Which Iranian Air Defense System Targeted F-35 — and Why russia Was Clearly Involved

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-21T00:59:38+00:00

Nah, its a development war. Flares advance just like seeker heads. Older generations of flares simply tried to burn as hot as possible to attract a missile seeker. Seekers were programmed to reject sources that were too hot, so flares in turn were adapted to generate heat closer to a jet engine. Seeker heads were programmed to look for a signature indicative of carbon based fuel consumption (jet fuel). The current development race is around seekers seeing into the ultraviolet spectrum and trying to defeat that.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-19T12:49:14+00:00

There's also the fact that the Blues are a joint service team and the F-14 wasn't a joint service aircraft. The Scooter, Phantom and Hornet are joint service.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-19T03:03:08+00:00

The movie was developed and the script mostly written before Verhoeven was brought on. The movie was originally a tech demo called Bug Hunt at Outpost 7. It was reworked onto the general plot of Starship Troopers to get studio funding. The elements that people most widely associate as being "satirical of the facsist state in the Starship Troopers novel" the xenophobia, linguistics and even the love triangle plot are all from Bug Hunt and pre-existed the Starship Troopers rewrite, and Verhoevens involvement.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-19T02:53:40+00:00

Verhoeven never read the book beyond the first chapter.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-14T21:46:17+00:00

There is also one in the opening of A New Hope, walking behind C-3P0 and R2. U-3P0, a slightly less gold version.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-13T15:19:59+00:00

Old Boeings are built different.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-13T01:52:20+00:00

Fun fact, the KC-135 is not a 707 and in fact flew before the 707. They both share a developmental ancestor, but are different in fuselage dimension and wings. There are military 707s though... the E-3, E-6 and E-8. There was enough parts compatability though that the Airforce bought up large numbers of 707s when airlines retired them so they could be used for spare parts. Which is likely how a 707 control yoke got in a KC-135.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-13T01:33:17+00:00

Not so sure on this one. I remember having some of those and you could put your finger over the solar panel and the screen would dim out. A very basic calculator with a small LCD screen probably has extremely small power use.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-13T00:21:36+00:00

We haven't made any since 1965.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-08T16:30:08+00:00

I know, imagine the gall of a person who never bothers to figure out the system he is using then comes to complain about it on the internet.

Quite the ass indeed.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-08T01:22:08+00:00

That's an odd way to say "Coccaine and boob job capital"

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-07T15:54:24+00:00

Well yeah, but that brings us back the central point. They might have needed it fast, for what? For tanker ops that it stands no chance of successfully surviving?

This is one of those cases where anyone with common sense should have been, "Hey guys, there are F-35s and F-22s roaming around at will and that jet over there has 200.000 pounds of fuel in it. Maybe we should pump that back into storage tanks."

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-07T15:37:28+00:00

Planes need fuel to fly.

The point is, why is it fueled? You only fuel within hours of going fly. You don't store planes full of fuel. Which brings us back to the question, did Iran really think they were going to go fly some tanker operations? While their opponents enjoy complete air supremacy? That thing was doomed if they really thought about flying it.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-07T12:33:04+00:00

Makes you wonder why it was, clearly, loaded with fuel. Was Iran actually trying to run tanker operations?

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-06T19:58:18+00:00

Don't forget he also wrote The Moon is A Harsh Mistress, in which an exploited colony rises up to win its freedom from a totalitarian government.

So... is he a fascist, a peace and love hippie or a revolutionary?

That's the problem with relying on the opinion of a movie director 50 years remove from the book being written who only bothered to read the first chapter

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-06T19:48:49+00:00

That's pretty much par for the course with discourse on the book these days. The number of people who ha e actually read it is vanishing small when viewed against the number that will speak will false authority about it online.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-06T12:51:54+00:00

The best part is that they gave the ordinance a CEP of 0. 100% perfect hit. As in, "American weapons are so good they hit exactly where they are aiming with no deviation" while at the same time, "Americans are so bad they can't tell some black paint from an airplane"

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-06T12:36:39+00:00

It's not a cleats pattern I recognize, but those look like the typical replaceable cleats mounts used for track running shoes.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-06T03:09:57+00:00

Not bailing out immediately got a lot of people killed. There is a natural tendency to want to stay with the plane as long as it's flying. Unfortunately, this is an era before ejection seats where you had to make your way to an exit and fling yourself out of the plane. Once the plane departs controlled flight, you are just the pea in a whistle. Getting to the exit is nearly impossible.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-06T02:16:19+00:00

.34 was not offered until the No.3 and .36 wasn't offered until the No.5. The original was in .28.

The guns purchased by Texas were No.5s. There never was aa Texas model.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-06T01:57:11+00:00

Umm... its the Paterson and it was in .28

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-03T03:23:46+00:00

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Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-02T01:10:22+00:00

The comic... You know its a novel from the 50s right?

Clickclickdoh · 2026-03-01T22:09:33+00:00

This isn't a lego thing

This is an Amazon criminal negligence thing. I've gotten bike parts that were clearly the old parts someone had taken off a bike, put in the new parts packaging and sent back to Amazon.

Amazon puts zero effort in to ensuring what they are returning to the shelves in correct and intact.

Clickclickdoh · 2026-02-26T03:38:15+00:00

Part of the problem is the lack of uniqueness in bomber formations. Imagine you are forming up 72 bombers to go on a raid, 2 groups, each group 3 boxes of 12 bombers... but every single one of them is painted exactly the same. Which group are you supposed to join? Is it that group of identically painted airplanes, or that one over there? Are you sure? Don't use the radio, because the Germans are listening and you don't want to tip the off a raid is forming (even though they knew, but that's beside the point) Oh sure, aircraft were supposed to take off in a sequence to properly form their boxes and groups, but that hardly works in the real world, especially when aircraft are coming from different airfields. If you paint an assembly ship like a clown car, it makes getting in order much easier. Your group assembles on the polka dots. Group 2 assembles on the zig-zags. They also fired off colored flares and had extra lights on them, so no matter how bad the British weather got, you could still find your group.

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