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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:the spirit of chester pulley watches over us oorag chipotlepecker
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bulletsponge13 posted:Obligatory. you mean it unnecessarily injures people during training?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:you mean it unnecessarily injures people during training? sticks where it lands
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helicopters are the way to go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2SO2_lOQ4
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Omi-Polari posted:helicopters are the way to go http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=h...orName=dfdfdfed
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Sjurygg posted:The wings look bitching cool. The SAS were the first ones to rock the Wings of Isis. Jock Lewes copied them from the decor of a hotel he liked.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:you mean it unnecessarily injures people during training? at the date posted:sticks where it lands Both of these are correct, judges would have also accepted "loving pointless except for a very narrow window of possible, very improbable usage" I still loved being in the 82d.
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Thats at JRTC! I recognize those lovely buildings.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Yeah, my Anti Armor section - with a team of Engineers, was supposed to provide a blocking position that was to overwatch a military barracks, remove 12 ZU 23-4s (we were assured the aircorce would get the three on AA platforms, the other 12 were on level ground and up to us), provide security over a "small" ditch (which you could have run a tank down), block any and all vehicular traffic, and provide support and be an assault force for other taskings, while leaving half of our section with the team of engineers to hold the position. With nothing more than a basic load of ammo for most weapons (.50, Mk19, M4s) and less than a basic load for the TOW missiles (loving garbage at any rate) and the 203s. I was only in high school at the time but I remember Baghdad being hyped up to be this unbreakable fortress and that we were gonna have the 3rd ID surround it and then have some huge airborne op for the airfield and then have 4th ID come in and take the city proper. Then it turned out 3rd ID could probably do all of it by themselves since the Iraqi Army sucked and there was no need to get fancy with it. Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:pretty sure anyone with half a brain realized that airborne assault is a stupid as gently caress proposition after market garden Ranger Regiment had a few successful ones in GWOT though their over usefulness has gone way down. Mike-o posted:The army needs someplace to put their super extra autistic canon fodder snowflakes. The 82nd can't stand being around just plain old asperger kids, they take away the heroism of the REAL autistics. The main use for Airborne School now is providing the first baby step into spec ops.
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P sure the only use for airborne is securing assets as your conventional infantry fucks everything and everyone, preventing counter-assault. So super-handy for taking over or disabling high value assets, but you'd better hope the overall plan goes OK.
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I thought I remember someone posting here the last "mission" they did was early 2000 jumping into an air field in Iraq?
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3ID did get hammered pretty hard while making their move for Baghdad, and the fight for BIAP was pretty legit. Fun fact- my section's objective wasn't far from where that dude got the MoH.
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TOWs suck.
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bulletsponge13 posted:TOWs suck. syrians love them. shoot them at everything. tanks, cars, people. you name it.
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bulletsponge13 posted:TOWs suck. I had heard somewhere that the originals sucked, but the TOW-2, particularly the later versions, was a big step up. Something you can C/D without summoning OPSEC Wizard?
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Dead Reckoning posted:I had heard somewhere that the originals sucked, but the TOW-2, particularly the later versions, was a big step up. Something you can C/D without summoning OPSEC Wizard? TOW-2s have been in service since the 80s.
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Do t-72s just really suck? Seems weird that a missile can blow up 10 ft above a tank and still set off the ammo inside(I'm guessing that's what popped the turret in that secondary explosion)
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Slim Pickens posted:Do t-72s just really suck? Seems weird that a missile can blow up 10 ft above a tank and still set off the ammo inside(I'm guessing that's what popped the turret in that secondary explosion) It's meant to go off above the target. It's not a contact warhead but a shaped charge driving a penetrator straight down through the thin top armor.
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Slim Pickens posted:Do t-72s just really suck? Seems weird that a missile can blow up 10 ft above a tank and still set off the ammo inside(I'm guessing that's what popped the turret in that secondary explosion) Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Dec 21, 2014 |
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Caconym posted:It's meant to go off above the target. It's not a contact warhead but a shaped charge driving a penetrator straight down through the thin top armor. Most tanks that vintage have top armor that won't like any hits above 12,7mm, so anything explosively shaped...
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Also the export "monkey model" T-72s do suck. They're seventies vintage Soviet tech with downrated engines, guns, and armor and all the whiz-bang optics and electronics stripped out. And that's all before whatever third-world goons they got sold to had a chance to not maintain them for 20 years. The monkey model thing isn't really true. There are export versions but the difference isn't so dramatic.
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    sorry im just bitter i have to go back to work tomorrow instead of jackin it in my room all day
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Slim Pickens posted:Do t-72s just really suck? Seems weird that a missile can blow up 10 ft above a tank and still set off the ammo inside(I'm guessing that's what popped the turret in that secondary explosion)
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Dead Reckoning posted:The reason T-72s go up so violently is that they store their ammunition in a carousel autoloader inside the main crew compartment, in order to increase rate of fire. This means that any attack that penetrates the crew compartment is likely to cook off the ammo and result in spectacular youtube videos. Contrast with the M1 Abrams that stores its ammo in a special compartment behild the crew that is designed to vent ammo explosions away from the crew. It not matter, we have 20 more where that came from! Glorious Motherland! 
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Dead Reckoning posted:I had heard somewhere that the originals sucked, but the TOW-2, particularly the later versions, was a big step up. Something you can C/D without summoning OPSEC Wizard? Even the TOW2 models suck. The missle warheads are good, but everything else about them sucks.
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Volkerball posted:syrians love them. shoot them at everything. tanks, cars, people. you name it. Shoot TOWs at whatever the gently caress, whenever the gently caress. E: To be fair Javelins tend to gently caress up dwellings better. It might be the punching through the roof vs the knocking on the front door thing. Spacman fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Dec 21, 2014 |
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Patton looking warmer than a motherfucker here. And in some crazy space boots I've never seen before. Love this and the picture of Chesty with hands firmly planted in pockets, btw.
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Dead Reckoning posted:The reason T-72s go up so violently is that they store their ammunition in a carousel autoloader inside the main crew compartment, in order to increase rate of fire. This means that any attack that penetrates the crew compartment is likely to cook off the ammo and result in spectacular youtube videos. Contrast with the M1 Abrams that stores its ammo in a special compartment behild the crew that is designed to vent ammo explosions away from the crew. My favorite example.  in peace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvuwUxaJmlo
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Chinatown posted:My favorite example. nah, burn in hell actually
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ReebTop posted:Patton looking warmer than a motherfucker here. And in some crazy space boots I've never seen before. I believe his boots are Frye Wellington "jet boots".
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Nuclear Santa is Best Santa
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Madurai posted:Nuclear Santa is Best Santa All i want for christmass is to be washed away by the holy fire of nuclear explosions.
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