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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? SpaceX? Try harder Perhaps you could clarify the meaning behind your phrase "ride to space with?" Perhaps, using the last launch, the answer is "Europeans, Japanese, and Russians?" My question mark remains legitimate, as I don't understand the point your apparently rhetorical question is trying to make. |
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Quoted: Let me guess, we should 'fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here', or some other bullshit like what was shoved down our throats to justify trillions in military spending and a 25 year war after 911. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Propaganda tactics against civilians. This. Had to listen to my boomer father lament on how worried we need to be about Russia. "Dad, Russia can't even invade Muslim Quebec!!" "Yes, but you didn't grow up knowing that they could nuke us any minute!" The farce of Russia as a 1st world military power is absolutely ridiculous at this point, and I've lost respect for anyone who still holds that irrational fear. I’m more worried about them giving a cobalt source to some terrorists and telling them to go have fun. Let me guess, we should 'fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here', or some other bullshit like what was shoved down our throats to justify trillions in military spending and a 25 year war after 911. Lol, that’s a hell of an assumption about a simple comment. |
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Quoted: Let me guess, we should 'fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here', or some other bullshit like what was shoved down our throats to justify trillions in military spending and a 25 year war after 911. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Propaganda tactics against civilians. This. Had to listen to my boomer father lament on how worried we need to be about Russia. "Dad, Russia can't even invade Muslim Quebec!!" "Yes, but you didn't grow up knowing that they could nuke us any minute!" The farce of Russia as a 1st world military power is absolutely ridiculous at this point, and I've lost respect for anyone who still holds that irrational fear. I’m more worried about them giving a cobalt source to some terrorists and telling them to go have fun. Let me guess, we should 'fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here', or some other bullshit like what was shoved down our throats to justify trillions in military spending and a 25 year war after 911. You’d think they would build lots of landing craft and troop transports and logistical stuff. |
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The STASI.
[Yeah yeah, that was the E German secret police but they were nothing but USSR stooges.] |
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Quoted: Quoted: Maybe not the same thing, but the hype and threat behind the MiG-25 was a strong influence on the development of the F-15: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MiG-25-Propaganda.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmrTKeMacAAtLlM.jpg god damn that mig is FUGLY Don’t lie, you like the big ol’ gal…..look at the size comparison! |
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Several of their NV designs were phenomenal compared to ours, till you wore theirs for awhile and went blind.
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Quoted: Perhaps you could clarify the meaning behind your phrase "ride to space with?" Perhaps, using the last launch, the answer is "Europeans, Japanese, and Russians?" My question mark remains legitimate, as I don't understand the point your apparently rhetorical question is trying to make. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? SpaceX? Try harder Perhaps you could clarify the meaning behind your phrase "ride to space with?" Perhaps, using the last launch, the answer is "Europeans, Japanese, and Russians?" My question mark remains legitimate, as I don't understand the point your apparently rhetorical question is trying to make. If you dont own a car that works, and you need to get to Wal Mart. You ride to Wal Mart in someone else's car. I hope that provided context. |
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Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? View Quote I thought the bulk of the propulsion and guidance tech that furthered the alleged moon trip came from Nazi engineers. |
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Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? View Quote a reason i dont believe we actually landed on the moon. |
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Bolshevik Communism. Long after it failed and was abandoned in their country. |
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Quoted: If you dont own a car that works, and you need to get to Wal Mart. You ride to Wal Mart in someone else's car. I hope that provided context. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? SpaceX? Try harder Perhaps you could clarify the meaning behind your phrase "ride to space with?" Perhaps, using the last launch, the answer is "Europeans, Japanese, and Russians?" My question mark remains legitimate, as I don't understand the point your apparently rhetorical question is trying to make. If you dont own a car that works, and you need to get to Wal Mart. You ride to Wal Mart in someone else's car. I hope that provided context. It confirmed that I was apparently right with my first assumption. Here's some actual context. https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-visiting-vehicles/ |
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Quoted: This. Had to listen to my boomer father lament on how worried we need to be about Russia. "Dad, Russia can't even invade Muslim Quebec!!" "Yes, but you didn't grow up knowing that they could nuke us any minute!" The farce of Russia as a 1st world military power is absolutely ridiculous at this point, and I've lost respect for anyone who still holds that irrational fear. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Propaganda tactics against civilians. This. Had to listen to my boomer father lament on how worried we need to be about Russia. "Dad, Russia can't even invade Muslim Quebec!!" "Yes, but you didn't grow up knowing that they could nuke us any minute!" The farce of Russia as a 1st world military power is absolutely ridiculous at this point, and I've lost respect for anyone who still holds that irrational fear. Quantity has a Quality All its Own. They absolutely can wreck most of Europe. |
