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  1. Probably being naive, but you gotta think this doesn't sit well with Russians. 
    Russian finance minister Siluanov: Russia will double its military spending in 2024.
    "Total spending on national defense will increase significantly compared to previous years. 29% of all budget expenditures are aimed at our main task today - to ensure our victory. Before the special military operation, national defense expenditures were half as much - 14% of budget expenditures. Now it is 29% of expenditures"

    From 3 days to nearly a third of the budget.
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  2. On 10/10/2023 at 10:44 AM, Laxtonto said:

    And with those guys sitting there laughing you know that little crossing is already sighted in for artillery... or they are just waiting to pop off some Javs if need be..

     

    This does highlight the absolute impossibility of ground warfare in the age of drones and other avenues of mass battlefield monitoring when forced into this static battlefield concept. There are few surprises and so we are seeing many of the concepts from WW1 becoming the battlefield norm. Static lines and a massive no-man's land on the ground with now layered air defenses are going to make large-scale advances a thing of the past without complete air superiority.

     

    This also gives me pause about the discussion centered on how drones have completely changed modern armored combat.  Is it really the case for the US approach to combat or is this only true when the air war component is a complete stalemate? The US doctrine of owning the skies first means most advances would be done into areas without heavy armor support (because masses of armor are a death sentence) and no artillery support (as they are a key operational target before an advance) and so then lightning advances to blow through defenses would still be valid.

    Drones are effective because they are cheap and can be used to target stationary equipment and to some extent attack advancing vehicles to a static line or position. When you do not have air superiority, the heavy lifting is then being done by the boots on the ground and the artillery, which allows masses of drones to be very effective.  How would this work as a defensive force when you no longer have air superiority?  The masses of armor needed to defeat your static lines work are a liability against drones, but now the aggressor does not need to mass huge amounts of armor because you can't either. Large groups of armor is a death trap for the defending force  (A10 go brrrrrrr) and so you can't mass armor unless they are under a complete AA screen. Massive AA screens and layered air defenses just mean you are building a great target for cruise missiles to wipe out.  Your artillery is being wiped out so there is little way to dissuade larger assaults with lighter armored recon vehicles and so now your drone swarms are a nuisance but can't really be effective because now you have more limited targets quick moving targets. As the armored infantry advance quickly, then your static lines are useless, and more importantly you are losing ground and established launch points for your drones. Once your lines are breached and there is chaos in your rear, the front collapses and a full retreat is underway.

    Drones are a game changer in a static war. The only way for it to be static though is to completely control the air against the US over your part of the front. If you control the airspace over your part of the front, we will begin to see this rehash of WW1 concepts. If you lose the airwar, then the modern techniques should still have value. Do drones enhance viability and therefore help battlefield capabilities, sure.  But how is that different than realtime or near realtime satellite imaging? What drones have done has made real-time reconnaissance cheap and accessible for all levels of combatants and so the overwhelming advantage in the information space held by the US has been slightly eroded. But in truth that advantage for the opposition is much more limited against the US than say fighting someone with a more comparable level of battlefield technology.

    This age of armor meets this age's longbow?

  3. 10 hours ago, Park Gothic said:

    It's actually a novel field of fracking, where we fire nutria into the bedrock at approximately twice the speed of sound, or Mach 2. Works way better than traditional fracking fluid. My LSU coworkers largely specialize in managing JIT delivery of nutria to well sites. 

    Bullshit. We all know they made a roux and ate the nutria.


  4. Eh I’d start watching vlogs like ear scouts and his tips for magic kingdom. What we tell you here online can totally go over your head. I find it easier watching the vlogs. Earscouts does online graphics with the my Disney app so you have an idea of WTF is going on with the app.




    If you’re using lightning lane/genie+, you can start booking rides at 7AM.

    Buy the individual lightning lane for tron-it’s probably 15-20$ per person to ride. the virtual queue for tron can take up precious time. Ear scouts also dives into what order to book rides on G+ as they sell out throughout the duration of the day.


    The food at magic kingdom is pretty meh. But character meals at be our guest or cinderellas castle is pricey af ($240+ for fam of 4)

    Just do your homework with earscouts.

    Jungle Skipper Canteen is the best food in MK.
  5. 17 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    I think aggy has a pretty good chance of winning, but they’ll still finish 8-4/9-3. I don’t see them doing better than 2-2 against Bama, LSU, Ole Miss or Tenn, but also don’t think the latter three teams are anything special this year. 

