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Stultus Maximus posted:Have you seen Japanese porn? Somewhere deep down you know those people are hosed up on a fundamental level. Can't trust 'em. http://www.theonion.com/articles/japan-pledges-to-halt-production-of-weirdo-porn-th,2657/
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Dead Reckoning posted:I meant Cutlass. No idea why I typed Demon. lol Also you were unintentionally right, as the Demon was yet another of a generation of Naval fighters that was completely crippled by being powered by a Westinghouse motor (J40 in the Demon's case). It was so bad that the lack of power resulted in the project being cancelled until McDonnell put Allison J71s in it which at least meant it could fly and not kill people on the reg (11 Demons crashed killing 4 pilots in its first 3 years in service). Also also I would go so far as to argue that the Skyray is the best looking fighter ever made. Bold claim I know, but just look at it fake edit - I came across the account I referenced earlier. It's pretty  :quote:While the Panthers were grounded for fuel control problems in the spring of 1952, Feightner, in a blue and gold Cutlass, made his Blue Angels airshow debut, flying a one-man show for VIPs in Pensacola, Florida. “I rolled down there, hit the afterburner, and headed straight up,” he says. “We didn’t have any other airplane that could do that in those days. I just started to climb, then I lost the hydraulics. You couldn’t eject until you got to 1,500 feet, and I topped out at 1,100, then headed straight down. I have the stick [full aft] and nothing is happening. The ground is getting bigger and all of a sudden everything hooks up again and the airplane goes nur-ooop. So now I’m flying—but there is a row of trees at the end of the runway. I couldn’t get over them so I just picked out a space between two trees and carved a hole through them.” Streaming hydraulic fluid and wood pulp, Feightner wrestled the Cutlass onto the runway and even managed to taxi up to the crowd. "and the airplane goes nur-ooop" Just to reinforce how bad the Cutlass was, there was a pilot who ejected seconds after takeoff and never set foot in a Cutlass again. So he had more time in a Cutlass parachute than he did in the actual plane. Dead Reckoning posted:
Well like I said in the CE thread (regarding nukes)... iyaayas01 posted:lol
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iyaayas01 posted:the Demon was yet another of a generation of Naval fighters that was completely crippled by being powered by a Westinghouse motor... the project being cancelled until... it could fly and not kill people on the reg (11 Demons crashed killing 4 pilots in its first 3 years in service). quote:Well like I said in the CE thread (regarding nukes)... 
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's pretty awesome because if the US isn't going to call them on their bullshit, nobody else really can. Looking forward to the first port visit by the Japanese Navy to Pearl Harbor... Flyovers! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1niwxQgoY
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Dingleberry posted:Looking forward to the first port visit by the Japanese Navy to Pearl Harbor... Flyovers! Pretty much the only scene worth watching in that whole movie.
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MegaJoe89 posted:I don't get why the whole "Japan no aircraft carrier for you" thing is a thing anymore. It's because China would throw a hissy fit and the Japanese public by and large don't want it in any way shape or form. If anything the U.S. has encouraged military activity from Japan.
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CMD598 posted:
Weirdest place for a Phalanx ever. Also, they should have manned the gently caress up and named her Yamato. Bonus points if the second ship was named Musashi.
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MrYenko posted:Weirdest place for a Phalanx ever. Also, they should have manned the gently caress up and named her Yamato. Bonus points if the second ship was named Musashi. I'm sure they're saving it for a full on CV.
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CMD598 posted:I'm sure they're saving it for a full on CV. Taiho II, Motto: "This time with actual damage control."
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CMD598 posted:
Ah, the Pearl-Harboru Class 
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Stultus Maximus posted:Have you seen Japanese porn? Somewhere deep down you know those people are hosed up on a fundamental level. Can't trust 'em. Yet we trust the Germans. 
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gfanikf posted:Yet we trust the Germans. Merkel doesn't visit a shrine to Hitler every year 
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gfanikf posted:Yet we trust the Germans. Someone had to be the speed bump for the Soviets.
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Zeris posted:Merkel doesn't visit a shrine to Hitler every year I meant more about their porn. That said let's not forget who we used to staff the original West Germany Army with either* *Yes, I know that's part and parcel, with rebuilding a defeated enemy...unless you want to goes rear end backwards like the Iraqi Army. Stultus Maximus posted:Someone had to be the speed bump for the Soviets. Acceptable answer. It's always funny how no one gave a poo poo about what the Italians would do post WWII.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Someone had to be the speed bump for the Soviets. France was ranked in front of Germany in the power index rofl. Oh god Europes screwed, hopefully the Russians are to drunk to remember Italy? gfanikf posted:It's always funny how no one gave a poo poo about what the Italians would do post WWII. We lost a ton of territories which imo was a good thing lol. A ban on owning, building or experimenting with atomic weapons, self-propulsion projectiles or relative launchers, etc. A ban on owning Battleships, Aircraft carriers, Submarines and Amphibious Assault units. But thanks to the soviet scare it only lasted like 5 years son gay. so what fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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Germany is a country filled with disgusting anti-war fart sniffers and a Government who would rather sell cars to browns than bomb them. France has nukes, loves killing browns and has a traditional political belligerence that makes it a much more convincing power on the world stage than the Krauts. Also they have a permanent UN security council spot which is worth more on it's own than the whole EU collective bargaining bollocks that is essentially worthless.
