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So according to /k/ USA won the Vietnam war.
Which is, from certain aspect, correct. Not a single battle was lost for US, NV was brought to negotiationing table and all was supposed to be well.
But if US won, why did they not leave behind at least a few military bases and some military advisors for South Vietnam army? Why did US not help the South when North invaded again? Surely US could repeat former sucess? Why did US just run?
>>27799885
Because the treaty that saw the North stop fighting required the US to leave.
The war wasn't lost militarily, rather politically. It was dumb-fuck hippies who thought the Soviets were peace-nicks like themselves that told the Soviets that if they held out the US would eventually have to pack up and leave.
'Battle' is an outdated concept
Rolling Thunder was a complete and utter failure
>>27799885
Because the democrats wouldn't let us. It would have screwed up their anti war stance if we had won.
Is learning gun kata worthwhile?
>>27799848
You and your thread again, like a week ago.
As a former Grammaton Cleric , I support this thread.
>>27799848
No, but learning to fight with a gun is.
JSF is a joke, why won't America sell these bad boys instead?
>"B-Because our allies will reverse-engineer them and/or sell them to our enemies!"
Okay fine, just put a clause in the contract saying they can't do that.
>"B-But they'll just do it anyway!"
Wow, sounds like you have shitty allies but if that's really what you're worried about, just rig every jet with a thermonuclear device set to go off if any part of the plane is detached from the...
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They're obsolete desu, they only thing they do better than an F-35 is have a slighter lower RCS
>booby trap every jet with a nuclear bomb
Here's your reply.
>>27799836
>They're obsolete desu, they only thing they do better than an F-35 is have a slighter lower RCS
An order of magnitude less, in fact. Much faster and much more maneuverable, too. Too bad the entire avionics suite needs to be re-engineered since all of the key contractors either no longer make the parts used in the F-22, or went out of business completely.
Was this thing legit?
No, it was made from cardboard and a gutted Cessna
>>27799713
Nah they did use fiberglass, gotta give them credit for at least being decent hobbyest modelists.
>>27799713
I did forget to mention it only allows double amputee pilots to fit in it.
Hey guys, what are your opinions on ballistic missile defense? Waste of money, worthwhile investment, or potentially destabilizing? Missile defense general I guess.
Also, who's down for blowing the shit out of one another to pass the time?
N-no h-homo.
http://global.thermonuclearwar.org/
>>27799666
I don' think it's destabilising.
Either it works which means ICBMs and SLBMs are ineffectual which makes attacking impossible, or it doesn't work and we still have the status quo.
I agreed with the ABM treaty however in the 70s. Not because I thought the concept was a good idea but rather the technology wasn't mature enough at the time preventing an enormous amount of money being dumped into it. I'm all for it now.
>>27799677
It's not destabilizing at all. Like with any system, there's no such thing as a 100% success rate. MAD, or at least extreme damage, is still a threat since some warheads may still get through, and then for any high value targets there would be enough warheads coming in to overwhelm any ABM system in place.
>>27799702
The term you're looking for is counter-value.
Even a ABM system with a 99% success rate would still be ineffectual against counter-value attacks.
Is it really unbelieveable that Japan hoped for sucess in Pacific?
Their production capabilities were small, true, but they did manage to amass a formidable naval force prior to war. They had combat experience vs. Russians, a major world power. They have designed aircraft that have brotally outmatched anything enemy could place in the air.
Also, to their credit, they have initially completelly wiped out large numbers of enemy military assets, be it air, anval or ground forces. In Singapore campaign japanese completelly owned numerically superior English.
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>Every single IJN battleship was sunk in one way or another
Such a waste
>>27799652
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mikasa#Preservation
I'm surprised she wasn't recycled into structural steel for the war effort.
>>27799636
>Is it really unbelieveable that Japan hoped for sucess in Pacific?
It's not unbelievable that they believed they could win, it's unbelievable that the German high command never told them they'd get #rekt if they attacked us and never made any great effort to give the Japs advice on logistics/A well-coordinated and officer corps
Anybody hear how much of a failure gun control Australia had today?
>prepare for protest of lever action shotgun (2nd pic related) "before it enters the country" (again, pic related is mine) in the same square as the Sydney ISIS related hold up afew months back
>pro guns find out and plan protest
>they move it to a park nearby 2 hours before
>most guns groups still find out and react
>move it to a private...
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like I said, muh adler
Is not the anti's that are the main problem it's the fudds that wont get of their arses to support our cause
>>27799421
agreed, "as long as you dont take muh bolt action"
not to mention inner city trendies that have no fucking idea
