Estiar

joined 1 year ago
[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago

This diagram looks so familiar, and yet so... interesting

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

It's in my to do list to buy

 

I gotta post something, so I'll post the mechanical calculator that the flight school wanted me to get. How it works is that you can set ratios in the dial and multiply them. In this picture, it's 60:10 (or 60:1.0) so I can take any number from the inner circle in minutes and find out how many hours that is equal to on the outer circle.

There are also other things on this calculator, including a wind vector calculator, and charts. Most pilots don't use these anymore, but they still wanted me to know how to use one

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

This is what complacency gets you in war. Your warehouses blown up.

Credit to Ukraine for their recent successes in strategic bombing

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I didn't know what an Amiga was until I saw animations by Eric Schwartz on Saberspark's twitch. Eric Schwartz is a furry artist who made animations on Amiga computers and shared them around the internet. He eventually made a comic with one of his characters called Sabrina online

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Am I weird to be really hyped for a new Tetris game

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

It's got quite a few years until it comes into full effect. I can definitely see diesel electric and eventually full electric big rigs coming online in the next few years. Especially at ports where there's a lot of standing around waiting for freight.

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe capacity is to the point where military planners are willing to give up stock of some missiles. But if I've taken anything away from the Russo-Ukranian war, it's that quantity of weapons systems is incredibly important. There's a heck of a lot of targets to hit in China.

However if the US is in a position to send JASSM to Ukraine, I will be excited. Personally, I'm very excited to see what weapons systems that Ukraine can now use since it has F-16. Especially with JDAM-ER which the Russians have shown the effectiveness of.

The resurgence of the ATACMs is aimed at Ukraine and Europe as a whole. Especially Poland and its massive HIMARS fleet on order. It would definitely be useful in the Pacific, but from what I see in the procurement requests, it's mostly for foreign order. It's a major move though, seeing as new production of the ATACMs was terminated in 2007.

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The problem with these long range Standoff munitions is that they're sorely needed in the indo-pacific region if there's ever a war with China. (Likely to be within the next few years) It's going to give some pause to US planners as range is at a premium there. I don't see JASSM going to Ukraine myself, as these missiles are reserved for a fight with China. However, it may be a useful move to get Europe to chip in for long range munitions.

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

North Korean hackers are no joke. They're probably one of the best hacking groups in the world. They provide a lot of revenue to the government and they do very impressive espionage.

It's important to note that even though they stole the plans, this doesn't mean that they can build it. They don't have the material science or manufacturing processes to build the planes. At most, they can come up with countermeasures or sell the PLAns to some other country

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How long will they support the banwave?

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Tomorrow is another launch (Jun 2 at 1203 ET)

Hope we get to see it

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

That's the thing that breaks my immersion. I know that 200 years would make the area completely taken over by nature. It would look more like Horizon rather than Fallout. Not sure I'd dig trenches or anything, but radiation would be much more minimal. Nukes would also have a limited area, so the cities would die, but farmers, small towns, and everyone else out in the boonies would survive and rebuild. Hiroshima is a thriving city nowadays, with the building that survived still there

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