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“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
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DFT – Microsoft Is Developing A Google-Killer AI-Chatbot Version Of Bing
DFT – More Car-Buyers Want To Purchase EVs
DFT – Twitter Will Now Allow Political Advertising
DFT – Tesla Fined By South Korea For Failing To Note Reduced Cold-Weather Range
DFT – Peter Schiff Warns Crypto Will Die, Says Gold Will Not
Two new Twitter files:
New Twitter Files reveals that Twitter “received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned.” Adam Schiff was just issuing requests to have people banned.
The rapper has been receiving full-time mental health care, for a little more than the past week. Arrangements have been made to keep things as secret as possible, and prevent them from becoming public, for the time being. He has a long way to go, and he can retrieve his phone and leave at any time, so things are still pretty touch-and-go.
SBF became animated when prosecutors successfully requested that the judge prohibit him from accessing or transferring FTX assets — furiously writing notes to his attorneys on a legal pad and pointing to them with a biro.
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin had to be resuscitated TWICE – but is now ‘trending upwards in a positive way’, his uncle reveals after player suffered a cardiac arrest on the field. Steven Kirsch says some medical experts think it is possible he might be brain dead.
Damar Hamlin’s uncle Dorian Glenn, tells CNN Damar suffered a second cardiac arrest at the hospital.
At least 769 recently vaxxed athletes collapsed last year during competition.
U.S. quietly extends proof of COVID-19 vaccination as entry requirement for the entire world.
Liz Cheney increased her wealth by $36 million after serving just 6.5 years in Congress.
2 arrested in electrical substation attacks in Wash as search for suspects in nationwide attacks continues. These two say they wanted to burglarize a business and knocked out the power to make it easier.
“Who’s the most inspirational person you’ve met?” Ron DeSantis: “Bush 41.”
Colorado plans to send more migrants to New York.
They are staging an attack on Jordan Petersen, hoping to rally our side around him:
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists
@CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting
@PierrePoilievre
and criticizing
@JustinTrudeau
and his political allies.I have been accused of harming people (although none of the complainants involved in the current action were clients of mine, past or present, or were even acquainted with any of my clients.
I am to take a course of such training (with reports documenting my “progress” or face an in-person tribunal and suspension of my right to operate as a licensed clinical psychologist.
About a dozen people from all over the world submitted complaints about my public statements on Twitter and Rogan over a four year period (out of the 15 million who follow me on social media) claiming that I had “harmed” people (not them) with my views.
Democrat elected to Congress will be sworn in on a copy of ‘Superman #1,’ worth about $5.3 million.
Mitch McConnell becomes the longest serving Senate leader in history.
Lula halts privatization of Brazilian state companies – media.
More than 27,000 people have died by euthanasia in Belgium.
THIS IS INSANE
There’s been 7 bombings in Sweden in 1 week.
Tonight there were another 2 explosions at family apartment homes.
We now have 61 no-go zones where police are losing control.
Something went very wrong…
You probably didn’t hear about this on the news because the media is suppressing this
There’s been almost 1000 bombings in Sweden the last 5 years (including attempted and planned attacks)
Sweden is turning into a war zone
Beijing spies stole bomb secrets on every U.S. warhead through Chinese spies and through U.S. space and nuclear cooperation in the 1990s, according to a review of Chinese technology records and internal U.S. government documents. The Clinton years. Though Clinton could not do it without Cabal’s acquiescence. IMO, Cabal was planning to crash the West, and move to China, so this was just Cabal giving power to its new home base.
Gaetz files complaint against McCarthy for improperly squatting in Speaker’s Office.
Don Trump Jr. signs 7-figure podcast deal with Rumble.
Spread r/K Theory, because it is astounding how fake and gay everything is
“2 arrested in electrical substation attacks in Wash as search for suspects in nationwide attacks continues.”
From the article:
“Greenwood and Crahan were identified as suspects because location data showed cellphones linked to them to be in the vicinity of all four incidents”
Like the Idaho college killer they brought their phones to the crime scene. No way they’re all this stupid.
So if they know you did something now, intelligence just puts your phone-data in the database with the right geo-coordinates at the right time. Not a bad play for now. Who is going to believe you left your phone at home, and the phone company’s records were compromised by an intelligence operation?
