And this, boys, girls and others, is why E-war platforms are a requirement.

Red plane sees blue plane.

Red plane turns on no-radar-machine

Blue plane turns on no-radar-machine

Red plane and blue plane turn no-radar-machine to 11

Result: No radar for anyone. Also funny lookin’ kids

I love a good story. I’m so happy we would never ever do such a thing to ourselves!

Huh, that’s very surprising seeing what I read about maintenance and downtime of the B1.

I already didn’t include all the setup and R&D, “Just” the building cost and spares, etc etc. If you want to include the entire program, that’s more like 2.1 billion dollar per unit, but that seemed really unfair.

Of course, marginal costs also go down when scaling up, but not hugely.

Oh, I have this on an aging CD-rom somewhere. This is really awesome, thanks!

The B1 is by far a superior plane, on a level of wikipedia-page comparisons. Faster, newer, more space, better electronics, etc etc.

The problem is, the B-52 was originally built to last basically forever. It was made to go there, drop ALL the bombs, go home and do it again and again until you’re out of bombs or targets. It’s a literal flying brick and they will never break. The B-1 was… well, lets just say it’s intended mission was highly likely one-way, either because of the enemy blowing up the plane or the country of origin.

That different strategy means the B-52 is still very popular, because you can keep it running by a one-armed chimp with a bucket of grease and a hammer. It’s easy and basically free (as far as military planes go). The B-1 very much isn’t either, and the B-2 REALLY isn’t.

And the B-2 costs a BILLION dollars. With a B. You can literally buy a dozen B-1’s for the cost of a B-2, and have money left over to buy a really nice runway too. Nobody is going to use those for anything but the most special missions. If they still made B-52H’s, you could get an entire wing of them (120 planes) for the cost of a single B-2, and you’d have spare money for a nice set of airstrips, a control tower and a small town to support it.

So, the B-52 does it what it has to do, cheaply, easily, consistently and very well. That’s why it’s still around. I’m convinced the B-1 is only still around because building more B-52’s isn’t profitable to the MIC.

I laughed out loud in the office, and nobody understood the joke. I need a better employer.

No, it’s a perfect score

Lemmy.ml is hugely in favor of quite literally anything Russia and China do.

I so badly want to know how many people clicked that link

“not as bad as Venus” is probably not the goal we should be setting ourselves though

Hey, the planet is just fine, that was the point right?

I dunno, seems a bit lacking. It could do with a full loop around.

It kinda looks like they’re just chucking the deadguy into the “river”.

Concerts and sporting events have rules and regulations to prevent this nowadays. Guess who cries “persecution” when you try the same for them.

Also, a lot of these events are in the poorer countries, where these regulations don’t exist.

And also because, apparently, god doesn’t want to rescue these people.

Noooooo, really?

If anything, China benefits from maintaining the situation in Russia. When the war ends, their huge hold over Russia ends too

You can put hashtags on your Tumblr posts. And people sometimes use it as a post scriptum

They’re all in the same colours, and the weapons looks tied off/non-pointy, so I’m assuming training.