• bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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    Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?

    Wouldn’t you say my collection’s complete?

    Wouldn’t you say I’m the girl, the girl who has everything?

    I’ve got russian subs and helicopters. Bridges parts and train cars a plenty.

    Russian surface ship? Over twenty.

    But who cares? No big deal. I want mooooore.

    I want to go where the yankees are

    See them take fire and start dodging, juking

    Losing their planes to those… what do you call them?

    Oh yeah…. Anser Alwah Houthis.

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    DW America here in Australia we lost to the emus. There’s no shame in losing to the fishies

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    They are arming the mermaids!

    (There is prob some war profiteering to be done with some light murmaidering.)

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    I hope this continues. I want them to steam back into their home port, in bafflement and shame, as they return home the first ship in the history of US Naval Aviation…to lose its entire complement of aircraft without ever taking a hit. They literally lose every single one of their aircraft.

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      HMAS Melbourne might be the most cursed ship in all the world. Had six collisions with other ships, sinking 2 friendly navy ships (in peacetime) and racking up a body count in excess of 150 killed across 3 navies. Played by fires and a boiler explosion. 6 of her jets were damaged in 1960 alone. Eventually it was sold for scrap, bought by a Hong Kong company.for use as a casino, then transferred to China where the PLAN reverse engineered here steam catapults despite the express desire of the Australian government that the ship not end up in china.

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      They’re already at three, they managed to shoot one down as well.

      The Truman aircraft carrier in particular, though, has been plagued with problems as part of its Red Sea deployment. In December, another F/A-18 fighter jet was operating from the Truman when it was “mistakenly fired” upon by the USS Gettysburg and crashed into the Red Sea. Both aviators ejected safely at the time.

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      Good thing everyone in the military is there on merit now that they got rid of all the DEI hires.

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    It’s been tooooo long since someone leaked secret documents to Gajin. Don’t these players want to make a better game? Start leaking!

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    One fell off when they swerved, one fell off the end when something happened to the arrestor cable, and they shot one down by mistake.

    Still not as bad as the New Zealand navy, but bloody hell.

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    Don’t they regularly dump perfectly good shit into the ocean on purpose so they have to buy more shit from war profiteers?

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      The issue is that recent losses are said to be due to evasive manoeuvring.

      Which begs the question on why the carrier felt threatened and why its back up is not intercepting more.

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        Got it yes I’ve learned more context since I first posted. Sure seems like maybe the rebels destroyed it and the U.S. is covering it up?

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          Too early to rule out. But threatening a ship is a far greater mid step to admit than shooting down some aircraft.

          I think its a mix of things (speculative). Command might be under budgetary pressure. We are at war and spending more cash will make it obvious. In order to save money they might be using manoeuvre instead of expensive intercept missiles. Extended deployment of the crew does not help and creates complacency in procedure.

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            I’m fairly sure if something dangerous is shot at you, dodging like Neo in the matrix is a normal response, even if you’re confident of shooting it down.

            Because what if you don’t?

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              Its not just the carrier on the defense. Its got other ships watching its back and able to shoot down threats. Its a big question why they are letting the carrier down.

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      I don’t know where you got that information, but in this case, they literally just missed the landing.

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        Hmm, I coulda swore it was a thing in the last couple decades…turns out that only applies to certain specific scenarios, where they had to ditch it either way, overweight ballast, stuff in the desert, obsolete (and now illegal) WWI & WWII ordinance, etc. Also turns out that instead of dumping most obsolete equipment into the ocean, they now dump it into the “used” market.

        Say, who do you think brokers those deals?

        https://corruption-tracker.org/blog/how-to-profit-from-the-global-arms-trade