RpRWhy would Assad do it? He is not a dumb dude, you have to give him that. So why the hell would he do it? There is absolutely zero reason to do so if you are in Assad’s shoes. None.
The so called rebels have done as well as hey did for awhile as many were Syrian military with access to military gear.
It is easily possible that some “rebels” are still in the government and this could easily have been an insider job.
RpRNow what could possibly be the point of that?
For the same reason the U.S. uses some of its men and equipment.
Real world tests and training.
RpRUS is vastly, vastly more the “Likely Opponent” in Russian mil/political circles right now.
Well the U.S. and Russia going to war over Europe, the chances are half way between none and next to none.
War in the mid-far East between Muslims and the West would be the only way they could be facing each other.
In such a war China, as they have their own border problem with Muslims and their own population of said same, would have to pick sides.
I do not see them choosing the side of the Muslims. While they would not side with the U.S. it would still put their relations with Russia in a rather precarious state.
Regardless of Turkey being a NATO member, hell will freeze before the U.S. would get involved in a war there.
RpRBecause it was stated by the former VVS chief it will be doing Mach 2.0 tops, because composites on it are not able to handle F-22 like speeds/temperatures (“It will do 1600mph”) and because Flateric has said so many times. Even if T-50 is magically able to match Su-27 speed, that still puts it below F-22. And T-50 with izd.117’s is certainly slower at supercruise than F-22 with its Mach 1.7-1.78 SC. With izd.30, we shall see.
Lastly T-50 just doesnt need to have higher speed than F-22, SC or top speed. It does need to have larger range though, both at sc and subsonic. And we know for a fact it does have larger range than F-22.
Do not the T-50 and other various Sukhoi have to perform tasks, with a war with China being greater thought than the U.S., have to perform more like the old F-105 & F-106?
Both having long range but one having the ability to exit target area at very high speed and the other the ability to reach targets at a very high speed.
For intercepts, the T-50 within Russia, will always have emergency landing bases or tankers available should reaching bingo fuel be necessary on a mission, while other Sukhoi tactical aircraft can deliver weapons and due to longer range boogey home catching a tanker or emergency base if need be.
With this in mind, high speed whether chasing a target or clearing target area is very , very important.
RpRNot your standard fare but I recently bought a box of fifteen VHS documentary movies on the late great Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad.
Even though it did not run in my railroad heavy area, the Red and Silver Warbonnet livery was always my favorite from way back when I sat on Grandpa’s lap drawing steam locomotives.
Some are like any documentary with heavy narrated information.
Some, and these are well over an hour long, have little narration while showing a particular train, whose ID number and type of locomotives they gave, roll by.
The train sounds are dubbed in as welded rail does not have the clickety-clickety-clickety… sounds the trains make on the tape.
I have ridden few trains long distance in my life but found that when I did, the above clickety and the rocking of the train put me to sleep quickly.
Shizzam, listening to some of the tapes does the same thing.
Although part of it is, one fellow who is a commentator on some of the films has a smooth calming voice.
I much prefer VHS over DVD and as they are comparatively cheap through Evil Bay, now I am going to get more.
An evening of railroad movies, is a fantastic way to relax.
RpRThe raid on Bari during WWII when a secret U.S. ship containing Mustard Gas was hit and sunk was probably all the evidence of it being a stupid idea.
The Germans did not know it was there so it was fortune that it was hit.
Eighty some people died from it.
Japanese had artillery on Okinawa; a Japanese shell or shells spreading it would have been a bigger disaster than Bari which is sometimes called the U.S. of A.’s European Pearl Harbor.
The weather was miserable as it was, imagine having to endure that wearing a mask and protective clothing.
RpRI saw John Wick chapter 2 and it lacks a plot the first one had, while the shooting is just silly.
I went to Fist Fight and Batman- Lego Movie.
Fist Fight turned out to be a moral story with more serious message than I imagined, while the Lego movie is not really for kids.
The humor is way over a childs head.
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No it wont.
This entire topic is a severe “wishfull thinking” burst.
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Amazingly, I just happened to check the latest issue of Popular Mechanics at the book shelf yesterday and SHIZZAM, there was an article on this topic which used that very same date 2025.:highly_amused:
RpRIt is my estimate that most combat aircraft will be unmanned by 2025. This means current and future UAV’s like the Predator, but also older legacy aircraft that were previously unmanned, such as the F-16, the F-18, the F-22, the F-35, the Eurofighter, the Rafale, the Su-30, the Mig-21…
The reason for this is that technology is about to see major breakthroughs in two fields that will make this possible:…
-… The first field is robotics.All this combined suggests that in the next few years, companies will develop a sort of black box that will be able to fly pretty much any aircraft and execute any mission, cheaper and often better than a human could. And for obvious reasons Air Forces will adapt these systems, and those who fail to do so will pay a hefty price.
You are watching way too many sci-fi movies.
