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wdarkk posted:While trying to find a plane with a lower stall speed I found this: A quick check of Google gives a Piper Cub (used militarily for observation duties) as 33 kts. You could go up on a windy day and fly backwards.
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Cessna posted:A quick check of Google gives a Piper Cub (used militarily for observation duties) as 33 kts. You could go up on a windy day and fly backwards. Or having some issues when there's a lot of wind at your airfield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_WmjWAGkLI
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Champion_Scout Stall speed: Clean: 54 mph (86.9 km/h) With full flaps: 49 mph (78.9 km/h) apparently 42,5798359kts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieseler_Fi_156 allegedly has 27kts https://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acdata_php/acdata_fi156_en.php Honestly surprised that the Scout has that "high" a stall speed, they do crazy poo poo on YouTube.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Whereas a modern airframe like the F/A-18 can be equipped or modified to perform a stupid number of roles (fighter, bomber, interceptor, attacker, CAS, tanker, and electronic warfare), back in the 1950s each specialized role was expected to be fulfilled by a purpose-built aircraft. Two things I want to add to this: 1) In addition to all these roles you also had a difference in the domestic and the export market, which is what gives rise to the F-5 Freedom Fighter, which was a light, cheap, modern day-fighter/bomber that ensured the US could secure export contracts to nations that couldn't afford the F-4. 2) Once you have an airframe that works it's often very tempting to start consolidating roles so the airframes you have can be used for more than just their originally envisioned role. Like rebuilding some F/A-18s to handle an EWar role, or the successive upgrades to the F-16 light fighter that fit them for precision-guided munitions and long-distance AAMs. Once you've made your F-14s and F-15s into bomb trucks and your F-16s into air superiority fighters, you end up with a lot of planes that can all fulfill the same role - but it made sense to build the F-14, F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 as different planes when you started. Acebuckeye13 posted:expensive failures of the F-111 program of the 1960s and the F-35 program of today The F-35's fine you heretic. 
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Cessna posted:A quick check of Google gives a Piper Cub (used militarily for observation duties) as 33 kts. You could go up on a windy day and fly backwards. People compete in short takeoffs and landings in these things, and it's loving crazy. A Piper Cub modified for extra-low stall speed can almost literally land on a dime. You could land one of those things on a decently sized dining room table. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q8fBMpJ_kE
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When it comes to luck, I think Malta was very lucky not to be invaded. Air power in early 1942 ground it down to the point had the Italians and Germans worked together and not invaded Crete, they could have taken it. Of course you already see why that didn't happen, in addition to that Hitler was wishy-washy about the whole thing
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What sites could I go to read about the use of armor during the Battle of Grozny and the Yugoslav Civil Wars in English, ideally something decently in-depth (without going all  about penetration or spalling or whatever?)Army War College? Tradoc? Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Feb 24, 2019 |
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Is there a kind of sword that could be used like a fencing sword but looks like a longsword just narrower and slightly shorter?
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Raenir Salazar posted:Is there a kind of sword that could be used like a fencing sword but looks like a longsword just narrower and slightly shorter? I mean, do you want to kill your opponent?
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Feb 25, 2019 00:26
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Isn't a shorter longsword just a 'sword'? aka 'arming sword'
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Feb 25, 2019 00:43
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there was a bunch of complex-hilted poo poo around before rapiers were invented
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I thought making a rapier went: 1) Take your favorite sword 2) Put a really fancy hilt guard on it because that poo poo's fashionable now 3) Swagger
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Raenir Salazar posted:Is there a kind of sword that could be used like a fencing sword but looks like a longsword just narrower and slightly shorter? This reminds me of a custom sword I found once on a British auction site that had been commissioned by a British officer who had obviously seen colonial service, because the design he went with was basically an early modern backsword or sidesword blade mounted with a more contemporary service-pattern saber hilt and guard. You could tell it was some dude who had fought in South Africa or Afghanistan/India and wanted a much beefier blade than was generally popular at the time in Britain/western Europe. There was another one I saw where the dude had gone a totally opposite route and had a custom Wilkinson that was basically a rapier blade. I'm sure if you took the hilts off and just compared the blades alone, they wouldn't have looked much out of place next to the blades of Hey Guns' dudes.
