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Inspector 34 posted:Ideally the length of the wielder's arm span, typically 4 to 5.5 feet? I get that average height has been on the rise, but seriously, when in human history could 4 feet tall have been remotely typical? Dude, you literally say armspan in your own sentence. As in, the amount of space between your fingertips when you put your arms out to your side.
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Son of Rodney posted:Dude, you literally say armspan in your own sentence. As in, the amount of space between your fingertips when you put your arms out to your side. Your armspan and height are directly connected.
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May 18, 2015 23:23
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KillHour posted:Lockheed Martin built a thing to intercept ICBMs. Because 1. That's how we got to 'better weapons than everyone else' in the FIRST place and 2. Think of the non-military applications.
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raverrn posted:Because 1. That's how we got to 'better weapons than everyone else' in the FIRST place and 2. Think of the non-military applications. A fire spitting hover rescue bot?
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May 18, 2015 23:39
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Solice Kirsk posted:A fire spitting hover rescue bot? Robocop drones. "Dead or alive, you are coming with me." *burns crook's face off with hover thrusters*
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May 18, 2015 23:42
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raverrn posted:Because 1. That's how we got to 'better weapons than everyone else' in the FIRST place and 2. Think of the non-military applications. This made sense when our "enemies" were superpowers with massive standing armies and R&D budgets. Now they're some just some random dudes with cold war leftovers. I'm not saying stop all military R&D, I'm saying "Why the gently caress do we need ICBM interceptors and billion-dollar air superiority fighters?" As for your second point, it's not like we have to burn the money if it's not being used for bigger explosions. We can fund non-military R&D directly.
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May 19, 2015 03:27
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KillHour posted:billion-dollar air superiority fighters?" ...but you get about 6 of them for 1 billion. Never mind the total program cost, most of that was just practice.
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May 19, 2015 03:46
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Plinkey posted:...but you get about 6 of them for 1 billion. Never mind the total program cost, most of that was just practice. The 1 billion figure included the cost of getting the software working correctly.  Also, the payouts to the pilots' families when they fall out of the sky like rocks.
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May 19, 2015 05:29
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KillHour posted:This made sense when our "enemies" were superpowers with massive standing armies and R&D budgets. Now they're some just some random dudes with cold war leftovers. I'm not saying stop all military R&D, I'm saying "Why the gently caress do we need ICBM interceptors and billion-dollar air superiority fighters?" The excuse they're choosing to use is that everyone else is still developing gen 4+/++ air fighters That being said, it feels very much like the end-of-3rd-gen period ('Nam) to me - like the plane itself is getting less important, it's just about how much of what weapon system you can bolt to it. And, nowadays, how small you can make the radar profile. Kind of strikes me as the "end of days" for air superiority fighters. Why make something that requires a squishy, weak, fallible human to actually sit inside it, when you could be making bigger, faster drone fighters? Seems very much like fighter jets are losing the race against AA/SAMs more and more each day. The F-35 needs to die in a fire, for real. I can't believe the Australian government has committed E: Forgot about the price rise. And maths derp. DPM has a new favorite as of 07:01 on May 19, 2015 |
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May 19, 2015 06:54
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Your armspan and height are directly connected. It is kind of funny to imagine a 7 foot tall dude with a 4.5 foot armspan though. Would probably need his 5 foot girl friend with an 8 foot wingspan to grab stuff off the top of the fridge for him.
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May 19, 2015 08:38
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DumbparameciuM posted:Why make something that requires a squishy, weak, fallible human to actually sit inside it, when you could be making bigger, faster drone fighters? Seems very much like fighter jets are losing the race against AA/SAMs more and more each day. Because
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May 19, 2015 08:45
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I figure that by Block 20-30 the majority of the problems with the F-35 will be fixed. And unlike the Rafael or Typhoon it'll have better chances against modern SAM systems.
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KillHour posted:This made sense when our "enemies" were superpowers with massive standing armies and R&D budgets. Now they're some just some random dudes with cold war leftovers. I'm not saying stop all military R&D, I'm saying "Why the gently caress do we need ICBM interceptors and billion-dollar air superiority fighters?" That's just what all of our enemies are waiting for. As soon as we stop they'll reveal they were working on superweapons in secret, and then we're screwed.
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C.M. Kruger posted:I figure that by Block 20-30 the majority of the problems with the F-35 will be fixed. And unlike the Rafael or Typhoon it'll have better chances against modern SAM systems. Atleast the Rafael or typhoon might stay airborne long enough to get shot at. I suppose the plan is to deny the enemy any kills by ensuring that all planes self destruct a maximum of 10 minutes into their flight. Think of the economic benfits to the MIC for contracts for all these planes to replace the ones that tried to take off!
