2010-08-26, 13:20 | Link #8801 |
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I'ld consider that a rather big fish for a system that is also meant to defend against tiny stuff like mortar rounds and such. A radar does not need day light, and IR trackers and lasers neither.
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2010-08-26, 13:29 | Link #8802 | |
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just a matter of figuring it out.
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2010-08-26, 13:50 | Link #8803 |
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It has indeed, shooting down a mortar round costs much more money (for amunition) then the target mortar round. Also there is a limited amunition cache in such systems. And if the number of targets (multiple targets at the same time) is too large it cannot defend all of them. Defense is always more expensive then offense. Thats the weakness of any defense system.
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2010-08-26, 13:57 | Link #8804 | |
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they way i see it, making a drone like that which is capable of beating something like sky shield, is simply about giving the radar and IR sensors a different target. which shouldn't be that hard. the drone is configured with a delta wing formation (there's a picture on the wiki page). the way i figure it would work, is that once the target is locked on, and the drone on attack vector, it could purge both wings when its close enough to the target that its already on a collision path. each wing has a considerably larger radar sig then the main body of the drone, and would be capable of tricking the radar to focus on them rather then the main body. it could also be modified to fire flares at the same time that it purges the wings. it wouldn't last for long, but it doesn't HAVE to last long. it just needs to buy a couple of seconds while gravity does the rest and the main body of the drone crashes head first into the radar system.
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2010-08-26, 14:35 | Link #8806 | |
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2010-08-26, 15:14 | Link #8807 | ||
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So instead of individual Filipinos collectively realizing their mistakes and taking drastic action to correct themselves before moving on, it's easy to lay blame on the authorities, President Aquino and the powers-that-be involved, lay blame on our past colonial history (see recent Huffington commentary), education and culture, but all that finger-pointing and grandstanding (what an irony!) isn't going to bring back the dead or reverse the trauma of the living victims; it only makes things worse.
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2010-08-26, 15:29 | Link #8808 | ||||
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Of course, the only current value it has now is oil, and the three other major sources are probably in Russia and in some of the Baltic states, Alaska and South America (Mexican gulf waterways). Quote:
The reason why immediate-fire ASARMs like Shrike are not as useful is due to the missile homing in at the radio signature of the secondary system (due to how radar works) which are easily replaced. Hitting it with a Shrike is a waste of a sortie : the real HVT is the primary radio station. Regarding the usefulness of the drone, it would be its airframe. Something so lightweight like that could be easily disoriented with a ball round from a GPMG. Also, it needs to have a explosive payload, primary transmitters usually have homogenous alloy plating that can withstand regular ball rounds up to the 7.62x 51/54mm or even .50 BMG, and is sometimes housed in ERA to prevent its loss against deep-penetration commandos armed with anti-tank weapons. Quote:
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In my opinion, the most important thing is to clean up the political system. It always starts from the top when it comes to things like this : the MILF is a good example of how decadent the socio-political system was planned there, but nobody learns any lessons from it. Otherwise, it would still be best to move on. No use crying over spilt milk and pointing fingers.
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2010-08-26, 15:40 | Link #8809 | |
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but i don't think it DESERVES to be destroyed what they deserve, is to be reduced to what they USED to be before Oil became such a major product in the middle east, and elevated countries like Saudi arabia to a place of power that they rightfully shouldn't be in. and once electric car grids enter full service, this too will change. 2)aside from Oil, the middle east also contains large amounts of natural gas. it also contains over 40% of the worlds jew deposits (which, if properly utilized, is worth its weight in gold). the only other comparable Jew deposits are in north america, with much smaller deposits spread around Europe (Europe used to also have large Jew deposits, but they "squandered" them)
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2010-08-26, 15:44 | Link #8810 | |
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Ah heck, whatever you mean, the sentence makes sense either way it is read.
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2010-08-26, 15:56 | Link #8812 |
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Unfortunately, you may be right. There is a number of Nobel Prize winners who are Jewish in ethinicity, like Einstien (Photoelectricity), Pauli (Pauli Exclusion Principle), Niels & Aage Bohr (atomic structure) and Fritz Haber (Haber Process for making ammonia), just to start the list.
Nazi Germany could have been the first nuclear power if they aren't anti-semite. This goes to show that one gains nothing from being racist (or "anti-racist"/puritan, for that matter).
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2010-08-26, 17:00 | Link #8813 |
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People can diss me on this, but at least Jackie Chan's trying to show that he is not a racist or anything against my countrymen and wants the peace between Hong Kongers and Filipinos alike.
And that's the end of this post. I won't say anything else.
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2010-08-26, 23:03 | Link #8816 |
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Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq, Wonders Why
"Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers
bear them out. In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths from violence in 2009, according to Iraq Body Count; in Venezuela that year, the number of murders climbed above 16,000. Even Mexico’s infamous drug war has claimed fewer lives." See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/wo...?_r=2&emc=eta1 I guess the Venezuelans should just end their futile occupation of Venezuela and pull out. |
2010-08-26, 23:04 | Link #8817 |
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Iran has material for 1-2 atom bombs: ex-IAEA aide
"Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for 1-2 nuclear arms but it would
not make sense for it to cross the bomb-making threshold with only this amount, a former top U.N. nuclear official was quoted as saying." See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100826/...Jhbmhhc21hdGVy |
2010-08-27, 01:50 | Link #8818 | |
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I think the vast majority of people agree with the later part of his saying, and that is not to direct their anger at Filipinos living in Hong Kong. However, maybe that wasn't the smartest timing to say so when it was just hours after millions of HKers watching the Philippines government screwing the whole thing up with so many lives lost live on the TV. I think it's understandable that many HKers had irrational anger at that time (probably including me). Even though Jackie is a celebrity of Hong Kong, he often talks like he is an outsider more than a HKer. He often talks about the wrong things at the wrong time, and very often he doesn't really understand what he is talking about.
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2010-08-27, 02:14 | Link #8819 | |
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(not saying that pulling out of iraq makes the country more peacefull, this pipedream ended with the ousting of the former regime)
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2010-08-27, 03:20 | Link #8820 | |
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lol, what the hell?
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