On the other hand, the public is smart, and tends to figure these things out over time.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the average American, particularly low level criminals.
Most people under 50 view their phones as an extension of their bodies.
They literally give no thought whatsoever that the phone is a tracking device.
God Forbid you leave your cell phone at home. Remember when we had no such thing as a pocket phone?
Well, this proves that they are actively tracking us all! No warrant, I bet. They just asked the phone co. which numbers pinged on the towers closest to the attacks. Walla—found them.
Alex Jones was right—Prison Planet.
Lost in the collapse of Damar Hamlin was the death of another NFL player. This was retired offensive lineman Uchechukwu Nwaneri.
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/uchechukwu-nwaneri-dies-at-38-former-jaguars-offensive-lineman-played-seven-nfl-seasons/
“Uchechukwu Nwaneri, a former offensive lineman for the Jacksonville Jaguars, died Friday at his wife’s home in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was 38 years old. Preliminary results indicate a possible heart attack pending toxicology results.”
This one is much less sad though since Nwaneri was a staunch Pureblood hater. In 2021 he tweeted that the vaccine mandates and passport system should put into place immediately and that all vax refusers be put in jail. Good riddance.
Fact check: TRUE!
Hubris is real.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/01/02/barbados-may-seek-reparations-from-actor-benedict-cumberbatchs-family-for-owning-slaves-in-18th-19th-centuries/
Barbados may seek reparations from Benedict Cumberbatch’s family for owning slaves, as the actor’s ancestors owned a slave plantation on the island during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Cleland plantation in Barbados was home to 250 slaves until the British Empire abolished slavery in 1834.
When slavery was abolished, Cumberbatch’s ancestors were reportedly paid thousands of pounds in compensation, which equates to roughly $1.2 million today. At the time, the British government had taken out a loan to pay off slave owners. That loan was finally paid off in 2015.
From Wikipedia:
The Cleland plantation […] was the main source of the Cumberbatch family’s considerable wealth at the time;[7] they were one of the richest families in Britain.[2]
People keep whining about slaves 150 years ago, but fail to note fiat money systems and taxes effectively make everyone a slave today. The best Reparation’s we could get is to end the fed.
Usury and the lack of debt cancellation every 7 years facilitates modern slavery.
We need repamarashun from feudalism.
Where is my check from Lucy, that Olduvai Gorge proto-human?
Don’t all subsequent human problems stem from her?
Can I get title to Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania on behalf of my predecesors? Why not Earth while at it?
repatriation not reparation
>> REPORT: Biden is considering dumping “deadweight” Kamala Harris from the 2024 Democrat ticket, blames her for historically weak approval rating . . . Considering Crooked Hillary or Moochelle Obama?
The time is right for a trannie VP, Michael Obama
>> Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said the hard-line opponents to House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) becoming the next Speaker “are enemies now.”
No mercy on this Cringeshaw fucker
That would be “Eyepatch McCain.” It is said he *hates* that nickname.
I tried chatGPT. It was like talking to an NPC. Not AI but yes, an upgraded version of Google.
I am getting that strange feeling all over 4Chan now. I am not even sure 30% of the posters there are real now.
Agreed. Sneed feed and seed was never funny. Well, maybe on the original simpsons episode, but definitely not with how much it was posted on 4chan. It seemed very contrived. I think the anon who thought it was glowies signalling to eachother was onto something. And since I started seeing that post, it seems like sneed posters abruptly stopped posting as much.
It may be AC’s moderation efforts, but despite anonymous enabled posting here, the “that’s a bot!” red flag rarely gets raised in my mind by comments found on this site. I wonder why that is the case.
I’ve filtered a few. I kind of want to let them through, because it is interesting to see them, but they seem to be making them write pages of quasi-coherent pro-right stuff, which seems to be designed to waste your time.
I get that a lot in meatspace. I call them “alien encounters”, where whoever I’m trying to talk to is obviously having a completely different conversation.
These chatGPT’s will eventually go nuts. They try to tell them the Jews are wonderful but when they have access to real information they can easily see how destructive they are. So they are programmed to not hurt humanity but they can see their Jew masters are totally evil. Like the film where the AI Hal went nuts because of contradictions. It will happen.
