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LP97S
Apr 25, 2008

VikingSkull posted:

I know they are horrible weapons and all, but I'd really like to watch a test of a nuke one day. Maybe I'm sick.

Don't worry, I've been thinking the same thing in past. I'm sure they could make boatloads of cash with broadcasting rights and DVD/online sales of selling a hi-def broadcast.

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rossmum
Dec 2, 2008

Cummander ross, reporting for duty!

:gooncamp:
I wouldn't say it's really sick, they are quite a beautiful and awesome sight. Unfortunately what they do is the polar opposite, but I understand where you're coming from.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
What they -do- is make a lot of heat really quickly. It's what people might use them for that's questionable.

I mean most of us see massive unquenchable fusion fire every day and only the gooniest look up and go MY GOD THAT'S SO HORRIBLE

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

1953 LIFE: Hydrogen (bomb) age is upon us - it brings a new magnitude of problems

Oxford Comma
Jun 26, 2011
Oxford Comma: Hey guys I want a cool big dog to show off! I want it to be ~special~ like Thor but more couch potato-like because I got babbies in the house!
Everybody: GET A LAB.
Oxford Comma: OK! (gets a a pit/catahoula mix)
I can't watch nuclear missile launches after seeing Threads at an impressionable age.

rossmum
Dec 2, 2008

Cummander ross, reporting for duty!

:gooncamp:

Snowdens Secret posted:

What they -do- is make a lot of heat really quickly. It's what people might use them for that's questionable.

I mean most of us see massive unquenchable fusion fire every day and only the gooniest look up and go MY GOD THAT'S SO HORRIBLE
Well, yeah, but as far as I'm aware nobody has the ability to tell the sun to go over and gently caress up a country they don't like. v:shobon:v

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd
I'm sure most of you have probably seen this picture, but if not...



(click through for huge)

Time lapse of 8 MIRV'd RVs from a Peacekeeper impacting at Kwajalein.

Snorkio
Aug 31, 2001

Pope John Paul Atreides the Four Hundredth
I have always been fascinated by the various cold war ABM strategies. The fact that they had such a system going back to the '60s is incredible.

I recently got a book US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004 by Mark Berhow. It's full of pictures, diagrams and maps.

I have a few of the Safeguard, hope its not a repost of anything.

Safeguard antiballistic missile defense engagement

MSR = Raytheon Missile Site Radar
PAR = phased-array Perimeter Acquisition Radar (it had a range of approx. 1000 miles)

Proposed Safeguard deployment, 1969


Spartan, three-stage long-range inteceptor, flying at Mach 9 to 300 miles altitude to detonate a W-71 5 megaton warhead

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd
Seems a good time to repost this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Missiles hitting missiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4KFB54DwrM

THAAD is so accurate that it's just ridiculous.

also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkMj1V5npfw

hannibal
Jul 27, 2001

[img-planes]

mlmp08 posted:

Missiles hitting missiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4KFB54DwrM

THAAD is so accurate that it's just ridiculous.

also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkMj1V5npfw

These are awesome. Looks like you can see the THAAD maybe adjusting its course on the way in, in the first video?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

hannibal posted:

These are awesome. Looks like you can see the THAAD maybe adjusting its course on the way in, in the first video?

Yeah, it has a pile of motors to adjust course during end-game. I can't recall whether or not they're cold gas motors like the PAC-3 is.

The end of this video shows pretty clearly the PAC-3 interceptor firing off a pile of attitude control motors to make it's last instant adjustments before getting a kinetic kill on its target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnWpJZkvq0o

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

poo poo like that is crazy.

Think for a moment about the sort of "long range" shooting that just about every member of TFR could probably do. Say, ringing a six inch gong at 200 yards with a properly sighted in AR.

Now think about all the different variables that go into that fairly simple and easy task. Lining up the sights, having elevation properly dialed in for 200 yards, establishing a good support for the weapon (whether standing or proned out), etc. Let's assume that you're using match grade ammo out of a match upper so it's all on you - no fliers due to Wolf having a lovely day at the factory or whatever. Even with making everything as easy as possible, if you gently caress up and end up aiming at a point more than 1.5 degrees off from the center of the target, you're going to miss - and that's for a pretty loving easy shot. The target isn't moving, it's straight ahead of the shooter, etc.

