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Skybird · 02-18-19, 06:18 PM

Cruise Missiles can be shot down, artillery rounds - still - not. Or am I mistaken already?

However. The costs of these modern hitech toys are insane, and they are unlikely to be set up against an equal enemy. Because seeing them getting lost or seriously damages simply is hard to afford.

I never hid my sympathy for having less advanced toys and gadgets, but in much greater numbers and with a massive price discount. The Zumwalt was a design philosophy that I did not like since I red the first article about it somewhere. I saw the numbers and just laughed, thinking: you really think it will stay this "cheap"?

And then, it is the ugliest ship I have ever seen. It deserves to run aground and sink while leaving port, that ugly it is.

Does anyone think the Sowjets used "inferior" SABOT ammunition in their tanks, based on steel instead of Tungsten or Uranium, because they did not know how to handle these altenrtaive ammunitions? They did it because they had to supply such a huge tank force and havign to cover such a long border. Just the latest ammunition available, but due to ther hgiher cost in dratsically redcued qntities,. would not have run well with their military needs. Steel penetrators were not as expensive as Western ones. And still they could crack the Western tanks of their time, the Leopard-1 and early Leopard-2s, the early Abrams and Chieftains and M60s.

And I still rem,ember the words of some british fighte rpilot from the cold war era, whose book I once have redm, who said he had douzbts until the time he wrote the book that the superior tehcnology of the Western air forces and their maiontenance advanatges could really compensate for the much higher numbers of Warsaw Pact aircraft being able to get thrown up against Nato.

All this best-of-the-best-technology-only is all nice and well- but only as long as its price does not limit the number of platforms you can afford to a degree that you can no longer sustain losses or take on operaitosn with risks involved. An armed force that is unable to digest losses and cannot sustain these, already is a defeated force. The idea of having a war against an enemy on same eye level and having that war clean and surgical and without losses and without him striking back, is hilarious. Its like with a boxer. Its all nice and well if a boxer can swing and hit- but what really decides it is whether he can stand up again after gettign sent down, and can digest blows he takes and is not immedioately out of breath when the opponent drums on his chest two or three times.

I do not like this enormous, immense technological sensitivity in modern forces. And I wonder what their vlaue is anyway when I see Afghan farmers and shepards delivering two superpowers with superior weaponry two strategic defeats within two generations only. Mind you, the Sowjets lost Afghanistan, and the US and the west lost it too. We have messed up that place, but we have achieved nothing, have not reached the objectives, have not defeated and sent away forever the enemy. After almost forty years of war that is a bit thin and no result that really impresses. Even more so since it even did not stop Afghjansitan to be the world's biggest drug-raising farmhouse.

To fight such an enemy, you need not state of the art technology, but overwhelming numbers that can be maintained for a damn long time.

02-18-19, 06:18 PM	#8
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,494 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Cruise Missiles can be shot down, artillery rounds - still - not. Or am I mistaken already? However. The costs of these modern hitech toys are insane, and they are unlikely to be set up against an equal enemy. Because seeing them getting lost or seriously damages simply is hard to afford. I never hid my sympathy for having less advanced toys and gadgets, but in much greater numbers and with a massive price discount. The Zumwalt was a design philosophy that I did not like since I red the first article about it somewhere. I saw the numbers and just laughed, thinking: you really think it will stay this "cheap"? And then, it is the ugliest ship I have ever seen. It deserves to run aground and sink while leaving port, that ugly it is. Does anyone think the Sowjets used "inferior" SABOT ammunition in their tanks, based on steel instead of Tungsten or Uranium, because they did not know how to handle these altenrtaive ammunitions? They did it because they had to supply such a huge tank force and havign to cover such a long border. Just the latest ammunition available, but due to ther hgiher cost in dratsically redcued qntities,. would not have run well with their military needs. Steel penetrators were not as expensive as Western ones. And still they could crack the Western tanks of their time, the Leopard-1 and early Leopard-2s, the early Abrams and Chieftains and M60s. And I still rem,ember the words of some british fighte rpilot from the cold war era, whose book I once have redm, who said he had douzbts until the time he wrote the book that the superior tehcnology of the Western air forces and their maiontenance advanatges could really compensate for the much higher numbers of Warsaw Pact aircraft being able to get thrown up against Nato. All this best-of-the-best-technology-only is all nice and well- but only as long as its price does not limit the number of platforms you can afford to a degree that you can no longer sustain losses or take on operaitosn with risks involved. An armed force that is unable to digest losses and cannot sustain these, already is a defeated force. The idea of having a war against an enemy on same eye level and having that war clean and surgical and without losses and without him striking back, is hilarious. Its like with a boxer. Its all nice and well if a boxer can swing and hit- but what really decides it is whether he can stand up again after gettign sent down, and can digest blows he takes and is not immedioately out of breath when the opponent drums on his chest two or three times. I do not like this enormous, immense technological sensitivity in modern forces. And I wonder what their vlaue is anyway when I see Afghan farmers and shepards delivering two superpowers with superior weaponry two strategic defeats within two generations only. Mind you, the Sowjets lost Afghanistan, and the US and the west lost it too. We have messed up that place, but we have achieved nothing, have not reached the objectives, have not defeated and sent away forever the enemy. After almost forty years of war that is a bit thin and no result that really impresses. Even more so since it even did not stop Afghjansitan to be the world's biggest drug-raising farmhouse. To fight such an enemy, you need not state of the art technology, but *overwhelming numbers that can be maintained for a damn long time.* __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.