@mikejt4@trend_nosig That’s a Swiss single seater, they only operate Cs and Ds so this must be a C. The C model in some configurations can achieve a thrust to weight ratio >1
@jeoc42@1912American@johnkonrad Satellites are vulnerable enough such that reliance on them is officially being actively diminished and as a community we are starting to operate under the assumption that they wouldn’t last more than a few minutes in a large scale conflict.
@jeoc42@1912American@johnkonrad I work in British EW so I can’t really go much further with this conversation but I do know it is a capability of several non-distributed platforms of both nations.
@jeoc42@1912American@johnkonrad Possibly. Again though, a lot of your boats, a lot of British, French and Italian boats and all of our theatre defence platforms can all do the job better so I don’t see it ever being revived. Satellites are really vulnerable nowadays to anyone willing to make that escalation.
@1912American@johnkonrad It can’t do it now. Can’t is present tense, I made it very clear that the capability DID exist. The missiles now don’t currently exist. Their development was abandoned because the naval and ground based missiles that do still exist work better at a lower cost.
@1912American@johnkonrad No they can’t, the program which produced that missile was cancelled. Most warships (both US and European) as well as many ground based theatre defence systems are capable of doing so however.
@alphafox - “we get your land” is not “good deal for everyone”
- US can’t refine them wo china
- 🇬🇱 already has far lower unemployment than 🇺🇸
- 🇺🇸 already has early icbm detection and can deploy radars there
- you can already fly from nato airstrips
- what about them?
- we take your water
@Relativistic108@GoingParabolic it's part of a wider NATO doctrine pushing for "best sensor, best effector", meaning that every cleared asset should be able to receive targeting info from any spotter. E.g. an infantry unit might need to call an aircraft to strike a bunker or a drone tell infantry where to shoot
@Relativistic108@GoingParabolic Well, stuff can but ye, not at this scale. The point is that it's linked to sensors that are in places that have line of sight on the target (like a drone or another soldier) and using their eyes to have the same effect as being able to see through it
@KashifAbbasi251 @Globalsurv Larger jets tend to offer greater range and the twin engines offer higher top speeds than either aircraft. It operates closer to a stealth F15E which is more useful to Russia because they’re so large and they want to keep key assets like stealth fighters in the backlines
Ok, now I get how AI can fool people so easily. This is a real quote from the amarican president in a press broadcast "Okay, we're gonna kill them. They're gonna be like. dead." it sounds like I asked an AI to make him sound like a toddler treating war like a videogame but nope.
@truthache68 What if you bring the air with you? Or better yet, some kind of combustible fuel that can give itself the velocity so you don’t need the propeller