If the A's are moving to Vegas that would put a major and a Triple-A in the same city (the Aviators; who are affiliated with the A's). That's an arrangement that generally doesn't last, especially in a market as small as Vegas .
I'd love to see the Aviators move east. There's a couple underserved markets that could take them.
transgenderism is somewhat devaluing women
No it doesn't. Men saying "I'm a woman now" doesn't devalue women, it just affirms that actual women have some value. I think you're so desperate to make BttK! a thing that its blinded you to reality.
There is no world, none, where you get the win you want, where feminism surrenders and begs to go back to the way things had been since forever. Won't happen.
But we absolutely can get a world where feminism goes right wing and let conservatism take out the social trash. They've literally done it before, in Germany.
Raytheon added semi active laser targeting to the M982 in the Excalibur S, so that 155mm shells could be directed in descent by apaches and reapers. The firing battery only has to get them in the ballpark.
They then added fire and forget capability with an onboard radar in the Excalibur N5, which is intended to be shot from the 5"/54 M45. Again, the firing battery only has to get it in the rough ballpark of where the target will be.
In short... we have the technology.
By the time the chinks are in arty range, they're already dashing for the beaches. You need to hit them further out.
Guided artillery shells aren't really useful against ships. They're for hitting static targets. Ships move.
You're mistaken.
The limitations you're envisioning do not exist in a hypothetical battle of the Taiwan Straits. That's because there will be zero possibility of friendly fire.
If you simply want an artillery round to pick a target and kill it, indiscriminately, that's easy. You can do it with 80's technology, and that's basically what the Bofors Strix m/49 does.
The only reason the Copperhead needed target designators was because we didn't want it attacking OUR OWN SHIT.
Also, ships don't move fast enough to EVADE artillery. In WW2 naval battles they weren't evading the shells, they were evading the firing solution that was putting the shells on them. Today that can be calculated by computer in microseconds.
the allies had 6,939 ships
And the Nazis didn't have guided fucking artillery shells.
A shore assault today is suicide, that's why we didn't actually try it in Desert Storm. It was only ever really feasible for Normandy because the allies spent two years building landing ships.
Listen to people who know TI...
Any attempt to force a landing against Taiwan, would be the naval equivalent of Pickett's Charge. They'll come out of their ports, and immediately be under long range sea skimming missile fire; Hsiung Feng III's and Harpoons. Halfway across the straits, they'll be into artillery range; steerable 203mm and 155 mm shells blowing clean through landing ships from hundreds of guns, as well as MLRS. By the time they get into sight of the shore, they'll be taking short ranged missile fire; javelins on every shoreside building, hellfires on helicopters.
If any of them mange to make it to the shore, they'll immediately be moving from a marine theater to an urban theater, the worst possible environment for an aggressor and the best possible environment for a determined defender. They'll have no remote, defensible beachhead because there is no remote shoreline.
Any attempt to conquer Taiwan will see the straits run red for a week with blood and burning wreckage.
St Louis's problem is the reputation of East St Louis.
If we just focus on East St Louis...
The interstates caused property values to tank. Dropping tax income caused budget cuts, driving the fire department to go on strike.
Dissatisfied with the police and fire situation, many large employers petitioned the state to let them secede from the city and negotiate police and fire services directly from St Clair County, further deepening the city's tax problems, causing maintenance deferral to spread into basic infrastructure maintenance.
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When Warmachine Mk 3 dropped, it became apparent that they'd done very little playtesting and that it was structured around rigid forcecomps clearly intended to sell more material.
As feedback started to roll in, they fired their entire community support team, and then pulled all convention appearances.
Then they started direct selling figures lootbox style at a discount, which swamped eBay with product below msrp, infuriating store owners.
Ehhh...
The most amazing transition for local game & comic store was in 2017, the year Privateer Press decided to shoot itself in the foot and go from commanding multiple whole shelves for warmahordes to being unceremoniously dumped in the discount bin.
It was a mistake for the US to leave Britain. Our style of government needs a politically impotent sovereign to keep the government conscious of its station.
If the US hadn't revolted, Parliament would be held in New York City now.