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Mortabis posted:The Super Hornets Australia is ordering are being built at the factory to support the conversion. That's how assembly lines work. There's not a separate facility for each option. Hell, Pontiac died because it was a parasite on other GM products. Same with Mercury and Ford, which is why it's retarded that Uhaul won't rent a trailer to someone driving an Explorer, but WILL rent if it's a Mountaineer. The first two AWACS were modified 707s ( you can see where the passenger windows were) while the rest were purpose-built at the plant.
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Tremblay posted:Sure. But that is adding all the extra in at time of build. That's a different animal than trying to take a "normal" Rhino and converting to a Growler. Oh I know, I mean to say the conversion clearly isn't straightforward, hence it has to be configured at the factory to support it.
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Transformers! Growlers in disguiiiiiise (Endless loop of transformer sound playing as techs upgrade firmware and attach ECM pods)
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I can't remember where I read it but supposedly there's some wonderful synergy between the F-35's stealth/sensor suite and the Growler's ECM that makes them a matched pair, that Australia probably got sold on.
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This may have been posted in TFR already, but it's perfectly on-topic (airpower + coldwar) so I'm reposting it here: The A-10 Pilot's Coloring Book  Excerpt: pre:This is the bottom of a T-62 tank. It is very thin only 20mm (.82 inches). You can easily perforate it with the GAU-8/A 30mm API round. Unfortunately if you see it from this angle you have just been run over by subject tank. Color the bottom of the tank green and yourself brown -- you dumb poo poo an A-10 will not fit underneath a T-62 tank and remain airborne. ... The turret from this view is too thick -- color it red. The four figures to the right of the tank are crew members. They are your standard pinko commie swine. Strafe those atheistic degenerates. Color them green with lots of holes.
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Snowdens Secret posted:I can't remember where I read it but supposedly there's some wonderful synergy between the F-35's stealth/sensor suite and the Growler's ECM that makes them a matched pair, that Australia probably got sold on. Well yeah, stealth and effective EW would seem to compliment each other.
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I read that "Block 5" F-35s will be able to internally carry six AMRAAMs, is there any reason to believe this? Is there enough space in the weapons bays?
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When the JSF reveals it's final form it's going to be similar to the final scene of Sleepaway Camp
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Smiling Jack posted:When the JSF reveals it's final form it's going to be similar to the final scene of Sleepaway Camp 
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May 7, 2014 01:47
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I'm guessing that "growler" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as the UK. I'm finding it hard to take anything with that name seriously.
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simplefish posted:I'm guessing that "growler" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as the UK. I'm finding it hard to take anything with that name seriously. It has the same meaning over here, but perhaps not as common. To be honest I've been giggling like a school girl for the past page. Edit: Uhhhh, just looked up the UK's version and no... we do not have the same meaning.
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The alt versions of growler I know are: 1) a large beer bottle usually with a resealable cap 2) a big turd Are there more?
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May 7, 2014 04:08
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Lady parts (especially vulgar, and usually implies excessively hairy/ugly)
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May 7, 2014 04:12
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A small piece of floating glacial ice, about the size of a minivan or smaller.
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May 7, 2014 04:17
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b8_1311067962
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Oh yeah I'd heard of the ice one but the lady parts one,  Truly a great all purpose word.
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Smiling Jack posted:When the JSF reveals it's final form it's going to be similar to the final scene of Sleepaway Camp drat son, that's a Dennis Miller-type reference. Well done.
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PhotoKirk posted:drat son, that's a Dennis Miller-type reference. That's when the laser pops out 
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This is when I really wish I had a picture of the joke patch or whatever for the EA-18G Shocker complete with two and one lightning bolts coming off the wings.
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xthetenth posted:This is when I really wish I had a picture of the joke patch or whatever for the EA-18G Shocker complete with two and one lightning bolts coming off the wings. It is a good patch. 
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May 7, 2014 04:55
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There was another one that had "two in the pink, one in the stink" but in Latin, IIRC. edit: here we go 
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May 7, 2014 05:25
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Cold War-ish... Everything about Japan fascinates me, from the high tech toilets to this... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=726_1399469699 Japanese hype video for war w/ China
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Dark Helmut posted:Cold War-ish... Uhhh, is that a Death's Head on a Chinese submarine being chased by Japanese fighters?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIYZiTqenJs Here's the video for Textron's T-RAM. The music really makes it.
