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A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had “redundancy after redundancy” for “every trick we had up our sleeve”, The New York Times reported.

Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that “we lose every time” in the Pentagon’s war games against China, and predicted the Asian country’s hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.

  • turdas@suppo.fi
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    2 days ago

    Like, US subs will have a bunch of people literally banging on the inside of the hull so enemy radar picks them up and “destroys” them too.

    I’m not a radar operator but I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works. Banging on the hull doesn’t produce radar emissions.

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        22 hours ago

        War Thunder devs refusing to look at 50 year old NATOPS manuals because of “confidentiality” and then proceeding to buff Russian slop has me convinced Putin plays the game to cope with his losses in Ukraine.