candidate simply because the Republican party is cooked is as American as it gets. In Russia maybe you will have to vote Putin no matter what you believe in, but in America that's not a thing.
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  418. The HARM seeker would get more information than the pilot does from RWR. The slow speed wold still limit the HARM. And the only ARM it could comcievably fire without modifications would be the AGM-122 Sidearm which is no longer in inventory. The unguided rocket volleys at least keep the aircraft safe. Laser or optical PGMs require an aircraft to orbit the target to acquire or lase, exposing it.
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  419.  @NorthernPrincessProductions  Let's just say I wouldn't want to be MANPADS bait no matter how well a Maverick can handle a Pantsir.
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  420.  @NorthernPrincessProductions  Not if you can stand outside MANPADS range, unlike the A-10.
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  421.  @NorthernPrincessProductions  At that point just loft release JDAMs. How is a HARM (small, fast, ballistic trajectory) easy to engage but a fat A-10 trying to fire short range missiles isn't?
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  422.  @uncletiggermclaren7592  It's not about the driving. It's about taking the literal risk to splatter against the Earth just to feel a few minutes of thrill on the descent. People defy death for their own entertainment. Pulling a trigger seems boring in comparison.
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  423.  @uncletiggermclaren7592  Read that again and think about what you posted. Defying the death of reason means fighting FOR reason, not against it.
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  424.  @ThisPartIsAndrew  that's chemical warfare, you're lucky they didn't take you to The Hague
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  425. This. For those not in the know, China has spammed a lot of pro-CCP rhetoric into the internet but where they call themselves "CPC" so that if you google CPC you end up in their disinfo websites. They go around claiming "CCP" is a hateful term made up by Westerners to invoke the CCCP (Soviet Union). However, most people who don't speak Russian probably don't know that USSR in Cyrillic is CCCP (C = S, P = R, Union = "Soyuz") so that conspiracy wouldn't even work.
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  426. The AC-130 is known for being extremely vulnerable. One got downed in Iraq because they stayed overhead supporting Marines even though they were not meant to fly during daytime. An entire crew killed because they couldn't provide support to the men on the ground safely.
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  427. The F-16 and F-18 use the exact same gun. A M61 Vulcan.
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  428. The F-15 can't be 29M in 2020. A F-16V block 70/72 is over 100 million dollars (F-16 plus spare engine and targeting pods ranges from 125-140 million). Those are contracts from the mid 2010s. Most likely 29M is an inflation adjusted cost of the original F-15C which lacked a lot of features. The F-15EX has a ton of strike and electronic warfare packages which increase capabilities and woupd be considered advanced alien tech back when the F-15C was new.
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  429. The blockade would damage China's economy too. Along with the rest of the world.
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  430. If all the road signs around you are in km will you use miles? If all the thermometers are in °C you use °C. You literally have no choice unless you use some kind of mnemonic to do the conversion in your head.
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  431. Turkey does not allow military ships into the Black Sea due to the conflict.
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  432. ​ @phillipfranco55  using the pod requires flying within sight of the enemy. On an A-10 you have to hug the ground. If you can see them, they can see you. And if they can see you, you don't want to be flying something that slow.
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  433. Shot down by a Buk missile fired from the separatist region. The launcher was identified as the one marked 332 and belonged to the 53rd anti air missile battalion, in Kursk. It was filmed being carried by truck out of the scene and shipped to Russia to hide the evidence.
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  434. A lot of times they eject precisely because they have no control. Those who retained control over a crashing aircraft often have to sacrifice themselves to keep the aircraft headed away from sensitive areas.
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  435.  @errorcode1133  Buddy the military loves keeping everything under wraps. Remember the discord leaks that mostly included stuff you'd find online? Top secret. What were they hiding? Nothing, you could find that info on twitter. Thinking there's a conspiracy simply because the military isn't providing you a 1 hour powerpoint is dangerously closed to mental illness.
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  436.  @aaronpaul9188  Their space program has been gutted since the 2014 sanctions. Rogozin admitted it.
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  437. They're refurbishing 800 T-62s. This is not a joke.
