Gunfighter14e2 said:

High tech on a battlefield past 8/1945 has won what war?

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Desert Storm, though it was really a combination of battle-focused training, advanced tech, and IPB.





Desert Storm was the most decisive military campaign of the 20th Century in my perspective, as it culminated with advancements in these areas, resulting in brutally-swift and decisive defeat of one of the biggest air forces and armies of the world (4th largest at the time).

Something like that had never been done before, and it set a tone for how future conflict would be conducted. Firstly, our primary adversaries would not engage us in FSCO because they aren’t stupid. 2nd, they would conduct asymmetric actions against the US using Islamic radicals and Islamic nation Intelligence Services to strike the US with large and coordinated terrorist attacks, with blame placed on dead-end regions of the world with zero military or industrial value (Afghanistan).

While the US was tied-up in a wasteful war in a land-locked excrement receptacle, China and Russia would try to modernize their high value combat systems. Russia aimed and missed, China made much more impactful strides, which is why they are the spacing threat.

lash said:

Okay, I just have to ask. How many of your eyebrows did it raise?

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At least 5 of them...

kthomas said:

I thought it was incredibly peculiar when they announced they were getting in to the 2011 game.

That raised a lot of my eyebrows.

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Okay, I just have to ask. How many of your eyebrows did it raise?

W54/XM-388 said:

Because all the best and brightest from all over the world and all the most motivated and driven from all over the world have been coming here for hundreds of years and America is unique in history and unique among nations.
Our very unique political system and combination of laws and religion and social structure let us advance faster and farther than anyone else ever did in the history of the world.

Our army is the best in history BECAUSE our country is unique in history and the BEST civilization for rapid advancement that there has ever been.

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LRRPF52 said:

It also helps to have the most connected river network in the world, in a temperate zone, with tons of deep sea ports across 4 major coastlines, vast resources in minerals, agriculture, and farmland, with no regional military threats.

There simply is no geographic peer to the US.

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All the above is true but would be worthless without:

"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain un alienable rights, and that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

Kyle1077 said:

Price for Infinity?

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Fixed, thanks

I use ASR for my ARs. Works great on my Ventum.

And nobody can really accuse Trump of being anti-Israel since he oversaw the movement of the capitol from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and his daughter married a Jew.

He also negotiated the Abraham Accords, which was more peace treaties between Israel and Arab neighbors than all US Presidents combined.

W54/XM-388 said:

Say what you want, but that interpretation of that verse is completely laughable if you have even a rudimentary knowledge of how the books of what our modern Bible came to be.

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What is laughable is you would use that to then justify your belief that 1800 years later God decided to give further revelation to a polygamist cult leader. What’s even more laughable is that you would then us that to believe said cult leader found some gold tables and urim and thummim from the OT to translate the Book of Mormon. All the while not being able to produce the tablets because they were taken back up to heaven and only 3 others, who were the polygamist cult leaders family, claim to have seen them.



You know this story line is similar to how the false religion of Islam was founded too. Maybe there is something demonic about such types of special revelation that is designed by the enemy to deceive and lead astray. Paul always said to watch for false teachers

“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭1‬:‭8

Why do you think Paul said that? Didn’t Joseph Smith get a “restored” gospel from an angle? A gospel that was different than what Paul gave and was historically understood? Sounds like that angle should be accursed

Ever since Russia and France ceased designing, developing, and producing single-engine fighters at-scale, their FMS export potential had built-in restrictions that they can’t recover from any time soon.

As the prospective customers witness their lackluster performance in contested airspaces, orders will decrease.

The contractors will spin this to highlight their achievements of course (Rafales successfully launched SCALP cruise missiles that Pakistan was unable to intercept with Chinese A2AD systems), but everyone with Rafales right now is looking at their inventory and orders and realizing they don’t have any prospects of true air superiority against regional rivals.

That includes the French Armée de l’air. Their tactical relevance in the A2A space is really dependent on US 5th Gen technology right now, which is why they continue to do Atlantic Trident with us and the UK:

Bigfatcock said:

155 gr-175 gr. It’s not the best for all applications, but its damn good for most things. I usually keep at least 32 lbs of it on hand. 308’s loaded on a progressive are hungry.

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Do you too share the opinion of it being too dirty?

Markbsae said:

Good to know. For me the only reason I could think of using small rifle is to use magnum #450 primers as they have a thicker cup. I switched to those on 6.5 Grendel as the #400's were piercing at max pressure. I have ordered my first 6.5 Creedmoor rifle and will begin with boxed ammo but transition to loading eventually. Thanks

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The Hornady ammo will be large rifle primers but they are no problem. All I have used in my Creedmoors since 2008 and I can load very good ES/SD numbers so don’t sweat that if you use large rifle primers. Use large rifle on all my larger center fires and no problem with loading good ammo. Don’t feel you need small rifle primers because you don’t.

armorpl8chikn said:

Genesis 18 and 19 drives them nuts.
LORD literally translated YHWH.
Had a body.
Ate with Abraham.
No man hath seen the Father.

