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P-38 Lightning, from a war memorial on the Solomon Islands. Click for big. 
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So by "war memorial" they mean "partially-landscaped crash site?" Which is kind of cool actually.
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Aug 20, 2018 15:24
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HDR like that is technically a war crime.
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Aug 20, 2018 15:37
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Phanatic posted:HDR like that is technically a war crime. It's more like a war misdemeanor
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Aug 20, 2018 15:52
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Shooting Blanks posted:This post made me think of a question, probably for Cyrano - my knowledge of travel between East and West Germany during the Cold War is pretty limited, but my basic understanding is that East Germany made it really goddamn difficult to cross the border due to fear of defectors (at least in Berlin - I don't know about the rest of it), whereas West Germans were relatively free to travel to and from (still with restrictions). When an East German made it across the border, whether defecting or on an approved visit, how were they treated/greeted? Were they seen as outsiders, foreigners who happened to share a language, or was it more of a "Welcome, countryman!" greeting? I'd have to imagine the latter, seeing as the split was purely political and driven by external forces, but I don't really know. For political reasons the West German government never acknowledged that any thing like a separate East German citizenship. East Germans were by definition West German citizens. If they were visiting on non-official business, they got a little gift in West German money (this caused some issues in Berlin on November 10, 1989 because everyone was cashing in). If they defected properly they were housed in transition camps until they could get back on their feet.
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Aug 20, 2018 18:53
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Fearless posted:It was vastly better than the CF-100, which was also known as the Clunk and the Lead Sled. The CF-100 was, for a very brief period of time, the most advanced all-weather interceptor in the world. Of course considering the pace with which aviation was evolving at the time, this was a very brief accolade.
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Aug 20, 2018 23:30
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Shooting Blanks posted:It's more like a war misdemeanor I was thinking it was like blinding weaponry.
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Aug 20, 2018 23:35
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MrChips posted:The CF-100 was, for a very brief period of time, the most advanced all-weather interceptor in the world. Of course considering the pace with which aviation was evolving at the time, this was a very brief accolade. Likely still holds the record for most nuns killed without using ordnance.
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Aug 20, 2018 23:40
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Vahakyla posted:
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MrChips posted:The CF-100 was, for a very brief period of time, the most advanced all-weather interceptor in the world. Of course considering the pace with which aviation was evolving at the time, this was a very brief accolade. Was it more highly regarded than the F-86D? I'm not trying to be internet pedant, I'm just curious if there was some not obvious advantage the CF-100 had.
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bewbies posted:Was it more highly regarded than the F-86D? I'm not trying to be internet pedant, I'm just curious if there was some not obvious advantage the CF-100 had. The CF-100 was a much larger aircraft; it had a larger, more powerful radar (the same radar and fire control computer as the F-89D actually), could carry more armament and had a much, much greater range than the F-86D. The CF-100 is more comparable to the F-89 than it is to the F-86D, and it handily outperformed the F-89 in pretty much every important metric. mlmp08 posted:Likely still holds the record for most nuns killed without using ordnance. 
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Aug 21, 2018 00:10
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mlmp08 posted:Likely still holds the record for most nuns killed without using ordnance. Or edged weapons, I suppose.
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Aug 21, 2018 02:15
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Aug 21, 2018 08:30
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OK, fuckers, which one of you lives there? https://imgur.com/gallery/CyHGIgT
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Aug 21, 2018 09:44
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Roland the pants-less Thompson gunner
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Aug 21, 2018 09:46
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Swedish Gripen crashed this morning. Air Force says it was a bird strike. Pilot ejected and seems to have made it - he’s in the hospital now. It’s been a long time since an incident like this, the Air Force hasn’t lost an airframe in like the last ten years or something.
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Aug 21, 2018 10:22
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thatbastardken posted:Roland the pants-less Thompson gunner
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Aug 21, 2018 11:04
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Posted yet? https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/iran-inaugurates-new-all-iranian-made-twin-seat-fighter-jet/ Looks like a smaller? T-38 knock off.
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Aug 21, 2018 13:33
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I think it came up a few months ago and was generally decided as an Iranian homegrown f-5 update.
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Aug 21, 2018 13:59
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It’s better than their previous kiddie jet with the fogged canopy.
