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hobbesmaster posted:They weren’t cost effective Because the whole "armed hydrofoil" program was experimental or because they only built six of the Pegasus hydrofoils?
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Don’t hydrofoil have a ridiculous draft when they’re in displacement mode? Or do the skids retract?
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FrozenVent posted:Don’t hydrofoil have a ridiculous draft when they’re in displacement mode? Or do the skids retract? 
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Nov 24, 2018 03:51
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Is that Port Orchard WA with Blake Island in the background?
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Nov 24, 2018 04:01
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The Wikipedia metadata claims its key west, fl.
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hobbesmaster posted:The Wikipedia metadata claims its key west, fl. That makes more sense but I know they tested them out of Bremerton.
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LingcodKilla posted:That makes more sense but I know they tested them out of Bremerton. Bad spot for hydrofoils with all the floating deadhead logs around the Puget sound/Straight of Juan de Fuca  There used to be hydrofoil service between Vancouver and Victoria BC and I’m sad I never got to go on it.
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Trip report: sea sickness inducing
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Yeah that looks like the USCG port they have down there. It's right next door to a killer marina which is why you see all those boss rear end boats in the background.
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A few years back there was noise about a re-engine of B-1’s to the F-119 from the raptor. I wonder if anyone’s looked at a re-engine with F-135’s providing 40k+lbf of wet thrust. It was supposedly going to super cruise at Mach 1.2 with the Raptor engines. I wonder how much more impressive it’s speed would be with 4 of those babies at full afterburners. Or hell, milpower.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:A few years back there was noise about a re-engine of B-1’s to the F-119 from the raptor. I wonder if anyone’s looked at a re-engine with F-135’s providing 40k+lbf of wet thrust. It was supposedly going to super cruise at Mach 1.2 with the Raptor engines. I wonder how much more impressive it’s speed would be with 4 of those babies at full afterburners. Or hell, milpower. B-1s are loud enough *stock* - I think a B-1 packing four F-135s would set off every car alarm in a five mile radius on a normal takeoff. I'd also have concerns about the age of the airframes and the fact that the -B was designed for low-mach flight. The B-1R was designed to give the B-1 supercruise capability, but also a long-lived Mach 2+ dash capability as well. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Nov 24, 2018 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:B-1s are loud enough *stock* - I think a B-1 packing four F-135s would set off every car alarm in a five mile radius on a normal takeoff. Yeah but what about the negatives?
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Crossposting since there are plenty nerds here who'd be interested. They are currently sucking really hard in aerial refuel and struggling to get any gas.quote:Heatblur is now livestreaming first ever gameplay footage of the Tomcat for DCS World. It's worth checking out. Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Nov 24, 2018 |
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Vahakyla posted:Crossposting since there are plenty nerds here who'd be interested. They are currently sucking really hard in aerial refuel and struggling to get any gas. comments are amazing. "This formation is unsafe and only done for publicity!!!" as two virtual video game F-14s take a gentle right-hander in a tight formation into a sunset.
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Nov 24, 2018 20:55
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I got to see them shoot down a plane!!
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Raenir Salazar posted:I got to see them shoot down a plane!! And now these devs who are obviously far more gifted in coding than flying are going to attempt carrier landing. Maybe not best marketing.
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Vahakyla posted:And now these devs who are obviously far more gifted in coding than flying are going to attempt carrier landing. Maybe not best marketing. Some dev posted:I think it's safe to say the kinetic energy of that "landing" just caused a tsunami, bro
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Yeah, one of them had a wing sweep failure and went into the drink. The "bro" comment was made by the Jester AI RIO.
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Breaking: Russia escalating the conflict with Ukraine to the Sea. https://news.sky.com/story/russia-fires-at-ukraine-ships-in-black-sea-11563775
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Oh poo poo.
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Great. Wonderful. Just what we needed.
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StandardVC10 posted:Great. Wonderful. Just what we needed. They own the US President, everyone else isn't going to war without the US. They will get a strongly worded letter from the U.N. I mean they shot down a 777 over Ukraine and got away with it.
