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I liked the transparent/translucent electronics trend of the 90s and early 2000s, the transparent blue PS2 and green original Xbox models were great.
The modern gamer RGB aesthetic with RGB everything and the jacked up PC cases? I hate it, I think even the light bar on the PS5 is too much. And the new Xbox, I don’t even know what it’s called series something, it looks terrible.
Yeah I’m sure that China is investing billions and betting their future air force and navy strategy on “joke technology”. The Chinese engineers working on the J-35, J-36 and J-50 just got brainwashed by NATO propaganda. China should just build a bunch of Flankers instead, so they can end up like the Russian Air Force that can’t penetrate Ukrainian controlled airspace 3 years into a war and just lob glide bombs ad infinitum, while Israel can penetrate deeply into Iran on their third attack. Whatever.
As for jamming, that’s exactly where stealth/low observability being a force multipler comes in. If your radar cross section is much lower, you need a lot less energy to jam and effectively mask your radar signature, and the jamming is effective over exponentially longer distances. Yes the effects of stealth technology are exaggerated by propaganda and movies, and of course it’s possible to shoot down stealth aircraft, but it’s still effective.
Taking some shots at the hot exhaust of an F-35, while a commendable achievement for a group such as Ansarallah, is not the same as shooting one down. At the end of the day, they shot down zero planes.
“Stealth” is a valuable technological concept that was first discovered by the Soviets in the 1960s, that an object’s radar return is related to its shape and not only it’s size, and thus can be minimised by changing it’s shape.
Clearly it works, we’ve had many cases of stealth aircraft taking their adversaries by complete surprise, from the Gulf war to Yugoslavia to now. There are videos online now where you can hear Israeli aircraft in the background over Iranian skies.
Is it a Hollywood tier invisibility cloak? No, and it’s possible to shoot down stealth aircraft. But it’s a force multipler, which is why China is working very hard on their 6th generation stealth aircraft and their own analogue to the F-35, called the J-35.
This was from April and October last year, not the current attack.
The response by israel to True Promise Two was rather pathetic which is why True Promise Three never happened.
I disagree. While the Israeli response wasn’t as visually impactful as Operation True Promise II, it paved the way for the current Israeli attack that’s taking place, taking out the advanced radars for air defence systems. HAWK, S-300, etc.
Their most advanced air defence radars were already destroyed in previous Israeli attacks
S-300 radar vehicle hit during April
HAWK or S-300 air defence site in Tehran on fire during October:
Kahrizak air defense base on fire/explosion in Tehran during October, likely S-300 site
The Israelis were talking about doing this for over 6 months
Stealth works, plus Israel already took out Iran’s most advanced radars, their S-300 fire control radars, in previous attacks. After the initial attack waves, even non stealth aircraft likely entered Iranian airspace. Plus Israel has advanced stand off weapons like air launched ballistic and cruise missiles that can be fired from hundreds or even over a thousand kilometres away from the target.
Not a scientist, but an easy improvement would be to use weight instead of volume for most measurements. “A cup of flour” can vary greatly depending on how compressed/dense it is.
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See this is the exact liberal nonsense I’m talking about. How is Trump “subservient to Russia and China”? Because he views continuing the war in Ukraine as no longer in the United States’ interest? And China? I thought Trump was all about tariffs on Chinese goods and starting a trade war in his last term. I don’t see that as subservient, that’s confrontation. A negative confrontation that just hurt everyone globally, but maybe necessary from a third world perspective, waking up the third world to the reality of the United States and it’s economic warfare. If you’re talking about dialing down the temperature against China in his upcoming term, that would be because the US benefits from Chinese imports and can’t wean itself off of them due to a lack of domestic manufacturing and industry, and because China needs a market to sell their goods to as domestic consumption + exports to the rest of the world can’t make up for US consumption, so they’ll give in to US demands. I fail to see how such a position is “pro China” it’s just self interest.
