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    I really feel that the next big war will bring heavy IRAM-style MRLs into common use as a way to smash gunned-up apartment complexes and other large fortifications. They seem like an excellent fit for situations where bombing would be too difficult and 105/122/155mm bombardment won't cut it.
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    Given how their procurement process seems to work, I am pretty confident that the round will be excellent for putting out fires of all sorts.
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    True. I think our brains run on much more of a 'use it or lose it' basis than anyone is comfortable thinking about.
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    Yeah, we just use 'die' for everything.
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    From Afrikaans (which is Dutch-derived), German is reasonably easy to understand so long as the person speaking it goes slow and keeps it to a primary-school level.
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    The trick to understanding English is to realise that: 1. There are no rules. 2. Pretending like hell that there are is nigh obligatory. With the above sorted, you are well on your way to having pointless arguments over the correct use of the oxford comma, the semicolon, or whatever else makes your autism flare up.
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    Thought 1: Tier 0 operators don't need peripheral vision. Thought 2: Given the history of dudes in face-concealing mask provided by films, I'd be very worried about joining any organisation which requires putting one of those on.
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    I would play the shit out of a faction consisting of nothing but militia, technicals, ATGM teams, MRLs, IRAMs and hell cannons.
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    Now this is interesting. It looks like someone put in quite a bit of effort to design the fins, and the standoff fuze in the head seems to indicate a shaped charge or EFP in there somewhere. I wonder how well it works? Libya: a land where someone decided that C&C: Generals was a good place for weapon design advice.
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    The addition of canards made it just butch enough to tickle my aesthetic sense something fierce
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    If you look, you can see that the shot could be done with only one working tank (the one on fire) and two mock-ups or scrapped hulls. The tank on fire is just too pat and propaganda-ish (flames burning directly on the hull, no fire or smoke from the engine deck, flame is very clear and non-smoky), while the blown up hulls lack secondary fires or ammo explosions. I'm going to concur with Donward and Scolopax on this one.
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    According to 40K, this should allow them to reroll on a miss.
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    I'm beginning to think that the fundamental engineering constraint on these sorts of rockets is simply how many propane cylinders one can weld together...
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    I know I'm behind the times on this one, but is what is up with crazy inventors and cold fusion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
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    Pictured:
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    Haemophilia: a sure sign that your family line is stronk.
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    Star Wars: the epic story about how one fucked-up family is responsible for everything in the galaxy.
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    I never said Clarke was any good. On the contrary, I think he's well-known simply because he started early in the genre and was prolific.
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    I think we're all pretty much agreeing with you here. We're just hashing the details out.
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    I think the core issue is that future archeologists should be able to discern a split in the layers themselves. So, yeah, the anthropocene is definitely a thing. My feeling is that we should effectively view the holocene as a short interperiod just before the anthropocene proper kicks off.
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    We're well into arguing authorial intent now, so unless we can produce some comment on the piece it's every man for himself.
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    The joke is that nuclear weapons proved pretty conclusively that some technological superweapons projects pretty much are viable war-winners. So Clarke was technically wrong on that front as well.
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    Completely ignoring the actual details of the story itself (because I'm playing the 'separate intent from execution' game), the whole thing is simply a jeremiad against deathstar projects being seen as a cure-all for logistics and strategy failures. It's the anti-maus argument, basically.
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    Pity we're not talking about 1939.
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    Further, how is this more likely than the version where there are no nukes left because those damn machines killed us all with them?
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