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  438. ​ @peterohanraha-hanrahan5097  Sweden can't make them. Is Saab gonna build a new plant within the next 12 months?
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  439. ​ @Beef8Cake  these are from the used lot LMAO
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  440. ​ @chillxxx241  the F-16s were not American, why are you demanding payment
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  441. ​ @rambleon2838  The F-35 has a great safety record.
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  442. ​ @allysonand  So?
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  443. ​ @Ylfven  that's not true - Gripen C/D per hour flight cost was higher than the F-16 in the Finnish trials. The Swiss government also saw the Saab numbers as bogus. The F-16 flight cost per hour is 2/3rds of the F-35. Gripen E flight costs have to be on par with F-16 Block 70/72 or higher.
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  444. The Red Crescent is used in Arab countries.
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  445. If there's multiple cruise missiles in the air, they will launch whatever they can spare. It's common procedure to fire two SAMs at maneuvering targets. Remember the F-117 shootdown in Serbia? Radar officer made the correct call to send two because the first missile lost the track and couldn't find the F-117, so the pilot saw the "dead" missile zip right in front of him. It was the second missile that got him.
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  446. Well the Russian navy had the advantage in the Black Sea and they still lost the Moskva.
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  447. ​ @randomuser5443  Manning deliberately stored files in a CD disguised as a Taylor Swift album. You leave a room with military computers with a terabyte drive in your pocket, people will ask questions.
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  448. Sightings occur all over the world, the US is the only country that occasionally declassified information.
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  449. ​ @tyranosurasmax  "you need to listen to more music" I don't want to. Jokes aside, 20 years ago I didn't have the internet. So forgive me for being 13 years old and not having the money to buy a new record every week like Mr. Music Professional over here. Back then you listened to what the TV or radio influenced you to listen, ir you discovered through word of mouth. And if your friends were all normies like you they wouldn't have the deep cuts and niche stuff.
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  450. 1.7 trillion HASN'T been spent. That's the cost of building, maintaining, flying, repairing and crewing a >2000 sized fleet of F-35s until retirement in the 2070s. There's almost 50 years to go until that money is spent. Half a century. There you go repeating disinformation.
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  451. Is Shakespeare running for office in 2024?
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  452. Remember when ATACMS shredded a base full of Ka-52s? It was last year so probably a little hazy. What did the billions of "briwns" (call them colored, why don't you?) think about that? This paper target can turn your air power to swiss cheese with the push of a button. What do they think about that?
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  453. I've seen enough footage of Russian soldiers being hit with artillery shells. One wouldn't kill hundreds of people.
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  454. ​ @rikk319  You skipped a step there. It started to refer to all sorts of conspiracies from "the Man". Ever seen the movie Crash? Ludacris's character is a representation of that archetype. He even claimed the size on bus windows were a conspiracy. So for a long time you'd spit out unhinged takes and end with "stay woke, my brothers/sisters". The right only "co-opted" it after the term was dragged through the mud by legitimately insane people and possibly foreign bots. Same with SJW. Unhinged people on tumblr used that term. After it became associated with the utter insanity of 2010-2014 tumblr everyone stopped using it and just said the right made it up. It was not what happened.
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  455. 1. We are TOLD the fatalities were over 500. 2. A fire will kill people just fine. Falling rocket, rocket fuel shatters and spreads everywhere, cars set on fire. Without a single blast, many can be killed by deflagration alone.
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  456. No, they didn't. It was brainrot for decades. Often pro-Russian brainrot.
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  457. North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam. Did any of you people open a history book? Did you think Saigon fell on its own?
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  458. No. He said that tanks can't help, it's WWI. Well, tanks were introduced to break the stalemate. In Kharkiv the Ukrainians showed that tank offensives breach through lines. Musk is oblivious about history and current happenings.
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  459.  @sonnyday6830  If you read the tweet, it was.
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  460. The NRO donated two space telescopes to NASA, which were meant for a cancelled spy program. There's also reason to believe the Hubble used a 2.4 meter main mirror because 2.4m mirrors had been manufactured before for spy satellites.
