• @[email protected]
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        172 months ago

        Flugabwehrkanonenpanzerkampfwagen Gepard

        It literally means “aerial-defense-cannon-armoured-battle-vehicle cheetah”. Not shorter in English.

        German doesn’t have longer words, it’s just that you can stick together existing words to make up new words. For example, “the front door of the house” in German is “Haustür”, literally “housedoor”. It goes on logically, like “the handle of the front door of the house” is Haustürklinke, literally housedoorhandle. This way it is possible to make up arbitrarily long words which becime ever more specific, just without a tonne of “of” in between.

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          But general usage is rarely more than 2 or 3 short words stuck together. Stuff like Vorratskasten and Notreserve or Fliegengitter. Well, ok, there’s stuff like Insektenbekämpfungsmittel.

        • WIZARD POPE💫
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          42 months ago

          I don’t know why I read the door handle as Haustürk-linke. Love me a house turkish leftist.

        • ferret
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          US Military would probably call it “ADCABC Cheetah” because indecipherable acronyms are much better.

  • halyk.the.red
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    262 months ago

    Depends on the radar sensitivity and the target acquisition software. More plane might not be more better if they can’t lock on a target as small as a drone.

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    Depends on what their loadouts look like but probably the second option. 100 drones is a lot of small targets and I’m not quite certain F16s have the numbers of missiles. I could be wrong though.

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    82 months ago

    Bring back the sparkvark. Or like, when they finally retire the bone, hollow out the airframe, toss in a few hundred MW of generators and let it saturation jam the entire timezone

  • Nomecks
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    62 months ago

    For the money? I’ll take the underground, steel reinforced concrete bunker.

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    52 months ago

    With 100 drones all I need is one queen, and they will all try to follow her to mate with her.

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    32 months ago

    All at once, or spread out over a period of time? Because I’d take the F16s in most scenarios.