@unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
2026-03-16 15:45 UTC
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@qyron@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-16 16:12
My country is a bit towards the south and nobody really knows how our ships still manage to float. We have ships where the entire navigation suite has been replaced with a commercial GPS. The guns are fired... Every now and then. Sparingly. We still have ammunition from the 70's in stock. Some times we even manage to misplace equipment. Yet somehow we're considered as the reliable ally, although a bit... wierd.
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@Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-17 11:09
While true, Germany also has quite strict rules on rating equipment to not be ready. A broken heating or turning indicator on an IFV means it counts as non operational. For ships there’s a rule of thumb. One is operational and on a mission, one is being refueled and restocked, one is being refit, maintained, or upgraded. So you need three units to always have one available. Germany has six submarines, meaning two are always available for active operations. For planes you have to do hours of maintenance for every minute in the air. The Bundeswehr used to lack funds and personnel, now it lacks mostly qualified personnel.