u/anton

the reason the bombers were in the open is due to Russian compliance with the START treaty.

First, Russia suspended it's participation in new START

Second, are you sure that's a requirement of the treaty?

The only relevant article I could find is the following (emphasis mine):

Article X

1. For the purpose of ensuring verification of compliance

with the provisions of this Treaty, each Party undertakes:

(a) to use national technical means of verification at

its disposal in a manner consistent with generally recognized

principles of international law;

(b) not to interfere with the national technical means of

verification of the other Party operating in accordance with

this Article; and

(c) not to use concealment measures that impede

verification, by national technical means of verification, of

compliance with the provisions of this Treaty.

2. The obligation not to use concealment measures includes

the obligation not to use them at test ranges, including

measures that result in the concealment of ICBMs, SLBMs, ICBM

launchers, or the association between ICBMs or SLBMs and their

launchers during testing. **The obligation not to use

concealment measures shall not apply** to cover or concealment

practices at ICBM bases or **to the use of environmental

shelters for strategic offensive arms**.

Looks to me like plane hangars are allowed while the tires on planes that they actually used are illegal as they don't protect against the weather and just exist to fool bad satellite images.

Goes to show, that technology can only get you so far, if your doctrine sucks.

Also, they downed one and damaged another, why did they cross of three?

The right to asylum was put into the constitution because many victims of the holocaust where denied entry to other counties before getting rounded up and killed.

If a stranger is running down the street, chased by a guy with a blood soaked knife, would you let them in?

Edit: spelling

Not when the critical infrastructure is the infrastructure for storing and moving those materials.

Also people tend to settle where trade happens and work is available.

Because the rocket equation is brutal.

A rocket is almost entirely fuel some structure and a minuscule amount of payload. If you want to save fuel for for relanding you need to take less payload or accept a lower orbit.

If we look at Falcon 9, the payload to geostationary transfer orbit^* goes from 8,300 kg when expended, to

5,500 kg when landing on a barge or

3,500 kg when landing on the launch site.

\* meaning the payload needs an additional stage to enter geostationary orbit

Now this is pod racing.

Before nix was used as the name of a dependency manager and linux distribution it was used to describe unix style operating systems.