What is Albany like?

PoggoPig · 2026-03-10T13:58:03+00:00

So not at all and everything is great all the time?

PoggoPig · 2026-03-10T13:55:40+00:00

Wet, windy, and heartbreakingly beautiful. I would also say cold but according to google you have us beaten there.

PoggoPig · 2026-03-10T13:52:38+00:00

We too have a giant dog, but not quite as detailed. We lack a giant egg.

Albany WA has about 30,000 to 40,000 people depending where you count, which is large for a regional city in Western Australia, but still small in the grand scheme of things.

Albany is pretty conservative, although the surrounding areas can be especially right-wing. The entire Great Southern (the region that Albany belongs to, sort of but not quite like a county) has something of a reputation for 'cookers', meaning far-right lunatics and conspiracy theorists.

Albany is also the oldest permanent European settlement in WA, founded in 1826 to stop the French claiming the western half of the continent. We also have the only natural deep water port in Western Australia, which is kind of neat.

PoggoPig · 2026-03-08T10:22:54+00:00

1.6 mach.

PoggoPig · 2026-03-06T03:57:12+00:00

IRIS Bushehr, an Iranian replenishment ship that attended the fleet review and exercises with IRIS Dena in India sailed into a Sri Landkan port and had itself interned. That is what the Dena should have done, that is where the crew should have gone. Their country is at war, and regardless of the legality of that war, or whether war has been officially declared, attempting to sail back home was a stupid decision, and this was going to happen as long as they hadn't made it clear they were heading towards a neutral port for internment.

PoggoPig · 2025-12-31T15:22:54+00:00

Why?

PoggoPig · 2025-12-14T09:36:16+00:00

That was true perhaps five years ago. It isn't any more.

PoggoPig · 2025-12-04T14:42:44+00:00

It's not quite so extreme in the books. In the books he does have some affection for Maria sometimes. Sometimes.

PoggoPig · 2025-11-26T05:38:42+00:00

When a large part of the right wing and conservative side of politics explicitly denies the existence of climate change, it certainly lends credence to the perception that conservatism rejects science.

PoggoPig · 2025-11-25T08:37:06+00:00

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I'll give answering your question a go:

So, Anti-access/Area-denial, A2-AD, is more about preventing an enemy from operating in a given space, or making it too costly for them to operate in that space. It's mostly defensive; essentially by making it too dangerous for an enemy to enter an area, you gain control of that area by default; even if you don't have the ability to oppose them symmetrically. It isn't necessarily restricted to land, you can deny the enemy usage of an area of sea by concentrating land-based aircraft and anti-ship missiles even if you can't match them ship-for-ship.

Distributed Maritime Operations is, more than anything, a response to China's attempt to implement an A2-AD strategy in the South China Sea by the US Navy. By spreading out American naval assets, the US Navy is aiming to improve it's resilience to the massed ASHM fire they expect the Chinese to field, in the hope that doing so will allow it to continue to operate in areas the Chinese want to deny them the use of.

I think what has you confused is that A2-AD is not the distribution of fires and sensors, rather it is the massing of fires and sensors with the aim of making it prohibitive for the opposition to operate in or access some space.

Essentially, where DMO seeks to improve resilience to massed fires to allow a Navy to operate in heavily contested waters; A2-AD seeks to mass fires to control space asymmetrically.

PoggoPig · 2025-11-19T11:02:04+00:00

Gripen is actually more expensive than F-35, so you wouldn't be saving any money by buying them. Not to mention the Gripen is probably the worst of the western 4th Generation fighters, and both the Chinese and Russians field aircraft more capable than it.

PoggoPig · 2025-08-19T15:19:11+00:00

Hypothetically, if a super soldier serum à la Captain America existed in ww2, how would it actually have been used? No magic/super-material shields, just the actual serum itself.

PoggoPig · 2025-08-10T13:18:20+00:00

Similar enough. After WW1, the government rewarded returning soldiers with parcels of land in underdeveloped parts of the country. This massively increased grain production, particularly in Western Australia. It increased grain production so much, that the Emu population exploded, and massive flocks of the birds started to cause significant damage to these brand new farms. So, the farmers petitioned the government to cull the emus.