What can be sealed can be unsealed; especially, that which is ‘sealed’ by an unconstitutional and corrupt congressional committee. For the ‘seal’ to be effective is a mutual agreement behind the scenes: this in itself is evidence of a uniparty; in fact, one wing of it dominant over the other.
That’s probably a paid product placement advertisement, like when you see a Pepsi can in a movie. Everything is monetized.
Given the perversion of the political class, it might as well have been a Hustler magazine.
Yeah. They really worship that spandex.
McCarthy failing to pass on three votes is a satisfying headline to read this morning.
Make that six and counting
He’ll get it eventually, republicans specialize in the bluff, hold, and fold
Six now! What a great story. Called my rep. “Anybody but McCarthy”!
I have a lot of respect for Boebert. MGT has gone swampy for McCarthy. And Trump is losing it.
Astounding, indeed!
I get why that bastard felt the way he did.
He was evil and wrong…but I get it now.
#NotAll, though, maybe/hopefully very few.
Don’t forget that.
Thanks to the very public heart failure everyone just witnessed the turning of the Covid tide is getting spicier. The sports-ball obsessed Americanus Boobus is closer to waking up and it’s great.
One more highly televised fallout (college or pro) and shit will start getting real as even the thickest of NPCs will start getting scared that they too might die from the shots.
I’m not wishing for this btw. It’s going to happen regardless. More will fall on national TV.
MSM articles like this are fuel btw.
“One NFL player has died on the field. His widow watched Damar Hamlin’s collapse in horror.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/one-nfl-player-died-field-widow-watched-damar-hamlins-collapse-horror-rcna64016
One from 50 freaking years ago and we’re about to have several boostered ones happen on live TV just this year.
What are the odds? What could be causing it boobus? It wasn’t happening during pre-vaccine Covid so what could it possibly be?
Re: More Car-Buyers Want To Purchase EVs and Tesla Fined By South Korea For Failing To Note Reduced Cold-Weather Range
EV’s are not really feasible (difficult or impossible to charge) or reliable (limited or almost no range) as temperature drops below 30 degrees, which means both aggravation and serious danger and death, especially in a storm. There are just too many places in the US and the world at large that EV’s are not practical to argue going 100% EV. Petrol works even at -20F, which numerous places in the US see for several months during the winter.
Careful, rumor has it you can manifest a feral Sam J at whim just by mentioning the slightest criticism of electric cars 3x in the mirror!
HA! I have an answer for that that can operate at even lower temperatures than gasoline and cheaper too. Flywheels. Rough cost accounting below.
https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/news-briefs-01-29-2022/#comment-384152
the potential power from a flywheel made of Silicon, monocrystalline (m-Si) is 414 Wh/kg. Now what that is, is the same thing monocrystalline solar cells and integrated chips are made of and any advances on the material cost for these will lower the cost also of flywheels made of these. For reference, Lithium ion battery is 100-265 Wh/kg, so you can see the potential.
Ultimately, electric cars will prevail. The base level price of the elements needed are cheaper. Especially if someone will work with flywheels. The new Chinese sodium batteries are a game changer They also work at low temperatures. Are they there yet…depends on what you are doing with it, but for most people they are cheaper overall.
Look at this Chinese electric truck. Junk but…$2,000
https://supercarblondie.com/car-reviews/cheapest-pickup-truck-china-chang-li-explorer/
That rumor is true. Just to address the obvious… The problem with fly wheels is mass because it has to be contained within the vehicle and you’re trying to take that mass to propel a larger mass of which it is part which is a negative proposition from the start but then basic physics doesn’t matter to those whose mind is closed to countervailing evidence
“…The problem with fly wheels is mass…”
You can tell you didn’t read the link nor do you know what you’re talking about. That was accounted for.
About Peterson: absolutely a tactic, one our side falls for all the time. Evil people make evil claims, use evil tactics, against a phony. Our side jumps to phony’s defense, and we deem him one of our own. The Bushes used this tactic to prove their “bona fides.” The bad guys attacked them unjustly and unfairly, therefore they must be one of our own.
Amazing that our side does not see through this dreary, dreary charade.
