As an example of the hilarity: "“Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missiles system is a devastating, unstoppable surgical strike weapon that basically drops metal lightning out of the sky like Thor&#… (View Post)

Indeed. But the modern state of Israel has been in existence for over seventy years, and has been on a war footing almost permanently ever since. (View Post)

1) stockpile. 2) use orders of magnitude fewer weapons by using expensive smart bombs, rather then carpet bombing with 'dumb' bombs/shells. 3) surge manufacturing. (View Post)

Sports are very different IMO. If sportsmen have an 'off' two or three years, then their careers very rapidly fade, as do their earnings. Hamilton and Salah are not really exceptions, as th… (View Post)

This may be of interest to some: an interactive map with most of the WW2 shipwrecks on it https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/fe88b5e18c6443c7afaf6e32f8432687 (View Post)