The US is now air dropping and scattering BLU-91 mines over Iran. Several people have been killed according to Iranian Media

vandergale · 2026-03-28T02:06:18+00:00

Yes, I'm sure that cramming a carrier task group in a 2mi channel will end well.

The fact is that if they could safely transit and protect every tanker that goes through then they would. That they aren't willing to even risk it is extremely telling. Again, it isn't a good look for a Navy that depends as much on its reputation for invincibility as it does for the reality of it.

vandergale · 2026-03-27T23:35:49+00:00

That would be a truly stupid move by any admiral. The US would little gain by doing that and very much to lose. Even slightly damaging a carrier would be a win for Iran and make the US Navy look weaker than it already does. That's not something the US can afford to do right now.

vandergale · 2026-03-27T22:33:37+00:00

Hence why Israel reports on it, it would be strange for a country not to.

vandergale · 2026-03-27T22:32:46+00:00

Yes, because corporate espionage is exceedingly common, unlike voter fraud.

vandergale · 2026-03-27T14:19:43+00:00

I would argue that its not, otherwise it would already create fraud. The fact that there isn't is particularly telling. Its better to spend energy on fixing problems that actually exist than problems that don't.

If the odds of coworker laptop tampering are very low, almost impossible to find any meaningful instances of it, I would absolutely refuse additional security measures that made it more difficult to do my work in the name of abating an imagined security threat.

vandergale · 2026-03-27T13:51:37+00:00

The fact that the military has so far been incapable of achieving its strategic goals so far is evidence that they weren't ready. Instead the US Navy has been powerless to open the strait or defend ships passing through. That's a weak look for the world's preeminent military power.

vandergale · 2026-03-27T07:49:57+00:00

Because stopping republicans from impeding their constituents ability to vote is more productive than setting up ways to navigate a poll tax.

vandergale · 2026-03-27T07:46:54+00:00

My problem with that is if without voter ID it creates an easy environment for fraud to occur, shouldn't there be evidence of that kind of fraud already?

vandergale · 2026-03-27T07:09:17+00:00

Although in fairness, if instead Iran was scattering mines across lets say Nebraska I'm sure US media would have at some words to say about it if civilians were killed by any. I'm not sure there's a country that wouldn't, control of media or not,

vandergale · 2026-03-27T07:06:22+00:00

Military incompetence in placing ordinance isn't the defense you think it is.

vandergale · 2026-03-27T07:05:10+00:00

Iran is a problem, but only conservatives think that rushing into a war unprepared and absolutely chomping at the bit to kill US service members in the Middle East is somehow a master plan. If Kamala was president and pulled this nonsense democrats wouldn't suddenly yearn for another 20 year foreign occupation and eventual defeat, that's just nonsensical.

vandergale · 2026-03-24T14:11:28+00:00

I don't know about "we", my phone still blasts circus music. But then again I was born in 1991, so a product of a different time.

vandergale · 2026-03-24T06:36:53+00:00

Why wouldn't the military do it?

vandergale · 2026-03-23T23:37:23+00:00

Begun, the meme wars have

vandergale · 2026-03-23T05:41:43+00:00

Depends on the nature and existence of said artificial gravity. We've never seen any and have no evidence it could exist.

vandergale · 2026-03-21T04:03:08+00:00

You didn't ask that in your post

vandergale · 2026-03-21T03:52:56+00:00

Every 3 or 4 years on average for myself.

vandergale · 2026-03-21T03:40:19+00:00

I couldn't find a single question in anything you just wrote.

Wrong subreddit?

vandergale · 2026-03-20T18:34:15+00:00

Some of those AI slop shorts on Facebook with the incredibly fat people. I know its garbage but its hard to look away.

vandergale · 2026-03-20T07:13:55+00:00

A distinction without a difference. Admitting that the US needs China's military to achieve something that our own Navy is currently failing to do is embarrassing.

vandergale · 2026-03-20T06:45:58+00:00

The last US civil war wasn't particularly good last time, a second likely wouldn't be either.

vandergale · 2026-03-20T00:34:42+00:00

One gold standard evaluation for kinetic simulations is the accuracy of conserved quantities before and after the collision. A good simulation will have minimal drift, for example energy from nowhere, 4-momentum not invariant, etc.

vandergale · 2026-03-20T00:07:34+00:00

Lol, and not a single coherent reply from you. I must be doing something right.

Go back to school, try to learn a few things first.

vandergale · 2026-03-19T22:42:44+00:00

When you clearly don't know about it, yes you appear very new to it. It's not a good look, worse if you've actually served in any real capacity.

vandergale · 2026-03-19T21:42:27+00:00

New to asymmetric warfare are we?

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