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the MIC just wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on heat-seeking gizmos and fancy overpriced Raytheon missiles just to shoot down some kid’s science project
the MIC just wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on heat-seeking gizmos and fancy overpriced Raytheon missiles just to shoot down some kid’s science project
If balloons are giving them such trouble, China might as well go ahead and make a Kirov irl.
For real, some Kirov reporting: 克若卜 报告 or 克若不 报告
TIL chinese doesnt seem to have a ki- sound, nor a ro- sound, and they end every damn sillable with a vowel, an -n or an -ng. I appreciate the consistency, but not the incompleteness.
Resources: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php - https://www.archchinese.com/type_chinese.html
Ohhh, that’s interesting. Although a Chinese one, I’d give either the name of one of the grassroots revolutionaries, or the name of the first PLAIF commander, Liu Yalou.
Funny enough, both the Brazilian military during the Rousseff era and the late USSR and 2000s Russia AFs were considering using airships as heavy cargo haulers or drone hives. Seeing how hard a large slow object was to detect, the idea might have some merits.