gandhium

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by gandhium 8y ago
Maybe they will or maybe not. I can remember similar predictions about Japan and... let's say they didn't make it.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> The evidence is shaky at best I think nothing will please the 'believers' except the personal Putin's apology. And of course they might say that was just his double speaking.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> it's debatable on whether or not those bombings did indeed cause the surrender of Japan They were specifically mentioned in emperor's address. Yes, they caused the surrender. > Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military targ
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by gandhium 8y ago
> We were not producing commodities for the sake of profit. Definitely. Apple for sure is a non-profitable charity.
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by gandhium 8y ago
It's not interceptor, it's a multi-role stealth fighter. And still I'd say - yes, it's better.
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by gandhium 8y ago
No, they weren't accounted since US Army found them in all the strange places.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> The similarity between these and NASA's shuttle is stronger than I remember. Because USSR decided to copy Space Shuttle (instead of another competing Soviet-produced approach).
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by gandhium 8y ago
No, China putting their taikonauts to space using chinese rockets.
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by gandhium 8y ago
F-35 don't have any Russian and Chinese counterparts. They're all in design stage. China may get to the mass-produced stage, but that's stil debatable, since they have issues with their engines.
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by gandhium 8y ago
So, about 5 thousand chemical ammunition that were found there are not WMD?
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by gandhium 8y ago
It wasn't ahead, but on the contrary it was behind. They didn't managed to add engines to their copy and US launcher had reusable parts, but "Energiya" was strictly for single-time use.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> with mortality rates under 10% More than 10%, and much more in some places or during some periods.
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How Facebook Groups Sparked a Crisis in France(getrevue.co)
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by gandhium 8y ago
Yes, USSR invented stealth, internet, iphone, google and whatnot. Ok, on the serious side - US obtained that design in joint agreement with a huge financial boon for YAK bureau to develop another plane for Russia. Guess what - nothing from
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by gandhium 8y ago
So, in which conflict it was proved to be better?
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by gandhium 8y ago
"From 1969 the SEAM was incorporated in the F-4J and enabled the missile to be locked on a target off boresight slaving the missile's seeker head to the aircraft radar. " 1969 was way before MiG-29 first flight.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> Flying and improving Soyuz (especially through the tough times of 199x and beginning of 200x) is definitely a success Let's not forget that they survived those 'tough times' with generous US financing.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> My first thought on the title of the article was "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" Problem is - it's broke already. In all means - sloppy quality, price hikes, political bullshit with 'russkiy mir'..
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by gandhium 8y ago
> IR-missile targeting on the MIG-29 (it took a while for the US AIM-9 to catch up) AIM-9L (first type with IR/Laser) started producing in 1977. First MiG-29 flight was in 1977 (and I highly doubt that they had IR-missile targeting
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by gandhium 8y ago
One of the Buran designers openly admitted that they were forced to copy Shuttle since it was 'already working'.
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by gandhium 8y ago
You can call them anti-Trump as well. And they have to serve jail time in Russia, btw.
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by gandhium 8y ago
That filmmaker was anti-Putin and he still lives in Russia? Totally believable.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> The Soviets were on the brink of invading Japan and one of the "reasons" for the use of the atomic weapons was as a show of force / deterrent against the Soviets Soviet invasion of Japan was discussed in detail on Yalta
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by gandhium 8y ago
> Browder's Yeltsin-era investments and subsequent financial arrangements in Russia were not entirely virtuous Even if they're completely non-virtuous, how that can justify stealing from him and attempts to jail him?
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by gandhium 8y ago
Yes, most likely you're kremlinbot, spreading FUD around. Movie by the 'top anti-Putin Russian director' is called "The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes", not "The Magnitsky Files". The support for claims
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by gandhium 8y ago
> you couldn't own a good car, no matter who you were. Well, theoretically you can. But you have to be a really high on the ladder. Brezhnev had several good _imported_ cars. Gagarin had a sport car (gift from French, I believe). Vy
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by gandhium 8y ago
Most of them doing just that. Flooding a lot of areas because hydroelectric dam was built on the river is a valid scenario. See: https://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energy-choices/renew...
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by gandhium 8y ago
> In the three decades Stalin was general secretary, the Soviet Union had enormous economic growth. China also had enormous economic development under the communist party from 1949 to 1978 Suprisingly (or rather unsurprisingly) they&#x2
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by gandhium 8y ago
> what would have happened if Gorbachev had simply accepted Reagan's apparently sincere offer to share SDI technology rather than dismissing this as ridiculous when the U.S. would not even share "milking machines." This...
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by gandhium 8y ago
Well, khruschyovkas and neobrutalist apartment blocks were started some 40 years _after_ Soviet rule was established. So their primary target before that was not to take millions out of mediocre living conditions, but world revolutions and

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