The issue is heavy artillery focus in an offensive capacity is a bad way to fight now. NATO can and does go for air superiority right away. Fighting Russian style with artillery bombardment is WWI stuff. Air support can quickly neutralize such a force.
NATO doesn't spec for artillery focus like Russia and therefore doesn't need that level of shell production. The catch for Ukraine is most of their equipment is inherited Soviet Union stockpiles. And they don't have a large enough air force to attempt air superiority. So they're stuck fighting against Russia using similar systems and strategy.
When Ukraine receives F16s next month some need for artillery will start to decrease. F16 can be used in an attack role. And Ukraine will be receiving HARMs missiles which will help knock out even more of Russia's air defenses. Which potentially snowballs into Ukraine being able to do more close air support. If that happens, they can hopefully start shifting artillery to being used defensively. Using it for offense and defense as they are now is what's outstripping supply.
Cars have nearly nothing to do with this. It started with the industrialization of farming.
Farm towns existed at normal intervals because it took a much larger labor pool to manage them. 200 acres was a lot to manage about 100 years ago. By the 1970's 400 acres was a normal sized family farm in the US.
Modern machinery can cover nearly 200 acres in a day. There is no reason to have thousands of people per small town anymore. It takes a tiny fraction of that manpower to achieve the same output.
My colleagues and I are all mechanical or industrial engineers. We travel around the country to project sites. I'll be on a job site and hear all the trades guys saying the most vile shit. And be completely shocked I tell them to knock it off or I'll tell the general contractor to get someone else out.
The part that pisses me off the most though is how often they're union members.
True but Muscovy was a shit hole backwater even prior to industrial Europe. It's a culture issue to constantly get shit on my bad leaders and act like nothing can be done about it.
I'm pretty sure he did. But it was all about campaign funding through the NRA. That little bit of news did slip out a while back. None of the GOP got in trouble. That's why they don't care now.
I get it. And I'm probably an oddball with being fascinated about flying even before I started traveling for work. Now it's something I do for fun to track planes I'll be on.
So to me the only thing that's changed recently is the news getting clicks running any story they can about Boeing. They could have been for years if they wanted to. But it's one of the current hot topics now.
And even now the news should be shitting on the airlines directly much moreso than Boeing. All issues I've heard of since the door blowout would have been a maintenance problem. Especially United. It seems like those fuckers in particular have cut corners. I avoid them in general when booking regardless of plane type.
I'm aware of a number of airlines experiencing random mechanical issues on Boeing aircraft they've owned for years. And 1 issue that was a new plane which is still under investigation and likely was Boeing's fault
I and my team of about 25 engineers travel for work constantly. Weird mechanical issues happen way more than the public realizes. Saying all of it has been Boeing's fault is factually incorrect.
Yeah the author got something mixed up. The men's tournament so far has been one of the most watched years ever. It is true the women's final is most watched game so far. But that's comparing a final to other games. And NC State vs Duke last weekend had almost as many people watch. So a men's Elite 8 game nearly matched the women's final.
They've been attacking intermittently since 2015. It's just convenient now to claim they won't stop because of Israel. They'll keep going until Iran wants them to stop. Which won't be anytime soon even if Israel stops.
The issue is heavy artillery focus in an offensive capacity is a bad way to fight now. NATO can and does go for air superiority right away. Fighting Russian style with artillery bombardment is WWI stuff. Air support can quickly neutralize such a force.
NATO doesn't spec for artillery focus like Russia and therefore doesn't need that level of shell production. The catch for Ukraine is most of their equipment is inherited Soviet Union stockpiles. And they don't have a large enough air force to attempt air superiority. So they're stuck fighting against Russia using similar systems and strategy.
When Ukraine receives F16s next month some need for artillery will start to decrease. F16 can be used in an attack role. And Ukraine will be receiving HARMs missiles which will help knock out even more of Russia's air defenses. Which potentially snowballs into Ukraine being able to do more close air support. If that happens, they can hopefully start shifting artillery to being used defensively. Using it for offense and defense as they are now is what's outstripping supply.