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by greedo 6mo ago
You should know that there are alternatives to green machines; Case, Massey Ferguson, Fendt etc.
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by greedo 6mo ago
Exactly! The old image of a guy on a Deere 4020 pulling an eight row implement is just unsustainable in today's agricultural system. Whether that system is sustainable is a different question.
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by greedo 6mo ago
And how many acres are you farming on it? Today's world of agriculture is much higher tech-based (for many good reasons, primarily yield) than back in the horse and buggy days of farming.
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by greedo 6mo ago
Keeping the FRG from getting nukes wasn't part of NATO strategy. The succinct reason for NATO was to keep the Soviets from marching to the Atlantic. The more pragmatic was expressed as "Keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and
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by greedo 6mo ago
Brahmos isn't an A2A missile...
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by greedo 6mo ago
Not to argue with most of your points (which I agree with), but the F-35 is really meant to be more of a fighter-bomber than a true air-superiority fighter. It's not really in the same class as F-22/J-20/Su-30/F-15EX kin
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by greedo 6mo ago
Can't agree more with this recommendation. As a long time Apple user (Apple ][c back in 1984 started my journey), I thought I knew a lot about Apple. But how they actually made the iPhone work was just an amazing read.
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by greedo 6mo ago
The way Apple funded hardware purchases for their "OEM" manufacturers makes it hard to really say they were "capital-light."
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by greedo 6mo ago
DDG-X is dead.
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by greedo 6mo ago
Air dropping was never part of the requirement. It would have been a "nice to have" but not required. There was no way we were going to be able to take a base model FREMM and use it in the USN without substantial modifications. Th
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by greedo 6mo ago
The idea that China would lose 10k fighters when we barely have enough AAMs and aircraft in comparison is silly. The days of F-22s clubbing baby seals is long past.
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by greedo 6mo ago
The US just blew through a large percentage of its PAC-3/PAC-2 inventory fighting Iran. Other than Patriot, the US doesn't really have much GBAD anymore. A few Avenger systems, some Stinger MANPADs, etc. It's either Patriot o
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by greedo 6mo ago
Yes, APKWS is a good solution, but it really wasn't used much for C-UAS before VAMPIRE was shipped to Ukraine.
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by greedo 6mo ago
Which has roots that can be traced to the V-1.
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by greedo 6mo ago
Hah. Ukraine has cut Russian petroleum production 40%...
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by greedo 6mo ago
$1.7 trillion over 70 years. So $24B/year.
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by greedo 6mo ago
Not necessarily worse, just different design philosophies. German design philosophies changed throughout the course of the war too. And people don't really know much about the tanks the Germans were using in France and in Barbarossa. T
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by greedo 6mo ago
They actually did standardize pretty quickly. Panzer III and Panzer IV were the workhorses in Russia, paired up with the StuG (which used the Pz III chassis). I think that it's arguable that no production strategy could have led to Ger
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by greedo 6mo ago
While Iran has faired better than I expected, it's a reach to say they've punished the US. The US losses are comically small. Of course wars aren't won solely based on battles...
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by greedo 6mo ago
You are aware that China is producing two fifth gen stealth fighters, and is flight testing two sixth gen platforms? And that Chinese AAMs are world class? Read up on how Pakistan crushed the Indian Air Force recently flying fourth gen Chin
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by greedo 6mo ago
The days of China manufacturing cheap junk is long past. These same arguments were made against Japan. Look at a BYD EV and it will have a fit and finish comparable to any US manufacturer. In aviation, they're catching up quickly to th
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by greedo 6mo ago
I can't see the interceptor burn through being so low. Doctrine is 2-4 missiles per ballistic target. I've know the OSINT kids have a hard time with something like this since it's all classified and compared to Ukraine much h
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by greedo 6mo ago
Take a peek at last year's budget for missile production. It's amazingly small, and the production capacity is limited as well. RTX makes both Patriot and SM2/3 missiles, and production is so low that the Navy is going to be
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by greedo 6mo ago
If the carrier is aware of the overflight (and I assume the USN isn't run by complete idiots), it can adjust course after the overflight. And at 30 knots, can be 100s of miles away from its initial location when the satellite returns.
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by greedo 6mo ago
First Sea Lord Admiral Wilson famously called submarines "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English." Yet this didn't prevent the RN from purchasing submarines from the US in 1901, far earlier than most other industrial nati
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by greedo 6mo ago
F-35s have done pretty well in both Israeli and US hands against the Russian supplied SAM systems. And if these vaunted Russian IADs can't stop Ukrainian drones with a RCS the size of a barn, they stand little chance against a stealth
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by greedo 6mo ago
They're still flying SU-27 frequently, and those weren't replaced by donations.
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by greedo 6mo ago
Such nonsense. The EU may be supplying Ukraine with some munitions etc, but if NATO was actively involved, the war would have been over in a year; either conventionally or via nuclear weapons.
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by greedo 6mo ago
The F-35C has greater range than the F/A-18 Super Hornet, the F-16, and the F-22. It's only exceeded by the F-35A and the F-15EX. And "no fighter/interceptor split"? What does that even mean? The USAF hasn't ha
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by greedo 6mo ago
F-35 can fly more than once...

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