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a111: Logged on 2019-07-31 18:17 ave1: Btw would same stealth go for ships? It seems to me a dimension less. (Not that the
littoral can float)
ave1: Btw would same stealth go for ships? It seems to me a dimension less. (Not that the
littoral can float)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which also, owns 11
littoral combat ships, owes > 9000
mircea_popescu: yes, well, i don't foresee
littoral combat airplane following copa around to diddle your equipaje.
mircea_popescu: apeloyee o you have simulators too now ?! but yes, "we are now entering a
littoral combat quantumship era, where the fiatola conduits are well in place and thoroughly divorced from results, so all you disgusting niggers listening in -- know that it's a "safe" field in the sense your "criminology" degrees are."
mircea_popescu: (the geostrategic situation, for the very understandably disinterested, is that usg can not maintain pretense of mediteranean presence without ground missiles in constanta, because the ru navy actually works whereas the us c
littorals do not.)
mats: i'm observing their development of commerce and nuanced relationships in, say, the indian ocean, through building of ports along the
littoral, but they've pointedly ignored human rights issues the west cares about in e.g. sri lanka
mircea_popescu: kanzure dja have any idea how dumb you look going in with an attempt to impress by EXPENDITURE, and then on the flimsiest of examination appearing unable to explain WHAT you bought ? tell you what, the usg you seem so keen to emulate spent a trillion and similary "wait for plane catalog day". or alternatively, has some
littoral cardboard models that can't float.
mircea_popescu: and the fucking
littoral compressed lulzship doesn't require wheels.
mircea_popescu: it's not that they lost the nuke schematics. it's that they can't even find the boat designs from back when their boats actually floated. so they end up with
littoral cardboard sheeps.
shinohai: That cannon could prolly take a a
littoral combat ship
mircea_popescu: ad-hoc
littoral ship vs improvised explosive device ftw.
trinque: you sink with the
littoral you have
mircea_popescu: the Floating
Littoral Embarassment is very much the symbolic product of "technology by modernist means in postmodernist times"
mircea_popescu: just go make a
littoral self-rape ship, this software/internet stuff is a waste of your talents, folks.
ben_vulpes: man the
littoral combat ships JUST KEEP BREAKING
BingoBoingo: Oh there are still factory built houses, but more of a
littoral cottage industry.
ben_vulpes: hyuuu the
littoral lolz continue! LCS bumped into a tug and opened up a foot-long crack along a weld seam.
mircea_popescu: from
littoral combat ships to convenience paper cups, all the way and whichever way. the usg way!
mircea_popescu: seeing the success of the
littoral beercan program, i'm vaguely surprised the usg doesn't bless its doomed effort of catching up with china/russia with cubical rockets.
ben_vulpes: in other news, the much-maligned
littoral combat ships can't keep water out of their engine lube systems and so the surface force commander has ordered the entire 'fleet' stand down
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> for perforating uninvited rowboats etc. << Hey rowboats were entire threat model justifying TWO classes of
littoral comabt ship
mircea_popescu: and
littoral combat ship was built for being fast agile stealth.
mircea_popescu: anyway, iirc us navy launched a breadbox sized item at about 10km/s or somesuch. cost a little more than a
littoral com-sunkship.
mircea_popescu: "bitcoin doomed because block reward too small to carry
littoral combat sheep."
ascii_deadfiber: mircea_popescu: seems like the '
littoral combat ship' is 500-600mil each.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the story of ther "
littoral combat ship" really should be told. derps wanted a sort of "automated gunship" but on water, to fight drug people. ended up with a ship that's entirely useless.
ascii_deadfiber: but not more than any number of their idiot 'own goals', e.g., the '
littoral combat ship'
decimation: " New ASW technologies and improve- ments to non-nuclear undersea platforms, however, will likely enable adversaries to comple- ment their surface and air A2/AD networks with undersea surveillance and attack systems. These may not have the reach of anti-ship ballistic missiles or modern surface-to-air missiles, but they have the potential to make the undersea
littorals of a potential adversary an increas- ingly denied zone. "
mats: It also bars the Army from transferring Apache helicopters from the National Guard to its active-duty units, while allowing the Navy to spend $450 million on EA-18G Growler aircraft and continuing buying three
littoral combat ships.