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Post by KennyC on Oct 31, 2013 13:30:45 GMT
Where I post everything from politics to science to.... whatever which interest me. First off: Contracts on laser point defenses on aircraft awardedThis is a huge deal. For the last... God, sixty years at least, rockets and missiles have been a big threat to tanks and aircraft. A very low tech answer to multimillion dollar pieces of equipment to which there is not real answer. Its the reason why even today, antiquated SAM systems and RPG-7s are still a threat to even the latest planes and tanks. However, now that could be on the track to becoming a thing of the past. Why have stealth if their missiles can't even get to you? Why have missiles on your airplane if they'll just get zapped out of the air? If this does come to fruition, anyone without this technology is gonna be at a huge technological disadvantage, especially everyone that depends on the old tried and true AA systems the Russians have been exporting for years. They have leaned upon their SAM systems for decades to protect them against airborne threats... and very soon those very same systems will not be worth the metal they are made of and they have no alternatives.
To put it one way.... if we (USA) got this today, we could bomb Iran or NK installations..... and they wouldn't be able to do a worthwhile thing before we were already gone from their airspace.
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Post by KennyC on Oct 31, 2013 16:56:54 GMT
It seems Mr.Snowden is truly going to stay in Russia for the foreseeable future. He's got a job. Best of luck to Mr.Snowden, but the reason why he is in Russia and what the Russian government does on a daily basis makes for some really delicious irony. But humor aside, it really is in his best interest to stay there and stay very very hidden.
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Post by CosmicBehemoth on Oct 31, 2013 20:06:22 GMT
Cool, sweet sounding shit with the laser defenses. Sounds like something we really should have developed by now.
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Post by KennyC on Oct 31, 2013 21:05:03 GMT
Cool, sweet sounding shit with the laser defenses. Sounds like something we really should have developed by now. We'd have the technology for a long time, its just that we need to get it small enough and efficient enough to make it workable. If the Pentagon really wanted, all they really needed was a nuclear reactor and we could have had a decent one a couple decades ago. But they want small efficient ones to go on planes and then other things. The Russians and their military buyers would royally shit themselves if suddenly all their RPG/SAM/AAM systems became antiquated. They've relied upon them so long they really have nothing to replace it either technologically or in their doctrine. Their answer to more and more impressive Western tanks and planes has just been to upgrade their missile systems.... and now... well, unless they figure out how to stop lasers - they're gonna need to find something else.
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Post by CosmicBehemoth on Oct 31, 2013 21:20:42 GMT
Just imagining having tanks and APCs that could shoot down RPGs and missiles from ground combatants is incredible.
But again, efficiency.
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Post by KennyC on Nov 1, 2013 23:49:22 GMT
PC 'inventor' dies.
I'm kinda shocked I didn't hear of this until today. The man that speared headed the idea of mass-marketed personal computer dies and.... the internet's jimmies don't even seem affected. Kinda sad, but that's the nature of things I suppose - sometimes the most important people don't become famous or just fade away. Goodbye William Lowe.
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Post by KennyC on Nov 5, 2013 23:31:39 GMT
Here's a plane that some of you may have a passing familiarity of: The SR-71. The American spy plane that didn't need protection from anything because it could simply outrun everything by going nigh Mach 3. She was used when satellites were still in their infancy of being used and when there simply wasn't any around to get tactical pictures. The old bird fell out of use in the 90's as they grew too old to fly and cuts were made. And now.... well: the SR-72, the spy drone that can do Mach 6. So.....yeah....good luck with shooting this down.
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Post by CosmicBehemoth on Nov 5, 2013 23:33:33 GMT
I remember hearing a passing reference to this on the radio.
Nice, I wonder if it has the Blackbird's stealth too?
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Post by KennyC on Nov 6, 2013 18:26:46 GMT
I remember hearing a passing reference to this on the radio. Nice, I wonder if it has the Blackbird's stealth too? Nah. It will literally be going so fast that either the certain stealth technologies with either get torn off, not work or will be irrelevant with its vast speed. At this stage, it doesn't even need stealth.... it just needs to go fast.
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Post by Knukails on Nov 6, 2013 18:30:06 GMT
I remember hearing a passing reference to this on the radio. Nice, I wonder if it has the Blackbird's stealth too? Nah. It will literally be going so fast that either the certain stealth technologies with either get torn off, not work or will be irrelevant with its vast speed. At this stage, it doesn't even need stealth.... it just needs to go fast. Sounds like sonic.
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Post by KennyC on Nov 6, 2013 18:39:07 GMT
Pretty much.... but now I'm kinda worried its gonna be obsolete as soon as its released.... yeah Mach 6.... cool.... how about the speed of light with lasers?
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Post by CosmicBehemoth on Nov 6, 2013 18:41:30 GMT
Maybe, but still lining up the shot for a target moving mach 6 is still a decent challenge.
And like you're saying, the idea is to be in and out before the person behind the laser even knows you're there.
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Post by Knukails on Nov 6, 2013 18:42:44 GMT
Pretty much.... but now I'm kinda worried its gonna be obsolete as soon as its released.... yeah Mach 6.... cool.... how about the speed of light with lasers? Have you heard of the aurora.
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Post by KennyC on Nov 6, 2013 18:48:56 GMT
Have you heard of the aurora. Oh god yeah, that's been the American military enthusiasts' wet dream even since the 1980s. Its no secret that the US government has and has done several secret aircraft projects over the years. Quite honestly, even if 'Aurura' didn't exist, something very close to did exist. And the culmination of that is a working group of SR-72s.
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Post by CosmicBehemoth on Nov 6, 2013 18:50:28 GMT
The Aurora was obviously an alien spaceship the Man doesn't want us to know about.
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