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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 4h

Why would you not want your wife to succeed? You are a team and mutual success is mutual success. People are dumb.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 4h

It's basically just the South Korean Chaebols on roids

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

We lost sight of the idea politics is something that you do, not just electoralism or numbers fuckstein wonkism

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 3d

Even just a fission bomb causes problems for essentially anything

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 3d

The best armor is not being there.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 3d

Also the several hundred to thousand kg at mach .8-3 is not a fun day.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 4d

Not every missile has this, the P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 SHIPWRECK) uses a 750kg SAP-HE warhead, seen here.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 4d

Some context: behind the shaped charge is a large HE-FRAG warhead, together they add up to ±1000kg. It's just over 600kg of explosives total. Shaped charge performance is usually expressed in cone diameters, i.e. PG-7VL from an RPG-7 is a ±90mm cone and 500mm pen, so 5.5 CD.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 4d

I know I'm late to the modern Battleship discussion thing, but it's a very stupid idea. This is the warhead from an AS-4 KITCHEN / Kh-22 Burya. It weighs ≈1000kg. That shaped charge looks somewhere between 500 and 750mm. At a conservative estimate of 2 cone diameters you cannot carry enough armor.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 7d

Is LPV Intrepid named for the DDG Intrepid?

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

Also, Lion notably DID almost go boom after her Q turret was hit but was saved by a flooded magazine.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

The British had serious issues with both AP shattering at obliquity equal to a range over 10,000yds and premature detonation of shells due to various issues with the fuse and booster. The 1915 13.5" shell gunnery table indicates that a 13.5" APC shell would shatter on .5" plate at 30deg!

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

Oh absolutely! And the poor British AP fuses saved the Germans getting slaughtered

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

yeah beatty's shell handling stuff was idiotic

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

Evan-Thomas and Seymour deserve more imo.

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

Lion didn't!

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

Nope! Just aggressively doing a little bit of talking past each other

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

The issue wasn't breakthroughs! It was the exploitation and development of the breakthrough to operationslly significant depth! But I do agree to an extent. It all builds together.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

I had no idea that the phrase “Back to the old drawing board” comes from this Peter Arno cartoon from March 1st 1941’s New Yorker. It’s rather splendid to be able to date the birth of what would become part of everyday speech with such precision.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 9d

The British Army assembled the world's largest and best equipped Light Infantry Force, got it destroyed and then had to build a mass army from the remnants.

Twice.

In the space of 25 years.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9d

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 9d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 9d

Don't forget that Dewey used ending it as a wedge issue to try and call Truman soft on communism to get the Polish vote

PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 10d

This is very nearly the opposite of what happened.

The Allies (mostly the Western allies, it must be said) forced denazification on the German population. Denazification was in fact wildly *un*popular with the German public, and it arguably outright failed.

Soliterror @solitayre.bsky.social · 10d

The problem is that fascism collapsed in Europe because the Germans vowed to never let it happen again.

That will NOT happen in the US. If the Trump regime ends in fire and millions of murdered immigrants, the same people will be in power again within 10 years. Nothing would change.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9d

sometimes you do, in fact, need a Darby Force at Salerno or 2nd Rangers to scale Pointe du Hoc but sometimes they get Cisterna'd

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 9d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 9d

It’s pretty emblematic of today’s US Army, if you didn’t go to jump school, Ranger school, or some kind of SOF course, people question whether you were really “in” the Army at all, thus a whole bunch of officers who could be helpful self select out

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9d

usual rates of death and wounding, and so erode more quickly than the
general mass of the force.7
This selection-destruction cycle means that a force with too high a proportion of elites—an army with too many special forces units, a navy that
diverts too many of its most aggressive junior commanders into the submarine arm, or an air force (like that of imperial Japan) with aircrew standards
that prove unsustainable over a long war—can actually damage its adaptive potential. Such a force experiences a brain drain, where individuals
who would have been leaders in regular units (and would likely have
survived to spread their knowledge to others) are instead segregated into
subgroups where, even if they survive, their talents are lost to the wider
force. Meanwhile, major combat formations can cease to be much more
than feeders for specialized units, providing the recruiting base for elite
forces that increasingly usurp normal combat roles, exacerbating both the
brain drain and the selection-destruction cycle that Beaumont describes.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 9d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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