They're probably looking at Ukraine manufacturing cheaper weapons and getting FOMO. But instead of actually learning how Ukraine is innovating these guys are just " let's do the same things but cheaper". Truly innovation that only an MBA can think of.
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To me this looks like it's already been out-innovated by the USAF:
https://newatlas.com/military/quicksink-modular-strap-on-kit-smart-bomb/
Range of 40nm, other glide bombs have longer range.
Part of me suspects there's plenty of those kinda kits out there. The appeal's pretty obvious - just pop the fucker onto any random dumb ordnance you've got laying about, and boom, instant smart bomb.
40 nanometers is a terrible range!
it's what you get when you don't involve private sector innovation!
This world is a joke and we're just watching the punchline.
I kind of wonder if this whole movement of rationalists believing they can "just" make things better than people already in the field comes from the contracting sense that being rich and having an expensive educational background may in fact be less important than having background experience and situational context in the future, two things they loath?
Somehow, the same guy will lecture you for an hour about Chesterton's Fence when it comes to "traditional values."
At Ares, we would never* wish for a war to occur.
*intonation inferred by me, an intellectual
Yeah, it would be a real shame if a war started in which our ...product... would be commissioned en masse. Why, we wouldn't be able to make enough cash to dry our tears from all the sadness!
But by helping to rebuild our defense industrial base, we can make sure the United States is prepared to stop a conflict and save countless lives.
bro just one more war bro, bro I swear just one more war and it'll save countless lives bro
Dogshit writing as well, “we would never wish for a war to occur”, read that sentence back in a mirror to me
War is the greatest human tragedy, but defence is indispensable. With our commitment to rebuilding the United States’ defensive industrial base, we at Ares aim to ensure this country is prepared to halt any conflict rapidly, and save countless live.
defence
sus
opening sentence contains two lies and it only gets worse from there
I knew they were writing under fake names
read that sentence back in a mirror to me
This isn’t a joke either. Read it back in the mirror. To ME. What do you think you see when you look in the mirror? WRONG.
At Ares, we would never wish for a war to occur.
that sentence sent me. you literally named the company ares bro
there's no way on gods' green earth they go that far as two, maybe even five dudes in a shed. they want to grift on DoD research grant, or maybe hype this bs up and sell startup that's all
Absolutely. In any case, the DoD spending money on anything is already bad.
i think there might be a few people in eastern europe that would disagree with this sentiment
It is an unfortunate fact thatsomeone is going to have the biggest stick. USA/NATO absolutely should be criticized for how our military has been used and what we've sacrificed domestically in order to have that, but I'm pretty sure a world where Russia or China have had the biggest stick over the last few decades is markedly less peaceful, less just, and less free than the current status quo.
You don't understand, let me reason it from first principles. The Olympics are good for world peace, everybody comes together, we have some fun races some nations win some lose, we all go home happy and pretend it was our nation that won in spirit. Ergo races are good. Therefore an arms race is also good. It will save countless of lives, they are like the Olympics, Ares was the god of peace really (I asked chatgpt).
Ares was the god of peace really
According to books, which are smart and true, war is peace, so this is true!
Sorry my nootropics regime doesn't allow me to read books, but I asked some chatbots and they agreed with you. I'm also going to have to buy a new calculator, because according to the chatbots the math on my calc is wrong.
Sorry my nootropics regime doesn’t allow me to read books,
this is an entire type of person and I keep meeting instances of them
Well, I think that any self improvement group when going on long enough will run out of ideas and will go into 'we should do book summaries and then read them to each other so we can optimize the amount of books we read'. So it went a bit from there. It is a scary odd pattern, where they all hype knowledge (esp in a reactionary way, so 'the old books'(which those are is left to the reader)), but refuse to actually read full books.
We are looking for extremely talented aerospace engineers to help bring our prototypes to fruition. If you know any aerodynamics, propulsion, or GNC engineers who are interested in building something incredibly cool and want to make a positive difference in geopolitics, please send them our way!
interested in building something incredibly cool and want to make a positive difference in geopolitics
That is certainly one way of putting it, jesus fucking christ.
it's also "hey can you make our missile work for us"
you know, they're idea guys
they’re idea guys
Please, he prefers "Psychological Operations specialist". From the linkedin of one of the two:
Devan served in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Psychological Operations specialist at a Tactical Psyop Company under 7th Psychological Operations Group.
Can anyone translate that into English? I'm worried that description means he was online posting memes. If it does then I am not laughing nearly hard enough.
Easy to arrive at that being the ideal profile:
- Ufos are a psyop
- Ufos fly
- cruise missiles fly
- hence, cruise missiles are a psyop.
- birds aren't real
- birds are government drones
- birds fly
- drones fly
- cruise missiles fly
- hence, government drones are cruise missiles
- hence, just strap a claymore to a quadrocopter and government will pay for it
I mean, hand grenades dropped from quadcopter were unironically effective against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early days, and arguably a lot of the current emphasis on FPV drones and loitering munitions represent an evolution of the same tactical concept.
Tactical Psyop Company
underbarrel t-shirt cannons? clearing rooms by being the worst, loudest sealion possible? or just the usual thinly-veiled torture?
psyop is glorified weaponised advertising
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