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Comment Re: Well cult followers (Score 1) 314

Does not mater fuel ...
Fact is they are not shipped with GASOLINE TRUCKS, but by ship. So what is your stupid question about?

And ships are the next big thing that get electrified. You live under a rock. That is not really a problem, but it seems you are enjoying to live under a rock and twist every argument thrown at your retarded world view.

In Finnland most new trucks have electric trailers. Yepp, trailers. That push the main engine, when the gasoline/diesel engine is off. Why are they doing such a complicated thing? Because the winters are to cold for "standard vanilla, 2015 technology batteries". So if it is very cold, the Diesel starts the truck and trailer, and while the engine warms up, it warms the batteries, and when they are warm enough: they take over.

Same with your stupid charger argument. You can buy one in a supermarket. Ooops. Or if you would not live in Gods Forsaken Country, you had a solar plant and a battery storage big enough to charge your EVs ...

Comment Re:Propaganda - de-lied (Score 3, Informative) 283

Interesting thoughts ...

However something traveling at mach5 is not easy to shot down

No idea what you mean with "turn" obviously the missiles can change direction, if they can do a 180 degrees turn: no idea, why would they need that?

Suppose the missile is flying low, radar around the target won't pick it up. You need an AWACS kind of system. Which ATM does not guide missiles, it guides fighter jets.

Do the math, it comes in at mach 5 - that is in laymen terms 5000km per hour, that is 1400meters per second, or 1400 yards per second, that is close to a land mile per second.

So if you pick up an incoming hyper sonic missile when it is 10km / 7miles away, you have about 6 to 7 seconds before it hits you.

Good luck with your easy shot down, easy intercept.

Comment Re: Temu missiles (Score 1) 283

China can do most things better than a specific country in the west.

They are in an industrial revolution, at the bleeding edge of basically every technology that is interesting: solar, batteries, lasers, manufacturing robots, material science, fusion, optical computer, quantum computers, AI/LLMs, airo and space industries and what ever.

The farking other country is waging war instead of getting its infrastructure, industry and population into shape.

Comment Re: Temu missiles (Score 1) 283

That is not correct, just nitpicking, though.

A simple musket does not go through plate. The projectile makes a big dent, yes. If the farmers are good in shooting, they can aim for the knees, yes. Or the visor of the helmet. If it manages to get through the chest for example, it is caught in chain mail below the plate or the Gambeson.

The death to plate was not muskets but artillery on the field. And the development of massive armies which you could not economically put into plate.

One of the last battles of plate versus guns (as in canons) was the battle of Vienna, when Polish knights under KingJohn III Sobieski stormed the Ottoman gun positions.

Then again, I know a story about an american Live action role player who wore self made full armor. He had to stop with a friend in his car at some farmer yahoos land for some reason. The farmer attacked them with a colt, for no real reason and shot the LARPER 5 times into the chest.

The armor hold, the LARPER stormed on, the head did not hold to a fist in a Gauntlet. I think if you google you find the story in old online boards.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 86

As usually: you are an idiot.

Does not matter what height anythings flys: if it flys, it is not ballistic.

That was the topic

And last post you claimed cruise missiles are not used for attacks in ships. Now you claim they are.

Make up your mind.

An Exocet is not a cruise missile, it is a farking rocket. Get your terms right.

Almost all long range anti-shipping missiles of the kind that Iran could use to attack shipping in the med are ballistic.
That also was not the topic.

I have no idea and did not talk about either Iran or attacks on ships in the Mediterranean sea.

You keep mixing up what the term ballistic means, and that is all. Hint: flying high does not mean ballistic. I shoot an arrow from here to a 300m away target: that is ballistic, and the arrow most likely does not reach a 150m height.

Starting an Exocet from a plane flying 40,000feet high, letting it approach a target, and then dive down to finalize the flight on sea level: that is not ballistic. It is just a farking attack path the rocket is flying under its own deciding.

An Exocet has roughly a 50km, air plane launched about 70km, surface launched 200km range: so your idea that it is launched from high altitude and is "cruising" is (as always): utterly wrong.

Comment Re:renewables (Score 1) 184

Germany is still the biggest exporter of Electricity in the EU.

If you only look for "energy" your search results might be confused with oil and gas etc.

My point is that Germanyâ(TM)s approach to improving base load relied a bit too much on gas,
Base load is the minimum amount of power you have to provide all the time.
In Germany that is roughly 40% of peak.

Draw a line on paper, I mean a hypothetical daily load curve. Does not need to be remotely accurate.#
Find the lowest point, draw a horizontal line at that point.

The power demand and produced below that line is called "base load".

As long as your base load is not changing, you do not need new base load plants.

Historically Germany's nukes were base load plants. Now and in future we are moving away from the idea that you need base load. Base load is now replaced by wind and solar ...

thinking that they should have kept the nuclear for longer until they had more diversity
The people did not want them. And under current construction rules, none of them could have been built at the places where they were.

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