The Fall of Czarism
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The lines cross about 1922. So Anglos got the unvoiced nature of this initial consonant, common enough internally and finally in English words like tits, just as the last one (for now) was executed.
OT
The lack of self-awareness is awe-inspiring.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/in-the-gilets-jaunes-paris-riots-france-faces-facebook-revolution
Personally, I prefer ‘czar,’ since, orthographically speaking, it better preserves the link to ‘caesar’.
I pronounce both the same, so should there be a difference?
OT
The Su-57 is going to receive a new missile similar to the Kinzhal. (Though I guess it will be less capable, since it needs to be smaller to be able to be carried in the internal compartment. Given the smaller radar signature and probably better survivability of the Su-57, it won’t necessarily mean that it will be any less effective a system than the Kinzhal.)
https://defence-blog.com/news/russias-fifth-generation-jet-fighter-to-receive-hypersonic-missiles.html
Still OT
And the Russian Black Sea Fleet to receive 12 new warships. Probably several times stronger than the entire Ukrainian Navy.
https://defence-blog.com/news/russian-black-sea-fleet-will-get-12-new-warships-in-2019.html
That graph needs some context, where is this being measured and what exactly is being measured.
True. Also interesting to know when the ‘ov’ suffix switched from “off” in describing Russian things. As in Rachmaninoff and Kieff ( almost as ridiculous and stupid as these braindead freaks calling it this bastardized nonsensical “Kyiv” instead of Kiev).
I was reading an English book from the 1960’s and it was still using the “off” instead of “ov” for Rachmaninov( why the “ch” is used still for him now in English when the “kh” is now widely used, is a complete and utter mystery). I am assuming they were still using Kieff and consistently “off” for everything upto the fall of the Soviet Union, I am sure they used it consistently throughout the Victorian era.
Unlike the “ch/kh/х ” there was no real reason not to use “ov” from the start
In the old times the English used the sensible Chaikovsky, instead of the now stupid spelling of Tchaikovsky
I think ‘Czar’ is French while ‘Tsar’ is German (?).
Well most of these warships include intelligence vessels and logistics ships. Still Russia has more than enough warships to blockade Ukrainian ports/ organize amphibious landings in S/E Ukraine. However the state of the blue water fleet is worrisome. GPV 2020 was a great success for the air force and the army in terms of re-equipment and modernization but a complete failure for the navy. Overall russia’ s shipbuilding industry seems to bein bad shape and the fleet is still aging too fast. RuNavy needs more Gorshkovs ASAP.
I think it came from the French transliteration.
However, a blue water navy is probably the single most expensive item of a modern armed force. Russia doesn’t need a blue water fleet as much as it needs other things (brown/green water navy, strong and modern air force and army), and as long as resources are not unlimited, I think it’s the correct decision not to develop its blue water navy much (beyond some measures like modernizing some of the most hopelessly rusty and obsolete vessels like the Kuznetsov).
I am wrong about German (I don’t know how I forgot Zar und Zimmermann) but French seems right.
http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/tsar
Dutch has ‘Tsaar’, maybe it’s from there?
Russia is building scores of smaller vessels like frigates, corvettes, patrol boats etc., of which it needs a lot to patrol and protect its extremely long maritime borders. For the same reason it’s developing and upgrading it’s coastal defenses with land-based mobile anti-ship missiles and the like.
I think it’s the correct priority.
If I had to transliterate it to English from scratch, I’d probably choose Tsar. It didn’t happen for a long time because there was a long tradition (of French origin?) of writing Czar. So there’s that.
The German appears to be “Zar.” French appears to be “Tsar.”
Maybe, those changed at some point too?
Thanks for that…makes sense!
I would say that only in the last 15-20 years English became, ‘unofficially”, the de facto official language of diplomacy, instead of French. It would explain why until very recently Rachmaninov was still being spelled with a -off ending in English writings
Kiev, though has always been “Kiev” in the last 50 years, of any English writings
Yeah, I realised that.
In French, ‘Czar’ appears to be about two centuries older than ‘Tsar’.
reiner Tor is probably right, the simplest explanation makes the most sense.
Look at the shipbuilding capability being erected in the Russian Far East. Granted, a lot of that will be tankers, but navy will get something as well. The main problem is the same in principle as in US, got to fend off carrier masturbators somehow to produce actually useful ships for sensible money.
