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by dgroshev 6mo ago
Even a single Group 3 UAS like Shahed is larger than a lot of kitchens. They can't be assembled in civilian houses. You're confusing short range, highly Ukraine-specific Group 1 quads with long range OWA drones.
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
The US absolutely has air supremacy in Iran. You don't roll out B-52s in a contested airspace. MANPADS have an abysmal ceiling height, they are largely irrelevant short of some very narrow circumstances. Just for your benefit, stealth
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
Being able to stockpile is not the goal, it's a pre-requisite. Having a serious manufacturing capability helps to scale, but you can't convert an iphone assembly line to ballistic missile interceptors, and especially when you don&
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
The asymmetry with Iraq goes both ways. In Iraq, the goal was regime change and occupation. In Taiwan, the goal is to disrupt the most difficult type of military operation in existence (opposed landing). No one is planning to roll Abramses
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
The development and production lifecycle _has_ to be long for a country not fighting a current war. Ukrainian munitions get used up almost immediately. They don't need to stockpile, they are in a steady state wartime production. On the
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
A single F-35, because Shaheds don't have the legs required in the Pacific. You can fit three Ukraines between Guam and Taiwan.
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
In a serious war drone factories are getting bombed (by F-35s) and there is no need to handle a never-ending stream of drones. The war in Ukraine is special because neither side is capable of air supremacy. Note that the original article do
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Cinematic Motion, Stuttery Motion, and the Soap Opera Effect(rtings.com)
2 points by dgroshev 6mo ago|0 comments
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
We had just that in the UK relatively recently! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-landhttps://en.wikipedia...
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
The article correctly identifies positive externalities of railways: > The railway can capture the value it creates for me by charging me a fare, but it cannot capture the value it creates for those at my destination. As transport infras
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
You're factually incorrect with most of your Kinzhal-related points. Kinzhal is just an air-launched version of Iskander with a bit better energetics because of not launching stationary from the ground. It's not a magic superweapo
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
I'm not being dishonest, I'm being sarcastic. Although I can see that you ignored everything else that I said. I couldn't care less about "winning".
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by dgroshev 6mo ago
"I'd love to hear any additional ideas except those that work everywhere because that'd require big changes" The answer is trivial and well-known: federal-level gun controls (because anything state-level is a joke withou
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
Again, the unfairness goes both ways: RVs need to carry substantial payloads, whereas KKVs only need DACS and sensing. THAAD KKVs weigh about 50kg; most effective payloads, even nuclear, would weigh substantially more. Hypersonic gliders ca
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
That goes both ways. Terminal manoeuvring gets difficult as speeds increase, too. Besides, higher tier threats are intercepted outside the atmosphere, where it would be prohibitively expensive (in mass and accuracy) for RVs to manoeuvre. Yo
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
Not sure where the crucial SSPK number came from, given that the referenced link https://missilethreat.csis.org/system/gmd/ does not have neither the number nor data to calculate it. Even more importantly, using t
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
G2 fillets are the next frontier. Even Fusion doesn't seem to handle them well. I mean they can be created without much drama, but geometry derived from them is very likely to fail with no real reason.
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
> recused itself Surrendered.
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
> more or less politically, culturally, and economically irrelevant I feel like we're reading different posts.
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
Is it indicative of "economic irrelevance"?
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
> the UK really heading quickly towards a Great Firewall > top most read article on BBC News right now is yet another public sector cover up Do you not see a tiny little bit of contradiction here (regardless of your mis-characterisati
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
It's not "knocking the US", it's an example of the (likely, projected) decline. The size of the economy is an example of why "irrelevant" is delusional. Two different points. The "prominent UK residents&qu
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
We need to recognise the difference between the GP rant and what you're describing. The austerity is undeniably still reverberating through the country. It will take years for this ship to turn around, although it is being turned aro
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
This is an entirely delusional twitter-brain take. Despite its problems, the UK is still a sixth largest economy, a cultural powerhouse (how many Hollywood actors are British?), with a lot of soft power, a capable and currently renewed nucl
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Cinematic Motion, Stuttery Motion, and the Soap Opera Effect(rtings.com)
1 points by dgroshev 7mo ago|0 comments
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
GDS is amazing. However, unless we double/triple the GDS salary grades, it'll inevitably be hollowed out. From what I heard, that might've already happened. Look for yourself, GDS is hiring a "Lead Technical Architect&qu
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
> It means doubling the transport capacity, but not doubling the burden Which is my point, doubling the capacity at the end of the spear is more than double the burden. The scale is superlinear. The further out the front is (for the US,
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
To "look enough" like a missile that can hit something a hundred kilometres away with enough precision to not be ignored you need a missile that can fly a hundred kilometres. This is not cheap. Instead of repeating myself, I'
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
AAA batteries don't have the current. Li-Ion is too fussy and has a pretty high self-discharge. Ukraine can afford the cardboard boxes because they are fighting in their own country. The US has an ocean to cross. Ukraine can get away w
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by dgroshev 7mo ago
It's an objective statement of their tactics, not something relative. Modern precision guided weaponry is meant to selectively destroy military targets. WW2 style strategic bombing was targeting civilian populations mostly trying to di

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