stealth part 2
Added 2024-10-03 17:18:54 +0000 UTCsorry for episodes coming out slowly recently, we all took conflicting vacations and it messed up our schedule
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Here's to the podcast that had the first use of the term "tumblehome" (may have actually been in part 1) I recognized after coming across it elsewhere and finally looking it up.
oh6
2025-05-26 03:43:07 +0000 UTCUnion busting and the caste system wasn't all of the reason, it was also to spread the pork around to manufacturers making various widgets in more states so more representatives and governors look good to the working class. Well, I guess that's kinda entrenching the caste system, but in like a carrots way.
TheHobodemon
2025-02-14 15:48:54 +0000 UTCThe F-35 is a complicated and nuanced discussion around the actual *performance*, but Ms. Alea's criticisms are absolutely valid: The VTOL is a POS as far as any pretense of stealth or even low-observability goes, the engine on every variant is a lot more exposed to things like IRIS-T than the 23's or than it realistically should be, and it cost entirely too much money -- too much money when the civilian population is expected to do Austerity. And crucially, the F-35 doesn't address the single greatest looming threat to the American state as well as the people under it: *crippling* logistical failures caused by privatisation and sending factories and skilled labor overseas -- all of it to break the backs of Unions and entrench a caste system. There is no reason the United States should be sending insulin, baby formula, and food around the Horn of Africa in the Year of Our Lord 2025.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2025-01-19 19:54:44 +0000 UTCThanks for the recommendation! I actually thought the Annie Jacobsen book was effective despite the dubious bits ie DPRK launching a single nuke, and US retaliating with ICBMs overflying Russia. We know that the US president not only has negligible time to react but is also woefully underprepared for the situation (https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/a-vr-journey-into-the-nuclear-bunker-offers-chilling-lessons-on-us-nuclear-policy/) and so the possibility of dire response miscalculation does seem truly alarming. Assuming the president is not a demented fascist with soup for brains.... The DPRK regime is likely more rational than we might suppose, and hopefully a 'mad king' situation is truly unlikely, but the point is that (a) we're unable to truly know how likely *some* trigger of nuclear war may be, whether by Kim Yo Jong, a training program accidentally running in production in some strategic warning system, or something else entirely, and (b) once nuclear escalation *does* kick off, we're almost certainly entirely fucked.
trashdo
2025-01-12 10:03:11 +0000 UTCJokes are on point, but am kinda disappointed with this one overall. Some of the stuff in here slips into the realm of reformist propaganda when it comes to the F22 and F35. Like, I get it, I cream my ranger panties every other night imagining a 23 having been the bird to put that balloon down, but geez. Despite the existence of conservatives, nuance does still exist out here. Yes, when it comes to the 35, Lockheed fleeced the fuck outta the feds during the contracting process. The issues there are the origin of some the current problems with it when it comes to maintenance costs atm (ex. performance data being proprietary). Unless the guest is messing up and unintentionally slipping in some [REDACTED] knowledge. . . Everything out in the open that isn't in the orbit of RT and reformist tier nonsense, especially wonk-landia stuff, is pretty positive about the 22 and 35 and what they bring to the table. Acquisition and policy side drama stuff notwithstanding. Unless I'm missing something here, the 22 and the 23 were borderline identical when it came to performance overall. The 23 was better in some areas, but not enough to truly put it ahead of the 22 in the grander scheme of things. The real tie breaker though, and what won the 22 the contract, was that they had an actual marketing team pitching the thing to the bureaucrats and the brass, meanwhile the 23 had engineers pitching it instead. The F35 isn't supposed to be at 22/23 level when it comes to performance. Neither is it supposed to be B2/B21 tier when it comes to stealth performance. It's very unsexy when you look at it's specs. Despite these, it was designed to basically be what happens when you make an F16 stealthy, and give it enough sensors to be dangerously close to performing like an AWACS mixed with a Growler. And on that it has been an overwhelming success, and why its selling like hotcakes. As an individual airframe it's very much an ugly duckling, hence why pilots call it fat amy for example. But when you look at it from an operational level, it brings a whole bunch of capabilties that makes most brass and air wing leadership rub themselves raw thinking of the things they could and can do to the Russian and Chinese airforces and air defenses if the third great boogaloo ever broke out. Also, on the F35C, the wing bit is such a non-issue, most carrier based fixed wing aircraft are able to fold their wings like that for storage inside carriers. There's more stuff, but I've already written too much, though I'm willing to white knight for fat amy all day, and all night if need be. MY QUEEN SHAN'T BE SLANDERED!!1!!111 /autisticscreeching
Overlord17
2025-01-05 03:19:40 +0000 UTCBoat is an acronym for Bang Out Another Thousand
trashdo
2024-12-26 11:33:09 +0000 UTCmuch obliged!
