wiki says

Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they “should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used”.

what assistance would that not be if not protecting them in some way or another?

I think you got that wrong enough it warrants a correction…

They gave them up for assurances that Russia and the USA would protect them if they were attacked.

Edit: that’s why the USA is giving them weapons, they’re honoring the deal, or at least trying to, not 100% sure on specifics, I’m sure it was vague on what protecting them would entail.

Hopefully they can be moved

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Very possible, but putins crazy.

I don’t know how Ukraine would convince Russia the threat is real without at least a test detonation somewhere and that’s better than bombing someone, but also not ideal.

I really hope it doesn’t come to that as escalation will be fast, but if they keep being strung along and not being given means to end the war there might not be another choice =(

They’ve been talking about those trials and pre-trials for many years, probably over a decade at this point.

Everything I’ve heard is they still haven’t figured out how to do it effectively on a ship. Stationary land based would probably be easier though as that removes the size/power restrictions.

In the US federally you might be able to get away with creating the images for yourself if they are 100% fictional, but the guy also was doing commission work. The moment you start transmitting the images (and selling would involve that) it becomes very very illegal.

The challenge is both the production time and the high cost of such a high-tech missile. Typically, the US Navy fires two missiles at each given airborne target to guarantee its downing, and an interceptor missile costs millions of dollars, much more than the Iranian missiles it shoots down.

This was always going to be a problem and it’s their fault for not moving sooner on it.

If an adversaries missiles costs a million dollars, how do you challenge them? Make missiles that costs less and overwhelm them.

Not only do you gotta worry about Iran’s or others cheaper missiles, but now there’s drones that are a fraction of the cost.

If the US enters a major conflict, I wouldn’t be surprised to see high value assets get lost or damaged due this problem.

Lets see the US come out with some new advances in tech with lower cost.

They shoot themselves 5 times in the chest while they free fall out the window during their suicide attempt and begin to fear it won’t kill them.

The Pentagon is directly working with SpaceX on this. Awhile ago they said they had a handle on it but that it was going to be an ongoing problem as Russian evades their measures.

This was in May, and they’ve obviously figured another way around.

“At this time we have successfully countered Russian use, but I am certain Russia will continue to try and find ways to exploit Starlink and other commercial communications systems,” Plumb said. "It will continue to be a problem, I think we’ve wrapped our heads around it and found good solutions with both Starlink and Ukraine.”

fall of Afghanistan

You mean the fall that he orchestrated via trump?

If you want to consider that the start, Putin started it.

Sounds like a good movie story line where aliens invade and we need older ordinances to fight them off and we have to go to this bomber to get them and win the fight

You could live off 35k forever and 40k probably forever.

Things would start dropping off more quickly after 40k

Odds are if you do 35k/40k for awhile you could also bump the amount eventually and remain in the forever or probably forever category.

Do you actually blow up test bridges or do you just practice placing the explosives?

No don’t you see, putin knew the Nordics were going to join NATO and that’s why he invaded Ukraine! 4d chess! Now he has proof and was right to invade!

/s just in case.

Pretty cool how this was being made for mortars and then it worked well for this

There are privacy options to opt in to this, but it’s not on by default.

Assuming you can trust the options anyway.

Edit: I do think it will share the video in the event of an accident or vehicle break in though even when not opted in.

Fractional Giraffes

It’s 2000 1/2giraffes

Well I meant the bus, but I think you’re onto something there, we just need to remove the back legs too!