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by greedo 3y ago
It's not a problem, if your goal is to design a new MANPADS. If your goal is to build new Stingers, that are compatible with a bunch of other systems, and perform to specifications XYZ, then it's more challenging.
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by greedo 3y ago
Other than a new proximity fuse, they really haven't updated the design much for a decade. Most of the upgrades have been to extend the service life of the missile, since most munitions have a Best Use By date...
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by greedo 3y ago
There are multiple buyers of most US weapon systems. For the FIM-92 (Stinger), there are over 30 not counting the US.
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by greedo 3y ago
HALO insertions against an A2AD environment are suicide. Same with using something like an AC-130 in daylight. They rely on large, slow, easily detected transports.
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by greedo 3y ago
Stingers would provide no protection against a competently managed and equipped air force. If we were fighting the Russians in Ukraine, we would be using JADAMs etc from well outside the engagement envelope of any MANPAD. The only way to ac
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by greedo 3y ago
The article doesn't say anything about the documentations and specs being destroyed, just that the tooling etc will need to be dusted off and new workers trained. The biggest issue is legacy chips and electronics that are no longer mad
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by greedo 3y ago
We've always voted money straight from the Treasury. Government contracts, government subsidies, you name it, it's been from Day 1. Every tax break we give is money that the Treasury could spend. Every "incentive" we pro
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by greedo 3y ago
Democracy is the worst of all forms of government, except for all the rest. So by your quote I'm to assume either you're a monarchist seeking a benevolent ruler, a socialist/communist, or an anarchist.
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by greedo 3y ago
We decide as a country, the same way we decide that billionaires "deserve" large tax breaks. The way we decide to spend more on defense than our top 3 competitors combined. The way we decide to sell grazing, mineral, oil and gas r
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by greedo 3y ago
I had no part in interning Americans of Japanese descent during WW2. But I believe that the country I live in is responsible for addressing that wrong. And I feel the same about addressing the wrongs of slavery and racism that continue to t
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by greedo 3y ago
Oh the racism spread to the West very early in those states histories. Look up sundown towns, and Portland's history.
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by greedo 3y ago
There was a lot of slavery outside of the South, long before cotton became king.
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by greedo 3y ago
OWC makes rack-mount kits for the Mac Studio.
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by greedo 3y ago
Apple doesn't make product decisions (in terms of design/arch) six months before an announcement. The lead time for most Apple products is closer to 2-3 years.
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by greedo 3y ago
Halo car paradigm. John Siracusa has touched on this for the Mac Pro: https://hypercritical.co/2013/03/08/the-case-for-a-true-mac-... Sad that other than in price, Apple has really just given up on this.
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by greedo 3y ago
You'll still be limited by memory. If Apple were to create a Jade 4c chipset, (two Ultra SoC), you'd only have 384GB of RAM.
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by greedo 3y ago
Apple has said that it isn't a direction they've wanted to pursue.
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by greedo 3y ago
Considering the RTX 6000 ADA is like $8k, you could add three 4090s for half the cost.
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by greedo 3y ago
I've owned every Mac Pro with the exception of the 2019. I bought them because I wanted to be able to easily expand RAM and storage without having to use external enclosures. Apple doesn't seem able or willing to allow this anymor
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by greedo 3y ago
Car manufacturers never skimped on QC? Take a look at the wonderful Corvair. Or the Pinto. So much of this is survivor bias or just nostalgia. Some things were better back in the 50s, some weren't. Somethings in the 50's seemed gr
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by greedo 3y ago
I think this comes down to people commenting out of their area of expertise. I remember hearing some expert (during the COVID outbreak) state that while they'd like to comment on some issue, they didn't have any particular experti
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by greedo 3y ago
You can set up a schedule to train non-coms in 2-3 months, that doesn't mean they'll be very good. Experience is extremely valuable at this level. And surely you understand that the US economy and state of industry in 1943 (when t
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by greedo 3y ago
There are huge institutional challenges for this to occur. Production facilities have all been consolidated (as they have in the US since the end of the Cold War.) Budgets are also a problem; the majority of NATO members aren't even ma
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by greedo 3y ago
Thank you! I've studied WW2 much more in comparison to modern warfare and sometimes I forget the changes.
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by greedo 3y ago
I'd look to how NATO ran out of PGMs etc when fighting in Libya. I didn't see a big uptick in arms purchases after that. Also, Germany recently crowed about sending 1000 155mm artillery rounds. That's like 3 hours of firing a
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by greedo 3y ago
It's the sheep effect. Carmakers don't want their cars to be too different than what everyone else is selling.
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by greedo 3y ago
And you can pry my heated seats away from my cold, dead body. Between lower back pain and cold midwest winters, they're my favorite car feature.
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by greedo 3y ago
How are you going to implement elevated crossings in a suburban neighborhood, where the soccer moms in their monster SUVs can't see squat, and routinely speed? Kids are crossing multiple places; we can barely get ADA type curb cuts at
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by greedo 3y ago
I have a VW CC. Four door sedan with huge trunk space. I've driven cross country multiple times, hauled lumber in it, 30 bags of mulch, you name it. The idea that you need an SUV to carry a lot of stuff just doesn't match reality.
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by greedo 3y ago
This is why there are so many white cars being made and delivered to dealerships in the US. With production still extremely constrained, manufacturers are just limiting what colorways they ship. They know anything new will sell since the lo

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