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E100 said:

How does a satellite explode? They're bacically just solar powered computers in orbit. This is a comical level of technological failure. (L)Mao.

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Satellite use thrusters for orbit and orientation keeping regularly for the whole life of the satellite, so their fuel tanks are quite large and powerful if explode.

China has also gained an edge through advances in chemistry that allow refiners to extract more rare earths at lower cost. China has 39 universities with programs to train engineers and researchers for the rare earths industry. Universities in the United States and Europe have mostly offered only occasional courses.

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Michael Silver, the chairman and chief executive of American Elements, a chemicals manufacturer and distributor based in Los Angeles, said rare earth refineries in China “have solvent extraction systems that are literally a generation ahead of anything outside.”

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The west should not mistake patience and restraint for weakness.

GulfLander said:

"US approves $2B arms sale to Taiwan including air-to-air missiles and NASAMS weapon systems"

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What a joke
This is just a grift. There is a huge backlog of NASAMS, multiple years. Taiwan hasn’t received any big ticket items in years (ie M1) despite ordering them years ago. I don’t know if they make any advance payments, but it definitely keeps the order books full for boosting the stock prices

Friendly-towards-china party stays in power in Georgia.it Secures around 52 percent of votes.

mossen said:

Putin talking about how one NS2 pipeline could still be turned on... most of Europe are just vassal states of the US empire with no independent foreign policy. Hungary might be the only exception alongside Serbia.

Putin still seems to nurture some kind of hope of normalisation with Germany. As long as the current postwar regime is in place, and Germany under effective military occuption by US forces, nothing will change.

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Putin often sarcastic when he talks about Germany. look at his history when there is Arab audience. Just days before BRICS summit Putin is looking at Saudi journalist in roundtable when he mentioned Euros are puppets. and this whole BRICS summit exercise was i think giving more info to Arabs when they are in the background. you can easily figure out that Erdo using two red flags and no tint in his vehicle unlike others. Green and Red is huge difference.

Randomuser said:

Can someone explain why Americans jerk off patriot missiles so much?

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Patriot is in mass production and its logical they are refining it based on Ukraine conflict.
it is far better for quality control and quick upgrades to standardized air defense systems. technology has advanced to avoid structures and still keep low altitude stealth profile for missiles and drones. Russia is doing as quickly as possible. they already introduced naval Pantsir-M.

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The naval air defense missile system "Pantsir-M" successfully hit the cruise missile Storm Shadow for the first time​

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Randomuser said:

I keep hearing them say how if they used them, China would have no chance. They are already in Russia and I don't see them changing anything. Sounds like overpriced crap imo.

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China has more built up areas near the coast. there is always risk of using air defense systems inside the cities hitting a building.
these drones are low and slow and Mi-28 has to use gun to shoot it down. If Ukraine can send 100 or 200 drones a day. there is no reason that US and allies cannot saturate the coast.

HereToSeePics said:

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Credit where it is due, Israel is cohesive against obvious enemy and promptly responded.

Israel is medium level challenge. Now for hard mode he should try Ukraine.

Legendary mode: North Korea

iewgnem said:

Deploying Patriot on ships says more about SM3 and SM6 than Patriot, both were claimed, and evidently up to recently believed by the US to be able to do what Patriot can do.

Hypersonic is just an excuse, US created a dedicated THAAD-ER program to attempt to intercept China's hypersonics, and multiple Patriot batteries has been destroyed by just Iskanders in Ukraine while Russian drones filmed the whole strike up close, US know exactly how effective they are and exactly how much chance they have in intercepting China's hypersonics.

So this really raise the question of just how effective SM3 and SM6 really are in dealing with even simple targets.

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Patriot is more comparable to ESSM tbh.

TK3600 said:

Credit where it is due, Israel is cohesive against obvious enemy and promptly responded.

Israel is medium level challenge. Now for hard mode he should try Ukraine.

Legendary mode: North Korea

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How about the US? He would most definitely get beat up more times than in other places.