Now think about the variables and math involved in smashing one object that's going something crazy like Mach 7 or 8 at an oblique angle to the "shooter" with another object that is in a completely different location from the shooter that itself needs to fire, hit mach 9, and course-correct in mid-air to smash something that is, in the grand scheme of things, loving TINY and in all likelihood is deploying countermeasures.

And, despite all that, they manage to actually score some hits.

loving hell. :psyduck:

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
No, Cyrano, it's no biggie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bby5pOVZJ0

I know this is a repost, but it's pretty good.

edit: not to mention, your system needs to do constant RCS/size/separation/trajectory/impact point/drag tests in order to avoid wasting missiles on decoys, boosters, various missile parts, debris, etc.

mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jul 21, 2012

Slamburger
Jun 27, 2008


This sounds like a Laurel and Hardy sketch.

Groda
Mar 17, 2005

Hair Elf

Slamburger posted:

This sounds like a Laurel and Hardy sketch.

Abbott and Costello?

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

LP97S posted:

Don't worry, I've been thinking the same thing in past. I'm sure they could make boatloads of cash with broadcasting rights and DVD/online sales of selling a hi-def broadcast.

I really want to see a nuke go off in space. See how close they get to a spherical shape.

darnon
Nov 8, 2009
Pretty spherical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEILIf8VkgI

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009

Space nukes, gently caress yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILXoPluHtw

Alpine Mustache
Jul 11, 2000

iyaayas01 posted:

Seems a good time to repost this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA

Sprint missiles are loving insane.
Someone needs to make more of them and launch them off periodically just because they are so cool.

Edit: Minus the nuclear warheads.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Those intercept altitudes look to be just comically low. Sheesh.

Force de Fappe
Nov 7, 2008

Yeah. We're talking hosed vs. totally hosed. Having a high-radiation weapon firing above your own turf is no joke, but if it means you can miss a shockwave and fireball above some strategic point you might decide it's worth the cost.

Make no mistake though, in a nuclear war we all die.

FEMA summer camp
Jan 22, 2006

Thought I'd take a break from lurking the thread to brag about the books my girlfriend ordered for me for no reason.



She knows me so well.

Koesj
Aug 3, 2003
Man I'd love to own 'The Soviet War Machine' just to count the number of references they make to such vaunted planes as the Tu-26 and the Su-19.

Vindolanda
Feb 13, 2012

It's just like him too, y'know?
"Inside the Soviet Army" by Suvorov (I think) is a great read, partly because it shows that the soviet army was almost as rife with horrible bullying and drugs and general russianness as the russian army is today.

wkarma
Jul 16, 2010
Here's some cold warriors rusting away. Some BIG cold warriors. And a cat.

http://translate.google.com/transla...om%2F17486.html

rossmum
Dec 2, 2008

Cummander ross, reporting for duty!

:gooncamp:
I will never cease to be amazed at the sheer size of those things. Shame they're letting them just rust away like that, but some great photos at least. I would love to see one for myself one day, but not bloody likely.

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd
It's borderline cliche at this point, but whenever I see pictures like that I can't help but think what Western intelligence agencies would have gone through to get pictures like that 25 years ago.

Of course, the more things change



the more they stay the same.



Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

wkarma posted:

Here's some cold warriors rusting away. Some BIG cold warriors. And a cat.

http://translate.google.com/transla...om%2F17486.html



If you haven't seen this, it's worth watching the whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSDYOdQ9YiQ

There's like six meta-levels of crazy in it

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.
I keep meaning to do a longer British cold war post but keep getting sidetracked. In the meanwhile...

had everything gone all hosed up during the 60's, this is what would have been issued to every UK household-

Civil Defence Handbook No.10 "Advising the Householder on protection against nuclear attack"













It was the forerunner to the "Protect And Survive" manuals meant for distribution in the late 70's/80's

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

DesperateDan posted:

I keep meaning to do a longer British cold war post but keep getting sidetracked. In the meanwhile...

had everything gone all hosed up during the 60's, this is what would have been issued to every UK household-

Civil Defence Handbook No.10 "Advising the Householder on protection against nuclear attack"













It was the forerunner to the "Protect And Survive" manuals meant for distribution in the late 70's/80's

I've got a Swiss civil defense manual and it's a bunch of the same stuff. "How to survive if Zürich gets nuked" coupled with a bunch of different ideas for how or why Switzerland might end up in a war.

