So today’s leak (at least 14th now) of military hardware docs (a second batch of Su-57 schematics) to the War Thunder Forums got me thinking about the value of being right on the internet. In terms of years making little rocks out of big rocks in Kansas (or in this case its Siberian equivalent) how much do you value being right on the internet? What do you think drives these dorks to this shit?
I can see it from the perspective that you get caught up in an argument that you know the answer to, but then you do not recognize where you are arguing about it. I assume if a military person starts saying stuff they know about how I might be wrong about the tech a military object has, I have to listen to it. The problem ends up if that person comes off as someone like dayton. In an argument with a dayton you would need citations. Now you put a dayton, which the armed forces has a bunch of, in the position where they know they are correct and can actually cite it to win the argument. Of course they are going to. The shit is going to happen especially if you have video game arguments over this could do that. Therer are tons of youtube videos dedicated to swords and arrows doing this and that sort of damage so your game is not doing the correct stats. We have tons of shows about how movies are not accurate. Of coyurse the arguments end up to the point of citations and a better educated populace. This is not terribly surprising that these technical specs get leaked either due to bragging or nerd rage. How much does it really matter when your enemy already knows you have these weapons? Maybe it does when you are making IEDs and you do not have real military intelligence to work with. It is a new world, and the military has their secrets to protect against a whole new method of leaking. In the old world you had to meet and befriend a person in the know in person. Now you could be on a message board or playing a video game with a person who knows things from thousands of miles away. This is not a new stupidity, it is just new access to old stupidity and security weakness.
I try to be as correct as I can be, with the understanding that humans make mistakes all of the time, often with the best of intentions.
that is another good point. when you get into a nerdy tech discussion, you need to get technical on levels your opponents cannot. When you are not talking about fantasy tech light lightsabers or photon torpedoes and you have the actual technical details you have to discuss these things or else your head is going to explode. BTW newcomer, you should be warned about liking me or my posts as it will piss everyone who has no value off. Just beware, I have cooties and you could catch them by talking to me. Just look at @steve2^4 and all the cooties crawling all over him.
LOL. I have ZERO ability to know if this is true or not but a person commenting in that thread said her mother was the mayor of a city that got a lot of port calls from foreign navies. And that she would always ask the captain to sign her Jane’s book for that ship. And that a Russian captain took the opportunity to correct Jane’s on some aspects and capabilities of his ship. Again, no idea if true or not: https://bsky.app/profile/fatapollo.bsky.social/post/3kptzr4u7xt23
As a person who has gamed I have had to recognize that I could always be playing with a person from a foreign country. What sort of fucking idiot are you where you are in the military of the US but still think everyone you talk to online is an american and can be trusted. My thought is that the military needs to watch their boys a little better if they want their specs to remain a secret. Maybe if it is really that important you do not let the people who deal with these things play online video games with the rest of the world?
