Communist Zombie posted:

This is probably the best thread to ask this but did/do DC museums have special measures to protect their inventory from nuclear attack during the cold war? Even if its just moving things out of the city when itd seem prudent. And how badly would they be damaged from a nuclear attack?

Murgos posted:

I think you could easily show a squadron of Mig 21's and a battery of Igla's housing a 279 airframe B-29 raid. The Mig's get what? 3 or 4 opportunities to sortie out, hit the 29's return, refuel, rearm and hit them again starting from max range? How many can they get per sortie before they run out of missiles and cannon rounds? 40? 50?

Communist Zombie posted:

This is probably the best thread to ask this but did/do DC museums have special measures to protect their inventory from nuclear attack during the cold war? Even if its just moving things out of the city when itd seem prudent. And how badly would they be damaged from a nuclear attack?

TK-42-1 posted:

If DC eats a bunch of nukes I highly doubt anyone is going to care about the lost artifacts. At least not for whatever the half-life of plutonium is.

Mortabis posted:

And if the war is going to start anyway, that doesn't matter. And maybe your ability to do it prevents the war from happening without actually having to move anything there.

That said I'm of the view that we would, if we already had troops there ahead of time, successfully fend off a Chinese attack against Taiwan. So that creates quite the conundrum for them, doesn't it? Forcing them into a confrontation they're guaranteed to lose.

priznat posted:

You know those military combat simulators where you have armies of different types and then hit go and they fight? I realized I want that but for air power/air defense.

Murgos posted:

I kind of want one for dismantling an IADS with a set number of assets. It would be a puzzle game sort of.

First you hit that radar with your expensive long range or steathy stuff, which lets you get to that missile battery over there. Once that's down you have a window to get to a deep target that has a bunch of secondary effects. And so on.

aphid_licker posted:

Isn't that basically CMANO?

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Military equipment procurement is not only well managed but all programs are within budget and on schedule, the Department of National Defence has boasted to parliament.

But with shipbuilding projects going billions of dollars over cost and other equipment purchases delayed, a Conservative MP says the department’s claims are pure fantasy.

[...]

But Conservative MP Kelly McCauley said the report seems to be a window into an alternate universe. “I find it mind-boggling they are trying to claim everything is on schedule when obviously that isn’t the case,” said McCauley, who monitors procurement on the Commons government operations committee. “DND seems detached from reality.”

The claims made in the plan come at the same time that major problems have emerged with the Canadian Surface Combatant project, the most expensive single purchase in the country’s history. The project would see the construction of 15 warships for the Royal Canadian Navy at Irving Shipbuilding on the east coast.

The vessels are to replace the current Halifax-class frigate fleet, but the price tag has continued to climb over the years. The project’s original cost was estimated at $14 billion but that increased to $26 billion and then to $70 billion. In late February, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux estimated the cost has now increased to $77 billion.

In addition, on Feb. 1 the DND admitted that the delivery of the first surface combatant ship would be delayed until 2030 or 2031. The first ship was to have been delivered in 2025, according to previous DND documents.

Other projects, including the acquisition of Arctic and offshore patrol ships, as well as supply vessels, have also increased in cost and slipped behind schedule. Programs to purchase new fighter jets and drones have also been taking years, McCauley noted.

It’s not the first time that the DND has pushed back against criticism there are problems with defence procurement. In July 2020, DND officials denied they ever misjudged the cost of a project to buy new naval supply vessels, called Joint Support Ships, even though the price tag jumped from $2.3 billion to $4.1 billion in less than two years.

BlueFootedBoobie posted:

Simple service parochialism?

Godholio posted:

Canada needs to burn it's military chain of command to the ground.

Kesper North posted:

I'm sure Canada's southern neighbor would be happy to provide military services in exchange for privatizing social services

Godholio posted:

Canada needs to burn it's military procurement chain of command to the ground.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

There's something odd about this ad, but I just can't quite put my collective on it.

