gravitas_deficiency

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Generations, more like

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

lol

lmao, even

Edit: this is clearly an exercise in getting loyalists to go on the record. This is wild.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Genuinely: how do you do those mental gymnastics. That’s fucking wild.

This is a rare exception to Betteridge’s law

Absolutely uncanny resemblance

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jim beam white was never, ever something I would remotely consider drinking neat. Bulleit is about the floor of what I consider drinkable in that category, and bulleit is a good bit better than jb.

That’s not how IADS works.

Also, the Ukrainians have more than enough air defense capacity to massively maul any aerial force that attempts a north-south transit of the country. Russia has been keeping their sorties almost entirely over airspace they control, as a result. The strikes you have been seeing them do (against Ukrainian military and civilian targets) are almost exclusively executed with standoff weapons like cruise missiles (of which “kamikaze drones” are essential subtype), glide bombs, and SRBMs. Russian stealth doesn’t really work, and they’re super nervous about losing their supposed wunderwaffe (e.g. the dozen or so Su-57s they’ve made over a couple decades)

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

We wouldn’t be giving them an airstrip in the middle of Europe, because all the countries around it (except Ukraine) are in NATO, and there is no path to the sea that is over a non-NATO country. And the ruskies demonstrably do not have the capability to fly across the entirety of Ukrainian airspace unmolested.

 

Super awesome that the heaviest hitters in the industry are folding like this. It’s almost as if the entire legal profession is worth jack shit. Jesus tapdancing christ.

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Government websites now no longer mention perhaps the single most selfless, incredible, and strategically significant coordinated effort by a community of First Nation military personnel in service to a country that did worse than nothing to deserve their loyalty - and yet they played, and succeeded in, a pivotal role that literally helped win the pacific campaign.

Any veterans on here: I really do hope you’re furious at this.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/34623787

 

It’s a very obvious solution once you take a look at what a lot of their coastline looks like. Elevated armor delivery. Skip the beach. Dump ‘em’ straight on the coastal roads. Makes a shocking amount of sense. Definitely much more specific of a use case than the more general purpose landing support vessels that the USN/USMC employs, but for their primary missions and targets in the next decade, this is exactly the hardware that will significantly increase the CCP’s chances.

This is the an evolution of the combined arms amphibious assault tactics that the US has refined for the better part of a century. For heavily built up targets - specifically those that need to be assaulted and captured quickly for any reasonable chance of success (read: Taiwan + establishing a foothold on the island), this is PERFECT. This basically lets you dump 1000 tanks and a ton of IADS and 100k infantrymen in like, an hour.

That’s a paradigm shift right there.

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