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AH-64 Apache's gun-to-helmet tracking system https://zippy.gfycat.com/QueasyWhoppingAfricanharrierhawk Loading the first 30mm round in an Apache http://gfycat.com/JubilantLonelyGoldeneye RAF Apache plinking in Libya http://gfycat.com/FrequentBrightDromedary Apache flare maneuvers http://gfycat.com/AgileReasonableHornedviper Excerpt from from Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World’s Most Deadly Fighting Machine quote:As the most technically advanced helicopter in the world, the Apache AH Mk1 was also the hardest to fly…. To train each Apache pilot from scratch cost £3 million (each custom-made helmet alone had a price tag of £22,915). It took six months just to learn how to fly the machine, another six to know how to fight in it, and a final six to be passed combat ready. And that was if you were already a fully qualified, combat-trained army helicopter pilot. If you weren’t, you’d have to add four months for ground school and learning to fly fixed wing at RAF Barkston Heath, six months learning to fly helicopters at RAF Shawbury, half a year at the School of Army Aviation learning to fly tactically, and a final sixteen-week course in Survival, Evasion and Resistance to Interrogation, courtesy of the Intelligence Corps’ most vigorous training staff. Three years in total…. hostile apostle fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Let's not forget the crazy badasses that strapped commandos to the sides of an Apache to attempt a rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyJl6btNq8 I believe the author of the above book was one of the pilots.
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That's loving rad. What was that hot garbage Nicholas cage Apache movie again? I think I need to watch it.
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Blind Rasputin posted:That's loving rad. What was that hot garbage Nicholas cage Apache movie again? I think I need to watch it.  Firebirds
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Blind Rasputin posted:That's loving rad. What was that hot garbage Nicholas cage Apache movie again? I think I need to watch it. Firebirds. Featuring: "I AM THE GREATEST" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyuHA_zAOM
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hostile apostle posted:Loading the first 30mm round in an Apache Here's the video that came from showing the entire loading process from start to finish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI4Qiccct40 Including the part where they can't get it to feed and just go "gently caress it" and start ripping them out of the links to put each round on the conveyor one at a time.
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Chinatown posted:Hamas just developed their own tank. Impressive.  
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I can confirm that Apache by Ed Macey is a drat good book. The training aspect and the technicals get a little too bothersome at a point though. I'm saying that as a non-service member.
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Elendil004 posted:Let's not forget the crazy badasses that strapped commandos to the sides of an Apache to attempt a rescue: What do you bet they got no rating for hearing loss
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Was that a grounding strap, comms cable or both he plugged into the bird?
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Syrian Lannister posted:Was that a grounding strap, comms cable or both he plugged into the bird? His gigantic sack.
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go3 posted:What do you bet they got no rating for hearing loss Do infantry/Marines generally wear earpro in a combat setting? Even regular foamie earplugs would be mostly good against jet noise, even from up close like that. I'm not saying it wouldn't be loud, but it wouldn't be skull-fuckingly-loud, like it would be to bare ears.
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MrYenko posted:Do infantry/Marines generally wear earpro in a combat setting? Even regular foamie earplugs would be mostly good against jet noise, even from up close like that. I'm not saying it wouldn't be loud, but it wouldn't be skull-fuckingly-loud, like it would be to bare ears. No. I've seen photos of some SF types using the ear pro that only blocks loud sounds but I never saw it being used on deployment when I was a grunt.
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Bad TOW related day for a pro-Assad 14.5mm gunner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi99U90vMDc
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Brown Moses posted:Bad TOW related day for a pro-Assad 14.5mm gunner Shaped charges can't melt steel 14.5mm. At least if they hit the wall behind them. And any explosion you can fall away from is a good one.
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Reverand maynard posted:No. I've seen photos of some SF types using the ear pro that only blocks loud sounds but I never saw it being used on deployment when I was a grunt. Aside from the mic placement making you aurally blind from the rear, peltors/sordins are great but were only issued to sof units I think. If you see a grunt with some they probably bought them, but I'm not sure if the army started buying them after '09 or what
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:There's no way that dude lived, right? I'd expect that the overpressure from the explosion caused all kinds of fun internal injuries.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:There's no way that dude lived, right? I thought I saw a couple of them run away at the end.
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Slim Pickens posted:Aside from the mic placement making you aurally blind from the rear, peltors/sordins are great but were only issued to sof units I think. If you see a grunt with some they probably bought them, but I'm not sure if the army started buying them after '09 or what I'm amazed someone from one of the dev shops that the bearded ninjas work with hasn't come up with something a whole hell of a lot better yet.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:There's no way that dude lived, right? Assuming that the neurons in his brain aren't lightly whipped, his lungs probably both popped like balloons.
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Slim Pickens posted:Aside from the mic placement making you aurally blind from the rear, peltors/sordins are great but were only issued to sof units I think. If you see a grunt with some they probably bought them, but I'm not sure if the army started buying them after '09 or what I've got some Howard Leights which are probably the same thing. Me and my wife have a pair each for the range, and one of them has something going on with the mics because if I turn 90 degrees to something I have become Daredevil. Like, hear conversation across the street type stuff.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Assuming that the neurons in his brain aren't lightly whipped, his lungs probably both popped like balloons. Shaped charge, power of an explosion drops as a square ratio of distance. Rolled steel penetration in front of the warhead is going to do a surprisingly low fraction of that force to a dude a few feet behind it. Wikipedia claims the biggest TOW warheads are 13.5 pounds of explosive. That's a big less than the Comp B or TNT in a 155mm shell, but with less shrapnel risk, excepting whatever concrete flakes blew back. Random explosions are more potentially survivable than you think.