Xakura posted:

Isn't fighter pilot supplements just amphetamine

BIG HEADLINE posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FfVNMIzy0Y

Thomamelas posted:

Also the whole not a fighter, not fighter pilots thing.

Godholio posted:

There's a good chance this actually starts a loving war.

Thomamelas posted:

I'm not 100% but I also think that is a helicopter cockpit. Bell 412?

Xakura posted:

Isn't fighter pilot supplements just amphetamine

Xakura posted:

Isn't fighter pilot supplements just amphetamine

Godholio posted:

Usually it's

Downrange, yeah amphetamines and Rip Its.

mlmp08 posted:

I prefer mango. Bang does a good job of not quite tasting like poo poo, waking you up, not causing jitters, and not causing the shits. A+ before going on a ruck march for hours or watching a radar scope for hours.

Murgos posted:

Back in my day you just poured the instant coffee, sugar and creamer from your mre in your mouth and chugged some water.

loving millennials and their fancy energy drinks. Do they bring you an avocado toast with that?

Fake edit: avocado toast is good.

PeterCat posted:

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Finally, after many rechecks, the R-16 [Soviet ICBM] launch also proceeded normally. Considering the experience of the preceding launch at Site No. 31 and to avoid an embarrassing situation, the decision was made not to have the launch crew form up. Having received word of the successful R-16 launch, we headed to the dining hall. After two such difficult days, the marshal really should also check out the operation of the “marshal’s” dining hall. That morning at breakfast, we had been notified that if the marshal stopped in for lunch, it would be a special one. Despite this psychological preparation, we were stunned.

In front of every place setting lay a leather-bound menu. To us it read like a fairy tale: “Fresh red salmon caviar, sturgeon in aspic, cold-smoked barbel, cured sturgeon fillets, back of Siberian salmon with lemon, sprat with lemon, crab with peas in mayonnaise, roast beef, ham with horseradish, chicken salad, mushrooms with onions, radishes with sour cream, farmer’s cheese, sour cream, borsch Moscow-style, home-made noodles, sturgeon soup, Polish-style pike perch, braised veal, stewed chicken, steak with French fries and cornichons, chicken Kiev, crepes with jam, crepes with sour cream, black coffee, coffee with milk, tea with lemon, tea with jam.” Crystal bowls sat on the table, mounded with fruit—oranges, apples, and grapes. There were all sorts of mineral water, including Yessentuki, known for its healing properties.

We began a competition to see who could try the most dishes. Someone expressed regret that the menu did not contain certain items [i.e., alcohol] beneficial to our work. “While the marshal is here—no way! We are under a strict prohibition policy for the time being,” warned the military exchange officer. Marshal Malinovskiy never graced our dining hall with his presence.

I tried to do justice to the most enticing zakuski and dishes by “squirreling” some away, but I simply couldn’t spend more than three rubles on the “whole kit and caboodle.” Someone boasted that he had eaten an entire five rubles’ worth of dishes. By today’s standards, the prices were really fantastic: the price of the most expensive appetizer—caviar—served as a standard of comparison. A decent-sized portion cost just 47 kopeks. [about 50 cents.]

mlmp08 posted:

I prefer mango. Bang does a good job of not quite tasting like poo poo, waking you up, not causing jitters, and not causing the shits. A+ before going on a ruck march for hours or watching a radar scope for hours.

PeterCat posted:

Viveca Lindfors posted:

Ronnie was not a big star. He didn't carry enough weight. To think that the guy became president is really kind of funny.

Mortabis posted:

He wasn't an A-list actor but he was head of the Screen Actors Guild which probably was a much better way to break into politics at the time than simply being a household name.

Blistex posted:

Nancy wasn't much of an actress, but she had other talents.

Blistex posted:

Nancy wasn't much of an actress, but she had other talents.

Remulak posted:

Really misogynist and probably not true, but goddamn she’s such a villain that it doesn’t bother me. Although loving Sinatra in the White House, starting the conservative cucking frenzy, is probably her greatest legacy.