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OhYeah posted:In a few days time I'm going to check all the sites were Russian posters usually go full retard with stuff like "F-22 fail plane PAK-FA is superiority in eavry way!1!" and just post "PAK-FA canceled lol xa xa xa". Repeatedly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades Just ask them how much Krokodil 85 rubles per comment buys this time of year.
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I saw an "article" about a USMC project to adopt the A-10 from the Air Force and adapt it for carrier operations and wanted to share the pics.  Yes, the very reliable source was dated from today, why do you ask?
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Cat Mattress posted:I saw an "article" about a USMC project to adopt the A-10 from the Air Force and adapt it for carrier operations and wanted to share the pics. shadows man 
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Wasn't there very serious discussions of a naval A-10 at some stage of development?
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Well there was that thing in THFRO where they mock-strafe the Kirov 
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Mortabis posted:Well there was that thing in THFRO where they mock-strafe the Kirov I dont remember this part...
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Saint Celestine posted:Red Storm Rising Red Storm Rising had A-10s but they were busy shooting at tanks, not ships.
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Saint Celestine posted:I dont remember this part... It's to scare off / prove to the Soviets that MURICA owns the Atlantic -- IIRC they mock strafe and drop flares all over the deck. e: Also a reminder that they're within range of land-based strike aircraft from the East Coast with no to little air cover of their own, which IIRC the Admiral fully recognizes and curses the stupid plan.
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Dandywalken posted:Anyone able to confirm whether csmonitor is a decent site? I'm under the impression they've got their poo poo straight the vast majority of the time. If so... Uhhh the christian science monitor is one of the most highly regarded and reputable new orgs in the world..
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Saw a fantastic cold war anecdote in yospos, gotta share it with this thread:Muscle Tracer posted:after world war two my grandfather ran a side business called ~chute 'n' chicken~ out in rural illinois with his army air corps buddies. you'd ring them, order a fried chicken, and they'd drop it to you from a biplane with military precision. they made enough money to keep buying chickens and airplane fuel, but literally nothing other than that. we've still got some fridge magnets and poo poo, i think my uncle still has one of the chutes. no clue how they got paid.
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Going to http://www.afarmamentmuseum.com/ tomorrow! I hope its half as cool as http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/ ! Anyone have a favorite thing to see their I should keep my eyes out for?
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"Kids love learning about bombs and missiles." Awesome website
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I felt very dumb after spending several seconds trying to figure out just what the hell would be on display in a Farmament museum.
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hailthefish posted:I felt very dumb after spending several seconds trying to figure out just what the hell would be on display in a Farmament museum. Plowshares.
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LingcodKilla posted:Going to http://www.afarmamentmuseum.com/ tomorrow! I hope its half as cool as http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/ ! Anyone have a favorite thing to see their I should keep my eyes out for? I've only been outside, but the Blackbird and first AC-130 are pretty neat. Hunterhr posted:Plowshares. 
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LingcodKilla posted:Going to http://www.afarmamentmuseum.com/ tomorrow! I hope its half as cool as http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/ ! Anyone have a favorite thing to see their I should keep my eyes out for? Try to see if they allow you to pull a Slim Pickens on the MOAB outside. There's also a GAU-8 on display there.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Try to see if they allow you to pull a Slim Pickens on the MOAB outside. 
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There's also this one right outside that's way more photogenic: And I don't see a "please don't ride our bombs" sign clearly placed anywhere around the MOAB or Tallboy, but I'm pretty sure it's implied, since you could probably hurt yourself pretty damned good slipping off and falling from either of them. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:There's also this one right outside that's way more photogenic: I love the idea of a general purpose bomb, as if it's some sort of Leatherman and not an implement of turning large things into small things. Oh, and it digs holes. See, two purposes!
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Air burst it high enough, you could use it to level those icky forests/hills/cities for a solid foundations for future bases or parking lots.
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LingcodKilla posted:Going to http://www.afarmamentmuseum.com/ tomorrow! I hope its half as cool as http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/ ! Anyone have a favorite thing to see their I should keep my eyes out for? It's pretty sweet, my favorite thing was just the array of aircraft they have parked outside. I'd never really appreciated how damned gigantic and boxy a B-52 is. Like someone found the biggest RV ever built and then welded wings onto it. They also have this majestic devil, fittingly named Big Tail, parked out on the front lawn.  As a GPS guy, I also liked the fancy space age technology on the rear end end of the MOAB. L1 and L2!  Finally, once inside, I quickly happened upon America.png. 
