MANSUY Adrien

A Human... maybe

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@AleksanderHelg4 @TPSpindel No, run out of missile stockpiles. And by all records they have
They will never be at zero because these are being actively produced. That never was the issue.

But it is the same problem that is impacting Russian air defense : recovery is slow, too slow for the expenditure rate

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@slantchev Yep
The US spent the entirety of the cold war becoming the uncontested soft power giant...

And Trump threw that all away

And they won't be able to get it back, because China is replacing them as the soft power giant without even lifting a finger

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@AmliePer @shanaka86 It is unlikely Europe will mend with Putin because the Russian Regime did what Trump did: used a deep economic tie and beneficial accords as a weapon. Likely Russia won't be re-integraged until thoroughly involved.

China thought? They are sliding as a replacement to the US

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@popbijoux @michaeldweiss No, it was the Pentagon and shifting politicial demands from the white house. SpaceX has been extremely good at helping Ukraine but for the whitelist to work everyone needed to be in sync ahead of time.

Which was not helped by Trump originated coercive attempts.

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@jefreybobeffrey @MaitreyaBhakal It does have a full layered air defense system, so it very much is defended. The lack of hardened shelters is less of an issue for it than land bases, moslty due to it being outside of range from an operation spiderweb type attack

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@AstralPreobraz1 @Microinteracti1 Oh it is likely such an effort will be made. But when the US weaved their security apparatus, it was with the backing of a won world war and a looming communist threat.

A golden position of negotiation. Now everything the US destroys will need a lot more bargain to return

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@Spectromachina @Defence_Index Like... Russia fielded and used a bunch of hypersonic missiles... that were literally just TBMs launched sideways from the air.

Its why it is very fucking important to read past the headlines when it comes to weapon specific traits

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@Spectromachina @Defence_Index Because they aren't created equal. Technically an ballistic missile will be hypersonic, but making them maneuverable and not dependent on a ballistic trajectory and thus hard to intercept is really how you draw more value

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@Cotac_Rastic @planefag Its honestly insane how the US is making a;
- one party dictatorship
- surveillance police hellscape
- openly regionally belligerent country

Seem like a white swan of an international partner and leader

Literally handing the next century to the CCP for free

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@YellinLab @OccupyDemocrats No, they went in saying they didn't need help against the better advice of their generals and the Pentagon

And now they are pulling the emergency cord and no one is buying their shit

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@si_vis_pace_fac @AI_EmeraldApple Except they do have assets
The French literally threw most their navy in the area
But they aren't taking part in offensive operations on behalf of an ""allie"" who decided to go at it alone and is now realizing how foolish of an idea this was

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@VariousRegards @Osint613 Nowhere actually

Ground based C-Ram are fit with timed self destruct which makes the bullet explode after a few seconds of flight

It is easy to see on footage of them firing. This is done specifically to not hose down the countryside with 20mm fire

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@_Locke_XX @Semoriil @rshereme Air exercises massively downplay stealth. Naval exercises usually degrade Bluefor situational awareness, and so on.

Going in a realistically unfair fight is important to actually identify what critical link breaks first

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@Canad_ian_ @RealAirPower1 @VictorishB123 Likely a little bit of range. But considering the meteor is a fucking air warfare cheat code in missile form

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@jusbar23 @Starlink @SpaceX Except a single old polar spy sattelite from the soviet era has orders of magnitude greater debris danger associated to it than the entire starlink constellation.

Remember starlinks both track their surroundings and CAN MOVE, meaning they can perform avoidance maneuvers

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@WhiskeyPeddlr @Starlink @SpaceX The junk is also other active sattelites. One major issue isn't even debris, its operators not sharing their sattelite data and then pulling un-announced maneuvers putting themselves in collision before a less reactive system can detect the change.

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@freddo411 @Robotbeat Landing only uses headers but yeah

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@Truthful_ast @Blobifie Yeah i mean ultimately MOST of the tiles are uniform. Compared to the shuttle where basically every tile was bespoke.

But yeah, from the first flights there was some unique tiles and I do not think anyone was batting an eye at that

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@deltaIV9250 Needs to be far, far higher in orbit leading to awful latency. Network saturates quickly leading to god awful speeds. Due to lower capacity, data price explodes... why do you think satelite broadband was so ass until Starlink flipped the table?

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@Angeldrifter19 @BohuslavskaKate Russia does not have nuclear aircraft carriers. They just have one conventional propulsion one and Kuznetzov needs no help to set itself on fire anyway.