Recent content by Marduk

Back in the day this was the attitude that got some people to see the mercenary stare and die.

It wasn't that attack in itself. It's was what Iran's proxies Houthis and Hezbollah were doing meanwhile. Like you know, firing drones and ballistic missiles at Israel.

Well they do that to people they don't like with creative editing and question phrasing since ages, doing it to LLMs is like shooting a fish in a barrel.

North Korea, Soviet Union and pretty much every third world shithole in a war of conquest called... You are clearly completely unfamiliar with the art of creating an actually functioning oppression apparatus that many countries over history, and commie ones especially, have established, and...

But that's a matter of manufacturing product, not manufacturing jobs. In fact this sort of high end manufacturing product tends to be made with very capital intensive highly automated factories with relatively few, highly qualified workers. Just like countries with 3% employment in food sector...

Eh... i don't think they are any more dependent on static warfare than heavy mortars or towed artillery. Which do benefit a lot from it in relevance... but are still can be quite useful outside of it. Might be even more in line with light mortars in that, as a whole FPV team with some munitions...

Those use the same trick jets do - just fly above the effective range of MANPADS, which helicopters cannot do. Yeah, it makes them vulnerable to longer ranged AA, but that kind tends to be radar guided with all the vulnerabilities of that and more expensive to lose. We're talking infantry...

That's an artifact of China having best electronics industry outside of western ones for what that's worth and their newest ones not being battle tested. But they are gonna keep stealing tech... Automated ones can be EM passive, just a IR or laser one like Starstreak, LML variant, controlled by...

They can... but the risk calculus is seriously bad. Losing a 100 disposable drones to ram one into the helicopter is, economically, a huge win. Automated ATGM and MANPADS setups are also becoming an increasingly more common thing.

The changes are that MANPADS are getting more numerous and harder to evade for even top of the line fighter jets whose main defense is to fly too high to get hit by them, so helicopters are kinda SOL in comparison. Early MANPADS sucked and were hard to use. Some modern helicopters like Apache...

That apparently the whole world doesn't work on that logic...

We are talking the scale of decades. Meanwhile the migration in fact got higher, instead of there even being an attempt to tone it down. The trends are complete nonsense for that explanation. They already have the alphabet soup, the feminism and the commies for that. Some countries had even...

Commies. Yeah, they always accuse someone of stealing what is their resources. Even when it's business. In reality world's superpowers invested immense work and technology into finding where is oil in Iran and building infrastructure to extract and export it. That's worth huge money. Of course...

Who's "they"? Not better than paying for infrastructure and *then* losing Siberia with it. They are naive and think they can make deals with commies, Putin or islamists. He doesn't want more Arabs in the sultanate. That's Soviets. They suck at managing countries. Meanwhile China built a huge...