.jpg.e5a871958556319f53f1cce096aec0ef.jpg)
DDE
-
Posts
5,763 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Developer Articles
KSP2 Release Notes
Posts posted by DDE
-
-
50 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:
Note this is the same newspaper that said with absolute certainty that the J-20 was chosen as China’s carrier based stealth fighter (for those that don’t know, the FC-31/J-31/J-35 ended up actually being chosen).
Yes, I can see the similarities to coverage of defense affairs by the Russian press just from the tone. They're gushing over what seems to be a mere study paper...
-
4 hours ago, tater said:
LOL at the Mk 1 Cockpit on the wing.
-
Provocative title is provocative:
China aims to launch nearly 13,000 satellites to ‘suppress’ Elon Musk’s Starlink, researchers say
- The satellite constellation is likely to be launched quickly to prevent SpaceX from hogging ‘low-orbit resources’, according to PLA space scientists
- The project, code-named ‘GW’, would provide internet services and could be used to spy on rival networks and carry out anti-Starlink missions, paper says
-
Docking at 04:01 MSK
https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/8589
So that by the time the bosses wake up they've already fled over the Canadian border /s
-
On 2/19/2023 at 2:35 PM, DDE said:
After a few false starts, I've fallen into my usual trap with Rimworld: Ideologies.
You see, the game randomly generates ideologies for factions that may or may not make much sense (see that peaceful tribe over there? They're cannibals). However, it also allows you to replace those ideologies with your own at game start. Worldbuilding!
And then what's worse, I've realized that each ideology has a hidden parameter for planet of origin. Normally that just affects flavor text, but now it provides heaps of context for worldbuilding.
So I'm stuck for the better part of the last month coming up with a nice, coherent and varied line-up. At this point, I'm enticed to post it in the Workshop somehow...
OK, I've also developed a minor mod addiction...
And of course it's mainly about oil and gas. You may laugh at your leisure.
-
3 hours ago, Beamer said:
I can just imagine one of these landing on a carrier and hooking the arrestor wires
Well, you're looking at Boeing's competitor to the F-35B, so no arrestor wires.
-
21 minutes ago, magnemoe said:
Top an bottom looks more like star wars and is the top an seaplane?
The Marauder is some sort of a Swiss Army Knife, VTOL, wing-in-ground super-modular attacker / ASW / AEW / transport.
24 minutes ago, magnemoe said:Aircraft carrier with outriggers
Judging by their other ship design concepts, they must've really, really liked the Independence-class.
-
So, I think the British design firm AvPro has had some some influence on the Command and Conquer and Ace Combat folks... As well as any other military nerd in the 2000s.
Just a reminder that they weren't sci-fi illistrators, they thought they were predicting the future.
EXINT passenger pods was actually something that reached mockup stage.
You get VTOL, and you get VTOL, and the C-130 successor gets VTOL!
Now I'm not saying it's aliens...
-
Why is there still such an empahsis on looking for evidence of Martian water with Curiosity? I thiught it was a done deal a decade ago.
-
A mission patch for a mission with no humans involved.
-
7 hours ago, Nuke said:
im currently not a fan of ANY tech companies. they have become too draconian for my liking. they should get back to developing useful tech rather than trying to find ways to control everyone.
Adapting to the user's wishes rather than making the captive user adapt to the genius ideas of their designers? Now where's the fun in that?
-
Not me, since I wasn't brave enough to sgick around in -20⁰C any more than I needed to, but... top to bottom, Jupiter, the Moon and Venus.
-
On 2/15/2023 at 1:59 PM, DDE said:
Phosgene over Ohio. Who woulda thunk...
Damn, this is shaping out to be a nasty week for the US, isn't it?
Uhm...
Uh...
Accidents?
This is a contained fire, though.
-
Clouds. Clouds. CLOUDS!!!
-
Interesting input from Mikhail Kotov. Apparently the Russian ISS modules use, and both Soyuz and Progress ships may freely use, an alternative coolant that is a mixture of several polymethylsiloxanes.
It's not clear what determines which liquid gets poured in.
-
6 hours ago, Lisias said:
This is too good to let it pass unchecked!!
There is an Ilyushin among us.
Fun fact (wrong thread, IDK): in Russian civilian aviation, Boeings are known as bobiki (bobbies) and Airbusses are known as arbuzy (watermelons).
-
5 hours ago, Codraroll said:
Could it be damage from fairing separation sending pieces of shrapnel to the same general area every time? Or a rough surface on whatever clamps are used to lift the craft into place for transport/assembly? Because it really seems that something is punching holes in roughly the same area of these craft. Or, well, "holes", maybe just pits, until thermal cycling cause them to finally break through.
