I guess they’re relaxing the policy, since they’ve hinted previously that they viewed attacks on Russian territory to be a threat to the existence of Russia and would use nukes in response. But they didn’t.

But if it’s a French place, they’ll pronounce it wrong.

To hedge his bets. He can’t let the future of Ukraine be entirely decided by a US election that’s out of his control.

Is this plan the ‘let’s let Russia have all the things it’s stolen’ plan?

Wasn’t the steam deck OLED the incremental upgrade? I thought they did a sight spec bump along with the screen upgrade.

And we could ridicule them pretty bad for getting a jet shot down by wandering into the wrong neighborhood.

I hope a Russian jet comes too close so they can shoot it down.

There is no cosmic frame of reference. Earth is moving, the sun is moving, the galaxy is moving, but you can choose any frame of reference within that. It’d be really silly to use the suns frame of reference, you’d use Earth’s.

Op Sec was fantastic from Ukraine. With that and Russia ignoring what info on troop buildup they did have, they managed operational surprise.

It’s an instance mostly based around authoritarian communism. They got banished from Reddit quite a bit before the black out.

They don’t have any non nuclear retaliation options they’re not already using, and nuclear is a profoundly bad idea.

More likely they’ll reposition troops to retake it, allowing for counter pushes elsewhere.

Yeah I suspect that’s what will happen. They’ll launch these satellites on their non-reusable long matches until they eventually have a cheaper reusable capability. I guess we’ll see how long that will be.

Yeah those tests are why I put them at the falcon 1 test flight stage generously. It was 10 years from the last flight of falcon 1 to the first flight of falcon 9 block 5, which is where reusability really started to kick in.

Sure there is a follower advantage, but I don’t know if they can make full use of it since they won’t be able to head hunt talent as much as a US company. Itar might also make it more difficult to use the same suppliers and methodology for a more direct copy.

I’m sure they’ll come up with something pretty cheap eventually, but I think it’ll still take a while for economic rapid reuse.

Yeah, I’d guess about 10 years, since that’s about how long it took SpaceX to get cheap falcon 9.

It looks like they haven’t launched any yet? It’ll be interesting to see if they can since they don’t have a cheap launch vehicle.

Which means Putin wanted to get rid of them, and corruption was a convenient excuse. Everyone in the Russian government is crazy corrupt, so Putin can kick you out with cause any time if he wants to.

Lasers seen like a really bad match up. Interceptor missiles like are already in service would be much better.

Lasers kill things by heating them up. Like melting the rotors off a quad copter. Existing lasers that are a handful of megawatts still need to focus on a quad copter for a second or so to ensure a kill.

Hypersonics on the other hand have a lot less time to heat up because of their speed, and are much much less susceptible to heating. They already need to survive the heat of compressing the air to plasma. So they have substantial heat shields. A laser with current amounts of power isn’t going to add significantly to the heat flux that the hypersonic needs to withstand. Maybe if you target it from above it’ll be a little less protected? But trying to kill something specifically designed to deal with heat with heat is always going to be an uphill battle.

I wonder why they weren’t there already. It’s not like they need to deter an invasion from China much.

Quad copter drones are more comparable to artillery shells than fighter jets. Anti personal role.