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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboard_Air Even if the performance is exaggerated, that's an impressive step-up form those '20 seconds of fuel' 1960 designs.
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Deptfordx posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboard_Air It’s also faithful to the Bell Rocket Pack design in that all of its failure modes result in user death.
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Oh totally. The first time I saw those jet packs you stand on I was "Ok, that is a truly spectacular way to die." The best part, the guy was wearing a parachute, as he zoomed along at a 100 mph just 30' above the ground. Safety first! Edit: Just checked. So is the guy in the Paris video. Fully OSHA compliant, nothing to worry about. 
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Jul 15, 2019 21:41
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golden bubble posted:Now for something more low tech. In Libya, they're using SAMs as Surface-to-Surface missiles. direct fire missiles, seems like a terrible idea
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Did they have to rig it to be ballistic instead of guided? If so how did they know its flight characteristics in order to target it? I get the feeling that half the time these guys are just shooting poo poo off “just cuz”
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Deptfordx posted:Oh totally. The first time I saw those jet packs you stand on I was "Ok, that is a truly spectacular way to die." That's actually his backpack full of jetfuel 
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Scratch Monkey posted:Did they have to rig it to be ballistic instead of guided? If so how did they know its flight characteristics in order to target it? I get the feeling that half the time these guys are just shooting poo poo off “just cuz” I think they're just setting off the rocket engine at the general direction of the enemy. Aren't most AA missiles just a bunch of shrapnel and not a lot of HE?
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Does the fuze work properly when you just blast it off like this? Best case scenario is probably it just slams into the target.
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Right most SAMs work by using radar ground guidance to steer it towards a target with onboard radar used during the terminal phase. The explosion is mostly shrapnel meant to go off near enough to the supersonic, jet-powered aluminum tube that is the target to mess it up so it can’t fly anymore. That system won’t work when the missile is never more than 200 feet (or whatever) off the ground. I’m guessing the thing is ballistic 100% of the trip and just lands wherever and maybe blows up?
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Jul 15, 2019 23:35
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Seems like they could find someone clever enough to provide targeting data to the thing. It doesn't ACTUALLY have to be a ground-detected radar hit, it just has to look like the appropriate signal to the missile.
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Godholio posted:Seems like they could find someone clever enough to provide targeting data to the thing. It doesn't ACTUALLY have to be a ground-detected radar hit, it just has to look like the appropriate signal to the missile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze_xq0sxnAQ
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Godholio posted:Seems like they could find someone clever enough to provide targeting data to the thing. It doesn't ACTUALLY have to be a ground-detected radar hit, it just has to look like the appropriate signal to the missile. Yeah I imagine there are at least a couple people in the area who are professionally trained/experienced with the system enough to rig it up to do whatever they wanted. Seems a little bit wasteful if they're just treating it like lighting a Grad rocket and having it fly down the street.
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The SA-3 is command guided AFAIK, you probably can just shoot it at an arbitrary target using just the backup optical sight.
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Considering how many things I've seen jury rigged to hell and back from three middle east, I'm sure they modded it to work better in this role.
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I'm still a fan of mounting the multi rocket pods on the back of pickups/flatbeds
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They should have mounted a flatbed pickup to the missile and mounted a rocket pod on top of the truck.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:I'm still a fan of mounting the multi rocket pods on the back of pickups/flatbeds Or the mounting of T-60/T-72 turrets and baskets on trucks.
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CommieGIR posted:Or the mounting of T-60/T-72 turrets and baskets on trucks. Link? I've seen the BMP turret ones but never a full on tank turret. edit: beautiful 
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Good thing he has those out riggers else that set up might be dangerous!
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my kinda ape posted:Link? I've seen the BMP turret ones but never a full on tank turret. I really do love and appreciate the ingenuity behind the ridiculous technicals that we’ve seen from Syria to Libya.
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Most of the videos of those "rocket pods on a Toyota" end with the pickup on fire.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Most of the videos of those "rocket pods on a Toyota" end with the pickup on fire. Inshallah 
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Scratch Monkey posted:Most of the videos of those "rocket pods on a Toyota" end with the pickup on fire. It’s the Hilux version of a Viking funeral.
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That's why you put them on a MTLB, like the Ukrainians  Alternatively, quad mortars on a bulldozer 
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golden bubble posted:https://i.imgur.com/CFd6hJv.jpg[/timg] I love all the improvised construction equipment.
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golden bubble posted:Alternatively, quad mortars on a bulldozer Sometimes I get really confused about which thread I'm in. This one or the OSHA one
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Hot Karl Marx posted:front end loader Front end unloader
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MrYenko posted:Front end unloader Front end exploder
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The front end loader actually makes sense as an improvised mortar carrier.
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Is that a crack on one of the barrels?
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Is that a crack on one of the barrels? Click for bigger Looks like it's just a scratch in the paint
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Are there jobs in the US military whose sole role is making and giving slideshows?
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Intel.
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They're called that because they're always inside
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Milo and POTUS posted:They're called that because they're always inside 
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That dude is an officer too. Just noticed that. Should be grounds to revoke commission.
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bird cooch posted:I love all the improvised demolition equipment. FTFY
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Scratch Monkey posted:Right most SAMs work by using radar ground guidance to steer it towards a target with onboard radar used during the terminal phase. The explosion is mostly shrapnel meant to go off near enough to the supersonic, jet-powered aluminum tube that is the target to mess it up so it can’t fly anymore. That system won’t work when the missile is never more than 200 feet (or whatever) off the ground. I’m guessing the thing is ballistic 100% of the trip and just lands wherever and maybe blows up? Yeah, antiair missiles use annular blast fragmentation with sensors that point the warhead so the fragmentation pattern intersects the plane.  It doesn't take much to destroy a jet engine, but that low to the ground you're maybe better off with an RPG
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I hope this isn't offtopic for this thread. I'm working on a videogame* that requires a lot of 3D models of military naval ship components -- things like deck guns, bridges, searchlights, the ship hulls themselves, torpedo launchers, etc. Basically everything from early WWI through end of the Cold War, ideally covering all the major factions. I'm gonna have to make the models myself, but it'd be a lot easier if I had a good supply of reference photos to work from. Does anyone know of a good resource where I can find photos like that? Haphazardly googling for things as I think of them isn't the greatest strategy, especially since there are probably things that I don't even know exist and thus won't know to search for them. * Basically I'm trying to remake Warship Gunner 2, a build-your-own-battleship game for the Playstation 2.
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