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Mr P
ParticipantCaptain Clueless…what a measure of delusion! And they need spelling lessons… Hormuz is not a “straight”
https://x.com/polymarketinfo/status/1915472867736646136?t=1564
Rational persons…
ParticipantDPRK/Russia highway project. (previously only rail linked the two)
Participanthttps://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/what-is-really-going-to-change-the
Experimental thorium reactor goes critical…
To get some idea of how difficult fluidsalt reactors are to make..
see
https://fluidfuelreactors.com/1958-ffr-ch01-homogeneous-reactors-and-their-development.php
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To-day marks the Fall of Saigon 50 years ago…
ParticipantNifty superfast boat, with nice rockets!
(knot is equal to 1.852 kilometers per hour and 1.15078 miles per hour)
ParticipantSinking of Ostfriesland was not the result of direct hits. She sank due to hull damage, breach, by hydrostatic shock from deliberate near misses.
“After an attack by aircraft carrying 1,000 lb. bombs, his airmen dropped six 2,000 lb. bombs on the battleship, and in a twenty-minute period, the Ostfriesland was sent to the bottom of the sea. No direct hits were scored, however. “
The same principle obviously applies to modern ships. Even if hull integrity remains, there are hundreds of vital shafts knocked out of alignment, especially the shafts involved with propulsion. Misalignment is the cause of almost all failures in rotating machines. Given that ships are constantly flexing, alignment is a constant problem.
It’s reasonable to assume that all the ships involved in near miss with heavy explosive deliveries are going to visit the repair docks. Some will visit dry-docks. Very few sailors are competent in shaft alignment.
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I think Laith is mistaken about the idea that the airplane was shot down, not that it matters very much. The ship did do an emergency high speed turn, and btw, that may have done some damage to the turbines and props. I’m thinking cavitation and prop erosion. I buy the story that the birdie fell, more like was thrown via angular acceleration, overboard. If somebody said that some other birdies slid ’round and banged into each other I’d not argue. I expect Truman will be heading to repair dock for a survey of damage. There are probably injuries to personnel as well, fellas thrown around, bruises, cuts, maybe some broken bones. The tug that went overboard was not, I assume, unmanned. No one speaks of the tug driver. Is he alive? Did he go with the tug? Man overboard while under attack is not a priority, and it’s ify anyway.
ParticipantWestern, nazi, delusions about the PLA… Think China is a ‘nation that can’t fight’? Think again — RT World News
https://www.rt.com/news/616495-myth-nation-that-cant-fight/
key quote> “Beijing will not rush into war. It will act only under conditions it judges favorable and under circumstances it has painstakingly prepared. But make no mistake: when it acts, China will not be the passive, incompetent power that outdated stereotypes imagine.” (note, when, not if)
appear weak where you are strong….
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ParticipantHunting nazis… iirc in Smoothie chat with Garland yesterday Smoothie said that Rus still have the old type Soviet formation of trained assassins…I’d have to go through the transcript to be sure.
He also said, iirc, that there’s an anglo-saxon brigade in the Rus Army. So at a guess, 5000 fellas, mostly American boys. They’re in combat.
USN fleet attack on China will have to hope that the Ruskies’ new missiles in DPRK are not yet ready. They can hit precise targets in Okinawa and 100% of Japan as well…so the USN may not be able to use the Japanese ports, and naturally Japan will reconsider their own position. Mind the new Treaty is cemented in the blood spilled at Kursk. Touch DPRK and Red Army answers.
Evidently the nazi military geniuses have forgotten the Korean War, which is not settled, yet…and that the war between Rus and Japan is not over either…yet.
The Eastern Axis of the World Island is being sealed off from pirate nazi sea “power”. Far better to run away than to be defeated, as, iirc, Uncle Ho said…
ParticipantThe US shipyards are unable to build a WW2 battleship. Mitchell demonstrated how to sink them about 100 years ago.
