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Thanks people. Also that howitzer story. https://ktar.com/story/1594609/maricopa-county-sheriffs-office-returns-1960s-era-howitzer-to-feds/
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Gotta be honest, if I was a rural sherif with no oversight I’d probably order a howitzer, tank, and a loving F4 just go see what they would give me to play with.
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I wouldnt exactly call phoneix a small town sheriff but that didnt stop them from using a tank to crush walls
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Cyrano4747 posted:Gotta be honest, if I was a rural sherif with no oversight I’d probably order a howitzer, tank, and a loving F4 just go see what they would give me to play with. I don't think the USAF still has any F4s in flyable condition. On the other hand the Army has a shitload of brand new M1s it doesn't want and doesn't know what to do with 
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There's a lot of state fire departments and police agencies flying Hueys with Army serial numbers from the late 1960s, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of them saw combat in Vietnam.
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Oct 29, 2019 01:03
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Deptfordx posted:Quick question people. The 1033 program that transferred military equipment to police forces. I'm just seeing 'Armoured Vehicle*' without specifics on a quick google search. Have you ever seen the James Garner movie Tank?
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StandardVC10 posted:There's a lot of state fire departments and police agencies flying Hueys with Army serial numbers from the late 1960s, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of them saw combat in Vietnam. USFS and a couple state forestry agencies have AH-1's that absolutely did see combat, in Vietnam and later conflicts/wars.
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Stravag posted:I wouldnt exactly call phoneix a small town sheriff but that didnt stop them from using a tank to crush walls Give credit where it's due, the LAPD invented that.
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SeaborneClink posted:USFS and a couple state forestry agencies have AH-1's that absolutely did see combat, in Vietnam and later conflicts/wars. The fact that forestry agencies have Cobras is still something on the level of a John Hammond “We have a T. rex” statement for me. Why go with an AH-1 instead of a JetRanger like everyone else on the planet? Is it something to do with the winds around forest fires?
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I’m guessing the surplus cobras came with IR optics and they’re not broken so why replace them?
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Timmy Age 6 posted:The fact that forestry agencies have Cobras is still something on the level of a John Hammond “We have a T. rex” statement for me. Why go with an AH-1 instead of a JetRanger like everyone else on the planet? Is it something to do with the winds around forest fires? They were cheap as gently caress? There's a reason they're flying clapped out C-130s with cracked wing spars, P-3's and CH-46's. Plus you can't tell me that the kid inside you would turn down the opportunity to light up a few hundred acres with potassium and ethelyne glycol balls in an AH-1 while making brrrrrrrrrrt noises. The Cobras are only used for recon/air boss, though they are approved for sling load and bucket ops It's just not the same with a door mounted Hopper and a Long Ranger. SeaborneClink fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Oct 29, 2019 |
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Oct 29, 2019 05:40
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Prop Wash posted:It’s like musical chairs, only some of them have grenades taped under them and there’s no knowing which. If your predecessor broke the rules, now you get to fix it or let it fester. If you fix it, you might take the blame for it anyway, and either way you’ll be working until 6 or 7 every day. It will not be fixed, because the people in charge of implementing changes have risen to the top because they are part of the problem. Fixing it involves admitting that the system is broken, and that undercuts their own "achievements." Also that costs money, but not the money that comes from the end-of-FY tv fund. Different pots, you know.
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Kafouille posted:I don't think the USAF still has any F4s in flyable condition. The last one was retired in 2017.  If I'd known I'd have gone to the Reno Air Races, I think that was the final stop on its farewell tour. It was one of the two full-camo QF-4s from Tyndall.
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Godholio posted:It will not be fixed, because the people in charge of implementing changes have risen to the top because they are part of the problem. Fixing it involves admitting that the system is broken, and that undercuts their own "achievements." It strikes me that saying “different pots of money” is a way of saying “there’s useless poo poo we can buy, useful poo poo we can buy if we squint and look at it funny, and then everything else is off the table entirely.” Don’t know why it took twelve years to realize that.
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Stravag posted:I wouldnt exactly call phoneix a small town sheriff but that didnt stop them from using a tank to crush
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:I remember taking the manuals for B-52 Megafortress, MS Space Simulator, Fly! and basically every Jane's game to elementary school for reading time One of the best manuals ever was for Falcon 3.0. Huge, three hole punched book. Not the one from the later release that was the cheaply bound book. Holy crap it was good.
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Kafouille posted:I don't think the USAF still has any F4s in flyable condition. There were almost 5200 of them built. What were flying were converted to target drones (QF-4). The last one flew sometime in 2016. In 2017 the Air Force ordered the demilitarization of all of the QF-4's and F-4s remaining. I have no clue how the Collings Foundation got the F-4D they are currently flying. There was another one a F4H-1F. She is an old bird that was used for a LOT of the Navy test programme for the F-4. About a year ago she was up for 3.9 million bucks with some drop tanks and additional drogue chutes. http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/sageburner-mcdonnell-f4h-1f-phantom-ii-for-sale.html
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Oct 29, 2019 13:33
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StandardVC10 posted:There's a lot of state fire departments and police agencies flying Hueys with Army serial numbers from the late 1960s, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of them saw combat in Vietnam. The Air Force is still flying UH-1N's. At least until the MH-139 replaces them. https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2018-09-24-Boeing-MH-139-to-Replace-U-S-Air-Force-UH-1N-Huey-Fleet
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Cyrano4747 posted:Gotta be honest, if I was a rural sherif with no oversight I’d probably order a howitzer, tank, and a loving F4 just go see what they would give me to play with.   
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Man that's just a big old flying "there is quite a bit of fat to cut in our budget" sign
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aphid_licker posted:Man that's just a big old flying "there is quite a bit of fat to cut in our budget" sign You must be one of those People Against Goodness and Normalcy.
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If only it was real... this IS a civilian registered T-38, but was used in films for years. The one above is from Dragnet. It was also used in Airwolf during the 3rd season and in the movie Hot Shots.
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I still don't know why Dragnet was redone as a buddy cop comedy.
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EvilMerlin posted:If only it was real... this IS a civilian registered T-38, but was used in films for years. 
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Thank you all so much for getting one of the absolute worst songs of the 80s stuck in my brain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_QRKfv8H4
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No I know it was a joke... but the plane itself is real.
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Dragnet also had a tank smashing into stuff too in a jokey way, much like one of the Naked Gun movies.
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Except it came out a year or two before the Naked Gun.
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Oh yah I wasn't implying they copied they just both had that same police tank thing. The Naked Guns are the superior movies to Dragnet though 
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priznat posted:Oh yah I wasn't implying they copied they just both had that same police tank thing. Almost any comedy is better than Dragnet...
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EvilMerlin posted:Almost any comedy is better than Dragnet... Listen, hotshot. I'm gonna tell you something right now. I don't care for you or for the putrid sludge you're troweling out.
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Oct 29, 2019 21:30
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The "virgin Connie Swale" gag was pretty good I must admit.
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Anyone know where I can find the happy F-35 clip with all the vuvuzelas? I can't find it anywhere...
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Godholio posted:The last one was retired in 2017. Here she is in November 2016 at the Nellis AFB air show, last Phantom flying in USAF service:  
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The best looking plane of all time...
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If people hurry, they can still catch this!
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Any idea why Japan seems to have their artillery tubes riding on the back of trucks that they have to use a crane to deploy vs towing them at the back of the truck? Is Japan's streets too narrow for turns with a "trailer"?
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This popped up in the Mid-East threadGresh posted:i imagine this also played into that vote
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How long until we finally bite the bullet and kick them out of NATO
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