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Captain von Trapp posted:Side note for this page in general: in a forum like this where there are some people in the know, we should all be a good sport and try not to elicit stuff that shouldn't be elicited. Much better to put the onus on the posters that do have classified info knowledge to know when to keep their mouths shut. But that's just like my opinion man.  Gonna do a photo dump of some airpower I've seen over the past few years in the new thread. (no actual good pictures but hey)
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brains posted:if only there was strapped-down avenger in the background, i could have had a bingo Does this actually work at all? Could you park something bigger out there? Do they tie into the ship's radar/FC? I gather there's an awful lot going on in air defense.
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tangy yet delightful posted:I think that there's a good chunk of posters that "don't know what they don't know" with regards to stuff that is public domain versus stuff that's still classified and sometimes that line can be an easily stepped over one so I dunno I guess you can ask people that don't know to not ask the classified questions but if it were to be enforced in any way it would basically kill any non-ancient history question asking. Yep. I fully agree. If you have classified info, you know you do. loving basic OPSEC.
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pretty sure none of the cleared posters in this thread are ever going to discuss anything classified on the Something Awful Forums, even if asked politely
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tangy yet delightful posted:I think that there's a good chunk of posters that "don't know what they don't know" with regards to stuff that is public domain versus stuff that's still classified and sometimes that line can be an easily stepped over one so I dunno I guess you can ask people that don't know to not ask the classified questions but if it were to be enforced in any way it would basically kill any non-ancient history question asking. No, I agree. It's really a reminder for those who might actually happen to know for real. Cunningham's Law is a a real technique that works really well. E: as in, the onus is on those who know, but as mentioned below, they are imperfect human beings. Captain von Trapp fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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bewbies posted:pretty sure none of the cleared posters in this thread are ever going to discuss anything classified on the Something Awful Forums, even if asked politely It’s happened before. GiP iirc.
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bewbies posted:pretty sure none of the cleared posters in this thread are ever going to discuss anything classified on the Something Awful Forums, even if asked politely You have a higher opinion of humanity than I do.
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bewbies posted:pretty sure none of the cleared posters in this thread are ever going to discuss anything classified on the Something Awful Forums, even if asked politely
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bewbies posted:pretty sure none of the cleared posters in this thread are ever going to discuss anything classified on the Something Awful Forums, even if asked politely What if I really wanted to know about airborne detection of nuclear blasts.
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hobbesmaster posted:What if I really wanted to know about airborne detection of nuclear blasts. sounds like a bhanging good time
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hobbesmaster posted:What if I really wanted to know about airborne detection of nuclear blasts. Look up and count to 10. If you make it to 10, there was not a nuclear blast. Easy peasy.
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hobbesmaster posted:What if I really wanted to know about airborne detection of nuclear blasts. just wait for the president to hold a press conference from the oval with [TS/SCI intel-gathering apparatus] printed out in 1st-grader size font behind him
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bewbies posted:pretty sure none of the cleared posters in this thread are ever going to discuss anything classified on the Something Awful Forums, even if asked politely I get around this by having the memory of a narcoleptic goldfish and never having a need to know.
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simplefish posted:Could you park something bigger out there? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2EIILd5Cp8
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LingcodKilla posted:I get around this by having the memory of a narcoleptic goldfish and never having a need to know. What.
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Were we just talking about.
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madeintaipei posted:Were we just talking about. About what?
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LingcodKilla posted:About what? Egg-sacktly.
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LingcodKilla posted:I get around this by having the memory of a narcoleptic goldfish and never having a need to know. I worked for a defense contractor and had some clearances but I’ve forgotten everything and it is all woefully obsolete by now anyway.
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hobbesmaster posted:What if I really wanted to know about airborne detection of nuclear blasts. Funnily, most of this is public on purpose for treaty reasons. Not that nukes are super subtle.
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Steeltalon posted:It's almost inevitable that this incident is going to be Iran anti air defense accidently targeting a civilian aircraft thinking it could be a US counter attack. That's my take on it, and exactly what I figured happened given the location and timing. Poorly trained and HIGHLY MOTIVATED air defense troops on high alert looking for poo poo to shoot down. Arglebargle III posted:Shilkas are notorious for shaking themselves to pieces even when parked. I doubt firing on the move would help. Everything I've read suggests they trained the crews to stop before firing and this is reflected in live fire exercises. They have stabilizers, but we're talking 50's/60's tech here and (at least on the original models) pretty primitive fire control.
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bewbies posted:pretty sure none of the cleared posters in this thread are ever going to discuss anything classified on the Something Awful Forums, even if asked politely  And I've msg'd them about Aurora and Brilliant Buzzard/SR-75/XB-70 motherships so many times
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Captain von Trapp posted:No, I agree. It's really a reminder for those who might actually happen to know for real. Cunningham's Law is a a real technique that works really well. Fair point. It's a good thing aliens don't exist I guess 
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tangy yet delightful posted:Fair point. Edit: never mind. Forget you read that.
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There are plenty of stories of Shilkas dismounting the fire control consoles and ammo feed systems just from vibrations on firing. As well as stories of crew and bystanders trying to stay out of the way when the cannons overheat and run away. TORs look so cool on firing. Any missile system that uses solid rocket motors to turn is pretty cool.
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Ice Fist posted:Imagine, right now, in a server deep within Langley, is a database that contains the fact I had Noodles and Co today for lunch because a satellite spotted me leaving there on my way back to work. They brought back the peanut sauté a little bit ago! 
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Schadenboner posted:They brought back the peanut sauté a little bit ago! We JUST went over not posting sensitive information.
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Cyrano4747 posted:It’s happened before. GiP iirc. Yeah I remember seeing a couple posts talking about that in the past, I think it was some Air Force goon who lost his security clearance because of that and then I think killed himself a few years later?
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Kesper North posted:Semi-related, I do wonder the degree to which equipment designed for export (like all those Russian AA batteries) also contain backdoors to prevent them from being used against the manufacturing nation. A joke at work was that the 737 MCAS problem was actually a glitch in that type of system.
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It is well known that battle dolphins are with the allies. The communist squids on the other hand..
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I still need to see this.
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Dante80 posted:It is well known that battle dolphins are with the allies. The communist squids on the other hand.. Solipsist squid. Seth Dickinson posted:TESTIMONY BEFORE AN EMERGENCY SESSION OF THE NAVAL CEPHALOPOD COMMAND https://www.drabblecast.org/2013/12/06/drabblecast-305-testimony-emergency-session-naval-cephalopod-command/
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SimonCat posted:I still need to see this. better sequel than escape from la
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goatsestretchgoals posted:better sequel than escape from la Day of the Tentacle went all serious, I see.
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if john carpenter pulled his synth out for the music, i would probably still watch it nazi dolphins who are also communist and hate humans? yeah okay clan...OH GOD THAT SYNTH MUSIC
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Mazz posted:Assuming an average flyaway cost of $115M for these 35As, it's a little under 6 billion worth of airplanes on that runway. I thought supersonic stealth inlet geometry was something that the free world was trying hard not to share with the China or Russia - or is all the trick stuff further back in the duct than that? Or, you know, moot because of the Tangerin Candidate? e: NVM, just looked at the full sized image. vvv Yep. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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IPCRESS posted:I thought supersonic stealth inlet geometry was something that the free world was trying hard not to share with the China or Russia - or is all the trick stuff further back in the duct than that? Don't they have dummy panels in the inlets to stop that? edit: saw your edit, I assume that's what you're talking about
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