I love it. It’s right next door to a museum aboard an actual ship from 1901, the Discovery. Old and new contrasted against each other

Seems like the sand dunes got locked in place by vegetation at some point. It was shaped by the wind whe it was even drier than today, but then stopped moving when there was just enough moisture for plants to get a hold of things

brexit means brexit

Ahh, that thing about the editions tracks with when I was playing on the tabletop. There were a couple of necron armies in the group I played with and they were always right stubborn bastards to put down. They didn’t hit that hard, but you sure as hell had to hit them hard if you wanted to make any headway

This is a bizarre headline to put on an article that describes the Chinese service as being a year and a half away from being able to replace Starlink, “not likely to benefit Ukraine in the long term,” and “more likely to give Russian soldiers in Ukraine internet services that Ukrainian soldiers have long enjoyed than they are to help Ukraine move beyond Starlink”

I’m not exactly up to date on my 40k lore, do the necrons have some kind of disposable chaff unit now? Back when I played they were the tankiest army in the entire game, which definitely doesn’t work for a game in which you are usually carving through a massive mob

::: Space Marine 2 spoilers I was, of course, pretty gutted that they never showed up in the latter part of the campaign. I was playing through the campaign with a friend that doesn’t know the setting much but who loves Terminator, and the instant I saw the signs of necron stuff going on I thought I was going to get to see him become Power Armour Kyle Reese :::

Uhh, don’t expect any special insights here

It looks to me like it’s pretty impressive considering that it’s the second combat plane ever built in the country, and the experience gained from that is a valuable thing.

I have to assume that it’s less capable and less expensive than the four that I mentioned, based on how it has fared as an export. It seems to have struggled against the European, American, and Chinese offerings, or in many cases have been considered as a trainer by countries that are already flying one of those previously-mentioned ones. Obviously there’s a lot of politics involved in these purchases, but if Australia has already bought F-35s and wants Tejases as trainers then it suggests that Australia has a good reason to think that Tejas is a lot less expensive and also less effective at actually fighting a war

It seems like it suits its role well, though - a cost-effective solution for India’s needs, and a way to develop domestic expertise

2 was announced three years before it released, so I wouldn’t expect this to necessarily mean 3 is coming that soon

The funniest possible outcome of this would be Lockheed Martin starting up a Tesla competitor

Disclaimer in that I am not in any way an expert on military procurement: it depends on what they buy.

There are three European planes that can do similar roles: the Typhoon (Anglo-German-Italian), the Rafale (French), and the Gripen (Swedish). According to this RUSI article, it looks like the Typhoon is probably actually more expensive per plane. The Typhoon was also, unlike the other two and the F-35, designed to be a pure air superiority fighter, so it’s more of an F-22 competitor than an F-35 one. Probably not what Portugal is looking for. That RUSI article has the Rafale as being a bit more expensive than the F-35 and the Gripen being a bit cheaper than it. However, the source for the F-35’s number is the flyaway cost for the Americans, who did ordered it in huge numbers and also did most (not all, but most) of the development and I would assume get a better deal than others. Further, it’s in an article headlined “F-35’s price might rise, Lockheed warns”. So I’m just going to hedge my bets and say:

• If they buy the Typhoon, definitely no, but the Typhoon probably isn’t the right fit anyway
• If they buy the Rafale, somewhere around the same, and it’ll still be extremely capable
• If they buy the Gripen, yes, and it’ll still be very good but not quite individually capable as the other options

If we assume that Portugal would have ordered the same number as Czechia (a fellow European country with a pretty close GDP, population, and military budget that already bought F-35s) and take the flyaway cost on wikipedia of $82.500,000 as the price Portugal would have paid per plane, that’s $2 billion in sales that Lockheed Martin doesn’t get

…not sure how I managed to miss that

Let’s be honest, there’s no “technically” about it either way. There is no real definition of what a continent is beyond “we call it a continent”

I wonder which faction they’ll use this time? The gameplay kinda depends on there being a huge horde of grunts to mow down, and they’ve now used the two non-humans factions that that description applies to

I think the title means that the re-posted post is the most-opvoted post of all time on lemmy. It is the top of all time on lemm.ee, on lemmy.world it’s a can of beans, and on my home instance kbin.earth it’s a news article

Space clowns baybeeeeee

(I kinda like the grey knights too, but I am firmly in the camp of “every 40k faction except maybe the tau is evil and that’s how it should be”)

Funnily enough, the UK has just had a report commissioned about it (and I’m focussing on the UK here since the Guardian is based there and OP alson said they were accessing the UK site). It notes that “In principle, data protection law does not prohibit business models that involve consent or pay.” Direct pdf link: https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/impact-assessments/4032418/consent-or-pay-impact-assessment.pdf

Technically you’ve already been in it

(but more seriously, loads of non-EU countries are eligible for Eurovision)

The latter, unless the gunner is particularly incompetent. Hydrogen is just really difficult to contain

I mean yeah, but they were getting shot at regardless of whether they shot back or not seeing as they were there to reconnoitre and bomb stuff. But yeah apparently the dorsal guns couldn’t always be used because of leaking lift gas