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Blind Rasputin posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/PeopleFuck...utm_name=iossmf I always thought this was insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJcDVbH5q3k
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Holy poo poo that’s a big explosion. I remember this one from yemen(?) that people thought may have been nuclear because of the way it messed with the ccd in the camera and.. well.. had such a sustained shockwave. I don’t think it could possibly be nuclear as it doesn’t release near that type or amount of thermal shockwave. If it was even a small one i think those bystanders would be cooked. Whatever it was though what the gently caress. https://youtu.be/TueGsI2GXbw Blind Rasputin fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Feb 6, 2020 22:36
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Blind Rasputin posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/PeopleFuck...utm_name=iossmf No sound but holy moly those blast waves https://youtu.be/HfXmG3GdAig
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Feb 6, 2020 23:05
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Phil Moscowitz posted:No sound but holy moly those blast waves I just adore that video, it popped up in the GBS China thread when Tianjin went down. "Ok you can come in." "NOPE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXmG3GdAig
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Feb 7, 2020 00:23
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Why aren't our defense contractors like this? https://twitter.com/ArmyPost/status/1225103027536846849
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Feb 8, 2020 04:49
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golden bubble posted:Why aren't our defense contractors like this? One page back
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Feb 8, 2020 05:04
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Our defense contractors ARE like that, it's just the dances they purchase to influence their customers generally are of the exotic and/or escort variety.
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Feb 8, 2020 05:41
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CMD598 posted:I can't get over the cuirassiers. Where did this come from?
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Feb 8, 2020 08:20
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It's from around August 1914, just after the outbreak of WWI (as the cuirassiers disappeared pretty quickly once fighting started for obvious reasons)
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piL posted:Where did this come from? MikeCrotch posted:It's from around August 1914, just after the outbreak of WWI (as the cuirassiers disappeared pretty quickly once fighting started for obvious reasons) I honestly couldn’t tell if it was re-enactors, a colorized photograph, painting, what. They’re all so vogue
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Feb 8, 2020 14:07
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CMD598 posted:I can't get over the cuirassiers. Mustache game is on point.
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Feb 8, 2020 14:54
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I honestly couldn’t tell if it was re-enactors, a colorized photograph, painting, what. They’re all so vogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq2pU21cNU
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Feb 8, 2020 16:27
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MikeCrotch posted:It's from around August 1914, just after the outbreak of WWI (as the cuirassiers disappeared pretty quickly once fighting started for obvious reasons) I deserve that. What source did that picture come from so I can try to get a huge resolution version, or similar photos?
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Feb 8, 2020 18:33
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MikeCrotch posted:It's from around August 1914, just after the outbreak of WWI (as the cuirassiers disappeared pretty quickly once fighting started for obvious reasons) what's really incredible is that you're basically looking at the french army from 1814, because they hardly changed in almost 100 years, then barely a year later they are nearly indistinguishable from any other modern 20th century army.
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^^^^ Nothing like a firm kick up the arse to foster some institutional changepiL posted:I deserve that. What source did that picture come from so I can try to get a huge resolution version, or similar photos? Just GIS "French cuirassiers WW1" with size set to large. Half the hits are wargaming minis but there's some neat poo poo.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:27
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Did that armor actually do anything to protect against 19th century bullets or was it purely to protect against like, getting bayoneted? Or was it just something someone thought was a good idea and it never mattered until it actually saw combat and people said "gently caress that".
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It was tradition. Just like the pantalon rouge, white gloves and kepis of the French or the Pickelhalb of the Germans. Changes rather rapidly once the bullets met the meat.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:50
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Plate proof against handgun balls was a thing in the 17th century at least but for example that Waterloo plate with the huge cannon ball hole in it looks too thin to even be that. Against smokeless powder spitzer bullets yeah forget it. It's just for when you have to go up against a lancer or the other guy's saber.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:52
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Yeah thin plate did jack poo poo against musket balls, the amount of kinetic energy behind those things is bananas and caused horrible injuries. Look at later war German Calvary for how they adapted. Horses with gas masks. I can't remember what author said it but I always liked 'a generation of middle class love died in France'
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Feb 8, 2020 19:59
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At least it did change their minds. All those massed charges into barbed wire at Port Arthur convinced the IJA that soldiers could beat entrenched defenses if they had enough samurai spirit and willingness to die for the emperor. To be fair, most European military observers came out with the same dumb lesson, hence all those tactics at the beginning of WWI. But since the IJA's next major conflict was a giant mess of Chinese warlords, they didn't realize how dumb that was until far after the idea had be beaten out of European militaries.