Luckily, Syrian demonstration of this fleet distributed lethality thing went well; should help.
Reading my link more thoroughly, I think English and French just standardised the various spellings floating around differently.
OT:
Think about a larger picture.
In recent years, oil/gas revenue has reached up to 50% of the budget, depending on the years.
Sometime in the 2030s years, oil demand will probably peak (peak oil demand).
Is the future emergency to have a lot of new ships during the 2030s, and a restored neosoviet foreign policy? Or to have modern industry, that will allow the best human capital of the next generation to have good jobs.
Obviously, solving the latter problem is a lot more difficult than building things like ships – you can’t just put money on the problem. Already 10 years ago (and before anyone knows about Elon Musk), Medvedev was promising to solve the problem. Simply giving money to Chubais for things like Rosnano, has not had very impressive results. And things like Innopolis, was more a subsidy for construction industry (which included building useless tunnels under the campus to cross a simple road), than for computer science.
Still, the emergency has not changed – it is to develop future industries, while there is still vast revenue from oil/gas (before oil demand peaks, perhaps in the 2030s) available to invest into this area.
For cost of rebuilding things like “blue-water navy” (as was still envisaged a few years ago), there should be vast investment into education at all levels. (Unfortunately, educational reform of the last few years is in the wrong direction – at least in the area of breaking off the advanced component of the maths exam, and having declining proportion then choosing as an option to do the advanced exam each year).
I don’t know. Aesthetically, I think this “Rachmaninoff” looks quite cool when it’s written like that with a unusual double “f”. Perhaps, it is a matter of taste.
Here’s a photo of a Kinzhal on an MiG-31:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/2018_Moscow_Victory_Day_Parade_66.jpg
And the Su-57 exposing its internal weapons bays:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mWrGwg0Td_M/WAnJLsm3a8I/AAAAAAAAEto/Th9RwGwBvjIBQ6hqWXEXLDVmBfP-AIBJACLcB/s640/Sukhoi%2BPAK%2BFA%2Bstealth%2Bfifth%2BMISSILE%2BAAM%2BAA-12%2BBVR%2Bjet%2BHAL%2BFifth%2BGeneration%2BFighter%2BAircraft%2B%2528FGFA%2529%2BProspective%2BAirborne%2BComplex%2BFrontline%2BAviation%2BRussian%2BAir%2BForce%2Bexport%2Bindian%2B3rd%2Bth.jpg
Su-57 airframe seems to have been designed from the outset to allow for carriage of larger internal stores than the F-22 and J-XX. Of course, it could just be path dependency since the Su-57 airframe appears to be a stealthy evolution of the Su-27 airframe (engines widely spaced, tail boom).
If the new missile is really intended to be carried internally (remember the Su-57 is smaller than the MiG-31), then obviously it will have shorter range.
Incidentally, the Western powers have reasons for not developing and deploying supersonic (or in the case of the Kinzhal, hypersonic) antiship missiles. This piece is from 1997, but still worth reading: https://www.scribd.com/document/267396243/Naval-Engineers-Journal-Volume-109-Issue-1-1997-J-F-McEachron-Subsonic-and-Supersonic-Antiship-Missiles-An-Effectiveness-and-Utility-Comparison
https://i.imgur.com/IadjMKw.gif
I assume the Soviets chose to develop supersonic antiship missiles in order to reduce the possibility of inflight interception by US carrier-borne interceptors. The AV-MF intended to engage NATO task forces with long-range bombers operating at high altitude with nuclear-armed missiles, which minimized the deficiencies of supersonic antiship missiles.
Czar is from German actually. Sigismund von Herberstein, a Holy Roman Imperial diplomat, introduced this spelling in the 1500s.
In the new interview, Musk supports Trump’s Spaceforce.
I wish she would ask him if they’re building it to defend against UFOs (ie. possibly a valid reason for intelligent man like Musk, if he knows something we don’t know, like the Bigelow Aerospace guy claims – or is it just more nonsense American military expenditure against China/Russia?)…
https://youtu.be/bSPlUNosvoc?t=49
Look up google ngram
https://books.google.com/ngrams
Although I warn you it can be a very pleasant way of wasting time.
The Kuznetsov should be scrapped. Even if it were actually reliable, the air wing is too small to be useful and the lack of a catapult means the aircraft are restricted in the amount of stores they can carry.
Additionally, having just one carrier is useless. Aside from the fact that maintenance requirements mean that it can’t always be available, the Pacific War demonstrated that effective carrier operations require a task force operating 3-4 carriers.
In the Falklands War Britain deployed two commando carriers and pressed a merchant ship (Atlantic Conveyor) into service as a jury rigged carrier. The Argies were operating at the absolute limit of their range, did not engage the RN with warships, and did not have any serious land-based air defenses. Yet the British barely prevailed and would’ve lost if the Argies had fuzed some of their bombs correctly (or the French hadn’t provided the British with detailed information on the Exocet missile).
See this post: https://navy-matters.blogspot.com/2018/11/carrier-strike.html
So what could the Admiral Kuznetsov possibly be used for? Basically just “presence” and conducting theatrical raids on Third World opponents.
Aside from the USN and JMSDF (whose small carriers are specialized for ASW operations) all other carriers in the world are simply vanity items. And the USN effectively treats its carriers as vanity items by constantly shrinking their carrier air wings (God forbid we lose a hull, and thus a major fleet command) and sending out single carriers with inadequate escorts on long “deployments”.
Imagine the number of bombers, antiship missiles, ISR platforms, and tanker aircraft that could be kept in service for the cost of the Admiral Kuznetsov.
Offtopic – Did anyone believe this article? (Or is just complete nonsense fake news common with New York Times)? If not… wtf.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
It has a limited usefulness though, since older texts don’t go through automated character recognition as easily.
Butina to change not guilty plea.
Führer Fuehrer Fuhrer
The reason to have a carrier in service is to keep or gather some experience operating carriers. So it probably makes sense for China, and might make sense for Russia if Russia believed that it would later afford a bigger carrier force. Since it’s highly unlikely, it’s probably a waste of money.
Another issue is availability: a third of all carriers are normally in port, so with only one carrier you won’t have even one for four months a year.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-10/alleged-russian-honeypot-spy-changes-plea-guilty
Here are more details:
And then there are things like Mosquito/Yakhont/Onyx/Brahmos. True, at least one got into serial production after publishing of the essay, but it hardly was a secret.
“I don
t have a nice modern antiship missile, so I dont need one”.If you can build many more subsonic missiles, then perhaps building and launching thousands of them could overwhelm the defenses anyway, couldn’t it?
keep a girl in solitary confinement , unable to speak to even her parents….wait 6 months and then effectively force her into a plea bargain
……..a scumbag legal system
Disappointed that a single chart & a paragraph is all fat karlin has given us this past month.
Anyway, as far as the carrier stuff goes.
USA carriers are basically a floating air wing.
Can independently engage in air ops.
Ski Ramp Carriers are more envisioned as providing air cover to a fleet.
You can travel 100km in minutes by air or hours by ship.
Eventually, Russia India China all 3 will have catapult carriers by 2040s I think.
Sadly, by then I estimate there will be no thin white women left in America.
I think y’all are right that blue water navy isn’t a priority for Russia. A navy is for foreign adventures and tormenting 3rd world countries. They are for geographical piracy and always have been: Sea Peoples, Vikings, Spaniards, Anglos. The extent to which Russia may need to intervene in other countries is limited to the Baltic, Black and Med seas, for the most part. Shore and air launched anti ship missiles are a lot cheaper than the USS Ford.
Big priority is to maintain MAD (so they need subs sure) and continue to ensure likely victory in a ground clash in Eastern Europe. Really remarkable how much ‘ring for the ruble’ they get out of their modest defence budget in this regard.
And we are home. That is the vocabulary of the eternal High School assistant principals. They are in charge now. From what I hear, Macron was a good student in his Lycee, that is why they put him in charge, all else is just misbehaviour and bullying…
Zvezda is indeed a good step forward for the future. However Russia still has lots of shipyards that are hopelessly outdated and depend on MoD orders to stay open. One of the reasons the navy ordered extra Stereguschy corvettes was because shipyards like Amurskaya couldn’t build the more advanced Gremyaschiy model. Still there’s hope for the future as Severnaya is being modernized. It is pretty probable that SEVMASH will also get expanded and renovated.
