• D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    oof… its an hour long… maybe I’ll find some time later.

    Until then… COMMENTS!!

    Maine USA here. I’ve already laid my weapons down. Told my supervisor I would not be apart of killing innocent people/children. I would rather go to prison. I’m just waiting for them to show up with cuffs. I know many of my comrades have done the same. Any soldier worth a damn will join me.

    A truly informative presentation! Does anybody remember when the USA stood for decency, democracy and honesty? Me neither and I’ve just turned 75!

    I’m not Iranian, but in this moment I’m proud to be Iranian. 🇮🇷💪

    US military is the worst military money can buy. Trillions of total fraud.

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      16 days ago

      It’s a bit meandering honestly—I watched it because I like Postol, but as he said he didn’t have his stuff organized well. He basically points out that missile interception has always been basically a mirage, that it’s fairly easy to jam/decoy and they only did t use that stuff much because they didn’t need to, now they do so they just add it in and all of a sudden your fancy interception system is back to random noise levels of probability for interception. He goes through Russian Soviet tech, and stuff about the Iranian maneuverable hypersonic vehicle and decoy/flare systems in a more technical way.

      One think I hadn’t realized before was that they hypersonic warheads get approx a 2x power increase due to the kinetic energy of their impact, so they not only are harder to interdict, but they hit harder than conventional warheads. Makes sense I guess just haven’t thought about it. I’m still confused about how something going that fast properly uses its explosive effect—I don’t really know these things but I assume they’re proximity fused mostly?

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          16 days ago

          True. But I guess that’s sorta what you get from an academic instead of a professional analysis giver—he had a line in there about how he had run aerodynamic calculations on the fins of the Iranian rockets and confirmed for himself that they were very maneuverable. Hard to be doing stuff like that and generating fresh takes all the time haha.

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        16 days ago

        I’m still confused about how something going that fast properly uses its explosive effect

        As a person who played with high explosives in the US Army, explosions are interesting things.

        A bomb sitting on the ground, moving at an effective “zero miles per hour/km”, is less effective than the same bomb dropped from the air moving at terminal velocity. Strap a rocket to its ass and accelerate it faster than terminal velocity and its effectiveness increases. Don’t ask me about the physics behind it though, we were considered expendable enough to not warrant that kinda education.