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quote from buddy: When the Slava first appeared, my Dad looked at those 16 missiles, dug out his slide rule, and did some math. He ended up saying that just the fuel in either the port or starboard missile tubes, take your pick, had enough thermal energy to melt the entire ship above the main...

A hit, a fine hit! - Treebeard Explainer of the Russian Navy's Slava Class cruiser. Why they were built and how they have played a role in the Ukraine Invasion. Three are in service but one, Moskva, has been seriously damaged in the Black Sea. Unscripted and unedited.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY <STOP> BY WHICH I MEAN THE SAILORS ARE NOW SWIMMING <STOP>

Important to show the larger public there we were there for them. Besides it concerned essentials from indian side anyway rather than liquid money (to be used for loan repayment etc). Now they have to act against their thugs and chuavinists and do their bit.

Not going to happen. You need to talk to Pakistanis that have pulse on the actual larger population there. Not the brats that fester online in various hidey hole dens and safespaces. 64% of larger public seeing this all as political response to the inflation (rather than any "conspiracy") says...

Bud of mine: EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY <stop>......BY WHICH I MEAN THE SAILORS ARE NOW SWIMMING <stop>

Hey bud! Drop by here when you can.

Tomen is exchanged on real market (black market) at something like 3 or 4:1 iirc past what Iran govt sets it at officially. Basically means official GDP is reduced by about that factor one can say for a more real/actual GDP (and world bank often uses that number compared to say IMF which just...

Yup, its faulty exchange rate application essentially. Soviet GDP was afflicted by this a long while too. Its official exchange rate was often based on delusion (similar to quote below). GOSPLAN insularity would set it (ensuring low trade volume) at X:Y, when in reality the demand/supply...

The Iran GDP issue surfaced previously and is explained more here: https://defencehub.live/threads/indian-economy-infra-archive.532/page-23#post-147259

Moved the conversation here from coffee thread. I am working on acquiring some useful information hopefully in time for the next iteration of the wargaming that is currently taking shape.

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/isro-reusable-launch-vehicle-s-somnath-pslv-gslv-sslv-1936560-2022-04-12 The Indian Space & Research Organisation (Isro) is planning to conduct a demonstration flight and a orbital launching of a reusable launch vehicle in the coming months as it looks to...

Wasn't following the news much, but you are right, this was so blatant he got arrested. I guess he faces court martial at some point. I don't think a (life time) prison sentence is enough for this kind of heinous thing....but even death is short justice. Some stuff is just so depraved there is...

IK was not true secular guy though to (credibly/effectively) do the latter part....nor does a PM have the power to do it (unless the Fauj is on board with it). He got the moniker "Taliban Khan" as he did his fair share of supporting (esp pakthun) islamism for expedient political base...

Becoming more true each day.

Even if US relationship "improves" with Pakistan this year or next (say President Biden does call Mr. Sharif at some point to illustrate this and break precedence of how its been so far with PMIK since early 2021).... ....I very much doubt it will improve to any significant level to include...

@HTurk @Ryder @guest12 et al..... ZING! (Told ya this hypocrisy will be brought up as needed, to their faces). Addendum to this earlier convo: