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Funny Stuff Thread.... to loosen your day
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So they keep saying yet Russia keeps increasing their weapons production. It was the civilian sector which was affected by the current sanctions. For example the automotive and civilian airliner sectors.
The military sector exploded in growth with the war. For example Zala is now opening up another two factories to make the Lancet. Almaz-Antey recently opened up a gargantuan new facility to make air defense systems. A 93742 sq meters facility built from the ground up in 265 days.
The Russian military itself has been sanctioned since 2014. That was when the major blow happened which stopped the Russian surface naval construction program, Yak-130 construction, and delayed other projects. The major impact was due to not being able to source components from Ukraine anymore. Not "Western" components. But now Russia can build its own naval gas turbines, Yak-130 engines, R-77-1 missiles, miscellaneous Flanker avionics, and everything they need which used to be imported from Ukraine. In like 2018 they had finished developing the replacements and they have been putting them in serial production for like 3 years at this point.
This is a pretty much retarded argument because transistors stopped going down in price when 28nm came out. SRAM density stopped increasing at the 5nm node. Especially on something like a supercomputer, where space and energy aren't much of an issue, China can just use as many older generation processors as they want and have roughly same performance and cost per transistor.
The most compute intensive application being claimed is AI learning. But AI learning won't be done at the edge, it will be done in centralized compute farms, for AI edge applications current Chinese fabrication capabilities are more than enough.
This is pretty much bollocks. The US is just aiming to kneecap the Chinese economy as a competitor, like they did to Japan in the 1990s after the Japanese dethroned US semis in the 1980s, with forced import quotas for US semis into Japan.
Like I said, there will be little impact, the Soviets managed to keep rough parity in weapons systems with the US until the collapse of the Soviet Union and back then they did not have the world's second largest economy as a trade partner, being sanctioned to hell and back.
And China can make its own technology at this point. They stopped being reliant on Russian weapon systems.
They certainly chose the wrong time to say something like this with the WS-15 entering service.
The aircraft engines have mostly been replaced with Chinese equivalents. As for helicopter engines it will be a matter of time until they are replaced. What they also fail to tell is how minute China's imports of weapons are.
Still has better thrust-to-weight than the F-35. I thought US fanboys claimed that aircraft kinematic performance did not matter and that it was all about stealth and sensors. Oh well.
Such bollocks. You might accept this kind of analysis a decade ago but not now.
Like what? I think the worst thing was the supplies from Ukraine of Hongdu L-15 engines. Now that the factory got bombed.
It is also massively bloated and a massive money pit of failed programs and overly expensive systems.
Another money pit.
NGAD is still vaporware. Because they didn't build enough F-22s and didn't upgrade the ones they built properly, now they plan to release NGAD to fix this. Had the F-22 been exported to the countries that wanted to buy them, like Japan, or Australia, maybe the production line of the F-22 wouldn't have been shut down prematurely and the US would have more options.
I am fairly sure China is developing both the engine and aircraft basic technology for 6th gen already. Ever thought what the designers at Chengdu are doing? They probably started working on the J-20 design after the J-10 was done. What are they working on now? Just making the dual seater won't use that many engineers. So what are the other engineers working on? Likely the 6th gen.
This is just typical bullshit. Cultist fervor. Lots of closed systems can innovate just as well as long as enough resources are available and dedicated to improvement. The Soviets proved that when they launched Sputnik.
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Biden born in Israel means he can't be a natural born US citizen so can't be president. And they thought Obama was lying.
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USA is part of greater Israel so technically he is still okay I think.
If anyone finds the Indians ????-ing (not sure what to call it in a non-vulgar way) Israel on social media hilarious, here is BBC on Taiwan
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The words "democratic Taiwan" appeared more times in the island's national day celebrations this year than any other - by far.
Perhaps it's no surprise that at Tuesday's national day celebrations the biggest applause was reserved for two visiting marching bands. One was from Tokyo and the other from Los Angeles - Japan and the US, which are still the two countries Taiwan cares about and needs the most.
These relations remain "unofficial" - even at the parade they were relegated to the shadows, much like their friendships.
Please notice us!
Proof of one new friendship is easily visible in Taipei's supermarkets, which now sell something that is quite uncommon in Asia: Lithuanian-made India Pale Ale. Imports of the brew, along with Lithuanian rum and chocolate, have soared in Taiwan in the last few years, and Taipei has even announced a $10m investment in Lithuania in the most prized Taiwanese product - chips.
$10 million might buy you a light bulb for an EUV machine. Maybe 2 light bulbs for DUV.
"Lithuania is seeking to enhance practical co-operation with Taiwan, a like-minded democracy, and an important economic and technological partner in the region,"
Pissing off the world's 2nd largest country by population is naturally practical thinking!
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The words "democratic Taiwan" appeared more times in the island's national day celebrations this year than any other - by far.
Perhaps it's no surprise that at Tuesday's national day celebrations the biggest applause was reserved for two visiting marching bands. One was from Tokyo and the other from Los Angeles - Japan and the US, which are still the two countries Taiwan cares about and needs the most.
These relations remain "unofficial" - even at the parade they were relegated to the shadows, much like their friendships.
Please notice us!
Proof of one new friendship is easily visible in Taipei's supermarkets, which now sell something that is quite uncommon in Asia: Lithuanian-made India Pale Ale. Imports of the brew, along with Lithuanian rum and chocolate, have soared in Taiwan in the last few years, and Taipei has even announced a $10m investment in Lithuania in the most prized Taiwanese product - chips.
$10 million might buy you a light bulb for an EUV machine. Maybe 2 light bulbs for DUV.
"Lithuania is seeking to enhance practical co-operation with Taiwan, a like-minded democracy, and an important economic and technological partner in the region,"
Pissing off the world's 2nd largest country by population is naturally practical thinking!
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