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F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

elendilm wrote: post #860
chakintosh wrote: post #850

The United States will never understand that while they are a technologically advanced army, they will consistently get smoked by countries with a far more rudimentary arsenal. It's been happening in every war since Vietnam. The US could probably steamroll Russia in a week, because both countries will try to deploy the latest tech they have, and the US blows Russia out of the water. But in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, So…

US is not a technologically advanced army just the most expensive one. Centralized systems are not technologically advanced systems. Iran's distributed architecture makes it technically advanced than US not to mention hypersonics which is a technology US doesn't have.

The US rescored both crew from this aircraft while Iran's distributed architecture was dedicated to finding them within it's own country.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by garn810 »

lejalv wrote: post #734

So how is this not flagged, whereas this other post lasted literally minutes before being flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612053 75000+ palestinians killed, arguably one of the defining crimes of our age are not worth HN discussion (“politics”) but one F15E shot down in a war of choice is (apparently, “tech”)?

the marketing department of "Empire" runs deep, even on Hacker News..

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by smilekzs »

nycdatasci wrote: post #944

There’s a lot of speculation about how this was achieved, but little mention of the likely weapon system that was used: https://israel-alma.org/the-growing-air-defense-capabilities... The SA-67 is essentially a hybrid surface-to-air missile and loitering drone that operates like an airborne mine. It’s a pretty innovative weapon: instead of relying on a fast, highly detectable rocket motor, it uses a small gas turbine…

Reminds me of https://dunerts.wiki.gg/wiki/Anti-Air_Mine

Early 2000s RTS games (Starcraft 1, Warcraft 3, CnC franchise) continue to amaze me in how well their seemingly comical "game physics" model the intrinsic dynamics of real world conflicts, almost prophetically.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by elendilm »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #981
elendilm wrote: post #860

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US is not a technologically advanced army just the most expensive one. Centralized systems are not technologically advanced systems. Iran's distributed architecture makes it technically advanced than US not to mention hypersonics which is a technology US doesn't have.

The US rescored both crew from this aircraft while Iran's distributed architecture was dedicated to finding them within it's own country.

Losing 2 Black Hawks & 1 C-130 and others. Why are you deliberately trying to hide the details.

And what has it to do with distributed architectures. You must not be good at what you do.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by elendilm »

FpUser wrote: post #890
chakintosh wrote: post #850

The United States will never understand that while they are a technologically advanced army, they will consistently get smoked by countries with a far more rudimentary arsenal. It's been happening in every war since Vietnam. The US could probably steamroll Russia in a week, because both countries will try to deploy the latest tech they have, and the US blows Russia out of the water. But in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, So…

>"The US could probably steamroll Russia in a week" I did not know Donald posts in here

Idiots watch Iron Man come flying and think US can steamroll Russia.

Iran alone is beating the shit out of US. Thinking it can steamroll Russia is not even funny. Some serious epidemic of Hollywood syndrome permeates the US.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by donkeybeer »

asdff wrote: post #692
LAC-Tech wrote: post #669

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump has a loyal hardcore, but he is absolutely bleeding supporters around the edges. If you follow the US right many of them are pledging to vote democrat in the midterms as a protest.

I noticed a wave of that right as trump declared war (declared conflict, whatever), people going "I voted for no new wars," but I noticed on /r/conservative that the takes quickly gave way to sudden concern about Iran's nuclear capability as the propaganda mills got their fodder in order.

r/flairedusersonly needs mod permission to even post threads and they revoke that permission happily too. They are the party of free speech remember. Everything is "outside users" to them, everybody is a liberal in disguise.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by donkeybeer »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #710
asdff wrote: post #692

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I noticed a wave of that right as trump declared war (declared conflict, whatever), people going "I voted for no new wars," but I noticed on /r/conservative that the takes quickly gave way to sudden concern about Iran's nuclear capability as the propaganda mills got their fodder in order.

Who moderates /r/conservative? Whenever I drop into old subreddits these days the whole place feels very astro-turfed. High chance that it's modded by zionists, they have a lot of money and a lot of different organisations that hire full time people to "fight disinformation".

That subreddit literally requires asking mods for permission to post threads and the flair that permits posting can and does often get revoked too. Its a "whitelist" subreddit so its astroturfed or filtered by definition.
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