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Russia's annual Victory Day parade, which normally consists of rows upon rows of tanks and troops rolling and marching through Red Square, this year consisted of....one tank. One lone T-34 tank (!!!). EDIT: Okay I see it did have around 8,000 troops take part, but tank-wise, it was apparently...

Sorry to hear this, I thought it was an enjoyable movie. Of course I have no ability to spot all the inaccuracies. If I was a submariner, maybe I'd say it's terrible. I did not see it as a movie seeking to hurt the image of the U.S. Navy though.

Fixed that for you.

Rochester Institute of Technology here in upstate NY has very good undergraduate engineering programs and it is a teaching focused university, so the primary focus of the professors is teaching, so Calc 1 is always taught by a professor.

Calculus is very integral to a lot of technical subjects, and the Navy is made up of lots of machines and technology, so might want to take it. Otherwise, you could limit yourself career-wise. Having taken it will also help you to differentiate yourself from other officers and help with...

They need to keep the gas turbine because it sounds cooler. Joking aside, I do hope the 10 tons lighter is not at the sacrifice of armor protection. However I am sure armor has made great advancements since as well. I've read that in WWII they called enemy soldiers they'd crush with the tank...

Never became a Naval Aviator but have been visiting this site on and off since about 2005 (!)

Wasn't trying to start anything, just was curious.

I did, but nothing really comes up. Just the last posts before he was last seen. I went back into his prior month posts but still nothing involving a fight or anything.

Who me?:)

Cripes, what did he do?

I see, do you know what the forum is?

Another problem I've read was in the 1980s, under Reagan, in IMO what was a mistake of his, they ended the subsidies for our shipbuilding industry. This would have been okay if none of the other countries were subsidizing their own industries, but most other countries with shipbuilding...

Me personally, I would be fine with this. Our original shipbuilding industry, at least for WWII, developed with a large governmental component. We ought to as a nation invest in rebuilding our shipbuilding industry.

I would say the primary purpose of the government is to protect rights. That is the main reason to create a government. Promote the general welfare is a rather arbitrary term that can mean different things depending on one's politics. For example, I would argue that in certain ways, the large...

I see; I opted into it but don't see it appearing.

Anyone know what happened to MasterBates? Says he was last seen back in 2013 (which I realize was a decade ago but doesn't seem that long).

I believe the War Zone was eliminated due to political discussions there getting too personal and out of control.

I thought my statement was easy to understand. When I said, "I could understand that..." of course I didn't mean spying is okay, I was talking about his intelligence. It's like the guy who robbed a bank, used the money to buy a house, then posted about it on social media and got himself busted...

I don't get what you mean.

So why or how was this guy so stupid? Did he really think he could post all this stuff in a chat room and it wouldn't get out? I could understand if he was pulling a John Walker and silently taking all of these documents and handing them to a foreign handler, but a chat room!?

Yes it is. Making light of and/or making excuses for very serious crimes.

Tucker is very good about certain things but very out there on others. As for Marjorie Taylor-Greene, erm, she's generally just out there. But these types in the conservative sphere are no different than the particular liberal media types who completely downplayed and even defended the George...

How does the government keep intelligence secure if information can be so easily accessed? If some low-level guy like this has access to all that classified high-level stuff, seems like it wouldn't be too hard for the Russians/Chinese/Iranians/North Koreans/etc...to just recruit one of these...

I'll bet he knew. 21 isn't so young to not understand to keep secrets secret. Apparently he was releasing the stuff for months in this chatroom to teenagers, and probably want to come across to them as some big shot or something because he was in the military.

Would they even have Internet in that?

Says he was last seen March 9th, so...??

Do they really have any real airlift capability though? I ask because I know about a decade ago they needed us to airlift their troops into Mali. When the Libya operation was going on in 2011, they had to withdraw their aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle because it essentially broke down...

Why did HAL leave?

On the dollar losing its purchasing power though, remember that standard of living has also massively increased. And part of the reason for the loss in purchasing power is inflation, of which economists generally regard a low level of inflation as healthy as it allows for the ability to reduce...

I still do say, "Surfing the Web" :) I'll have to look into that 1Password program. My way of doing passwords is to write out very complex passwords by hand and keep a notebook with them all. I tend to use the same password for things like news website memberships (Wall Street Journal, New York...

They also are getting Leopard 2 tanks and some Challengers. Considering the Ukrainians have been blowing the supposedly sophisticated T-90M tanks to smithereens repeatedly and laid waste to the "elite" Russian tank units such as 1st Guards Tank Army and 4th Guards Tank Division, ill-trained...

Pardon my cluelessness, but what do you mean about wheels vs tracks with the Army? An argument on whether to replace tracked vehicles with more wheeled?

Also don't use your bank card to buy things, use a credit card and then pay it off each month. This makes it harder for your account to be compromised.

My apologies, didn't realize that is such a sensitive question.

Why is it their sub capabilities are good yet their army and air force so bad?

Blah blah blah You know, when I wrote that statement, I was thinking to myself, "I'll bet Brett327 is going to have some snarky comment."

Just curious, but given how they also had the "World's Second Most Powerful Army" with all manner of high-tech weapons and combat aircraft, up until they invaded Ukraine, what makes you think their newer submarines are any different? Their subs might on paper be great, just like their aircraft...

I don't think the author of that article knows much about what he speaks.

As a thing itself, I have it and browse it occasionally, there can be quite a lot of humorous content on it, the thing about it though is HOLY CRAP can it be addictive. It's like you get a quick "fix" with each funny video, but then you get the desire to have another quick fix, and you also are...

Well technically I WAS alive then, but just a tot, but I get your point. I actually thought the music at the very beginning sounded kind of like something out of a Michael Bay film. Last weekend I watched the 1955 movie Strategic Air Command which I thought was fantastic and I thought the theme...

But that song sounds completely different to the Space Force song...? I listen to Soviet music a lot because I like it and IMO none of it sounds like the Space Force song.

Soviet!? How so?

Germany is an extremely environmentalist nation. They have one of the largest Green parties I believe and their environmentalism goes back to the 1800s. They enacted the "Energiewendie" to transition to a low-carbon economy which in spite of raising energy prices very high nonetheless has wide...

Japan started modernizing in around the 1870s and it took them approximately sixty years to reach a state where they could started acting in an imperialist manner. Similarly, China started modernizing in the 1970s and so I wonder if similarly it will take them about sixty years to start acting...

Unofficial Space Force anthem; IMO, very good:

I'd say Iraq 2.0 was about the only war we really could be seen as close to an aggressor.

I think that the level of draw down you want would make it difficult to respond to a gradually rebuilding and increasing Russian threat. It is better to maintain training and readiness. It can be scaled down or scaled up, but should be maintained. It we will take Russia years to rebuild, yes...

Not if taken by surprise and we lack the resources and budget to even have the equipment, troops, and training to be able to go and help them, and then inter-operate with them. You think racists will openly state they're racist? Do you think that the racism of the time of the Third Reich just...

Actually, yes, it does, because it ensures then that the Europeans and the U.S. will have lots of training with each other so good interoperability of forces, good quality equipment, adequate logistics, and so forth, which will ensure the Russians can be stopped in their tracks when they try...