@randahl I wonder if, when civilisation has gone down the drain, we will gather around the campfire and tell the story of the nation without a navy that once ruled the Black Sea

@KanaMauna @randahl … especially if intelligence gets in the way of Maximum Lethality™

@miguelmaiquez @tokyo_0 I’ve also been annoyed by WEBP images. I’ve just built myself a “save as JPG” shortcut in macOS. Pretty sure ImageMagick could do the conversion to anything on other platforms.

@tokyo_0 Depending on the weapon used (cruise or ballistic anti-ship missile), the warhead (<500kg) + kinetic energy of the missile would cause damage if it hit the carrier. An ASBM could penetrate the deck, a cruise ASM tear a hole into the hull. Fuel & ammunition fires etc.
But a carrier is enormous, compartmented and full of crew trained in damage control, fire fighting etc. – it wouldn’t launch fighters for a while and might have to be towed out of theatre for repairs. But sink? Unlikely.

@tokyo_0 Carriers are hard to find & target (moving, part of a strike group), hard to hit (can manoeuvre, protected by layered defences, AEW, fighter jets, hundreds of VLS cells with interceptors, EW, CIWS etc.) and even if you hit one you’d get a mission kill at best. The list of targets that Iran can attack more effectively is long. Air bases, C2 etc. stay where they are and are not as well-defended.

@deviantollam The full report is terrifying and ridiculous at the same time. I initially assumed that the officer just neglected to clear the chamber before working on his weapon. Which would have been bad. But he diligently explains how the way he was holding the gun induced a malfunction preventing chambering the next round. That means he had a full magazine in the gun while working on it, pointing it at himself. WTAF?!

@darkpaw oh, you’re forgetting about the 30-year border conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan that he settled! And ending the Mongolian naval blockade of Niger!
I think he’s ended at least 300 yuge wars by now.

@phurd they have LGPD, which is very similar to EU GDPR. No dedicated healthcare data law I think, but it’d be SPI under Brazilian law.

@peterbrown Ah, the classic “let’s give them a fair summary court martial and then line them up against the wall” … bonus points for “narcoterrorism”, a term redefined for this very purpose