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As I was saying earlier, if NATO insists on escalating, the next step is for some NATO satellites to quietly disappear rather than just get jammed. Between Russia and China they have more than enough options for that.
Russian Special Military Operation in the Ukraine - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion
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I hope Russia gives Starlink an ultimatum to halt or restrict operations in the warzone before shooting the microsats out of the sky, my 5-year plan relies on that network being up.
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I don't know about the US, but we've had the capability to jam and "distract" GPS for quite some times. Higher government officials always travel with a GPS distraction device, which makes it impossible for GPS within a few km to get better than a few hundred metres of accuracy. It's basic precaution against NATO cruise missiles.
You can't be stealthy in space. Everything is warmer and more reflective than the background.
Starlink is already being selectively jammed in the warzone, more than that is unnecessary and needlessly risks escalation. Russia aren't the ones who want WW3, that's your guys.
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Unless they use lasers. Or hack a ground control system and use it to force a satellite into a decaying orbit.
Or there's always the classic move of putting space junk into the path of a NATO sat, forcing it to expend fuel as it changes orbit. Not exactly stealthy, but it's not a direct attack.
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Ah yes, the ol' SpaceX Special.
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As for Starlink, there are thousands of those satellites. Doesn't really make sense to attempt to destroy them one by one, which will also be seen as an escalation. Jamming or spoofing or hacking ground control systems should be more effective.
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there are alot of people who understand russian in west germany, they just dont care because they think you are fellow "Aussiedler"
Looking down on lesser people isnt seen as wrong think as long as you dont get mean or in somebodies face.
Eastern europeans are our mexicans, you dont need to be nice to them, but you also cant publicly call for hunting them for sports.
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All this hot satellite talk has prompted a related TG post:
The Russian 6th-gen fighter MiG-41 aircraft is coming, first flight intended for 2025.
Rumors are that it'll be capable to intercept hypersonic missiles and will be loaded with weapons able to take down satellites from the earth's orbit.
E: related vidya. Almost all CGI and machine generated audio but the visual representation of "shooting down satellites" (around 1:15) makes StarCraft graphics look futuristic and I enjoy that.
The Russian 6th-gen fighter MiG-41 aircraft is coming, first flight intended for 2025. Rumors are that it'll be capable to intercept hypersonic missiles and will be loaded with weapons able to take down satellites from the earth's orbit.
E: related vidya. Almost all CGI and machine generated audio but the visual representation of "shooting down satellites" (around 1:15) makes StarCraft graphics look futuristic and I enjoy that.
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Somehow I don't expect it being used much in Ukraine...All this hot satellite talk has prompted a related TG post:
Rumors are that it'll be capable to intercept hypersonic missiles and will be loaded with weapons able to take down satellites from the earth's orbit.
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I doubt anyone thought that of me. My German is alright, but it's absolutely not good enough to pass as me actually being German, or even having lived in the country. And I don't in any way look the part, I'm more likely to be mistaken for Chinese than for German.
You'd know it better than me, but my experience was that even with the Germans who were eager to practice their Russian on me, I had to speak very slowly and repeat/rephrase often.
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those Aussiedler also often speak broken german, even after 30 years in germany and alot of them look pretty asian since they came from central asia and nobody realy looked into their paperwork.
they understand you enough to get when you are talking bad about them or making catty comments.
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If anything, its only application would be in very high atmosphere, at this point 6th gen is a meme.All this hot satellite talk has prompted a related TG post:
Rumors are that it'll be capable to intercept hypersonic missiles and will be loaded with weapons able to take down satellites from the earth's orbit.
E: related vidya. Almost all CGI and machine generated audio but the visual representation of "shooting down satellites" (around 1:15) makes StarCraft graphics look futuristic and I enjoy that.
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Don't they have enough shootings in their schools with the war going on? Do we really need to add to that?
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Just reminding them what they're fighting for.
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Any aerial combat vehicle that has a crew is decidedly not 6th gen. 6th Gen will be fully unmanned.
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You're probably right, but it depends on how quickly neural net accelerators can be miniaturised. Making an autonomous fighter jet is not as simple as setting a UAV to cruise control and having a script constantly hitting auto-target and auto-fire. The pilot replacement needs to be an AI with a highly sophisticated ability to filter patterns out of sensor noise, quick reactions, high radiation tolerance, and it needs to actually fit into the airframe since remote control just won't be good enough. There are some things the human brain is still better equipped to handle. Only with datacentre levels of compute can AI mimic that, and right now the life support and chair are less weight than the minimal amount of compute needed to replicate everything a pilot may be called on to handle.
If Taiwan blows up, 6th gen will be manned. If Taiwan stays intact, China has autonomous 6th gen within the decade and the rest of the world maybe by 2040.
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We have just entered 5th Gen fighters with the F-22. F-35, J-22 and potentially the J-35 soon enough. Meaning 'stealth' by default and mature electronics, glass cockpits by default, and no need to bore sight for missile lock-on as all such things are built into the helmets. 4th Gen fighters were developed in the 1970s and featured very early electronics and went through a period of upgrades to be "4.5" as they transitioned to glass cockpits and newer electronics, many of the air frames like the F-15 are still quite good and deprecated frames like the F-14 are better at locking onto hostiles over the horizon than modern planes like the F-35 solely because the F-14 has a bigger radar suite, had the plane gone through a modernization program the F-14 would probably still be one of the most formidable planes in the skies capable of going toe-to-toe with F-22s had it been modernized to use modern air-to-air missiles, even if it was an infuriatingly tedious plane to service because of its variable swept wing systems. Expect the "5th Gen" to last until the middle of the century if not the 2060s with a potential "5.5" period being F-35s surrounded by hunter killer micro fighters controlled by the pilot since the F-35's entire gimmick is interlocked data systems with other air frames.
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Yeah, a 6th Gen successor to the IL—2 Sturmovik, is what they should concentrate on.
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Hello friends, it's been a number of months since I posted in these threads
First of all, pics of Mariupol gay "Every person is equal" mural before and after The Battle of Mariupol
Second of all, buddy who was in Ukraine confirmed that Bakhmut is critical to the Ukrainian war effort, at least that it opens the whole line up to being surrounded. And second, he believed the expected major Russian offensive would only come after an expected Ukrainian attack, which is his opinion will come in Zaporozhia Region.
First of all, pics of Mariupol gay "Every person is equal" mural before and after The Battle of Mariupol
Second of all, buddy who was in Ukraine confirmed that Bakhmut is critical to the Ukrainian war effort, at least that it opens the whole line up to being surrounded. And second, he believed the expected major Russian offensive would only come after an expected Ukrainian attack, which is his opinion will come in Zaporozhia Region.