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mircea_popescu: i imagine the doctrine is "better break them in private when the only broken is that one than break them in war when *for lack of a nail* comes into play"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i appreciate the irony of the thread a day or two back with alf going all nazi on people's scents.
mircea_popescu: would-liquify theoretical shaped charge. not practical.
mircea_popescu: insurgents do NOT have industrial ability to follow suit
mircea_popescu: the idea here being : us has the capacity to make purpose built item : too heavy armor for available weapons.
mircea_popescu: would-liquify but you can make armor so that no jet of hot metal cuts it, period.
mircea_popescu: (crater hole is also inside circle, so your radius is not the 1 m you lifted the tank
mircea_popescu: by the time you're a meter up, you're looking at a small projection on a circle.
mircea_popescu: because you realise, most of the pressure escapes to sides
mircea_popescu: fracture it, if it fractures, yes. but lift it 10 meters ? hardly./
mircea_popescu: nope. a 20kg charge will lift a single 10 ton slab about a foot.
mircea_popescu: would-liquify calculate the blast nbeeded to launch tank those 10 meters high
mircea_popescu: would-liquify not really. people routinely survive 6g. calculate the blast that will accelerate a 10 ton apv at 6g
mircea_popescu: (the sikriti io kept waiting for the us to open up - all the upset @ russia is over the rape they're delivering to us army via proxy in mid east)
mircea_popescu: and at 10-20 tons... they'll just blow out the barrier instead
mircea_popescu: you can actually make vehicle so tough that no blast can do anything but move it
mircea_popescu: why not just add six inches of composite armor sandwiched between steel plate and tracks ?
mircea_popescu: maybe it's because i'm ignorant, which... i haven't been following much
mircea_popescu: i can't escape this feeling that us materiel is broken.
mircea_popescu: the TAB-77 actually looks like it's 30 years ahead of those things.
mircea_popescu: "we can conquer any position but we need someone to hold our wiener if we take a leak" ?
mircea_popescu: so basically what is this stupid shit, "we never heard of petain" ?
mircea_popescu: seriously, this is how it works ? mounted repeating tinycannon on an open truck chassis ?
mircea_popescu: to be sufficient is to be ignorant and disinterested in the matter, yo!
mircea_popescu: holy shit. apparently online en dictionaries have lost a meaning of sufficient.
mircea_popescu: ah. well he principally comes off as dumber than a box of dumb bells because he starts from what he wants the facts to say and then forces some sort of factoids into that.
mircea_popescu: the inescapable advantage of all shitholes - that at least the women don't actually have the time&leisure to be annoying.
mircea_popescu: no everyone's waiting "for things to improve". you know, like things do.
mircea_popescu: economy crashed and burned, people sorta-halfassed rebelled, military steamrolled them and that "took care of it"
mircea_popescu: it is exactly nr, if the escaped chicks i met are to be believed.
mircea_popescu: but hey, at least they've got no soldering irons naimean ?
mircea_popescu: you know between here and there it's nothing but inhospitable rocky crags populated by gay stone-age natives ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hey, im stuffing myself with black forest and cognac over here, can't say i don't feel for you.
mircea_popescu: which is kinda why it helps being a known terrorist. faster queues.
mircea_popescu: i think they only check people they don't know are terrorists
mircea_popescu: in b-a today : alf tries to scam illiterate bolivian. fails.
mircea_popescu: ftr, the comment i left was "Don’t flatter yourself too much. On the basis of this text, which is about as much as I can be bothered to review, you are not intelligent in any sense, and uncognizant in the strictest sense."
mircea_popescu: well... if you can't raise dicks, you can always raise awarenesses.
mircea_popescu: tho i guess the angry fattie "educator" could do the same.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i meant specifically as per the pay for your tits article, and i meant the homeless "leader" chick