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Does anyone have a good primer on (and I guess this is embarrassing to not know it) modern warfare and the statistics. What I think I am looking for is a short

Does anyone have a good primer on (and I guess this is embarrassing to not know it) modern warfare and the statistics. What I think I am looking for is a short Dungeons and Dragons style combat set of rules, and a blog post walking you through the issues. I mean something like "Jet fighter A: can fire missile X with 50% chance of hitting other jet at range 200mi"

nscalf 6y ago
You not knowing in any level of detail is intentional. At best, the US military might have that under lock and key. These are more or less the most secretive projects a military has. If specs like "we sort of suck at x distance" were released, you give away a massive edge. Also, there is most definitely false info like that going around somewhere, so even if you find something, give that a lot of skepticism. Things like this are as much a war of intelligence as it is combat. I remember a couple months ago, a video explaining the physics of a submarine being blown up showed up here. That was the first time I learned that a strategy for submarine warfare was to target an explosion under the center of the enemy sub, causing the water to rush up and creating a pressure differential that would crack the sub. Does that mean that is how sub warfare is done now? Or if that's the standard attack vector? Or that sub warfare would even be done with torpedoes now? No. The general public, and probably people not actively in the military with top secret clearance, only get bits and pieces of modern warfare strategy. Edit: When I said the military might have those specs under lock and key, I meant my understanding is that the military is extremely compartmentalized and, aside from the highest ranking generals, there is almost no data aggregation on the details of what is capable.

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Does anyone have a good primer on (and I guess this is embarrassing to not know it) modern warfare and the statistics. What I think I am looking for is a short

by lifeisstillgood 6y ago

nscalf 6y ago
You not knowing in any level of detail is intentional. At best, the US military might have that under lock and key. These are more or less the most secretive projects a military has. If specs like "we sort of suck at x distance" were released, you give away a massive edge. Also, there is most definitely false info like that going around somewhere, so even if you find something, give that a lot of skepticism. Things like this are as much a war of intelligence as it is combat. I remember a couple months ago, a video explaining the physics of a submarine being blown up showed up here. That was the first time I learned that a strategy for submarine warfare was to target an explosion under the center of the enemy sub, causing the water to rush up and creating a pressure differential that would crack the sub. Does that mean that is how sub warfare is done now? Or if that's the standard attack vector? Or that sub warfare would even be done with torpedoes now? No. The general public, and probably people not actively in the military with top secret clearance, only get bits and pieces of modern warfare strategy. Edit: When I said the military might have those specs under lock and key, I meant my understanding is that the military is extremely compartmentalized and, aside from the highest ranking generals, there is almost no data aggregation on the details of what is capable.