SEJeff

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by SEJeff 7y ago
Modern US fighter bombers actually carry decoys that are themselves armed. The pilots literally push a button that deploys them and the decoys themselves can be armed. The "skyborg" project involves literal armed decoys that come
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by SEJeff 7y ago
And many of the missiles SEAD strikes would use against SAMs also include visual identification for the terminal phase of flight.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
And the air defense assets are often portable. Like the BUK, Tor, or newer Pantsir which pair nicely with an S-300 / S-400.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
It doesn't have a thing to do with Trump being unhappy, it is the Pentagon that is hopping mad. It will give the Russians access to S400 telemetry of F22 and F35 planes, something we've been very coy in giving them a chance to get
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by SEJeff 7y ago
The ideal modern SEAD combo is the F22 flying ahead to designate targets and using the F35 as the "gun truck" to launch missiles at targets the F22 sends it.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Excellent question, and it is standard operating procedure. We had ~100m cables for our actual dishes that we used to control the Shadow 200 and always kept them far away from where we were flying if at all feasible. Most nations do this, h
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by SEJeff 7y ago
It depends on your branch as all things do. By 0311, I'm going to assume the Marine Corps riflemen, the equivalent of the Army's 11B. Part of an 0311's job is kicking in doors and detaining bad guys. When there are bad guys s
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by SEJeff 7y ago
This is false. The US military still does SEAD missions with manned fighter bombers. We have no stealth drones capable of this yet. We also don't have hypersonic cruise missiles (yet), so modern cruise missiles aren't great agains
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Israel in fact recently did this in Syria and succesfully targeted the Russian S200 and S300 systems. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45556290
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by SEJeff 7y ago
There are two types of radar for virtually everything air defense. The first type searches the entire skies and is for finding aircraft. Networked versions of this are much harder for stealth aircraft to hide from entirely however they have
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Secret history of the d23 Mach 3 spy drone(nationalinterest.org)
1 points by SEJeff 7y ago|0 comments
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Protecting update systems from nation-state attackers(lwn.net)
2 points by SEJeff 7y ago|0 comments
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I felt a disturbance in the force. It was as though 1000 angry hn users cried out in pain. It is amusing to see how directly those skills taught in a religious context apply towards being a good engineer. Perhaps they're more universal
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Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor(thedrive.com)
175 points by SEJeff 7y ago|122 comments
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by SEJeff 7y ago
This is exactly what I do all the time and works nicely.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
To each their own! I'm a very effective python AND go programmer / sysadmin who uses vim for most all of my IDE stuff. I've also managed Linux professionally since 2005 and played with it since 1998 so it isn't for every
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Why is it a hack? You have an emerging threat the existing assault ships aren't scoped to handle, and you find a cheap expedient way to handle it. If we (heaven forbid!) did end up going to war with Iran, do you not think Marines would
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by SEJeff 7y ago
And this is now confirmed: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29063/marine-anti-dron...
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by SEJeff 7y ago
It was mentioned somewhere that the USS Boxer had the LMADIS. This article has a bit more about it: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019... The LMADIS is entirely EW (electronic warfare) wi
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by SEJeff 7y ago
You did an excellent job beating up that strawman, but I'm not biting. I'm just amused you had to use a throw away to do it. Why not use your main?
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I'm waiting for him to pivot to Tesla soon going bankrupt. This is a sad script I've seen play out over and over again. Just about every single time, it is just FUD. Tesla has plenty of problems, but bricking thousands of cars on
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I never said any of that, and am assuming you signed up for this throw away assuming I'd downvote you, or you're afraid of using your real account for some stupid reason? I said simply that if someone signs a legal contract and on
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by SEJeff 7y ago
So I should talk to myself, who owns a Model 3 AWD LR? I love it and anecdotally entirely shot down your FUD.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Source? I've had this happen to me once, but it was due to a battery fault (in the 12V battery amusingly, not the main battery that powers the car) stemming from some arse in a Jeep that hit me the week prior. Tesla sent a "ranger
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Agreed. I do wonder why people are downvoting me for pointing out the truth though. Breach of a legally binding contract is grounds for a civil lawsuit. This is how the country works!
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I'm not defending Musk at all, but if those pictures were leaked from a Tesla employee, they're in breach of their NDA, a legally binding contract. Why wouldn't they go after someone breaching their NDA? I get that there are
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Wonderful talk on engineering failures from Pete Cheslock on the Vasa: https://pete.wtf/vasa/ https://vimeo.com/221068308 - direct video link. Engineering fails on seafaring vessels is a very old thing
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by SEJeff 7y ago
One of the more reasonable theories about why Neanderthals went extinct was due to Homo Erectus and then Homo Sapiens having much more plentiful and common access to protein. The book Born to Run mentions Endurance Hunting[1] where tribes l
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Well how many herbivores have a set of canine teeth meant for ripping? All homo sapiens do. Most herbivores that have incisors tend to have small ones (deer only have incisors on the bottom and press them against the hard upper palate to ri
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by SEJeff 7y ago
"when you want to write shoddy code" - This so much!

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