I am going to become the joker
10.03.2026 17:41
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I am going to become the joker
"Bro, shut the fuck up" however...
I definitely have more leisure time than subsistence farmers did, yeah.
Oy, you got a loicense?
Honestly we *should* just off load our SLAM/SLAM-ER inventory to them, even if their range is shit compared to even the most busted ass original flavor JASSM
I think you could get a not insignificant portion of the Ukrainian defense establishment to make a blood sacrifice to Khorne for 2500 ALCM
Also it's something that requires a lot of depth and space, which is not really applicable in our current Persian gulf fight or an INDOPAC fight, also kinda mooted as/when we have the GATOR et al AESA discotheque thumping
!! Exactly!
They method of war making is driven by their resources and their institutional arrangements, which is not something you can and should copy verbatim!
Also bro look at what they've been able to do with some Neptunes and a modest amount of storm shadow, can you imagine the havoc they'd wreak if they even had a quarter of our JASSM inventory?
Their acoustic detection system is amazing as are their mobile defense teams but like those just straight up don't make sense for basically all of our use cases. However, the lesson of "you can never have enough ADA" *is* something we should take to heart
Ukrainians have done an impressive job improvising their IADS together with shoe string resources but like trying to model the US military's procurement and structure after a more less wealthy nation's pseudo post-post Soviet military tradition... seems like A Choice™
I don't think there's been a better argument within the IRI for nuclearization than the chief anti-nuclearization dude getting clapped
AFU: please god we need more M795 and do you have any more AIM-9 Limas between your couch cushions
DOD: so what you're saying is we really need is cheap drones (that cost $18,000)
Ehhhh I think AFCENT probably has a better picture of what their IADS was looking like, and that almost all standoff phase basically lasted like... three days which is nothing
Basically we used a lot of fancy stuff early on but now we're basically just dropping cheap guided bombs on stuff instead of the fancy long range stuff
Still unclear how much depth the Emiratis have left in their quiver of interceptors but the raids have dropped off in size and they could probably bum ammo of the Saudis who've mostly dodged the big waves
We're moving into the JDAM phase of the war, and it's basically impossible to run out of them. If we had kept up the sortie rate of the first couple days with the more exquisite standoff stuff (TLAM and JASSM) then yeah but that hasn't happened
Ehhhhh not really
Oooh I love Type 56
They're never gonna run out completely though, just too big of a country
i really don't think the primes care about what the USG orders so long as their order books are stable and filled for like a half decade, tho perhaps some hesistance about margin on our jeune dronecole
youtube algo finally did something good and suggested this channel to me and its got a lot of gems and doesn't immediately scream crackpot
really good episode!
I'm reposting this before even watching because Frank Kendall is always on my watch list and any decent administration next will have him front of the line to be SECDEF.
That & the China Talk/2d Breakfast team always kills it.
Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.
finally got around to listening to this and it was very interesting, good stuff all around, particularly about *what* ends up getting bought and which way that process flows
The bit about how firms prototyping systems with the hope of then selling them to DoD, instead of DoD telling industry what it wants? Gonna piss off a lot of people who are gonna lose money on MASC prototypes and affordable families of missiles
Tangential to this what comes across in Kendall’s interview here and in stuff like “Skunkworks” or tracked LaPlate’s career is that the DASDs of today are the service secretaries of tomorrow and I’m really worried because for the last 15 years we haven’t really cultivated a lot of that talent
I get the handwringing about interceptor stocks but as a showcase of American-led IAMD has been wildly successful
the 21 genders