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On 9/28/2015 at 12:10 PM, Donward said:
In college, I was exposed to the interesting notion that the initial European incursions into the Orient and Indian Ocean was small potatoes relatively speaking to the kingdoms and empires that they interacted with at least until the 18th and even 19th centuries. This runs contrary to the stereotypical Eurocentric view that once Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue, the Europeans pub-stomped every wog that they ran across and the only thing holding them back was malaria.
The truth lies in the middle of course but I'm just throwing out my vaguely remembered notions of 15th Century Indian Ocean trade routes when I just woke up and am still drinking coffee.
Was that something related to names like: Jason Sharman, Malachi Hacohen, Tonio Andrade?
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On 10/10/2020 at 3:36 PM, Sturgeon said:
Whoah what who told you that?
Nobody in particular, just a discussion on that topic.
A quote from that discussion would have done more justice.
"First successful and popularized the massive bolt group with gas piston"
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So is the Hotchkiss Portative pretty much the granddad of all kinds of designs like: Chatellerault M24/29,ZB26,Stg-44,AK,Stoner 63, etc?
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19 minutes ago, Pascal said:
Is this the RD-180?
Just now, Sturgeon said:Yes.
One of the Big Oofs on the russian side, they sold those engines at prices lower then their production costs and the production costs don't even include the money spent on the R&D on those engines, hella cost on those engines to produce.
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On 8/7/2015 at 11:36 PM, Sturgeon said:
Also, Alex, this came up elsehwere and I thought I'd share it here so you can tell me how I mis-remembered the whole event/am wrong/etc:
Is this the RD-180?
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Can't wait to see other countries 5th generation aircraft at least becoming a production aircraft in regular service.
So there would be something to compare too.
B-2 bomber doesn't get much love, even though it's pretty much the '5th' generation bomber and deserves to be in the list with the F-22, F-35.
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No surprises from this row of seats.
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On 8/21/2020 at 5:14 AM, Collimatrix said:
2020 Update:
2019 and 2020 have proven to be turbulent years for computer hardware development. Since I last posted in this thread, there have been several significant developments.1) AMD's Navi 2, Ryzen 3000 series 7nm CPUs came out in Summer of 2019, and matched Intel CPUs in all but a few, extremely single-threaded benchmarks:
The 3000 series sold more than anticipated, with significant price scalping occurring.
The AMD 5000 series GPUs, based on the new RDNA architecture came out as well. They were... OK, I guess. Several of the mid and low end models were good value, but the large, high-performing models simply failed to materialize (and were likely cancelled late in development). Driver support was also rocky at first, and unlike the competing RTX-2000 series, the RX-5000 series has no hardware-level support for ray tracing.
Intel, meanwhile, hasn't been having such a great time. Several additional security vulnerabilities have been disclosed, and their own 7nm node was postponed by at least six months. This threw their shareholders into a rage, and they are now facing a class-action lawsuit.
Global supply chains for electronics have been disrupted not only by COVID-19, but also by the trade war between South Korea and Japan. Taiwan's TSMC is the undisputed industry leader in lithography, and the Trump Administration would like them to build a plant in the USA. As the global leader in lithography, TSMC has their pick of suitors and has no difficulty selling off fab capacity. Currently, Qualcomm, Apple, AMD, Nvidia and others jockey for their limited supply of silicon.
In Q3 or Q4 the new video game consoles are expected out, presumably just in time for the holidays. Both will feature AMD-designed APUs based off their Zen 2 CPU architecture and RDNA2 GPU architecture, with some degree of hardware-level raytracing support. Innocenceii's youtube channel does an excellent job going into the technical specifics of the designs. Alas, he is constantly under siege by an army of unwashed console fanboys who keep accusing him of shilling for one side or the other.
Nvidia's next-generation GPUs, all but confirmed to be called the 3000-series, are expected out somewhat sooner, possibly as early as September 2020. Interestingly, the persistent rumor is that they will be made at Samsung, and not at TSMC. Samsung has invested heavily in ASML Extreme Ultra Violent (EUV) technology, and while TSMC currently has the highest density, best yielding lithography technology, Samsung may contest that in the coming years. It is likely that the future of lithography for microelectronic manufacture will be a contest between TSMC in Taiwan and Samsung in South Korea, with Intel trailing far, far behind.Atleast TSMC is buying it's majority of equipment for it's business in USA.
From what i've read on NVIDIA, it's moving business to Artificial Intelligence and such and their GPU will follow that industry: parallelism orientated GPU's for neural networks, etc. Here comes Cyberdyne and it's multi processor T-800, the dudes from the '90 knew it all along!
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Just now, Serge said:
Similar to the former Hornet.
There's a lot of US designs mines which were used for a hefty inspiration in the Soviet Union for their mines, but no one is safe from copying here and there US too liked German ww2 bomblets and mines.
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On 11/11/2017 at 8:45 AM, Bronezhilet said:
Bailing out became a little tricky.
May sound strange but bailing out from it was safer than a traditional fighter aircraft.
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On 8/6/2020 at 3:54 PM, skylancer-3441 said:
Very interesting book for me, as it quotes reports on Bradley ASTB (Advanced Survivability Test Bed)
If i remember right i found it after reading on soviet possible 'fixes' for fuel cells in crew compartment on btvt, one of which were quick-reaction fire suppression, so i started googling for fuel cells, survivability, quick-reaction etc. Thanks for your scans too!
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On 8/5/2020 at 2:49 PM, mr.T said:
Wonder when someone finaly decides to equip at least VDV and likes with red dots or other optics , seriously these days with irons.
They have a lot of old optics lying about in different kind of military storage, but you need to train the whole lot first by using those optics, but if you don't get them for training why bother at all.
But most importantly try getting those optics from storage personnel first, that's without considering the special format batteries that you will need. First part very hard, second part close to impossible.
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On 7/28/2020 at 2:09 AM, Calicifer said:
When did the Su-35S in that table got an AESA radar?
Also strange is the missing satellite communications for the F-35, not even a '(+1)' let alone a 'Extreme Plus'.
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On 7/26/2020 at 8:19 PM, Stimpy75 said:
@Sturgeon your collection?
By going to the article from where the photo is there's a Mathew Moss under each picture, guess that collection is of Mathew Moss, but surely there will be a direct reply any second.
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Please do not reproduce photographs taken by Matthew Moss without permission or credit. ©The Armourer’s Bench 2018
https://armourersbench.com/2018/02/18/advanced-combat-rifle-prototypes/
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