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PhotoKirk posted:So MY WIFE bought me a flight on the B-25 at the Lone Star Flight Museum. Anyone here been in a B-25? I'm hoping that we get to move around the plane and see the tail gun position, bombardier position, etc. I am stoked. It's not likely you'll be able to move between the front and back halves since there isn't a catwalk or passage through the bomb bay. Definitely aim for the front so you can experience the nose and top turret if they have one. They are way crammed compared to a B-17.
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crossposted, This is pretty odd, an LP of various engine noises from the coldwar uploaded to the internet. http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...weapons/274760/
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pbpancho posted:It's not likely you'll be able to move between the front and back halves since there isn't a catwalk or passage through the bomb bay. Definitely aim for the front so you can experience the nose and top turret if they have one. They are way crammed compared to a B-17. No top turret, looks like a J-model with the turret removed. I thought that there was a crawlspace over the bomb bay.
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PhotoKirk posted:No top turret, looks like a J-model with the turret removed. I thought that there was a crawlspace over the bomb bay. There is, technically, but it's very very tight, and I know the local CAF guys don't let people crawl through there.
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The USS Drum has been going through renovations slowly over the years, and they've recently made a breakthrough on how to fund the renovations. They've rediscovered and have been removing and selling the 50-100lb lead bricks used in the hull as ballast. They've removed 116 tons so far, all of it by hand. They've had to chisel the blocks loose from 70+ years of rust, mud, and muck. http://blog.al.com/live/2013/04/lead_recycling_nets_more_than.html
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n0tqu1tesane posted:The USS Drum has been going through renovations slowly over the years, and they've recently made a breakthrough on how to fund the renovations. They've rediscovered and have been removing and selling the 50-100lb lead bricks used in the hull as ballast. They've removed 116 tons so far, all of it by hand. They've had to chisel the blocks loose from 70+ years of rust, mud, and muck. hah, that's amazing.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:The USS Drum has been going through renovations slowly over the years, and they've recently made a breakthrough on how to fund the renovations. They've rediscovered and have been removing and selling the 50-100lb lead bricks used in the hull as ballast. They've removed 116 tons so far, all of it by hand. They've had to chisel the blocks loose from 70+ years of rust, mud, and muck. Very cool. I stopped off there around 2006 or so and toured the Alabama, and looked at the sub from a distance...it was in really rough shape even back then.
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Godholio posted:Very cool. I stopped off there around 2006 or so and toured the Alabama, and looked at the sub from a distance...it was in really rough shape even back then. I toured it in early 2010, if I recall correctly, and it was pretty neat. I'll try and see if I can find the pictures. If you're ever around Mobile, it's definetely worth a look, they've even got an A-12 (Or an SR-71, either way, worth the price of admission).
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Godholio posted:Very cool. I stopped off there around 2006 or so and toured the Alabama, and looked at the sub from a distance...it was in really rough shape even back then. Yeah, it's been in rough shape for a long time. 30 years in the water without any sort of dry dock painting/repair left it in really rough shape when they moved it to its current location. The interior is generally in a lot better shape though.
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Someone posted a .pdf of Ignition! online. I remember the book being discussed earlier in this thread, figured someone else would be interested.
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All this talk of the USS Drum makes me want to go see it again. It's only an hour from where I live, but I haven't been there in decades. I will share some of my Cold War Library. Have some official publications.  Gaming anyone?  Osprey Books  Other books bought at the time. 
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ToyotaThong posted:All this talk of the USS Drum makes me want to go see it again. What's up, SOVIET MILITARY POWER buddy! I have 1987 around here somewhere. I love how the entire book (pamphlet?) seems geared towards Scaring The poo poo Out of Congresspeople and Presidents. "SOVIET MILITARY POWER 1987 posted:"The Soviets are everywhere! They're building lasers! THey're building SPACE lasers! They're building space shotguns to defeat our space lasers! More funding! Fulda Gap! Fulda Gap! More funding! Mysterious shapes in Vladivostok harbor! Scary submarines! More Funding!"
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Not Nipsy Russell posted:What's up, SOVIET MILITARY POWER buddy! I have 1987 around here somewhere. I love how the entire book (pamphlet?) seems geared towards Scaring The poo poo Out of Congresspeople and Presidents. No kidding. It was the best piece of Soviet propaganda outside of a May Day parade. I was thinking about some rather unusual questions regarding nuclear war policy. In the event of an ICBM/SLBM strike, would a government try to warn the populace? With only 30 minutes to an hour, evacuation of a major population center would be impossible. The panic caused could be more destructive than the attack itself (depending on the number of weapons used). If there wasn't a general warning, would only "key" personel be evacuated?
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Russian interview with a Syrian Army tanker, talking about their experience with the T-72M1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udH9uveEQOY
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I was flipping through a Tank Encyclopedia recently and it mentioned two American light tanks armed with the Ares 75mm hyper velocity cannon. I was wondering if anyone had more information about these tanks and this cannon? I recall they didn't find any buyers and they could only sell it to NATO countries due to the cannon.