nonjabidness
2024-12-24 21:21:16 +0000 UTCyep, all of them have video. youtube.com/@welltheresyourproblempodca1465 for the normal episodes, or the patreon feed for links to the bonuses
yog-sothoth official
2024-12-20 16:45:30 +0000 UTCcloser to 4 hours between the two episodes, a mix of love, hate, and great explanations of complex (to most of us) radar, acoustics, etc. across planes, trains, boats, and so forth
nonjabidness
2024-12-16 00:40:28 +0000 UTCjust discovered this pod and thoroughly enjoyed the two stealth episodes. hoping y'all can advise as i'm a bit of a luddite - do all eps. have an accompanying video, or just some of 'em? maybe at the higher tiers (i'm @ $5) thanks!
nonjabidness
2024-12-16 00:37:10 +0000 UTCIt can be hard to tell from thumbnails sometimes
ENCHANTMEN
2024-12-10 23:44:59 +0000 UTCCan someone confirm if this is actually good or if it's two hours of "f-35 bad" reformer bullshit
ENCHANTMEN
2024-12-10 23:44:42 +0000 UTCThe Spirit of Pennsylvania is apparently Erectile Dysfunction
Porpoise Power
2024-11-28 19:23:21 +0000 UTCThat Putin being late story towards the end is actually an old Soviet joke about whoever is the Premier at the time.
Jason Machacek
2024-11-20 23:18:08 +0000 UTCIt only drops D batteries
Jon Good
2024-11-16 19:27:49 +0000 UTCI don’t think The Spirit of Pennsylvania should ever be allowed to carry nuclear weapons.
William Mills
2024-10-16 23:40:06 +0000 UTCI would like to see patreon money going to outfitting Liam's van with a titanium bath-tub and Gau-8
Pernox
2024-10-16 20:24:08 +0000 UTCOnly suckers buy new B-2 Spirit bombers! They lose half their value the second you open the bomb bay doors!
LoLDrood
2024-10-15 03:24:49 +0000 UTCJustin's Workers and Resources playtime was all I needed to pull the trigger on that purchase
Noranoxica
2024-10-13 02:53:32 +0000 UTCHello, boat engineer here. IDK if anyone else mentioned it yet, but the term that Alea was looking for with the Sea Shadow stealth ship is "S.W.A.T.H." which stands for "Small Waterplane Area, Twin Hull". Essentially the idea is to drastically reduce the area that interacts with the surface of the water which reduces the wave making, or wake, of the vessel. It also increases stability in choppy conditions because the waterline is where a majority of a ships roll comes from in waves. Great episode, looking forward to more!
Joshua DuPay
2024-10-12 06:31:15 +0000 UTCThe "elevate arizonans to sapients with chip fabs" joke went WAY harder than it had any right to XD
MakeStuff
2024-10-11 15:30:52 +0000 UTCOn Space Engineers I am absolutely addicted to creating modern Soviet-core small grid fighter designs. Big ships are way too tedious for me as of yet. Been thinking that if I ever finish one of the starship shells I'll just pay somebody to build the inside.
David MacDonald
2024-10-11 05:40:18 +0000 UTCOver 3500 hours in W&R is bad ass.
Brendan Wolski
2024-10-11 01:41:45 +0000 UTCLove the unintentional pun of bouncing around
E
2024-10-09 02:10:20 +0000 UTCADRIAN NEWEY MENTION
G. D. Annin
2024-10-08 06:29:28 +0000 UTCGFM link please?