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Quoted: Obviously they copied all kinds of our stuff, albeit half-ass, I'm looking at you commie space shuttle. What did the US copy? View Quote Their politicians and Intelligentsia. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? SpaceX? Try harder Are you honestly not aware that SpaceX has already delivered seven crews to the ISS, as well as two additional crewed (private) flights? The US does not need anyone else to get to the ISS. SpaceXstarted transporting crews to the ISS as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) in 2020. There might be some old agreements that still involve an occasional US astronaut riding on a Soyuz to the ISS, but our reliance on the Russians to get us to the ISS (or anywhere else in space) ended in 2020. (Boeing is also part of this program, but their vehicle has suffered lots of setbacks and delays, and will likely not be delivering crews until 2025 at the earliest) |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? SpaceX? Try harder Nick |
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Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? View Quote My God, it's embarrassing how ignorant of news some of you are. We haven't been dependent on the Russians for a ride to the space station in three and a half years. Ya'll need to crawl out from under that rock and get out more! SpaceX has made eight manned launches to the ISS for NASA including the initial test flight, two additional chartered flights for Axiom on top of that number and one manned free flyer apart from the ISS for Inspiration 4. |
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Quoted: We copied the VTOL system from the Yak-31. The F-35’s VTOL system is essentially the exact same system.Linkey. View Quote The F-35 lift system is in no way copied from the Yak-141 The Yak-141 uses two turbofan engines mounted in a mostly vertical orientation to provide this lift, as well as a conventionally mounted jet engine with thrust vectoring. The F-35 uses only a single jet engine - a Pratt and Whitney F135 turbofan with thrust vectoring. Lift in the forward fuselage is not provided by jet exhaust at all, but rather from a large fan that is powered through a shaft and clutch from the F135. The two systems are only superficially similar in that both dedicated lift systems are located in the forward section of the fuselage and both have "doors" in the upper fuselage that open for operation of the lift systems. Mike |
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The US is the new host for the Soviet parasite. Many of those in power in the US now are the literal grandchildren of Trotskyites that fled Russia a century ago.
They gave up on class as their lever and use race instead. |
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Quoted: Are you honestly not aware that SpaceX has already delivered seven crews to the ISS, as well as two additional crewed (private) flights? The US does not need anyone else to get to the ISS. SpaceXstarted transporting crews to the ISS as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) in 2020. There might be some old agreements that still involve an occasional US astronaut riding on a Soyuz to the ISS, but our reliance on the Russians to get us to the ISS (or anywhere else in space) ended in 2020. (Boeing is also part of this program, but their vehicle has suffered lots of setbacks and delays, and will likely not be delivering crews until 2025 at the earliest) View Quote We swap a seat with Russians to make sure in the event on an emergency and a vehicle has to return home immediately, there is always both an American and a Russian on the station no matter what. There have been swap-seat cosmonauts flying on Dragon for at least two flights now. @DK-Prof Starliner currently scheduled to carry crew in April of next year. |
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Quoted: a reason i dont believe we actually landed on the moon. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? a reason i dont believe we actually landed on the moon. These threads sure bring out the winners. |
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Quoted: Are you honestly not aware that SpaceX has already delivered seven crews to the ISS, as well as two additional crewed (private) flights? The US does not need anyone else to get to the ISS. SpaceXstarted transporting crews to the ISS as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) in 2020. There might be some old agreements that still involve an occasional US astronaut riding on a Soyuz to the ISS, but our reliance on the Russians to get us to the ISS (or anywhere else in space) ended in 2020. (Boeing is also part of this program, but their vehicle has suffered lots of setbacks and delays, and will likely not be delivering crews until 2025 at the earliest) View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? SpaceX? Try harder Are you honestly not aware that SpaceX has already delivered seven crews to the ISS, as well as two additional crewed (private) flights? The US does not need anyone else to get to the ISS. SpaceXstarted transporting crews to the ISS as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) in 2020. There might be some old agreements that still involve an occasional US astronaut riding on a Soyuz to the ISS, but our reliance on the Russians to get us to the ISS (or anywhere else in space) ended in 2020. (Boeing is also part of this program, but their vehicle has suffered lots of setbacks and delays, and will likely not be delivering crews until 2025 at the earliest) Nasa has not delivered its own crew since 2011. Yes, I am aware of SpaceX. We have sent more people to space using other nations, than SpaceX, since Nasa's last manned flight. We last sent a US person to space in a Russian craft 09/15/23. |
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Quoted: Stealth technology View Quote Nope. Denys Overholser recognized an application in a Russian paper (.Pyotr Ufimtsev) on edge diffraction at radio frequencies. RADAR "stealth" has been studied to some degree since the formulation of the RADAR Equation - the factors are right there in black and white. Implementation starts with Maxwell's equations. At certain frequencies RADAR can be modeled as behaving (reflecting and refracting) similar to light. This idea and limited computational power led to the crude shape of the F-117. It was a one truck pony at the time, and nowadays no one would begin to consider a faceted surface. Now the interesting part is what treatments have been added to the apexes of those facets. I have a good idea, or at least in the ballpark. |
