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AlexanderCA
Jul 21, 2010

by Cyrano4747
I've posted about this before somewhere in the airpower thread, but he 1950's Dutch submarines actually had 3 tiny hulls. It's much easier to build a strong cylinder with a smaller diameter.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Dolfijn_submarine_section_plans.svg

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my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

What are we looking at here? Drone directed mortars/artillery?

Madurai
Jun 26, 2012

my kinda ape posted:

What are we looking at here? Drone directed mortars/artillery?

"Joint operations of the Artillery and the Air Force targeted the groups of hypocrites and their mechanisms in the West Coast" per Google Translate. So, yes?

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

Madurai posted:

"Joint operations of the Artillery and the Air Force targeted the groups of hypocrites and their mechanisms in the West Coast" per Google Translate. So, yes?

Is this SAA or is one of the rebel groups calling their drones the Air Force lol

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Nuclear Tourist posted:

Typhoon under construction





Big son of a bitch, ain't she?

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
I wish I could have been a fly on the wall of the intelligence briefing, where analysts explain to their bosses what the Russians built in a period where their poo poo wouldn't fall apart and could still be fueled, crewed, and armed.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

my kinda ape posted:

What are we looking at here? Drone directed mortars/artillery?

Yemeni / Houthi forces ysinn drones to spot artillery rounds onto the coalition, allegedly

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Blind Rasputin posted:

Also where’s the swimming pool located?

CommieGIR posted:

The Typhoons actually have a small pool (more like an oversized spa) inside.


quote:

...some sailors who served their terms on those giants say that even when the boat is out in the ocean there is no water in the pool. “Instead of water, they store potatoes here”, reveals one ex-sailor.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
Probably to make vodka so the crew doesn't die of the alcohol withdrawal

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall of the intelligence briefing, where analysts explain to their bosses what the Russians built in a period where their poo poo wouldn't fall apart and could still be fueled, crewed, and armed.

Well...

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall of the intelligence briefing, where analysts explain to their bosses what the Russians built in a period where their poo poo wouldn't fall apart and could still be fueled, crewed, and armed.

Something like the Typhoon was pretty tame compared to what Red Team Team B was trying to peddle at the time.

Terrifying Effigies fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Nov 14, 2018

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
https://twitter.com/ski2point0/status/1063086294560006145?s=19

Itchy_Grundle
Feb 22, 2003

Nuclear Tourist posted:

Typhoon under construction


Big son of a bitch.

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.

Laugh dockyard victory

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Itchy_Grundle posted:

Big son of a bitch.

It's just a biological, seaman Beumont. Carry on.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Nuclear Tourist posted:

It's just a biological, seaman Beumont. Carry on.

James Earl Jones isn't that fat.

Burt
Sep 23, 2007

Poke.



I have no idea how to embed a twitter link but this is worth a click. Oh godammit.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1063869496690204678

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
is that a vulcan?

Lobster God
Nov 5, 2008

Hot Karl Marx posted:

is that a vulcan?

No it's a Prius.

Viva Miriya
Jan 9, 2007

lmao

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

Hot Karl Marx posted:

is that a vulcan?

The real question is why didn't they hook up the electric motor in the car to the gun? Give it some throttle, see if they can hit 10,000 r(ounds)pm.

DustyNuts
Jun 1, 2000

Have you seen me?

Those windshield wipers get blown upright, hahaha

That Awful Nick
Oct 7, 2008

"I've got the knowledge!"

DustyNuts posted:

Those windshield wipers get blown upright, hahaha

Buddy, that ain't the half of it.

Rhymenoserous
May 23, 2008

Burt posted:

I have no idea how to embed a twitter link but this is worth a click. Oh godammit.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1063869496690204678

Interstate 2019 game is lookin p good. Won’t be as good as 76 though.

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer

Burt posted:

I have no idea how to embed a twitter link but this is worth a click. Oh godammit.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1063869496690204678

"Roll coal on me again, motherfucker"

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

https://twitter.com/Rotarywings1/status/1064806790590803968?s=19

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
Big son of a bitch

thesurlyspringKAA
Jul 8, 2005

What the gently caress

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS
It's like some russian engineer saw a Hercules and said to himself "Pah, I can make that into a helicopter."

EBB
Feb 15, 2005


Here we see the juvenile rotary wing attempt to take flight for the first time as the mother hovers around it.

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

I saw a Mi24 up close and, for some reason, it seemed smaller than I was expecting.



This is it on google maps, next to what I think is a Bell UH1.

Mad Dragon fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Nov 21, 2018

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

I’m surprised there isn’t some part of physics causing a law of diminishing returns and therefore loss of lift capability past a certain size of helicopter. Does that thing change the weather where it flies? Holy poo poo.

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



The Mi-24 is still pretty big although I haven't seen one in person in like 5 years.

Force de Fappe
Nov 7, 2008

And it's not even the biggest they made :catdrugs:

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.

DoktorLoken posted:

The Mi-24 is still pretty big although I haven't seen one in person in like 5 years.

I saw one flying overhead near Kampala - pretty loving big.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4OCvd07dk

According to the description, a unit ambushed by Taliban has a National Guard supply convoy roll through the gunfight, stop, and mistakenly fire on them while nobody on comms believes them when they say "We're taking friendly fire, tell those trucks to stop shooting us." National Guard reports several Taliban killed and wounded upon returning.

Phil Moscowitz
Feb 19, 2007

If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in full!

chitoryu12 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4OCvd07dk

According to the description, a unit ambushed by Taliban has a National Guard supply convoy roll through the gunfight, stop, and mistakenly fire on them while nobody on comms believes them when they say "We're taking friendly fire, tell those trucks to stop shooting us." National Guard reports several Taliban killed and wounded upon returning.

I love this video, especially the dude’s reaction to the RPG...

golden bubble
Jun 3, 2011

yospos

Speaking of old stuff, do you think a pickup truck can withstand the recoil from a 122mm D-30?


https://twitter.com/green_lemonnn/status/674937921590403072

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

golden bubble posted:

Speaking of old stuff, do you think a pickup truck can withstand the recoil from a 122mm D-30?


https://twitter.com/green_lemonnn/status/674937921590403072

:stare: Hopefully that has one hell of a recoil mechanism...

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MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Just put'er in park, the parking pawl should handle it.

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