Philip Wasserman

Loyal Duck, Blazer Maniac, and avid sports enthusiast

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@HeirTatsu SLS is like building the continental railroad. Sure, we could keep sending wagons west, but if we want to really live there, the infrastructure for regular flights has to be built. Doing it for HLS is overkill, but once built, it will support so much more.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@IEnjoyStarshi I 100% agree, although we still don't know how many engines they are producing, or can produce a day. Most of the engines in the back of the frame are still Raptor v2. If you need 39 engines per launch, you have to build lots of engines. I would love to know the cost per engine.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@Jason The Iranian coastline is over 1000 miles long. We aren't even patrolling at sea, just blockading large vessels out past the straits. It's like trying to secure all of the California coastline with a handful of ships.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@PebMet1 @booster_10 These metal deflector-style trenches are proven, but they are disposable. All those steel panels wear away during each launch, meaning they must be replaced for each flight. This limits your launch cadence to repair times. You need water cooling for high launch rate usage.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@Cappyarmy Does it have a minimum range? Will there be CQB ammo, or do they need a secondary weapon?

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@Osinttechnical They probably flew the littlebird into the area on the HC130, and didn't have the space or the lift to take it when they blew up the plane.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@POmi7798 @LekhtNaya @daoudkuttab Ghandi didn't support terrorism; to co-opt his legacy of nonviolent protest into support for genocidal terrorism is disgusting. The IRA is a terrorist group, which failed until it gave up violence... The American Revolution was fought by uniformed soldiers. Try harder, please.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@Osinttechnical Nothing about the "Iraqi" militias backed by Iran has made me think destroying Iran was a bad idea. Iran is the poison that has destroyed the Middle East's chance at peace post-Saddam.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@JustinHaubrich His policy failures caused all of the wars in the Middle East since. He betrayed our ally, the Shaw, leading to a Shia theocracy taking over, leading to the Iran-Iraq war, which pushed Iraq to invade Kuwait to avoid debt. Iran spread terror to Leb, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. ect..

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@Joel_P_Atkinson With half of SK pop in range of conventional artillary from the north, what good was THAAD doing in korea? Stopping Nukes? Thats what our Nukes are for, the ranges and altitudes of NK missiles are to low for THAAD to cover Korea, Patriot is much more useful.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@DEricSayers What exactly was THAAD going to do in a war with NK? Soul is in range of artillery from NK. NK isn't going to nuke SK because we would nuke them, not because of THAAD. NK has mostly short-range, low-altitude missiles, which THAAD doesn't target anyway. Patriot is more useful.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@esaagar South Korea's capital is so close to NK that it falls under threat of regular artillery. In the event of war, ballistic missiles are the least of their issues. If SK wants THAAD, they should buy their own. Or have a copy produced at home.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@clashreport Why would you allow your enemy to do an open-source battle damage assessment of their targets? How about Israel lets people film bomb sites when Iran opens their internet access?

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@snarwani Unit cost is not the same as replacement cost. When people say it's a billion dollars for a radar, they are including the development price, i.e., the program cost $10 billion, and we got 10 units out of it. They aren't cheap, but they are not a billion dollars.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@clashreport He is like Steve Jobs, eating organic food to stop cancer. Nobody is saying eating healthy is a bad idea, but sometimes you have to get chemo and radiation to kill cancer. Iran's regime of terror long since metastasized beyond talk and diplomacy.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@sentdefender People wondered why the US spent so much time training the Ukr operators on Patriot; it's because incompetent AD is worse than no AD. These jets have IFF; you would have to ignore their friendly tags to launch on them. To do that more than once invites questions about intent.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@PfeiffCj4424 @Osinttechnical They were designed and built when precision attacks on airbases were pretty much a dream, and if you were being bombed and didn't scramble your own jets, you had bigger issues. These stop many threats, including the cluster munitions they were built for

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@I_amMukhtar When the state becomes inseparable from the "church", anger at one reflects onto the other. At the same time, when the "church" becomes an instrument of state control, the rebellion against one cannot be separated from the other.

[Philip Wasserman @Portland_Phil]

@Megatron_ron Context is important. What Israel almost certainly said was that the only way for them to destroy the Iranian sites deep underground was to use non-conventional weapons. Nuclear bunkerbusting is a known idea, mostly for targeting silos in a first strike.

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@VicLombardi Jokic caused this by pinning Toumara's arm to hold him off, then he had to one-hand the catch and got tied up. If he hadn't fouled Toumara, he would have been able to use both hands and gotten a shot off. Sometimes you get caught trying to draw a call.