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Party Plane Jones posted:Somebody dropped an absolutely massive album about Ulithi Island in particular and the Pacific War in general on imgur:  quote:With that said on 15 September 1945 the now gargantuan Third Fleet consisted of - 20 Fleet Carriers (CV), 8 Light Carriers (CVL), 64 Escort Carriers (CVE), 23 Battleships (BB), 52 Light & Heavy Cruisers (CA - CL), 323 Destroyers (DD), 298 Destroyer Escorts (DE), 181 Submarines, 160 Mine Craft, 1060 Support & Auxiliary Vessels, 2783 Landing Craft, 14,847 Combat Aircraft, along with 1286 Transport & Utility Aircraft Neat, I think that's a captured Emily: 
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Cyrano4747 posted:I love that flame illustration. That's basically how child-me drew fire. Hell, probably every child. That waterline after the 2nd torpedo is loving crazy. Are there any pictures of it sitting that low in the water?
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DeesGrandpa posted:Yeah that too. I wouldn't have had a real problem is it was just a nuke plant issue but to have it have magically been one that the republican candidate fought to have built is pretty out there. That was entirely an on the fly rewrite of the season because John Spencer died, so it makes sense it felt abrupt.
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:That's basically how child-me drew fire. Hell, probably every child.  Damage diagram seems accurate. Here it is under tow which shows how low she's riding compared to how she normally is:  
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Party Plane Jones posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro4yhp9L6Ok I wasn't expecting the dazzle camo, that's awesome.
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Party Plane Jones posted:
Look how she's *sagging*. That's amazing that she stayed in one piece.
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Russia now insinuating that a US drone carried out the strike on that Aleppo aid convoy.
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Sperglord Actual posted:Russia now insinuating that a US drone carried out the strike on that Aleppo aid convoy. I’ll bet that drone was on PCP, too. 
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What would happen to the Middle East if the USA just decided to wash their hands of it tomorrow?
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:What would happen to the Middle East if the USA just decided to wash their hands of it tomorrow? Megadeaths.
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If we're posting damage photos, I can always go dig up my photos from when my grandfather helped repair the USS Lindsey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lindsey He was the XO on a floating drydock in the Pacific...I posted the photos a couple years ago, but still have them somewhere.
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Crossposting this video from GiP. The Navy is the second-most consumer of electronic music behind Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55KMPVr20c0
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ISIS artillery launched mustard gas at US and Iraqi forces..quote:ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with mustard agent that landed at the Qayyara air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials. The shell was categorized by officials as either a rocket or artillery shell. After it landed on the base, just south of Mosul, US troops tested it and received an initial reading for a chemical agent they believe is mustard.
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:What would happen to the Middle East if the USA just decided to wash their hands of it tomorrow? Gas prices would double overnight.
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There's a reason Navy pilots call the drogue add-on for the KC-135 the 'Iron Maiden.'
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Did it smack into the side of the canopy by the copilot, or am I interpreting it wrong?
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Godholio posted:Gas prices would double overnight. ...is that the worst? Because that's no that bad.
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Well, at least a dozen cultures would be wiped from the face of the earth (mostly the non-troublesome ones), any historical artifacts in the region would be destroyed, ISIL and such would actually be able to organize into a coherent organization capable of planning and executing complex plans, and building a real economy because we're still desperately hooked on oil. Then things get interesting.
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Godholio posted:Well, at least a dozen cultures would be wiped from the face of the earth (mostly the non-troublesome ones), any historical artifacts in the region would be destroyed, ISIL and such would actually be able to organize into a coherent organization capable of planning and executing complex plans, and building a real economy because we're still desperately hooked on oil. Then things get interesting. Plus there's the whole almost-definitely-not-an-idle-threat by the Saudi Royal Family that if the House of Saud is ever deposed, that they'll take their oil with them on their way to Paradise. So yeah, oil would far more than double if they made good on their threats and destroyed their refineries and sabotaged their own fields so ISIL/Daesh couldn't just waltz in and have turn-key control to the bulk of the world's remaining light sweet crude reserves.
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Party Plane Jones posted:
This is even more impressive because the Cleveland class had chronic weight issues stemming from a too-narrow design displacement that left little room for additional equipment to be added later.
