again, we were talking airfields - the prior post by someone was about "not attacking an air equipped ground installation with anything smaller than an aircraft carrier". please update your links.
(caveat - I was only a Sergeant with a SECRET clearance who ended up in a HQ unit after doing counter-terrorism and other ops)
Translation: I don't actually know anything about naval operations in general or carriers in specific - but I'll tack on my irrelevant rank to make myself sound important.
No, actually, I do. Lots of ice cream suits at our HQ. One of my neighbors went POET on a sub. But, hey, pretend the world hasn't changed it that makes your day.
Depends on what you're trying to do. A decent shaped charge delivered to a target has a very low mass and does not require such a delivery vehicle. Most current operational field weaponry has very small mass - if you are looking at flechette or wire guide you'd be surprised how a $2000 machine can take out a large scale chopper on an airfield, and with low size/profile you can avoid most sensors until it's too late.
Canadians and Australians, and also Dutch and to a lesser extent English, are quite willing to die en masse if they accomplish the mission.
American units cease to become operational after 10 percent casualty losses. Canadian and Australian units expect to be operational until about 90 percent casualty losses. Part of why they overtrain people in non-US countries to operate at a higher rank level than they are is to replace key personnel rapidly and keep functioning.
One of the key reasons for investing in solar powered desalination is the ability to force project with a shorter fuel and water supply line. You bring your own supplies with you.
One of the key purchasers of solar desalination plants is the US military.
Actually, in a game we ran in Australia in the 1980s (Cluster I and then Cluster II), we found that small robotic fire and forget ships can take out large ships easily.
Which is why drone carriers (destroyers with drone racks and a couple of choppers) work so well.
The problem is, like people who naysayed torpedo boats in WW II, the replacement for aircraft carriers is NOT submarines or battleships.
It's the 21st Century.
The replacement is small mobile destroyers with racks of armed and unarmed drones, operating in task forces.
The fact that the current brass can't grok that, does not mean they are right. Just ask Canada which provided more actual combat equipment in Libya to take out the dictator from just a few small ships than all the planes we launched from Italy did.
Change is Change. It isn't "like" what happened before.
(caveat - I was only a Sergeant with a SECRET clearance who ended up in a HQ unit after doing counter-terrorism and other ops)
I think you're confusing which EE. Move to alternative energy power systems, about 60 percent of your time will be coding for distributed power systems like wind solar hydro wave geothermal, with some really fun field trips.
The UW offers an evening certificate in that for people with a base EE, or you can do it on weekends.
That's the growth area in the US and Canada.
But since I started computing in the 1970s it has always been true that you have to relearn half of what you do every two years in software, whereas you have to relearn 90 percent of what you do every two years in hardware. Get thee to a college or university. Education doesn't stop nowadays.
Virtually any tech event for a CIO or manager nowadays they throw in a free tablet as a door prize for most events.
May not have filtered down to the code monkeys yet, but it's already happening upstream.
Fwiw, both of my last two home computers were made from Cyber Tuesday parts orders for about $500, or $650 with OEM OS and sales tax. I'm just too lazy to build my own tablets. But if they sold kit parts, you could easily build them yourself. The markup on tablets for non-Apple ones is very very slim, it's only the Apple iPads that really make much money.
If we just arm other pirates with Letters of Trademarque that show they work for the King or Queen, I'm sure we can solve this once and for all.
After all, it's not like large impersonal corporations which care nothing about human rights are monetizing works of arts from actual Persons who are not corporations, for their own personal aggrandizement.
Originally, my words were the ones used. Only later did they obfuscate it.
It's like me saying "if you broke it, you own it" and you described a 4 page addendum in contract language that says what I just said, and insisting your version is correct.
Now, would you like to discuss what light spectra the sky is?
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again, we were talking airfields - the prior post by someone was about "not attacking an air equipped ground installation with anything smaller than an aircraft carrier". please update your links.
We were talking about securing airfields outside the range of attack.
I am not arguing carrier fleets are not well protected, I am arguing many of their roles can be filled with other units.
Translation: I don't actually know anything about naval operations in general or carriers in specific - but I'll tack on my irrelevant rank to make myself sound important.
No, actually, I do. Lots of ice cream suits at our HQ. One of my neighbors went POET on a sub. But, hey, pretend the world hasn't changed it that makes your day.
Depends on what you're trying to do. A decent shaped charge delivered to a target has a very low mass and does not require such a delivery vehicle. Most current operational field weaponry has very small mass - if you are looking at flechette or wire guide you'd be surprised how a $2000 machine can take out a large scale chopper on an airfield, and with low size/profile you can avoid most sensors until it's too late.
