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The ukrainians also have access to far superior orbital reconaissance which is providing a big advantage in knowing what the enemy is up to as well as knowing where to aim their longer ranged missiles. Not true - both Russia and NATO have larger observation and SIGINT satellite constellations than ...

I don't think the russians are really significantly better off as far as being 'outdated' goes. The russians are using more guided missiles but are also losing many of those to air defenses, so the impact is less than might otherwise be expected. It seems GMLRS and stormshadow are having a lot more ...

Heh. "You are the nails and I am the nail-gun" >nukes planet

Mig-31 is still mainly an interceptor, its just also fairly suitable to launching missiles against ground targets (actually I think the altitude/top speed is kindof required for kinzhal). There is no reason to fly low while launching missile attacks against ground targets.

Well like, MiG-31 does attack ground targets. I feel like the concept of ground-attacker at play here is dead in the real world. You still have old dinosaur platforms flying around, but they if anything prove the point. They are arguably less survivable and combat effective in the presence of air de...

The b-1a already had the swing wing so I feel like you have got to be thinking of another airframe, or some distant ancestor program I haven’t heard of. e: So for the B variant they did cut the high altitude performance in favor of better low altitude, but you don’t just casually add variably swept ...

Pretty sure B-1 was always meant for low level. It now flies high altitude missions since the original mandate is gone, but I don't think that was anything that changed between A and B. e: injected following quote A ground attack aircraft is eg an A-10. A "different missile" still must be fired from...

Just posting the continuation here so it isn't completely missed Seems I mainly misinterpreted this when I originally read it: https://well-of-souls.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22817#p22817 Upon re-reading it, he was relegated to rear line and then sent on an attrition attack, but it went well for hi...

Eh fair enough, I'm not really intimiately familiar with the visual aspects of their ship classes (I could be since there is a section on the site for that, I'm just not). So I saw ships in the general sci fi bug dude style and was like 'aha sci fi bug dudes, surely they are also doing the attrition...

In fairness he is apparently now attrition fodder so he may as well talk to the enemy without permission.

I thought the idea was that he was kindof unfashionably self-interested as compared to his peers, which was one of the reasons why they shoved him onto the front to get murdered in the first place.

Afaik MIG-25 was moreso one of those things that was really cool on a technical level but otherwise not that great of a jet. AFAIK it still gets used for atmospheric research quite a bit due to its flight ceiling.

Regarding multirole, they do launch certain air to ground missiles from Mig-31s.

I kindof doubt its going to diverge that much more, you are already seeing a lot of regional dialects being obliterated due to the pervasiveness of communication across huge areas at this point.

Bit on the lurid side but tbh I overall agree with you it does have that going on a bit.

Many such cases.

In fairness to your idea they seemed to want to be found.

Seems like the issue might once again be that the gigantic technological differential will not favor that. I guess with no evidence that if the goal is to minimally confirm a system is populated and then back off that would be viable? At least that level of exploration would strongly favor the sneak...

I’m thinking of the current escalation in hostilities…

I still tend to think we would at most see a dozen or so kindof low ranking engineers sent over alongside technical packages to try to get us up to speed. There is no way humanity will be able to do anything in time to effect the current conflict (honestly seems like it might be over before we even ...

On p199 there a lot of other Umiak ships in the background. Maybe this one fell back a little while recovering the shuttle, but imo it depends upon where its entry-point is after the jump relative to the rest of their fleet. Ah yeah good point, I was thinking of 195 but that one ship is just a depi...