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A pretty good take on the Russian claims of warning-bombing the Defender: https://www.greatpower.us/p/hms-defender-goes-for-a-pleasure
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mlmp08 posted:British carrier hosts USMC fighters to strike into Syria and Iraq from the Eastern Med. Have the VSOs forgotten we have RAF Akrotiri? Bit of an oversight.
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InAndOutBrennan posted:A pretty good take on the Russian claims of warning-bombing the Defender: The Crimea is, was, and always must be British. Also French and Turkish. Too long since all the lads have been on a jaunt.
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Defense Watch Watch So this is fortunately just dumb and embarrassing as opposed to nightmarish and awful. So the Canadian military has been trying to get its feet wet with information warfare, and thus far has not exactly covered itself in honor. First it lied about wolves in Nova Scotia. Then it...conducted a surveillance operation on the black lives matter political movement. (This is one case where I can give the CF the benefit of the doubt; it could have been like those "plans" that war colleges do for practice, like the US invading Canada, IE an exercise where the target was as innocuous as possible. On the other hand, racism. Hell, considering PM Trudeau contributed some money, maybe the idea was to look for blackmail material (pardon the pun) to put the brakes on the fed ruining the Canadian officers rape and coverup club.) But surprise, the CF didn't know that all of these things were illegal, though the illegality appears to be that "the pols didn't approve it." Which seems a mite convenient, considering another project they were working on was quote:Last year the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviours of Canadians as well as collect and analyze information from the public’s social media accounts. Which is clearly something the DND would be all for what with people still not agreeing that all their procurement programs are fine and sex crime isn't a problem in the Canadian forces
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Does Canada not have an equivalent of the Posse Comitatus Act?
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Captain von Trapp posted:Does Canada not have an equivalent of the Posse Comitatus Act? Kinda, the National Defence Act allows for various levels of govt to request military aid/support. The biggest example of its use was probably the Oka Crisis in 1990 where the premier of Quebec called in the army. This was actually against the wishes of the federal PM but because law and order are a provincial responsibility they got army and tanks and poo poo. There are other examples but they are mostly to do with helping with natural disasters like floods and snowfall. priznat fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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priznat posted:Kinda, the National Defence Act allows for various levels of govt to request military aid/support. The biggest example of its use was probably the Oka Crisis in 1990 where the premier of Quebec called in the army. This was actually against the wishes of the federal PM but because law and order are a provincial responsibility they got army and tanks and poo poo. Ah yes, the Oka crisis - "these first nations people are upset that we want to expand the local golf course over their cemetery, but gently caress 'em! I'm a mayor, what are they going to do?" [later] "HELP, HELP, THE NATIVES ARE REVOLTING! SEND IN THE ARMY" [a very long time and one damning, amazing documentary later that Siskel and Ebert put on their best movie lists that year] "Right, natives suppressed. Now, expand the golf course over their cemetery." [and later when drawing up Canada's new (1990s) gun laws, all the guns used by the first nations people were declared illegal at the start of the long list of prohibited guns, as if somebody had made a list of all of them and made a point of saying "and THAT one is prohibited, and THAT one is prohibited..."]
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Nebakenezzer posted:Defense Watch Watch I'd like to know more, where's that quoted from?
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https://ottawacitizen.com/news/nati...pandemic-report
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Nebakenezzer posted:Ah yes, the Oka crisis - "these first nations people are upset that we want to expand the local golf course over their cemetery, but gently caress 'em! I'm a mayor, what are they going to do?" Canadian gun control has always been rooted in suppressing the ability of Indigenous people to protect their sovereignty and safety. I have suspicions that the policy documents that helped inform the most recent round will probably contain a lot of RCMP threat analysis detailing concerns about First Nations using .50 BMG and other large bore rifles to immobilize RCMP vehicles when next they invade a First Nation at the behest of an oil company and the feds do not want Canadians knowing how scared they are about the First Nations pushing back, or how invested they are in undermining them.