The picture with the SU 57 is photoshopped. The SU 57 carries only 4 R 77 missiles in its ventral bays, not 6.
Yes, for a long time I was mystified by the spelling. The only language I knew that used the “cz” digraph was Polish, but it represents the “ch” sound in that language (while it uses “c” for the “ts” sound). I finally found out what you did, namely that “cz” is an archaic German representation of “ts” (nowadays written “z” in German, or “tz” if in the middle or at the end of a word).
Is this really so strange?
China has already reorganised the military branches into the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, Rocket Force (ballistic missiles), and the Strategic Support Force (cyber, space and EW).
Just like historically, splitting the Air force of onto an independent branch.
I don’t understand why people consider it a joke. It may or may not be wise, but it seems like a serious proposal.
What about Caesar?
Hungarian often used “cz” for that sound until the first half of the 20th century. It’s now replaced with just “c”.
Once these things are mass produced and go online (1-2 years) attempted coastal invasions will become costly:
http://en.c4defence.com/Agenda/ukraine-tests-new-or-modernized-missiles/7529/1
“-off” is how White Russians distinguish themselves from former Sovoks, who use “-ov.”
I am assuming they were still using Kieff and consistently “off” for everything upto the fall of the Soviet Union
First time I have ever seen Kieff in my (rather long) life. According to Google Ngram Kieff had its last “peak” in 1918 and had all but disappeared by 1950. In the 19th century, however, it was very competitive with Kiev, even exceeding it in popularity for brief periods.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
It has been my understanding that spellings like “Orloff” and “Kieff” are French influenced.
France became refuge for a good number of White Russians, who in that locale were prone to using that spelling.
Others who settled elsewhere spelled in the more popularly known form.
Keep in mind that some French speaking Russians who fled Russia for non-French areas were prone to using the French variant.
Some examples of US based White Russians using the f and v versions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Biletnikoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klebnikov
Russian “v” (in cyrillic looks like “B”) in final position is pronounced like english “f”
therefore
the English have it wrong, the French have it right: it’s
RACHMANINOFF
We already have a space force. Up until now, it’s just been a part of the air force. The US Air Force used to be a part of the army, i.e. the US Army Air Corps. Breaking the Space Force out means the commanding general gets to use its funding to prioritize missions that are exclusively space-related rather than have to serve as the red-headed stepchild of the US Air Force. Same reason the US Army Air Corps became an independent service branch. If we ever get off this planet in any numbers, I’d expect the Space Force to become the largest branch of all, budget-wise, and perhaps even numbers-wise.
I’ve also seen Klebnikov spelled “Klebnikoff”:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4114215.stm
“They included the fatal shooting of Paul Klebnikoff, the well-known editor of Russian Forbes magazine.”
Could Klebnikov have changed to the Sovok spelling because of his work in post-Soviet Russia? (I’m not saying this was the case, I have no idea). Random googling led to a link to someone knowing him as Klebnikoff as a kid.
Seems to have been a truly great man. Well, Whites were generally superior to Sovoks.
probably this is entirely due to the ortographic reform of Russian the Bolsheviks did early on (the same way after Mao died Peking become Beijing in the Western press, as a result of a new official romanization of the language)
Isn’t tsar more commonly used in British English while czar is more American?
Russians in Finland (which was using the Latin alphabet) during the imperial period tended to use the -off ending, long before the revolution and Whites and Reds. You still see it in old street names, company names etc, like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinebrychoff
which has been operating for 200 years under the name of the original dude. Russians who stayed in Finland after the revolution seem to have just picked the -ov spelling (which makes a lot more sense in Finland anyway since Finnish doesn’t use “f”).
It’s probably French influence since it was the elite lingua franca at the time. Actually a big reason why Finland became rebellious in the end was that our Germanic aristocrats got really mad when Nikolai II told them that Petrograd isn’t willing to communicate with Finland in French anymore and that the aristocracy would have to learn Russian.
Finns tend to put old, aristocratic, prestigious connotations on the -off ending so you sometimes see antique stores and the like using fake Russian names spelled with -off. It’s a bit cheapened though when “koff” is one of the biggest cheap lagers in the country…
I don’t believe so with Klebnikov. Overall, Whites seem more prone to the f ending over v than Sovoks. It’s by no means 100% absolute.