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May 19, 2015 14:34
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Aphrodite posted:That's just what all of our enemies are waiting for. It's pretty telling how DARPA went from "We're funding robots to help troops on the battlefield carry heavy poo poo" to "We're funding robots to pull people out of collapsed buildings" in just a few years.
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KillHour posted:This made sense when our "enemies" were superpowers with massive standing armies and R&D budgets. Now they're some just some random dudes with cold war leftovers. I'm not saying stop all military R&D, I'm saying "Why the gently caress do we need ICBM interceptors and billion-dollar air superiority fighters?" The US is totally going to war with Russia and/or China within the next 30 years over Arctic regions. e: not that it matters of course, since most R&D is for poo poo designed to spy on and kill civilians.
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May 19, 2015 15:09
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KillHour posted:It's pretty telling how DARPA went from "We're funding robots to help troops on the battlefield carry heavy poo poo" to "We're funding robots to pull people out of collapsed buildings" in just a few years. "Yeah, we're funding robots so we can avoid any more human deaths in warfare!" "But wouldn't that make every soldier in the armed forces redundant?" "I MEAN, ROBOTS PILOTED BY HUMANS TO SAVE OTHER HUMANS. PLENTY OF HUMANS."
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May 19, 2015 15:13
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Your armspan and height are directly connected. I did not know that!
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Son of Rodney posted:I did not know that! Have you ever seen the Vitruvian Man?
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KillHour posted:This made sense when our "enemies" were superpowers with massive standing armies and R&D budgets. Now they're some just some random dudes with cold war leftovers. I'm not saying stop all military R&D, I'm saying "Why the gently caress do we need ICBM interceptors and billion-dollar air superiority fighters?" Because building new, cutting edge military tech is difficult and expensive as hell. Catching up to what someone else has already made, even without stealing it directly via espionage, is nowhere near as pricy. If we want to maintain our position as the unrivaled military superpower (which we do, for a variety of reasons), then we have to spend the money. Then you add in the fact that the defense contractors basically own the procurement process and 
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And of course then Congress won't actually approve money for new airplanes to replace 30-40 year old fighters that are falling apart in mid-air. Fun fact: The litigation resulting from the cancellation of the A-12 Avenger II (a stealth bomber that would have theoretically replaced the A-6 Intruder to the JSF replacing the F-16 and F/A-18) in 1991 went on until 2014 and outlived McDonnell Douglas by 17 years.
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Cat Hatter posted:You're thinking of the USCGC Mellon: The keel didn’t break, the keel bent, also totes true scrub  .Source: Me as I served on that cutter for a year about five years ago. The thing that gets me salty as gently caress in the CG is Admiral Yost, the guy wanted to shift the CG priorities into coastal defense and acquiring weapons. Hence we attempted to put missiles our cutters and put CIWS on the large cutters. Fun Fact 1: When the CIWS fires is sounds like loving literal evil hellish bees that hate you and want to kill you. On a firing exercise the 76 knocked a bolt out from somewhere in the ceiling and ended up hitting my head. I loving love those goddamed guns. Fun Fact 2: The USCGC MELLON is 378 ft long and are classified as high endurance cutters, but they also wanted to install a CIWS on the Medium Endurance Cutters like the USCGC TAHOMA which is 100 ft shorter. No, I have no idea where the gently caress they would put that gun. Fun Fact 3: Admiral Yost not only made the Coast Guard waste a poo poo ton of tax payers money, he also was the admiral responsible to end beards in the Coast Guard. Thank you Admiral!
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ElMaligno posted::stareL So basically, ADM Yost is to the Navy as a tacticlol mall cop is to the Army?
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KillHour posted:This made sense when our "enemies" were superpowers with massive standing armies and R&D budgets. Now they're some just some random dudes with cold war leftovers. I'm not saying stop all military R&D, I'm saying "Why the gently caress do we need ICBM interceptors and billion-dollar air superiority fighters?" Have you not been paying attention for the past decade? Russia and China aren't napping when it comes to military technology. Our spending process is hosed up so we have definite unnecessary losses but you can't nap on this poo poo or else you play even more expensive catch up if you actually need a new system (expensive in lives and financial costs). Our ICBM interceptors could always use more work by the way. It's not like their success ratio is particularly in our favor, it would sure be nice if we had a hope in hell of stopping more missiles in a nuclear exchange.
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Wild T posted:So basically, the entire Coast Guard is to the Navy as a tacticlol mall cop is to the Army? Fixed, because let’s not kid ourselves here as a single navy aircraft carrier has more fire power than the entire coast guard fleet. My pet theory is that when the Admiral was a wee officer during the Vietnam War he got in a beard growing contest. A chief or some other higher ranking enlisted saw the pathetic attempt of the young officer to grow a beard, so the chief did what all chief do he gave the guy a good ol’ fashioned ball busting. Then the young officer laughed but secretly cried while plotting his revenge, “If I ever become the Commandant” he muttered under his breath while holding his nerdy tears back “I will ban beards! Forever! Also put missiles on cutters because that is cool as gently caress bro!” And that’s my story, thanks for reading
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My favourite weapon system is small boats, motorcycle messengers and a massive amount of cruise missiles  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 quote:Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document, demanding a response within 24 hours. Thus warned of Blue's approach, Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships. This included one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:My favourite weapon system is small boats, motorcycle messengers and a massive amount of cruise missiles You've just invoked the wrath of subforum who will tell you that guy was a cheating no-good glory hound who violated the laws of physics and undermined esprit de corps.