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gfanikf posted:I meant more about their porn. Uh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
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MegaJoe89 posted:We lost a ton of territories which imo was a good thing lol. Interesting I had never even heard of any of those restrictions at all, besides colonial loses which by and large were mostly garbage (oil resources notwithstanding). I meant in terms of long term restrictions on the armed forces or even running their own government.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Musketeer_%281956%29 The ultimate post-war European cluster gently caress
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killmeimmafailure posted:But seriously, didn't the designer of the tomcat(maybe?) call the newest planes lemons because they had to have the specifications to fit the needs of all the branches? And in the process it sort of does nothing particularly well? I'm not talking about that one lokeehead Martin plane that "only a mother could love" because of the retarded intake thing, I think I'm talking about the other one. Curse my selective memory. Designer of the F-16 actually. Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnP17YCFs8I R Lee Ermey might be the least gay thing about the Marines but holy poo poo I never realized how bad that old gently caress chicken-wing's when he shoots
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MrYenko posted:Weirdest place for a Phalanx ever. Also, they should have manned the gently caress up and named her Yamato. Bonus points if the second ship was named Musashi. Yeah, as a former rotary wing driver I'd say some poor gently caress is going to eat that one day. After the court martial/ accident investigation that puts the blame squarely on the pilot's shoulders they will wait a few months and remove it on the next major overhaul because it annoyed the radar or some other nebulous, but believable, poo poo. Captain and whoever was running air ops will be relieved with big black marks due to their inattention to major flight line issues, nobody will bring up the cognitive dissonance required to come to this decision when it, despite being brought up repeatedly as a hazard from initial plans to final fit out, wasn't deemed unsafe in the first place. Dude who designed that monstrosity will get some sort of medal for innovative thinking after all the written complaints about that poo poo for the last five years are mysteriously lost in a yard fire. E: Good to see the Japaneses military finally getting with the times despite that whole post WWII thing! Spacman fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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gfanikf posted:It's always funny how no one gave a poo poo about what the Italians would do post WWII. Considering their performance in the war, that shouldn't really be a shocker though.
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We can try the history/mil tactics/whatever bullshitting thread again now that most the angry GIP trolls are gone
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:We can try w history/mil tactics/whatever bullshitting thread again now that most the angry GIP trolls are gone Sounds good
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Booblord Zagats posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Musketeer_%281956%29 Nah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Subversion "Let's give control of our covert anticommunist efforts in Albania to Kim Philby."
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FLAGCHAT I was always told that imperial anything in japan is kinda taboo and then I went looking up flags. Apparently they are still ok with it in certain situations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_flags The admiral flags go from rear, vice, to admiral where it looks like someone is squinting to see the imperial flag    A good use of the imperial flag  Also a very metal flag from the Buraku Liberation League  Every god drat prefecture flag looks like a corporate flag though
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MrYenko posted:Weirdest place for a Phalanx ever. Also, they should have manned the gently caress up and named her Yamato. Bonus points if the second ship was named Musashi. Some helicopter is gonna eat poo poo on that gun holy poo poo
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Caconym posted:Taiho II, Motto: "This time with actual damage control." heyo Rhymenoserous posted:Designer of the F-16 actually. Who was pretty much 100% wrong because Pierre Sprey is a light-weight fighter zealot who thinks that the ideal fighter would be a no-radar dayfighter armed with a Vulcan and maybe a couple Sidewinders. Smart guy, but like most zealots takes an idea too far into ludicrous land. Phanatic posted:Nah. lol whoops In honor of tomorrow (today for our ANZAC friends I guess) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY      
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iyaayas01 posted:Who was pretty much 100% wrong because Pierre Sprey is a light-weight fighter zealot who thinks that the ideal fighter would be a no-radar dayfighter armed with a Vulcan and maybe a couple Sidewinders. He didn't actually do all that much on the F-16 design as I recall anyways. IIRC he's actually got a background in statistics and was a MacNamara "Whiz Kid" rather than a aeronautical engineer, and now apparently makes his living claiming to have created the F-16 and A-10 while collecting royalties from a Kanye West song that sampled some of his jazz music.         
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CMD598 posted:
But walking down the corridors of a Japanese aircraft carrier while hearing somebody barking out orders in Japanese over the intercom system gave me vibes from the movie Midway.  MrYenko posted:Weirdest place for a Phalanx ever. Also, they should have manned the gently caress up and named her Yamato. Bonus points if the second ship was named Musashi. 
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