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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Carriers are not unstoppable super fortresses, which is why the americans have like 11 of the things, and it's definitely important not to become over confident after years without serious naval challenges, but it's also reasonabl
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> The problem with killing a carrier is not finding it. They're not difficult to spot and not very stealthy. They're massive. The only real problem with killing carrier is getting close. They're constantly protected by a f
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Do you seriously think the US Navy doesn't avoid Chinese tracking? What kind of a question is that? Like, there's probably a magazine that lists the cruising destinations of most of the carriers, what ports they're going to s
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
I'm not trying to say that f35s are immune to modern chinese technology, I'm trying to say they're immune to previous generation stuff. They don't need to be literally invisible, you can know where they are all you wan
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
You fire all your missiles then.. you turn around and leave. The enemy isn't in range to engage you, you're flying away at least the same speed they're chasing, what are they going to do?
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> Torpedoes cannot be launched from manned / unmanned surface vessels? They're getting close enough to target the carriers without being sunk.. how exactly?
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
You don't need to be out of striking range if they can't find you, that's the entire point.
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
And what platform do you imagine is launching these dozens of torp-- drones? This is the thing everyone fails to understand about carrier warfare: anything you can use to attack the carrier can be outranged by the carrier because it can jus
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> China is putting containerized missile launch tubes and drone launch systems on their container ships. If these get widely deployed at some point, there could come a time when there will be weapon systems already on-location in all of
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
This is literally the point: it's easy to tell them to point a satellite at beirut and get pictures every 3 hours or whatever, it's much more difficult to tell them to point at a location in the middle of the pacific ocean... beca
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> It would have a field of view roughly the size of Houston (50x50 miles) Wait, what? Like, this is a whole bunch of extremely unreliable numbers being stacked on top of each other to reach an unsupported conclusion, but how is a 50 squa
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> Aerial drones are also highly maneuverable. Large navy ships are pretty tough on the outside, able to withstand a blast of a moderate-size shell or bomb. But they have smaller, harder-to-reach vulnerable areas. This is the kind of targ
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> engagement geometry means an 4:1 fight is always going to be costly That's not how 6th gen fighter combats work. You get hit by missiles and explode without ever even detecting the opponent. Does china have better stuff than f16s?
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
This is why I specifically didn't say "if china made 10,000 of their current 6th gen air superiority fighter", I said f16s.
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> If China produces 100 times or 1000 times their current numbers (and they can), marginal differences in capability are not going to matter. If china somehow learnes magic and produced 10,000 f16 equivalents and got into a major non-n
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> Also, just because viola, cello and double bass looks like a violin is borderline insult to all of them at once, and ignoring the other heavy lifters like clarinets, oboes and fagots. I don't think that last bit translated well. B
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Not really, the tanks were both inefficient to operate and inefficient to build (lack of standardization, constantly changing plans, have to redesign every single part..)
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
I don't know if you've looked recently, but the pacific is, likev pretty big. Maybe even bigger than that. The primary problem with killing carriers is, has been, and will be, finding the things.[1] Drone strikes on oil refineries
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Why?
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
California, and every other agency that attempts to manage forests, does clear brush, in a variety of different methods and approaches. It turns out the actual problem is more complicated than "duh just light some fires!"
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
People literally started a war and fought it for 4 years, killing more americans than basically anything else we could categorize as a single event, entirely to preserve their right to hold other americans as slaves, and you think people ar
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
There was a certain dark humor from all the people proudly proclaiming to be "against pronouns".
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
My comment was trying to emphasize the parent's point, I was referring to the grandparent as whataboutism. It was a tad unclear. I wish america would stop sending money to israel, for a bunch of reasons. That desire is most likely to
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
I don't know if this is a failure of the bandwidth level of an internet forum message or a nuance thing, but like, you can both wish democrats sent less money to israel (for a whole bunch of reasons) while also acknowledging that this
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
It's pretty pathetic when the best argument you can make is a whataboutism that isn't even equivalent.
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> The number of HNers who were earnestly arguing that this was the party of free speech Do you think any of them were sincere?
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> dumb ass gas station beaver and a bunch of MAGA folks and furries How on earth are those three things supposed to be equivalent? One is a gas station chain with an animal as part of its logo, which is uh, a normal thing? Are we against
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
It appears to be considerably easier to complain and blame than to actually do work to fix it. There's an inherent vulnerability if you actually try to fix something, people can point out what you did wrong, but if you never even try,
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Yeah, the moral one. The one that wants a good life for all people. Or did you think there was some kind of third side?
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
"high functioning autism" (these days) is closer to an astrological sign or a meyers-briggs diagnosis. At it's best it gives you some idea about what things are easier than others. It's useful as a keyword to search an

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