Iran and Pakistan did, and both came away pretty disappointed. Even right now, Iran is relying on Chinese radar systems that keep getting knocked out before they even see anything at all. The only thing they've been able to do with any measure of success is firing kamikazi drones at things on the ground in neutral countries based on intelligence provided by Putler.

Not with hypersonic weapons. In fact, the most success Russia has had at evading patriot interceptors has always been with slower missiles.

Not only that, but it needs to be said that you're INCREDIBLY fucking stupid.

Being less than hypersonic provides more maneuverability. The advantage of supersonic military aircraft has never been to outmaneuver, but to outrun. The SR-71 blackbird itself was designed to be able to perform reconnaissance and then simply outrun Russian SAMs. And it did exactly that. So if you were trying to get away from the interceptor, sure, but that doesn't work when your only option is to go towards it. Supersonic fighter jets do NOT dogfight at supersonic speeds for exactly this reason.

So yeah, I'd wager that Ukraine's cruise missiles are a lot harder to intercept than Russia's ridiculous hypersonic weapons.

I'm not a tactician, but I think longer range would make these even less effective at their main selling point, which is supposedly being impossible to intercept, which they already don't deliver on. Think about it: The longer it travels, the more time you have to spot it and intercept it.

Putin tried to point several of these at a patriot battery assuming they would take it out, and they were all successfully intercepted. The only ones that weren't were all aimed at strategically less significant targets out of range of the interceptors.

And before you say "well longer range means it outranged the interceptor", that's irrelevant: They're only able to hit targets that are not protected to begin with, which is probably why Putin fired his "this one really is impossible to intercept, this time I mean it!" version (whose name sounds like a cookie) at unprotected civilian targets in Lviv.

No. It turns out hypersonic weapons are basically pointless. The reason why is because the very thing they're supposed to do, the whole purpose of their existence, is to be impossible to intercept, and they turn out to be some of the easiest to intercept.

It's a simple matter if physics: At those speeds, air is highly viscous, which means it can't manoeuver worth a shit without destroying itself mid-flight, which means once they're spotted, it's relatively easy to narrow down a small region that they can even hit at all. Either cusco or znt (don't remember who) was trying to hype a new hypersonic weapon that was more maneuverable and "this time I mean it" impossible to intercept, probably because they don't understand physics.

Besides, the only countries who buy military tech from China are at this point in the "fool me thrice" stage, because it turns out that none if it works worth a shit.

I had exactly this false equivalence in mind by the way, though I should have suspected you'd have excitedly jumped in and snatched the bait as if it was a freshly laid piece of poop.

You, of all people, definitely need some courage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ricka...

Says the detritivore who obviously doesn't know what a false equivalence is.

This is a long-solved problem in every language. See for example artifactory, which is very common in enterprise settings. If you're not already using software supply chain tooling to manage exactly this, even if you're not doing software development at all, then you've got much bigger problems. So if it's not "more", then it's literally nothing at all.

Let me translate:

"If you write code in rust, you may link to a library in your code. I think this is somehow unique to rust, but I have no experience in software development. That makes rust more challenging in Enterprise environments."

Cheese...slashdot is full of false equivalents and whatabouts when it comes to justifying the CCP's actions, isn't it?

And let me guess, you've also got false equivalences for slave Uyghur labor being used for exported goods, ethnic genocide, and harvesting organs from executed political prisoners?

Because the CCP has been treating Australia so much better than the US government ever has or will. Perhaps you should cancel that nuclear submarine contract and buy a Chinese one instead while you're at it?

This day and age that's considered to be...evil? Something something social contract, grid needs money, pay your taxes, la-dee-da.

https://slashdot.org/story/122...

The word they use for this is "vranyo".

Though to be fair, the west has its own vranyo, namely international law. We always talk about it like it holds some kind of weight, but does it really? Mmmm... I'd say no. If it did, the west would have intervened in Ukraine a long time ago. The ICC is too for that matter -- even one of the signatories of that hosted Putler, violating their treaty, and no consequences to be seen. The only time we ever do anything with these at all is during recrimination immediately following a major war, at which point, the victor makes all the decisions, which is the same as it has always been.

But still, we tell each other and ourselves otherwise.

We already know what he would do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If you really have somebody doing shelf tags full time, I feel sorry for their spine. It also makes me wonder how you deal with shelf price and POS price mismatches if you're doing it while the store is open, unless you're talking about small box stores, where this is far less relevant. And if your chain is small enough that you don't even use planograms, then it's barely relevant at all.

Oh no, far from it. My wallet is quite empty. Having a high taxable income doesn't necessarily mean you have a lot of cash to do whatever you want with.

Yeah, it's probably for the best that you remain in the septic tank.