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  461. Bro it's still the 30th of March in GMT
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  462. And a lot of that information and education is based on conspiracy theory, a lot of it created or boosted by Moscow. Crack cocaine, HIV, etc.
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  463. Each bot needs to gain a following. Having a million bots with a follower each and the followers won't even repost the disinfo is worthless. Build a page to 50k follwers and half of them repost the outrage, it spreads.
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  464. Funny because Israel doesn't suppport Ukraine. All the "muh zog" people got smacked across the face by reality.
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  465. It was a fire.
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  466. Well in 2004 they had the Orange Revolution against Yanukovych and his election fraud. And in 2003 Russia started a territorial dispute in the Kerch strait.
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  467. Those platforms have a fighting chance. The A-10 is hopeless. The B-52 is in a unique position. It was meant to be replaced by it didn't pan out. The fall of the Soviet Union delayed the need for a suitable replacement. It's also large enough that upgrades have room inside the airframe. Nobody talks about retiring the B-52 because it's a non-issue. The A-10 being unable to fly into a contested environment makes it unfeasible. Air superiority cannot protect the A-10. The A-10 is vulnerable even after air defense systems are degraded, it doesn't get impunity. The operational cost of the A-10 is artificially hidden because billions have been spent to keep it able to fly. It's an extremely dated airframe that had entire chunks rebuilt as the structure physically wore out with use. Loiter time of drones and turboprops is comparable to A-10s if not greater. Getting low is a requirement from the 1960s. A-10 pilots ID'ing targets for themselves have made plenty of mistakes. There's a reason it's the ground controllers who give the call to start the attacks, not pilots. They need hand-holding from ground forces to pick off the right targets. When left alone, they easily target friendlies by mistake. Taliban fighters hit by F-16s probably don't hate to see them overhead because they either died or never saw what hit them. What's worse? Seeing a slow aircraft coming and giving you time to escape, or seeing your friends vaporized without you knowing any aircraft was even there? The latter seems like absolute terror. But that's just me. It wasn't retired because Congress asked for a new aircraft to replace it, while the USAF couldn't convince them that multiroles had already replaced it. It's simply Congress refusing to move on from the 1960s.
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  468. ​ @stevenobrien557  I mean, it is. If your point is that one guy is a liar, your girl has to be a paragon of truth. If they're both liars pick some other defining characteristic other than honesty.
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  469. Because it was never made to or meant to. Sure, MiG-29s were never made to fire HARMs either so an adapter was built, but the employment is suboptimal and at least the MiG-29 has the performance. The faster you go, the more range the HARM gets. The A-10 is a slow aircraft. It's actually sillier to bolt HARMs to an A-10. It's an exercise in futility.
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  470. Due to emissivity differences flying a thermal camera drone over a minefield after a hot day will make them glow. Much faster than a roomba.
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  471. They did the flour cannon.
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  472. That's minimizing the weight of the term. It's associated with conspiracy theory. For example Soviet disinfo started the conspiracy that HIV had been created by the US as a bioweapon. It was called Operation INFEKTION and reasonably successful. So you'd say stuff like "AIDS was created to keep us down, stay woke my brothers". Leftist and black nationalist conspiracy theory were what drove "woke" into the lexicon.
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  473. Electronic warfare is basically jamming.
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  474. But 2000 years ago Greek philosophers already knew it was round.
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  475. ​ @trenaceandblackmetal5621  We're talking about different generations. Gen X and below was raised in a more cynical era and thus distrusted those raised during the height of the conflict. For example the Duck and Cover drill was KNOWN to save lives as it was developed withthe help of testimony from Nagasaki/Hiroshima. But for decades people have been saying Duck and Cover was a government lie to fool people into thinking they could win an exchange. America bad.
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  476. A SEAD campaign would require even more F-16 deliveries (with HTS pods and AGM-88s of a more modern variant) and SEAD doesn't eliminate MANPADS or manually aimed autocannons.
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  477. ​ @augen8819  The Inquisition was around after the Caliphate was forced out of Iberia.