One branch on my family tree has been spelled as Orloff.
Interesting missives.
Gotta love the khokhol delusion. How`s that water pipe mortar coming up, killed another test team yet?
Which exam? And do you mean that the advanced mathematics portion used to be mandatory, but can now be postponed for a year?
While I do think mathematics is very important for civilization, and the more people who understand it the better, I’m extremely skeptical that the coercive methods of teaching it, whether traditional or new-fangled, do more good than harm. It might be true that the proles need to have reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic pounded into them otherwise they’ll never get it, but this is an empirical question about which it seems there is not much evidence, other than that the pounding we currently do is not very effective. But for people who want to seriously learn, school is mostly background noise, often distracting.
On the other hand, this chick and others like her are doing more good for the future of civilization than all the schools in all the countries of the world:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart
Navies are for Chads, that’s correct. Having a blue-water navy is a sign of being a powerful country that knows how to assert itself.
Chad naval countries – exploring the oceans, conquering new continents, settling new lands
Virgin land-bound losers – squabbling over a few Danube potato-patch valleys for centuries
But in the long-term it is easier for the Mother Country to hang on to adjacent land colonies than overseas colonies.
Such people don’t exist in the real world. Serious learning can’t happen without serious pain, and so building a tolerance for boredom, bullshit and passive aggression is step one in serious learning. That won’t happen without coercion.
That said, yes, American schools are total shit. But not because they don’t coddle kids who ‘just want to have fun’, they’re shit because they’re basically prisons.
Both the -off instead of -ov and the Tch- instead of Ch- are due to these names passing through a French language filter before making their way to English.
I once made the mistake of using the -ov spelling for an acquaintance whose emigré family had passed through France. I was corrected, they had preserved the French spelling -off and were not to be confused with -ov people, more recent immigrants.
I also like czar over tsar because it preserves Caesar in the orthography, but tsar is completely faithful to the Russian language, at least insofar as two English letters can be made to represent a single Russian one, ц.
Freeman Dyson said that he solved a 1000 differential equations one summer when he was a teenager, just for the fun of it.
Without exception, all of the interesting, successful people I know were not coerced, but rather pushed themselves very hard. And the people I know who were coerced, by their parents and teachers, are mediocrities.
It’s not a uniquely American problem.
Modernized S-125s are also used by Poland, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
Russia still using Ukrainian rocket components:
http://spaceflight101.com/zenit-angosat-1/zenit-blasts-off-with-angolan-communications-satellite/
Because no other army has accidents with mortars:
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/8-marines-killed-by-mortar-in-nev-training-accident-1.4845139
8 Marines killed by mortar in Nev. training accident
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/IDF-captain-killed-in-Tzelim-training-accident-439487
IDF OFFICER KILLED BY MORTAR SHELL IN TRAINING ACCIDENT
Yishai Rosales, 23, a company commander in the Kfir Infantry Brigade, was killed when a mortar shell exploded during a combat drill.
It was broken off into two exam papers since 2015. So if you think of all topics which used to be in part C of the exam – now all these only in part 2 of the higher option exam.
Number who choose the higher exam option was in its first year around 70%. By now, it’s around 60%.
What do you think of these claims by Bigelow Aerospace, according to New York Times?
So they are claiming Russia and China are more advanced than America, in … recovering/analyzing UFO materials.
I read the article twice, and still could only understand that this is their claim.
Are you talking about EГЭ?
Wikipedia says
so that seems to be what you mean.
As far as I understand, the point of this exam is to be useful in making university admission decisions, but at least at some institutions, departments can make their own decisions on admission criteria, so it’s unclear to me why anyone should care what’s in ЕГЭ. It’s just something the Ministry of Education does to make itself feel important.
By the way, related to an earlier conversation, Wikipedia also says
So now maybe even losers will have a reason to learn Chinese!
Sorry I don’t understand the argument of your comment.
Teacher will cover the topics you need for the exam, and your final level will be what is measured in your exams.
Except teachers and students and parents, and those such as us who have presumably not in school anymore, but are discussing what is the level of currently graduating students.
What happened is all the topics in the part C of the exam which used to scare everyone, are now only in Part 2 of the higher option of the exam. 40% students, are not choosing the higher option already – so they will now not have to worry about studying or understanding any of those topics.