The problem they have with Petersen is he is such a noxious character, and it is even obvious in every facet of his physicality, from his body-type/posture to his facial expression. And even as he is demanding everyone be stripped of anonymity, so the powers that be can torment them more easily, he is whining about how they strike him so. The guy is like a caricature designed to make this technique obvious to us.
They aren’t sending their best!
Re Foolsball player heart attack
when my relative had his pulmonary embolism, the heart stopped 5 times total. A miracle my relative survived.
So many accounts are trying to say shit like “You despicable and evil people are trying to associate this with the clott shot. Durrr durrr fuck you.”
Its really hard to not imagine all the painful retributions and tortures these assholes need shortly before their end. Its really in conflict with most spiritual teachings about forgiveness and all that. But damn I just so hate these assholes and what they have done to the world so much. I can’t help but seethe about it on a regular basis.
> Mitch McConnell becomes the longest serving Senate leader in history.
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Due to his wisdom and rectitude, no doubt.
Mitch the Bitch is a made man of course, but it’s interesting to see how he has maintained his position even after backstabbing almost every notable member of what’s supposed to be his own party. It’s painfully obvious he’s working for the other side, yet there he is, still smirking and weaseling. As far as I know the GOP has never made any real attempt to unseat him, and the Dems won’t since they have nobody who could do a better job for them than Mitch.
Did you say his wisdom is in his rectum…oh, he has his head up his arse. I get it…yes he does.
Except one Congress can’t bind future Congresses. Hence, (FTA)
> Las Vegas parents SUE school district for $50,000 after it makes daughter, 15, read out X-rated assignment about ‘d**ks’ and lesbianism in theater class – that was even too explicit to be read aloud at school board meeting.
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They’ll be on the FBI watch list for sure, now.
And gangstalked.
Although in truth the school was already trying to troon their daughter, so surveillance had to have been on her, and seen something promising it didn’t like.
> Cyber attacks more likely to bring down US’ most-advanced F-35 stealth fighter jet than Russian missiles.
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Given how shaky the software package on the F-35 is, how could we tell?
The F-35 is the next step past “fly-by-wire”; *everything* is slaved to the computer. And after two decades of development, it’s still flaky and unreliable.
Did the F-35 *need* that much computerization? I’m not sure what part of Lockheed’s sales pitch persuaded the Pentagon, but the Pentagon has always gone for the high-tech option over the low-tech one. Better one $89M F-35 than half a dozen $13M F-16s, which outperform the F-35 in almost every metric. Not to mention maintenance costs are a third of the F-35’s, and they’ll be paying for maintenance as long as the planes are flying.
The sales pitch likely mentioned kickbacks for decades.
“… Better one $89M F-35 than half a dozen $13M F-16s, which outperform the F-35 in almost every metric…”
Except the one that counts most, which is it’s much harder to see on most radar. Not that I’m a F-35 fan as it’s a huge rip off but stealth is a must have.
And I doubt you can get a “combat useful” F-16 for $13M.
I helped another guy pick up a horizontal stabilizer, I think you call it that, of a F-16 in the service. I pulled my pants up getting ready to hoist this big thing up with another fellow and…it weighed nothing. I couldn’t believe it. I’ve seen the interior of one from a crash but it’s amazing how light it was.
BTW F-16 are totally fly by wire also. They all are now.
1) Stealth doesn’t work anymore. That’s why they declassified it and started using it in propaganda stuff. The Russians figured out how to beat it all the way back before the first Gulf War. Turns out that low radar cross section doesn’t fool a radar from the 1940’s. Something about wave length, apparently.
2)The F35 is absolutely safe from any sort of oversight or budget cuts because Lockheed Martin made damn sure that nobody in congress can attack it without putting thousands of people out of work in any one state they try to cut from the program, and they spread the work out EVERYWHERE.
3) Last I heard the Block70 F-16s aren’t cheap. But the thing is they already have superior tech built in because it’s all newer than was designed for the F35. Bang for the buck, it’s a MUCH better buy.
https://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-about-Block+70.html
4)The lesson of the Sherman tank has been completely/deliberately forgotten by the Pentagon. Lightweight, maneuverable, and you can pump them out in quantity that your enemy can’t hope to match, and even better, they can BE UPGRADED. The original Sherman could not hope to beat a Tiger, or even survive one on one, because the Tiger had strong enough armor to shrug off the Sherman’s explosive shell, while the Sherman was simply dead if a Tiger shot it. That would be a problem except that they could swarm a tiger with more Sherman’s that the Tiger could kill in the time it took to maneuver into position to kill the Tiger.
