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karoshi posted:IIRC rocket plumes can be characterized so you'll get a warning saying "Dong-23 launched from X hitting Honolulu in 17 minutes". Hell they can send those warnings out without a plume at all. I'll never forget that day
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large hands posted:Hell they can send those warnings out without a plume at all. I'll never forget that day 
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The little moment of panic is the best part  It almost makes up for how I legit thought I was going to die for a bit.
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aphid_licker posted:Thing about the prisoners's dilemma is that the rational strategy explicitly is not cooperation, despite this resulting in a nonoptimal outcome for everyone involved. The rational strategy in the *iterated* prisoner's dilemma is definitely cooperation (or rather, tit-for-tat, where you start out cooperative and then do what your opponent did the previous iteration) (assuming no collusion).
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Phanatic posted:The rational strategy in the *iterated* prisoner's dilemma is definitely cooperation (or rather, tit-for-tat, where you start out cooperative and then do what your opponent did the previous iteration) (assuming no collusion). e: sorry for wording that as an assertion originally, obvs I don't know enough about prisoners' dilemmas to go around making bold assertions about them 
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Cessna posted:No kidding. I think I've had worse and longer commercial flights.
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Hauldren Collider posted:I think I've had worse and longer commercial flights. Do Hawkeyes have a
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Are MREs an option on a carrier or whatever was mentioned? I feel like the military solved the lovely but portable food problem a while ago.
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Whole lot of people jealous they didnt work on ISR assets ITT.
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Mazz posted:Are MREs an option on a carrier or whatever was mentioned? I feel like the military solved the lovely but portable food problem a while ago. MREs would also contribute to solving the problem of low shitter capacity.
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:Do Hawkeyes have a Yeah a bag for you to poo poo in... No, I'm not kidding. Piss tubes exist. One in the flight deck and one in the AEC. But as usual, no use while above 10k feet else bad things.
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Put a flashlight on the piss tube to prevent backwash.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:You know what China doesn't have? A carrier-based AEW platform capable of aerial refueling. Not making GBS threads on the Hawkeye community because god help anyone stuck in there for that long, but I'm honestly surprised that's the longest they've ever had to do it. In the US, I never brought something that'd need to be heated up; I never flew on a jet with both ovens functioning, and one was a good day. IIRC all the galley refrigeration has also been removed from the E-3 fleet. They can't afford parts for the fridges anymore. BIG HEADLINE posted:Shitposting. A strange game. The only winning move is not to reply.  Mazz posted:Are MREs an option on a carrier or whatever was mentioned? I feel like the military solved the lovely but portable food problem a while ago. At least on AWACS, MREs were used from time to time (typically if the DFAC was low on food). Can't use the heater due to the hydrogen gas produced. Enjoy your cold vegetarian omelette. 
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Godholio posted:At least on AWACS, MREs were used from time to time (typically if the DFAC was low on food). Can't use the heater due to the hydrogen gas produced. Enjoy your cold vegetarian omelette. I was going to ask about the heater specifically, good to know. Gotta get one of the big cases I guess and then dump all the vomelets from altitude, the vomelet comet
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Don Gato posted:Whole lot of people jealous they didnt work on ISR assets ITT. At this very moment, there are AF personnel valiantly flying overhead ISR assets from comfy chairs in expensive buildings in scenic CONUS locations. The cafeterias are good, but sometimes they have to walk to a restaurant across the street to get exactly what they want.
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What do you do when your predator gets shot down? Get another cup of coffee?
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MrYenko posted:What do you do when your predator gets shot down? Get another cup of coffee? Load from your last save point?
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Switch to the viewpoint of a drone that had been running autonomous up to that point? or Fill out paperwork? I'm guessing it's option B.
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Phanatic posted:By which I mean, Wawa used to be a deli as well. You could go into a Wawa or order half a pound of sliced provolone and a half a pound of roast beef and half a pound of turkey and a bunch of loose Amoroso's rolls and go home and make your own sandwiches. OK, because I was thinking perhaps it was like the amazing deli sketch in the Jimothy episode of Wits: https://www.witsradio.org/episodes/twenty-eight/index.html
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Captain von Trapp posted:At this very moment, there are AF personnel valiantly flying overhead ISR assets from comfy chairs in expensive buildings in scenic CONUS locations. The cafeterias are good, but sometimes they have to walk to a restaurant across the street to get exactly what they want. Hey man, sometimes let's loose a stinker of a fart and you just have to deal with it.
