I like military stuff. Camouflage nerd and Collector. Also #NAFOfella in my free time.
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Kraut retweeted
Imagine if Europe, in the days after 9/11, had cleared its throat and announced: We have struck a tremendous deal with Osama bin Laden. We have lifted the sanctions on his organization, so he is now free to trade on the open market and bankroll his war against the United States. Bush must step down. The man has no cards.
Has he even looked at his hand?
But no. Europe did nothing of the sort. Europe did not sit down with a mass murderer and come home gushing about what a strong and reasonable fellow he turned out to be.
Europe laced up its boots, flew to Afghanistan, stood shoulder to shoulder with the Americans and hunted that bearded wretch through every godforsaken mountain in the country, because that is what you do when a friend gets hit, and handing the attacker a shopping list while telling the victim to surrender is what you do when you have lost your mind.
Kraut retweeted
An angry rant from the frontlines of #Ukraine
Bro litteraly said what Trump and vance wanted to hear. Well not the PD protector thing but 90% was in accordance with their "truth".
Currently MAGA‘s and vatniks are spewing their bullshit into the world but without the million bots from Russia backing them up and reinforcing their worldview they get cyberbullied. 90% of their interactions is just them driving the Kremlin line and getting flak immediatly.
Ukraine blowing up russian datacenters and servers got people realising the entire pro Kremlin crowd here in the west is 90% bots and 10% manipulated/misinformed idiots.
Kraut retweeted
There it is. Framing Ukrainian strikes as directly harming Americans makes Ukraine our enemy.
Awful stuff these last few days. Strategic blunders and moral failures.
I will post a video of me dancing under a disco ball if he finally kicks the bucket. Goddamnit.
Kraut retweeted
Dear Friends! We're so impressed by the "Russia is not my enemy" flash mob! And we fully share this idea!
We're Russians and we're not your enemies!
Warmongers should hear this.
#NietOnzeOorlog
The algorythm is acting up again. You make fun of a few vatniks and now the machine thinks i‘m one of them and i get bombarded with RT facts and Kremlin misinformation. Stupid computer !
US neglects the F22 for an update on older platforms because China and Russia are years behind. Accidently send F35 parts to China. Whoopsie daisy !
Strategic loss. A major one.
The weapons bay door and the canopy are a major intelligence windfall for the PLA.
Both of them reveal much about the F-35's capabilities:
Cockpit canopy.
Yes, it doesn't look like much. But there's a hidden feature. It has to be see-through for the pilot, but a mirror for radar. The inside of a cockpit is a metal cave full of right angles. Radar reflection is very high. So the F-35's canopy has an ultra-thin metal coating baked into it. The light passes through, but radar bounces off. Its why stealth canopies can have a tint.
The Bay Door.
Major stealth component. Since it shields the weapons bays. Its opening creates a brief signature. Possession lets the PLA figure out exactly which radar frequencies it blocks. But also test where the seams are. It also can test for reveal how quickly stealth performance and which airframes in a fleet are likely most detectable. Those give knowledge of least-stealthy aspect angles and interception geometry. Useful also for mobile SAM sites.
And it's a major loss. In 2021, the US and UK mounted an emergency deep-sea recovery when a British F-35B ditched in the Mediterranean. To prevent foreign powers from recovering.
Adjusting 1,000+ aircraft quickly isn't cheap. Its to prevent insights into air doctrine, tactical gaps, endurance, etc. The secrets of an aircraft are often baked into jet parts. Nor do you know what a geopol opponent has figured out.
COD kids are crawling out of their rooms to find the iron cross is still used by like half the planet.
