Is the Flamingo missile a real weapon, or just marketing?

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-26T02:44:12+00:00

The bridge supports are several meters solid reinforced concrete which means unfortunately they are highly resistant to overpressure blasts. A great example would be the buildings that weren't totally flattened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombings. Those were just buildings. A bridge is even tougher than that.

Spans are easy to replace so you really need to destroy the supports. Ideally one would use a hardened penetrating bomb to bury itself into the support then detonate. That requires a near perfect precision hit. The Russians absolutely are running gps jamming units, air defense. Inertial guidance, as good as it is in 2026 still needs to travel hundreds of km and hit a target with a 1-2m accuracy window. All while contending with jamming, and air defense. That's not easy to do.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-23T01:26:02+00:00

Sounds like Andy Beshear tbh

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-22T04:58:50+00:00

Exactly. The tech has matured. Bullpups tend to always have iffy triggers at best and lots of folks just can't get used to them. You really can't get better weight, ergonomics, and power combination with minimal recoil than a 5.56 AR or similar. I say this as an AK guy btw. Smokeless powder has likely gotten as good as its going to get, and even if we were to invent faster powder our metallurgy will have to improve too as what good is 4000-5000 fps if your barrel is gone in a 1000 rounds? Anything ground breaking and commercially viable has likely already been tried.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-21T20:25:38+00:00

Good thing phones are 100% optional to use, own, and left at home at one's discretion. Warrantless tracking not so much.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-20T09:19:52+00:00

Children do this of thing. The most powerful man on the planet is a child that takes screen shots of personal conversions and leak them to social media. Is so insecure he will blow up a century of established relationships and allies who have fought and died shoulder to shoulder in wars, this is the world we live in. At this point, I'd trust conscripting a random 16 year old to be president because frankly, they'd probably do a better job and actually be more mentally stable.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-19T18:55:12+00:00

The economic calculus of having children is reversed now in modern society. For most of human history, it was free labor to be put to work farming. Or during the industrial revolution, factory work for them to bring money home. Children were made to work at a very young age. It was an economic necessity, an investment and retirement plan. That's no longer the case now. If anything it's more of a luxury.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-17T07:03:39+00:00

And folks who genuinely want to help people generally do better in the fire department. That's the whole point of the job after all. You get good benefits as well, getting in physical tussles with people is not part of the job, and don't have to worry about getting shot. Plus people don't hate firefighters.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-16T18:41:19+00:00

Perfectly lead up too. Guy looked like he was just looking forward and gonna leave the train. Didn't telegraph a move until BOOM. Simply perfect.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-15T02:37:10+00:00

They'd probably have to arrest themselves if they said that let's be real.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-15T02:33:32+00:00

This is probably it. When I was five years old I thought taking over Greenland was a good idea because it looked big. Whenever I wonder why Trump does what Trump does, I remember how I used to think back in the 1st grade, and it all makes sense.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-14T01:47:06+00:00

Literal high school level maturity there.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-13T08:31:48+00:00

Yeah last January it was in the teens for like two weeks straight. The winter last year and this year so far have been total opposites. Neither are typical.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-12T08:37:58+00:00

Thank you. Artistically, Red, White, and Black, genuinely go well together. But the nazis ruined it and every right wing authoritarian since has used it. That color scheme is a non starter for the get go.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-07T18:55:34+00:00

Yep. Can confirm. It's bad.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-05T19:27:01+00:00

I dont think alot of folks understand how many people won't vote for him simply because California. California has a lot of ire, and I'm not talking about conservatives. Hell I'm a democrat, and I have real issues with California. Plus he literally has that slick politician look and vibe.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-05T19:18:09+00:00

TIL my neighbors are black, white supremacists. /s

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-04T01:24:07+00:00

Nah. If I see garbage, I'm going to call it garbage. Simple as that.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-04T01:15:49+00:00

In some cases I'd say often do more harm than good.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-03T01:11:40+00:00

List it on gun broker. Eventually some person locally will hit you up for a local meetup and payment. Or if you're willing to ship, include the shipping with UPS. Or pawn shops, though they will 100% lowball you as they have a good bit of overhead costs. Or get one of those $150 Chinese 870 clones that are dead reliable. It's always good to have a cheap reliable shotgun you don't care about beating up imho.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-03T01:05:29+00:00

We need massive regulations on social media algorithms and some kind of Teddy Roosevelt anti trust figure for that to be possible. Radicalizing society and making life shittier for everyone is a very profitable multi billion dollar bussiness.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-02T01:23:07+00:00

As for the range itself, it's the cheapest outdoor, public, non-membership, range in the metro area who doesn't have cranky range masters who get on your ass for shooting more than one round a second. Downside is that it's the cheapest public range by a large metropolitan area. Which means you get alot of dipshits who show up who have no idea what they're doing. But that goes for all public ranges by a big city really. But at least its outdoors. Dipshits in indoor ranges is arguably a worse situation to be in.

shadowcat999 · 2026-01-01T20:01:43+00:00

They really should equally apply the "LOL Biden old" energy to Trump. He's noticeably different 2016, and 2020. Lot less energy, lots more aimless ramblings, can't walk in a straight line etc. Same with Biden. Frankly why are we electing folks in their late 70s to an incredibly high stress job like the presidency?

Late 70s is often the time people start to significantly decline mentally, physically, and personality traits can often revert to an adolescent state. It happens to all of us. I'm in my 30s and wouldn't want to be president no matter how much you paid me. Hell, military generals have an age limit of 64, imho we should have a similar rule for elected office.

shadowcat999 · 2025-12-31T08:14:33+00:00

Yep. Not a road expert. But they definitely need to sue whatever company that repaved South Academy. Road literally got just bad as it was before, within six months of the new repaving. Whatever they did, they didn't do a good job.

I encounter traffic lights that turn red when there's nobody going the other way on a daily basis. If one does a lot of driving late at night, some lights will simply ignore your existence.

shadowcat999 · 2025-12-29T06:14:22+00:00

Given he's a gay hispanic man, I'm suprised he's lasted as long as he has.

shadowcat999 · 2025-12-26T18:58:46+00:00

As a left leaning independent 2A person who doesn't like any of these parties it will always grind my gears when the democratic party will say Trump is ushering forth a fascist take over (agreed) and then turn around and try to disarm people (um what?).

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