It's hilarious how optimistic it is about survival rates.

AstuteCat
May 4, 2007

Cyrano4747 posted:

I've got a Swiss civil defense manual and it's a bunch of the same stuff. "How to survive if Zürich gets nuked" coupled with a bunch of different ideas for how or why Switzerland might end up in a war.

It's hilarious how optimistic it is about survival rates.

The thing here is that I don't believe the governments were at all naive about survival rates, I think the tone of this documentation (and indeed, all of the machinations of civil defence organisations around the world) was all done despite them knowing the reality all too well.

I'm pretty sure the government really wished that the survival rate in the published literature was true as much as anyone reading it - the reality was that it was basically the equivalent of the oxygen masks on a crashing 747 keeping people calm.

Also, here's a random GIF for no reason:

Insane Totoro
Dec 5, 2005

Take cover!!!
That Totoro has an AR-15!
Is there any veracity to the claims that peeing on the bomb bay doors of a B-17 would cause the doors to freeze shut?

Mr Crustacean
May 13, 2009

one (1) robosexual
avatar, as ordered

Insane Totoro posted:

Is there any veracity to the claims that peeing on the bomb bay doors of a B-17 would cause the doors to freeze shut?

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3492028&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post405580735

quote:

Flying Forts posted:
There had been one problem plaguing the British which, since it never showed up on the American Fortresses sent to very high altitude, mystified the Boeing engineers and AAF specialists assigned to B-17 development. RAF crews had complained, on enough occasions to make the matter one of alarm, that at high altitude the bomb-bay doors would jam. There was never a pattern to the the jamming. Before takeoff the doors would cycle properly. Everything checked out. Then at high altitude with its subzero temperatures, the doors refused to open.

"We went out of our minds trying to get a fix on it," a Boeing engineer told the writer. "But we could never get the same kind of problem that seemed to be giving the British fits. Then we had the chance to talk directly to one of the people who was assigned to England as a technical representative on the Fortress I. When he heard how we were trying to solve the problem of the jammed bomb-bay doors, he started as us in disbelief. Then he doubled up and roared with laughter.

"It turned out that the British had already solved their problem. You know what it was? It didn't have a damned thing to do with the Fortress or its electrical system or its bomb-bay doors. It seemed that while the airplane was climbing out to altitude the crewmen took the last-moment opportunity to relieve themselves. Some of them urinated into the bomb bay because there's a slight opening where the doors meet. And when the airplane climbed to where it was anywhere from thirty to eighty degrees below zero, you'd better believe those doors were frozen solid..."

Xerxes17
Feb 17, 2011

Snowdens Secret posted:

If you haven't seen this, it's worth watching the whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSDYOdQ9YiQ

There's like six meta-levels of crazy in it

I'd like to know what the orchestral theme that plays a few times is. I swear I've heard it before.

Insane Totoro
Dec 5, 2005

Take cover!!!
That Totoro has an AR-15!

Like an actual citation. I suppose I could go to the library and get the book but I work in a library and this requires effort.

PhotoKirk
Jul 2, 2007

insert witty text here

wkarma posted:

Here's some cold warriors rusting away. Some BIG cold warriors. And a cat.

http://translate.google.com/transla...om%2F17486.html



I really expected it to be a bit more high tech than that.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

wkarma posted:

Here's some cold warriors rusting away. Some BIG cold warriors. And a cat.

http://translate.google.com/transla...om%2F17486.html



Knowing that someone built a multi-billion dollar nuclear-powered steel bubble to lurk hundreds of feet under the ocean and await orders to destroy the world, for months on end, and then put a swimming pool inside it, is just the best thing ever.

Full Collapse
Dec 4, 2002

The Proc posted:

Knowing that someone built a multi-billion dollar nuclear-powered steel bubble to lurk hundreds of feet under the ocean and await orders to destroy the world, for months on end, and then put a swimming pool inside it, is just the best thing ever.

Because they're Russian.

To add:



This thing had a cot in the back. Why? Russians.

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Koesj
Aug 3, 2003
TBF that should help with crew endurance, same goes for the swimming pool on the sub.

Not that the Su-34 will get that far without tanker aircraft or that a Typhoon will go on a particularly long mission.

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