“July 21, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Ostfriesland, a former German battleship, by aerial bombardment from a brigade led by Brig. Gen. William Mitchell in a demonstration of the superiority of airpower. To commemorate the occasion, Air Force Magazine is republishing this 2008 magazine feature recounting the historic episode.”
If ya kin hit it, ya kin sink it.
Pepe several days ago said that senior Yemeni fella explicitly said that Truman was hit. That would have been prior to the rodeo y’all are discussing. It was an explicit statement.
Truman … when in danger or in doubt, steam in circles toot and shout.
The USN is evidently a bit slow in the learning from history area, OR, indeed it is a “Remember the Maine” ploy.
They can it it. They have hit it. They can do it again.
Participant“9 square” Without electrical supply subservient-linked systems also fail. Water wells, water distribution, sewage pumps, sewage treatment. Some of these probably have emergency diesel generators., but not very many hours of fuel in their tanks. Maybe 24 hours I’d guess. Transport, such as automobiles, cannot re-fuel without electrical power to the petrol station. I well remember working in a snowstorm to rig power from a PTO belt driven generator in a truck that had some fuel to a gasoline pump, then getting fuel to the emergency generator and of course filling the truk to the top!
ParticipantIn overall scope of events there are many coincidences…too many to accept them as accidents. BRICS thesis sounds reasonable to me. I wonder if some people made money on the event too. In both world wars there were lots of “coincidences”…. btw Luckner in his very early auto-biography describes doing sabotage for the Kaiser, ammunition factories, locomotives, planting time bombs in ships…even exploding bibles!
ParticipantWe think the same. I would ask what sigma such “coincidence”?
I would remark that when a policy or a manager causes incompetence or negligence or larceny and that in turn results in system failure, it’s difficult to know what to call it. For example I know of a nuclear power station that had a policy of rewarding maintenance managers with large bonuses for not spending all of their budget. The 20 year design of the plant allowed these guys to fake essential maintenance and collect large bonus…they also (I know personally) stole the materials which would have been used – they sorta had to, if only to hide them. The result was that they retired to their generous pensions after a few years, and shortly thereafter the plant was no longer reliable enough to operate economically. To-day it’s gone and the ratepayers are paying for it.
Was this sabotage? I think so, they lit the fuse and walked away with the money. Some might call it capitalism.
ParticipantSad Sal so deep in lies…such a pity. He wrote: .
“In August 1964, three months after the
attack on Card, North Vietnam’s navy attacked the
destroyer Maddox (DD-731) in the Gulf of Tonkin,
prompting President Johnson to order retaliatory
carrier strikes on naval vessels and installations in
North Vietnam. Of greater significance, Congress
passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution …”That this story is a lie had long been proved. We shall enjoy his prose, and his stories…as the cunning fiction that it is. His tales skip from fact to delusion as a cast stone skips across a quiet pond.
ParticipantComplex system, both the technical and political within the industry, and the political outside of the industry, and of the occult political gangs, is so vastly complex that no one can understand it. A genuine technical fault that was unexpected, even if understood at the engineering level, will probably be lied about simply due to CYA. But sure, a deliberate grid failure is probably easy… I take “bomb” metaphorically. “Bribe” might make a more effective method. And these days the software is understood by nobody (I am told), and can be fiddled both innocently and with malice. I recall a nuke station fubar in US that was the fault of a fella using a candle to check for seal leaks – he found one – and started a cable-fire that shut down the plant for a long time. I’d wager the outage under discussion was a software defect…whether the defect was a surprize…neh, I’m suspicious about sabotage. And I wonder about motive. An outage may be a cover for a big crime…or a cover for setting up for a big crime. So to-day an outage blamed on something no one ever heard of, maybe tomorrow the gold is gone from the vault… see plot Ocean’s 11 , for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_11
ParticipantThe hint of a smirk on Garland’s face is exquisite.
Smoothie bluntly states the obvious. Now that the DPRK army has fought and bled under Russian Army Command and control….any assault on DPRK will bring the entire Red, er, Russian, Army into the fight…into Korea … the nazis can fergitaboutit…
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