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Lifer
- Jun 5, 2000
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I'm pretty positive you can figure out the basic operation from reading the hand book for half a day.
lol thats a joke right?
I'm pretty positive you can figure out the basic operation from reading the hand book for half a day.
lol thats a joke right?
Sandra Bullock spent less time and landed a spacecraft from space.
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she actually died in space. the re-entry part was just a hallucination right before death.
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The first apparent hard evidence that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile is emerging from the crash site in eastern Ukraine, after experts confirmed on Monday there were signs of shrapnel damage to the aircraft.
The photograph above, first published by the Financial Times over the weekend, shows a piece of the downed Boeing 777 about a metre square with a gaping hole in the middle, surrounded by smaller holes and apparent burn marks.
lol thats a joke right?
Except that Europe gets some ridiculous percentage of their natural gas from Putin (from a pipeline that crosses Ukraine if I recall correctly). That's going to make it a little interesting, no?
Check out a few SAM-simulator videos on youtube.
Downing a plane is just a matter of pushing a dozen buttons, and slewing the Radar until you get a lock. Pretty simple stuff.
These things are designed to be used by soldiers after all.
And if your target doesn't do ECM, beaming, ground evasion, etc., but flies on a straight course, it's quite easy to get a lock.
All the buttons are labelled too, so if you can read Russian, it's even easier.
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she actually died in space. the re-entry part was just a hallucination right before death.
AFAIK it's just a theory. Not confirmed. There is a "realistic" explanation behind it though.
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she actually died in space. the re-entry part was just a hallucination right before death.
I suppose you don't believe there was an actual tiger on the boat during Life of Pi.AFAIK it's just a theory. Not confirmed. There is a "realistic" explanation behind it though.
Except that Europe gets some ridiculous percentage of their natural gas from Putin (from a pipeline that crosses Ukraine if I recall correctly). That's going to make it a little interesting, no?
Check out a few SAM-simulator videos on youtube.
Downing a plane is just a matter of pushing a dozen buttons, and slewing the Radar until you get a lock. Pretty simple stuff.
These things are designed to be used by soldiers after all.
And if your target doesn't do ECM, beaming, ground evasion, etc., but flies on a straight course, it's quite easy to get a lock.
All the buttons are labelled too, so if you can read Russian, it's even easier.
Check out a few SAM-simulator videos on youtube.
Downing a plane is just a matter of pushing a dozen buttons, and slewing the Radar until you get a lock. Pretty simple stuff.
These things are designed to be used by soldiers after all.
And if your target doesn't do ECM, beaming, ground evasion, etc., but flies on a straight course, it's quite easy to get a lock.
All the buttons are labelled too, so if you can read Russian, it's even easier.
If those are so easy, then why does it take 6+ months to train people on them?
There is a lot of prep-work that is needed to get the system ready for what those simulation videos "show" instantaneously.
The simulations videos also will speed up the process. No one wants to spend 30-40 minutes to play a game when the results are for 10 seconds.
At the very least it seems that system is lacking a key component (which likely would have prevented this), namely external radar data.There is no way, no way, Putin put a weapon system like that in the hands of minimally trained operators.
There is no way, no way, Putin put a weapon system like that in the hands of minimally trained operators.
At the very least it seems that system is lacking a key component (which likely would have prevented this), namely external radar data.
Yeah, but this is a two way street. Russia relies on its gas sales to basically fund its economy and tax base. It's one thing to play around with the gas going to Ukraine itself, but Western Europe is a whole different matter. Western Europe has reserves that can last through the winter, while if Putin decided to cut gas exports, that would have immediate, big effects on the Russian economy.
Yeah, but this is a two way street. Russia relies on its gas sales to basically fund its economy and tax base. It's one thing to play around with the gas going to Ukraine itself, but Western Europe is a whole different matter. Western Europe has reserves that can last through the winter, while if Putin decided to cut gas exports, that would have immediate, big effects on the Russian economy.