>>13789482

Hmm…

Let me tell you of a story.

I met, in an unlikely place on the web, a girl - or the likeness of one at the very least - with whom I exchanged a number of messages with over the years. Her English was exacting and mannerisms quite pristine - and I often quipped that I suspected I was talking to some rather distinguished company, seeing as she was from Montenegro and had spent time in Japan, knowing Japanese, Russian, Serbian, English, and I believe French as well. Were I in a position to hire a linguist, this person would certainly have been on a short list. That in and of itself isn't all that strange … And while I found a few of her mannerisms odd - it's rather silly to try and pry into someone's life from a world away. I did, however, notice that not all things on the forum were as they appeared. She seemed to be friends with a rather strange crowd that I later remarked made me suspect there was some kind of crime syndicate going on. I also began to notice… Owls in my trees, so to speak.

At some point, a story came to light - a twin sister of hers had died in front of her during some kind of local scuffle when Montenegro was amid the vote to secede from Serbia/Yugoslavia. I could find no record of the event in the internet-accessible media, but it also seemed like the type of thing that might get swept under the rug - or just lost in the turmoil of the times. It's not entirely clear what the legal status of her family was - and when I learned that her father was probably not too low in the rankings of the Yugoslavian military - one had to wonder what the hell was up with her stay in Japan.

Then, she took a trip to the United States. Here is where things got really weird - there were sudden account changes made and when she returned from the U.S. - her entire pattern and lifestyle changed. Or, rather, I should say that there was occasionally a forum identity who would crop up and seem familiar - but the name of the person I had been told I was talking to went on to live a completely different life - taking advantage of Sweden's open border policies.

The series the forum had been built around concluded and much of the internet traffic to it began to die down - at which point, it became easier to see what was going on. There was an account I pegged as being her. An account I pretended to talk to as though it was her - because it confused people who are prone to their own biases. After I became more active again and began probing around, the site owner/admin activated cloudflare's ddos protection, which effectively served to place everyone's IPs behind cloudflare's service. At that point, a lot of old accounts started becoming active - people began checking in - asking how things were going around different parts of the world - and then began carrying out rather unusual debates about the series. Who should marry whom - shipping isn't that unusual in fan communities - but there was just another set of layers on it. As the series has many different family clans as political and ideological factions - it made it rather convenient for them to encode diacussions into something that appeared to be just passionate fan banter.

Then, after about a week, an account went nuts and started spamming the board to slide all of those topics off the front page. The board moderators kind of let it go for a while - then just banned the account, not undoing the spam.

Among those conversations was a comment that caught my eye, if memory serves, by someone claiming the name "night spider" - or its french equivalent, at least.

"I have spent too much money on that manga for it not to…"

I have always found certain things curious in anime/manga/webtoons. The prevalence of rather obscure stuff from the history of Judaism and Christianity is not the least of it. There is, what I call, "The Tohou Code" - the uncanny relationships between Tohou characters and 'reality' - one watch of "Bad Apple" from a symbolic standpoint should send every anon running for their tin foil hat.

Within anime and manga, I find references to "The Sisters" - an agent of the Japanese intelligence agencies…. Maybe - more like an eldritch abomination which all other intel agencies look at with a shrug.

Also, rather consistent within anime/manga/JRPGs is that the final arc deals with space and space aliens… Or people, more typically. Not only does Japan still have the Imperial Regalia gifted to the first emperor by Amaterasu, but there is also the legend of Kaguya-Hime.

For those of us who have such experiences - the line between fact and fantasy is very blurred.

>>13789859

I have done some thinking on that, and I am curious if China is even trying to compete with the B-2 in the first place. Most LO aircraft are going to look rather similar in the end because of how aerodynamics meets radar. So it's going to resemble one of our designs no matter which way they go.

However, LO is expensive and also not absolute. We can take advantage of it because we can freely position our assets around the world, refuel almost anywhere, and strike from almost any vector we choose. This means we can almost always choose to pick apart our opponent at the strategic level with a strategic bomber that can reduce the effectuveness of air defense networks.

China, however, doesn't have this strategic advantage and would likely push for a tactical or strike bomber closer to the FB-111, Tornado, or B-1. In this case, they would design for high subsonic to low supersonic designs and while they would incorporate LO where practical - they would likely opt for aerodynamic performance between the two.

Assuming the CGI is not complete disinfo and does accurately represent what they plan to produce - then I do believe we can estimate its role to be similar to an F-111 or maybe a smaller B-1. They may talk it up as though they are going to be able to fly over to DC and deliver some foreign policy - but its role will mostly be for trying to consolidate its hold on geopolitics in the pacific.

>>13790026

I'm not really sure what to make of it, to be honest.

I think many were quick to try and pin Q onto Flynn as though he knew about it or was part of it.

For me, that illustrated how many anons/people perceived Q. Q is not some employee in the halls of the government, nor is Q a general. This goes far beyond that - into a world most don't even realize exists - not a world "above" our own, but "between" it - within the overlooked corners and the names given no thought on guest lists.

>>13790036

I was, too.

Wing sweep implies maximum speed of around mach 1.5 - if it has the engine thrust to do it. Though supersonic craft tend to light up on IRST - I already pointed out that LO is likely a secondary concern for them. Supersonic aircraft don't like tailless designs all that well.

I don't think it's that China can't implement rudderless/tailless aircraft - it's just that the advantage of doing so in terms of RCS reduction are not worth it relative to the cost in performance.

Given the "pointiness" of the nose, I am led to believe they are pushing the sound barrier, here, if not breaking it. While the Chinese lack experience, they are not stupid. They chose to break trailing edge symmetry on their design for a reason, and one of the only ones to do so would be because the flight envelope requires it.

That leads me to conclude the same on their ruddervators they have, there. They chose it mostly out of aerodynamic concerns rather than LO.

Keep in mind that the B-2 is obsolete at this point. I won't elaborate too much, but as the power and sophistication of radars has improved, the validity of the premise one can avoid detection has dropped significantly.

There is a reason I recommend adoption of a sort of "revived XB-70" aerospace bomber as a strategic bomber, or F-23 RTA style low level strike bombers. Kinetics is going to rule in coming engagements.