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Read this. Well, well, well… this isn’t exactly the newest invention on the block. It first saw the light of day as a proposal during World War I… the various War Ministries of the combatants laughed at it as being a crank Heath Robinson affair. During World War II, various German nutters got through to Hitler with this idea… Speer shot it down by observing that, yes, it’d work, but it’d require a power station equal to that needed for a small city to power it. Now, it appears that the wonks have reduced the power required… but not by much. This gun requires a 25-megawatt generator to power it. To put it into perspective, the power-unit of the Eurostar high-speed train uses 12-megawatts (6-megawatts each of the two power-cars). Now, the Eurostar gets its power from a catenary wire, which wouldn’t be practical in the case of the railgun. The gun would need a diesel power-generator, which would use at least 8 tonnes of fuel per hour. That is, one railgun would require a large power unit, a large diesel generator unit, plus ordnance to fire. Yowza… it still ain’t very practical, is it? It couldn’t travel off-road… indeed, most such units would have to be in fixed locations to take advantage of power from ordinary civilian power stations.
In short, this is utter rubbish put out by the Yanks. They don’t have a worldbeater here… they have a turkey that rises up every now and again, it gobbles away, and the sane people shoo it away. Sad, ain’t it? The all-powerful Yanks are down to boasting about non-existent superweapons. It sounds a lot like the last days of the Third Reich, doesn’t it? Hmm… Trump and Chilly Hilly… taken together, those two have LESS of a grip on reality than Hitler did. Now, THAT’S scary…
BMD
Voices from Russia 
5 June 2016. A Thought on Russia’s Future from V V Putin
Tags: political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, United States, USA, Vladimir Putin, war and conflict
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Judo means “the gentle way” in Japanese… that is, one doesn’t bull ahead and attack… one uses careful strategy, well-placed blocks, and (finally) a surprising flip. VVP is a genuine judoka… a judo practitioner… a Master of Sport in the discipline. Judo is a sport where one uses the opponent’s strength against them. The Anglos forget that in dealing with VVP… the Anglos are habitual liars and boasters… a more hubristical lot doesn’t walk the face of the planet. They incessantly tell you of their strength… their invincible army (that can’t defeat ragtag insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan), their nonpareil navy (which can’t operate in anything but blue-water deep ocean), and their world-beating weapons (which often don’t work and are nothing but high-profit corruption goldmines for pols and for their makers). VVP lies low and watches… waiting for an opening.
You can bet on the hubristical Yanks and their boasts… or you can bet on the Russians and Chinese, with their “slow but steady wins the race” philosophy. The Yanks think that they can take on the world. I seem to notice that no one who has taken that notion has ever succeeded… EVER SUCCEEDED… now, that’s a point to ponder.
By the way, one last thing… the Yanks boast of their “sanctions”… however, all that it really did was to reinforce VVP’s self-sufficiency programme. In short, the Yanks achieved the very opposite of what they set out to do. That is, if that’s an indicator of Anglo thought and ability, then, I’d say that Russia doesn’t need worry overly much about the USA… yet, it’ll still need to watch for Anglo nastiness… after all, only one country has used “the Bomb”, isn’t that so? Another good point to ponder…
BMD