bluGill

The war has shown the need. If you don’t have the ability sustain 1000 missles per day you are vulnerable - that is production capacity. You should have the ability to launch at least 3000 at any one time. Larger countreis need even more protection.

On the one hand great, but only 44? that is a drop in the bucket, ukraine needs thousands to win. They should be firing 50,000 rounds pre day, wearing out 50 barrels in the typical day.

The evidence seems to be Russia advances a lot of troops in bad weather when drones don’t work well - but a single clear day allows the drones to clear them out. Ukraine also seems to be giving up territory when Russia masses lots of troops - but Russia then overextends and Ukraine comes back over the next months and clears them all out.

Back in 2024 is was predicted that 2025 would be a hard year for Ukraine as Russia still had plenty of old equipment to work with, while Europe was still gearing up industry - then 2026 would be much better as Russia runs out of old equipment while Europe completes gearing up industry and starts producing. It is still early, but we seem to be seeing the start of that play out: Ukraine isn’t winning yet, but they are acting like they have more equipment, while Russia is conserving what they have left.

I guess I’m keeping my f350 running for another 27 years… give me something I can afford that meets my needs. I hate driving the truck without the trailer but I can’t afford a 50k suv that won’t even do the job of my truck. Besides I miss the way my last sedan handled and want another, but again I can’t justify 40k, but maybe 20k

edit - and just a few hours latter the fuel tank fell off and there isn’t enough unrusted metal to reattach it. I don’t have time for that much body work so it is gone. :(

I don’t need to compensate. I like small cars - they are so much more agile on the road. I don’t need more power - it doesn’t take much skill to make up for low horsepower, and again I don’t need to prove anything with my car.

There are a lot of people invested in trying to make their drug of choice ‘safe’, while others are invested in making it ‘unsafe’. Thus a lot of studies are done and any result that fits a narrative is amplified by those who care. meanwhile real science is mostly lost in thd noise. I take all studeis with evtra salt.

There are two clipboards in X11 - but MMB pastes from the selection not the clipboard. I have never heard of the other clipboard being used for anything and I first heard of this more than 30 years ago. (I don’t know what wayland does about clipboards, butiit acts live X11)

i refuse to have surgery at my surgeons house - and even if I would agree that forces a dozen people to live together even though all they have in common is a job.

By the time anyone is asking for one more lane you need seven times as many lanes as they have. People will ignorantly drives closer than the 3 seconds following distance safety requires. Little Des moines needs Houstin levels, while Houstin needs ten levels of bridges. I can offer no help paying for that.

Do they have enough shells to use them? Limited supply of shells has long been a talking point.

that is false. Tanks used according to good doctrine as part of a well trained forces remain very useful. Don’t confuse Russia’s misuse of tanks and the resulting losses for tanks are useless.

I the part is not user serviceable, that means you have a lifetime warranty on service, and need to prove the price you charge for parts is reasonable.

Tradition is you don’t attack anyone at sea unless you are at war. Europe isn’t officially at war so they are ignoring everything. They have plenty of Navy power, but on balance I call it better that they are not using it.

The photos show enough damage to suspect it won’t be going anywhere until it spends months in repair at the very least (ideally in drydock). It isn’t clear exactly how much damage was done, but enough to mean it is out of the war for now.

If you look close, Russia has been careful to mostly recruit/kill the type of people Russians don’t care about: immigrants, prisoners, or Russians from distant rural areas. They have also been careful to not conscript many people at all, preferring to make it seem like everyone is a volunteer. Russia is running out of ability to get those groups though and the rest of the world are trying to figure out when/who things change going forward.

I’m guessing all those lower days of bad weather (drones didn’t fly well) allowed russia to build up troops - then one day of good drone weather and they are all gone.

This sub was equipped to launch missiles. It is unlikely Ukraine would say why this one.

Could be the only had the ability get one (that is only one sub sea baby), and it was random chance. Could be they could bypass the protections on this while the others were protected by something (sea nets, sonar…) they didn’t think they could get by. Those are two obvious ones I can think of (and thus assume Russia knows more than me if either is possibly true). There may be a completely different reason I can’t think of though - again I would expect Ukraine not to say (of if they say it might be an incorrect misdirection)

Subs are hard to find normally so if you see one it is automatitally a high priority to get it even if you reveal some secrets you don’t want them to know (like you can monitor their harbor?). also this sub was launching missles at Ukraine, the other ships were not as useful

Hard to say as there are many capabilities to compromise with when designing sonething complex. They are claiming range and speed. However what about acturacy - just to randomly name a factor that wasn’t mentioned at all in the article and so I don’t know.

Never say never. There are some things I hope I never figure out what those wide men are talking about, but this isn’t even in that same league. Maybe I’ll buy one, it remains to be seen if there is some potential use I haven’t thought of today. Probably not, but…