wiki says
Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they “should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used”.
what assistance would that not be if not protecting them in some way or another?
I think you got that wrong enough it warrants a correction…
They gave them up for assurances that Russia and the USA would protect them if they were attacked.
Edit: that’s why the USA is giving them weapons, they’re honoring the deal, or at least trying to, not 100% sure on specifics, I’m sure it was vague on what protecting them would entail.
Ummm for all the god loving people, that means God is a demon then as God made physics and this nuclear technology.
Hopefully they can be moved
If we could watch alternate time lines that’d be interesting to watch unfold
Very possible, but putins crazy.
I don’t know how Ukraine would convince Russia the threat is real without at least a test detonation somewhere and that’s better than bombing someone, but also not ideal.
I really hope it doesn’t come to that as escalation will be fast, but if they keep being strung along and not being given means to end the war there might not be another choice =(
They’ve been talking about those trials and pre-trials for many years, probably over a decade at this point.
Everything I’ve heard is they still haven’t figured out how to do it effectively on a ship. Stationary land based would probably be easier though as that removes the size/power restrictions.
The challenge is both the production time and the high cost of such a high-tech missile. Typically, the US Navy fires two missiles at each given airborne target to guarantee its downing, and an interceptor missile costs millions of dollars, much more than the Iranian missiles it shoots down.
This was always going to be a problem and it’s their fault for not moving sooner on it.
If an adversaries missiles costs a million dollars, how do you challenge them? Make missiles that costs less and overwhelm them.
Not only do you gotta worry about Iran’s or others cheaper missiles, but now there’s drones that are a fraction of the cost.
If the US enters a major conflict, I wouldn’t be surprised to see high value assets get lost or damaged due this problem.
Lets see the US come out with some new advances in tech with lower cost.
It tastes good, but i feel pretty guilty doing it
I don’t do it often, but pasta with a cream of mushroom or clam chowder soup.
Maybe not too weird, but that’s probably as weird as it gets.
Jeff Bezos and his massive overcompensation of a dick rocket that can also land propulsively, but not worth discussing.
In case anyone doesn’t know why… it’s not an orbital rocket. It just goes up and down. Orbital is going up AND sideways very fast.
I tried to explain to someone months ago that SpaceX testing things to failure was part of their success, and gave an example like purposely leaving heat shield tiles off starship to see what happened, or launching a version of starship that didn’t have all the improvements that the next starship had, and they then came back saying that is exactly why they (and other people) hate SpaceX. They don’t know everything up front and they should!
I thought it was the boosters that were in retrospect pointlessly refurbished and would have been cheaper to make new.
Are you sure it was also the shuttle itself being cheaper to make new? The shuttle also took something like 6 months to refurb. Reusable, but not rapid.
The Pentagon is directly working with SpaceX on this. Awhile ago they said they had a handle on it but that it was going to be an ongoing problem as Russian evades their measures.
This was in May, and they’ve obviously figured another way around.
“At this time we have successfully countered Russian use, but I am certain Russia will continue to try and find ways to exploit Starlink and other commercial communications systems,” Plumb said. "It will continue to be a problem, I think we’ve wrapped our heads around it and found good solutions with both Starlink and Ukraine.”
Pretty cool how this was being made for mortars and then it worked well for this
Fractional Giraffes
It’s 2000 1/2giraffes
Well I meant the bus, but I think you’re onto something there, we just need to remove the back legs too!
What if there was no front? Like, if the front fell off?
In a new session isn’t there no speaker until one is elected with any rules?
Just don’t accept the rules and go into another cycle of endless votes for speaker.