The weight classes used to be round numbers, but they changed them all up or down a couple kilo in 1992 after a doping scandal in order to reset all the records.

And then they did the same thing in 1997, for the same reason.

And then they did the same thing in 2018, for the same reason.

It's very silly, but I guess it means we get more world record attempts?

Depending on atmospheric conditions bullet contrails can be very visible. Looks real to me.

Caught NPR this morning as they brought someone on to tell us:

• Raisi was the hardest of hard liners
• He hated America
• He even opposed the assassination of Suleimani, in an example of how hard-line he was
• He was actually just a puppet of the supreme leader
• And everyone in Iran hated him anyway

So I guess it was an assassination then?

Iskandr and Kinzhal don’t follow that ballistic missile trajectory, though. Neither does ATACMS. These are all semi-ballistic missiles that follow something closer to the "hypersonic glide vehicle" trajectory in your drawing (without the little skim maneuver, though, probably).

The real difference here is range. Things called "hypersonic glide vehicles" are intercontinental. Iskandr is "just" a missile that flys a low trajectory really fast.

Worked for Fidel, though?

There's an incredibly stupid Iowa state law saying their caucus has to be at least 8 days before any primary.

There's a similarly stupid New Hampshire state law saying their primary has to be at least 7 days before any other primary.

Those laws don't actually mean anything, and doubly so because there's actually no law saying primaries have to take place at all.

The Democratic and Republican parties put out their own schedules of what states get to go first, and if any state breaks the rules the results don't count.

This year the Democratic party said South Carolina is supposed to be the first primary, but New Hampshire set theirs first anyway, and so Biden wasn't on the ballot and the New Hampshire results don't count.

Just passed a pro-Palestine trucker convoy near the Islamic center in Rashida's district (I don't live there), kinda cool.

They also claimed to have damaged the Samum a while ago, but I’m not sure how anyone would be able to tell.

Its heartbreaking how the two coolest ships in the world just never worked right. There’s a grand total of two seconds of footage of Sivuch at full hover, and I was almost hoping we might get more. :(

EDIT: found it. Soviet archival footage of Sivuch fully out of the water running on turbines at 15 seconds.

I mean IOF are psychos, but that's an APFSDS shell. It's a big tungsten dart with no explosives in it. The only thing it can really destroy is an armored vehicle, since if you shot it at a car or a building it would just punch straight through and make a little hole.

So in context, this just seems like a really tasteless joke about "innocent tank crews". It's hard to find any extra outrage for this specifically.

Wait, that’s actually really impressive. How does that work?

Wire-guided ATGMs work because there’s a big beacon in the tail of the rocket for the launcher to home in on and give steering commands to. It doesn’t work if there are two of them (which is how the big silly glowing eyes thing on the T-90 defeats them, by the way).

Must be a digital guidance system with different beacon ID frequencies in the missiles?

Though when they showed both of them through the sight the second missile was all over the place, and all the combat footage was only one missile at a time. Dual shot was probably just for the cameras, but it did still appear to be guiding both of them, if poorly.

Looks like some sort of shaped charge, something similar to this, and it looks like he pointed the business end of it right towards the turret ring.

Decent chance that that thing took out the tank on its own, actually, if it was pointed the right direction and was the right distance (not too close, not too far) from something vital.

Historically the flat end of anti-tank grenades like that were magnetic so they could be stuck to the tank with the right stand-off from the armor, but maybe that doesn’t work as well today? Or more likely nobody expects to place a demo charge on a tank anymore.

Not a single person without dual citizenship will be on it.