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Oh man, we made it 7 pages  Welp, see you in 20
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:My favourite weapon system is small boats, motorcycle messengers and a massive amount of cruise missiles So your favourite weapon is cheating, Since red won by having motorcycle couriers who can teleport from place to place and small boats that can launch cruise missiles bigger than the boat carrying them. Of course when someone pointed out these minor discrepancies to the red commander he threw a massive shitfit and complained to the media. Now would american fleets be vulnerable to that kind of tactic? probably but any enemy capable of that kind of strike would probably have their poo poo bombed to pieces before a fleet sailed in range.
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moller posted:You've just invoked the wrath of subforum who will tell you that guy was a cheating no-good glory hound who violated the laws of physics and undermined esprit de corps. That post has bad grammar and only mentions one weapon system. But since its only mentions one weapon system, the usage of "is" instead of "are" is justified. Still a shameful as gently caress post.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:My favourite weapon system is small boats, motorcycle messengers and a massive amount of cruise missiles That strategy is eerily similar to Eurisko's: The New Yorker posted:In 1981, a computer scientist from Stanford University named Doug Lenat entered the Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron tournament, in San Mateo, California. It was a war game. The contestants had been given several volumes of rules, well beforehand, and had been asked to design their own fleet of warships with a mythical budget of a trillion dollars. The fleets then squared off against one another in the course of a weekend. “Imagine this enormous auditorium area with tables, and at each table people are paired off,” Lenat said. “The winners go on and advance. The losers get eliminated, and the field gets smaller and smaller, and the audience gets larger and larger.” As for weird weapon systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bgb4SGTgDY
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Vlad the Retailer posted:That strategy is eerily similar to Eurisko's: Ah, the ol' "Brannigan's Gambit".
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Got an unruly mob that needs dispersing? Want to make people leave the area without resorting to tear gas / rubber bullets? Fire up the ol' Active Denial System!  This fun little gizmo takes directed energy similar to a microwave, and uses it to heat up and excite the water and fat molecules in your skin. The result is the sensation that your skin is on fire. People instinctively flee the area, and with no harsh after-effects!* *(A few of the volunteer test subjects have suffered 2nd degree burns. Ooops!) It's interesting to see the videos of people getting the beam fired at them. It seems even determined people who know what's coming are unable to stand up to the pain sensation for more than a few seconds. The downside is that some of the testing shows that the beam is only effective against exposed skin, so thick clothing, or hiding behind metallic objects can defeat the effect. Here's a video showing the ADS in action, and explaining how it works.
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Turns out the Naval AWS/Laser weapons don't loving work: http://thebulletin.org/navys-new-laser-weapon-hype-or-reality8326
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DumbparameciuM posted:Turns out the Naval AWS/Laser weapons don't loving work: http://thebulletin.org/navys-new-laser-weapon-hype-or-reality8326 Well, they haven't managed to almost sink the ship they are mounted on, so they are still better than the f-35 
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Well, they haven't managed to almost sink the ship they are mounted on, so they are still better than the f-35 AND YET http://breakingdefense.com/2015/05/lasers-on-a-plane-air-force-wants-fighter-firing-100-kilowatts-by-2022/
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I just don't get why you would want a weapon that sucks up enormous amounts of power and doesn't work when it's foggy. When did firing big lumps of stuff at high speeds become unfashionable? Content: My favourite weapon system has always been the rocket propelled, runway cratering Durandal bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m-buvo3dj4
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Here's a thing, basically an agricultural tractor mounted with 6 106mm recoiless rifles firing those beehive rounds mentioned earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Ontos NVA often shat themselves and ran when it turned up. Smart move.
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DumbparameciuM posted:Turns out the Naval AWS/Laser weapons don't loving work: http://thebulletin.org/navys-new-laser-weapon-hype-or-reality8326 Has the venerable (34 year old) Phalanx CIWS system that LaWS is an evolution of ever proven to be effective in any way? Googling about its operational history just keeps bringing up the same few incidents in which it failed to engage or engaged the wrong target when used in a combat situation.
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tardwrangler posted:Here's a thing, basically an agricultural tractor mounted with 6 106mm recoiless rifles firing those beehive rounds mentioned earlier. The biggest problem with the Ontos is that you have to get out of the vehicle to reload the guns.
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