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  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    5 days ago

    So far only the uncrewed Reapers have been brought down by Iranian defenses, with at least nine being destroyed in the air, according to a person familiar with the matter. One was hit at an airfield in Jordan by a ballistic missile, people familiar with the matter said.

    very firm sourcing, much credible. next time you get asked for a source, just say it’s from Person Familiar With The Matter

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      5 days ago
      Mandarin corner

      他tā们men 浪làng费fèi了le我wǒ的de导dǎo弹dàn

      “they wasted my guided missiles”

      thank you for coming to Mandarin corner

      • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        5 days ago

        I really need to buckle down and memorize the most common Chinese particles, because with Japanese vocabulary + kanji I think I could at least get the gist for simple sentences. Like, from an earlier post I learned that 们 was the plural marker, so what I got was

        others waste ?? I ?? ?-bullet/projectile

        I don’t think I’d be able to guess that 导 is a simplified form of 導[1] purely by inspection in the same way I easily guessed that 费 was 費, but if I knew that 了 was the perfective aspect marker and 的 was basically の the rest becomes clear.

        1. Simplified Chinese was a scheme devised specifically to hamper the ability of weebs to achieve Chinese literacy, which…fair. ↩︎

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    5 days ago

    including 10 Reaper strike drones hit by enemy fire

    Huh, it’s interesting that they don’t even report Reapers getting shot down (or they do report it but not nearly as loudly), but that’s at least as impactful in terms of mission capability as taking out an F-15. The fact that it’s unmanned sort of acts as a shield from negative press - I believe that this, more than demonstrated effectiveness, will be the primary driver towards the automation of warfare. The next generation of American air power will have no pilots, just an anonymous fleet of disposable bombers and missile platforms, allowing maximum warfare in other nations with minimal news about it reaching the American public.