Still have to account for the MMOD-like ejecta ring on MS-22.
8 hours ago, RCgothic said:
At the supposed point of impact on Progress, there's also a lump visible on Soyuz.
Importantly, going back to the unflipped image without the perception-distorting effects of the circle, it looks like a paint defect rather than any sort of damage.
Although it could as well be accukulation of liquid under a layer of textile. Or spalling from the shock of an MMOD impact.
-
7 hours ago, Vagrant203 said:
Humans will packbond with a literal rock. At least this paves the way for actual sapient AI.
Actually this suggests we're in for an "AI winter", and probably a round of tight AI regulation given how the public will forget about AI for some time, but the droves of AI ethicists will not.
-
Murom Locomotive Plant once slapped together an unexploded ordnance transport vehicle most eloquently titled "Izdelije Kit 050.00.00.000". Sait it with me: Untitled 8x8...
-
49 minutes ago, darthgently said:
That is a lot of ammonia leakage if ammonia is the coolant
It's not. Isooctane is.
54 minutes ago, tater said:Important context: Katya's source dismisses it as residue from fairing sep and RCS motors.
-
In other things that launched today, everyone's favorite lung cancer survivor is out of dock.
-
The non-geeks are getting really, really religious about ChatGPT and the like. You'd have thunk a brief, maths-free explanation of how it works would've dispelled the mystique, but no, everything from news anchors turning to the AI for "insight" (granted, it was after someone cited Google as a source), to the usual cries of self awareness to, ahem, journalists turning to ChatGPT for comments on upcoming stories about ChatGPT.
-
Ah, the Bear Tank. Such a horrendously cliche name for a Soviet tank! The Soviets would surely never name a tank that...
Well.
Our story takes us back to Germany, November 1938. The Wehrmacht makes two observations: one, they're definitely going to war in the near future; two, everyone around them had the same thought and were busy building up fixed defense lines. So the Wehrmacht issued requests for breakthrough tanks, and did so rather lazily: they took the speficiations for La.S. (Pz.Kpfw.I). La.S.100 (Pz.Kpfw.II) и B.W. (Pz.Kpfw.IV) tanks, and added a requirement for 80 mm frontal armor. The Panzer IV derivative would join the existing undercurrent of 75 mm and 105 mm short gun tanks that would occasionally be marked "Pz.Kpfw.VII" and would end up being the distant antecedents of the Löwe.
The other two, meanwhile, would actually get produced... but they'd be weird. Panzer I was a small tank with two machine guns, and Panzer II was only marginally bigger with a 20 mm autocannon; neither were a meaningful threat to anything fortified. But Ordnung müss sein, so Pz.Kpfw.II Ausf.J. and Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.F both went through the motions, avoided the 30 t maximum limit on tanks under the French campaign that saw every heavy tank program curtailed, and a couple hundred of them were made - only a dozen of Panzer I's, because they somehow came out heavier than Panzer II's.
As you can see here, the tank Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.F looks a bit misshapen, because it's a very light tank "template" with armor thickness approaching a heavy tank.
Spoiler
The first attempt to find a use for both of these dubious designs was an assault on Malta as 1st company of Panzer-Abteilung z.b.V. 66, its second company consisting exclusively of captured Soviet tanks; it didn't happen either. Instead, smatterings of those light-heavy tanks were sent to the Eastern Front, where they did not make a good show of themselves except for their ability to navigate mud and their remarkable resistance to mines.
Spoiler
Gradually, they were shifted towards counterinsurgency roles alongside various other old light tanks, both in deputized Heer formations as well as police units of... a certain two-letter political organization of electricians. This is where our protagonist shows up. Some time in June 1944, vehicle 150 329 of the 4th Police Regiment ended up in Soviet hands in Belarus and was carted off as a curiosity, but not really studied until a 1945 survey of torsion bar suspensions.
Spoiler
The previous owners were not so accomodating as to leave behind a manual, so Soviet records, noticing the regimental emblems of the front and back, simply call it 'the Bear Tank'.
Spoiler
The 'ambush camo' is a weird choice, which is hardly unusual given the practices at Kubinka over the years.
Belgrade has the other survivor.
-
Meanwhile, an internal Roscosmos advisory board approves ISS extension until 2028.
Tu-141 crashes in Zagreb
in Science & Spaceflight
Posted · Edited by DDE
Adygea - few details available for now, though, but it definitely looks like a Strizh or Reys
https://t.me/muratkumpilov/4229
No details on today's bogey above Saint Petersburg. Belgorod shootdowns were small and slow UAVs.
Edit: and the one in Kolomna was a propeller-powered UJ-22.