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Post by quincannon on Jul 27, 2022 16:31:33 GMT
Are you concerned about this HR? I'm not so much.
China understands that war with the RIMPAC would collapse their economy. Would not be all that good for the rest of the world either, but like the war in Ukraine, the western world and the RIMPAC nations, have an ability to sustain crisis and overcome it, not without pain of course. The Chinese and the Russians have no such ability. If they, or the Russians devestate their own economies, there will not be a twenty first century Marshall Plan to get them back on their feet. They will be left to stew in their own Egg Foo Young and Cabbage Soup.
The same could be said about North Korean aggession as well, only they do not have an economy to devestate. The end result for them is starving faster.
So many of our own people fear these shits, and so many of our own people are also craven turds. In the school yard as kids we learned to stand up to bullies or perish. I ain't in the perishing business, and I don't think you are either.
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Post by herosrest on Jul 27, 2022 17:48:55 GMT
Critical mass should worry anyone. There are examples of what can happen - 1953. Anysways, you can guarantee the Polish will get itchy feet when their forces reach critical mass - link You guys need a long hard look at cheap and cheerful corporate lunches. The World really could use an effective and capable medium tank which costs sweet FA. Ukraine has natural gas reserves about equal to those of Norway. Maybe someone should let the Germans know. link
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Post by herosrest on Jul 27, 2022 17:59:41 GMT
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Post by quincannon on Jul 27, 2022 18:04:50 GMT
Thanks for that link HR. I have a platoon of Merkavas in my to do in near term stash, and those are the best Sinai Grey I have yet seen. It is a much more effective desert camouflage than the British or American tan or sand, I think
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Post by quincannon on Jul 27, 2022 21:19:10 GMT
Just read where the wreck of USS Samual B. Roberts was found yesterday off Samar
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Post by herosrest on Aug 1, 2022 8:09:08 GMT
I'm just checking, but this was the fiercely brave DD which took on the Jap Battleships to defend its carrier group?...... Went down in a 'Hail of Glory'. Yup. link - When all hope is gone, 'Roberts [was] turned and headed toward the heavy cruiser Chōkai. The commanding officer, Copeland, announced "We're making a torpedo run. The outcome is doubtful, but we will do our duty.".......... Remarkable people. That takes me back to early interest in combined arms campaigns and........... torpedos. ABDA and Doorman's scratch fleet fighting for Java. Wow. The Duck on desperate . To fight, or not to fight. That is the question! Whether 'tis nobler ....... to heed Pareto or suffer 14" caliber rifled naval artillery. 14" is big. It's very, very big. It's devastating. Regards
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Post by herosrest on Aug 1, 2022 9:07:03 GMT
The Dutch Hurricanes - Orkaan RAF, RNZAF and NEI Fighters in Action over NEI, 1942 A blog - link of interest..... so, anyhow...... there's a neat pic of a buffalo (not one which Custer hunted) and it reminded me of a long held obscurity. Until the ME-262's started their thing, the FW-190 was arguably Germany's top performing fighter, designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s. It always strikes me as the F-2A done right A Dutch Buffalo in Java US sold them to Europe. The Focke-Wulf F-19 'Duck'. It's crash killed Georg Wulf.
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Post by herosrest on Aug 1, 2022 10:10:31 GMT
19th Bomb Group - SW Pacific - opening phasePacific Wrecks Oz at War - 19BG 435TH BOMB SQUADRON THE "KANGAROO SQUADRON" - B-17E Flying Fortress #41-2408 of 38RS, 19BG, arrived over Oahu at 8am Dec. 7th and was shot up by the IJN strike on the US Fleet and USAF air bases. Went on to serve in Australia. Well, I never..........
Nip's Nemesis II ---- P-39D 41-38338 'Nip’s Nemesis II', 41-38338, a P-39D of the 36th Fighter squadron, 8th Fighter Group based at Port Moresby New Guinea in 1942, flown by Lieutenant Don “Fibber” McGee. 36th's first kill in moresby. Home at last - In the fall of 1943, Melville was a pilot assigned to the 36th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group. On Oct. 28, he was piloting a P-39Q Airacobra fighter on a combat mission over the island of New Guinea, Australian Territory of Papua (current day Papua New Guinea), when his aircraft and two others disappeared after encountering severe weather. Search and recovery efforts in the days following were unable to find any of the aircraft. Capt. Paul Brown - 25th September, 1942 P-39D-1-BE Airacobra #41-38339 (c/n 14A-270) from the 36th Fighter Squadron of the 8th Fighter Group disappeared on a flight from Garbutt airfield to Mareeba. Period video - Airacobra mission over Port Moresby. I'm smilin........ P-39 stock film footage.
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Post by quincannon on Aug 1, 2022 15:31:21 GMT
Roberts was a destroyer escort HR, which, considering its relatively slow speed when compared to a fleet destroyer, made that torpedo attack an even more remarkable adventure. The other two escort ships sunk in that action were Johnson and Hoel, both Fletcher Class destroyers. Others were involved of course, I recall Heerman, another Fletcher Class DD) right off the top of my head, but cannot imediately recall the others.
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Post by herosrest on Aug 5, 2022 14:52:49 GMT
I'm not sure what China understands any more but assuming this news is factual, from the BBC, then this is nuts, literally deposit your nuts to buy property. Food for homes Several Chinese property developers have said they would accept food as payment for homes in recent months, as they attempt to attract buyers. The companies advertised deals to let people use produce - including peaches, water melons and garlic - as down payments on new homes. However, some of these unusual offers have now reportedly been pulled. Home sales in China have fallen for 11 months in a row, while this week a major developer defaulted on its debts. Last week, a property company in the eastern city of Wuxi said it would allow peaches be used to offset as much as 188,888 Chinese yuan ($28,218; £23,289) in down payments for homes. But.............. in China, you still take out your mortgage for the property before they start building it. That is, you are making repayments before the the construction starts. Utterly brilliant.
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Post by quincannon on Aug 5, 2022 15:45:32 GMT
The Chinese economy is a house of cards HR. It can only last so long before it collapses. It is the same as the economies of the Middle Eastern petro states. One good blip and they are back to importing chop suey and driving camels.
This is the prime reason why I insist that Taiwan is a distracting side show and China's real eyes on on the north, and while I truely believe shoveling camel shit builts character, where no character presently exists.
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Post by herosrest on Aug 5, 2022 21:36:07 GMT
It would be foolish to allow the World's largest market to collapse. The problem with China is idiots in uniform trying to take over the World. They have a sanity problem which isn't really very Chinese. You might enjoy this - Tiger
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Post by herosrest on Aug 5, 2022 21:54:48 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Aug 10, 2022 10:26:50 GMT
To my mind, a political solution to Russian military aggression, denies them the Med - Link and Black Sea. The Miltary solution partitions Russia after removing Moscow from the equation. This is what Russia is tried and is doing in Ukraine - reduced to nibbling at the problem. The problem of Russia isn't going away. Will they undertake nuclear warfare - who cares. Yes, there must be a poilitical framework, if you look - Russia put there's in place with lies, deception and the concept of a "russia'. It never existed and doesn't now in any legal sense. Same with Communist China. It is a barstard state.
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Post by quincannon on Aug 10, 2022 17:20:51 GMT
Denial of the Black Sea and the Med, along with a similar denial of the Baltic, dries them up. The first step in bring Russia to heel is kicking them off of the United Nations Security Council. Then, while easy is always hard, they are easy pickings. Geography is Russia's worst enemy, and always has been.
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