Alan Nummy

Retired IT, now riding big red trucks and boo boo boxes.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@Curculiunculus @wartranslated You did them right. Depending on whose exchange rate you use it’s $12.50 to $13.50 a gallon.

In my gas guzzling 2005 American pick up truck, I’d be paying $1 a mile in fuel cost.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@Bob_Holness_01 @JayinKyiv They’re called drones because it sounds cool but in reality they’re a highly effective cruise missile system that happens to be driven by a propeller instead of a turbojet or rocket.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@Murdochmobile @JayinKyiv @marynlm Ships can be destroyed without actually being sunk. There are lots of examples from WW2. More recently, Sir Galahad in the Falklands is a good example. Survived the attack but damaged so severely she was scuttled post-war.

Having said that, this ship isn’t destroyed.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@achamilivenl1 @sentdefender The US has the tools to turn Iran’s national infrastructure into rubble that could not be repaired for decades, which would end the war but Trump won’t do it so we’re at a point when both sides are all talk.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@achamilivenl1 @sentdefender Iran saying they can reach other theaters defies the military reality. They cannot, not now. They no longer have the tools needed to reach them.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@achamilivenl1 @sentdefender I’m not the one threatening seaways I cannot threaten, this I’m not dreaming.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@adazsy07 @sentdefender No they didn’t, but nice try.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@achamilivenl1 @sentdefender He’s completely bluffing.

Iran has absolutely no capacity to threaten any other sea lane anywhere in the world. If Trump would let his balls drop, Hormuz would be open.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@ArywoodSt @sentdefender You think oil is just about fuel? The plastic things you use every day are made with it. If you’re female, the makeup you put on. The list goes on and on and on.

Heck, that electricity that’s charging the device you made this post on was quite likely generated by petroleum fuel

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@RealCandaceO Yep. It’s not often people so brazenly display their treason like you’re doing.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@mylameopinion @Defence_Index Ukrainian UAVs the size of Cessnas strike targets all across Russia including deep in the heart of Moscow often in broad daylight every single day.

A 4.5+ gen western fighter with modern ECM will do just fine.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@ben42971158 @PZRequiK @NotWoofers Which makes it even more embarrassing for Russia

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@Varsevan @The_Lookout_N @Capt_Navy I could see them doing basically a hull/plant remount and calling it a repair when in effect it’s a new construction like we did with the USS Shaw after Pearl Harbor

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@Blueelectron4 @NotWoofers Navies that put a lot more effort into damage control than the Russians have experienced the same types of losses. The USN lost an amphibious assault ship to dockside fire just a few years ago.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@Blueelectron4 @NotWoofers Fire kills. See HMS Sheffield, 1982. it’s already lightweight construction. Throw in the ship being in drydock so probably unmanned and not in a combat state (doors open, fire systems offline, etc) and you’ve got a recipe for it burning to the ground

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@PZRequiK @ben42971158 @NotWoofers And RU can’t afford them - assuming China would sell them to RU.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@DmitrijZinovev2 @GirkinGirkin To be completely fair, it’s a 2000 ton corvette. Those aren’t expected to survive a modern AShM. Even manned and underway, a couple of hits from 100kg warheads are probably killing it.

The impressive thing isn’t they killed it. It’s that they killed it from 600 miles away.

[Alan Nummy @AlanNummy]

@mylameopinion @Defence_Index We’ve been seeing how good they are for years now and what we’ve learned is they suck.