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  • 89th8 Offline
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    89th
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    #745

    What's weird is if you look at the satellite map, and even street view near the main road, there are weirdly few security checkpoints until you get right outside the perimeter of the radar site, which is not very big. Like you drive awfully close to it as a Qatari taxi driver. Guess if the sight is radar, there isn't much value other than trying to blow it up.

    Speaking of which, I'd imagine we'll have anti-drone technology deployed one day near our assets... embassies, radar sites, air fields, etc. Like a truck with a dozen lightweight SAMs that can lock onto incoming small aircraft and blow it out. Right now I think they have to use one of those C-RAM thousand-per-second guns (again, where do all of the bullets ultimately land...?)

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/7qk1xLdTxugFmBnWA

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    • X Offline
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      xenon
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      #746

      Superpower vs superpower, I’m curious if the aircraft carrier is completely obsolete.

      What do you do if someone like China sends out a swarm of drones?

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      • 89th8 Offline
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        89th
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        #747

        Funny, just had the thought this morning that I know drones exist, but these are the early days of drone-based warfighting still.

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        • X xenon

          Superpower vs superpower, I’m curious if the aircraft carrier is completely obsolete.

          What do you do if someone like China sends out a swarm of drones?

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          jon-nyc
          wrote last edited by
          #748

          @xenon said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

          Superpower vs superpower, I’m curious if the aircraft carrier is completely obsolete.

          What do you do if someone like China sends out a swarm of drones?

          EMP weapons?

          Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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          • jon-nycJ Offline
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            jon-nyc
            wrote last edited by
            #749

            Now they tell me. I just booked our flights for spring break.

            Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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            • MikM Away
              MikM Away
              Mik
              wrote last edited by
              #750

              Bagh it, Dhad.

              "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                Tom-K
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                #751

                Jon, where are you taking your kid for Spring Break? (And why are you on your kid's spring break?)

                Flushing the toilet is like practicing the piano; you just cannot go too long without doing it.--Axtremus

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                • jon-nycJ Offline
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                  jon-nyc
                  wrote last edited by
                  #752

                  I’m not. I took him out west for February break (NY schools have two separate week long breaks in the spring semester)

                  His mom is taking him to visit Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan, and Toronto.

                  I’ll be in Thailand with my darling bride.

                  Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    I’m not. I took him out west for February break (NY schools have two separate week long breaks in the spring semester)

                    His mom is taking him to visit Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan, and Toronto.

                    I’ll be in Thailand with my darling bride.

                    LuFins DadL Offline
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                    LuFins Dad
                    wrote last edited by
                    #753

                    @jon-nyc said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

                    I’m not. I took him out west for February break (NY schools have two separate week long breaks in the spring semester)

                    His mom is taking him to visit Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan, and Toronto.

                    I’ll be in Thailand with my darling bride.

                    Wait, bride? I totally missed something, here…

                    The Brad

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                    • MikM Away
                      MikM Away
                      Mik
                      wrote last edited by
                      #754

                      Wow. You are behind.

                      "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                      • 89th8 Offline
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                        89th
                        wrote last edited by
                        #755

                        I missed you getting married too. What’s his name?

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                        • jon-nycJ Offline
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                          jon-nyc
                          wrote last edited by
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                          Pete.

                          Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                          • MikM Away
                            MikM Away
                            Mik
                            wrote last edited by
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                            Pete. Jeezel Pete.

                            "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                              89th
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                              The torpedoing of the Iranian ship might get messy. Allegedly it was invited to the waters off the coast of India along with other countries to participate in international exercises, had no ammunition on board, and was still blown out of the water by the US Navy. We'll see...

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                              • MikM Away
                                MikM Away
                                Mik
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                                #759

                                We're destroying their navy. It was a navy ship. I have no problem with sinking it, but I thought the victory lap was in exceptionally poor taste, even for this bunch.

                                "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                                  jon-nyc
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                                  #760

                                  Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                                  • jon-nycJ Offline
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                                    jon-nyc
                                    wrote last edited by jon-nyc
                                    #761

                                    “That man is not fucking my wife. He’s scratching an itch she has. Which happens to be deep inside her vagina. It’ll just take a few minutes.”

                                    Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                                      AndyD
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                                      #762

                                      Just copying what Iranian leaders have said for 40 years?

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                                      • 89th8 Offline
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                                        89th
                                        wrote last edited by
                                        #763

                                        We haven't declared war in 81 years. Why start now?

                                        Don't tell that to Veterans of non-wars Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Vietnam...

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                                          Axtremus
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                                          Getting harder to tell if that should have been in the memes thread. 🤔

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