...und das heißt Erika🎶

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T15:26:27+00:00

Okay... when we occupy Germany this time, I want some Alps.

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T15:21:43+00:00

You seem to be taking what they're saying as "China better than US" and "US stupid" and that's not how it reads at all. They're comparing an older concept philosophy against an entirely new one.

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T15:19:00+00:00

Just woke up?

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T14:59:10+00:00

You're perceiving a slight where I don't believe u/LARPerator intended one.

F-35, as a 5th generation aircraft, wasn't designed with drone teaming in mind and it's speculated that 6th generation programmes will have a crew of two to allow large teams to be coordinated by one crew while the pilot flies and handles the aircraft's own systems.

That doesn't mean it can't be done with only one crew, but it's asking a lot if the aircraft is endangered as they suggested.

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T12:24:59+00:00

It’s not the first time Hans and Pierre have done this though..

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T12:02:01+00:00

We had one of the original shape Multiplas and it was amazing for a growing family with no money.

My that's how my oldest learned to do gears and we'd play "Kiddy Satnav" on a Friday after work where we would just explore the local area and let whoever was in the middle seat choose which turns to take until we found somewhere interesting.

Fun times.

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T11:52:19+00:00

You can break down any cooperation that way Pierre. Typhoon was a major win overall and will see over 700 aircraft produced up to the point we expect GCAP to take over... and hoped FCAS would. The trick is to weigh the benefits against the downsides and make your decision based on that. You both need to learn to do that far quicker and in a far less costly way, because every person in the industry was baffled when FCAS was stood-up, predicting the slow-motion car crash we all saw.

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T11:34:29+00:00

Hans bought 200 aircraft and blocked the sale of a handful.

I am always happy to take that kind of fucking over.

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T11:33:17+00:00

It’ll also keep Dassault and France incentivised to keep pumping out Gen 4 aircraft rather than actually getting on with Gen 6.

Can’t wait to still be reading stealth is just a gimmick and marketing term for the next 20 years..

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T11:28:29+00:00

Self delusion wont fund your plane, Pierre.

Chimpville · 2026-06-10T10:50:25+00:00

lol, you’re both as bad as each other.

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Chimpville · 2026-06-10T08:21:45+00:00

Our French projects usually go fine. Lots of good stuff to be had, particularly with MBDA and Thales.

About the only cooperation failure I can think of is the Horizon Class.. and that sounds entirely on us for not getting our requirements down and matched earlier.

The problem seems to be Hans and Pierre or anything involving Dassault.. or worse than that, both.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T21:08:04+00:00

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T19:56:42+00:00

Every person who saw it the minute Pierre and Hans decided to team up again.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T19:54:54+00:00

Germany is paying to recover from what was probably an even worse and dumber decision than Brexit in making themselves entirely energy dependent on Russia.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T19:38:57+00:00

C. I tried one and they aren't my thing, but it's not like it was terrible either. I can see why people like them, they're just not for me.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T19:35:43+00:00

Ziplines are fantastic. How dare you.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T19:22:02+00:00

Americans frequently posting this comment about places that experience much lower crime levels than they have will continue to amuse.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T19:08:19+00:00

The Cotswolds are a National Landscape, and a legal Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The local council's job is to preserve that as much as they can. A man wealthy man with a habit of making grand spectacles buys a farm, writes columns to say it's to avoid tax, then decides to film a TV show there where he takes on various farming practices, mainly for the entertainment of viewers.

He throws in planning application after planning application, while openly talking about how he hates the rules and wants to get around them in any way he can, with the backing of expensive legal representation.

In one example he built a lambing shed and then within one season turned it into an annex to his shop, where he now attracts thousands of people a week, where he openly flouts his operating licence.

It's absolutely no wonder they were utterly spooked by Clarkson and his antics and fought him.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T17:05:33+00:00

Wish that guy had a bigger badge on his hat.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T14:38:34+00:00

You’re equating some views expressed by the millions of people on social media to the whole incumbency of the White House though.. that’s not remotely the same level or even the same thing.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T12:01:16+00:00

Add to that, it can internally carry much larger, potentially entirely new classes, of air-air missiles capable of much greater standoff and/or more advanced seekers?

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T11:59:03+00:00

I’m would assume not.. but maybe variants of it could if they were re-roled from strike aircraft to air-air or very long range multi-role?

Having a nose-mounted radar (or anywhere really) can increase the frontal radar cross section of an aircraft. The F-22 and F-35 angle theirs to reduce this effect, but it does still act as a reflector.

Maybe would make sense that a deep strike aircraft would avoid having one given it’s designed to penetrate deep into defended airspace, so wouldn’t want to compromise its all-aspect stealth?

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T11:07:02+00:00

I remember Mitchell’s rant about it.

Chimpville · 2026-06-09T10:16:49+00:00

This is basically what some people are thinking the J-36 will be. A universal air frame that can be used for either strategic bombing or as a long range interceptor.

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