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I wish Textron got a deal to distribute the Viggen; the videos would be loving awesome.
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Dark Helmut posted:Cold War-ish... Love the Top Gun music at the end of that.
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If any of you watched Colbert recently, you know that the New Yorker sent a reporter to Hiroshima in the summer of 1946 to record eyewitness accounts of the first atomic bomb used on human targets. The full text is available online but in a difficult to read format. I did some find/replace-fu on it to make the format more readable, although paragraph indentations for all 76 pages are beyond the span of my patience. I think this is relevant to this thread as this is the first print article describing first-hand the horrors of nuclear war ever to hit the world presses. If you saw the Colbert interview, you know that the New Yorker devoted their entire edition to this story and the entire issue (for the at-that-time weekly periodical) was sold out within 12 hours. The document is 80 pages and thus obviously beyond the text limit of a post(!) but I've uploaded the file here. I've left in .doc format so you can fix the paragraph indentation as you go if you want to make it more readable.
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That article was also reprinted as the book Hiroshima, by John Hersey. It's been in non-stop publication since 1946, has some ungodly number of millions of copies out there, is required reading in countless high school and university courses, and is one of the major early texts in the New Journalism that was really important in the third quarter of the 20th century. It's an obscenely famous book. You can get used copies for pennies on Amazon if you don't want to gently caress with a .pdf, and I'm pretty sure you can get it in all your favorite e-reader formats for pretty cheap given how common it is as a required book in both History and Journalism courses. edit: Amazon link The thought that there might be people who are being introduced to this via Colbert makes me alternatively want to cheer and cry. edit x2: it really is an amazing book and should pretty much be required reading for anyone who wants to talk about the Cold War or nuclear policy. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 20:02 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 19:57
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Maybe shove a copy of it on google docs then people can prod a bit of the editing as they go? Edit: oh hey already in book form.
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Better link to a better format of the text online. http://www.forgottenbooks.org/readbook_text/Hiroshima_1000634030/1
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Was the Colbert thing as anti-bomb as Jon Stewart was?
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Cyrano4747 posted:That article was also reprinted as the book Hiroshima, by John Hersey. It's been in non-stop publication since 1946, has some ungodly number of millions of copies out there, is required reading in countless high school and university courses, and is one of the major early texts in the New Journalism that was really important in the third quarter of the 20th century. It's an obscenely famous book. You can get used copies for pennies on Amazon if you don't want to gently caress with a .pdf, and I'm pretty sure you can get it in all your favorite e-reader formats for pretty cheap given how common it is as a required book in both History and Journalism courses. The thing has been on my dad's bookshelf for my whole life (he has a great collection of history) but because of the cover art I assumed it was a novel and never picked it up. I feel like there's a lesson here that could be easily summed up in a pithy phrase... Now I live on the other side of the world from my dad's bookshelf.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Was the Colbert thing as anti-bomb as Jon Stewart was? No, the Colbert interview was mostly about the publishing aspect of it and the impact. As for the moral question, the German Jesuit survivors laid it out very succinctly. Either total war is immoral, and the bomb is immoral, or total war is acceptable and the bomb is acceptable. Fortunately the world has never had to wrestle with the moral question of total war ever again after world war 2, probably because of the existence of the bomb. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 06:04 on May 9, 2014 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:Was the Colbert thing as anti-bomb as Jon Stewart was? Steward went back on that the next day (if you mean the one I think you mean, it has been a few years).
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Outta the way! Новое: Как боевики Национальной Гвардии таранили …: http://youtu.be/m49dYtVeoNg
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Cyrano4747 posted:The thought that there might be people who are being introduced to this via Colbert makes me alternatively want to cheer and cry. I am at my librarian's desk, shaking visibly in rage, frothing at the mouth, spilling decaf on my cat calendar.
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Insane Totoro posted:I am at my librarian's desk, shaking visibly in rage, frothing at the mouth, spilling decaf on my cat calendar. There there little librarian, it's OK. Books still matter. Well they still matter to me
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Cyrano4747 posted:There there little librarian, it's OK. Books still matter. *shoots a full mag of 22LR through suppressed Buckmark into old edition of the Schöffler-Weis dictionary*
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Cyrano4747 posted:There there little librarian, it's OK. Books still matter. How quaint. 
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