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Yeah they don’t know what to do with that or with the Angle of YHWH (LORD). The trinity has its roots even in ancient Judaism. In fact the Jewish teaching of the Two Powers in Heaven was prominent in Judaism until Jesus. The Jewish leaders outlawed it after Jesus since it supported what he said and the Trinitarian view

The Indianapolis story, as told by CPT Quint, JAWS.
The fight/rescue Big Trouble in Little China.
“Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, Dintja!?” Tremors

I have a pile of old barrels that were "trash". I build other rifles from them. My go to Tikka T3 is one is built with a used MTU contour Rem 700 takeoff barrel I bought here 10 years ago for $50. Stacks bug holes every time. M134 minigun blanks for AR10 and M1A barrels. Hell, what bore is it? How much you want?

Markbsae said:

Good to know. For me the only reason I could think of using small rifle is to use magnum #450 primers as they have a thicker cup. I switched to those on 6.5 Grendel as the #400's were piercing at max pressure. I have ordered my first 6.5 Creedmoor rifle and will begin with boxed ammo but transition to loading eventually. Thanks

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Are you using Alpha brass in you Grendel? If so, then yes. . . I'd expect #400 to have an issue about piercing. Alpha brass has slightly larger flash holes and according to what they mention on their website, that larger flash hole tends to lead to pierced primers on primer cups that are softer thinner cups. Going to 450's with Alpha brass is a good choice and what I use on my .308 Alpha brass for that reason. On my SRP Lapua and Peterson brass for my .308, 400's work with no piercing issue.

BTW: Given the smaller case capacity of a Grendel case, I doubt there'd ever be an issue using SPR's in colder weather . . . especially hotter primers like the 450's.

1-10 twist, 24 inches and .648 at back of muzzle brake

cgbills said:

Right it says YHWH is one. It doesn’t say monotheism, however we would say our faith is monotheistic. We do this all the time, we assign categorical terms to theological truths we see in scripture. The term Trinity is the same thing.

That is the summation of your argument. Because it doesn’t say trinity or use a few specific terms, you deny the trinity. All the while ignoring the relational distinctions we see in scripture of the father son and spirit. You are committing the logical fallacy of specificity

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Genesis 18 and 19 drives them nuts.
LORD literally translated YHWH.
Had a body.
Ate with Abraham.
No man hath seen the Father.

UKDslayer said:

Isaiah 10:40-55 says we are monotheistic.

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I think you are missing my point. I agree the Christian faith is monotheistic. However that term is not used in scripture. Rather we developed that term to convey the theological truths about God we see in scripture. The same is true for the trinity. That specific term isn’t in scripture, but we developed the term to convey the theological truths about the Father, Son, and Spirit we see in scripture. My point is it is a fallacy to deny something like the trinity just because the word isn’t in the Bible. Just like it is a fallacy to deny monotheism just because the word doesn’t appear in scripture

Fear the man with only one gun…. Uh, except this guy, he’s a dumbass.

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Good to know. I have a grendel that I use suppressed and one that I don't use suppressed. I may just load the blc2 in the one that I don't use the suppressor on.

For 308, are you guys loading with 155s & light bullets, or going up to 175s, etc?

232593 said:

Will the conflict in Ukraine provide a catalyst for Russia to mitigate this capability gap?

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They’re already trying to establish expanded domestic semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure, since Su-57 requires substantially more SC elements than pretty much any fighter they’ve made before:



They placed side-looking AESAs in the nose instead of doing a rotating swashplate like on Su-35. This and all the embedded RF sensors in the airframe increases the Transmitting/Receiving element counts considerably, which requires a ton of manufacturing capacity in a space Russia has always struggled with industrially. They have resorted to heavy importation of breast pumps and washing machines, game consoles, etc, to remove the Western chips and then re-purpose them for military guidance systems.



It’s a very bad position to be in, since their main domestic SC company went bankrupt in Dec of 2018, and since then....Baikal and Angstrom have also gone bankrupt.

China has been providing SC chips to them through smuggling of shipments due to sanctions, but they really need modern chip mfg capacity to fulfill the orders for Su-57, S-400, and other combat systems computing, sensor, and guidance requirements.

It’s one thing to design a sensor-clustered 5th Gen fighter, and another to actually have the parts and subcomponents supply capacity under security clearance personnel and tight supply lines.

Either way, they are limited to extremely-low rate production of the Su-57, which does not have comparable VLO features to US 5th Gen, or even Chinese J-20. The J-20 is much cleaner and appears to have more modern Radar Absorbent Structures and RAM.

LuckyLuke80 said:

ok, let me amend that to say that the trinity idea was not established at nicea, but it was absolutely enshrined and adopted wholesale there. As for trinity scriptures, there are none. I’ve read the WHOLE Bible through from one leather cover to the other and never seen the word “trinity” “triune” or “co-equal” etc anywhere. I can point out scores of scriptures that refer to God as ONE.

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I’ll say this again

These roles and relationships are what we see directly in the scriptures and shows the relational differences we see between the Father, Son, and Spirit. Since the scriptures affirm all 3 are God, yet all three have different functions and different relationships to each other, we say God is triune



The Father Initiates and directs the plan of salvation, sends the Son and the Holy Spirit, is the source of all things

The Son (Jesus) becomes incarnate and redeems humanity through his life, death, and resurrection, is the Word of God and the means by which creation was made, and Intercedes for humanity.


The Holy Spirit empowers believers to live according to God's will, convicts, teaches, and leads, and sanctifies and dwells within believers.

Additionally in the scriptures we see each person of the trinity is individually given the honors, attributes, names, deeds and seat of God.