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  478. There were WMDs. US servicemen found them, and suffered neurological damage as a result. The US military lied about finding them fearing that Al Qaeda would start a treasure hunt for weapons caches. The free press latered uncovered the lie and exposed the veterans who had their health issues covered up.
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  479. The problem is, then the A-10 becomes redundant and a F-16 can drop the bomb. If an IR missile is fired at an A-10, there's nothing a SEAD F-16 can do to save it.
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  480.  @jimfarmer7811  That makes no sense, because the A-10s mission profile makes it vulnerable to IR and electro-optical tracking. Defenses could essentially hide themselves from suppression and wait for the A-10s. The fact is that multi-airframe missions are a mess. Look up Package Q. F-4Gs and F-15Cs supposed to protect strike F-16s had to turn back and leave. The F-16s went in alone. Different engines, different payloads, different fuel tanks, different speeds. The complexity of the mission just scales exponentially. You don't have infinite F-16s or infinite A-10s. Sending pilots in A-10s is suicide. The F-16s would multitask. You can provide support and switch to suppression once a contact appears.
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  481.  @jimfarmer7811  Do you think ATGMs teams will just stand by while infantry and IFVs take out the anti-tank missileer crews? Every weapon in warfare has its counter. The best option is operating where there's no enemy radar presence at all. Second best is destroying the radar. Third best is suppressing it. If you know there are radar contacts in the area, SEAD cover will lob HARM missiles which are automatically programmed to pitch up and use their rocket burn to gain altitude. As they tip over, the seeker is on. At the moment of firing, SEAD flight will announce a "Magnum!" call on radio. SAM operators will both see the HARM in flight and hear the radio call, prompting them to shut down the emitter. If they're skilled. If they're not, they'll just hear a large bang outside and the radar goes offline. This gives a minute or two of radar suppression. When the radar turns back on, SEAD flight will again fire another HARM and announce the firing on radio to make sure he is heard. Another minute or two of radar suppression. Just like that, the SEAD flight gave the aircraft doing the attack run 2-4 minutes to take care of the job. "You have to use combined arms to win a war." "You need to use the A-10s as ground support" - That's like saying you have to use M60s or else it's not combined arms. You have infantry, IFVs, artillery, air support and Abrams, but because there's no M60s it's not combined arms. "The A-10s can orbit" - They can't. Aircraft don't orbit in Ukraine. They fly in, drop payload, fly back out. The clock is ticking and you have SECONDS to make it out alive. Those who don't... we have the video of them either ejecting or losing their lives. The footage is widely distributed and you're denying it. "They would sweep in with fire and forget weapons" - They can't. The fire and forget weapons require line of sight, which means flying above the horizon to scout and acquire targets. They would sweep in, spend several minutes using the pod to look for enemies, and then not get to launch or return because a missile brought them down. They would need to spent time over the enemy to look for their positions on a 8 inch screen. It is suicide. I'd rather give them the weapons that put them in the least risk.
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  482. But the windows were not shattered, so it wasn't a blast. It was burning rocket fuel from those DIY rockets.
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  483. The AMRAAM D variant gets to close to the Phoenix range it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
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  484. The Su-57 has a negtive KD - the only shootdown was a friendly S-70 drone.
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  485. Ghost of Kiev was a rumor that spread online after Russia claimed to have destroyed the entire Ukrainian air force on the ground and a MiG-29 in Ukrainian camo was seen flying over the capital. A gamer from another country (I think India?) made a video in DCS as a tribute which made a lot of boomers think it was real. The Ukrainian Air Force said it wasn't real. The HIMARS strike was reported by Russian sources themselves. It was a New Year's Eve gathering in a building that was meant to serve as sleeping quarters also being used to store ammunition. The building was leveled so most people inside didn't come out unscathed. Bakhmut is both the city and the general area. When you hear about Ukrainian advances in Bakhmut they're talking about the flanks. Journalists aren't very knowledgeable about the military. But you also should acquire some media literacy. Many people heard of Putin visiting Kherson and got confused. Because Kherson is also the name of the district, though Ukraine controls the city.