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Coming soon to a battleship group near you; a wall of smoke* for cover and concealment: http://i.imgur.com/e0EaUTh.gifv *Actually a mix of ammonium sulfide and potassium persulfate
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http://popularmilitary.com/u-s-troops-attacked-chemical-weapons-iraq-possible-mustard-gas/
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Alaan posted:Yowzers. Also digging that dazzle camo. Good looking ship. Nice classic lines. BIG HEADLINE posted:Plus there's the whole almost-definitely-not-an-idle-threat by the Saudi Royal Family that if the House of Saud is ever deposed, that they'll take their oil with them on their way to Paradise. So yeah, oil would far more than double if they made good on their threats and destroyed their refineries and sabotaged their own fields so ISIL/Daesh couldn't just waltz in and have turn-key control to the bulk of the world's remaining light sweet crude reserves. Interestingly, as the (very close) #2 and #3 producers of oil in the world Russia and the US would benefit heavily. People over state US reliance on off-shore oil. We aren't really. We import a lot of oil, but we make vast amounts of money off of petroleum products and the things produced with those products that we export. It's a net profit. The, 'Oh god, we have to get out from under the Middle Easts hold on us' is just so simplistic a view as to be almost worthless. As far as just gas consumption, domestic and Canadian product could covers our needs pretty handily but that would be expensive and dumb and throwing away huge sources of income.
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Sperglord Actual posted:Russia now insinuating that a US drone carried out the strike on that Aleppo aid convoy. So, let me get this straight: 1. The US and Russia, who both hate ISIS, try to put stuff aside so they can work together on it. 2. America by accident bombs a group of Assad soldiers. 3. Russia, its honor slighted, responds by deliberately blowing up an aid convoy, an actual goddamn war crime. 4. ?????? Like I'm watching the second season of Narcos on netflix and Pablo Escobar calling up the German embassy and Lufthansa and threatening to blow up poo poo in Germany for loving with him seems a paragon of rationality, comparatively.
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The ??? can now be replaced with "Russia and Assad fire bomb random poo poo in Aleppo even harder". Also, Assad kinda sorta blocked all the aid shipments into contested areas and Russia continued bombing the non-ISIS rebels throughout while not stepping up efforts against ISIS during the ceasefire so I doubt the ceasefire motivation on that side had anything to do with ISIS. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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Plucky. Little. Russia.
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Warbadger posted:The ??? can now be replaced with "Russia and Assad fire bomb random poo poo in Aleppo even harder". So what was the motivation? Here's a good opportunity to emphasize you don't gently caress wit' th' A?
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10 years ago today, the F-14 was retired.  RIP you sexy beast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCmEFrWDAUY
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Godholio posted:10 years ago today, the F-14 was retired. That bit at the beginning where they're just flying over that beach is so cool. Now look at dis  COIN Challenger by Lockheed Martin, on Flickrquote:The 1964 US tri-service (Navy-Air Force-Army) Light Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft, or LARA, competition came about as a response to a Marine Corps requirement for an aircraft specifically designed for counterinsurgency, or COIN, operations. Nine competitors responded to the request for proposal. The Lockheed CL-760 design, shown here as a full-scale mockup, featured a crew of two in tandem and could carry eight fully-armed infantry soldiers in the fuselage. The main landing gear would have retracted into fuselage blisters, which also held four 7.62 mm guns. A variety of weapons and pods could have been carried on underwing weapons racks. The Navy, as lead procurement agency, chose the North American Rockwell design, which entered production as the OV-10 Bronco.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So what was the motivation? Here's a good opportunity to emphasize you don't gently caress wit' th' A? Probably just to help the SAA consolidate recent gains to re-encircle Aleppo.
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A Handed Missus posted:That bit at the beginning where they're just flying over that beach is so cool. This made me look it up and I had no idea the bronco could carry passengers or be easily broken down to transport in a 6x6. So cool.
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Murgos posted:Interestingly, as the (very close) #2 and #3 producers of oil in the world Russia and the US would benefit heavily. The U.S. and Russia wouldn’t be hurt as severely as most other countries, but it would still be a disaster.
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Where and for what markets is Saudi oil refined? My limited understanding is that refineries have to be set up for the specific chemistry of oil from a certain area and that refineries also supply certain markets. Would the Sauds going nuts gently caress one part of the world more than anotherA?
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Godholio posted:10 years ago today, the F-14 was retired. Still alive in the IRIAF. 
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Cyrano4747 posted:Where and for what markets is Saudi oil refined? My limited understanding is that refineries have to be set up for the specific chemistry of oil from a certain area and that refineries also supply certain markets. Would the Sauds going nuts gently caress one part of the world more than anotherA? Sweet light crude is the type O− of oil. I think almost anyone can refine it.
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Shooting Blanks posted:If we're posting damage photos, I can always go dig up my photos from when my grandfather helped repair the USS Lindsey. I wonder if the people who run this site http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/0832.htm would like copies of those? The Allen M. Sumner class seems to have been very well built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Laffey_(DD-724)
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