Ashley Krista
2024-10-08 02:29:52 +0000 UTCNo worries, we get what we pay for ❤️
Ashley Krista
2024-10-07 23:20:02 +0000 UTCTY Alea for pointing out that it's sensor size not resolution. I felt very seen
Matt and Zack's Excellent Adventure
2024-10-07 19:35:07 +0000 UTCI'd just like to point out that predator drones were not only invented by the country that gave us nuclear weapons but by an offshoot of the same research team. After WW2 several of the people involved in the Manhattan project founded General Atomics to try to find peaceful applications for the technology. They worked on some reactor designs but their big idea was external nuclear pulse propulsion rockets. Basically you throw nukes out the back of the rocket and surf the shockwaves. This idea was vetoed by Kennedy when he signed the partial test ban treaty, partly because the airforce was getting really excited about it's applications as an orbital bomber, and partly because it involves nuking the launch site so it's not the most practical idea. Nobody tell Elon Musk about this shit! The company bounced around at a loose end for a while, I think they got sold to shell at one point before they got into UAVs and now we have predator drones. So much for peaceful applications of military research.
Damien Tonkin
2024-10-07 19:34:26 +0000 UTCY'all should do an episode about the new Coppola movie Megalopolis... it was... something ...EDIT: oops bad comment, Liam already doesn't want to watch it
pixelprizm
2024-10-07 03:25:11 +0000 UTCHow’s about that New Zealand Navy ship that sank? Btw Roz if you try saying “ow tay a door” you’ll be pretty close to the correct pronunciation of Aotearoa
Heyszen
2024-10-06 23:18:41 +0000 UTCDear Turkey, don't be a cheap ass. Just subscribe to the podcast if you want to find out military secrets. It's $2. Even you can afford it.
Jon W
2024-10-06 17:30:20 +0000 UTCAh, the Zumwalt, was cool to see in person in San Diego but was not allowed on...guard was being a buzzkill.
katarjin
2024-10-06 16:53:34 +0000 UTCHey, Nova is an esteemed member of the podcast. 😝
Josep C.
2024-10-06 07:16:33 +0000 UTCOkay I happened to watch this Bernadette Banner video a little while afterward, and I just want to say that if you enjoy listening to this guest's voice and cadence, I think you will enjoy watching Bernadette's videos. Very soothing and sweet and precise. https://youtu.be/8AbRaoPFypk?si=vFrwkNmpXuZlwbOu
alioth
2024-10-06 01:50:44 +0000 UTCIf I can add a footnote on stealth cars, if only as a palate cleanser for the Cybertruck, the stealth Camaro is worth a mention. This is a 1979 F-Body with the 305 V8 fitted with light armour, nitrous, and IR-absorbent paint. It was used throughout the Bosnian war to deliver supplies to civilians, driven by an unarmed Danish special forces officer. He still has it.
Brendan McAleer
2024-10-05 20:28:29 +0000 UTCBut why is my cat so dang sneaky?? Edited: she's so freaking round too!? DOUBLEedit: why don't they call the x45 the "the spirit of halloween" and paint like a spooky bat.
pj saturday
2024-10-05 02:10:22 +0000 UTCI find it very comedic that the amphibious assault ships are left out off the discussion of the marine f-35 making it sound like the marines wanted to turn the plane into a helicopter for purposes other than landing. Lockeed Martin: We have a new stealth plane. Marines: Can we rappel from it to take the Crayola factory?
E
2024-10-04 22:25:40 +0000 UTCGreat episode, thank you. Alea, that was wonderful content, and very moving 💜
Sky Edwards
2024-10-04 22:10:39 +0000 UTC"Please have me back on to talk shit about NASA" PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE YES A MILLION TIMES YES
Enk
2024-10-04 20:23:11 +0000 UTCthanks!
Alice
2024-10-04 19:22:02 +0000 UTC"If you swam down the centre of it you would die...of gunshot wounds"
Pat Biss
2024-10-04 19:11:29 +0000 UTCThere’s a much much better book out about a hypothetical limited nuclear exchange between NK and the US, “The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States”, by arms control & missile tech expert Jeffrey Lewis. If you’re interested in how that kind of thing would actually play out, it is a remarkable epistolary novel about the topic!
dyke madigan
2024-10-04 19:05:22 +0000 UTCI really appreciate confusing the FSB, the Russian secret service, with FSO, the communist car brand from the Polish People's Republic
Pat Biss
2024-10-04 19:00:41 +0000 UTCNovember, what are your feelings about the half-Krogan Asari bartender
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-10-04 14:48:53 +0000 UTCAhh sweetheart. Thank you for sharing your struggle so openly with us. You can’t change the past but you can try to make a better future.
