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Mortabis posted:A while back in GiP a navy officer (ManMythLegend, I think) who has actually been on one defended the LCS as being basically a much more capable OHP. I have to ask how though. It's weapons packages, even the surface warfare module, are almostly entirely poo poo unless you need to shoot at a lot of speedboats. Theres a reason they already fleshed out with the SSC reconfiguration of the LCS future, and I still don't think comes off as very capable. Those corvettes I mentioned can carry 12 Klubs and 8 Redut, which are basically S-300PMU. The LCS carry almost none to no OTH weapon capability at all, and nearly no AA capability. Littorals maybe, but completely poo poo at actually fighting off another combat vessel. I understand we have Burkes but why not get something actually useful off on its own, like the FREMM or the Type 26. I can justify some of the stupid poo poo going on the with the F-35, but I never have really seen anything good about the LCS and why we're still building them. And don't get me wrong here, I'm completely open to being proven wrong, I've just never seen anything fleshed out in that regard. Mazz fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/26/us-southchinasea-usa-idUSKCN0SK2AC20151026 That Spratly cruise is coming up.
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I like how they pass over an obvious radar some farm and boom there's a baseball field. Gosh I wonder if there are any Americans there!
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So that stupid expensive naval combat sim game is on sale (only $60 instead of $80), is it worth it? I don't play a lot of computer games but I am a nerd.
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bewbies posted:So that stupid expensive naval combat sim game is on sale (only $60 instead of $80), is it worth it? I don't play a lot of computer games but I am a nerd. It's pretty awesome. It doesn't really play like any other PC game unless you played some of the harpoon series. You can also edit units so you can do stuff like give LCS an OTH and see what more you can do with it. Just make sure you're getting the original base game and not their new DLC which only has a subset of the full game. Edit: trying to not nerd out recommending it, but it's a really great way to see how things like air units, tankers, AWACS, work with SAM units and naval assets over a short 48 hour or so engagement window. TCD fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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The Mi-24 is a very sinister sounding aircraft. https://youtu.be/kCuLQ_sc-C4?t=24
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bewbies posted:So that stupid expensive naval combat sim game is on sale (only $60 instead of $80), is it worth it? I don't play a lot of computer games but I am a nerd. We have a thread over in Games for it (and other games much like it): http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3543909&perpage=40&pagenumber=218#pti33 It's somewhat overwhelming at first because you have some scenarios where you just control a single submarine and others where you literally command the entire NATO Atlantic fleet in day 2 of WWIII.
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EA-6B spotted! I love those planes, they're like homer's car with the separate backseat for the drat kids.
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I don't know if it's the photo angle but you can really see a size difference between the regular Hornet and the Super.
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StandardVC10 posted:I don't know if it's the photo angle but you can really see a size difference between the regular Hornet and the Super. 
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iyaayas01 posted:it'shappening.gif Hoping for some gifs of ridiculously low/close passes by chinese fighter jets
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Way to give away the time and place in advance. How unfortunate would it be if that ship just happened to hit a mine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Samuel_B._Roberts_(FFG-58) INTJ Mastermind fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Aggressive yet harmless dickwaving antics are pretty much my favourite military thing. Turbot War 
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Slept poorly Had to get up at some horrid pitch-dark time Suffered through the NPR pledge drive during breakfast Fought through morning rush hour on a rain-soaked day Drove hours through the rain in some of the most boring Midwest terrain around Nearly got there too late because of course I was late Shivered in the cold But still....  Worth it david_a fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Oct 27, 2015 15:47
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david_a posted:
How do I buy you a beer over the internet
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Suspect Bucket posted:How do I buy you a beer over the internet https://drizly.com/
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About 1,000 Bikini islanders have applied to relocate to the United States as rising seas threaten their adopted home.
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david_a posted:Slept poorly Daaaamn
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Way to give away the time and place in advance. How unfortunate would it be if that ship just happened to hit a mine. In a just world, one of the new destroyers getting laid down would be named Samuel B. Roberts, the same day as FFG-58 got decommissioned.
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My camera takes slightly better photos than my phone so I'll share more when I get home. There were people there with Serious Business cameras too of course; hopefully those will make it online shortly.
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Post those photos quickly I'm almost there...
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Oct 27, 2015 18:00
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Northrop won the Long Range Bomber contract. http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/northrop-beats-boeing-for-crucial-pentagon-bomber-contract/
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gfanikf posted:Northrop won the Long Range Bomber contract. So when they say "strike anywhere in the world on short notice", do they mean flying from the United States?
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Nebakenezzer posted:So when they say "strike anywhere in the world on short notice", do they mean flying from the United States? I thought that was Prompt Global Strike thing which fielded ideas like the SSGN conversion program and cool...but insane to do like putting conventional warheads on ICBMs.* *Barring all the obvious bad reasons watching cruise missile like strikes launch out of the silos vs ship would have been pretty cool....bad for tons of other reasons...but still cool and not needing WWIII to trigger it.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So when they say "strike anywhere in the world on short notice", do they mean flying from the United States? Without elaboration that statement is meaningless. quote:The Long Range Strike (LRS) bomber is designed to penetrate all defenses and strike an enemy target anywhere on earth at short notice. The first aircraft are expected to be operational in the mid-2020s. lol if you think this will be ready by the B-52's planned retirement in 2044.
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10 years from requirement to operational. For a stealth plane. If they have a prototype flying by then I'd be surprised.
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hobbesmaster posted:lol if you think this will be ready by the B-52's planned retirement in 2044. I literally laughed out loud at the "mid 2020s" nonsense in the article. In other news, Danish F-16 went down and had a little swim: http://www.thelocal.dk/20151027/danish-f-16-crashes-into-north-sea Fortunately the pilot is all right.
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ArchangeI posted:10 years from requirement to operational. For a stealth plane. If they have a prototype flying by then I'd be surprised. Wonder how much it will have in common with an embiggened X-47. The Super Hornet went from initial bid to first flight in less than a decade, and Northrop has been hyping it's rapid-prototyping Scaled Composites business for a while now.
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ArchangeI posted:10 years from requirement to operational. For a stealth plane. If they have a prototype flying by then I'd be surprised. They might. The amount of progress that's already been made seems to be classified but everyone is reporting that the program is very advanced already. Wind tunnel tests are apparently done, and a lot of the components have been tested.
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There were also the photos of that Not-B2 flying over texas. They probably have at least one prototype.
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         See ya next spring old fella! Bonus shots since the Gallery of Missiles was unexpectedly open:   I can't remember if it was this thread or the AI one where the A-3 came up recently, but here's an AF version (RB-66):  They flew this monster off carriers? LOL
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Shooting Blanks posted:Do they do wedding registries? The LRS-B will deliver to them.
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