You have to stop viewing politics through the personalities of world leaders as if it’s some kind of Hollywood movie, and view the material reality. If the USA is no longer interested in pursuing a certain action or decides to escalate on another front in the next four years, ask yourself why is that the case, instead of defaulting to “Trump crazy stupid strongman dictator selling out the USA”. That kind of liberal analysis is not helpful and will leave you lost. Never underestimate your adversary.
For example in Greenland, many people were going on about how Trump is some big idiot that wants a country that looks big on a Mercator projection. Meanwhile, the United States secured a large rare earth metals deposit in Greenland, stoping Chinese mining companies from getting the rights to it. The US company that bought the rights to the rare earth metals deposit signed a contract with the United States Department of Defence to process the metals. While everyone was distracted by Trump talking nonsense, the US pulled of a heist and exerted more political pressure on its allies. When one hand is doing something (in this case Trump’s loud mouth), always look at moves the other hand is making (in this case, the US DoD getting more control in Greenland over their mining deposits). If you fail to do so, the jester will rob you blind. In this case, a large deposit of Rare Earth Ores in Greenland, China excluded and Denmark further vassalised.
Given recent events, I really don’t see how bending the knee to Trump is any different than bending the knee to the Democrats, especially Biden who committed genocide for 15 months. It’s just another capitalist bending the knee to the world hegemon in the United States. Trump is just more straightforward and bombastic about the USA’s position in the world as it’s hegemon and it’s demands, forcing ordinary people, especially liberals in the United States, to confront that reality directly, whilst under Biden that was obfuscated by flowery language and decorum. I guess that decorum and flowery language was enough for US liberals to “turn off” so to speak, and go back to brunch while the world burns.
100% correct, and this has been a well understood concept in the world of missile defence since the ABM treaty signed between the Soviet Union and United States in 1972, a limit on both sides ballistic missile defence capabilities at the time. There is no such thing as a purely defensive weapon.
Iron Dome/Tamir doesn’t defend against ballistic missiles.
Israel does have a defensse system that does shoot down medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) with a relatively high rate of success, which has been in development since the 1980s in a joint partnership with the US (the Arrow system), it’s why we only saw dozens of direct impacts from hundreds of ballistic missiles fired, and why Israel attacked in the first place. That, and Iran’s MRBMs weren’t accurate enough to existentially threaten Israel’s military and nuclear sites, and the Israeli military and political wing was prepared/made the calculation that Iran bombing Israeli cities was worth it in exchange for Israel getting to bomb Iran. There have been additions to the system (from the United States, and Israel repositioning defence systems internally) since the Iranian Operation True Promise II of October 2024, where a large percentage of Iranian MRBMs directly impacted. The impacts we saw this year were a lot more devastating because a MRBM has a much larger warhead and impacts at much higher speeds than Hamas or Hezbollah rockets.
The joint US-Israeli integrated Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system used to defend Israel from Iranian MRBMs consisted of:
SM-3 Block IB interceptors fired from US Navy AEGIS missile destroyers in the Mediterranean, and Israeli Arrow 3 interceptors fired from within Israel itself, for the exo atmospheric layer of defence (outside of the earth’s atmosphere, over 100km in altitude and at ranges exceeding 2000km, parts of SM-3 interceptors ended up landing in Iran itself).
The endo-exo-atmospheric layer (intercepting both inside and outside of the earth’s atmosphere) consisted of US THAAD batteries/fire units located in Israel itself, operating between altitudes of 40-150km.
The endo-atmospheric layer of defence consisted of Israeli Arrow 2 interceptors operating between 8-50km altitude, and David’s Sling/Stunner interceptors that operate up to 15km altitude for last second point defence. Iron Dome/Tamir was responsible for shooting down balls of debris from intercepts, and shooting down any one way attack drones that made it to Israel. At most, there is footage of Iron Dome maybe being used to intercept one MRBM as a last ditch effort.