Sham Hunter
2024-10-04 13:54:59 +0000 UTCYour comedy podcast about war crimes made me cry at 9:41 AM Eastern. Please keep doing this!❤️🩹
TracyTheLefty
2024-10-04 13:43:43 +0000 UTCneed to normalise content creators having a break. Like no pod November or something.
GabrielClyde
2024-10-04 10:29:15 +0000 UTCYour guest is the most beautiful, human, extraordinary person. Thank you for letting us meet her. This podcast rocks in all the ways.
GabrielClyde
2024-10-04 09:40:48 +0000 UTCLINCOLN NEBRASKA, REPRESENT! GO, 155th Air Refueling Wing! (The former Lincoln Air Base was reportedly the number 3 spot to emergency land the Space Shuttle back in the day, FWIW.)
Algor Langeaux
2024-10-04 08:20:14 +0000 UTCMcDonell Douglas created the F-4 Phantom. They were later bought by Boeing. I would guess that "Phantom Works" is their attempt to "steal valor" from a well respected platform that they had nothing to do with. YAY BOING BOING BOING!
Algor Langeaux
2024-10-04 08:08:26 +0000 UTCThe Tu-22 is the Russian bird that was noted for being alcohol delivery system on wings, because the crew oxygen was provided via the engine compressors and had to be cooled. They used an evaporator system that used 40/60 ethanol/water mix that was functionally vodka to cool it... which reportedly got scavenged by thirsty crew members at the expense of it being fucking hot in the crew area.
Algor Langeaux
2024-10-04 06:39:06 +0000 UTCI'm not even a third through this and belly laughing at "I apologise if you're proud of your work on the F35 project(s) you shouldn't be..." as an engineer in this moment extremely done with colleagues agreeing to do the impossible, thank you, guest.
Jimmy White (not the snooker player)
2024-10-04 06:35:38 +0000 UTC"The novosibirsk tourism office" sounds like an old Soviet euphemism for a gulag
Mathakk .
2024-10-04 04:46:46 +0000 UTCOk for anyone else looking, the link is in the Bethnal Green episode description.
Sky Edwards
2024-10-04 04:10:44 +0000 UTCDevon! Is the gofundme link somewhere? I can't tell if I'm just really badly missing it but I don't think it's in the description.
Sky Edwards
2024-10-04 04:06:23 +0000 UTCLike a battery thrown from the cheap seats, you'll never see it coming
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-10-04 01:48:07 +0000 UTCAlea is one of the best guests you’ve ever had, please make excuses to have her back
Nick H
2024-10-04 01:07:52 +0000 UTCHonestly I love to hear when my patreons are on vacation, I am a pro rest patron
Delightingale
2024-10-04 00:20:47 +0000 UTCSpeaking as someone who's flying it now, it's nice to hear from someone else who wanted to fly the Osprey when they were in flight school. It is probably one of the least stealthy aircraft to ever be put into service though :/
Knockyard
2024-10-03 23:40:53 +0000 UTCBoeing is simply the aerospace equivalent of the Ford Motor Company
Griffin Kennedy
2024-10-03 23:25:48 +0000 UTCThis is pretty similar the F22 story tbh. We also don't send them anywhere because we have like a few hundred
Braonán
2024-10-03 22:46:35 +0000 UTCOne big reason the B2 was so expensive is that they cut the number of airframes way down but still had a similar development cost, so the unit price shot up Still a boondoggle
The Best Sean
2024-10-03 21:32:27 +0000 UTCThe Vigor Industrial shipworks (the Navy's skunkworks) is on the Columbia river and you'll occasionally see something super fucking weird looking going by, including whatever the new version of the boat featured in the slide is.
Noah
2024-10-03 21:29:31 +0000 UTCA second part has hit the podcast.