On spellings of Russian Empire/Soviet origin families, Vladimir Pozner initially had his name presented as Posner. The latter is more preferred among Jewish families, who’ve lived in the US for a good length of time.
My point is that the only reasonable purpose of exams is to serve as signals for acceptance into employment or further education, but that exams designed specifically for this purpose by the employer or educational institution are much more useful for this purpose. There are basically two things you want in an employee or student, intelligence and conscientiousness. In the absence of the former, doing well on an exam like ЕГЭ is, I suppose, evidence of the latter.
It had nothing to do with the Bolshevik orthographic reform, which was 1. a reform of Cyrillic (Kyrillic?) orthography, obviously, not Latin and 2. did not affect the letters discussed here.
With respect, why would you venture to speak about probabilities when it comes to something concerning which you clearly have no knowledge? You could have just asked whether it had something to do with that orthographic reform you remember reading about somewhere.
The stuff that Bigelow uses in his modules is basically tech cast off by NASA in the ’60s or even ’50s. That doesn’t mean it can’t be useful, but I doubt he ever had his hands on any advanced alien alloys.
Regarding the relative space supremacy of China or Russia. As far as I know, China launched more rockets than the U.S. this year. That may include some economic distortion, but it will be interesting to see the totals of the coming years.
Re: war with aliens. If they were hostile, we would not stand a snowball’s chance in hell. If they really were observing us, then we are probably safe because the Zoo Hypothesis would then be correct.
It’s simply, in preparation for the exam, topics kids are learning to in the last year of school. So with the reform more can now guiltlessly avoid larger numbers of maths topics, depending on university course they plan to study, and we might see this avoiding proportion increase (although is steady around 60% for the last couple of years).
So we are assuming he (Bigelow) is successfully trolling New York Times to write that article? Article is really strange, since it writes about this crazy topic like it is a simple fact.
Or it’s possible Bigelow is not a troll, but is simply even crazier than Musk, and believes all this himself?
If we assume he is that crazy, then we can assume the idea Russia would be more advanced on this than America is just another pure delusion of his without evidence.
errr……on the Bulgarians the “off” was being used for a long time, including during and after Communism you dumb retard
Notwithstanding , how bizarre it is for a freak as yourself to get involved in any whites vs reds debate…..which is more an excuse for attention-whoring time-wasting then actual opinion making on both groups….who are infinitely superior to whichever failed nutcase, fake group that a trash as you identifies with
At first, I was wondering if “UFO” was somehow referring to micrometeors and tiny orbital debris that pose an impact danger to spacecraft. I think the material he uses is supposedly slightly more resistant to these type of impacts. But upon further research, he seems to be alien-obsessed .
I would paint him as high-functioning crazy. His obsession seems to be partly because he grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. The U.S. has a weird alien subculture – I don’t know if there is anything like it elsewhere. Probably a combination of Hollywood, the spacerace, and having a major touristy city near vast swathes of secret, federally-owned land. Not to mention supermarket tabloids.
I wonder if his contention could be based on fringe literature. Knowledge of one government’s top secret program would be impressive, pretending to have knowledge of three and their relative merits seems pretty nutty.
Why? Several of my relatives were involved in the White movement. One of them even organized a military force of Rusyn POWs who fought for Kolchak in Siberia
My great-grandparents provided shelter on their Galician estate to dozens of Whites fleeing westward.
It must really hurt you, Sovok, that the Whites who escaped from Sovok apes such as your ancestors, just like Banderists, have generally lived very good lives in the West, much better than yours. It’s a life that most Russians would have had, if only they hadn’t been ruled by the Sovok apes.
Also, it is funny that if I chose to be a Russian (I would not, though I have all the opportunities), I would be a better and more successful Russian than you are.
Maybe that is why you stalk my posts, like you did this one? 🙂
Lol, exactly – the New York Times article is writing in a very calm way, but it’s statements are seeming completely insane (Bigelow Aerospace has buildings for storage of unknown materials from UFOs) .
Really someone needs to explain what this article is.
Obsession about this topic, particularly for yellow press. is the same everywhere.
American genius, was to use it for the entertainment industry, to create so many films and television.
