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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Axiom of modern warfare, actually. Throw enough shit at a problem and it will stop being a problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Modern warfare is surely more targeted? Precision strikes using overwhelming technical superiority. Throwing bodies at the problem is like WW1 warfare.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not bodies, but ordnance. The classic example of this is in naval warfare. In defending against a threat a warship has a number of options, however, enough missiles will overwhelm these countermeasures. So your own interceptor missiles like ESSM will probably take out one incoming, your deck gun a second, chaff and jamming a couple more and CIWS another. So that's a grand total of, if you're lucky, five. This, to guarantee a hit, the other guy fires off six.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Subscribing for more naval war facts

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Ships float because their hulls are made from a special form of foamed steel that is lighter than water. A great amount of air is forced into the steel as it cools, generating a steel bubble lattice that on net is lighter than water. This allows steel ships to float, even though the density of solid steel is about 490 lb/ft^3, while water is 62.4 lb/ft^3.

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