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BaconAndBullets posted:What exactly were they trying to prove? It looks awfully like the actual wreckage of MH-17 This was actually a hobbyist reenactment, like the Sons of Confederate Veterans lining up in grey uniforms at Vicksburg once a year.
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Phanatic posted:If the missile did the damage by smacking into you. The speed of the shockwave and associated fragments dwarf the velocity of the missile or the plane. By at least an order of magnitude. The whole point of the explosion is that you don't have to hit it - just come close.
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Chinatown posted:Being in the rear of that plane must have sucked big time. at least one passenger was found with the oxygen mask on. some of them rode that train right into the ground and felt the whole thing.
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ded posted:at least one passenger was found with the oxygen mask on. some of them rode that train right into the ground and felt the whole thing. yea but they probably had a hell of an adrenaline high kinda dulling the terror just a bit
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I mean I guess there's always the hope that you'll plow through your fear and do some Slim Pickens poo poo while you're strapped in but I dunno I'd probably just cry and poo poo myself
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Not to get too morbid, but dying by falling from a huge height is a sort of fantasy of mine. I wouldn't choose it over living, sure, but it gives one plenty of time to come to terms with the fact that one is hosed and there's nothing to worry about. I imagine the greatest feeling of relief.
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I don't think an uncontrolled tumbling fall would be very calming. You don't exactly have time to come to terms with the circumstances that led up to it first.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:I don't think an uncontrolled tumbling fall would be very calming. You don't exactly have time to come to terms with the circumstances that led up to it first. A good 2+ minute free fall would be alright with me, all things considered, is all I'm saying. It's not at the bottom of the list of things I'd like to do with the rest of my life. I don't claim to speak for anybody else.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:wouldn't the missile travelling at a lot m/s have a big effect on the damage delivered vs propped up by 2x4's?
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Two minutes will go by quicker than you think, the challenger crew were apparently trying to regain control their entire way down. 
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Slim Pickens posted:Two minutes will go by quicker than you think, the challenger crew were apparently trying to regain control their entire way down. Goddamn. At least they tried.
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I think you mean the Columbia, the Challenger at least was quick.
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Kavak posted:I think you mean the Columbia, the Challenger at least was quick. They later figured out that while the explosion looked like it should have killed or at least knocked everyone unconcious, the cockpit module was almost totally intact until impact and a bunch of the levers and switchs were in non-flight positions, aka the pilots were moving
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How to put more BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP in your BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd2QyIEdDGc
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Since the Air Force is committed to killing the A-10, is there any other potential use for the GAU-8? Could it be used on an AFV, C-RAM or naval mount? It'd be a shame to retire this baby. 
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Frosted Flake posted:Since the Air Force is committed to killing the A-10, is there any other potential use for the GAU-8? Weapons pod for the F-35 was brought up iirc
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Frosted Flake posted:Since the Air Force is committed to killing the A-10, is there any other potential use for the GAU-8? There already is a naval CIWS mount in active service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalkeeper_CIWS
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Frosted Flake posted:Since the Air Force is committed to killing the A-10, is there any other potential use for the GAU-8? A naval GAU-8 already exists, the Dutch use it in their Goalkeeper CIWS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn_dH19R-q4
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Meh. It's been tried. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1S95Cy7wg 
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Frosted Flake posted:Since the Air Force is committed to killing the A-10, is there any other potential use for the GAU-8? put it on a metal gear
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metal....gear!!??
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Mike-o posted:metal....gear!!??
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https://www.facebook.com/theisraelproject/videos/10154524948572316/ Well that just take the cake don't it
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:https://www.facebook.com/theisraelproject/videos/10154524948572316/ That guy sucks at GTA
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Hot Karl Marx posted:put it on a metal gear Can a BigDog hold one of these? Only thing scarier than the hound from Farenheit 451 is that same hound with a 30mm Gatling gun strapped to its back.
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Kavak posted:I think you mean the Columbia, the Challenger at least was quick. http://www.space-shuttle.com/challenger1.htm quote:- The cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined;
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That is not the entire story. Mike Mullane went into more detail about it in Riding Rockets. Things like the fact that at least one of the emergency air packs was turned on for one of the pilots and it could only have been turned on by someone behind them (the pressure suit was filled with air and the amount of air used was consistent with the time it took to reach the ground and die no longer using more air). Also the facts about control switches that could not have been changed from the impact (they tested the gently caress out of it to make sure) were moved. Evidence very much supports the fact that at least 2 of the crew were alive and functional on the way down.
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Yeah I was just quoting a pretty concisely written article stating the facts without any conclusions being drawn. I recently went sky diving and couldn't imagine very many more helpless feelings that last longer than uncontrolled freefall. As recreation with lots of gear and under controlled circumstances, fun as hell; strapped to a plane seat tumbling down in an uncontrolled crash, I don't know if you would be able to appreciate the view. Jumpers from the golden gate bridge who've survived have recalled they immediately regretted the decision; when I fell from the plane, it took more than a few seconds to get used to the fall sensation and enjoy it.
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Larry Parrish posted:Challenger stuff Jesus, I never knew any of that, that's awful.
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Chinatown posted:Can we nuke the middle east already. We're always lookimg for common ground woth Russia and China. Why cant this be it?
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Frosted Flake posted:Since the Air Force is committed to killing the A-10, is there any other potential use for the GAU-8? Booblord Zagats posted:Weapons pod for the F-35 was brought up iirc Hot Karl Marx posted:put it on a metal gear Mike-o posted:metal....gear!!?? 
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http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-f-16-gun-pod-that-tried-to-shoot-down-the-a-10-wart-1597577525 Evidently all the GAU-8s that were in pods for the "F/A-16" were dumped onto the Marines, who thought about putting them on LCACs. Up to *four* of them. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-13 I didn't know that we effectively handed a working example of the A-10's ~super gun~ to the Royal Thai Air Force. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-f-16-gun-pod-that-tried-to-shoot-down-the-a-10-wart-1597577525 That's amazing. I don't know or care about the practicality, but that's a lot of DU coming down on someone's head. Hell, they used machineguns in the indirect role in WW1, maybe there's something to it.
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Its fun to think how one sided WW1 would be with just a dozen pieces of modern artillery w/ trained crews given to a single side. To see it go from spray and pray of iron shells to dropping shells within a few inches of the intended placement with an HE round would have completely sent it to a one sided event
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I dunno, late-war gun crews had counter-battery down to an art, given their equipment. Obviously it wouldn't stand up to modern day tech, but we're talking about dudes who regularly used gas-shells to suppress enemy batteries.  Super interesting time in terms of evolving tactics.
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When I worked briefly with Canada's department of national defence, my boss was telling me about this Canadian guy who figured out how to do indirect fire with a small "battery" of browning .50s I tried looking for online one time but never found anything so I dunno if he was making it up or something. Doesnt seem like an impossible thing so I'm sure someone did it.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:When I worked briefly with Canada's department of national defence, my boss was telling me about this Canadian guy who figured out how to do indirect fire with a small "battery" of browning .50s Huey's did it with some regularity in Vietnam according to my great uncle who flew them
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