Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 16/12/2024 03:31, rbowman wrote:

Somebody has to buy tanks for the Ukraine.

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They have been found to be almost completely useless on the drone infested battlefield.
In fact the money is going to build new useless tanks for America while the obsolete ones are being sent to Ukraine to be scrapped by the Russians at a profit to the USA which will one day get paid for them instead of having to pay someone to cut them up for scrap.
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90% of so called 'military aid' consist in paying American companies to make more weapons for US use whilst older scrap shit gets shipped to Ukraine to see how well it works, Or not. As long as it is not used to attack Russia of course.

I read a story in the swedish mainstream press that ukrainian soldiers were very happy with the tanks and armoured vehicles donated by sweden. Apparently they can take an indirect hit and survive. They said in the article that they started to attach some artificial "net" or fabric structures to the tanks and vehicles with the purpose of making the drones exploned a tiny bit further away from the tank, than right on top. Have no idea if it makes sense, but that's what they said in the article.
They also said that the quality was much better than old russian crap they have before getting the new vehicles, but that spare parts were a problem.