main difference between russia and usa

[Gorgon]

I was wondering about that. Unless the TVs are Taiwan and the evildoers Japan.

[Gorgon]

Ohh wait, it's Sakhalin. A Russian island. It looks bigger than it is because of how we stretch out the world to fit two dimensions on maps. Like Greenland.

Edited August 24, 2011 by Gorgon

[Walsingham]

Who are the "more evil-doers" North of Japan?

 

That would be the Welsh.

[Calax]

Wait... the Sheep lovers are HOSTILE!?

[Walsingham]

All I'll say Cal, is 400 YEARS it took us to pacify Wales. That's a heap of calming down.

[Calax]

and it took you what 800 for the Irish?

[Walsingham]

and it took you what 800 for the Irish?

 

In fairness to the Fenians, I'd call that one a no score draw.

[obyknven]

[Hurlshort]

Yep, that's a typical BBQ here.

[Gorgon]

Whatever it is it looks horribly burned.

[213374U]

Those are babies, clearly.

[Morgoth]

It's those cute prawn alien babies from District 9.

 

Some people just have no souls.

[Thorun]

Is this clown really posting propaganda from cuttingedge.org, really? That article on plasma stealth was a hoax. Yes it is a theoretical concept that is being explored by Russia, as well as several ongoing DARPA projects in the US on it. The issue though is that plasma is essentially superheated gas. Using such a system turns the plane into pretty much an infrared beacon in the sky. You have the added issues of increased fuel costs, and requiring an absolutely enormous amount of energy to sustain any sort of plasma stealth implementation. You'd need a sizable nuclear reactor on board the aircraft to be able to reliably use it. It wasn't a 40 minute response time, simply because it didn't happen. The only way the response time would be that long would be if they didn't want to risk an international incident, though even then they'd still have an interceptor in the sky long before that, just as an escort.

 

So seriously, stop with all the useless propaganda and garbage information. Yes, Russia does have some pretty solid technology. They've stolen tech from the US, while the US in turn has also stolen tech from Russia, it's an ongoing cycle. The issue that Russia had was that they tried to make the best equipment possible with the money that they had in WW2, but ultimately didn't have enough to go around. You had people making some of the best rockets in the world, that were forced to wrap their feet in cloth to keep their toes. Your country's economy was so completely pitiful purely because of that single-minded focus on the military, with all the corruption bogging everything down, that the only things going for your country were the olympics and the military, nothing else.

 

Oh, and for the record, the only advantage Russia has militarily over the US is the Spetsnaz, they're arguably tougher than the various special forces branches that the US has.

[Gorth]

Your country's economy was so completely pitiful purely because of that single-minded focus on the military

That description fits more than one country at the moment...

[Walsingham]

Oh, and for the record, the only advantage Russia has militarily over the US is the Spetsnaz, they're arguably tougher than the various special forces branches that the US has.

 

I think 'tougher' is an ill advised choice of words. I'd certainly disagree that they're more effective. A special operation is more than just being able to eat doorknobs without a glass of water. And the Us has a fully integrtared special operations community, with all the right kit and comms and transport. Plus most importantly there's a strong culture of letting them do things properly which I'd very much doubt was the case in Russia where political patronage and machiavellian shenanigans are par for the course.

 

Interesting what you said about the plasma stuff tho.