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  486. I woke up and chose violence today so I'll offer the countering opinion. While Stingers are out of production, the obvious direction for next gen manpads involves true imaging seekers. Instead of a heat source, the missile "sees" an aircraft and can be programmed to slam the fuselage rather than the tail. Even gen 2 Strelas had a control algorithm that gave it a last second jink to impact ahead of the heat source, because it was understood the small warhead was a problem and a slightly higher chance of direct impact was helpful. If an enemy has the ability to attack airfields, you'll have trouble operating A-10s as they'll need fighters to cover them.
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  487. To me the "waves" is almost like zombie/horde mode in videogames. You clear "waves" and wait for the next, repeat. Evetually you will be overwhelmed and lose.
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  488. Some doctor in Boston in the late 1700s did a better job than modern labs and billions in funding lol
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  489. Now do that to a fleet of thousands of armored vehicles. Anyone can do a one-off of anything. It gets exponentially harder to mass produce.
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  490. Honestly it looks like a basement and it is intended to look like a basement. The black plastic is because in the movies the bad guys love to lay plastic everywhere so they can kill/torture and then just roll up the sheets to make the clean up easy. They could easily go to a clinic or dentist's office if they wanted to make it look medical, they wanted it to look "evil" and "criminal".
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  491. So the Ukrainians were Nazis now they're Marxists?
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  492. Credibility is relative. Credible people have lied or been wrong, that's why they were believed. People self-sabotage all the time. People will find a new purpose and seek pointless pursuits with their entire being, at the cost of everything else.
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  493. Sounds like what Ritter said early in the war. 5 hits without kill is insane, it would have to somehow miss every vital component.
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  494.  @Ayvengo21  There's footage of a tank hit in the barrel by a Javelin. The crew abandoned it and was rescued by another tank. It's not a one shot one kill, but the tank was "killed" just the same. I seriously doubt that after 4 hits there's no system, be it fuel or hydraulic lines, engine, drivetrain, crew, sighting, etc. that wasn't hit.
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  495.  @skipperg4436  You'd need to know when the missile is launched.
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  496.  @knifedance2402  Anti-tank weapons that are infantry portable were somewhat common decades ago, and non-so-portable anti tank weapons were highly common soon after the tank was deployed. The tank has always faced danger from infantry, it was known even in WW2 that tanks alone against infantry were picked off. Tanks are still extremely important. The survivability onion is more important than ever. Don't be seen, the infantry with AT weapons won't see you until it's too late. Don't be hit. If hit, make sure your crew survives so that you can pull them out of the hull and stick them back into another one.
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  497. Cope.
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  498. Are they being interfered with? Surely. Can INS be interfered with? No.
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  499. False. The USAF acquired over 700 of them and the GAO actually slammed the Air Force for purchasing so many without justifying why that excessive amount was acquired. Reformers invented the fairytale that the USAF never wanted the A-10 which is historical revisionism.
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  500. OSINT aggregates that information. For long periods of time Russia is on the offensive which means they take the most losses.
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  501. ​ @Legomanfred  The point is that it was McDonald's. People respect you for starting from the bottom. If your first job was a three letter agency everyone would assume you were a trust fund kid or nepo baby. Saying you worked at McDonald's makes the working class respect you.
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  502.  @Victor-vj5ds  How do you counter battery what's essentially a machine gun? Some of you people are out your damn minds.
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  503.  @AkiraNakamoto  Agility won't protect one from a shower of frag.
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  504.  @Victor-vj5ds  The point is that counter-battery radar tracks the trajectory of artillery shells. An autocannon firing rounds will not be detected due to horizon.
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  505.  @AkiraNakamoto  No. If something explodes, frag is thrown all around. You move up? You get frag. You dive down? Frag. Move to the left or right? Frag. And the autocannon has more power than a small drone.
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  506.  @Victor-vj5ds  Forget the horizon. There's modern systems with FLIR-style cameras which track objects. A little rat-ta-ta and the drones go down, and there's nobody to counter-battery it.