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Fearless posted:Canadian gun control has always been rooted in suppressing the ability of Indigenous people to protect their sovereignty and safety. Pretty analogous to American gun control once you make the obvious substitutions.
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Phanatic posted:Pretty analogous to American gun control once you make the obvious substitutions. And honestly, where I see gun control ultimately headed to in the US is a worse mirror of the German system. Multiple different types of paid licenses needed depending on the types of firearms owned that require hours of training at likely $100+ per hour from "accredited trainers" and taxes levied per weapon owned. All of it ultimately resulting in one thing. Only people that look like the McCloskeys and have bank accounts similar to theirs in liquidity will be able to legally own firearms in this country. You know, like the Founders intended. 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:You know, like the Founders intended. That possible future is objectively closer to what the founders intended. The founders were pretty bad.
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https://www.rudaw.net/english/analysis/25062021 US air defense artillery systems back in the “shooting down air breathing threats” game.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:And honestly, where I see gun control ultimately headed to in the US is a worse mirror of the German system. Multiple different types of paid licenses needed depending on the types of firearms owned that require hours of training at likely $100+ per hour from "accredited trainers" and taxes levied per weapon owned. The 2nd amendment read in its entirety and as it was understood for 240 years is about empowering the states armed forces. It has nothing to do with individual rights. The government referred to is the federal government and the the people referred to is the states. They use that convention elsewhere in the constitution and it’s not ambiguous. In order to form state militias that are effective the federal government will not interfere in their laws about how and when they arm people. Essentially the opposite of modern 2A reading by Scalia. Since you can read state as ‘interests of wealthy white land owners’ the McClusky’s are exactly who the founders thought should be armed. Murgos fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Yeah, the founders directly intended slavery to be legal and for local governments to be able to develop very strong gun control laws, compared with those of today. Saying “ah, but DDs were allowed back then and there were not magazine caps” is missing the forest for the trees. Entire classes of people were permitted to be forcibly disarmed, enslaved, etc, while protected elites could keep arms. And from town yo town, local laws could preempt firearm carry right out of existence. Founders: they were very imperfect even back when they were in style, and their style was a pretty long time ago. Thankfully, they at least enshrined means of changing their laws within the laws.
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If you want to talk about gun control and whether it is a societal good or an ill, we have a thread specifically for that here in TFR. If you want to talk about constitutional hair splitting and how various justices have come down on ideas like whether the 2A is a collective or an individual right, we have another thread for that kind of legal discussion. If you want to talk about racism and how lovely it is we have yet another thread for that. None of that is really cold war or airpower, so draw a line under this discussion and move on to a topic that is.
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Murgos posted:Since you can read state as ‘interests of wealthy white land owners’ the McClusky’s are exactly who the founders thought should be armed. I do feel that the necessity of being competent at arms and statesmanship among the early American elite, if brought forward and able to acclimate, would have still brought disapproval re: the McCluskys.
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mlmp08 posted:https://www.rudaw.net/english/analysis/25062021 Bring back the M45 quad mount. I’ll also accept a dual-mount GAU-19. 
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MrYenko posted:Bring back the 
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Sorry, already working on/with boring stuff like vulcan cannons and 30mm chainguns and missiles.
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"What if The L O A F but bigger?"
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Paddyo posted:Nuclear powered, intercontinental nuclear torpedos? Putin is really going for the whole “Bond villain” angle.
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priznat posted:Putin is really going for the whole “Bond villain” angle. They say an island with an airfield is an unsinkable carrier! Putin plans to challenge that.