I spent half the time in service in the US, actually, including Yakima Firing Range, and many other locations.
I stand by my statement.
Again, you're talking the ones my crew used to work on last decade.
Pay attention. It's 2012. Not 2004.
All it takes to deliver drones is just one panel van or repair truck loaded with racks of armed drones.
And about 5 minutes to launch them.
Recovery of drones becomes a moot point when the total unit cost is only around $1000 for some of them. In bulk quantities.
Easier to just put up a big net and "capture" them with rotors off. Minimal losses, just have a few spare parts in supply.
Part of that is the expansionistic nationalism of Japan recently.
Who seem to want to pick fights over small islands with ... China, Vietnam, South Korea, and Russia.
As of this week.
It's not a one-sided choice.
Actually, fire suppression and repair of US carriers have always been a strength. Just ask the Japanese.
See, there is the problem.
Canadians and Australians, and also Dutch and to a lesser extent English, are quite willing to die en masse if they accomplish the mission.
American units cease to become operational after 10 percent casualty losses. Canadian and Australian units expect to be operational until about 90 percent casualty losses. Part of why they overtrain people in non-US countries to operate at a higher rank level than they are is to replace key personnel rapidly and keep functioning.
Everyone knows they would never use Cessnas.
You always use Piper Cubs.
Some of the CIA and NSA drones have that capability.
But you are correct about the standard issue military ones.
Cover Air Support (used to be CAP) is to defend a large target. As you move to dispersed mobile small targets the need diminishes.
One of the key reasons for investing in solar powered desalination is the ability to force project with a shorter fuel and water supply line. You bring your own supplies with you.
One of the key purchasers of solar desalination plants is the US military.
Actually, in a game we ran in Australia in the 1980s (Cluster I and then Cluster II), we found that small robotic fire and forget ships can take out large ships easily.
Which is why drone carriers (destroyers with drone racks and a couple of choppers) work so well.
You're still thinking last century. Small fast boats are the 90s.
Nowadays it's drone carriers - basically small destroyers with racks of armed and unarmed drones, along with some launched choppers.
The problem is, like people who naysayed torpedo boats in WW II, the replacement for aircraft carriers is NOT submarines or battleships.
It's the 21st Century.
The replacement is small mobile destroyers with racks of armed and unarmed drones, operating in task forces.
The fact that the current brass can't grok that, does not mean they are right. Just ask Canada which provided more actual combat equipment in Libya to take out the dictator from just a few small ships than all the planes we launched from Italy did.
Change is Change. It isn't "like" what happened before.
(caveat - I was only a Sergeant with a SECRET clearance who ended up in a HQ unit after doing counter-terrorism and other ops)
Nope. cooks did that.
We used MANUAL typewriters and we LIKED it.
Whiny whiny babies.
You don't need a computer to type.
Heck, Neuromancer was written on a manual typewriter ...
I think you're confusing which EE. Move to alternative energy power systems, about 60 percent of your time will be coding for distributed power systems like wind solar hydro wave geothermal, with some really fun field trips.
The UW offers an evening certificate in that for people with a base EE, or you can do it on weekends.
That's the growth area in the US and Canada.
But since I started computing in the 1970s it has always been true that you have to relearn half of what you do every two years in software, whereas you have to relearn 90 percent of what you do every two years in hardware. Get thee to a college or university. Education doesn't stop nowadays.
Virtually any tech event for a CIO or manager nowadays they throw in a free tablet as a door prize for most events.
May not have filtered down to the code monkeys yet, but it's already happening upstream.
Fwiw, both of my last two home computers were made from Cyber Tuesday parts orders for about $500, or $650 with OEM OS and sales tax. I'm just too lazy to build my own tablets. But if they sold kit parts, you could easily build them yourself. The markup on tablets for non-Apple ones is very very slim, it's only the Apple iPads that really make much money.
The new adaptor is cheaper and more useable.
But basically the EU can choose: either you get what comes out or you get to wait until 2014.
Your choice.
If we just arm other pirates with Letters of Trademarque that show they work for the King or Queen, I'm sure we can solve this once and for all.
After all, it's not like large impersonal corporations which care nothing about human rights are monetizing works of arts from actual Persons who are not corporations, for their own personal aggrandizement.
I claim First Postal Watermarque!
Originally, my words were the ones used. Only later did they obfuscate it.
It's like me saying "if you broke it, you own it" and you described a 4 page addendum in contract language that says what I just said, and insisting your version is correct.
Now, would you like to discuss what light spectra the sky is?
Under French law you are considered Guilty until proven Innocent.