Okay I am adding my nerding time. The Ship seems to be modeled after USS Oriskany with SCB-27/SCB-125A refit.

I really hope it’ll live up to the wait.

Also does it mean we will have a few mission as a WSO? That’d be interesting

Okay, how bad are labor laws in your country for even half of this to be legal?

I am somewhat bothered that one of the helicopter is a Russian Mi-17

But now I am imagining in french.

Iel (neo pronoun roughly equivalent of they them) being “vouvoyer” (formal you or for multiple people) instead of “tutoyer” (informal you for a single person)

Ah yes. This surely will have no long term consequences.

Except nuclear is not very pilotable. More than Solar or Wind. But can’t really be turned off either

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But do send me spider hentai. That is my very specific kink

Yeah probably. I still drive a 35 yo Peugeot, and it’s aging decently well for a 1500€ beater.

But winters in France are mild. Colder area might give issues to the chassis with rust.

It’s sad. Peugeot used to make decent cars. But they have really not done well since dropping diesel.

Yeah except right now the biggest issue the Bundeswehr faces is equipment and troop readiness. A report came around 2022 and made noise. After a short exercise 18 modern Puma IVF had been out of action for lack of spare parts on relatively minor issues. And that was on the 10th Panzer division which was earmarked for deployment in Lithuania, not a low priority unit.

More bodies are nice for an army. But those come after the infrastructure has been fixed for what already exist

The cruiser gap as an example. Was never real, it only existed because of the US Navy classification system of time.

The US Navy would call ships frigate or destroyer leader when they had the size and capabilities of a cruiser in the Soviet navy. The 1975 Ship reclassification cleared it up and also made organization much easier than the dozens of confusing hull designation.

That’s a chicken or the egg situation isn’t it?

You need money to feed someone, to get a roof, for healthcare. Wouldn’t anyone growing up their entire life in this system be reasonably expected to be obsessed with money? Thus perpetuating the system and the issue.

If you have an article or maybe remember more details about that story?

The closest I could find is this.

Ukraine doesn’t really operate western helicopter in general so the story may have been about something else. We have reports of the Russian using captured American armor vehicles. So no kill switch in those.

I mean, something like Lynx is probably as private as you get. Might be lacking a few features like, anything graphical. Still relatively usable imo

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Well then they are fucked. Maybe France’s Snecma is an option and the Japanese also have engines. Pretty much everything else is Licensed copy of American engine or Chinese/Russian which are obvious no.

I think turkey was looking into making their own jet engines. But Erdogan Turkey is about as good of an option as trump USA.

Okay so just to clarify what the software lockdown on F-35 means is that other country except the USA aren’t allowed to create update to the software. Exception for Israel and maybe the UK (don’t quote me) are allowed to modify the software themselves.

It doesn’t mean a instant kill switch. But it does mean that if the USA decides to block someone from update it’s much harder for a country to make their own update.