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Quoted: We copied the VTOL system from the Yak-31. The F-35's VTOL system is essentially the exact same system.Linkey. They were also the first to use smooth bore tank cannons with APFSDS ammo. The Bradley is a response to the BMP and copies some of the concepts. There's probably a few more in missile technology that are less obvious. View Quote Lockheed patented the shaft coupled lift engine in 1991 or 1992. I was sitting at my desk working on a McAir shaft coupled ASTOVL supersonic airplane when the patent was passed around. We switched to an absolutely waste of time by attempting to duct bleed air gas forward to a lift fan. This idea had zero chances to work from the first sketch. Every contractor had access to a Yak. I knew one pilot that had flown one. Lift engines in the Yak's weren't remotely new or innovative. A lift engine is the reason MDC was kicked out of the ASTOVL competition. That blame belongs to a manager that dictated the change. I was present when the Marine general bounced the conference table off the floor and told him MDC would lose if the airplane had a lift engine. To answer the original question, one technology we made off with was welding of dissimilar metals. The French and the Japanese got compressible wind tunnels, the welding, and probably a couple of other technologies. Another was probably waffle guidance fins for bombs. They're dang effective at supersonic speeds. |
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Remember the ole story of our setting up shell companies to buy titanium to build SR71s? I don't know how accurate it is, or if the truth is actually even discoverable, but I've read that one more than once.
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Quoted: Nasa has not delivered its own crew since 2011. Yes, I am aware of SpaceX. We have sent more people to space using other nations, than SpaceX, since Nasa's last manned flight. We last sent a US person to space in a Russian craft 09/15/23. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: .Gov Intel tactics, propaganda, capturing of media/education for state use (socialism), numerous weapons systems, rocket technology (I had a USSR defector physics teacher in college). Seems like the USSR was beating us in space for a while......... but we landed on the moon. So we won the imaginary race to nowhere. Who do we ride to space with again? SpaceX? Try harder Are you honestly not aware that SpaceX has already delivered seven crews to the ISS, as well as two additional crewed (private) flights? The US does not need anyone else to get to the ISS. SpaceXstarted transporting crews to the ISS as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) in 2020. There might be some old agreements that still involve an occasional US astronaut riding on a Soyuz to the ISS, but our reliance on the Russians to get us to the ISS (or anywhere else in space) ended in 2020. (Boeing is also part of this program, but their vehicle has suffered lots of setbacks and delays, and will likely not be delivering crews until 2025 at the earliest) Nasa has not delivered its own crew since 2011. Yes, I am aware of SpaceX. We have sent more people to space using other nations, than SpaceX, since Nasa's last manned flight. We last sent a US person to space in a Russian craft 09/15/23. The cancellation of the Shuttle program was the best thing to happen to the US space program in 50 years. It was an embarrassment but it needed to happen. |
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Quoted: Remember the ole story of our setting up shell companies to buy titanium to build SR71s? I don't know how accurate it is, or if the truth is actually even discoverable, but I've read that one more than once. View Quote Truth. Seth Rich, one of the designers/engineers of the SR-71, confirms this in his GREAT book, "Skunk Works." I cannot recommend this book enough. Informative, well-written and even funny at times. |
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Quoted: Coaxial helicopter rotors. IRST - passive Infrared search & track. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: We copied the VTOL system from the Yak-31. The F-35’s VTOL system is essentially the exact same system.Linkey. They were also the first to use smooth bore tank cannons with APFSDS ammo. The Bradley is a response to the BMP and copies some of the concepts. There’s probably a few more in missile technology that are less obvious. Coaxial helicopter rotors. IRST - passive Infrared search & track. Helicopters are a very Russian thing.... Igor Sikorsky |
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Quoted: Election outcome control. View Quote A lot of political stuff maybe....or they may have copied us. From everything I have seen, a lot of the eugenic ideas the nazis hanged there hat on was started in the USA and UK. On any "copy", was it copied with the insinuation it was done so clandestinely or was it just given to them? |
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Quoted: Quantity has a Quality All its Own. They absolutely can wreck most of Europe. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Propaganda tactics against civilians. This. Had to listen to my boomer father lament on how worried we need to be about Russia. "Dad, Russia can't even invade Muslim Quebec!!" "Yes, but you didn't grow up knowing that they could nuke us any minute!" The farce of Russia as a 1st world military power is absolutely ridiculous at this point, and I've lost respect for anyone who still holds that irrational fear. Quantity has a Quality All its Own. They absolutely can wreck most of Europe. Maybe with nukes, but certainly not with conventional weapons. They're struggling to take out a much smaller country they share a land border with. And the nukes assume they've actually been taking care of them. The biggest realistic threat they pose with nukes is selling them to someone with a more competent military like North Korea or Iran. |
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