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Top Hats Monthly posted:https://youtu.be/1B1EAeh6H_I This seems pretty tame compared to the 2018 Hawaii false alarm.
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Nebakenezzer posted:The Captian and First Officer of HMCS Calgary have been removed. The issue: Smoke cigarettes?
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What with the virus in the news, foreign policy just ran a story on how the current Administration has hollowed out the Staffing for the pandemic response bureaucracy Obama set up. It makes me wonder how the emergency response for a nuclear strike was set up back in the Cold War era. Does anyone want to share?
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So the F-35 is still unacceptably bad?
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That's the biggest non-story of 2020 so far.
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They fixed none of the priority problems since the last report. Basically a non-story as said; 99% of the focus has been on getting ALIS to be not-poo poo, and ALIS is so irredeemably bad they are dumping it entirely and going with the Air Force’s own software, ODIN. It’s a little sad they accomplished so little in the year but frankly pretty par for the course.
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Mazz posted:They fixed none of the priority problems since the last report. Basically a non-story as said; 99% of the focus has been on getting ALIS to be not-poo poo, and ALIS is so irredeemably bad they are dumping it entirely and going with the Air Force’s own software, ODIN. Did they manage to write the contract such that they got a fee for maintaining ALIS even if it didn't get delivered? Or does that only work with helicopters?
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Some very Cold War news: Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, widely considered the world's most famous mercenary, has died aged 100.
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https://twitter.com/AirForceMag/status/1223026145056239617 How does this kind of things happen?
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The article explains that inconel and titanium visually look similar so presumably they were delivering parts to the wrong area of the production line.
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Feb 3, 2020 18:20
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Clearly Lego should be brought in as managers of the F-35 project.
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Mortabis posted:The article explains that inconel and titanium visually look similar so presumably they were delivering parts to the wrong area of the production line. Visually maybe, but they sure as hell weigh a lot differently.
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Mortabis posted:The article explains that inconel and titanium visually look similar so presumably they were delivering parts to the wrong area of the production line. Uh oh. Those have very different strengths.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Visually maybe, but they sure as hell weigh a lot differently. Not if you have a few of one mixed in with a bunch of the other.
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Feb 4, 2020 00:05
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Inconel or polystyrene? Eh whatever
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Man, if only the aviation industry charged a heavy overhead for every little part to ensure that mistakes like this don't happen.
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My awesome new jacket is both Cold War and aviation related.
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McNally posted:My awesome new jacket is both Cold War and aviation related.  Get someone to knit you that hat and do the finger-guns thing again.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Man, if only the aviation industry charged a heavy overhead for every little part to ensure that mistakes like this don't happen. In principle it ought to nuke their award fee, at minimum. Some contract vehicles will straight up require the contractor to issue the government a refund. I don't know how this contact is set up though.
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Sorry to interrupt, but did you buy that hat, or was it handmade? It would make the perfect birthday present for someone I know.
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Heer98 posted:Sorry to interrupt, but did you buy that hat, or was it handmade? It would make the perfect birthday present for someone I know. https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1180150023193026561
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Feb 4, 2020 03:42
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Awww, haha. Thanks! Now I only want one more.
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There is a very Cold War car for sale at the moment: This is a Tatra 603 It's an East German limousine commonly used by Soviet satellite states. This one is rather unique, however, in that it was formerly owned by the PLO and was ostensibly used by either Yasser Arafat, or competing senior PLO members, or both.   The article has quite a bit more background on both the car itself and who it can be reasonably assumed used it, but goddamn what a thing to pop up for sale.
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Feb 4, 2020 04:04
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30% listening devices by weight.
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Not cold war but...if y'all haven't seen 1917 go see it, it was really really good.
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Carth Dookie posted:30% listening devices by weight. And 15% dud car bombs.
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Carth Dookie posted:30% listening devices by weight. What I want to know is if you're Mossad bugging a PLO state car and you find a Russian listening device already there do you leave it there? Do you remove it? Ditto if you're the CIA. How many intelligence agencies until it becomes a sort of "kilroy was here" deal?
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Shooting Blanks posted:There is a very Cold War car for sale at the moment: Air-cooled Rear engined V-8 Kills Nazis (at least its predecessor did) I'll take 2.
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Hauldren Collider posted:What I want to know is if you're Mossad bugging a PLO state car and you find a Russian listening device already there do you leave it there? Do you remove it? Ditto if you're the CIA. How many intelligence agencies until it becomes a sort of "kilroy was here" deal? finding an unexpected device in a car was what led to the takedown of the Baltimore PD gun task force for an amazing variety of criminal activities
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Smiling Jack posted:finding an unexpected device in a car was what led to the takedown of the Baltimore PD gun task force for an amazing variety of criminal activities Bmore PD is just legalized organized crime
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Shooting Blanks posted:There is a very Cold War car for sale at the moment: Excuse me but Tatra is extremely Czech and not at all German, and if you got that info from that article who knows what other extremely basic facts it also got wrong.
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The article notes it was given to the PLO by the East German Stasi, but correctly pegs it as Czechoslovakian.
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I kind of want to paint it electric blue and bright red and call it the Neon Tatra.
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Some espionage efforts span years, with elaborate clandestine plans involving hundreds of people, high tech equipment, and razor-thin timelines. Some espionage efforts are just taking your work laptop with you to China. The good news is Raytheon can sell the US government all sorts of new software and equipment updates to help offset the vulnerabilities their security breach caused!
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Can't help but feel that despite the effort involved, the spy game in the Cold War didn't matter. The important piece of intelligence was the realization that Soviet economic figures were bogus, standard of living was regressing, and consequently if we walked away from detente they could never keep up. No theft of secrets could make up the difference.
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Shooting Blanks posted:There is a very Cold War car for sale at the moment: I remember when Car and Driver test drove its successor, which was still air-cooled and rear engine'd and terrifying to drive
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Hauldren Collider posted:Not cold war but...if y'all haven't seen 1917 go see it, it was really really good. Leave in the middle, before it out-mawkish-es Spielberg.
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Mortabis posted:Can't help but feel that despite the effort involved, the spy game in the Cold War didn't matter. The important piece of intelligence was the realization that Soviet economic figures were bogus, standard of living was regressing, and consequently if we walked away from detente they could never keep up. No theft of secrets could make up the difference. If you're the dominant power maybe. I'd say espionage is most useful if you're behind technologically, even if in only a single area. Of course there's one way to find out if you're behind in the first place...
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IDK, I read Legacy of Ashes, and it sounds like the CIA couldn't find its own rear end with a map and a flashlight. Oddly, the same author wrote a book basically praising the FBI for being much more competent and effective, if extremely shady in its dealings.
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