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pmc

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A lot of US military helicopter crashes lately... two Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters collided over Fort Campbell in Trigg County in late march 2023 and another crashed solo in Huntsville, Alabama in February 2023 killing two crewmembers.

But looking at crash history... UH-60 have a strip of heavy mishaps lately. Japan Ground Self-Defense Force lost one the 6 of April killing 10 service men.

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US military aviation in rotorcraft is so much larger and post covid impact will be visible on rotorcraft first as they are not as safe as fixed wing. just look at scale of hours on Apache alone than think other transport choppers. this need huge manpower in maintenance and rebuilding.

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Apache helicopters are in very heavy demand as escorts for other helicopters in the war zones, to the point that the AH-64 fleet had logged
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by April 2006 – nearly 1/3 of which had been logged after Sept. 11/01
 

taxiya

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Troll move...

I'll bet getting an Ukrainian translator wasn't an issue, Beijing just couldn't be bothered.


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Honestly, a lot of "languages" in Europe are just made up by nationalism, not really based on linguistic standard. They are just dialects of one language. Problem is that those dialect speakers hate one another so much so that they want to erase their past.

Ukraine/Russian/Belarussian are three dialects of the same language. The other examples are Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Icelandic/Norwegian/Swedish/Danish. The difference among them are loan words from different sources, such as Ukrainian got more from Polish due to Polish rule, Croatian got more from German due to Hubsburg rule, Serbian got more from Russian and Greek due to the church.
 

Eventine

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The strategic interests of China, India, and Russia all lie in different spheres. This is why there is little or no interest of a conflict between those three countries. Sure there is currently a border dispute between China and India, but it's nothing that can't be resolved with enough time and good faith negotiations, just like how China and Russia resolved all of their border disputes.

The only reason why China and the US is on a conflict course is literally because the US needs to maintain a global hegemony and China's rise is challenging that hegemony. China, in the foreseeable future, has no interest in a global hegemony, and I would argue that it should never seek one. If you don't seek hegemony, then you don't need to suppress anyone.
The only reason there is territorial conflict between China and India is because of the legacy of British imperialism, specifically the Simla Accords that gave "South Tibet" to India. "South Tibet" was never part of the Mughal Empire. The vast majority of the native population was and still is Sino-Tibetan. The Indians' claim to the region are weak since there was no unified Indian state that controlled it - not the Mughals, not the Mauryans, not the Guptas.

This is not to say China's claim to it is strong, either. But it wouldn't have been a problem - and might even have become an independent buffer state - if not for the British who annexed it to their Indian colony and then insisted that China respect the new border. After India's independence, it was also the West that encouraged and promoted this version of the borders. So once again, we have a case of the West being responsible for modern conflicts.
 

HereToSeePics

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Yeah it makes no sense. It can't survive in actual combat, and if the famous GUA-8 can kill tanks, MBTs would be spraying each other with 30mm instead of massive 120mm guns.

While its generally accepted that the A10 platform is outdated for a modern battle fields with effective AA measures, but the GUA-8 fires a 30mm depleted uranium round (PGU-14/B) with 55mm-75mm of penetration, which is generally effective against the roof armor of most tanks without ERA protection. So it's not entirely correct too dismissive of the gun itself.
 

manqiangrexue

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Another tense stand off in the SCS between China and the Philippines. And we are wondering why a small, weaker country like PH are granting the US more bases.
Getting your order of events mixed up. The recent hostilities are because the Philippines has invited the American military so now China has to show them that they stand only to lose if they think that the US will keep China down in Asia. Without this, China can be generous and discuss any issues. Now, China can only treat them with hostility.

It's not terrible; when the Philippines acts friendly, we cannot take anything from them; we must show our goodwill and generosity towards our small neighbors. But when they act like this, we can actually take territories from them, expand them, turn them into Chinese bases, and then when the next guy comes in and acts very friendly to China, we don't give them back; we just stop expanding. That way, the net result is that as the Philippines, like many democracies, shifts back and forth doing a net longterm zero, Chinese territories don't; they just expand.
 
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