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[–] [email protected] 99 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also impressed by their indoor plumbing and magic screens with tiny people talking!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

“You guys have food here?!?”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Think most Russians are impressed with indoor plumbing too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Weren't they blown away when they saw dishwashers in Ukrainian homes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm actually a huge fan of it myself.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago

The bar is pretty low.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

If my airforce was comprised in bulk of early to mid era cold war museum pieces with a (very) small handful of late cold war era jets as my flagship units then I would be impressed with anything developed after 1991 as well.

I mean, that's fair enough in itself. There's plenty of nations out there still rocking their Falcons, Flankers, Frogfoots, Frogger, Tornados, Mirages etc etc completely respectedly. But they also allow their pilots more stick time in half a year than the vast majority of NK's pilots get in half a decade.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just wait until he sees what the US has.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I watched an F22 Raptor practice for an air show recently and it was pretty mind blowing to see. The maneuverability of that thing is insane. And they don’t even show its full potential at air shows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What's crazy to me is that we haven't seen USAF stealth technology in combat since the F-117s in Serbia. Those things were basically undetectable without their weapons bay open and they were only 1st gen designs, plus I bet radar tech hasn't nearly kept pace with stealth since then.

Sometimes I want NATO to intervene in the skies over Ukraine just so I could see the f-35 and f-22 in real combat scenarios. But then I remember that war sucks and think maybe not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

F-22 and F-35 were both deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The F-117 wasn't a fighter and never engaged in air-to-air combat (because it couldn't, it was subsonic had poor maneuverability and no active radar) so the F-22 and F-35 both meet the same standard that you are using for "combat" with the F-117.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I meant combat against a competent foe with air defense or fighter capabilities. Airstriking some Taliban in the desert isn't exactly flexing your stealth that much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

F-117 did have radar, it also could carry AIM-9 Sidewinders internally. They trained pilots of 117s to take out AWAC planes... I flew with pilots who trained as such.

Just more bullshit from the internet "know it all."

I dOnT nEeD SoUrCeS bEcAusE tHiS iS aLl TrIvIaL.

You look like a hipster asshat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If you're going to try to harass me, you should make sure you aren't botching your comments. You edited your comment so now it looks like you are criticizing your original comment, not anything I said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You don’t think you’ve seen USAF stealth technology since the F-117s.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

It's weird that entire governments come across like thinly veiled boomers posting on Facebook to trigger and dunk their friends.

It actually feels like it's the same ball park now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Russia can't even afford to buy their own technology, North Korea can't either.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Russia's gonna be trading rocket technology for low grade artillery from 50+ years ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

trading rocket technology for low grade artillery

Age of Empires shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Oh, I bet he was

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Guy with mostly 1950 technology in 2020something is highly impressed by country with mostly 1990 technology

Yeah, I would be too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Russia is more like 1970s to early 80s tech at best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Impossible, all their 1970 tech is rusted through.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

c/NotTheOnion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Cert error, cannot open.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Kim has been quotes while slapping them and saying "these babies can hit soo much ocean".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I remember their fighter jets flying into Ukraine with a TomTok GPS somebody dropped off at a Salvation Army store in New Jersey before some Igor bought it and FedEx'd it back to Siberia. So impressive.