Born Hunter

Oilfield worker?

The legislation is kinda meaningless in drawing a conclusion. What really matters is the data on how many are actually vaccinated. Sweden could have 100% vaccination rate which would then not support what you are saying.

We’ve bought B already and are to buy more (very f***ing slowly). This announcement is specifically the A variant for a nuclear strike role. My concern is given every other capability is hanging by a thread what impact is this new capability going to have? Having read a bit more the As will likely be straight swaps for future Bs so they will reduce the overall carrier strike capability. Maybe that’s a good trade off. But that money could’ve gone into more submarines, the tempest program, or any number of other big impact systems. Like I said, I’m not sure how I feel really. Kinda feels like it

The a isnt.

Mixed feelings on this. Yeah great we now have sub strategic nuclear options to counter the same. Plus the A variant will be generally handy for conventional deep strike. However, it’ll cost probably 2B to generate, introduces a third fast jet platform to maintain, could the typhoons not have delivered a credible alternative, and finally how does this impact tempest…

If I’m not mistaken they got RAF pilots to fly the first ops as it was deemed politically less sensitive British citizens getting caught than yanks. I don’t think they were flights over the USSR though. I think that might’ve been east Germany or somewhere less sensitive.

Neither, pure reconnaissance plane. Fast as f**k. A Lockheed skunkworks product.

U2 wasn’t made to outrun, just be out of range full stop. Or was that the BS they fed POTUS to get the flights authorised

SR71 Blackbird. Their plan when a SAM caught them was to drop the hammer.

Is anyone really surprised? I mean he did the same thing to the Syrians in his first term. I think he kinda gets off on bombing people that previous centrist administrations didn’t have the bottle to do.

I’m not read up on it but a state or organisation can maintain a readiness of x months/years away from having a weapon for years. Essentially having the tools materials and skills to complete the delivery but choosing to not complete that as a means of deniability/de-escalation. They then just continue work on materials skills and tools to enhance the quality and quantity of the weapons should they choose to complete the development. That’s not to say this isn’t another “WMDs” situation.

As f****d up as all this is. There is some wild video from an airline pilot over Dubai of a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles in their boost phase. Doomsday type imagery. Equally wild the video coming out of Israel of the terminal phase. Warheads raining down like something out of a Hollywood alien invasion film. Including some getting successfully intercepted. Wild wild shit. If Ukraine is the war of drones, this is the war of ballistic and anti ballistic missiles.

About a month ago the yanks moved a huge strategic bomber force to Diego Garcia… I’d say they knew what was coming.

Does nitrogen from the space walking thrusters condense in the cold of space forming droplets? My first thought.

It feels like everyone knows how dangerous it might be but no one knows how to regulate it. I think it's quite possibly impossible. I think it will give such a competitive advantage that states that do not completely embrace it will be outmanoeuvred or even just wiped out by states that do.