Yeah so this isn’t gonna fly in any way, shape, or form. All of that will be cited by companies who are users as trade secrets and proprietary internal documentation. This is a great way for them to force their userbase away from their products.

So, yeah… bold move, cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.

1000 years from now the paint will be gone and it will be more interesting to geologists than archaeologists - assuming there are any -ologists (or humans) left at that point.

Reagan through the 90s was the period where things visibly degraded to a joke of what the country once was. 9/11 was at once a direct symptom of our own fuckery over the preceding decades, as well as the final nail in the coffin that pushed large sections of our political landscape towards fascism. It was nascent for a while, but everything became fairly overt in 2016.

Fuck you, Gizmodo, and fuck off. There are consequences when you break the societal contract. This is that.

RTGs are subject to the issue of half-life - this is a consequence of that type of power source. Though, let’s be honest: we do not have any other sort of power generation technology that would be viable for literal decades on an interstellar space probe. And we definitely didn’t have a better alternative when they were launched.

Normally I’d agree, but this is also a timely satire of current events, because of Kegsbreath trying to use the Pulp Fiction rendition of Ezekiel 25:17 in a big “rah rah” bullshit speech, so I admit I did chuckle at this one a bit.

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There’s a lot of copper in that sign, just so you know

Tell us you don’t understand modern geopolitics without telling us you don’t understand modern geopolitics

I’m talking about HARM and friends because in terms of quickly executing a kill chain against a transmitting radar, antirad munitions are the gold standard. Sure, it can be done other ways. But it generally involves a lot more systems with relatively complex integration.

The system being discussed is not explicitly or exclusively useful in military contexts. There are a LOT of places where advanced beam forming and radar capabilities could be useful outside of that. Not to mention: in military applications, this is pretty definitely a defensive system.

So, one of the really interesting things to me about this approach is that it offers the same asymmetric value proposition that cheap attack drones do to modern pre-drone IADS.

That is: this is a platform that costs 10-15k, and an AGM-88 of modern manufacture costs almost 900k, and a Kh-31 costs about 550k - and, just as importantly, both require a long time to manufacture. So, you could theoretically make a moderately large distributed array sprinkled over a few square kilometers, and even if they’re ALL turned on, it quickly becomes logistically infeasible to knock them all out without spending a silly quantity on antirad munitions, as well as massively attriting your stocks of antirad munitions. And if you turn like 10-25% of them on at a time and cycle through your array, the problem becomes even harder for the attacker. And if you have some sort of process or mechanism - like, oh I don’t know, figuring out how to do light aerial transport with cargo drones, or even figuring out how to mount these distributed array nodes on the drones themselves, and some sort of lightweight tether for providing power - the problem becomes a MASSIVE pain in the ass for an adversary (especially that last idea, which introduces z-axis and immediate maneuverability, such that the array could feasibly detect and altogether avoid an incoming antirad munition).

And that’s the paradigm of modern warfare - not just drones, but also networked and attritable systems that maintain functionality when elements are taken offline

I mean, considering the political climate there… it’s very karmic

As in: you agree with the article’s assertion?

lol shut the fuck up NYT

Depends on the color, these days

Iran is incapable of

Kash fucking Patel disbanded the team that looks for credible threats from Iran right before we started bombing the shit out of them. That’s a blatantly, obviously dangerous action and context. The only reason it’s not a straight up false flag attack is essentially a technicality, and because Iran hasn’t actually tried anything (yet).

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You’re, uh, paying attention to the whole bit where the regime doesn’t fucking care about rules and laws and court orders, and that nobody enforces them against the regime anymore, right?