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Grenrow posted:I'm sure if you took the hilts off and just compared the blades alone, they wouldn't have looked much out of place next to the blades of Hey Guns' dudes. edit: in both directions HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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Schadenboner posted:What sites could I go to read about the use of armor during the Battle of Grozny and the Yugoslav Civil Wars in English, ideally something decently in-depth (without going all There's one game in the wargaming community on the topic of Grozny https://www.atomagazine.com/Details.cfm?ProdID=42&category=4 The game in the issue is a good treatment of the subject. For specifically tanks in the conflict, checking the sources in the articles in that issue, I see Tanks in Chechnya, M. Baryatinski, 1999. Also this looks right up your alley, For All Seasons: The Old But Effective RPG-7, Lester Grau, Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. LEavenworth, KS. No date.
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HEY GUNS posted:interesting you say that because i have seen a lot of western european swords with ottoman grips and vice versa in saxony. saxony was near transylvania which was a conduit for hybrid sword things European blades with local hilts were very common India as well. One British cavalry officer used that to argue against some theories about why Indian swordsmen were often perceived to be better than their British counterparts. Some people claimed it was about some inherent quality to Indian steel, but this one guy looked at a bunch of Indian swords after a skirmish and was like, "these are literally just 1796 light cavalry blades with Indian hilts." He (correctly) argued that it was all about the way that they were trained and the way both sides thought of swordsmanship, not any inherent technological advantage or disadvantage. Not a lot of people in the 19th century wanted to hear it, though.
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Some of those were killed by a CIA agent leaning out of a Huey firing an AK-47.
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Didn't the indian soldiers also care for their swords a lot better and kept them actually sharp?
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The Lone Badger posted:Didn't the indian soldiers also care for their swords a lot better and kept them actually sharp? Not really in terms of caring for their swords better or that British soldiers didn't know how to keep swords sharp, but British metal scabbards would generally dull a blade, leading to a lot more need for constant resharpening than a traditional wood/leather scabbard. Eventually the British would start issuing field scabbards that were not made of metal. And, as ever, some soldiers/officers were going to be neglectful dipshits who didn't maintain their kit properly (or, for officers, might have tried to cheap out and bought low-quality weapons to begin with). BUT the downside of a scabbard with wood or leather involved in its construction in a climate like India's was that the parts could warp or shrink in high-moisture environments. Your call as to whether you'd prefer to resharpen your weapon more often than you might otherwise have to or if you'd rather run the risk of being unable to draw your saber when your pistol misfires as a determined Afghan warrior is coming at your with a Khyber knife. You can find plenty of art and accounts of British troopers frantically resharpening sabers in between skirmishes during the Indian mutiny though. Metal scabbard or not, most dudes who actually used a blade for hand-to-hand combat (which was much more frequent in India than in contemporary European conflicts) would probably have wanted to resharpen before and after a fight anyways.
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Grenrow posted:most dudes who actually used a blade for hand-to-hand combat (which was much more frequent in India than in contemporary European conflicts) Hope I don't sound like a dumbass here but why was that?
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Grenrow posted:Khyber knife. Oh hey, I googled that and I got one of those. Or at least, something with a similar design. My grandad gave it to me. It was one of the things he collected when he was a radio operator in WW2.   According to him, he got it appraised and the paperwork is also in the case, but I've never really tried checking. He made the case too, and I don't wanna mess it up. I've just got it up hanging on a wall, reminding me of him.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Is there a kind of sword that could be used like a fencing sword but looks like a longsword just narrower and slightly shorter?
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Hope I don't sound like a dumbass here but why was that? If we're talking about the mid 19th century, this was about the time that guns became good enough that cavalry charging home into melee against well trained infantry (even in line) was becoming suicidal - the Thin Red Line at Balaclava, etc. Set piece battles like that did happen in 19th century India (the Sikh wars for instance), but it wasn't as common. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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I meant more like why was combat in India more likely to get that close? I'd been under the impression that the various Indian kingdoms had militaries that were comparable to European ones, although maybe a decade or two out of date. Not sure where I got that impression, though. e: and I don't even know what period I talking about either. eesh. Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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GotLag posted:In the early 20th century mining companies and South Australian Railways used to organise occasional trains to take miners and their families from middle-of-nowhere mining towns like Broken Hill to Adelaide on the coast for beach holidays, and that was apparently quite a common reaction for the children. One of these Broken Hill picnic trains, incidentally, was attacked in 1915 by men carrying a home-made Ottoman flag- which, I suppose, sort of counts as the only act of war on Australian soil during WW1... (Also: my mother was one of those Broken Hill kids; her first visit to the beach came a week after watching a cool new movie called Jaws.)