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Aug 21, 2018 14:04
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Platystemon posted:It’s better than their previous kiddie jet with the fogged canopy. Ya, it looks like a serviceable F-5 knockoff.
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Aug 21, 2018 14:08
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So now they've got a twin canted tail F-5, and a stretched F-5. Ok.
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Aug 21, 2018 15:18
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If they’re being truthful in saying it’s 100% indigenously manufactured, an actual milestone. But there’s no way right now for open source to confirm or deny that.
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Aug 21, 2018 15:32
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Yeah it's funny how they feel the need to push propaganda like that glass fiber monstrosity while actually producing a indigenous variant of a existing design or keeping their F14s flying are no poo poo serious achievements for such a sanctioned country, guess that's just not sexy enough for the leadership.
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Aug 21, 2018 16:07
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Making poo poo that "just works" doesn't fly in penis measurement contest.
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Aug 21, 2018 16:31
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AlexanderCA posted:Yeah it's funny how they feel the need to push propaganda like that glass fiber monstrosity while actually producing a indigenous variant of a existing design or keeping their F14s flying are no poo poo serious achievements for such a sanctioned country, guess that's just not sexy enough for the leadership. That's the nature of propaganda/prolefeed. They are trying to show that their equipment is comparable (in reality just vaguely looks similar) to our state-of-the-art fighters. While you're not wrong, the propaganda is aimed at your average citizen with a dim understanding of what a stealthy fighter looks like other than "gray with sawtooth edges and lots of trapezoids and quadrilaterals." They aren't trying to impress die-hard airpower dorks.
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Aug 21, 2018 16:35
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It would be nice if Iran produced a workhorse export fighter - Islamic People's F-16/F-5/Mig-21/Su-27 - but I doubt that's likely, especially when F-35 seems to setting the workhorse standard to "some stealth, please"
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Aug 21, 2018 16:59
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List of places who would accept delivery from Iran, could afford it, and aren’t already using Russian or domestically produced equipment: ???
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Aug 21, 2018 17:02
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Well, that too.
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Aug 21, 2018 17:06
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I'd accept delivery of a selection of Persian desserts straight to my facehole right about fuckin now
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Aug 21, 2018 17:15
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So if you had to produce a fighter in Canada for WW2-esque national defense reasons, where would you do it? Make it a local design instead of a license just for fun.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So if you had to produce a fighter in Canada for WW2-esque national defense reasons, where would you do it? Make it a local design instead of a license just for fun.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So if you had to produce a fighter in Canada for WW2-esque national defense reasons, where would you do it? Make it a local design instead of a license just for fun. Are we talking a WW2 tech aircraft or a modern one? Because if it's a modern 5th gen one put it loving anywhere because at that point you're basically developing an entire industry from scratch. Drop it wherever is most convenient soviet-style and be ready to pay your engineers to relocate.
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Aug 21, 2018 22:25
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My understanding is that nuclear detonations nor nuclear winter would drastically change Winnipeg.
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Aug 21, 2018 22:38
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Heck it might be an improvement.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Are we talking a WW2 tech aircraft or a modern one? I was thinking the production of a fighter aircraft of any sort is impressive and was wondering how well (say) Canadian industry would do if somebody threw down a similar challenge, IE 'build a fighter from an indigenous design.' Frankly if we ended up with something as useful as the Gripen or the F-4 I think we would have done very well But this is just me daydreaming. I blame this **very** in depth article about 'Ruler' class escort carriers in WW2. [Most suprising thing to me: most of 'em were converted from carriers to civilian cargo ships and at least one ocean liner post WW2] and that got me thinking 'huh, escort carriers are kinda unsexy but obviously one of those "humble but war-winning" weapons. I wonder if you could build a modern version of those?'* *No jump jets, feel free to imagine awesome turbine STOL Moonbats and Sky Pirates if that's how it has to work. **Obviously Canada would stage Buffaloes off of 'em and Dash 7s instead of Helicopters
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FrozenVent posted:Heck it might be an improvement. I dunno giant mosquitoes would be slightly worse than the regular ones. But not by much.
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 Don’t mind me just pulling the explosives from a Latvian sea mine.
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