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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e: ^^^ the fact that they retired those makes me wonder what the insane classified thing they replaced them with looks like ^^^ ee: and no one say "high resolution satellites" because that's just boring  Back Hack posted:Air burst it high enough, you could use it to level those icky forests/hills/cities for a solid foundations for future bases or parking lots. Nah, they make special stuff for that 
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Hubis posted:e: ^^^ the fact that they retired those makes me wonder what the insane classified thing they replaced them with looks like ^^^ 
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PittTheElder posted:They also have this majestic devil, fittingly named Big Tail, parked out on the front lawn. SU-71 Flankbird?
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Hubis posted:e: ^^^ the fact that they retired those makes me wonder what the insane classified thing they replaced them with looks like ^^^ 
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Hubis posted:e: ^^^ the fact that they retired those makes me wonder what the insane classified thing they replaced them with looks like ^^^ Tangent, but I have a crazy coworker who was in the Navy who said that the engineers he talked to claimed they took the -71 to Mach 6 at 300kft 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:There's also this one right outside that's way more photogenic: Please report back and let us know if you can ride a bomb. I will go to Florida just for the Slim Pickens photo op.
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Spaced God posted:Tangent, but I have a crazy coworker who was in the Navy who said that the engineers he talked to claimed they took the -71 to Mach 6 at 300kft This guy is totally insane but I was curious HOW insane so I went looking. Atmospheric density at 85,000 feet which is about max SR-71 altitude is .714 inches mercury. 300,000 feet is .0004.
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Alaan posted:This guy is totally insane but I was curious HOW insane so I went looking. Atmospheric density at 85,000 feet which is about max SR-71 altitude is .714 inches mercury. 300,000 feet is .0004. 300,000 feet is at the Karman line. You'd need orbital velocity just to maintain lift. The SR-71 is cool, but it ain't an SSTO spaceplane.
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Did he just get it confused with the X-15, with a top speed of Mach 6 and altitude limit right around 90km (300,000ft)?
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Saint Celestine posted:Please report back and let us know if you can ride a bomb. I will go to Florida just for the Slim Pickens photo op. Without a doubt.
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Saint Celestine posted:Please report back and let us know if you can ride a bomb. I will go to Florida just for the Slim Pickens photo op. Oh, I don't live anywhere near Eglin - I've just been there before, and unfortunately at that time I was young enough that 1) the MOAB wasn't there, and 2) wouldn't have been able to climb up onto either bomb without one or both of my parents going apeshit about me potentially hurting myself. =/
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LingcodKilla posted:Going to http://www.afarmamentmuseum.com/ tomorrow! I hope its half as cool as http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/ ! Anyone have a favorite thing to see their I should keep my eyes out for? So there's a running joke in GiP about a certain bench (that is no longer there) at the AF Armament Museum where a certain female in an AF uniform is pleasuring herself. Outside of that there's the obvious stuff at the Armament Museum...ride the MOAB and/or Cloudmaker (not really, but you could probably do it), check out the insane amount of weaponry in the small arms vault (seriously, they've got like every semi-major automatic weapon made for the last half-century and then some across pretty much every country), also check out the totally not from Constant Peg MiG-21 they've got outside as well as the BUFF, SR-71, and B-47, also the AC-130 (the last of the AC-130A's that were rolling with AFRC, has some great nose art) as well as the Pave Low (one of the last Pave Lows in active service), also the Spooky AC-47 that's there. It's a great museum. lol RQ-180 bro BIG HEADLINE posted:Oh, I don't live anywhere near Eglin - I've just been there before, and unfortunately at that time I was young enough that 1) the MOAB wasn't there, and 2) wouldn't have been able to climb up onto either bomb without one or both of my parents going apeshit about me potentially hurting myself. =/ So seriously, both the T-12 and the MOAB are parked outside without any sort of ready security presence (it's a really laid back museum), so I'm sure anyone who so desired could get a Slim Pickens photo op on either bomb.
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iyaayas01 posted:lol RQ-180 bro
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Saint Celestine posted:Please report back and let us know if you can ride a bomb. I will go to Florida just for the Slim Pickens photo op. For the record, you totally could. It's just out on the front lawn, nobody is guarding the things. I was pretty surprised they had an SR-71 there where you can just reach out and touch the thing.
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They can't afford to repaint these things more than once every 10-15 years. You think there's money for someone to keep watch over them? 
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PittTheElder posted:For the record, you totally could. It's just out on the front lawn, nobody is guarding the things. I was pretty surprised they had an SR-71 there where you can just reach out and touch the thing. Hrm.... yes.  Dont touch that.  Sounds like a challenge.  Nose art!  Had a blast! Worth your time if you are in within two hours or so drive. Had no problem coming from Pensacola.
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