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xthetenth

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  1. If you're sitting down with a calculator, metric and base 10 make great sense, and multiply/divide ops by decimal shifting are incredibly easy. If you're trying to make something, being able to divide by as wide a set of fractions as possible is great.
  2. The method of defining the measurements is largely irrelevant to how useful they are. The ease of dividing by 2, 3, 4, 6, or 12 on the other hand...
  3. Surprisingly decent: Bread Jelly/Jam Toast Jelly/Jam Bread All the doughy fun of bread without being a textureless mess. PB can be added with the jelly.
  4. I meant to make a play on god willing there. Because it'd take an act of god for it to kill an IFV.
  5. IFV fighter, bad electronics fit permitting.
  6. It's kind of neat to see how bright the areas by the coast are, and especially the islands of Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
  7. Japanese light citadels are capable of good games but they die so fast.
  8. This is the first time I've heard of an overlap between artillery and things that float that isn't being attached.
  9. Isn't that decided by how spiffy the pistol firing it looks?
  10. Honestly the US light cruisers where you can drill whatever cruisers you can see in the citadel but still angle successfully to prevent the same are the correct choice.
  11. Fantasy: something happens to make the F-22 buy magically get uncrippled.
  12. Same. This is literally more my name than any permutation of my actual name.
  13. Good decision. Also literally never not fire AP at those dinky light cruisers.
  14. We've only tried at a relatively tricky time for it, and we try not to kick cans down the road. Mileage may vary on whether that's good or bad. Some of the proceeds of kicked cans have been spectacularly awful.
  15. True, light MG is the ShVAK in 12.7, heavy is in 20mm. Parts commonality!
  16. I was going to make a joke and go for maximum firepower. The ShVAK in 12.7 is a perfectly acceptable heavy machine gun, right?
  17. If you're gonna replace a rad fan, I'd be tempted to go with either something from the noiseblocker line or ek's vardar fan, which is basically a gentle typhoon. Potentially feed this thing into google translate.
  18. Surprise twist: they're still flying tomcats. For Iran, because that's the only ones left flying them.
  19. Despite protestations to the contrary, America is aligned towards aggressive action against hostile nations and non-state actors. Attacks and damage to national morale will engender a response in order to restore the national feeling of tranquil military superiority. The same psychological tendency that leads to wars being fought to restore a national feeling of pride in military capabilities can also be harnessed to encourage greater morale by giving military personnel in all specialties a feeling of actualization from operational action and success. The psychology of combat troops is contradicted by operational experience and statistics, before combat the soldier routinely overestimates the danger of wounding and death despite even major battles rarely reaching a 2% casualty figure. Therefore, morale is an important component of the capability of combat soldiers to achieve a concrete impact on opposing forces and therefore the battle. The increased combat capability from combat experience happens at different rates for different soldiers, but it is important that each soldier remembers their importance to the overarching plan and the overall force. Training is a vital component of readiness for soldiers, and it helps professional development and the accumulation of experience that starts them closer to the higher levels of combat capacity demonstrated by veterans. Constant vigilance by soldiers as engendered by training allows avoidance of adversity such as ambushes, and prevents the combined arms team from operating below maximum capacity. Operationally, failures of sentries stand out as a prime example of how greater training can prevent major unnecessary losses. The army as a whole is a team that must work together in order to be successful, the importance of the combat actions of soldiers are nearly always overshadowed by the realization of synergies between forces and the mutual multiplicative effects on effectiveness. The high training and readiness levels of American units the world over is a major guarantor that the odds of success are decisively against any opposition they may face. It is essential that every man in the army be reminded that their job is important and must be done. Laxity with only minor effects from one man would be calamitous from thousands. A reminder that every job in the modern military is essential provides esteem-boosting actualization that will ensure any vital tasks can be accomplished quickly and successfully despite adversity or opposing action. A culture of bravery under fire must be created among recruits and the traits that make a successful military professional should be identified and encouraged. Even a task as seemingly insignificant as repairing communications gear under fire may prove crucial in battle, and it is important to empower the troops to actualize their goals and frame their actions in the context of overall success to ensure positive action under fire. Convoy actions are another example of even traditionally non-combat soldiers showing great bravery under fire and the professional pride to ensure successful completion of combat-essential tasks despite great fatigue and operational disorder. It cannot be denied that actively engaged soldiers would prefer a cessation of hostilities, but the fastest route to the end of a conflict is identification, isolation and destruction of the opposite side's center of gravity. By destroying the control structures keeping the opposition organized and able to fight, aggressive action allows a shift to a stance of deterrence and prevents losing strength to long drawn-out conflict and the resulting decline in reenlistment. Aggressive action directed towards opposing forces allows the modern military to leverage its information-centric strengths and position itself inside the opponent's OODA loop, gaining control of the battlefield and preventing the opposition from slowly accumulating damage on our deployed force. Despite fears of untried soldiers, aggressive action and devolution of decisions allow the warfighter to fall back on their training to combat the opposition and maintain effectiveness. It is essential that rather than terrain-focused reactive strategies, continual pressure be exerted on the enemy's center of gravity and forces in the field to prevent effective counterattacks. Because of these factors a high operational tempo must be achieved and maintained, and it is essential that no matter the adversity the serviceperson to continue to perform their responsibilities despite difficulty, opposition action or even, in extremis, wounding. While units require individual identity and other factors to maintain high espirit de corps, secrecy must be maintained to prevent disclosure of capabilities to opposition planning elements. If handled properly, soldiers will be reminded of the capabilities of their unit and that those capabilities will provide a particular difficulty for the opposition. By showing how important a soldier's contribution is to overall victory, morale can be boosted by providing actualization of the personal traits that led to enlistment. What did I just do with my life.
  20. But yeah, if you don't want to get fancy, Noctua's a pretty safe pick albeit optimized for noise not temperatures. I can't help but think that that thermaltake isn't optimized for looks over both.
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