Any red light turns green at some point

I can tell you've never had to debug the embedded system that controls traffic lights in lots of municipalities

There's a reason nobody has been dumb enough to start a war against Iran for half a century. This is not gonna end in the next few decades, rest assured. But I suppose that's what they want, so that a handful of people on the planet can wage a perpetual war and keep earning that MIC money.

Hang Trump.

With friends like these.

I don't really understand your point. Any red light turns green at some point. You go when you're allowed to, according to law.

If I were stuck behind s lot of red lights, yes, I would call my boss and say I'll be late because of traffic.

Huh. Interesting.

So you'd turn off your engine and sit there? For how long? At what point would you go? Or would you call your boss (assuming you had to get to work) and say you can't come in because a light is red and won't change? At what point do you just go, then? Never? Do you Uber some food to your car while you wait?

it's also illegal to stop your engine on the road

What? Plenty of cars nowadays auto-stop the engine when standing still with the brake pressed.

And I'll still be waiting several minutes at a stoplight with no one coming in either direction.

I once asked a cop what my options are in that situation. Red light, no sign of it changing, no one is coming. He said look both ways and go. But you have to have been there for a minute (or some amount of time), don't just treat every stop light as a stop sign. I'm sure that wouldn't hold up in court. But, it's also illegal to stop your engine on the road (unless it's an emergency) or to reverse (again, same) so, what are you supposed to do? Run your gas out? Just not go to work or home because the busted ass light said so?

“Residents heard explosions three times at around 9:00 p.m.,” Alabi said. He added that the missiles struck and damaged buildings in several locations but that there were no reports of fatalities at the time, although some people were injured. “At least about five structures were destroyed in different locations. We saw some objects in one popular hotel we call Offa Central Hotel. It looked like a bomb,” Alabi said

Yeah, let’s spend millions of dollars fighting “terrorists” but not get a single kill. Great use of resources when people are struggling to put food on the table. /s

National Focus Set

• Great news, honestly. That left a massive capability gap in the AWACS fleet.
• I’m sure this whiplashing will have a ton of shitty effects on the program, and that tons of people who were moved off the “dead” project aren’t going to be coming back, because they were either laid off, or repointed at a different (and also important) project
• I’m simultaneously sure that the DUI hire and his brain trust aren’t gonna learn jack shit from this episode.

Well, good thing is with advent of tilt-rotors such as mv-75 it is a buyers market for seahawks/blackhawks.

I was saying "cancel this shit and move on" well over a decade ago. Classic case of sunk cost falacy.

how long did it take you precisely?

i quantum viewed this article with my quantum eyes.

With drones, there seem to be a few points of failure. Physical intercept of a drone is the obvious one and likely the most difficult to enact. We've seen success with single-use net launchers, with follow-up attacks being the achilles' heel. We've tried scramble-intercept of the signal, which falls apart with fiber optic drones. We've tried flak-fire rifle rounds which are heavy and limit an infantry's universal kit.

All those simple solutions did not meet the risk-assessment of our tactical think-tanks. So now, we design a targetting intercept platform so robust it can hit a 90mph 4lb fastball with rotors. We went down the avenue that only money and research can take you.

Never saying any of this is easy, just on brand for our military. I have no doubt this piece of kit is invaluable for the cost.

This isn't as easy as it looks. Russia and Ukraine both have a strong reason to have already built this and haven't. Ukraine has built larger stationary versions of this but hadn't tried putting a small one on a tank to my knowledge. So I think this will be expensive because it is hard. That or I am wrong and everyone else are just fools.

Oh, don't get me wrong, it's a solid point-defense platform, no doubt, but it's absolutely going to have automated targetting software, a sensor package that rivals a CCP spy sat, and a dash-ten as long as a dissertation. That's just how Uncle Sam does things.

I don't see how this is overengineered, in my opinion this is the natural next step of the US strategy of mount a .50 cal on lots of vehicles for distributed air defense that began in WW2, but brought into the modern day.

The design seems easily adaptable to an extremely wide range of vehicles which is crucial.

Yep. Was bound to happen eventually. The US combat doctrine is to overengineer it, not because simpler solutions aren't available, but because now every one of our adversaries are going to blow the budget recreating it.

Of course it's CWIS for drones. Of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constellation_(1854)

USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. She was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855.

Poor Constellation's going to lose her title there.

Can I just take a second and point out the fact that the company that made it is Boying lol

Edit: Movie Spoiler alert:

Next up: fully unmanned Stealth Bombers.

Soon we'll all be playing arma, but irl running drones to blow up other drones

The same thing happened in his first term. Generals just didn’t listen to him.