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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
Last post by Lods -
A post from Torrie Lewis.

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A bit weird to post this 1.5 years later, but today I got the news that I was the 1st clean runner across the line in the 200m U20 World championships in 2024.
So after the DQ of the runner who tested positive I can happily say I am the U20 200m World Champion

The original WC winner Adaejah Hodge was disqualified for testing positive to a banned substance.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
There’s clearly some crossover with the Taco thread; who else would sell merchandise from the recent dignified transfer of war dead?

Then there’s the wearing of the campaign baseball cap when civilians are supposed to be bare headed and the salute that only military personnel may make.  Stolen valour and grifting!

Perhaps we could change Thry’s clever thread title to “I ran so far away from the Epstein files” but the seagulls are already flocking with evil intent outside the local takeaway 🙄
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
It’s interesting that we supplied AMRAAMs to UAE along with the Wedgetail electronic warfare aircraft.

An AMRAAM costs $2.4M, a Shahed drone costs $20K.  That’s asymmetrical warfare.

Ukraine is leading the world in countering the Shahed drone threat with effective and relatively cheap weapons systems, including the Australian Slinger and Droneshield systems.

The USA expressed an interest in our Wedgetail but decided that their satellite system was better; it’s not!  Similarly, the USA determined that their high tech, expensive anti-aircraft missiles were the best anti-drone weapons; they’re not!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by LP -
The asymmetry of modern warfare is a big deal, any country can knock up dozens or even hundreds of drones a day, in fact Australia has been a leader in this teaching Ukraine to manufacture cardboard drones that are virtually radar invisible and can be built for a few dollars each while delivering astounding lethality. All the fancy design and sleek carbon fibre lines are actually a hinderance.

In the meantime active defence systems are complicated and need calibration and tuning to be effective, if operated without calibration the defences become like deploying fly swatters versus a swarming hive.

Phalanx and such systems even need calibrated munitions to perform effectively, you just can't make enough of the good munitions fast enough to sustain long term battles, so they put troops on the ground.