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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,844 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Setec Astronomy

    First thing that popped into my head!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,764 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    In the post you are referring to, I included a link whch details how F-35 secrets have been incorporated in the Chinese J-20. Here it is again.

    No mention of the F-117.

    The point of my post was related to various assertions that decades old US fighters can't be allowed to be used in this conflict because of secrets. I'm glad you think there are still some secrets left to the F-35, but they don't seem relevant as a reason not to allow F16, F-18, F-15 fighters to be supplied to Ukraine. I'd still give them F-35s if it were up to me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,764 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Off topic, but here's the cockpit of one of Australia's F-111s I got to lean into once;

    F-111 Cocpit.jpg

    Not Agricultural. I have flown a glider called a Bergfalke. I believe it dates to the early 1950's. Basicaly a tubular steel frame covered in doped fabric. It was drafty and a bit chilly at altitude and definitely agricultural.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,764 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,012 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    The Pick up. The multifunctional tool of the world.





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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,653 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    I don't really do shorts. I focus on long-form, researched videos which are rarely less than 20 minutes. You sure you don't have me confused with someone else?

    I've tried the Curragh, but I'm hitting something of an administrative brick wall. However, I have enough other stuff on my plate that an Irish series of videos is a lower priority anyway so I haven't really tried too hard.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    The biggest problem with the j20 is it's been detected by 4th generation aircraft radars,

    Which makes it alot less of a threat compared to the F22 and F35 and whats coming next in the B21 raider and NGAD fighter



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,764 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Olga, call sign "Witch". Originally from Donetsk region. Until February 24, she worked in the field of law. Currently, she is a mortar platoon commander of one of Kyiv's territorial defense units. She recently returned with her unit from Bakhmut, where she had been performing combat missions for more than 4 months.

    She is quite a character and has earned her unique place in this conflict.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,764 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    A more 'official' version of the mobilisation efforts I mentioned earlier.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    The Chinese Communist Party looking at moving to a more open, formal and substantial support, including weapons to Russia.


    The revolution must be defended, the revolution must be international.


    Will it cause Ukraine to lose. No.

    It may well add years to the conflict and hundreds of thousands more dead on both sides and end with a stalemate that is an open sore for years to come.



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  • Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It doesnt specify what type of stealth either,does it?


    Lockheed martin still holds the secret fiber mat technology intact


    Neither China or Russia is even near that yet

    And sending F35 to Ukraine i will not recommend,if it gets shot down it will give the russians a major propaganda boost and they can also steal even more technology,that will end up in the wrong hands.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,764 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    An article including a Ukrainian pilots perspective as to why they need western jets, which runs a bit contrary to some of the military experts who claim they don't.

    https://archive.ph/MZeXJ

    Easy to claim they don't when it's not your family potentially being wiped out because your fighter couldn't get a firing solution on a cruise missile that you were hoping to down. And in case you disbelieve that scenario:

    Hero of Ukraine KARAYA pilot is back at the helm of a fighter jet, ArmyINFORM reports

    "I'm back!" - this is how Hero of Ukraine fighter pilot Vadym Voroshylov briefly commented on his return to combat work. Less than four months after ejecting in Vinnytsia region, the pilot with the call sign KARAYA got back to the fighter jet's controls.

    On October 12, the fighter pilot destroyed 5 Iranian drones and ejected in Vinnytsia region due to damage to the aircraft, having previously diverted the fighter from the settlement.

    As always, doctors were extremely cautious in their predictions. After all, we are talking about an altitude of 1,500 meters... Nevertheless, Vadym Voroshylov was convinced: "He will be back in service as soon as possible!" He kept his word...

    - "As promised, we are working on, until the enemy is completely destroyed," the Hero of Ukraine added.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭rogber


    Of course we want Ukraine to prevail but there are still a lot of fantasists on this thread who believe Ukraine is going to take back all territory including Crimea (just every few months they postpone the timeline for when that will happen...) whereas it's pretty damn clear, from the talk coming from both Europe and the US, that this is extremely unlikely.

    The EU's top diplomat has said Ukraine needs weapons urgently just to be able to keep fighting. Last May, there were posters here telling us Russia was about to run out of ammunition.

    Well, here we are, 9 months later .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,303 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    If the Ru military collapses, or their will to fight evaporates, anything is possible.

    I haven't seen any comments that Ru was just about to run out of ammunition, they can manufacture rounds and shells. Many have been saying they are running low on certain munitions, which is evident.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Economics101


    Some stark words from the EU's Josep Borrell:

    We have know for a while that Russia has gone to a wartime footing with triple shifts in ammunition production. Borrell's comments on the snail's pace of procurement and delivery in EU member states are pretty damning.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,303 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


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    "Don't ever forget, England imposed this war on us" on the banner. Goebbels speech, Germany 1942

    The eerie similarities to Russia today are pretty self-evident.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,653 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    There is something of a benefit to the simpler, less complicated production. Arthur C Clark's "Superiority" is an easily remembered lesson.

