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by gggggg5 4y ago
Which was a barely contested treetop-skimming helicopter assault, and went extremely poorly. You wouldn't have any luck dropping bombs like those out of helicopters.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
I was rather baffled by so many sources claiming that this would be super difficult to find. It seemed like such a simple task to drive up and down roads with some radiation detection equipment, log the data and investigate any hotspots. We
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by gggggg5 4y ago
>As for article 5, that might explain the second gulf war and/or Afghanistan No it wouldn't. The Article 5 invocation resulted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Assist and https:/&#x2F
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Interesting choice to mostly rely on SAAB marketing materials in an effort to make the case that the Gripen E is better. >STOL capabilities https://www.saab.com/newsroom/stories/2020/august/gripen-des
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Political reasons that may or may not make sense. Brazil would perhaps benefit in many ways by aligning themselves with the US, but for a variety of reasons they simply don't want to do that. In the fickle Brazilian political environme
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by gggggg5 4y ago
It seems that you're missing the obvious assumption that we're talking about disputes won by the seller, i.e. friendly fraud attempts.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
>Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Durandal so about $30k, which is quite cheap Uh, how do you plan to use dumb bombs like that in a conflict like Ukraine? That would require you to be able to fly r
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by gggggg5 4y ago
> Don’t they have the capacity to produce something of their own? Not really, and even if they did, it might not be worth the effort. Instead they got a super attractive technology transfer deal from SAAB.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Why not? Could you give an example as to why this would not be legal in some country of your choice?
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Perhaps charge a chargeback fee of 40 euros? It'll cover both of the chargeback fees you'll have to pay stripe.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
That's not at all how payment processing works in 2023. You can absolutely "re-run" their tokenized card without storing their card info yourself-
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by gggggg5 4y ago
It sounds like you can't actually find any research strongly in support of lockdowns, and that's because of funding bias? So, we're just supposed to believe without evidence that the lockdowns were good because ... ?
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by gggggg5 4y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but I guess you could run their card again for the 20 :)
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Yes. But those are the old Gripens, not at all relevant in this conversation.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
So great that only Brazil was willing to buy them. And not at all because they were the best planes they could get, but because Brazil strongly prefers to not buy from the US and SAAB offered a great technology transfer deal.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
>This strikes me as weird. User buys something from me, regrets it and issues a chargeback, dispute gets started and bank says I did nothing wrong, so the charge still sticks, but Stripe gets to keep the fee for handling the dispute? You
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Are you kidding? How is destroying runways cheap? > look at Ukraine Go on, give me some actual examples. What sort of cheap missiles are used to cause more than a few thousand dollars worth of damage to runways in Ukraine?
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by gggggg5 4y ago
>It's claimed to have an operational range of 3000km. Which may be true in a land attack role, but is obviously not the case in an anti-ship role (if that capability really exists at all!). Realistically, you'll be very happy i
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by gggggg5 4y ago
I lived between Barcelona and London through the lockdowns. As far as I can tell, current studies indicate that in all likelihood only the first lockdown in the UK may have been "worth it" (and even then, it should have happened e
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by gggggg5 4y ago
>Ukraine has repelled Russia very effectively with just manpads, ATGMs and NATO intelligence. MANPADs are nice to have, but it's Ukraine's own Soviet air defense equipment which is keeping Russian aviation at bay. The focus on
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by gggggg5 4y ago
They're also more expensive .
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Ukraine is very far from being overrun, almost entirely operates from regular airfields and not roads or other unexpected locations. Are they operating to great effect? The HARMs are nice, but surface-launched anti-radiation missiles would
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by gggggg5 4y ago
> anti-ship missiles with ranges that in many cases exceed 1000km, What now? A Kinzhal will probably fly that far, but it won't hit a moving ship at that distance.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
That's cool and all, but in 2023 you aren't going to successfully operate jets in those conditions. You'll either fly right above the treetops or get shot down, well, actually the enemy jets with down-looking radar will shoot
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by gggggg5 4y ago
>it seems to do well in adverse conflict conditions (takeoff/landing from public roads, etc.) This is largely an irrelevant capability, it's easy and cheap to build lots of runways.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Note that Czechia, Hungary and South Africa have much older Gripens which are not relevant to this conversation. Czechia is moving to the F-35 instead of ordering the Gripen E. Only Sweden and Brazil ordered the new Gripens.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
> can land and depart with regular roads This is worth way less than it sounds like. Building runways is cheap . > The Gripen is basically designed for Finland by virtue of being designed for Sweden Sweden wanting to prop up their do
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Which competitors? The J-20 or SU-57? Yeah, I wonder why those wouldn't be selected.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
Are you kidding with these sources? Perhaps next you will go to Greenpeace for their opinion on the F-35? Both of these are groups which exist to oppose any kind of military spending, neither of them have any relevant expertise.
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by gggggg5 4y ago
>But still, without lockdowns there was great risk as can be seen from what happened to the likes of the UK... Uh, what exactly happened in the UK?

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