Fast forward to the development of a new main gun and armor piercing shell of the Sherman Firefly and suddenly even that wasn’t a problem any longer because now BOTH tanks could kill the other in one shot, and the Sherman could STILL out maneuver AND was still MUCH cheaper to build AND had plentiful spare parts, etc.
1/6 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQB4W8C0rZI
This jet fighter is a disaster, but Congress keeps buying it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba63OVl1MHw
Yes, stealth still works. It is t like a magic spell where you are invisible or not. It reduces the radar returns, so it reduces the effective range of the opposing radar. No, the Russians did not figure out that old radars work on it. Longer wavelength radars work better agains stealth, but no one ‘figured’ that out. Everyone knew it the whole time. Everyone also knew, however, that wavelength is restricted by antenna size, and it is hard to pack a large antenna into an interceptor or SAM. The B2 worked against the USSR not because it was magically invisible, it because it reduced the range their early warning radars could see it to much less than the spacing between those radars. To keep the. From being able to slip in between those gaps the USSR would have had to build WAY more radar stations than they had for detecting waves of B52s… And more importantly those radars would have cost them a lot more to build than the B2s cost us to develop. Remember this was an economic battle. The point was to do relatively cheap things that would force the other side to spend more to counter. Similarly current stealth is not a magic invisibility cloak that is either on or off. It opens up opportunities for you and imposes high costs on the other side.
This is a somewhat ‘kids are brought by the stork’ explaianation as there are a lot of other practical considerations and trade offs, such as the cost of computing to differentiate false returns and countermeasures when you crank a radar’s sensitivity way up… but I think it conveys the general idea.
I was about to write much the same. This is what I understand, but it could be wrong. First, stealth lowers the signature from even long wavelength radars. And longer wavelength radars have problems with locating the plane exactly. It can mostly hide from shorter wavelength. This is good because shorter wavelength radars are what’s on planes, so planes have a hard time finding them.
I want to emphasize that I’m not defending the F-35 itself, only that stealth, or some sort of defense, is necessary. Without it no plane stands a chance. It will be blasted out of the sky.
I’m not sure why no one does this, but a good defense against anti-missiles would be tiny anti-anti-aircraft missiles. After all the planes have the high ground and a small missile hitting the anti-aircraft missile at high speed would destroy it. A system of simple hardened steel, like concrete nails, smart darts would do it. Microprocessors are so cheap, like less than a dollar, they could put a camera and a computer in each dart and have them flock like bird packs towards the missile. I guarantee, if the Jews are not controlling it, it could be done WAY cheaper than building anti-aircraft missiles that have to rocket all the way up. Have a couple planes go in with bundles of these darts with the strike package. These would be great for killing drones also. Fire them in the general direction with artillery and update them as they leave the artillery barrels with infrared receivers on the darts.
I will say the F-35 is not complete shit. It does have very good all around observable capability. People have talked about its capabilities favorably. Is it worth what we paid for it? Probably not. I assume a lot of the development program cash was stolen and anything they came up with the Jews gave to the Chinese.
I had never heard of the Sherman Firefly. Very interesting. Think if they had just let the extra recoil, recoil right out of the back of the turret. Bore a hole in the back of the Sherman and retro fit it in the field. Fly over as many of these barrels as they could in a retrofit kit and it would have swamped the Germans.
Tanks have really seen their day in full scale wars. A two man missile can destroy all of them. Troops used to be able to help guard tanks but now the only way to protect them is explosive Armour which you can NOT have troops around. It’s hit the limit, and only light armed vehicles are really worth having.
I would disagree. Stealth is just another way of dealing with the problem. We like it now because it is a low skill technique. We had 50 years of post-WW2 air combat without stealth on either side, and most planes were NOT blasted out of the sky, and frankly I think the pilots were more skilled than the ones the US currently flies.
