Wobbly Head

Star Wars with real furries and enough tentacled aliens to make Japanese Henti loose it's lunch. Skynet might see this an think it will be doing humans a favour by killing us off.

Ok one thing that is not really known is a fire control system works on the principals of indirect fire. The sight is only needed to get the range and a starting position. The fire control computer then calculates the elevation needed and lead for the gun the sight after that is just along for the ride as such. If the commanders sight is set up to do this there would be no need to even get the gunner involved. It would be very detrimental to lase again especially if the enemy has laser detectors. The main reason Commanders don't do all the work is they should be looking out for other targets and let the gunner do the engagements.

I thought presidential assissins were historically Rubyied. Unless the SS knew exactly what was happening and just used the second attempt as a look we are not completely incompetent. We stopped this attempt.

5 hits per 160 attempts is not low it's actually quite high. It's very close to the ratio for artillery. Look at the ratio of hits for .50 cal on American bombers in WW2 for a comparison. Countering them is not that easy as just sticking a jammer on every vehicle there are just to many different types of commercial drone using different frequencies and radio bands. Even if you come up with a foolproof jammer mounting it on every vehicle if tanks become immune they will just use them to attack other targets like infantry or trucks. Blanket jamming even if you are not afraid of counter battery fire or HARM you will interfere with enough of your own coms and electronics to cause yourself problems. Drones have become the modern day Molotov cocktail and are just to easy to come by. They are far easier to source than small arms and if the soldiers on the ground just hear on it is achieving a success as a physiological weapon.

It's basically the Westminster version of presidential immunity. One of the privileges is being able to ignore subpoenas and not to be called to court as a witness which might directly implicate him in several ongoing corruption scandals.

More like people have dirt on him. But due to parliamentary privilege and cabinet confidential they can't use it in court as evidence. It's one of the main theories why he is so desperate to stay in power.

Drone defence is something new it was never seriously thought of before Ukraine but if you did want to design something, you are talking about additional equipment you need the jammer for multiple frequencies and radio bands. The radios on tanks are only set for certain bands and cannot cover the common bands used by drones. Then you have a detector array to detect any drones before turning on the jammers as you generally do not want any active radio systems broadcasting when not necessary as it attracts things like HARM missiles and artillery strikes. If you know anybody who can make that kind of electronic system to mil spec for less than a hundred thousand per unit needed to equip a company for less than several million. Your argument about prices is right but it is with military electronics that are effected more. Russia is having a very hard time sourcing the electronics to keep its high tech systems functioning. Civillian electronic components are a lot less specific and easier to source. You may have a missle that can hit and guarantee a hit. But what percentage of the missles supplied is that missle you have. There might be ten missle supplied but there might be only two that are actually fired at the enemy. The other eight might not be available due to things being lost due to enemy engaging teams before they fired the missle. Ammo dumps and supply bases being hit by the enemy, training uses you want to make sure the troops know how to use them. Plus you can't say that giving a missle system worth twenty times the salary of the soldier using it in a war zone some aren't going to go missing. That makes your missle twenty percent effective not 100 percent effective. Drones even at 3 percent effective are still going to be as effective and cheaper than missles. That's why they say amatures study tactics professionals study logistics. And wars are won by logistics.

Drones are still a lot cheaper than any of the munitions you quoted. How many drones can you get for the price of one Javalin $200,000 missle only. You could get several dozen drones for the cost of a NLAWS if the price is $33,000 per round. Even commercial drone detectors like the ones sold to law enforcement are in the 10s of thousands dollar range. You would need to spend millions per company of vehicles to equip them for anti drone. Plus the logistics train and maintenance personnel needed to maintain them. Economically drones are a very good return on the dollar for what they cost the enemy to counter them. Even if they don't do much damage.Once drones start to cost in the $30,000 range per unit it might be different.

Apart from trying to compare a Airforce asset with a ground bourn infantry asset. You have the simple fact that a weapon can be effective even if it doesn't have good terminal effect. How much reasorces have to be redirected to deal with the drone threat. Vehicles have to be equipped to deal with drones. EW systems have to be purchased and personal pulled from the front then trained to deal with them. Leaving several less personal left to pull triggers. Plus the personal on the front line have to be on constant guard against drones as well as everything else that will get you killed on a battlefield.

I think I remember that it was a RPG29 that penetrated the Challenger 2 causing the driver to loose his foot.

Yes and no. If it really atrocious and the other inmates find out yes there can be retribution. Guards also dislike those kinds of prisoners but hate paperwork even more. There is a lot of paperwork involved in a prisoner assault. There is also one of the prison rules is you don't ask what people are in for its considered one of the rudest things you can do. So if he can keep his mouth shut and behave he could survive relatively intact. Prisons will often send those types of criminals to certain wings or prisons in a federal system like Canada they get sent mainly one jail. Guess where I work. They still talk about one incident where on inmate who was bragging about killing a child by bashing his head against a rock. His cell mate later approached a guard and said,"I killed that piece of s#$@t, his body is in his cell". He had stabbed him so much his head was only held on with a piece of skin and several of the guards had to quit with severe PTSD.

Well if Harris gets elected you will have had one Democrat president who receives blow jobs and one who gives blow jobs.

I wonder if he is trying to be convicted before his father leaves the Whitehouse to qualify for a presidential pardon.

Smart people and dumb people can get their hands on weapons if they put their minds to it. As for the boggy man AR15 it's not really a powerful rifle and is more banned because it looks scary. They banned the AR15 in Canada because of its look. In the over fifty years it was available it was only used in a handful of crimes in Canada. None were by a licensed gun owner. You cannot even hunt with 5.56mm(.223) in Canada as most provencies have a minimum caliber of.25 inch for large game. .223 is considered a varmint cartridge as far as fish and game are concerned.

The old a lie will go around the world before the truth has put its boots on. It doesn't matter what you say. it's the perception of what is said. If the lie is said is closest to what someone believes it's more likely to be taken as fact. Both sides have been guilty of this so much trust lost that few people know what source of information to trust.