Its a good idea, but the agreement we have with them is for defensive weapons only so as not to antagonize the Chinese. I believe this has been discussed before, but submarines are a decidedly antagonistic weapon. See what the N Koreans did a couple years back in sinking a S Korean ship.

A little revolution now and then can be a good thing.

Only in a ground war, where their numbers and "trash" can apply. In the sea or the air, they are no match for the USA. And yes, they have been stealing much of their technology, but that's been since the Korean War when they were getting much from the USSR and using it to fund North Korea in a proxy war against us. (And if you review that war, we were killing them 5 to one in the air.)

And yes again with their looting. Between their currency manipulations, IP theft, and other shenanigans, they are way ahead of where they would be otherwise.

FME have the old designs, and they license larger Colt-Pielstick designs. Their engines are much larger and heavier that modern designs. Modern companies leveraging commercial breadth like Caterpillar and Wärtsilä have eclipsed them.
We work with them and tried to help them win back the Columbia Class, but no avail. Nice people, old factory.

Paralleled out of phase. No automatic lockout on most Nucs that I know of. Maybe the diesel boats had them, before Rickover.
In this case, they were bringing the diesel on, paralleling it with a TG

I had never heard of QAnon before, but it seems his interpretations are off, Assange is till in the embassy, because of a British Judge, suposedly Sweden has quit chasing him. But, while looking for more current QAnon stuff found this one, and this guy does a really good job of exposing Jimmy Kimmel as the hypocritical liar he is:

https://youtu.be/qesgL-SHpbA

This one is almost hilarious:

https://youtu.be/jDzUhNk7_Mg

Hi Nickursis this video is a good addition to your historical background for the mufti that has morphed into the Moslem brotherhood. Obama was all all in with Morsi in Egypt. The truth will prevail.
https://youtu.be/awwx9DLBlbU

There was a really interesting documentary on the History Channel a while back that covered how we got where we are, and it had to do with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who had attacked the British and was wanted for murder, running to Germany, and getting a radio station of his own, where he spouted "Jhihad" messages to all arab states for the rest of the war, till towards the end when he figured it was time to bail. He goes back, in hiding, hangs out, then reveals he is alive after the British withdraw and starts all over again.He was the inventor of "Jihad" as a war, and did it all as Nazi propaganda. The one of Hitlers best commando officers ( a real mean guy) goes to Egypt after the war (even though a wanted war criminal) and trains the Egyptian military, creates a secret commando group, trains them in all the terrorists techniques, and essentially creates Hamas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relatio...

http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmas...

https://legalinsurrection.com/2015/10...

I feel like the intellectual bankruptcy of the majority in our democracy (mob rule) presents such a force for collectivism that it’s virtually irreversible at this point. I think trump can slow this slide, but look at the resistance he is getting to nearly everything he is doing. He resistance to liberalism has gotten liberals and the establishment to hate him to the core. Obamacare will be replaced by Medicaid for everyone by 2020. The daca fix looks like 1.8 million new citizens will be legal. There isn’t much we can do about it. Revolution is coming along with economic collapse and martial law. Maybe not in my lifetime, but we will become another venezuela

BUT FM engines were absolutely awesome. I was on the only Pacific force submarine to have a runaway in 1979/80 (USS Gudgeon), that is a spectacular event, had a crank case explosion and shut down finally, but they actually were able to rebuild it in the boat and get it going again after a month or so.

I am not sure what "closing a breaker 180 out" is, do you mean running it 180 degrees out of phase? Our system had a lockout that made you be in phase no more than .5% before you could start paralleling load, and the diesel was only on the non vital busses, the battery supplied vital busses which was why you HAD to heat up the hibachi and get it going again. You could use the diesel to feed a motor generator that was isolated and use it to charge the battery, in case you were in real deep doo, to try to get started again. The new reactor designs gave you a lot more latitude for start up scenarios.

I feel like we are giving up.

I meant cutting personal expenses. I don’t think we can cut government expenses given the statist bent of our government. But we can starve the beast somewhat

FME is in trouble. Virginia and Columbia Class went to Caterpilar.

I have a good story about a guy paralleling an FME gen, when a wave washed over the head valve, and he closed the breaker 180 out.
Probably happened many times, but damn rough on equipment.

Absolutely true. They are making significant advances.

Expenses in government?

I’m afraid your sentements about Taiwan may be dated. They have mileneals too.

Level setting has to happen. Someone (or something) has to do the low paying work, or it becomes higher paid (by demand) and prices go up. Standard of living must reset.

Just to add perspective, here is an article that indicates that a submarine crew died because they were, well, stupid, as well as having really, really bad equipment. After 20 years on submarines (4 of them on our last diesels) yes, you can eat up your air with the "head valve" closed (we did it on a Trident, lost depth control and our FairbanksMorse drew a large vacuum, until the safety switch cut in), but you ALWAYS have a redundant switch system in place that will kill the diesel when you reach an inch to an inch and 1/4 of mercury. If they didin't they are dumb submariners. But it shows the limitations and the people limits they have. They have a lot of people, and quanity has a quality all it's own, but they seem to still be trying to catch up.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-...

Excellent point Doc, and I think you are very accurate here. The do need some way to "cull the herd" and what better way than a nice local war? Just make it with someone who would have a hard time getting to you, and has lots of really cool toys to toss your way.

Need to be careful about assumptions with the Chinese, they love to have you underestimate and misread them. They have been pursuing a goal of technology and parity with Russia and the US for 30 years now, and have stolen a huge chunk of it. They would not be able to afford their huge military except they got a couple trillion of GDP based on stuff they never paid for. But they will be a dangerous adversary, who can outgun and out man you 10:1 even with trash. A lot of trash can still kill you.

Jan, I dont think there is a "good" or "right" side in Syria, it has been a Russian puppet state since the 60's, and we never seem to learn "beware the mujaheddin you help today will become the Taliban of tomorrow". So, yes, there is no good place to be in Syria, except maybe to just tell them to keep their messes in their borders. The problem is always that the muslim world is like a democrat party meeting, new and better ideas keep popping up to take over. So, you have an enlightened self interest to try to keep a lid on it.

Maybe by first cutting expenses on things we really don’t need. That reduces the need for income. Therefore sales taxes are reduced, income taxes are reduced, as are most other taxes. Government can only become more intrusive as it gets more money

I agree with you that the war in Syria now is pointless, as were several of our other recent wars over there.

But I would support a Middle East war if it were to defend, or at least rescue, (1) Christians in countries like Egypt where they are being genocided; (2) Kurds and Armenians; (3) women trapped in countries like Saudi Arabia; and especially (4) Israel. But it should have a stated goal, and a commitment to stop when we achieve that goal, not sooner and not later.

And we should have dumped several of our so-called allies in the region long ago because they oppose all of those causes. I'm talking about Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Emirates, Pakistan, and whichever side in Yemen we're supporting this week. If they won't accept (1) through (4) then let all of them duke it out with Iran without our help, because they are just as bad as Iran.

I would also like to see us start an Arabic-language equivalent of Radio Free Europe, to encourage people to either overthrow those countries or flee them. China would be a good target for a similar effort, too, and I'll bet Taiwan would be glad to host it.

If we could set policy, we deal with domestic issues as top priority while maintaining necessary defense, not empire building.
But we don't set policy, so we could use the most effective domestic weapon we still have against looters, the economy.