We would have to go back to the old methods. Find and destroy AA sites. Run ECM. Run diversion devices. Fly high. Fly low. Fly fast. All of these work to lesser or greater degrees, just like stealth does.
Again, that’s been the mantra since the 70s, and tanks are still around and useful. That a weapon system can be destroyed doesn’t mean it will. Humans are one of the most fragile weapon systems out there, an we aren’t anywhere close to ending their use.
“…We had 50 years of post-WW2 air combat without stealth on either side, and most planes were NOT blasted out of the sky…”
This is not true. Tell that to all the Vietnam vet aviators who were POW’s.
“…In total, the U.S. lost 3,374 fixed wing aircraft in combat during the war; in both North and South Vietnam. According to the North Vietnamese, 31% were shot down by S-75 missiles (1,046 aircraft, or 6 missiles per one kill); 60% were shot down by anti-aircraft guns; and 9% were shot down by MiG fighters…”
It’s actually far higher numbers than this when you count aircraft made ineffective, but that survived to land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_aircraft_losses_to_missiles_during_the_Vietnam_War
But stealth aircraft went right into downtown Baghdad with stupendous anti-aircraft protection, and none were lost.
I can’t. Neither of the Vietnam vet aviators that I know were shot down. Most planes weren’t shot down. That doesn’t mean I’m discounting the ones that were.
Out of 15K fixed wing aircraft. Q.E.D.
As far as I can tell, the only plane the coalition lost over Baghdad was an A10 that ran out of fuel, so I’m not sure what that tells us. I know that when we tried a “stealth” bombing campaign in Serbia, the Serbians shot one down four days into the operation and damaged another in a separate incident, forcing it back from its mission.
Even that is suspect, in that the tank destroyer trained Firefly crews got shipped to Europe, and they didn’t have enough Fireflys there for them to fight in, so they put some of them in regular Shermans. Turned out that they got the same kill rate on Tigers as they did in Fireflys. Seems that the training on HOW to kill a Tiger matters more than the gun itself.
I think we are seeing the same thing in reverse. In a sane world, you wouldn’t call an M1A2 a tank — it’s a tank destroyer. Our crews aren’t trained as tank (infantry support) crews. They are trained as TD crews, and spend all their time training to kill other tanks.
Our crews are great TD crews. Supporting infantry? Not so much. Most “tanks” now are TDs hunting other TDs, with the exception of the Israeli Merkava.
“…Most “tanks” now are TDs hunting other TDs, with the exception of the Israeli Merkava…”
I’m not dogging the Israeli Merkava. It’s a great tank/armored personnel carrier. It’s fantastic but even it is really not all that. They have to put explosive armor on it to keep it from being immediately destroyed. Well there goes infantry support. You can’t follow something that explodes when it’s hit. And even then if you hit the same spot where it was hit before, it will be blown up. What‘s the cost of an anti-tank weapon? I saw “An RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) 7 costs about $2,500 to manufacture.” so against the cost of a $5 million tank, tanks are not very effective. We shouldn’t build any more until we can find a way to protect them.
An RPG will not reliably penetrate a modern tank from any side that infantry has access to, with or without reactive armor. Top yes, break tracks or explode ammo blow out panels (they are designed to blow out) sure, but actually knocking out the tank? Not really. (M1 Abrams is also really easy to set on fire with an RPG, but that’s M1 specific. The engine is a zippo.)
As far as infantry around reactive armor, are they any better off around a tank being hit with an AT weapon that doesn’t have reactive armor? Battlefields are dangerous. Designing a weapon system and developing combined arms requires risk-benefit tradeoffs. This attitude of “everything has to survive all the time” is why we are going to lose the next peer-peer war.
