maverickbrett.bsky.social
I mean nom de plume literally means pen name.
Views do not represent employers or funding agencies.
Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)đłď¸âđ
3,318 posts
543 followers
161 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
I mean I object to that defense has to play a perfect game even if a nuclear weapons may be in the mix, you can keep fighting even after one hits. Especially in a case where both sides are "playing offense" and one has a technical and numerically superior way to strike offensively.
comment in response to
post
I need everyone to make their fucking minds up.
comment in response to
post
by both attacking the launchers first with say nuclear tipped cruise missiles which they have already and greater investment in anti ballistic missile systems.
comment in response to
post
Yes, it does raise the risk calculus but not in any way as to render fighting impossible especially since youâre the Israeli government what youâve taken away from this is arrow 3 is really really good, so you manage that risk
comment in response to
post
So your saying that itâs a states, over arching ability to inflict pain that is the source of deterrentce and is not purely driven by the acquisition of a single article? Fuck thatâs a wild thought.
Youâre absolutely correct and my simplistic position did not address conventional(?) forces.
comment in response to
post
Jerry !
comment in response to
post
Yeah, itâs a little known fact that what makes up that 30,000 pounds is largely paperwork, the design documents and the brains of all of its designers. They definitely are not able to go into full scale production.
comment in response to
post
I think they very well might decide they really really want the bomb but at this point in time the calculus of pursuing it is worse than itâs ever been for them.
comment in response to
post
The Iranians are not close to having that many bombs in production, and also they donât have miniaturized warheads thatâs still a couple years after their first successful test at best. To cap of all of that bad news they donât have a resilient (N)C2.
comment in response to
post
So I understand the position of saying it encourages their nuclear breakout however, getting the bomb is one thing more importantly is getting a deliverable bomb that can get through enemy air defenses. How many leakers have they had? Maybe low double digits? Out of low hundreds of shots.
comment in response to
post
Some days bad strategic choices take no blood and very very little treasure itâs hard to accept.
comment in response to
post
You must save him.
comment in response to
post
Very true!
comment in response to
post
Unless you do a weird thing (that the navy sort of does) where only pilots are line officers.
comment in response to
post
The AF has them too now including in security forces, which wild. www.afrc.af.mil/Portals/87/1...
comment in response to
post
I'm sorry, but just because as one party acted in their best interest doesn't mean the other party who has already not acted in. Their best interest is suddenly going to start. I mean, if for no other reason then war being in defacto Viceroy Kurilla's/CENTCOM's interest.
comment in response to
post
Tehran doesnt want more war.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
comment in response to
post
This isnât even one of like my oh we should count fossil carbon thatâs guaranteed sequestered is not counting points. No itâs purely cause like solar power is where itâs sunny and there arenât a lot of people where itâs very sunny⌠due to all the deserts and shit.
comment in response to
post
I need to retract this, he lives in a DC suburb, I should have checked before making the joke.
So he only lives in the place tied for second most likely place for them to be found (tied with NYC)
comment in response to
post
OK, I thought he was in LA, but to be honest I do not keep tabs on the location of former princlings of a long deposed monarch.
comment in response to
post
Mad respect for doing this dumb shit in LA the number 1 leading contender for where the IRGC would put a cell.
comment in response to
post
This is stolen from the other major text based social media sight, I have no idea who made it.
comment in response to
post
âI donât know shit about fuck, but I need SOMETHING to say online and at work on MondayâŚâ
comment in response to
post
By the GWOT, it had become ingrained habit/practice to just mobilize the NG/reserves for everything, and not only did they do well at their jobs, it turned out that there was almost no political cost to mobilizing them.
comment in response to
post
They can take away the ability for federal officers to enforce state law, which is an excellent way to fuck with them.
comment in response to
post
In the finest traditions of the Republican Party the IAEA was telling the world this prior to the strike but why would anyone in the USG need to listen to those stupid nerds
comment in response to
post
If they are able to actually do anything, let alone answer the call when called upon entirely different but from like a pure number standpoint, itâs not unreasonable.
comment in response to
post
I mean, actually if you have access to an MRI machine and a microwave, you can get up to weapon grade if you have 60-90%. We got little boy way before we had a single centrifuge.
comment in response to
post
You mean the fissile material literally anyone with an undergraduate degree in physics can turn into a bomb?