Comments by "Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake" (@CakePrincessCelestia) on "CaspianReport"
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8:28 According to Wikipedia (sources listed there, as usual), its range is 18.000km. The technique used is called Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, which, basically instead of lobbing it up to come down at a specific target area through pure ballistics (in other words, what the V2 already did in WW2), it also includes a course correction once in space so it stays in a low earth orbit, just to shoot a retrograde burst once the destination is reached. And by entering a LEO, it's not suborbital anymore by definition. So basically it's got a flight profile just like a space shuttle with the only difference that it doesn't land safely, but goes boom-boom instead. With that, they could circumvent the NORAD defensive launch detection systems by just launching them in a southerly direction instead of taking a more direct route, but it won't go inbetween the continents like a snake as shown in the video, even though it would probably pass the south pole or at least get close to it. In case it would be suborbital, they'd do it with the "hypersonic" glide vehicle (everything that comes back from space is hypersonic, so it's just a nice buzzword here) and bounce off of the atmosphere several times. Eugen Sänger had that concept already in WW2 with the "Silbervogel", also known as antipodal bomber, with the thing even coming back for a landing after dropping stuff on the other side of the planet. In a nutshell, there's nothing groundbreakingly new here at all.
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"Everything began in Crimea, and everything will end in Crimea." - made me think of it... I started virtual flying in the Bay Area with F/A-18 Interceptor in the early 90s, but the first one I really binged hard was Jane's USNF with a Crimea map and campaign (the similarities to the current conflict are whopping BTW, there's a full playthough series on damsonn's channel). And around the same time, Eagle Dynamics dropped their first, Flanker - with a Crimea map that was part of the series until Lock On Flaming Cliffs. Only with DCS they moved further east, weirdly enough just at the time when Russia waged their war efforts there. People have been wanting the Crimea back in the sim since then, but all Eagle Dynamics was able to state was "We've actually been asked by the Russian gov't not to include Crimea, so we won't anytime soon" somewhere around the time frame of 2018-2020. Just piece things together these days, this has long been planned and there are subtle signs everywhere. I just hope that Ukraine will be able to end the conflict like that for real, but I would not want DCS to end by implementing that map at some point (the map may come, not the end of the sim)... ;)
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Me be like: Never had potential and I somehow do accept it after all those years...
Others be like: Don't accept it, you do!
Again, me: No I don't, prove me otherwise, let me do stuff!
Again, others: No, that's gonna cost us too much, we can't afford the insurance and on-costs, good luck living off of public assistance! Oh, by the way, we're gonna hate you for being such a fricken freeloader!
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