You sound like a online version of the Popular Mechanics visions of the future, that started about a decade or so after the Wright Brothers first flight, which are 99 percent day dreaming by people who zero concept of how difficulties of reality vs. paper or computer generated wishful thinking.
Although that is a good reason for lessor countries to develop nukes. The EMP would make all these robot wunder craft useless.
RpRWhat I wonder is, would that kind of capability of persistant CAS drones, combined with advanced assault weapons like the XM-25, anti-defilade 40mm grenades, plus mini drones to resupply the soldiers be able to completely replace CAS planes? mmh I don’t know.
The day after hell freezes over.
Close air support often means dropping ordnance a few yards, not hundreds of feet from troops being supported and no remote control day dream toy can do that.
RpRI see when a judge upholds the US constitution he becomes a ‘so-called judge’ in TrumpTweetSpeak.
Moggy
Eventually Trump will grow out of his childish tweet responses but it will take awhile.
RpRAnd you have lost your own thread. A rule being absolute does not preclude a law, including those put in place, replaced, removed or altered by executive order, from being a set of such rules.
If you wish to believe so , so be it.
It might help to look up U.S. legislative bills and resolutions how they differ from a executive order.
I do not remember starting this thread.
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If federal law is redundant in this case why is the genius wasting everyone’s time changing it? —- It is redundant.
Why was it created?
How many of those state laws concerning mental problems did you read?
It doesn’t matter whether it’s one or 75,000 unstable people. Giving them guns is a stupid idea. — WHO is giving them guns?
YOU say it is being done, who is doing it?
That is not shouting except to whiners who wish to say so, that is one of three methods of emphasis. The other two I can think of are bold and underline. Bold can get too messy. So I do not always use it.
Of course I could use bold capitals.
The BBC were factually correct. A law may contain many elements, rules and regulations. So often ‘law’ and ‘rules’ are used interchangeably.Look, my point is you always seem to be reduced to arguing these technicalities —- Have you ever been in a court?
Those technicalities are what stop people from being convicted often, or released after a wrong conviction.
At that if you knew some thing about the U.S. political system, such a rule is all or none, there are no separate little bits.
They do not remove part of it and leave the rest. To do so they would still have kill all the original and then rewrite it without the parts they wanted to get rid of.
This was not a law passed by Congress, it was an executive order that Congress eliminated.
Only they and the Supreme Court may do so.
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RpRYes, I guess if I didn’t know what a word I had used meant I’d start googling furiously as well. — Ewww, snarky, snarky.
So tell me, how does my having an opinion make me “overly self-involved, often vain and selfish”, whilst presumably you having an opinion makes you the arbiter of common sense?
Common sense including “It’s ONLY 75,000 people with mental health issues who might be wandering around with access to unrestricted guns and ammunition?” {paraphrased
Surely 365 such would be plenty to allow us one Columbine or Sandy Hook per day. That’s less than 0.5% of them.
Moggy
Well let’s see your vain self-involved opinion wishes to speak as an expert on what other people are thinking —- “I think RpR’s position is quite clear. It’s fine to be shot by a nutjob / incompetent / drunk / toddling / American. That is a defence of our freedom to kill our own people. God bless America.
It is a bad thing to be shot by somebody with brown skin who isn’t an American and we need to take lots of action that, even a few minutes thought will establish, is likely to be ineffective, but will appeal to the hard of thinking.”
I did not say that and for you to imagine it can only be from an attitude of self-centered superiority even though you, like most other posters here, unlike myself who does deal with Fed. and State laws, know nothing about what U.S. Fed. and State laws are or are not because you do not live with them daily ever.
If you want to make a semi-educated remark about the seventy five thousand, do an in depth net search on how and why they were put in that category and why as the BBC article states some disability advocates were against this law.
With out that you are merely spewing vain opinion with nothing to back it except a news article that gives no facts, beyond the rule is being dismissed and it only involves a few thousand people.
RpRTo ‘narcissistic’ I would add ‘hyperbole’. It is often misused – ironically most often by journalists – to mean misleading exageration. It doesn’t. If a writer uses deliberate exageration that is not meant to be taken literally, that is ‘Hyperbole’, whether noticeably ludicrous like ‘I could eat a horse’ or generally un-noticed like ‘He always says something irrelevant’.
We are aware of State law and how it might apply. You and I both know that is not what we are discussing here.
Really?
Then any fuss about a single law that applies to only 75,000 possible gun owners is foolish, as you said YOU are AWARE of the fact State laws have this already covered so the Fed. law at best is redundant.
As to whether this is a hyperbole: The US House of Representatives has voted to scrap regulations that require background checks for gun buyers with mental health issues.
or deliberate exaggeration, is a matter of opinion.
While their headline says rules, later they do tell this only applies to one single law but then again maybe it is their poor command of English grammar as it only applies to a singe law they do again later say “rules”.
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