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  507.  @AkiraNakamoto  Okay? So your killer bots can detect the anti-air? It's not so much a paradigm shift, but the fact we haven't invested in SHORAD. We'll deal with drones just like we dealt with aircraft in the past. By shooting them full of holes.
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  508. But hasn't the UK closed all but three ranges that allow 50 cal, meaning that even if technically it's legal it's incredibly difficult for the police to approve a license?
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  509. The GAO is wrong about the F-35 too.
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  510. Yeah but that's not something that's said about women...
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  511. Sure thing bawss. And SJWs never existed, prominent feminist writers never openly hated men, etc. You only support good things for all.
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  512. Should self-destruct. Guess the Soviets bungled that one up too.
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  513. ​ @havable  It's not ironic, have you ever heard libertarians? They're worse than leftists on how anti-US they get when it comes to the military ventures overseas.
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  514. ​ @TheTrueDeitel  Most ancaps point to the use of the military to defend corporate interests as one of the top reasons to be antistate. "OG libertarians" sound more like ancaps than modern left-lib. I swear you people rarely leave your bubble.
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  515. That's the point. People understand the struggle.
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  516. It's a pretty common saying.
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  517. They don't need sympathy. They're fine just fanning the flames of division. Remember when Russia was running BLM pages? They did that to sow chaos. They don't need to gather sympathy for Russia. They just need Americans to be at each others' throats.
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  518. The missile "thinks" the thrust is normal. If thrust is offset, it will try pointing the fins to correct but the thrust will keep bringing it out of the correct path. It's like picking up a small dog and they keep running in the air with their legs.
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  519.  @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я  Depends what the trajectory is. You're assuming the missile is horizontal and covering a great distance. However it's near the target, which means it would have been falling near vertically. Patriots were tested against the Pershing II warhead in 1997. That was a maneuverable reentry warhead, and it came in at hypersonic speeds. You're claiming something isn't possible when it was tested two decades ago.
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  520. The Gripen depends on the GE F414 engine which is American
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  521. ​ @fredmdbud  Conglomerates exist because purchases and mergers are the only way to survive.
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  522. Calling them hypersonic is extremely charitable, I sincerely doubt the ground clutter doesn't mess up that shot. All of the Russian wondertech seems to have been overhyped until we saw it. The MiG-31 and the fat missile are about the only things we haven't captured or seen destroyed precisely because they don't dare get close to Ukrainian airspace. Are we really going to take their word for it? After all, an estimated 6 missiles are fired daily to suppress the Ukrainian airforcd but only a handful of kills have been attributed to them.
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  523. Any weapon is a war crime if used against civilians.
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  524. Thanks ChatGPT
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  525. Hello Mearsheimer.
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  526. ​ @redf7209  Wasn't a explosion. Windows weren't shattered by a blast. Rocket fuel fell on the ground and burned.
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  527. Another poster here said it was common in REFORGER, yanking people from IRR replaces the reserve and guard units in exercise.
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  528. No, they can't withstand more Gs. Airframes crack if over-Gd. Humans have cracked airframes.
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  529. Copium overdose.
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  530. You don't even know what imposter syndrome is. Imposter symdrome is when an overqualified person doubts his/her own skills.
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  531. If it's unguided, it could land on civilian homes by accident. The idea is good, but it should have some kind of way to either crash safety, self-destruct, etc.
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  532.  @egelpom8948  The problem is that at such longer ranges and speeds (because it has to mimic HIMARS) the spread of the rockets increases when they're unguided. The problem isn't even civilian areas, it's how even aiming at an empty field can destroy some farmer's house or even start a brush fire during the summer.
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  533.  @egelpom8948  Yes, but the unguided rockets have comparatively shorter range. It's like a shotgun, shoot someone across a hall, the pattern is fist-sized. Shoot at someone 100 yards away, most of the pellets miss. If you fire unguided rockets at the range they're meant for, you get some accuracy despite the dispersion. If you fire an unguided rocket at the distance HIMARS reaches to make a convincing decoy, it's probably gonna go off course. If you watch amateur rocketry videos, people spend a lot of time trying to make really good rockets but when they're fired they end up becoming unstable or at least spinning out. Making a stable rocket cheaply is pretty hard. At some point adding some kind of rudimentary guidance would be worth it.