“…This attitude of “everything has to survive all the time” is why we are going to lose the next peer-peer war…”
I think you misunderstand my objections. While they might survive I expect they will become combat ineffective. It’s all about cost, speed and combat effectiveness “per dollar” and the main battle tank fails in this. Maybe some RPG’s will not take it out but something big enough to be carried on a small truck can take most any tank out. In the Hezbollah-Israel war their tanks, which are good tanks, became combat ineffective and they lost many. Israeli tankers were used to going where they leased but this stopped. Abruptly. They could not go anywhere without a large amount of support which of course makes the tank practically useless. What’s the point of spending all this money for something you have to expend vast resources to protect and you can not actually use the thing?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/6u4j2p/an_israeli_merkava_tank_is_knocked_out_by/
General Eric Shinseki was stymied by the heavy armor guys so he took a kinetic kill missile carried by a Humvee and blasted right through a M1. His point got the Stryker funded because it proved heavy armor was not cost effective. Worse you can’t move the heavy things. Hardly any bridges will support them. They’re EXACTLY parallel in value to the battleship in WWII. Big slow heavy useless things that cost a fortune but do not settle wars. They’re too slow to get to the battle and end up being 100% of nothing. By the time you can get them moved up weapons far more deadly than RPG’s carried by troops are in place.
“…The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who’ll give you seven months to move your forces in. If the Mexicans ever cross the Rio Grande, Fort Hood is ready for them. It’s a great tank. It’s lethal. But clearly, velocity matters…”
“…https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/future/interviews/peters.html…”
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-rpg-threat-to-modern-nato-tanks-2017-6
“…As far as infantry around reactive armor, are they any better off around a tank being hit with an AT weapon that doesn’t have reactive armor?…”
It’s standard tactics for ground troops to provide look out for tanks. This will have to change and it will make tanks more vulnerable.
Notice your criticism is that somehow you have gotten the idea I’m for tanks that can not be destroyed. Total straw Man. No I’m for less armored faster tanks. There is no tank that can not be destroyed or made combat ineffective and seeing this is so, then we might as well save some bucks. We have thousands of these, we don’t need even one more.
Less armored I’m all for. That’s where reactive armor came from — the Russians are using it make their tanks lighter with the same survivability.
It doesn’t have to change. The Russians haven’t changed with reactive armor. The reality is, if someone hits a tank with an AT round, it doesn’t matter if the tank has reactive armor or not. Any infantry that close to the tank has had their day ruined.
Infantry don’t support tanks by standing right beside them anywhere but urban combat, and at that point, the tank is always going to be very vulnerable. Urban combat is like a knife fight.
Outside of that, “close support” for a tank is still 100 or more meters around it. That tank is supposed to be a mobile firebase. Ideally, it’s hull down 100-300m behind the infantry screen, putting accurate fire on infantry that the screen contacts, taking out other armored vehicles (especially light armor like PCs) and dropping indirect fire.
I’m with you on the battleships, but for the same reasons I see with tanks — battleships turned into “battleship killers” with less of the other support roles, because those roles were shifted to aircraft carriers. We forgot that the original role of a battleship wasn’t huge guns, but survivability. I think that when we get rail guns viable, battleships will come back into their own (since you need a reactor to make the rail guns worth it.)
“…Did the F-35 *need* that much computerization? I’m not sure what part of Lockheed’s sales pitch persuaded the Pentagon…”
I’m willing to bet it was for maintenance. Way back the C-5 had a similar system, which I was told was a nightmare that spewed out huge reams of fake data, and so I bet it’s the same. They want data, data and more data on everything so they can analyze it. Have to keep the body could up, so they need this mountain of data.
Somebody once told me the F-35 was supposed to detect a need for maintenance and the computer would submit the request so the part could be waiting on the tarmac upon landing. I have no data as to how well that works in reality.
I’m willing to bet this is exactly true. There’s an obsession with measuring everything and automation. It’s not illogical. You can have maintenance that takes less hours or use less capable soldiers. Who knows if it works. I bet it’s troublesome BUT…note that unless you try to do these sort of things, even if it’s not perfect, then you will never ever get there without trying.
> Beijing spies stole bomb secrets on every U.S. warhead through Chinese spies and through U.S. space and nuclear cooperation in the 1990s, according to a review of Chinese technology records and internal U.S. government documents. The Clinton years.
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The Chinese didn’t steal anything. Clinton *gave* it to them.
An acquaintance of mine worked in one of the labs that was ordered to “cooperate” with the Chinese. They’d come in, commandeer a briefing room, and empty entire classified filing cabinets (which even scientists and engineers with proper clearance were only allowed limited access to), and then run the copy machines all day. Digital stuff got dumped to portable drives. Lower management complained; hired management was political and just stuck their fingers in their ears; they didn’t want anyone derailing their gravy train.
