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not caring here posted:Many years ago got shot at while I was traipsing through dense bush while pig hunting. Sporadic SKS fire in your general direction from parties unknown is not the greatest time I've ever had, let alone having someone get a bead on you with the intent to put a bullet in your gulliver you can keep that poo poo thankyou. Seems like a murder would bring more trouble than somebody stealing part of your harvest
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:Seems like a murder would bring more trouble than somebody stealing part of your harvest They aren't really the "Think a few steps ahead" type from my experience
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iyaayas01 posted:this post was incomplete without a picture and/or gif of Walt Kowalski My mind went to Walter Sobchak.
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not caring here posted:Many years ago got shot at while I was traipsing through dense bush while pig hunting. Sporadic SKS fire in your general direction from parties unknown is not the greatest time I've ever had, let alone having someone get a bead on you with the intent to put a bullet in your gulliver you can keep that poo poo thankyou.
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Eh, that was all... gently caress, a very long time ago in Australia. I couldn't see them, they couldn't see me, found it pretty prudent to just beat feet and call the fuzz later. Last time I was pig hunting in Australia was a few years back, and it was much more gentlemanly then... AR10s hanging out of an R22 chopper. If someone wants to take potshots at that flying death parade, well, good luck.
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thk u 4 ure service, vietnam dicksucker vet o7
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Sucking off a Vietdong
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Hahahaha.
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So in Trump's eyes, he's not only a coward, but a cocksucker as well
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Oh those zany Kurds  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABvNk5aeKs And not related to anything whatsoever: 
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PLAN, doin' thangs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYWq2XwjOM
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It's amazing how that's a Soviet era ship with a Soviet derived aircraft, yet the HD glamour shots and flight deck operations look totally American.
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VikingSkull posted:It's amazing how that's a Soviet era ship with a Soviet derived aircraft, yet the HD glamour shots and flight deck operations look totally American. FOOOOOOOOOD WAAAAAALKDOWN at 1:31. Oh Flankers. Is there any role you can't be modified for?  Those ski jump takeoffs look really unnerving though.
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Those lucky bastards get a Chinese buffet right on the ship.
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The inevitable Mongolian BBQ night will be hidden from the press, I'm sure.
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Madurai posted:PLAN, doin' thangs: We're all in the People's Liberation Army Navy Air Force 
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Wingnut Ninja posted:FOOOOOOOOOD WAAAAAALKDOWN at 1:31. They're in near perfect conditions. I'm kinda shocked they're able to get aloft that well, and the boat doesn't even look like its hauling rear end like CVNs like to do on launch days.
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it doesn't look like they use catapults or whatever like we do, does that have any significance?
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Branis posted:it doesn't look like they use catapults or whatever like we do, does that have any significance? Less takeoff weight or asstons of thrust or both necessary. Looks dumb. Easier to build and maintain. No rrrrrroooooomcachunk SMASH noise to wake up dudes in the berthing right under the deck.
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Hmmm, I thought we were the only ones dumb enough to use digital blue at-sea camo.
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Meydey posted:Hmmm, I thought we were the only ones dumb enough to use digital blue at-sea camo. China seems to be trying really really hard to copy pretty much everything we do.
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like, even the skipper has that stoic look on his face you know he has a wooden model of a MiG-21 on his desk
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VikingSkull posted:like, even the skipper has that stoic look on his face It's either that or an SU-24.
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MikeCrotch posted:We're all in the People's Liberation Army Navy Air Force Are they doing a police call at 1:30 for cigarette butts and brass
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I just noticed that the SU-27K tail fins fold just like the main wings do. That's pretty cool.Branis posted:it doesn't look like they use catapults or whatever like we do, does that have any significance? Laranzu posted:Less takeoff weight or asstons of thrust or both necessary. Notice how the planes taking off from the forward positions (where the bow catapults would be) don't appear to have any ordnance on them. Even the one taking the full deck run looks like it's only got four A-A missiles. Ski jump carriers really limit how much you can take off with, and also makes it very hard to field some more specialized aircraft like an AEW platform (E-2) or logistics (C-2).
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So what are the benefits of doing the ski jump vs catapult? Is it just easier for less advanced nations to put a ramp and jump poo poo?
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Branis posted:So what are the benefits of doing the ski jump vs catapult? Is it just easier for less advanced nations to put a ramp and jump poo poo? Basically, yeah.
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Branis posted:So what are the benefits of doing the ski jump vs catapult? Is it just easier for less advanced nations to put a ramp and jump poo poo? Yeah, a catapult involves a lot of extra equipment, personnel, training, and really requires the carrier to be built from the ground up as a catapult design (i.e., China wouldn't retrofit their refurbished Soviet carrier into a catapult). I haven't really looked into what their indigenous carrier design is supposed to be (I think it's still ski-jump), but it wouldn't surprise me if they were planning a catapult design at some point in the future.
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More Chechnya pics: http://sturgeonshouse.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/775-tieds-chechnya-in-pictures-thread/page-2#entry41951 Some blood.
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LostCosmonaut posted:More Chechnya pics: http://sturgeonshouse.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/775-tieds-chechnya-in-pictures-thread/page-2#entry41951 
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In a world where a Supreme Court Justice cited Jack Bauer in an argument over constitutional law, does the fact that Tom Clancy was a part of Reagan's Cold War strategy surprise you?
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Goddamn Clancychat, all the way up, all the way down.
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Branis posted:So what are the benefits of doing the ski jump vs catapult? Is it just easier for less advanced nations to put a ramp and jump poo poo? As far as I understand it, to generate the all the steam required for a steam catapult you pretty much need a nuclear reactor. And electromagnetic catapults are super new and mindbogglingly expensive.
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Munnin The Crab posted:As far as I understand it, to generate the all the steam required for a steam catapult you pretty much need a nuclear reactor. And electromagnetic catapults are super new and mindbogglingly expensive. And they fail a lot. IIRC, steam catapults fail at a rate of 1/1000 and the new magnetic catapults are like 1/70. Par for the course for a new technology, but it doesn't make me feel all that good about the new Jerry-class carriers.
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Red Storm Rising was a good read when I was a teenager.
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Munnin The Crab posted:As far as I understand it, to generate the all the steam required for a steam catapult you pretty much need a nuclear reactor. And electromagnetic catapults are super new and mindbogglingly expensive. the funny thing is that some people are arguing that the Chinese have looked at steam catapults, decided that they were way too complicated, and decided to go with electromagnetic instead, essentially skipping steam catapults to go from ski jump to EMC. I see no problems with this and expect it to work out great for the PLAN.
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