Angus Miller
2024-10-03 21:04:47 +0000 UTCTLDR version of the below: the ending to ME3 fucking traumatised me and I'm still not over it more than 10 years later. Long version: a rant I posted to a board at the time. "The problem I have, and I think it's not unrealistic, is that the endings are uniformly, well, taking away the element of choice not just from you but from the characters you've invested so much in (over a hundred hours of gameplay on my part, thanks to my inability to not walk through the entire damn ship after a mission). I'm being asked to Destroy / Enslave / Meld with Artificial Life (Reapers, Geth, EDI, hell Avinia for all we know) for a reason that I have demonstrated in the game is simply not true not just once, but multiple times. Hell, in the philosophical discussions throughout the game I tended to come down on the side of 'Life is life - it doesn't matter if it's organic or synthetic!'. To suddenly be told that no, I'm wrong, without actually showing why makes me instinctively go 'Actually, I'm not sure that's right.' And for someone with the power to create the Reapers - why do it? For a fraction of the resources, you could take the artificial life and send them on a trip to another galaxy. Or design a Virtual Universe for them to explore. Why mush the organic life up into a fine paste and create murder-machines? It. Makes. No. Sense. Basically what it comes down to is this. God in the ME3 universe is a sadistic machine that creates life just to tear it down again for entertainment. It's a little boy with a magnifying glass focused on the Milky Way. And it's very hard to accept that the story I've been so invested in, that does so much right, falls at the final hurdle into a cream pie made of liquid manure and flesh-eating acid. Because being told that I'm doing this all for the entertainment of the Catalyst just has me table-flipping the fuck out. Lets take the obvious parallel. Babylon 5 is probably the science fiction work that resonates the most with this. How would have that ended had the Shadows and the Vorlons said 'OK, we're not leaving. We're forcing everyone to either enslave us, kill us, or meld with us.' It's taking away one of the central pillars of that mythology. The concept that the old must stand aside and let the new grow and make it's own mistakes. And it's not even replacing it with something neat like a Lovecraftian ending (which would have, for the record, rocked hard). I'm getting overly annoyed by this now, but I can't think of a single example of a work of fiction that so badly flubs the dismount. It's a masterpiece. A wondrous piece of interactive fiction. An evocative, driving, emotional tour de force. And frankly, I'm basically saying to myself 'I died in the assault on the Magic Stairway To Heaven™ and everything past that point is an oxygen deprived, cybernetically enhanced mind creating a Virtual Reality to sustain itself to the point where brain death is inevitable.' That's right. I'm pulling the 'It was all a Dream' card to make the ending better, and it fucking works. That's how weak the 'canon' ending is."
Cyrus McEnnis
2024-10-03 20:07:36 +0000 UTCwhats the joke at 1:30:00? i couldnt quite make it out
Alice
2024-10-03 19:55:05 +0000 UTCI didn't see this coming
Mulloy
2024-10-03 18:57:08 +0000 UTCWith the exchange rate it's like 3.54 for me
Cholula Hot Sauce
2024-10-03 18:35:39 +0000 UTCStelf, innit
Cholula Hot Sauce
2024-10-03 18:35:12 +0000 UTCOperation Paul Bunyan II: Operation Harder reminder me of USS Harder, the Johnny Deeper of the WW2 navy.
BarFly
2024-10-03 18:12:07 +0000 UTCIt's two bucks we got what we paid for
Billy
2024-10-03 18:11:19 +0000 UTCI don't know what your standards are Nova for how weird or annoying or corrupt a mayor has to be but maybe a few years down the line Houston's John Whitmire will be worthy of an episode.
Watt
2024-10-03 18:06:16 +0000 UTCI woke up this morning wondering about y’all so I’m happy so see this pop up while I’m about to do my chores
HAUNTER
2024-10-03 18:04:35 +0000 UTCI forgot this was coming pleased on a Thursday.
co60ca
2024-10-03 17:54:37 +0000 UTCWondered where you folks had been - not in an impatient way obviously, glad it was because you were having some fun downtime!
Pete Conneely
2024-10-03 17:53:34 +0000 UTCsamesamesame
Kerriarchy
2024-10-03 17:53:30 +0000 UTCI mean... Obviously the answer is no more vacations ever, right? ;-)
Mike Lee
2024-10-03 17:49:37 +0000 UTCIt's to be expected with this pod. Also I still haven't recieved my shirt from grimgrimgrim. I've already contacted them a bunchbunchbunch.
Steffen Hunt
2024-10-03 17:29:10 +0000 UTCFuck yeah, we eatin good tonight.
Dylan Wintersteen
2024-10-03 17:28:44 +0000 UTChow dare you enjoy yourselves
Patio Yeller
2024-10-03 17:25:03 +0000 UTChope you're having a good time in switzerland liam <3
peckles
2024-10-03 17:24:48 +0000 UTCDidn't see this com*is shot*
Al
2024-10-03 17:23:27 +0000 UTCStealth episode drop
Kelvin
2024-10-03 17:22:10 +0000 UTCgrahHhhhh
Clinton Weeks
2024-10-03 17:21:25 +0000 UTC
