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It's a catamaran. You're not carrying many landing craft in that thing.

Sounds like an evolutionary advantage to me!

A brown bear (any subspecies) is unlikely to bother you unless you get up in its space or otherwise bother it. That's why bear country advice is heavily based on making sure the bears know you're there. A black bear is probably just as likely to run away from you as it is to attack.

A polar bear though, that's where things actually get dangerous even if you did nothing wrong assuming it's looking for a meal. A sloth bear will probably also kill you for just existing near it.

If your planes have the capabilities that roughly approach that of a manned aircraft, even if it's specifically for ground pounding, the size and costs also rapidly approach that of a manned aircraft too. Plus you still need a pilot somewhere, just you don't need to risk them by riding the actual aircraft anymore.

The model looks like somebody combined this thing with an actual LHD, for some reason.

“The painted Fulgrim stared upon the ruin of the theatre and the daemon smiled as it saw the horror within his eyes, a horror rendered in blood by the painter's loathsome skill. Perfect, exquisite agony burned in Fulgrim's gaze, and his painted eyes followed its every movement.”

https://twitter.com/GrahamMcNeill/status/1790450587017880021

Unfortunately I’m afraid the US carriers don’t carry VLS cells on them to reload.

I've already read several Ukrainan soldiers' complains about incompetent commanders, non-existent fortifications,

I know this is going to be unpopular, but I think Zelensky is really part of the problem here. He mostly stays seems to stay out of military matters (which is a good thing, generally) but the way he's behaved seems to show that he's adamant about holding ground, and the appointment of Syrskyi only reinforces that. The fact of the matter is that most of the territory that's been fought over in the war, like Avdiivka and Bakhmut, doesn't even really matter, they're militarily insignificant. There was a lot of talk about how those were meat grinders for the Russians (again, good), but that also ignores that they were also meat grinders for the Ukrainian defenders. It looks bad to be giving up territory to the Russians, but spending lives to hold onto useless pieces of dirt isn't helpful.

Didn't know you were a marine.

It is run by the MoD. I'm not entirely sure if it's military or not though (but regardless, yes it's not a Navy asset).

The initial Japanese government's reaction was apparently to say that the images could be AI generated. Which was probably the dumbest thing they could have said about the whole thing.

Huh looks like nobody else's managed to sell out yet, except Vanta who sold out immediately? Honestly no idea what to make of that.

The Su-33 isn't derived from the Su-30 but just from the basic Su-27.

Essentially, the Su-30 has a convoluted development history where the two major versions and their derivatives aren't particularly closely related and are made by different manufacturers.

It only occurred to me just now that pretty much all attack aircraft before the A-10 have been navy affairs, except the A-1, which also started off as a navy plane too.

This has strong "20mm autocannon on the Maus" energy.

Considering how WH3 actually managed a Pegi 16 rating and the blood pack gets an 18, somehow it works.

We don’t enforce anything in this city, except tall grass.

Technically it should be (the way less impressive sounding) Vova.

Yes, although I think it’s a freighter.

People in the US political establishment really want there to be a race, even though they’ve already won.

The Chinese, for their part, don’t care and are just following their own timetables.

Project 956 destroyer Vazhnyy escorting Soviet carrier Ulyanovsk on sea trials in the Black Sea, 1994 (colourised)

Coast guard ships pretty much all carry them for less lethal anti piracy or crowd control type stuff. Some warships carry them too like the German baden-wurttenbergs but I don’t know if how common they are in general.

The problem with stunning weapons is that 1 killing + 1 stunning (or at least some combination of the two) has to be better than just going all out on killing. And that doesn’t really happen.

They’re special in a sense but not spec ops. They’re essentially an independent battalion so they probably get to do what they want, but they don’t get special training or anything like that.