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evil_bunnY posted:No fancy last second maneuvering, voted 1. Allow me to sperg out about all the attitude control motors popping in those videos, making very minute corrections to hit the target directly instead of a proximity kill. The fanciest last second maneuvers are the most subtle.
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mlmp08 posted:Allow me to sperg out about all the attitude control motors popping in those videos, making very minute corrections to hit the target directly instead of a proximity kill.  Doctor Grape Ape posted:I will never ceased to be amazed at the fact that we can make a 20 foot long piece of metal hit another piece of metal when both are traveling at several miles per second in the atmosphere of Earth, poo poo is incredible. What about when the target is moving at 17,500mph? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDqNjnUNUl8
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Also pictured in that video: America's most capable non-nuclear ballistic missile
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Mr. Showtime posted:What about when the target is moving at 17,500mph?  I had to do the math and that's like an Everest in every 2 seconds. Christ. Also, the Navy really loves their pubestaches.
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We can hit a satellite in ORBIT with an anti-aircraft missile on steroids, but we can't have the video of this event in a resolution that's been used in the past twenty years.
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poo poo we shot down a satellite with an F-15 in 1985.
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:Also, the Navy really loves their pubestaches. We prefer the term 'molestache'.
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hogmartin posted:We prefer the term 'molestache'. I'm convinced I just did a google image search for "pedophile"
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cross posted from the milhist thread: Germans testing the main gun stabilization on their Leopard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCW-2_qPlQw
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Cyrano4747 posted:cross posted from the milhist thread: Germans really love that trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_55ITGf2I This is completely off topic, but the 850Ci with a 6 speed is sooooo nice as a highway cruiser if you accept the hilarious running costs. Even more off topic: it was the first V12 offered with a 6 speed transmission, so suck on that Ferrari.
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TCD posted:Neat - didn't know about this kit. The US has been doing a lot with regards to improving protection for armor over the past decade. You don't really hear a lot about it but there have been two new generations of Explosive Reactive Armor, a lot of threat-sensor type upgrades to pinpoint sources of fire for both small arms and ATGMs, and a big push toward active defense systems.
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Today I was at the "Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology" in Saint Petersburg, Russia. I took a bunch of photos that should be of interest to the thread, but would you guys prefer a curated and considered bunch of photos or should I just put them all up somewhere offsite and let you vultures pick and chose on your own?
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Xerxes17 posted:Today I was at the "Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology" in Saint Petersburg, Russia. I took a bunch of photos that should be of interest to the thread, but would you guys prefer a curated and considered bunch of photos or should I just put them all up somewhere offsite and let you vultures pick and chose on your own? If you do post a link to a gallery they might appreciate it over in the spaceflight thread too. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3580990
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Xerxes17 posted:Today I was at the "Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology" in Saint Petersburg, Russia. I took a bunch of photos that should be of interest to the thread, but would you guys prefer a curated and considered bunch of photos or should I just put them all up somewhere offsite and let you vultures pick and chose on your own? Whatever you do, make sure they end up in the Spaceflight Thread too. e: must learn to refresh.
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Back Hack posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cITKk-DqYWE As long as Jessica Biel is in it...
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B4Ctom1 posted:bunch of US special forces guys in Syria 
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B4Ctom1 posted:Foxtrot Alpha talking about things and stuff  says they already have and are just floating a trial balloon of an idea to see how badly the US freaks their poo poo at this idea.
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Alaan posted:It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.  that is exactly it.. "So hey guys about those stingers.."
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I'll become a touch more concerned when the Saudis start sending I-HAWK and Patriot batteries to Syria. All (more) MANPADs will do is make the Russians pack the attack helicopters back up and send them home, and force them to constantly patrol and sanitize the approach and departure lanes from their airbases.
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Hey guys, I finally managed to catch up to the end of the thread after months of reading. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion of Command and Control, that was a really interesting book. I was just curious if you guys had any other cold war reading suggestions, or if there are any Soviet counterpart books to Command and Control?
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jadebullet posted:any Soviet counterpart books to Command and Control?
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mlmp08 posted:Allow me to sperg out about all the attitude control motors popping in those videos, making very minute corrections to hit the target directly instead of a proximity kill.
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jadebullet posted:Hey guys, I finally managed to catch up to the end of the thread after months of reading. http://www.amazon.com/The-Dead-Hand-Untold-Dangerous/dp/0307387844 The Russians built a sort of quasi doomsday system to ensure they could retaliate if their command structure got wiped out. Ostensibly it was supposed to help the decision makers not make rash choices in the case of probable false alarms because they would know that the missiles could be fired even if they were dead, but I don't know that the psychology really works that way.
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Everyone needs to read "Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet". It's about the SR-71 and you can usually pick up used copies on Amazon for pretty cheap.
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The mention of Dead Hand got me wondering how we've never sperged about numbers stations in this thread, since they're cold war as gently caress. For a while, shortwave nerds wondered if this signal was a sort of "everything's OK" signal for Soviet Block forces and/or some kind of dead hand type system.
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That definitely looks interesting, I am picking it up now. Edit: Numbers stations are definitely awesome. Also, wasn't there some sort of Soviet antenna that was causing issues with our radios and televisions at certain times of the day but we never figured out why?
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jadebullet posted:That definitely looks interesting, I am picking it up now. I think that might have been "The Woodpecker".
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Blistex posted:I think that might have been "The Woodpecker". edit: Also, this is awesome wiki posted:To combat this interference, amateur radio operators attempted to "jam" the signal by transmitting synchronized unmodulated continuous wave signals at the same pulse rate as the offending signal. They formed a club called The Russian Woodpecker Hunting Club.
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Blistex posted:Everyone needs to read "Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet". It's about the SR-71 and you can usually pick up used copies on Amazon for pretty cheap. By "pretty cheap" you mean a couple hundo.
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jadebullet posted:Hey guys, I finally managed to catch up to the end of the thread after months of reading. Fiction: http://www.amazon.com/The-Before-Midnight-Stephen-Hunter/dp/0553282352
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Party Plane Jones posted:By "pretty cheap" you mean a couple hundo.  .
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