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There's that old quote from Kruschov about West Berlin being the testicles of the west, "I only need to squeeze them, and NATO will forget everything else" or something similar. I get the vibe the big idea is to be scary and provoke and stress us, and not actually something more serious. sumthin sumthin "The Implication" E. gently caress, it's Russia actually "pissing on your shoes and telling you it's raining". Simply being a prick. Of course they will get the added bonus of "We are the only ones that can fight back against the imperialists" etc ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Nov 25, 2018 |
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Possible footage of a Ukrainian boat being rammed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTSDaCg5xA Taken later, near the bridge: 
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Apparently Russia just seized a third of Ukraine's armed fleet. Ukraine's national security council now holding a crisis meeting with talk of martial law.
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Sperglord Actual posted:Apparently Russia just seized a third of Ukraine's armed fleet. Ukraine's national security council now holding a crisis meeting with talk of martial law. Is their armed fleet that tiny? That's terrifying. Also those boats will be perfect for securing that strait, and they're conveniently outside their freighter wall. Something with real teeth will be required to kick them out. I don't see Ukraine failing to go to war over this, but ouch.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:There's that old quote from Kruschov about West Berlin being the testicles of the west, "I only need to squeeze them, and NATO will forget everything else" or something similar. I get the vibe the big idea is to be scary and provoke and stress us, and not actually something more serious. This is definitely Russia pointing out that their navy is still A Thing despite recent events.
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So, how provocative would it be if all Russian assets in banks outside of Russia were frozen?
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Nebakenezzer posted:So, how provocative would it be if all Russian assets in banks outside of Russia were frozen? We’ll never know, Donnie Dumbfuck isn’t gonna do it.
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Godholio posted:This is definitely Russia pointing out that their navy is still A Thing despite recent events. Their "navy" consisted, in this case, of a patrol boat and a cargo ship parked under a bridge
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Kesper North posted:Is their armed fleet that tiny? That's terrifying. It used to be substantially larger, but Russia seized a lot of naval assets during the initial Crimean crisis - it's where the majority of Ukraine's navy operated out of iirc. Russia has yet to return 18 ships owing to Ukraine not renewing a ceasefire.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:We’ll never know, Donnie Dumbfuck isn’t gonna do it. Don't worry the EU has come out with the strongest conceivable action they can think of and asked both sides to de-escalate.
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J33uk posted:Don't worry the EU has come out with the strongest conceivable action they can think of and asked both sides to de-escalate. The EU is reliant on gas exports from Russia. They can't make any bold statements or they get cut off.
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On a lighter note, in the ever escalating Russo-Norwegian game of naval one-upmanship, Norwegians responded to the Russian "look, we can ram boats too, and not even our own" with an impromptu display of immediately and inexplicably sinking one of their own floating docks.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:We’ll never know, Donnie Dumbfuck isn’t gonna do it. Cut this out. If you want to make commentary on contemporary domestic US politics take it to D&D.
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Deptfordx posted:Breaking: Russia escalating the conflict with Ukraine to the Sea. in a not surprising turn of event, the president of the united states comes out and condems ukraine for their acts of agression against russian bullets and bombs. Claiming putin told him it was the ukrainins attacking the naval artiliary of the russian forces and russia is sadden by the turn of events.
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J33uk posted:Don't worry the EU has come out with the strongest conceivable action they can think of and asked both sides to de-escalate. England has a reasonable shot of seizing assets, there is a ton of Russian money tied up there. Unfortunately they haven't really shown the political will to do so, even after Russia has (allegedly) murdered people on British soil.
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Anything that might contribute to giving the Ukrainians the idea that maybe they don't have to take Russia's poo poo is not in Ukraine's interest. e: like they're gonna get a couple thousand more babushka's only sons shredded and let the rest of them medicate their PTSD with vodka and Krokodil and all that over a potential slight difference in the flavor of cleptocrat in charge. aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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Independence posted:The EU is reliant on gas exports from Russia. They can't make any bold statements or they get cut off. Good thing that the EU had recently concluded a deal that would let them get access to the world's largest gas reservoir, with just a few hundred kms of pipelines to build to connect to the existing network. A megaproject called SP 11 was ongoing. That could have allowed to wean the EU off of Russia's gassy teats. But then someone had to go and throw a wrench in the machine because it was very important to Make Europe Buy Russian Gas Again. This made Vladimir Putin very happy, and also made Xi Jinping very happy too, for a different but related reason, as China got to be the sole partner of SP 11.
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