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Looks like a death trap to me. I ain't never sittin' in no aluminium armoured vehicle. http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product4488.html
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Sjurygg posted:Looks like a death trap to me. I ain't never sittin' in no aluminium armoured vehicle. http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product4488.html so no bradley, sheridan or M113?
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Flikken posted:so no bradley, sheridan or M113? Or LVTP7
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ToyotaThong posted:All this talk of the USS Drum makes me want to go see it again. Somewhere I have a tote containing my old role playing games, Twilight 2000, Traveller, Star Frontiers and 1st and 2nd Ed AD&D. My copy of Eldritch Wizardry was destroyed when my apartment was flooded. Some good memories even if they are a bit "hazy". 
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MG42 posted:I was flipping through a Tank Encyclopedia recently and it mentioned two American light tanks armed with the Ares 75mm hyper velocity cannon. 
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Gonna do a Twilight:2000-esque game in TD very, very soon. You guys should get in on it.
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Oxford Comma posted:Gonna do a Twilight:2000-esque game in TD very, very soon. You guys should get in on it. I assume you mean TG? and what game system where you going to use?
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Not Nipsy Russell posted:"The Soviets are everywhere! They're building lasers! THey're building SPACE lasers! They're building space shotguns to defeat our space lasers! More funding! Fulda Gap! Fulda Gap! More funding! Mysterious shapes in Vladivostok harbor! Scary submarines! More Funding!" Caspar Weinberger?
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MG42 posted:I was flipping through a Tank Encyclopedia recently and it mentioned two American light tanks armed with the Ares 75mm hyper velocity cannon. Hyper velocity cannon is an awesome term.
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Ho Chi Mint posted:Hyper velocity cannon is an awesome term. Which is exactly the reason why I was interested by it. Sounded like some crazy Cold War project. Thanks for the information guys, answered some of the questions I had.
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Beardless posted:I assume you mean TG? and what game system where you going to use? Better be actual Twilight 2000. If it's not, I is uninterested. If it's Twilight 2000, I may be convinced to get in the basement and dust off my dice.
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I remember the original Twilight 2000 system as being akin to a playing a game based around filling out a day planner while rolling a die for every conceivable part of the act of firing a gun.
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Scratch Monkey posted:I remember the original Twilight 2000 system as being akin to a playing a game based around filling out a day planner while rolling a die for every conceivable part of the act of firing a gun. Pretty much this.
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Beardless posted:I assume you mean TG? and what game system where you going to use? Either the original Twilight 2000 rules or, hehehe, GURPS.
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Having skimmed the original Twilight 2k system, it reminds me of a post-apocalyptic Shadowrun or D&D 3.5, which is a fairly damning indictment of modern RPG design when you remember T2K came out in 1984.
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Oxford Comma posted:Either the original Twilight 2000 rules or, hehehe, GURPS. If you ran that in GURPS 4th edition i'd be all over that. GURPS is pretty much all I play these days.
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Forums Terrorist posted:Having skimmed the original Twilight 2k system, it reminds me of a post-apocalyptic Shadowrun or D&D 3.5, which is a fairly damning indictment of modern RPG design when you remember T2K came out in 1984. Twilight:2000 2nd Ed. is still my favorite. Then there is this. 
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Beardless posted:If you ran that in GURPS 4th edition i'd be all over that. GURPS is pretty much all I play these days. I'm about 93% sure it'll be GURPS.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Someone posted a .pdf of Ignition! online. I remember the book being discussed earlier in this thread, figured someone else would be interested. Thanks for posting this, but for some reason I can't read the actual document.
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Oxford Comma posted:I'm about 93% sure it'll be GURPS. Awesome, let me know when you're ready to go. I'll have to look at the setting, my understanding is that the original game at least was about US soldiers stuck in Europe after the Cold War goes hot.
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Beardless posted:Awesome, let me know when you're ready to go. I'll have to look at the setting, my understanding is that the original game at least was about US soldiers stuck in Europe after the Cold War goes hot. Pretty much that. Fragmented parts of the army with massive military might (and no logistics) move slowly through the landscape of Eastern Europe looking for fuel and munitions and periodically get asked by scared and IED laden village people to help them address an EVIL THREAT as well as hold the potential for gaining more fuel and ammo. Rinse, repeat.
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Beardless posted:Awesome, let me know when you're ready to go. I'll have to look at the setting, my understanding is that the original game at least was about US soldiers stuck in Europe after the Cold War goes hot. As Polish units began to overrun the Division HQ, the Division commander radioed in the clear to all units: "Good luck, you're on your own." Also, as much as I loved Twilight 2000, 2300AD was -the poo poo- and I wish it was still in print. 
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If you actually start recruitment, I'll be more than willing to join up, given I've got steady housing and such by then.
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Is Twilight the system that had the dispersion overlays for gunfire? I remember one of those games having them in the back of the book where you would lay it over the appropriate outline and roll the percentage dice to see where your shot went.
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Sign me up too. Its been years since I've "visited" Krakow.
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