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  • #46
    Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

    Originally posted by aparch View Post
    LOL. "Iranian" drones launched from Iraq?
    Assuming this is a reference to mookie's post and not some nonsensical Trump tweet, I think he means it flew over the gulf through Kuwaiti airspace. That seems plausible. But fairly long range given Iran's drone known tech. Which could have significantly improved since we started losing drones over their airspace.

    Here's the city/airbase where the report has the drones coming out of:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahvaz


    Edit: Apparently they have drones (from China?) that have a 900+ mile range:
    https://apnews.com/d20f80188e3543bfb36d512df7777cd4
    Last edited by dxmnkd316; 09-19-2019, 12:23 PM.
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    • #47
      Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

      Good thing we didn't go to war with Cuba over this.

      The mysterious ailments experienced by some 40 Canadian and U.S. diplomats and their families while stationed in Cuba may have had nothing to do with sonic "attacks" identified in earlier studies.

      According to a new Canadian study, obtained exclusively by Radio-Canada's investigative TV program Enquête, the cause could instead be neurotoxic agents used in pesticide fumigation.
      Whoops, apocalypse.
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      • #48
        Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Good thing we didn't go to war with Cuba over this.



        Whoops, apocalypse.
        haha, holy ****.

        Imagine whatever Castro is running cuba now thinking, "What are these ****ing morons talking about? Brain rays?"
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        Originally posted by SanTropez
        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
        Originally posted by Kepler
        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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        • #49
          Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
          haha, holy ****.

          Imagine whatever Castro is running cuba now thinking, "What are these ****ing morons talking about? Brain rays?"
          There is a sadly larger than you think number of people who believe EMPs are gonna be used by Russia to destroy us. They also believe in Chemtrails and that the US Government not only is in possession of multiple "Bigfeet" but that they are breeding them and training them to be the military of the future. Brain rays is nothing compared to that crap.

          No...none of that is hyperbole.
          "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
          -aparch

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          • #50
            Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

            Reuters article out today has Iran claiming 2k km range. All US carriers and bases in the gulf at risk, per Iranian claim.
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            • #51
              Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

              I’ll take the US phalanx system over a bunch of security guards firing machine guns randomly in the air.

              Those things pose very little threat to carriers. Especially at the slow speeds they reportedly fly at.

              Phalanx was destined to target things coming it at anti ship missile speed. Not a Cessna.
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              Originally posted by SanTropez
              May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
              Originally posted by bigblue_dl
              I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
              Originally posted by Kepler
              When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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              • #52
                Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                Phalanx was destined to target things coming it at anti ship missile speed. Not a Cessna.
                I've seen declassified high res super slo mo films of those during tests ("we manufacture that product by the way...").


                Fig 1. Kepler, artist's conception

                They are, I believe the technical term is, insane. They're going to stop anything not coming in in the hundreds per cubical meter per second traveling less than the speed of sound.
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                • #53
                  Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

                  They are my favorite weapons system (is that a thing?) I’ve ever seen. The engineering alone on them is mind blowing. It’s like Iron Dome taken to 11,000,000.

                  The only weakness is, like you alluded to, high volume. They would blow through their ammunition. I’m guessing reloads have already been considered by the military so maybe even that weakness has been mitigated.

                  Either way, they are last resort. There are several other tech platforms protecting carrier groups. If you’re at the point where phalanx is involved, it’s a hot war and **** has thoroughly hit the fan.
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                  Originally posted by SanTropez
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                  Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                  I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                  Originally posted by Kepler
                  When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                  He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                  • #54
                    Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

                    Kepler crushing with the Aliens reference
                    "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
                    -aparch

                    "Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
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                    • #55
                      Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

                      How the f-ck hard is it NOT TO DO THIS?!!!
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                      • #56
                        Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

                        You guys are like 2 full days behind rest of the world news cycles.
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                        • #57
                          Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

                          Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                          You guys are like 2 full days behind rest of the world news cycles.
                          If only it was 4 years.
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                          • #58
                            Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

                            Meanwhile, in the 4th largest country on Earth...
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                            • #59
                              Re: US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

                              Girl is recruiting mookie to teach her friends (Asian ambassadors wives) conversational English.

                              First session is this coming Tuesday
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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                                Girl is recruiting mookie to teach her friends (Asian ambassadors wives) conversational English.

                                First session is this coming Tuesday
                                First lesson. Difference between the first and third person reference.
                                What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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