    However, until the EU cupboards are actually genuinely bare, it's not a matter of excessive concern.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    They are going to take back Crimea,no amount of trolling will change that, even the Russian know Crimea will fall ,

    Some people just like being wrong



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    It could make things dangerous for ukraine it will go from munitions to tanks and other armour and artillery,

    Alot of the new weapons systems being fielded by the Chinese has never been tested in combat,this could be a precursor to action against Taiwan



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,764 ✭✭✭storker


    "The F-15 Eagle is a case in point. It first entered production in 1972, and continued to be built into 2004, but in all that time total production for the US Air Force was 1,065 aircraft. Each F-15 took about eighteen months to build, and it cost $42.5 million per copy—the cost being mainly a reflection of the tens of thousands of man-hours of highly skilled labour that went into building it. Even today it remains a very impressive and lethal machine—but it is also very scarce.11 The increase in the cost of weapons since World War II has been staggering. The Spitfire, probably the best fighter in the world in 1939, cost £5,000 to build. When its third-generation successor, the air defence version of the Tornado, entered service with the Royal Air Force in the early 1980s, each one cost £17 million: one hundred and seventy-two times more expensive after allowing for inflation. Subsequent price rises have been gentler, but that doesn’t help much: the total program cost for the next-generation Eurofighter, of which the Royal Air Force ultimately ordered 160 aircraft, was estimated by the National Audit Office to be heading for £37 billion—that is, £231 million per aircraft. No country is several hundred times richer than it was at the beginning of World War II, so far fewer weapons can be built. Approximately the same amount of factory space was devoted to the construction of military aircraft in the United States at the height of the Reagan defence build-up in the 1980s as was devoted to the same purpose in Germany during World War II. But whereas in 1944 Germany was building three thousand planes a month (and losing them at about the same rate), American production of military aircraft in the 1980s averaged about fifty a month. Recent generations of fighters are far better than those of World War II, of course. They can fly three times as fast and carry five or six times the weight of munitions; they can detect an opponent hundreds of miles away and attack at a hundred times the range a Spitfire could manage. They are also much more likely to destroy their opponent, because their weapons are far more accurate and lethal. But that simply makes the problem worse: not only can air forces afford fewer aircraft, but they are going to lose them at a faster rate."

    Dyer, Gwynne. WAR (pp. 407-408). Garnet Publishing (UK) Ltd. Kindle Edition. 



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    And an anti missile system can do it more consistently, more quickly, at a fraction of the cost, a fraction of the infrastructure, a fraction of the training and a fraction of the risk.

    And there are quite a number of these videos.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,764 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭dtothebtotheh


    Are you confusing socialism with autocracy, Russia and their so called allies are about as far away from socialist states as you can get.



  • Posts: 4,896 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think Israel and South Korea would prevail in any conflict with Iran and North Korea respectively. However China and Taiwan is a different matter. What with the importance of Taiwan in the global semiconductor supply chain, any potential conflict coming down the line over the island should keep any thinking person awake at night.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,117 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Ukraine from Above: Secrets from the Frontline


    A year after Russia's invasion, this documentary charts the heroic efforts of Ukraine's people to defeat Russia's army in a war that's often been fought and observed from the air. Military strategists use satellite data to plan their next move and investigators gather images from space to reveal suspected Russian war crimes, while drone photography of key locations from before and after the war demonstrate the scale of destruction


    Tonight 10pm channel 4



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,346 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec



    Some people are too stupid to realise that Russia hasn't been a socialist state for decades, so why the likes of Cuba support them is crazy, because they're politically poles apart. I think that even the IRSP supports Putin, taking idiocy to a different level altogether.

    Even regarding China as a communist state is wrong these days, with their being up to their eyeballs in capitalism, and the Chinese workers must be wondering where the communism went.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,764 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    So why is Ukraine putting it's jets in the air to shoot down these missiles and what would have happened had KARAYA not managed to down 5 of them?

    Did he save Ukrainian lives and infrastructure or not?

    You suffer from what my father frequently called 'the counsel of perfection'. The reality is Ukraine doesn't have enough of anything and has to use everyting at it's disposal. Suggesting Ukraine would be better off using an air defence battery it doesn't have is very clever and the epitome of a counsel of perfection. Modern fighter jets are avilable in vastly larger numbers and are cheaper than Patriot, SAMP-T, Crotale or NASAM batteries.

    A fraction of the cost, eh? A SAMP-T missile battery costs around $500 million and each Aster 30 missile it fires costs $2 million. a Patriot battery costs $1.1 billion - $400m for the system and $690m for the missiles. An IRIS-T battery costs only $136m, but you need 11 of them to protect one city.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭20Wheel


    Unless you've got a time machine you don't know that for certain.

    Someone having a different view, based on their observations, doesn't make them the enemy. Why bring trolling into it?

    The guy you're responding to above had a perfectly fair and balanced post and still got the predictable response.

    (Also, saying you think something might happen doesn't necessarily mean you want that thing to happen, nor does it somehow magically increase the odds of it happening.)

    Putin is a dictator. Putin should face justice at the Hague. All good Russians should work to depose Putin. Russias war in Ukraine is illegal and morally wrong.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    It's not viable to keep multiple Aircraft flying in the hope's of intercepting a single missle ,when your enemy possess the ability to shoot down all of your aircraft in minutes,

    In most cases by the time you scramble an aircraft to shoot down a missle it's like already hitting it's target before you get close enough to intercept.



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