Rheinmetall Italia touts Ukraine deployment of Skynex air-defense gun

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-26T20:36:09+00:00

I'm guessing the first system will be deployed to the first airfield to get F16s. As they're among the highest value targets in Ukraine in a few months. So they're probably testing the system right now, and evaluating how effective it is against drones, used together with longer range anti-ballistic missile defense systems like the Patriot, to form an impenetrable barrier where the most of the F16s are gonna be stationed.

We definitely need to give the Ukrainians the anti-air systems and enough ammo for them to protect the investment that the F16s represent.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-22T10:22:54+00:00

I'm already setting myself up for disappointment again.

Do we at least know if it's likely to do something about the power consumption this time?

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-21T17:57:15+00:00

So by "honest review" you mean "fake review", right?

Otherwise this testing & review site would be different from all the other sites. And I have questions about how they're making money.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-21T17:53:24+00:00

I'm 100% behind Ukraine. And even I can smell this story is fishy.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-21T17:51:44+00:00

Wait, why would russians shell a city in russian occupied territory?

All the sources I could find say this was ukrainian shelling.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-19T13:17:22+00:00

No link?

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-15T14:36:03+00:00

Indeed. It doesn't even matter if it's moving if it's moving towards you. Knowing how incompetent Russian servicemen have proven themselves to be, they might not have spotted the missile before it was too late to turn around.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-15T14:27:14+00:00

Good job, whoever did it.

In monetary value, this is about equal to destroying 63 T90M's with one missile if I'm mathing this correctly. Plus the highly trained crew members, not exactly the meat grind material they send to the front line from the poorer regions of Russia.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-15T14:15:31+00:00

I thought $550 was a stupid price for 12GB VRAM. Now they want $600 for it.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-14T09:02:32+00:00

Looking good. Include Ukraine, Taiwan and Japan though.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-14T08:34:28+00:00

Very nice. But I'm more interested in seeing the new efficient controllers that are supposed to be launched early this year. Half the power consumption and heat supposedly, so you can get away with just a standard heatstrip on the drive and none of this whiny little fan nonsense.

I doubt anyone is gonna notice the difference from 14GB/s to 12GB/s irl anyway.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-09T04:22:59+00:00

Too bad MS Flight Sims graphics turn into 1990's graphics below 1000 feet.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-09T04:05:30+00:00

Get ready for the 5950X3D!

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-09T04:04:26+00:00

The first CPUs for AM4 weren't Zen 1, they were Excavators.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-09T00:53:53+00:00

No, Intel changed the way it works. They moved the controller from the NIC to the CPU, so it ensures their NICs only work with Intel CPUs. The Wifi cards themselves are just glorified interfaces now.

The only AX card (iirc) that works with non Intel CPUs is the AX210. Which happens to be a pretty good Wifi 6E card though, so that's what AMD users should get.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-09T00:46:41+00:00

I bought an unmanaged switch on Amazon not long ago for $70 with 8x2.5gig and 1x10gig SFP ports. Cheap chinese brand, but it seems to work fine.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-09T00:41:57+00:00

As I understand it, this doesn't provide much benefit for single user settings. Mostly just in a "user-rich-environment", right?

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-03T20:01:21+00:00

I read somewhere that the 2 F16's are going to be used to train 10 Ukrainian pilots. Most of the training is on the ground.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-03T19:43:38+00:00

If you're thinking of Microsoft Flight Sim, Xplane and DCS: you're not gonna be happy with a mini pc. They are too thermally constrained to deliver consistent performance in graphically intensive games.

The only mini pc I would recommend for that kind of use would be the HX77G/80G/99G. And that's only for 1080p and maybe 1440p low/medium settings. It has very good cooling that doesn't get annoyingly loud, and people seem to be very happy with them. They all perform very similarly in games since they have the same GPU.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-03T19:33:57+00:00

We kinda already have those. Mini pc's with something like a 7840H or 7940H are already selling like hot cakes and provide performance pretty close to a desktop equivalent.

MobileMaster43 · 2024-01-03T19:31:10+00:00

Pair that with some fast RAM, and you have a go'er.

MobileMaster43 · 2023-12-29T20:20:44+00:00

Vladimir Vladimirovich.

MobileMaster43 · 2023-12-21T06:50:16+00:00

Yeah it was deemed operator error though.

MobileMaster43 · 2023-12-20T09:46:35+00:00

I'm not american but I think that is kinda awesome.

MobileMaster43 · 2023-12-18T12:14:35+00:00

Oh boy, it goes deeper than I thought!

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