China now finds itself in the best period for development it has seen since the advent of the modern era; [simultaneously], the world faces great changes unseen in a century. These two [trends] are interwoven, advancing in lockstep; each stimulates the other. Now, and in the years to come, many advantageous international conditions exist for success in foreign affairs (Xi Jinping, “Break New Ground in China’s Major-Country Diplomacy,” in Governance of China, vol III).
Hey guys. What's going on in this thread?
We're talking about you on Teamspeak.
What is everyone saying?
I agree the answer is 5 btw.
^ too many ni**gas
not enough hoes
It's really not fair that half or more of the companies in China that are successful because of their draconic approach to foreign businesses
Just let us globalize wtf
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The Kh-101 has been used extensively in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine with US Department of Defense sources stating that they experienced a not-insignificant failure rate: "either they're failing to launch, or they're failing to hit the target, or they're failing to explode on contact.".[2] A July 2022 study published by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defense and Security Studies (UK) titled "Ukraine at War: Paving the Road from Survival to Victory" [38] mostly denies this, according to testimonies from Ukrainian military specialists and inspection of missile components. The study says "Briefings by the Pentagon have reported that a large number of Russian cruise missiles fail to either find their targets or malfunction and crash in flight. As far as Ukrainian military scientists can determine, this is actually quite rare."
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Yeah they would definitely lie about something that can be refuted, and cannot be trusted over the truth speaking Russos.
Funny that the accuracy point is being refuted by Ukes using missle component inspection compared to what I assume is a gazillion in spending and possibly more than hearsay or post-hit analysis. When I find time later I will check out the study
If they are accurate, I can only assume Russians are hand delivering the cruise missiles and then hitting the red pointy end with a large mallet
Mind that my second link and your text block would be the same science work done by prolly the same people too
- Author interviews with I; H; G; F. Inspection of missile components during fieldwork, Ukraine, June 2022.
This is the source of the failure claim:
SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Yeah, I was -- so, Phil, on the written comms, I'm not aware of any, and I -- there's no -- I can't speak for Chairman Milley, but there's been no communications at the secretary's level with his Russian counterpart. And I'm, again, not aware of any written communications at all. That might be a better question put to the State Department, although I suspect the answer's probably no.
It's not like we don't have the ability to communicate with them. I mean, we do. It -- and we have, but it's not also the kind of thing that given what they're doing in -- in Ukraine that, you know, that we're going to have the wherewithal, we're going to have the ability to talk to them every day.
And on munitions, I would tell you that yes, I mean, clearly, they're expending munitions, a lot of munitions. But to -- just to give you a sense, I mean, that they -- of how much they still have left, I mean, we still think, you know, they have in -- I don't want to get -- and I want to be careful here with these numbers. But they have a significant majority of their -- for instance, a significant majority of their ballistic missile capability's still available to them. They've got more than half of their air-launched cruise missile capability available to them. And we have seen, in addition to -- well, I would just say that they -- a couple of things.
One, we do think that they are beginning to face some inventory issues with precision-guided munitions, which is one reason why you're seeing the increasing use of what we would call dumb bombs, and we've also seen them suffer failures of some of their precision-guided munitions, where it -- they're just not -- they're not operating. They're not -- they're -- they're failing. Either they're failing to launch or they're failing to hit the target, or they're failing to explode on contact. So we're seeing them have some struggles with respect to precision-guided munitions.
So is it possible that we could see them try to resupply PGMs going forward? Absolutely. We have not seen an indication that they have done that, that they're drawing on stocks from elsewhere. But it's certainly something that we're -- that we're watching and monitoring. They still have -- like I said, I mean, they still have the majority of their stocks available to them, but they have expended quite a bit, particularly in sensitive cruise missiles, air-launched cruise missiles, and they have also suffered a not-insignificant number of failures of those munitions.
Nope.