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Paddyo posted:Nuclear powered, intercontinental nuclear torpedos? Believe me it's worthy of an effortpost but it's a bit complicated to make that post happen. The tl/dr about the russian developments is 2½ fold; 1. there's nothing in physics stopping say a 10.000 megaton device from existing. It is however very hard to find a use case* or efficiency for anything larger than 10-ish megatons 2. When Ronnie Raygun pushed for SDI the Soviets started looking at a couple unusual programs that could maintain the deterrent potential in case ICBMs lost viability. 2½. 'Something' happened about 15 years ago that created new money for those old plans in Putin Russia. The something was Bush and new missile defence. E. *one exception is if you want to explode NYC coming from underwater instead of from space like normal people ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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It is hilarious that underwater a bus-sized weapon traveling mere 70 knots is impossible to intercept doomsday device. It makes total SENSE, when you think about it, but considering the speeds utilized in ABM technology in-atmosphere its like the Austin powers golf cart-stuck-on-corridor of doomsday weapons.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:One can hope one goes accidentally critical and wipes out every one of their bomb engineers. while dignitaries are visiting.
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Arglebargle III posted:You'd think you could slap a new guidance package on a Spearfish and get a decent intercept envelope. This is what we call an "arms race"
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Platystemon posted:while dignitaries are visiting. "I love the smell of vaporized Gopnik in the morning, smells like...too much Burberry cologne and burned Adidas." (feel free to edit this if Gopnik is some no-no word, I'm having a lovely day and I really, *really* do not loving care)
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"I love the smell of vaporized Gopnik in the morning, smells like...too much Burberry cologne and burned Adidas." ATTEMPT AT CHEER ENFORCEMENT: Rockets and people is still in the Luna program. Looking up the entry on wikipedia, some nerd has worked out the launch success/failure rate of the US vs. Soviet moon program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_programme TL;DR both powers did about the same amount of launches, but the Soviet success rate was 34%, while the Americans managed a 60% success - and that is counting the Apollo program. Just got through Luna 8's failure; like the last probe, it got as far as the landing process before it failed. The failure was caused by poor QC. Some worker had not followed procedure, using raw fabric instead of the cured and pressed fabric they were supposed to use when creating fibreglass. As a result, the shock absorber mounts for the inflatable rubber shock absorbers were brittle, broke into shards, and punctured the shock absorbers when they inflated, and the escaping gas, like some sort of cartoon, destabilized the probe, it lost the earth fix, it's decent motor shut down, and it went floomph into the moon's surface. I'm not quite sure what the problem is, but the Soviets, after their huge lead in space, manage to loose it over the 1960s. Part of this was political pressure and haste. Part of it, too, was that the lessons of quality control learned in the 1950s doesn't seem to have been enforced once former engineers under Korolev split off to form their own subcontractors. And of course good ol' fashioned QC fuckups, which happened to the American program too, but seem to keep happening to the Soviets. e: while the N-1 hasn't really been covered yet, a major problem is that the four top rocket men, Korolev, Glushko, (the engine boss) and Yangel and the other guy, all hated each other and could scarcely work together. The problem is bad enough that people beneath them, (guys like Boris Chertok) are attempting to form a conspiracy to get stuff done on the N-1. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'm not quite sure what the problem is, but the Soviets, after their huge lead in space, manage to loose it over the 1960s. Part of this was political pressure and haste. Part of it, too, was that the lessons of quality control learned in the 1950s doesn't seem to have been enforced once former engineers under Korolev split off to form their own subcontractors. And of course good ol' fashioned QC fuckups, which happened to the American program too, but seem to keep happening to the Soviets. There's a number of reasons, to include the lack of support that NASA enjoyed. Add the fact that all the competing design bureaus were operating out of the same pot of money (resulting in competing prototypes fighting for money from the same budget) and you ended up with scarcely better than a completely dysfunctional mess.
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This has a very Roman Empire feel: https://twitter.com/kadiagoba/status/1409886664969838597
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Nebakenezzer posted:This has a very Roman Empire feel: Oh, boy, that's not the best part. This is the best part: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/29/willis-johnson-us-mexico-border-497080.
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Overt Neo-Feudalism, coming soon to a former democracy near you.
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