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Godholio posted:I'll admit, I laughed at "after a 5-day ban." tears in my eyes from that poo poo
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Wasabi the J posted:Breaking schadenfreude I'm experiencing that pure strain mirth that can only be attained by someone else in the military loving up. https://twitter.com/CNNSitRoom/status/659428769237704704 Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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Huh, this sure seems familiar!quote:"The chance of that happening is very small because the tether is made of Vectran and has withstood storms in excess of 100 knots," the Raytheon website stated on its website before the blimp became unmoored. "However, in the unlikely event it does happen, there are a number of procedures and systems in place which are designed to bring the aerostat down in a safe manner."
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Oct 28, 2015 20:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq-N3_plNq8
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Oct 29, 2015 14:33
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WWI personal armors: http://flashbak.com/world-war-1-body-armor-1914-1918-32670/
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Hogge Wild posted:WWI personal armors: http://flashbak.com/world-war-1-body-armor-1914-1918-32670/ that would do a great job of putting whatever bullet hits directly into his arms/legs
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Which is somewhat better than the face/chest/gut.
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ded posted:that would do a great job of blasting a bunch of shrapnel into the wound of a bullet that punches right through your sheet metal armor
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That entire getup just kind of looks like someone decided it would convince a young private he'd be safe running around No Man's Land. "You mean this thing even stops artillery shells, Sir?" "As far as we know...maybe!"
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Italian soldiers were experimenting with body armor as early as 1915. Most of the documentation on that comes from Austrians inspecting the bodies after the latest attack.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That entire getup just kind of looks like someone decided it would convince a young private he'd be safe running around No Man's Land. "Nobody has ever complained that it didn't!"
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Kavak posted:Italian soldiers were experimenting with body armor as early as 1915. Most of the documentation on that comes from Austrians inspecting the bodies after the latest attack. It's not so much that they were experimenting as if it were something new. Armor was still in use from the Middle Ages, but since the enormously heavy and expensive plate armor (that most people think of) wasn't worth the hassle against firearms, it had evolved down to basically a cuirassier consisting of a chest and backplate. Which is probably why the piece above is like that. But yeah, it was still worn by cavalry and maybe a few other odd units even into WWI.
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Blimp chat! That poo poo is an amazing piece of schaedenfreude all the way around, and being in Baltimore at the time, was histerical to follow real time. Watch "How the U.S. Army Lost a $2.7 Billion Blimp..." on YouTube https://youtu.be/Dc7kcHoAX4Y
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Godholio posted:It's not so much that they were experimenting as if it were something new. Armor was still in use from the Middle Ages, but since the enormously heavy and expensive plate armor (that most people think of) wasn't worth the hassle against firearms, it had evolved down to basically a cuirassier consisting of a chest and backplate. Which is probably why the piece above is like that. But yeah, it was still worn by cavalry and maybe a few other odd units even into WWI. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was wearing a silk bulletproof vest when he was killed, however Princip made the clever choice of shooting him in the neck instead. During WWII the Soviets issued steel breastplates that could stop a 9mm bullet at 100 meters, and going into the Cold War they had various sets of body armor made out of titanium plates, or layered titanium disks, which could apparently stop pistol bullets and were apparently mainly used by the MVD (think FBI) and tax enforcement agents. When they went to war in Afghanistan they ended up doing a rapid development of armor, resulting in the 6B3 and 6B4 vests (plus the 6B5 that was used in Chechnya) that could stop a rifle bullet using layers of 6.5mm titanium plates in the front. All the vest types had different sub-models which used ceramics or were lighter/heavier and had different levels of protection. In the book One Soldier's War, the author talks about how during the first Chechen war they'd have to go through piles of shot up body armor and take two or three vests to make a usable one.     
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bulletsponge13 posted:Blimp chat! That poo poo is an amazing piece of schaedenfreude all the way around, and being in Baltimore at the time, was histerical to follow real time. I can* see the blimps from my house. I'm just glad the wind was blowing the other way. *could 
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Dont know why everyones freaking out about this blimp. It isnt the first time we've had one go on magical journey.
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Blimps just wanna be free, yo. Sometimes it's in the desert, sometimes it's your backyard.
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Knocked some power out. They eventually shotgunned it.
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PainterofCrap posted:Knocked some power out. They eventually shotgunned it. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? It's a flying pillow! also Wasabi the J has the best avatar, I swear
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I thought the shotgunning was supposedly done by Pennsylvania yokels, not the military.
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Soooo why wasn't the tether cable connected to the blimp with some kind of release or exploding bolt or something so that when it escapes it can shed the cable like a lizard's trail rather than drag it over powerlines and poo poo?
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Arrath posted:Soooo why wasn't the tether cable connected to the blimp with some kind of release or exploding bolt or something so that when it escapes it can shed the cable like a lizard's trail rather than drag it over powerlines and poo poo? because its impossible that the cable will fail. dont worry we designed it to be SUPER STRONG.
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Chinatown posted:because its impossible that the cable will fail. dont worry we designed it to be SUPER STRONG. Oh right, silly me for thinking fail safes and such are reasonable design considerations 
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Arrath posted:Soooo why wasn't the tether cable connected to the blimp with some kind of release or exploding bolt or something so that when it escapes it can shed the cable like a lizard's trail rather than drag it over powerlines and poo poo? The same reason that their test reactor killed 3 people. The army is loving stupid
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I thought the shotgunning was supposedly done by Pennsylvania yokels, not the military.
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Arrath posted:Soooo why wasn't the tether cable connected to the blimp with some kind of release or exploding bolt or something so that when it escapes it can shed the cable like a lizard's trail rather than drag it over powerlines and poo poo? US Army Blimp Explodes, Killing Nine
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I'd also fathom that even though it caused issues, the weight of the cable might have helped the blimp finally be recovered somewhat safely and without a total loss of the ~billyuns~ in radar equipment inside instead of potentially having to be shot down with something bigger than a shotgun.
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Arrath posted:Soooo why wasn't the tether cable connected to the blimp with some kind of release or exploding bolt or something so that when it escapes it can shed the cable like a lizard's trail rather than drag it over powerlines and poo poo? It would make more sense to have some mechanism on the blimp that reels in the snapped tether but yeah
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let's see you assholes try to design your own blimps to monitor people with concealed carry firearms
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:let's see you assholes try to design your own blimps to monitor people with concealed carry firearms
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:let's see you assholes try to design your own blimps to monitor people with concealed carry firearms Yo, there's people around Huachuca who think that this is EXACTLY what the nearby aerostat does, and others who think it monitors illegal aliens
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1446585375 Transporting a nuke, with a surprise
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Booblord Zagats posted:Yo, there's people around Huachuca who think that this is EXACTLY what the nearby aerostat does, and others who think it monitors illegal aliens 
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Teflon Don posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1446585375 Security forces everyone.
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excuse me but it's called PHOENIX RAVEN get it right you POG 
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Teflon Don posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1446585375 o7
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Teflon Don posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1446585375 Maybe we should stop hiring windowlickers to do national security
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sorry to tell you, it's windowlickers all the way down
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