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  534. "What color is the boat house at Hereford?"
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  535. ​ @TheRolvaag  to restore spent shells for guns, you can pick up range brass, run them through a tumbler with steel pins, water, dishwasher soap and a touch of citric acid. The cases rolling around with the steel pins and chemical cleaning makes them shine like new. You'd need a comically oversized tumbler to clean tank shells, though.
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  536. Still the 30th (comment failed to post?)
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  537. ​ @jb13611  gun depression has limits.
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  538. ​ @UnfollowYourDreams  Typically? No. They are mandated to perform minimum services. Otherwise hospitals, police, public transportation would shut down. Have you ever watched the news from around the world? This is a frequent tug of war in many countries, as police forces are stretched thin and underpaid, doctors and nurses in the public sector are shifting to private, etc.
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  539. ​ @jdotoz  I don't want to make assumptions but that's the kind of first order analysis I'd except from a teenager. Yes, the government is powerful but elections and issues such as constitutionality provide a braking force that prevent abuse of government workers. If anything, in the developed world a government job is typically seen as a good gig. While you make more in the private sector in government it's incredibly rare for layoffs to happen, they typically get the most paid time off and holidays. There's hardly any reason to abuse government workers, because they and their families will vote for change in leadership out of spite, but also because the public doesn't want to see government services cut as a result. On the other hand, public sector workers can easily damage the reputation of a government and trigger an electoral loss to the administration with little to no personal consequences. The strikers could just return to work and the new government pass legislation to "reward" them.
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  540. Hospital isn't rubble, the photos show it still standing.
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  541.  @bjrnmagnusson5351  After photos surfaced, the hit was on the car parking lot. It was mostly burned cars. Not a OKC scenario by any means. Which still had tons of rubble because you can't wipe out the face of a building without leaving rubble.
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  542. Jesus you want to send F-16s behind the Urals? The battles are happening within walking distance of the Russian border, you'd spend more fuel lining up for a refueling than just doing the mission.
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  543. The majority of traceable weapons come from the US. The majority of weapons seized by Mexican authorities are not traceable. What the cartels like to get from the US is ammo and handguns.
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  544. Thanks for what? They don't have the ammo.
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  545.  @bmad0  There's no confirmed info, but I ask again: why would that matter if they can't get the ammo? Take it apart? So that's an admission that Russian weapons are inferior and they need to copy captured weapons?
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  546.  @bmad0  Confirmed by whom? I can confirm the moon is made of cheese, but my confirmation means nothing. It's not a waste. They sell, they get rich. Russia goes bankrupt trying to stop the arms flow. Let Putin steal the bread from the mouths of his own people to bribe Ukraine.
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  547.  @bmad0  Media and news from the area? Why are they not showing pictures? Latin America reports the truth? lol Countless videos of Chechens magdumping into empty buildings after the cannon fodder already cleared the area for them? lol
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  548.  @bmad0  There's no pictures. Only blurry video with jump cuts.
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  549.  @bmad0  It's not suppressed. It's just that it's so obviously fake we just mock the people who produce it and those who believe it. Latin American reporting... O que é absurdo é a America Latina ter ficado tão ressabiada com os Estados Unidos que até hoje baixam as calças e dobram-se perante a Rússia após o que os comunas fizeram. Se pudesses até deixavas os Russos colonizar o teu país e dizias que era caridade. Esquerdalha de merda que por alguma razão se alia à direita Russa. Who gives a damn about Spain? They get gas from North Africa. A pacifist Ukraine means a kicked down Ukraine. Of course Russia wants pacifist neighbors. It's easy to win wars against pacifists. The Cuban missile crisis didn't end with invasion. It ended with the US solving it diplomatically. Everyone understands this. Russia kicks the table and shits on the floor while screaming.
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  550. The pilot would have no means to take a prisoner in that situation.
