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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
Roughly everyone expects the 6th generation fighters (the ones currently in development like F-47) to be the last manned generation. Most observers expect many/most 6th gen fighters to become optionally manned within their life span. T
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
I think the USA has ~3ish airframes/systems that are roughly in this category: * The Kratos Valkyrie with the USMC in a SEAD role * Anduril (YFQ-44) and General Atomics (YFQ-42) are battling it out for the USAF's CCA Increment 1 c
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
It's completely different. Shaheds are low cost one way attack drones. They're basically just very cost efficient cruise missiles with fresh marketing (and to be fair, the cost efficiency is a true categorical difference). These d
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
There are multiple interesting developments wrapped together here. First, these are intended to be "loyal wingman". They'll be commanded (but not really remotely controlled) from manned fighters nearbyish. Presumably, the &qu
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
The article argues that space and AI dominance meaningfully threatens China's second strike (mobile land based ICBMs) survivability, which would bias China to act more proactively (ie, more hair trigger) in escalation scenarios. Chines
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
I believe it's exactly that thinking that CSIS was trying to check when they chose to translate and publish this specific article. They are trying to get analysts and policy makers to think through, and make an active decision on if th
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
CSIS is republishing work from PLA affiliated writers from PLA affiliated think tanks, published an a PLA affiliated journal because it does in fact capture aspects of internal PLA thinking. This article is from 2023, it's not written
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
Ya, I guess one other thing to China's advantage is that they don't need true global reach. They can prioritize coverage over their relevant latitudes (roughly the same as contiguous USA). From what I understand from Starlink dist
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
I'd broadly agree that EU is pretty behind the curve. But I think China is probably only ~5 years max behind the curve in terms of Starlink. But in terms of defense needs, I don't think you actually need the thousands and thousand
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
I imagine UH-60 and variants will continue to serve (who knows, maybe with new airframes) along side the MV-75 for quite a while, in a similar way to how UH-1s continued to be in use well after UH-60s were deployed in large numbers. This Co
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
Cancelling Anthropic's contract, and maybe even restricting Anthropic's use as a component to DoD certain contract work might be reasonable. However, Anthropic's lawsuits are broader than that - partly because the government&
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
For what it's worth, it seems like the actual law that would be involved (so the deliberate legislative choice) does not allow Hegseth to do what he says he wants to do: https://www.justsecurity.org/132851/anthropi
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
Air Force One (and all of the other US flying command posts) are basically giant collections of various antennas. Here's an article from 2017 about (then) recent installation of what were almost certainly satellite communication antenn
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
Here's a paper (from July 2025) on previous steps in this program, getting up the initial testing in flight. Maximum uplink laser power of 20W, though they got good performance all the way down to 2W. The sat has a laser pointing down
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
??? GPU vs CPU workloads are completely different. Comparing Panther Lake iGPU vs Ryzen iGPU is not going to tell you much about how high density server CPU performance will work out. The Panther Lake vs Ryzen laptop performance comparisons
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
Berger is clearly guarded and measured when he talks about Musk and SpaceX. Given the configuration of the space industry and the reality that Berger clearly needs access to make his living, I think Berger has provided generally even handed
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
US forces have been answering the wake up call for the last few years. The main weapon that Apache's use to hunt drones are laser guided rockets (APKWS) with a per-shot cost around $30k ( https://www.airandspaceforces.com&#x2
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
I don't think it's 100% accurate to call the budget "austerity". The budget projects increases in both revenue and spending, and increases the deficit by ~50% percent. What the government has asked for is widespread cuts
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by icegreentea2 7mo ago
American beef imports are heavily driven by how US beef production and consumption is structured. Basically, the US focuses beef production on creating high quality cuts (ie, steaks and other cuts with high marbling/fat), because that&
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
UK uses "imperial gallons", which are no more metric than US customary gallons. Expanded to 3 decimals, a UK/imperial gallon is 4.546L, and a US customary gallon is 3.786, and a US gallon is close to 3.8L, than a imperial gal
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
I think it's right and honest to admit that this is one of the methods that sanctions are supposed to work. But it's also not the only method - and framing the intent as inducing "regime change by internal bad-actors" is
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
Even more precisely, human writing contains unpredictability that is either more or less intention (what might be called authors intent), as well as much more subconsciously added (what we might call quirks or imprinted behavior). The first
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
Chiplets are different physical chips, potentially from different nodes or processes. They're physically connected prepackaging. It's beneficial compared to sticking them on a board because then you get the shortest interconnects,
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
Bluesky post by Benj (one of the authors of the article). https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p He admits to using an AI tool, says he was sick and did dumb things. He does clear Kyle (t
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
They just needed to expand "At this time, this appears to be an isolated incident." into "We are still investigating, however at this time, this appears to be an isolated incident". No additional details required. And ye
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
Yeah, but the problem is that by not making it clear that additional actions may be coming, they're barely restoring credibility at all, because the current course of action (pulling the article and saying sorry) is like the bare minim
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
Yeah, the initial comments are pretty glazey, but go to the second and third pages of comments (ars default sorts by time). I'll pull some quotes: > If there is a thread for redundant comments, I think this is the one. I, too, will
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
The comments are trending towards being more critical as of my posting. A lot more asking what they're going to do about the authors, and what the hell happened.
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
In 2003, Bush first tried gathering support for invasion in Sept 2002 at the UN. Congress granted authority for use of military force in October, and the troop build up started. Colin Powell tried one more major push for UN support in Jan 2
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by icegreentea2 8mo ago
You can still do this in W11 notepad. Firstly, there's a global setting for having formatting/markdown being enabled at all, and secondly it only does the rendering for .md files. Finally, while formatting is enabled, and editting

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