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DesertRoo said:
Great article about how soft power works..
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Soft power is very effective and is understudied from a strategic POV. The British used to dominate this aspect of international power.
 
BANGKOK: A 51-year-old reporter for a now-banned online and broadcast news agency in Myanmar was sentenced on Wednesday (May 13) by a military court to three years in prison for his reporting, his employer said.

Min Nyo, a correspondent for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) is apparently the country’s first journalist since the army’s February takeover to be convicted under a recently revised provision in the penal code that critics charge criminalises free speech.


It makes punishable by up to three years in prison any attempt to “hinder, disturb, damage the motivation, discipline, health and conduct” of soldiers and civil servants and cause their hatred, disobedience or disloyalty towards the military and the government.

Three DVB journalists who fled Myanmar were arrested earlier this week in northern Thailand for illegal entry. Rights groups and journalists’ associations are urging Thai authorities not to send them back to Myanmar, where it is feared their safety would be at risk from the authorities.
 

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krakouers85 said:
Are they still having issues with bringing the F-35 into operation?
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Yes and no. They have entered operational service and we have started receiving our F-35A's, but there are lingering issues. Basically going to be a half-a-lemon for us until at least late 2022.

Data loads containing health and maintenance information are transmitted through the Autonomic Logistic Information System (ALIS), which allows the efficient coordination of repair components. Updates from the USA were required before and after each sortie with the ALIS capable of preventing take-off’s if a data file is incomplete.[1] The aircraft could also be crippled by an internet disruption “as the F-35 cannot operate unless it is logged into, and cleared by, ALIS. Updating and uploading mission data loads depends on a functioning Internet”.[2] To compound the issue, system information is often corrupted or inaccurate, which resulted in fully functional aircraft being unnecessarily grounded.[3] A US government report in 2020 found that the ALIS system contributed to its F-35 fleet being fully mission capable only 31.6 percent of the time, which was far below the minimum wartime target of 60 percent.[4] The inadequate ALIS will be replaced by the Operational Data Integrated Network (ODIN) by December 2022.[5] The RAAF will have to wait on ODIN and continue to experience poor availability and turnaround times.
 
Kangaroos4eva said:
Yes and no. They have entered operational service and we have started receiving our F-35A's, but there are lingering issues. Basically going to be a half-a-lemon for us until at least late 2022.

Data loads containing health and maintenance information are transmitted through the Autonomic Logistic Information System (ALIS), which allows the efficient coordination of repair components. Updates from the USA were required before and after each sortie with the ALIS capable of preventing take-off’s if a data file is incomplete.[1] The aircraft could also be crippled by an internet disruption “as the F-35 cannot operate unless it is logged into, and cleared by, ALIS. Updating and uploading mission data loads depends on a functioning Internet”.[2] To compound the issue, system information is often corrupted or inaccurate, which resulted in fully functional aircraft being unnecessarily grounded.[3] A US government report in 2020 found that the ALIS system contributed to its F-35 fleet being fully mission capable only 31.6 percent of the time, which was far below the minimum wartime target of 60 percent.[4] The inadequate ALIS will be replaced by the Operational Data Integrated Network (ODIN) by December 2022.[5] The RAAF will have to wait on ODIN and continue to experience poor availability and turnaround times.
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Nice to know they set the bar high:
“35 fleet being fully mission capable only 31.6 percent of the time, which was far below the minimum wartime target of 60 percent.”
 
krakouers85 said:
Nice to know they set the bar high:
“35 fleet being fully mission capable only 31.6 percent of the time, which was far below the minimum wartime target of 60 percent.”
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Fighter jets mate. Been like that since the Me262 started flying around.
 
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DesertRoo said:
If China wasn’t a threat, we’d be dumping weapons in West Papua.
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Maybe, but the USA wants us to be friends with Indonesia for a number of strategic reasons.
 
DesertRoo said:
Yep and im sure if we had our way the miners would be licking their lips to get into the whole of Papua..
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We did our best with Timor (with the Timor Sea gas) without pissing the Yanks off too much with Indonesia. Even then, the Yanks really dragged their feet in 1999.
 
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