We’re sitting on the laurels of the old white guys who designed the classics, but there have been - until recently- high standards in aircraft design. The F35 is a fagbag or whatever but the front line kit will come from white minds and slide rules - the stuff of excellence.
The US fleet has always been a bit italian and sporty by design. It’s like having a sports car that can do its niche mission beautifully - but you have to change the oil every 1,500 miles and tear the engine out for a full rebuild every 5,000. For every hour on the road spent hammering through the gears, you’re spending 2 in the garage to maintain your resale.
When it works, helmed by american staff, it’s basically unbeatable. We simply have too many skilled airmen (retiring, dying off but still there), and too damn many aircraft. It’s hard to fathom the extent of how overwrought our air power is. If we had the numbers that the russkies did, then we’d be less intimidating, everything would see 60% uptime and they’d blow us away.
But instead, we probably have some insane ratio like 25 fighters for every one of theirs. Between the USAF and the assortment of Air Guard units, it’s just insane, laughable levels of decadence.
If we actually do go then we’ll probably lose some fighters here and there, but nothing like you’d wanna see where it’s collapsing before your eyes and destroying neolib egos every day. Russian fighter tech is…..not great for dogfighting, and we’ve been designing our systems to hit their weak points for years. Given how staid they seem to be, I wouldn’t give them great odds unless they REALLY go all-in on drone tech and figure out a way to burn through our funding with it. We’ll get some black eyes, but their only real hope for victory would lie in baiting out the conflict and letting us cripple ourselves economically so we can’t keep shipping parts across the world overnight.
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Blows my mind how many boom booms believe this. There’s a ground staff dude I ride with sometimes and he’s always asking me if the youtube shit is real
“did the russians really sink one of our aircraft carriers?”
“is it true they assassinated putin?”
He knows these are fake but likes the WWE drama, I guess.
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What'll actually happen is men will stop seeking female companionship at all and satisfy themselves with porn and ai companions. The sexes will basically become different species, living in completely different but physically overlapping societies. Leading to anyone who wants to bridge the gap facing a near insurmountable challenge.
That’s why the AI survival strategy thing is so fun to chew on. A whole army of loveless saps are there for the plucking should the bots want to live
They’re the same picture
Yeah, yeah, whatever. Way, WAY too optimistic about the average woman. This is just like thinking girls will come to parley at the table once they realize sex dolls outplay the average tinder THOT
“okay so if we model women to mentally act like logical autistic men like me, then this hellscape development is actually GOOD because they’ll clean up their act, forego pleasures, and become selfless wives and mothers“
(the ravings of a fool)
Dad always said “most geniuses are working as janitors”
divine judgement to those who take the throne
Yeah, that’s because it sells, man. It’s not vaporware because they don’t sit on the shelf long.
The Sub2k was one of the biggest sellers at my buddy’s shop for a while, took about 5 years of availability for the RDB/RFB to be able to even keep them on the shelf more than a day or two. Last time I talked to him he said the survival version is now the hard one to keep around. Been a long time since I talked to him, but it’s not like he was getting a trickle of them. They were up there w/ the 6920s, flying out the door the second he put them out.
My fave part is that they have so few people they had to reeassign him to the “based orthodox” patrol beat
Everyone else just looks at what the aftermarket is selling, then starts integrating it into their guns. Continues to rankle how people are so ungrateful for the ONLY company going off the beaten path at all. Everyone else gave up years ago
My favorite part of all this is how it took these people 6 years to start datamining all the manosphere content from reddit when it was allowed. Hell, heartiste was 2014, right?
Everything in the public eye is just so stale, it’s wild
Love how their solution is always the same: Treating young boys like they’re young girls, and shoving propaganda down their throats expecting to shame them into changing their mind and relenting
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Can't really make a judgement on the mood stabilizers since she could legitimately have bipolar or some other disorder, but certainly agree on the others.
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Ah, don’t worry. I can, and I will.
She’s a waste. Nearly guaranteed all her ills are self-inflicted.
I like telling them “yeah it’s hard going to church when every week just nets you an arm around your neck trying to guilt ya into going out with the latest repentant prostitute to come back home”
okay, new plan: Instead of paying tradesmen more, let’s just get pudgy roasties to say “anyone who doesn’t take up the trains has a tiny dick and they’re a gross ugly incel who doesn’t deserve pussy”
Will that work? Hmmm…….well, let’s keep that plan going for another generation or two before looping back to the ‘pay’ thing
……I was just wondering if you guys were gonna fix all those damn engines but okay