This is difficulty of the article. So he (Bigelow) is not some ordinary loser (he has connection to the highest levels in America’s government).
At the same time, he could still be just crazy, or alternatively just trolling us.
His company has contracts for US government
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Expandable_Activity_Module
And he seems to know people
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLzmSNjjwb9/
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But there seems some madness in his eyes?
https://youtu.be/YZtFyUeTgAw?t=56
Colonies? It is 2018.
Are you a semi-retarded teenager? Serious question.
And Kaiser?
@ two English letters can be made to represent a single Russian one, ц.
The most sensible answer. It helps to have some knowledge of the Russian language.
I thought about that spreadsheet about the pros and cons of hypersonic missiles.
Is it true that such a missile must fly high? I think the Russian missiles hug the sea anyway. I guess it just needs to be bigger or use some tricks to reduce drag.
It’s not required to fly high. High altitude maximizes range. Russian fanboys inform us breathlessly that many Russian ASMs have sea skimming capabilities.
During the Cold War the AV-MF intended to launched nuclear-armed supersonic ASMs from long range at high altitude at NATO fleets.
The Kirov battlecruisers on the other hand intended to launch their supersonic ASMs in sea skimming mode (with the option for one missile to pop up to higher altitude for targeting purposes), perhaps in part because a surface warship would obviously need to close to closer range than a bomber flying at high altitude owing to the radar horizon.
Note that I’m not an opponent of high speed ASMs (this is directed more at another commenter). It just appears the West has its reasons for not having them.
It does seem prudent to have both options since you don’t know what will work in war, and having a design ready to go certainly speeds things up if it turns out the subsonic designs aren’t so hot these days.
I agree. Regarding range while sea skimming, I guess over time you will get better at it. I suspect some nice tricks might be learned (like supercavitation with torpedoes), so it’s possible that the thing is actually easier than envisaged by the Americans who never even tried it. Anyway, probably the issue is mostly solved by brute force (i.e. bigger and stronger missiles with more fuel to increase range), so it’s simply a question of costs: subsonic missiles are that much cheaper.
Overall, the best strategy seems to be to build very large numbers of subsonic missiles (which could overwhelm the defenses by sheer numbers) while at the same time building a smaller number of supersonic/hypersonic missiles. Yes, you cannot know which one will work, or which one will be better under the circumstances of a real war against a peer or near peer (or superior peer, for the Russians).
We can definitely see this in World War 2, where a large diversity of weapons were used against shipping:
• Naval gunfire (don’t laugh–the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was sunk by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau)
• Torpedoes
• Mines
• Dive bombing
• Skip bombing
• Aerial rockets
• Aircraft gunfire
• Guided bombs
Probably the biggest unexpected discovery was that torpedo bombers were a lot less effective than dive bombers.
Guided bombs were devastating when the Germans first deployed them, but then quickly rendered useless by ECM.
“Tsar” is for things in Russia or Russian, such as the head of state, the Tsar Bomba, Tsarists, the Tsarina, etc, and pronounced similar to the Russian.
“Czar” is for things that are not of Russian origin, is pronounced as “zahr” with an English “z”, and is typically used to denote some Head Bureaucrat In Charge handed unified authority over a project that spans multiple institutions or departments. Being easier to pronounce for native English speakers, it is the preferred form when not transliterating a Russian term.
Why? Several of my relatives were involved in the White movement. One of them even organized a military force of Rusyn POWs who fought for Kolchak in Siberia
HAHAHAHA! I can’t believe I didn’t read this fantasist fucktard crock of shite earlier. You’re smply lying about being related to that guy….as befits a fantasist scumbag crock of shit as yourself. No way that garbage is possibly true, an attention-whore, blatantly ashamed of it’s family would have mentioned this garbage before, if remotely true…and an excrement as yourself seems to be too thick to understand that most people did have relatives on both sides you idiot
more laughable bullshit……..and for the REAL inbred neanderthal grandparents who raped tortured and burned many people to death in an opportunist move during WW2?
lol….I think I speak for everyone here, where if I existed as an insecure fantasist, fucktard nutjob, inhabiting here writing millions of words each week, literally stalking the blog and every other pro-Russian one ( pro-Ukraine blog with comments being an oxymoron) with nothing else to do..then I and any sane person would kill themselves. You know you exist as a sad,loser freak