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I imagine the Deinar Loroi explored their moons way before even thinking of going down to Mezan. A full-blown planet with a dense atmosphere requiring specifically constructed landers. And from there going back to Deinar means twice climbing up a gravity well. First in going into Mezan orbit again,...

And letting either side get hold of a new client race with unknown capabilities would not be in their interests, thus motivation to destroy a scout ship and try to subvert the cooperation of any survivors. The problem here is that if Historians just wanted Bella and Alex gone - then the Emissary al...

Idea , but could they have taken advantage of how a Loroi brain interprets information? Illutions such a still picture seemingly moving, or having two different objects appear to be different sizes by having one close and one far away is due to the human brain taking short cuts and filling gaps. Pe...

My suspicion was that Umiak have lobotomized their crews to the point where they can no longer be detected by Loroi farseers, but still can perform their shipbound duties at least somewhat - as they had a plenty of opportunities to experiment with Loroi captives to see what works and what doesn't, a...

Russia has four purpose-built reconnaissance satellites (two optical two radar). Let us count the Cosmos(es)! No nav, no comms, no EWS, only military, only recon, only purpose-built, currently in orbit, no unknown package, all tracked and considered active by NORAD: 2453 2455 2481 2486 2502 2503 25...

The most important of them , e.g. the "Deruluft" were of course way more obscure (google "WIVUPAL" or "Walter Stahr, Hauptmann" if you like). THEY e.g. had training facilities in Lipezk, Sowjet Union (imagine that) with lots of airplanes, all very well funded. And around those there was a LOT of ef...

I am referring to the ukranians being fed intel from the united states satellite constellations, which are far superior. And what do you think I'm referring to? Ukraine does not exactly have it's own satellite constellation. Eastern Ukraine is not a planet - both NATO and Russia have more than enou...

We're getting off topic/political/controversial. I agree here, thank you. Russia announced 2 modernization campaigns. I think the age of the equipment says something about how thorough and effective these campaigns were. It's disingenuous to throw out "beyond the current lend-lease" as if the Ukrai...

I don't think the russians are really significantly better off as far as being 'outdated' goes. Russia went through 2 full-scale modernization campaigns between 1991 and 2022. Ukraine started one in 2014 and cancelled it in 2018 due to issues with Ukroboronprom. Beyond the current lend-lease and um...

I believe that on strike missions, they fly it low and fast. Total load may be less important than the precision with which the munitions it does carry can be targeted. The whole point of Kinzhal is taking 9M720 and making it air launched for higher velocity and range. MiGs fly very high to launch ...

Su-15's had an excellent record shooting down civilian Korean airliners, 2 for 2! Su "15 seconds of afterburner towards the decommissioning facility" 15 Su "Koreandoom Boeingslayer " 15 Su "The Other Kind of Ram Jet" 15 Su "Two Fishbeds in a Bed" 15 Su "Technically speaking I DO have a radar" 15 Su...

Reminds me of when that Soviet pilot flew his Mig-25 to Japan. US Intelligence had a field day. That was when they discovered it was made out of steel, and not aircraft aluminum. Duraluminium was not an option for Foxbat due to atmospheric thermal effects at it's maximum velocities. It was either s...

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Thu Mar 10, 2022 1:52 am

Now, protecting yourself with an actual swarm of friendly drones, on the other hand, might just be the ticket.

Why can't my drones be rifle-fired?

Anyway, no rifle of any kind is going to do much to counter a swarm of anti-personnel mini-drones. If you can carry a swarm of accurate, reliable, compact, long-range anti-personnel mini-drones in your trunk - then I can have a swarm of similar anti-personnel mini-drones in my trunk as well. I can ...

Even if true, I would think that an AI would have an even greater advantage in RL than in a sim due to this, being able to process more data inputs than a human Mk.I brain. If the fighters sensor data is taken as equivalent to the data contained in a game, then the ability to dispense with the HUD ...

What do we all have to say about fighter planes being entirely drones? It will be reliable once aerial combat becomes a solved game, in algorithmic terms. So it will never become entirely reliable. As long as one man outsmarting another man is a viable option, people will keep flying fighter planes.

If the Loroi cast did an ask me anything post on reddit today, who would last the longest/shortest before signing off. Loroi? "Socializing" through TEXT? On a platform that promotes or conceals a message based on pure mezebesed? While potentially revealing sensitive information to a tremendous comm...

Is it possible for the Loroi team to board the Umiak vessel, take over the ships systems, and defeat the crew before they have a chance to resecure their magazine? I mean, if they hold the Bridge OR the engineering, whichever remotely controls the hatches across the ship - what's to stop them from ...

heavy slow bullet and light fast bullet with same enery will give same kick. No. It will give the same force, but not the same acceleration on the fairearm, and the latter determines the recoil effect. And there's no reason to think that a particle beam will have the same force as a bullet - it doe...

About recoil - the beam weapon will have it. But weak. Plasma - stronger. But all the same, it is orders of magnitude weaker than that of a kinetics with a comparable shot energy. Because the mass of particles and the degree of physical interaction work with very different quantities than the syste...