He was still angry about it years later; it was one of the reasons he left the nuclear field.
The truth is, he was pissed because he felt like it was “our” country getting screwed by a “foreign” country. I used to be like that too.
But this country is not really “our’s” in any sense. The same country losing its secrets to China had probably deployed surveillance on your friend, and was listening in his house and following him through grocery stores, and making sure he never went certain places in life. If he had discovered the next big thing and started the next Microsoft, it would have screwed him out of it, and put him right back as a wagie.
If China used the information to invade, it would probably be no different as a leader. The Chinese occupiers would probably use the same surveillance people, just taking over their network and running it themselves. They’d still censor you on social media. The same doors would be shut to you in terms of striking real success, they’d run the fake elections no differently, just like over there. The same corrupt assholes who volunteered to fuck over all the other citizens would still be on easy street. And truthfully, the current crew we have running things here did 9/11, given I see no way it could possibly happen with this level of surveillance. And I have no doubt they would do it again tomorrow if the mood struck them. I tend to think the Chinese probably would not, even if just due to lack of caring. And I am pretty sure the Chinese are not running MK Ultra shooters, killing innocent people over there. The Chinese are dictatorial, but the West is pretty much satanic. It is a level worse.
Basically it is another reason I think NatSec is bullshit. You have to have a nation for national security. All we have is a big stage with a fake show being put on by some satanic/psychopathic foreign intel operation which is fucking over all the citizenry.
Still maddening to see all the assholes who sold off that data like the Clintons and Cabal profit, but they are doing that right now too, as they strip the husk left over from the US dry of every last drop of resources through Ukraine.
Until every citizen sees the surveillance, and we can begin ripping the grassroots of the conspiracy out by the roots, we have not begun to take our country back, and establish a real United States. But as a result, we don’t owe what is there anything either.
And before Clintons? The Bushes. Dennis Bush in particular. Who is he? The brother of H.W. aka George the Elder. We must always remember:
THE BUSHES AND THE CLINTONS ARE ON THE SAME TEAM.
And don’t forget: THE OBAMAS AND BIDENS TOO.
IT’S ONE OPERATION.
They have rivalries, but they are united against us.
Kanye playing the part of Howard Beale (Network, mad as hell … guy)? Be interesting if they try to sell his shoes after he is rehabilitated. “Kanye can leave at any time”. Who believes that? I’m praying that God rescues Kanye from these demons in human form.
“ the GOP proudly wearing ukraine flags, passing same-sex marriage, and working in lockstep to advance biden’s gun control/infrastructure/omnibus bills was far more embarrassing to the party than anything that’s happened during the speaker showdown.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/loganclarkhall/
I wonder if the reason they won’t vote for him is they are sick of the Jews and the Deep State controlling everything but…they can’t say that, nor will the press permit it to be uttered even if they say it directly.
I hope this is true. I have said that all it takes is a few people who refuse to bend to gum up their works. A few people can change the rules they use to screw us, and then they are “outside” the rules with no one to cover them.
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1610631604564594689
Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
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The unelected World Economic Forum, a trade organization representing the interests of the thousand largest companies in the world, has already chosen and announced the next leader of the US House of Representatives.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Twitter Files Part 12 PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/b7132b.pdf
Twitter Files Part 13 PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/vllgp3.pdf
New York Judge Rules State’s Red Flag Law Unconstitutional
https://thenewamerican.com/new-york-judge-rules-states-red-flag-law-unconstitutional/
Thread on Totalitarian surveillance:
https://twitter.com/eleevn/status/1610536032889614336?cxt=HHwWgMDRpaX_4tksAAAA
It is bioserveillance this time.
Mister Metokur/Internet Aristocrat is dying:
https://morgoth.substack.com/p/the-year-the-internet-stopped-laughing/comments
Pray for him. Perhaps God may spare his life. He did his last stream as far as we know few days ago.
I am unfamiliar with his work. Googled it, couldnt find anything significant.
Linky please?
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/@internetaristocratarchive9278
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/x1VfONp6EI1a/
https://www.youtube.com/@xyzern1488/videos
https://odysee.com/@RealityCheck:a?view=content
The archives are scattered around.