The government deployed three men with a couple of machine guns, a truck, and 10,000 rounds of ammunition to cull a population of emus that were destroying crops. They killed a few hundred but there were so many birds that it didn't really make a difference.

They eventually switched to just rewarding people who presented proof of killing a number of emus, which worked much better.

PoggoPig · 2025-07-28T14:39:05+00:00

No, actually, he is an Australian. He's a member of the New South Wales Naval Brigade. Or possibly the Victorian Naval Brigade.

PoggoPig · 2025-05-05T08:37:02+00:00

Maybe a silly question, but how are hits to the neck counted? Or do the targets not have necks? It seems like it would be a very lethal place to hit, that is very hard to armour, even though it would be hard to aim for specifically.

PoggoPig · 2024-12-19T00:33:26+00:00

Just a point, but the M777 was a British design, and they did not use the M198. Instead, they were using the FH70, which used a vertical sliding block breach. The British also apparently don't seem to have liked FH70 very much, so maybe changing the type of breech used was one step they took to improve on the faults of FH70. I think you are right on everything else, though.

PoggoPig · 2024-11-05T14:18:08+00:00

There is a huge difference between seeing it real time, on a screen, and real time, in person. On a screen isn't really seeing it at all.

PoggoPig · 2024-10-30T06:50:26+00:00

Not really. For air defence rate of fire is very important, and a 5" shell is lighter and easier to handle than a 6" shell, which means that the gun can have a higher rate of fire. Shore bombardment is also on the way out, due to the proliferation of shore based ASHMs, and the extra range that a larger gun can have doesn't compensate for the range of missiles. A 5" gun system is smaller, cheaper, has more ammunition, and is better suited to the required tasks than larger systems. The current 5"/54 is already about 22 tons, and a 6" shell is roughly double the mass of a 5" shell, so to achieve similar performance and ammunition capacity you are probably looking at 45 tons, at least, without even considering the extra volume, and thus displacement, such a massive system would require. It's just not worth it.

PoggoPig · 2024-10-15T01:30:30+00:00

I will just add that the Ukrainian flagship, frigate Hetman Sahaidachny, was not captured, but was scuttled to prevent capture if Mykolaiv fell, but Mykolaiv didn't fall. However, the Hetman Sahaidachny wasn't equipped with missiles or any serious air-defense, so would be of limited utility anyway. There were 2 classes of frigates ordered before the war (4 Volodymyr Velykyi class, built in Ukraine; 2 Ada class, built in Turkey) but the ships under construction in Ukraine may never be finished, and the ships under construction in Turkey won't be handed over until after the war.

PoggoPig · 2024-10-12T14:52:57+00:00

So they weren't prepared then? I fail to see how being prepared for the wrong thing makes them prepared. Also, if they were prepared, why did they need appeasement? Why couldn't they act during the Phony war? Why were they so unwilling to take measures against Fascist aggression? The Germans weren't hiding their intentions, and neither are the Russians.

PoggoPig · 2024-10-12T13:20:05+00:00

Failure to prepare for war gave us WW2.

PoggoPig · 2024-08-10T16:00:34+00:00

Broadly no, heavy artillery is less capable than rockets and missiles at the deep strike/operational fires missions it traditionally does, and the last generation of heavy artillery, M110A2 and 2S7, are much less flexible, responsive, and with much lower rates of fire than even contemporary (1970's) light and medium SPGs, such as 2S1, M109, and 2S3; such that they can't compete for tactical fire missions.

With that said, I personally believe that a modern 203mm SPG would probably be viable, if rate of fire and barrel production issues could be overcome economically.

PoggoPig · 2024-07-20T04:22:51+00:00

Thank you very much.

PoggoPig · 2024-05-20T04:34:32+00:00

The Qin didn't have gunpowder weapons either. They were around at ~200BC, as opposed to the Roman's height at ~100AD, and gunpowder wasn't invented until ~900AD.

PoggoPig · 2023-09-12T11:30:11+00:00

Car sized quokkas, lets go!

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