EA-18G: rolls up with a 10M candlepower spotlight and a pocket full of Class 4 lasers

Well, also, there was a MASSIVE data leak/espionage op run by the CCP where they got a ton of the design files for the F-35.

If you’re going for max stealth (which the NGAD was), you want to absolutely minimize the amount of control surfaces, because those have joints and expose less stealth-optimized parts of the airframe when the surfaces move.

Note that the B-2 and B-21 look largely identical in terms of basic design - this is essentially carcinization in the stealth aircraft domain. It’s the best general layout for minimizing radar returns. Also, combine that with the fact that ACM is actually, finally, beginning to become conceptually obsolete (as a result of extremely capable missiles, unmanned drones that can probably pull 30Gs indefinitely, and directed energy weapons). So these days, in the cutting edge of the air combat domain that the US expects it would actually have to throw down within, maneuverability has stopped mattering quite so much. TL;DR ‘nards on the new stealth fighter is a genuinely pretty dumb idea.

Note that this whole statement is completely predicated on the existence and functioning of an absolute shitload of other support systems and infrastructure, and we’re tearing a lot of that shit up, so who fucking knows what’s gonna happen.

lol I’m low-key curious if orangeboi was like “all those Russian planes have the little front wings, ours should have that too”. Because for a stealth platform, canards are a pretty dumb idea. And last I heard, the NGAD program was exploring boundary-layer stuff in lieu of a lot of the control surfaces.

puts credible defense hat on

But you know, stealth isn’t the be-all, end-all, really. The Navy’s been dragging their feet on 35 procurement for a while, more heavily emphasizing Rhinos and Growlers. Growlers have an absolutely silly amount of extremely advanced ECM and EW hardware onboard. The general doctrine for USN in peer conflicts right now is to just jam the absolute shit out out anything that’s making unfriendly electronic noises around it and then kill the things with prejudice. Don’t need stealth when the stealth when you just straight up blind the enemy. Definitely more of a brute force approach, but it’s absolutely valid.

Ngl that’s a reasonably good match

Vive la Rafale, vive la France :D

Nah man gimme that EU military industrial.

So to be clear, I believe the person is referring to the recent case of a German (white dude, electrical engineer iirc) who got picked up and treated so poorly during detention that he had to be hospitalized. The article I saw specifically mentioned the Immigration fuckwits encouraging him to get rid of his green card.

Yeah honestly it’s pretty clear that nobody in the government right now understands how much of a watershed moment this is. We used to build the best shit, period. Now we build the best shit, except we’re fickle as fuck and the shit is also so complicated that there’s no feasible way to determine if we stuffed a kill switch in there somewhere.

I mean, they’re small but rich as all fuck, so it makes a ton of sense for them to invest in expensive but effective force multipliers like that and use them to help their allies.

Are you stuck using an old spinny drive or what? If that’s an SSD, wtf is adobe doing?

You’ve got mail! <3

Hold on, give the author a minute, this is just foreplay. It’s a good idea to stretch a bit before committing to the deepthroat.

What war? Dafuq are you talking about?

I left Reddit because I strongly dislike what it’s become. This place is better. Why should I want it to be more like Reddit?

Platform growth does not matter here. We legitimately do not give a shit. The fediverse, in entirety, is not now, and never will be, beholden to shareholders, because of the very nature of its OSS underpinnings. We will grow organically, or not, and it will be fine. We don’t need a huge influx of users. In fact, a huge influx of users would kinda suck for a lot of admins, because it would cause a HUGE spike in OpEx, and potentially necessitate the purchase of more infrastructure, which admins probably wouldn’t love.

It means they are essentially guaranteeing you that the seats are not oversold. There will definitely be a seat for you somewhere on the train - that’s all this is saying. It’s capacity management. Have you not used regional rail before?

Iirc there’s a site out there that gives pretty specific instructions on how to reach an actual meatbag in customer support for tons of companies.