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Brown Moses posted:Bad TOW related day for a pro-Assad 14.5mm gunner What was going in at the beginning? I see a bunch of flashes that look like they're coming from the middle of the cinder block wall, not from that open area later hit by the tow. Was that outgoing fire from the building?
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FOURTH WAVE LESBRO posted:I'm amazed someone from one of the dev shops that the bearded ninjas work with hasn't come up with something a whole hell of a lot better yet. The Comtac IVs actually leave the ear open and have the sound mic on the side in more of a boom configuration instead of the forward facing ones on the previous models. Whether or not that increases aural awareness, I don't know, but they look a hell of a lot more comfier than the previous ones in that they don't cover your ears up. Instead they have a little earbud-esque plug in piece. Kinda neat, actually. 
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The Slithery D posted:Shaped charge, power of an explosion drops as a square ratio of distance. Rolled steel penetration in front of the warhead is going to do a surprisingly low fraction of that force to a dude a few feet behind it. Wikipedia claims the biggest TOW warheads are 13.5 pounds of explosive. That's a big less than the Comp B or TNT in a 155mm shell, but with less shrapnel risk, excepting whatever concrete flakes blew back. That's actually a really good video demonstrating the downsides to trying to use HEAT for anti-personnel work. Not only did one guy manage to remain conscious and evacuate (albeit poorly), the gun is still standing on its tripod.
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If you take a CDE course you'll learn that kill radius for blast is a fraction of shrapnel or building ejecta for the big bombs, and that's for non shaped munitions.
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Ron Jeremy posted:What was going in at the beginning? I see a bunch of flashes that look like they're coming from the middle of the cinder block wall, not from that open area later hit by the tow. Was that outgoing fire from the building? Muzzle flash. If you look closely you can see that the gunner had the MG pointed to the left of the building. Actually looking at it that guy didn't fall off on purpose, he was sitting on the wall as his firing position.The explosion broke off the piece of wall he was straddling. Ikasuhito fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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not caring here posted:I've got some Howard Leights which are probably the same thing. Me and my wife have a pair each for the range, and one of them has something going on with the mics because if I turn 90 degrees to something I have become Daredevil. Like, hear conversation across the street type stuff. Like these? I've been toying with the idea of getting something like this for a while.
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The Slithery D posted:Shaped charge, power of an explosion drops as a square ratio of distance. The cube. The explosion is filling a volume in space, not the surface of a sphere.
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Godholio posted:Like these? I've been toying with the idea of getting something like this for a while. Ever so slightly different, but yeah. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001T7QJ9O?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage These are prettly slim so they gently caress with me less when I'm lying down and don't butt up against the stock (as much).
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Hm, I like those better.
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Phanatic posted:The cube. The explosion is filling a volume in space, not the surface of a sphere. Square. The blast is a two dimensional blast front, it is exactly the surface of a sphere. If you've every seen a good video of a 2000 lb bomb you see the ring of the blast expand outward through the terrain along the ground. Edit: I think the best ones are actually showing air compression on the blast front because of humidity, actually. The Slithery D fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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not caring here posted:Ever so slightly different, but yeah. I've got a pair of these and can confirm, they rock socks for shooting.
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Howard Leights own bones. Probably never going to buy another pair of muffs again unless/until these crap out.
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The Slithery D posted:Square. The blast is a two dimensional blast front, it is exactly the surface of a sphere. If you've every seen a good video of a 2000 lb bomb you see the ring of the blast expand outward through the terrain along the ground. Blast effects are proportional to energy per unit *volume*. Want to kill people twice as far away from your bomb, you need need a bomb 8 times the size, not four times. Consider: you set off your bomb, and you turn your explosive material into an equal volume of superheated gas. That gas is going to rapidly expand to fill a volume. Yes, the surface of that volume is a two-dimensional sphere, but the energy of the explosion is not all that interface, it's occupying the entire volume. And as it's expanding, it's cooling. Anytime you're dealing with blast effects, cube root scaling shows up all over the place. http://www.prr.hec.gov.pk/chapters/769s-3.pdf It's how you predict (or begin to, there are obviously other factors) minimum safe distances: https://www.vcalc.com/wiki/cataustria/Hopkinson-Cranz+Scaling+Law+%28Cube-Root+Scaling+Law%29 http://www.un.org/disarmament/un-saferguard/hopkinson-cranz/
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http://teaheadsets.com/index.php/rac.html the new hotness in headsets, still too hot and you cant hear poo poo behind you i looked at those comtac ivs and they look neat but i wonder if bone conduction setups arent better
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Thank you for sending me to a Pakistan government site devoted to explosives. 
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Godholio posted:Hm, I like those better. Although keep in mind those slim Howard Leights are only 22 db NRR versus the 30 of the larger ones. So especially indoors it's recommended to double up (wear foam earplugs) due to the lower protection rating. That's assuming you're using them for shooting and not, like, mowing your lawn or whatever.
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