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golden bubble posted:Are those mighty mouse rockets? As in the same rockets in the infamous "battle" of Palmdale, where 208 unguided A2A rockets failed to Grumman F6F drone. The very same.
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The crazier part is the story of the bombers that was meant to work on, if I remember my Cold War history correctly.
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I’ve seen that pic a hundred times but just now noticed it’s gently holding an egg
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:The crazier part is the story of the bombers that was meant to work on, if I remember my Cold War history correctly. Story time? I have no idea what this is from other than having seen the picture a bunch of times.
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DoktorLoken posted:Story time? I have no idea what this is from other than having seen the picture a bunch of times. So, back in the 1940s and 50s, the Air Force wanted to know if you could power a bomber with a nuclear reactor, or at least find out what happens when you stuff a nuclear reactor in an airplane. They refitted a B-36 to carry a nuclear reactor aloft and find out what happened. That thing was what the Air Force built to handle and service the reactor and its radioactive components, including loading and unloading radioactive material from the bomber. It's seen handling eggs without cracking them as a way to demonstrate its fine touch and level of precision for that job.
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Cythereal posted:So, back in the 1940s and 50s, the Air Force wanted to know if you could power a bomber with a nuclear reactor, or at least find out what happens when you stuff a nuclear reactor in an airplane. They refitted a B-36 to carry a nuclear reactor aloft and find out what happened. That thing was what the Air Force built to handle and service the reactor and its radioactive components, including loading and unloading radioactive material from the bomber. It's seen handling eggs without cracking them as a way to demonstrate its fine touch and level of precision for that job. Oh the reactor was absolutely intended to power the aircraft. They didn't actually DO it, but they could've...everything was built, and they flew that reactor around enough that I'm legit surprised they never actually hooked it all up. That's a B-50 in the background, basically an upgraded B-29.  Shielded cockpit  Here's where the magic happens: 
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This is a bit long but worth a look in a  kind of way.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g
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Burt posted:This is a bit long but worth a look in a legitimately one of the most interesting talks on something I knew nothing about and it kinda hurts to realize how many good people's lives were pissed away because no one in power was really willing to bite the political bullet and do the right thing time after time after time during that whole fiasco
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boner penis posted:legitimately one of the most interesting talks on something I knew nothing about and it kinda hurts to realize how many good people's lives were pissed away because no one in power was really willing to bite the political bullet and do the right thing time after time after time during that whole fiasco Without any context, this statement could actually refer to SO MANY THINGS in recent years.
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Leaders denying mistakes is the whole of history Like, when Jefferson Davis was captured after Lee and Johnston had already surrendered he was trying to escape to raise a new army in Mexico shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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I love weird nose art. Edit: 
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shame on an IGA posted:Leaders denying mistakes is the whole of history While crossdressing (well, accidentally, but it makes a good story!)
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Speaking of bad ideas, here is one of my favorite technicals:
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golden bubble posted:Speaking of bad ideas, here is one of my favorite technicals: Lol, did they just drop a scissor lift in the back of a dump truck?
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With what might be a 20mm anti aircraft gun on it.
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Pretty sure that's a vehicle from Red Alert 2
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I would love to see video of that thing firing. Scissor lifts move quite a bit when fully extended.
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I can imagine seeing a TOW missile come at you from 2 miles away as you're slowly lowered down at the rate of 2 feet every 10 seconds.
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I was terrified enough being up on the flying carpet doing tail work on planes, and that drat thing was twice as large and still shook/swayed with every wind blow.
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Beastie posted:I can imagine seeing a TOW missile come at you from 2 miles away as you're slowly lowered down at the rate of 2 feet every 10 seconds. I wonder if anyone has ever shot down an ATGM in flight. I bet you could do it pretty easily with canister shot from a tank if you were ready.
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my kinda ape posted:I wonder if anyone has ever shot down an ATGM in flight. I bet you could do it pretty easily with canister shot from a tank if you were ready. There seems like there might be some delta between "technically possible" and "easy." Which is why active defense systems wait until the last minute and have computers do it.
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I couldn’t make it past “tanks are the primary offensive weapons of modern armies”
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Just post sweet vids of Syrian tanks and/or ISIL technicals getting owned by TOWs and various Russian ATGMs. (trying to find this ridiculous video from a few years ago of an ISIL VBIED that went flying bigly into the air after getting hit, like some Wiley Coyote poo poo) Flying_Crab fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Nov 13, 2018 |
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DoktorLoken posted:Just post sweet vids of Syrian tanks and/or ISIL technicals getting owned by TOWs and various Russian ATGMs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vBm1klU4_0
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Hahaha, yes.  I can only imagine being an in person witness to that. Without video I'd not believe it actually happened.
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Scratch Monkey posted:I couldn’t make it past “tanks are the primary offensive weapons of modern armies” This is the kind of video I mute immediately on opening so sorry 
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The Typhoon is by far one of my favorite ships in the world.
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CommieGIR posted:The Typhoon is by far one of my favorite ships in the world. Are most submarines in the US built this way as well? I never would’ve thought the inside would be two long cylinders surrounded by the hull. What’s in between them in the dead space? Air or ballast? Also where’s the swimming pool located?
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Blind Rasputin posted:
It's an outdoor pool.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Are most submarines in the US built this way as well? I never would’ve thought the inside would be two long cylinders surrounded by the hull. What’s in between them in the dead space? Air or ballast? No, most submarines are a single cylinder, due to the Typhoons unusual arrangement it has two. Godholio posted:It's an outdoor pool. The Typhoons actually have a small pool (more like an oversized spa) inside.  As well as a Sauna http://englishrussia.com/2014/10/26/sauna-in-the-submarine/ CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:Are most submarines in the US built this way as well? I never would’ve thought the inside would be two long cylinders surrounded by the hull. What’s in between them in the dead space? Air or ballast? Air flasks and batteries.
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