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  551. Only if the imbalance is small enough for the fins to correct it. The missile knows it's off-course, but all it does is repositon the fins to straighten it back. If the thrust just keeps pushing the missile off its path the guidance system will just keep command the fins into max deflection and wait until it straightens out.
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  552. But the force isn't concentrated. It took months to capture towns like this. It's a trickle.
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  553. He can't find a thermometer with a °F readout in Ukraine, genius. Stop overthinking things. He saw the trmp in Celsius so he said Celsius. Most people can't do the proper conversion in their head.
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  554. ​ @Erik_Ice_Fang  bruh AWACS can operate in US skies, I saw flightradar screenshots the other day even P-8s were in on the action
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  555. They wouldn't risk a Su-34 70km near Kiyv. The aircraft dropping glide FABs are vulnerable to SAMs.
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  556. Which is a twin engine because they can't make a Pratt & Whitney F-135.
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  557. No plausible deniability if the military starts losing people left and right and a bunch of people named "Jackson" and "Martinez" get burial in Ukraine.
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  558.  @zyeborm  Charge air cooling works on jet engines too. Israel planned to use it on a Mach 3 recon variant of the F-4 Phantom.
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  559.  @zyeborm  To increase thrust you burn more fuel, which makes things hotter, which causes turbines to fail. So you use cooling for more thrust. Same as the intercool after the turbo allowing for greater HP by charging the air without problems, or NOS allowing for increased fuel injection.
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  560. The issue is that MILES works for like 700 yards, simunition works for 50-70.
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  561. Well I'm sure the LPR and DPR would not like to be compared to the UVF either.
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  562. That's just pro-Russia with extra steps. If you witness a crime and say the police shouldn't get involved, you're pro-criminal.
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  563. It will be retired because of parts. No amount of pivoting can solve the issue of the company that made it not existing any more, making all replacement parts extremely expensive to contract out. Closer to the front? The USAF won't risk pilots, fuel, munitions, maintenance crews, etc. when it's just easier to operate from bases. Cheaper to operate? On paper, after fudging the numbers. The A-10s problem isn't just SAMs but MANPADS which cannot be suppressed. Anything the A-10 can be used against can shoot back. It's not 1972 anymore.
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  564.  @furkadurka  What the USAF has actually said is that they want to divest from the A-10 and stop flying it by 2028. And Congress allowed another 21 to be sent to the boneyard in the 2023 national defense bill. Having an A-10 is Arizona is not "the front" because the US Navy never let any ground troops land in American shores. The air force's words? They want the A-10 gone. Go "well actually" them.
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  565.  @michaelpcoffee  F-16s, Strike Eagles, B-52s, B-1s, etc.
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  566. Then the drones could take out the convoy. Why waste time with A-10s?
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  567. The US sent Marines to recover as many as they could.
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  568. Initial reports mentioned two missiles. Most likely a Russian missile was knocked down by an Ukrainian S-300 and crashed into Poland. The crater even looked too large for a S-300. So both. Most likely a launch from Belarus hugging the border areas to avoid obvious flight paths and come around behind defenses.
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  569. Debatable.
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  570. ​ @K.F-R  Drones and MANPADS can't fight against F-35s...
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  571.  @Sobriety4Reality  Buying Rafales doesn't mean being pro-Ukraine.
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  572.  @Sobriety4Reality  Training isn't wasted time. And India's Russian fighters had to be reworked with French and Israeli technology because even they realized the Russian stuff is garbage. If India wants to counter the CCP threat, they could start by showing their allegiance in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. We'll help them after they help us.
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  573.  @domtweed7323  They have traffic cops. Buddy, it's the national guard. They have disaster response and enforcing martial law as part of their duties. The entire GWOT was an exercise on finding the broad spectrum between innocent civilian and a threat.
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  574.  @domtweed7323  Concern trolling. Did Bloody Sunday happen in Kosovo since your comment? No. So were you lying, or just wrong?
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  575. Most "anti-zionists" are just anti-semites anyway and those who are honest about it are in bad company, and Assange leaked classified intel plus he had links to Russia.
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