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karoshi posted:a MarineDong-25 or whatever.
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Cessna posted:In the first gulf war I went eight months without a real shower or a chance to sleep on a mattress. LOL, fair enough, I may have been overly dramatic to try and get the discussion away from that ballistic missile train wreck. There are certainly worse ways to spend eight hours.
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EvilMerlin posted:Yeah a bag for you to poo poo in... No, I'm not kidding. Piss tubes exist. One in the flight deck and one in the AEC. But as usual, no use while above 10k feet else bad things. I imagine you're real popular if you're the one to actually use said bag?
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MrYenko posted:What do you do when your predator gets shot down? Get another cup of coffee? First of all, I'd like to acknowledge your Dos Gringos reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7BuwZ-u0s Second of all, we should be talking about this amazing piece of reporting. https://theaviationist.com/2019/04/01/revealed-israels-top-secret-f-35f-jsmf/
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wkarma posted:First of all, I'd like to acknowledge your Dos Gringos reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7BuwZ-u0s Nice posting rig
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Longest flight was 19.6 hours. Yea I got to take a nap but still that was rough. Shortest flight was 7 minutes lol
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holocaust bloopers posted:
Abort on take off?
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Ferrying a jet from Anchorage International to Elmendorf.
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Flikken posted:Abort on take off? After take off, by definition. 
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hobbesmaster posted:After take off, by definition. This is why no one likes aviators. It has nothing to do with jealousy, nothing at all.
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FrozenVent posted:Shortest flight I’ve been on was a rejected take off in a 737-200. If you didn't leave the ground it wasn't a flight  e: enjoy some good engine porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Fe6O8w61Y Doctor Grape Ape fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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mlmp08 posted:It’s rhetorically bothersome, but Russia can look at the most open of open source reporting and know GMD cannot stop a Russian strategic nuke attack. I mean I assume that right now - based on what little I've read - if Russia fired a single ICBM with 10 warheads and 40 decoys at somewhere actually protected by GMD, GMD might just put a tiny dent in the attack, and if there were multiple ICBMs fired, GMD may as well not exist. Is there something about it that says "this will never be effective" or "this can never be scaled up no matter what those in power would like to think"?
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Nobody knows, up to and including people who know all the stuff in spooky documents with long banner lines. It is an extremely complicated problem. Ballistic missile defense is arguably in its infancy despite decades of work, and where it will end up is anyone's guess.
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Godholio posted:Enjoy your cold vegetarian omelette. When quality of life is awesome, the rare cold MRE is a real shocker.
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EvilMerlin posted:Yeah a bag for you to poo poo in... No, I'm not kidding. Piss tubes exist. One in the flight deck and one in the AEC. But as usual, no use while above 10k feet else bad things. The piss tubes work fine above 10k; in fact, you want to be up at altitude because they rely on the cabin pressure differential to drain properly. Just make sure it drains completely, otherwise it'll freeze and be a nasty surprise for the next guy. But yeah, for making GBS threads you carry a garbage bag and Ziploc with you and it's an emergency, "this or in my pants" measure.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The piss tubes work fine above 10k; in fact, you want to be up at altitude because they rely on the cabin pressure differential to drain properly. Just make sure it drains completely, otherwise it'll freeze and be a nasty surprise for the next guy. Actual question: Do you poo poo in the hellhole or by the front door?
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Vahakyla posted:Plus, after you are done making GBS threads your MOPP suit inside the armored vehicle, or laying in the mud puddle in freezing temps, you don't return to the airport either, you just get the luxury of making GBS threads outside and stretching your legs in the mud. My best friend, a former Canadian infantry sergeant, once told me that the infantry liked how that kind of thing sucked. I took him at his word; there's room for all different kinds under the sun. ...Or in the swamp of their choosing. To each his own.
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Godholio posted:Enjoy your cold vegetarian omelette. Thank god they removed those from the new MRE menus
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