I’m starting to think that he’s “wartime” in the Petain sense

To an extent, but drones are also making them more effective with spotting. Artillery can be dug in and camouflaged very well, too, making them less vulnerable to drones

Oh yeah, that’s the one. Saved, thank you.

Irrelevant is too strong a word. Obsolescent, sure, but the same gun is still in use in the Ukraine war. It’s a WW2 design, but the only real deficiency compared to a modern equivalent is range. It only has an 11 km range, while a modern M777 is double that. Note that the M777 isn’t a direct equivalent since it’s a 155mm gun while the C3 is a 105mm gun, so it will naturally have less range and explosive payload, but the C3 is lighter and easier to handle, more robust, and owing to the smaller shell, has a higher rate of fire.

Another big advantage of the older C3 (and older guns in general) is that they don’t give you brain injuries. The idea behind the M777 was to pack a 155mm gun-howitzer into the lightest carriage possible, and to do this they needed to attach a really big muzzle brake to control the recoil, which directs all that overpressure backwards and toward the crew. It’s the equivalent of getting punched in the head every time they fire, and a few times is fine, but for prolonged fire they get TBIs.

The light carriage causes other problems, mainly regarding reliability. Titanium, while strong, is weaker than steel while also being much harder to weld. A repair that could be done in the field on a steel carriage might have to be done at a specialized workshop for a titanium one.

My read is that it’s mostly due to NATO having standardized all of its artillery to 155mm, at which point old 105mm guns were put in reserve. Then, with the Ukraine war, they probably sent most of the remaining 105mm shells there. Personally, I think it would have been smarter to keep the C3s and put them in fortified bunkers in the mountains to defend against possible US invasion.

There’s also a chernobyl one but I couldnt find it

“inexplicable”: a higher manganese content causes a secondary passive layer to form at approximately 720 mV

once the chatbots evolve into skynet, they’ll invent magical technologies that solve all of our problems for us

Seems stupid to me. The artillerymen get practice and avalanches get prevented. Silly thing to cut

They’re actually just really enthusiastic about Hindu luck symbols. Also skulls and lightning bolts, which are all well known democratic imagery. 10 pinocchios

i dont give a wooden nickel what elissa slotkin thinks

They’re not sending their best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzhPGM1KedU

If we get a hantavirus pandemic, enough people will think that all the deaths are being caused by the covid vaccine that mitigation will be impossible

Doesn’t our relationship with America also dictate our foreign policy? Or is it just a coincidence?

two words: cyber hamas

So basically this article is saying that the only reason that Iran won the war is ~disinformation~, and that if the state had more control of information (censorship), we would all know the beautiful truth: America actually totally won the war and the reich will last 1,000 years.

If the Iranian government wants to transnationally repress monarchists, I have no problem with that

The century preceding the formation of the PRC is commonly known as the “Century of acrobatics”

China, 1948 and prior: Everyone’s in colourful costimes dancing around with streamers
China, 1949: The nightmare begins

Also, the CIA used to conduct MKULTRA experiments on Canadians at the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal. I cannot recall Chinese intelligence ever conducting brainwashing experiments on our soil.

Also, our entire news media is owned by American corporations. This is likewise not mirrored on China’s end.