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Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
I don't know much about mortars, but I would guess it would have to do with the fusing being compatible.

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Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Here's the latest DIY weapon from the Syrian rebels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=428U4DtHHbM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86f76b_joWI

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

grover posted:

I think I saw one of those at Phantom Fireworks

Except more accurate (at Phantom).

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


The KEEP OFF GRASS sign with a buncha sparse dead grass behind it makes it

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

EBB
Feb 15, 2005


Big motherfucker. What is that, 200 mm?

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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hosed up

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012



the gently caress?

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
Gotta be a parody.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Carteret posted:

the gently caress?

IDR

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

The tie clasp really TIES it together :haw:

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
These constant uniform changes are getting weird.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!




Oh ho ho got a goddamned comedian here!

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
What I don't get is how someone will put forth the effort to go out and buy a uniform and awards but not do a simple Google search to figure out how its all worn.

But I guess someone that smart wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Do The Evolution
Aug 5, 2013

but why

It wouldn't be a video from Syria without some allahu akbar thrown in, I guess. Pretty awesome innovation.

grover
Jan 23, 2002

PEW PEW PEW
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Mustang posted:

What I don't get is how someone will put forth the effort to go out and buy a uniform and awards but not do a simple Google search to figure out how its all worn.

But I guess someone that smart wouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Nah, that's quite clearly a parody of stolen valor. Too many clearly intentional mistakes.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

grover posted:

Nah, that's quite clearly a parody of stolen valor. Too many clearly intentional mistakes.

Ahem.



Edit: V It looks like enlisted wings to me.

Godholio fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Sep 28, 2013

Sax Offender
Sep 9, 2007

College Slice
It's a shame how they mistreated that MSgt. Why, he didn't become a Command Pilot and freeze his balls off in Antarctica during his Army infantry days to be thrown out like that!

Edit: I love how he got the new (at the time) detail of the encircled U.S. insignias right in the midst of all that.

Tremblay
Oct 8, 2002
More dog whistles than a Petco

Godholio posted:

Ahem.



Edit: V It looks like enlisted wings to me.

Jesus. I mean, that's beyond 3rd world general bling.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Godholio posted:

Ahem.



Edit: V It looks like enlisted wings to me.

You can really tell this guy has the smallest penis in the world.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Godholio posted:

Ahem.



Edit: V It looks like enlisted wings to me.

I'm trying to remember the story behind this. Wasn't he at someone's basic grad when some DI's spotted him?

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


Yeah he was at his stepson's Army graduation. The guy was in the Air Force for a few years but I think he got kicked out with a less than honorable.

He is a little crazy.

Sax Offender
Sep 9, 2007

College Slice
I'm pretty sure his pants are tucked into ABU boots as well.

Edit: Yep. Tineye led me here: http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=24149



He also had a Green Beret. Probably a MARSOC Marine as well.

Sax Offender fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Sep 28, 2013

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
I just looked at that guys facebook (linked in that article) and noticed that he has two buddies that are just like him. All three have stock photos where they tag each other in them.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=102862819743292&set=pb.100000587238787.-2207520000.1380348555.&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=101058976592308&set=pb.100000646191117.-2207520000.1380348604.&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=101058963258976&set=pb.100000646191117.-2207520000.1380348604.&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=102862809743293&set=a.102861363076771.6756.100000587238787&type=3&theater

One claims to be an Air Force CCT and the other a PJ. Nick must be the ring leader since he has obviously done everything.

edit: actually pretty sure Jordan and Sacha are fake profiles of Nicks since they only have 7 and 10 friends each.

quote:

For those of you who felt sorry for him because he looked like a fricken ritard – this might be the reason why; he was busted for using percoset, mushrooms and huffing “shoe cleaner” and nitrous oxide as well as dealing meth;

Haha, makes all the confederate poo poo all over his facebook page even funnier. What a trashy mother fucker.

Mustang fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Sep 28, 2013

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro
Wow seriously what the gently caress

This dude must have a faulty wiring up in his noggin for sure.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud9ZOIyMO7Y

This is begging for MST3K treatment

faxmachine
Apr 1, 2007

Oh yeah....
Here's a vid of a double kill in Syria. Machine gunner gets nailed in the head, exits and hits the guy behind him. Obviously :nms: :nws: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=613_1380196192 :nms: :nws:

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)

faxmachine posted:

Here's a vid of a double kill in Syria. Machine gunner gets nailed in the head, exits and hits the guy behind him. Obviously :nms: :nws: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=613_1380196192 :nms: :nws:

Achievement unlocked! :haw:









:smith:

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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grover
Jan 23, 2002

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X-32 is one ugly dog of an aircraft.

ArchangeI
Jul 15, 2010
But it looks so happy!


Serious question: was the X-32 planned with lasers in mind like the F-35?

MRC48B
Apr 2, 2012

The X-32 was even worse for the STOVL/VTOL idea than the 35, but looks way cooler. Kinda wish it had won.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer
X-32 is better because grover doesn't like it.

grover
Jan 23, 2002

PEW PEW PEW
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ArchangeI posted:

But it looks so happy!


Serious question: was the X-32 planned with lasers in mind like the F-35?
F-35 didn't really start out with a laser in mind; was merely a coincidence that its development coincided the development of a practical solid state laser that was almost exactly the same size as the VTOL component.

The X-32 didn't use a lift-fan like the X-35 did; it used complicated direct-thrust-vectoring system that was a better idea in theory but less practical in practice and it utterly failed the VTOL tests. So, no laser, no STOVL, and was looking to be plagued even worse with cost overruns to meet program requirements.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.
Goes to show what an awful loving program requirement STOVL was.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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I can't really see the value of having 5th gen fighters on a landing craft beyond quick reaction time to a threat. There's so many problems with it.

ArchangeI
Jul 15, 2010

Rude. posted:

I can't really see the value of having 5th gen fighters on a landing craft beyond quick reaction time to a threat. There's so many problems with it.

HENDERSON FIELD

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)
Way loving awesome short film about a soldier's first combat experience. Its done graphic-novel style, and at 7:00 minutes long, very much worth watching:

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/280029/what-combat-feels-like/

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Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

A close shave for a cameraman in Tafas, Daraa, as a tank fires directly at him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6BcLBIouY

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