    Look at their road record under Jimbo(COVID empty stands is the only positive one). 7-5/8-4 is quite likely.

  6. I hope you are correct, but at this point I think we are all wish casting hoping for a uprising.  In the last 2 years, he's responsible for killing about 250k of his people (I think western estimates are light on this, but that can certainly be disputed), getting about 600k other maimed, facing a rebellion in which he subsequently killed the leadership of, making them an international pariah, and he just signed the death warrants (in the form of more conscription) of 150k more, and I am still of the belief that economic ruin is either upon them or just around the corner.  If the Russian people were going to do something about it, I think they already would have.  

    It takes failing at war to get the RU serfs to rise up.
    I hope you are correct, but at this point I think we are all wish casting hoping for a uprising.  In the last 2 years, he's responsible for killing about 250k of his people (I think western estimates are light on this, but that can certainly be disputed), getting about 600k other maimed, facing a rebellion in which he subsequently killed the leadership of, making them an international pariah, and he just signed the death warrants (in the form of more conscription) of 150k more, and I am still of the belief that economic ruin is either upon them or just around the corner.  If the Russian people were going to do something about it, I think they already would have.  

    It takes failing at war to get the RU serfs to rise up.
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  7. 12 hours ago, BamaATL said:

    It bears repeating because it's not good news.  On the one hand, it's not surprising, if anything it's sort of surprising this hasn't been done already.  On the other hand, I have to imagine being on a crew building this must be terrifying, because you are a pretty stagnant target a lot of the time.  

    UKR destruction of landing craft that RU would have resupplied with is why they are doing this.  I don't expect it to go well.

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  8. 5 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:


    I want to believe.

    This so so awesome that a country with no navy is doing in Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

    I’m sure there are some US admirals watching with grave concern. There damned sure should be. Not that the BSF compares but there’s some serious asymmetric warfare going on that we could be on the receiving end of if we aren’t careful.

    China is the one that should be puckering the most on their designs to retake Taiwan. 

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  9. 40 minutes ago, davidg said:

    Mom passed away in 2017 and dad stayed in the house until we moved him to a memry care faculty at the first of this years.  They lived in the house for 45 years and dad, being born in the depression and growing up in the war, never threw anything away.

    We’ve been going through the house cleaning out and organizing since the spring.  Mom loved entertaining and decorating different holidays and had all kinds of stuff.  Most are not expensive antiques, but there’s enough stuff that we’re going to have an estate auction later this year or early next year.

    Mom had five different buffet/china cabinet type pieces in the house and everyone of them are like this.   If you look closely, there are 13 cake stands in this one cabinet alone.  13!   We always said my dad was the pack rat, but looking again, mom may just have been better at hiding it.  My sisters (no pics) have found at least 8 more cake stands in other cabinets and several more packed away in the attic.

     

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    I need to do a ‘Shit I found in my Parent’s Attic’ thread with the pictures I took while we where cleaning it out.

    As a teaser,  here’s the Super Pong game we had in the mid 70s, complete with box and instruction manual

     

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    That pong may be the most valuable thing in the estate.

  10. 10 minutes ago, Baboontyme said:

    Is it too late to get tickets to the Christmas Party? That's a much better idea I would think than general admission. 

    Umm, yes and no. If you want to strictly ride rides or participate in Xmas party only activities yes. Doing both is challenging.

    I'm  a big fan hitting MK at rope drop for both Halloween party nights and Christmas party nights.  Most people w/o party tickets don't go on party days due to 7pm cutoff for being in the park and people with party tickets don't go early as they are going to be there late. If you want keep it going head to Disney Springs after you leave MK. We usually head to Boma for dinner  and back to the hotel on those days.

     

     

  11. On 9/6/2023 at 9:34 AM, Steamboat1874 said:

    So what is Disney World like around Christmas ?

    We are thinking of going the week before Christmas.

    If you can go 12/15 to 12/22 it should be awesome.  I miss when the kids' school schedule aligned with that. Check all the school schedules to see if you can sneak in a low crowd week before the busiest 10-14 days of the year.

    If your dates don't revolve around the school calendar Pop Warner at WDW is over on 12/09 making 12/10-12/17 a great choice.

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