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Raenir Salazar posted:Is there a kind of sword that could be used like a fencing sword but looks like a longsword just narrower and slightly shorter? I've seen done swords known as 'cut-and-thrusts' which were something of an early rapier but still broad enough to cut. A cursory Google search for the term shows a bit of info but nothing terribly in depth.
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This thing caused seizures if you were too close to it on startup. It was the closest humanity has ever come to recreating the mythical Brown Note.
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Tree Bucket posted:(Also: my mother was one of those Broken Hill kids; her first visit to the beach came a week after watching a cool new movie called Jaws.) I didn't realise they continued until that recently, do you know when they ended?
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HookedOnChthonics posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qTbm5ZzZQy8 e: aw poo poo you already have it in the album but not the list, my bad. That is an excellent collection. e: laughing uncontrollably at that gallery. It just keeps getting better. aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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wdarkk posted:While trying to find a plane with a lower stall speed I found this: quote:On 12 January 1968, four North Vietnamese Air Force AN-2 Colt biplanes lifted off from an airfield in northeastern North Vietnam and headed west toward Laos. The aircraft were on a mission to destroy a US radar base that was guiding bombers in attacks against targets in North Vietnam. Known to the Americans as Site 85, the radar facility was perched atop a 5,800-foothigh mountain, Phou Pha Thi. Manned by US Air Force volunteers “sheepdipped” as employees of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, the site had been in operation only a few months. The mountain, used for many years as a staging base for CIA-directed Hmong guerilla fighters and American special operations and rescue helicopters, was only 125 nautical miles from Hanoi. Air America, a CIA-proprietary, provided aerial support for the facility, the technicians, and the security forces.
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Siivola posted:By "fencing sword" you mean like, a blunt bendy thing, or..? Well basically its for a character for a game project and I basically want to give her a sword that looks like regular sword but is more appropriate for her size and build and I don't like the look of fencing swords and rapiers seem a little too narrow. I'm basically looking for a sword that should "look" cool and appropriate for a high schooler that maybe fights supernatural things. EdBlackadder posted:I've seen done swords known as 'cut-and-thrusts' which were something of an early rapier but still broad enough to cut. A cursory Google search for the term shows a bit of info but nothing terribly in depth. This looks promising, but some googling seems to also bring up rapiers so I just might be stuck designing a larger rapier I guess.
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mllaneza posted:There's one game in the wargaming community on the topic of Grozny 
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I meant more like why was combat in India more likely to get that close? I'd been under the impression that the various Indian kingdoms had militaries that were comparable to European ones, although maybe a decade or two out of date. Not sure where I got that impression, though. I could be talking out of my rear end here, but in general, if you're not seeing formal standup battles between large, disciplined armies in a given region, that implies any fighting that does occur is more likely to be small scale skirmishing, bandits, irregular warfare, etc, and in that situation you're more likely to end up in melee, especially as cavalry and especially within the Raj itself. There were definitely exceptions (I mentioned the Sikhs for a reason), but in general by the 19th century you're not seeing nearly as many of the sort of standup fights you'd see in Europe.
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Did IRA have good access to SAMs and was there ever attempted shootdowns of brit choppers? If not, why not?
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How were the Japanese the only ones to crack the code on multi-deck carrier ops prior to the war? I know this is ex post facto but that seems like the kind of thing that should have been blindingly obvious to the USN and RN as soon as carrier planes started carrying enough stuff to threaten big ships.
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Vahakyla posted:Did IRA have good access to SAMs and was there ever attempted shootdowns of brit choppers? If not, why not? They shot down a gazelle in 1990 E: apparently that was done with a machinegun. No deaths. Wiki also says the IRA once shot down a helicopter with a mortar, which is, uhh, really good or bad luck depending on your point of view. ContinuityNewTimes fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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Can you do an aircraft carrier with vertically stacked flight decks? So you can have a bunch of planes take off simultaneously.... Surely some
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Fangz posted:Surely some Ofcourse! http://thedrive.com/the-war-zone/11821/the-crazy-aircraft-carrier-hangar-catapults-of-world-war-ii
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Fangz posted:Can you do an aircraft carrier with vertically stacked flight decks? So you can have a bunch of planes take off simultaneously.... Surely some Before the advent of the catapult you needed the wind at your back to take off.
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