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golden bubble posted:At least it did change their minds. All those massed charges into barbed wire at Port Arthur convinced the IJA that soldiers could beat entrenched defenses if they had enough samurai spirit and willingness to die for the emperor. To be fair, most European military observers came out with the same dumb lesson, hence all those tactics at the beginning of WWI. But since the IJA's next major conflict was a giant mess of Chinese warlords, they didn't realize how dumb that was until far after the idea had be beaten out of European militaries. Never underestimate the ability of military observers to watch an actual war and chalk up the fuckups to ignorant furriners. The trench war was clearly forecast by the western theater of the ACW, too, and plenty of European observers watched it happen and came to the conclusion that Americans were mobs with guns, and that could never happen with Proper Military Traditions leading the way. Things happening in the Boer War and Russo-Japanese War were points on the same line.
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Madurai posted:Never underestimate the ability of military observers to watch an actual war and chalk up the fuckups to ignorant furriners. The trench war was clearly forecast by the western theater of the ACW, too, and plenty of European observers watched it happen and came to the conclusion that Americans were mobs with guns, and that could never happen with Proper Military Traditions leading the way. Things happening in the Boer War and Russo-Japanese War were points on the same line. Eastern theater.
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McNally posted:Eastern theater. Yes, you're correct.
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Eastern theater of WW1 is some  level poo poo for human butcherybrusilov offensive is some massed human misery. Or basically any of the Russian/Austo-Hungarian Empire battles.
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I don't know that the ACW is actually indicative of WW1 at all. The war is dominated by manouvre and seiges of strong points, which had been the European tradition for hundreds of years. It's the fact that armies can no longer manouvre that defines the puzzle of the Western Front.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:I don't know that the ACW is actually indicative of WW1 at all. The war is dominated by manouvre and seiges of strong points, which had been the European tradition for hundreds of years. It's the fact that armies can no longer manouvre that defines the puzzle of the Western Front. The Siege of Petersburg bogged down into trench warfare for nearly a year with more than superficial similarities to the Western Front of WWI developing along the way.
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Right, but early modern warfare in Europe had worked like that for a very long time. Trench warfare was super common in sieges, it's only the 'everything is one big siege' part that was new, and the ACW really doesn't have that. Even when Lee and Grant were stuck in at Petersburg there's multiple crucial campaigns going on elsewhere.
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PittTheElder posted:Right, but early modern warfare in Europe had worked like that for a very long time. Trench warfare was super common in sieges, it's only the 'everything is one big siege' part that was new, and the ACW really doesn't have that. Even when Lee and Grant were stuck in at Petersburg there's multiple crucial campaigns going on elsewhere. By that logic, WWI didn't have that either because while the western front was bogged down in the trenches, the eastern front remained more fluid.
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It may not be directly visible but there's a pretty clear progression, the writing was definitely on the walls. What's worse is that there were like 2 major European wars in between the ACW and WW1, not even counting the Russo Japanese war.
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Jet rally is my poo poo
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bloops posted:Jet rally is my poo poo Just had this in my YouTube feed today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8bmgZjzOM
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I’m always under the impression jet planes are incredibly fragile and the slightest rock or twig sucked into the engine would blow it or a bump like those would just cause the wing to break off. That’s insane.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I’m always under the impression jet planes are incredibly fragile and the slightest rock or twig sucked into the engine would blow it or a bump like those would just cause the wing to break off. That’s insane. Nah. Search in YouTube for wing stress tests. Jets are remarkably resilient.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I’m always under the impression jet planes are incredibly fragile and the slightest rock or twig sucked into the engine would blow it or a bump like those would just cause the wing to break off. That’s insane. Consider that Navy jets landing on a carrier is basically a crash landing.
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You treat them as fragile if your goal is constant use with near zero catastrophic accidents. Otherwise they’re just another kind of machine
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Does sucking a rock into the intake just like bounce off?
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I saw a video of a stress test to destruction of an airplane wing and that thing bent quite a ways before it went kablooie. Seemed pretty sturdy to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0 aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:Does sucking a rock into the intake just like bounce off? Any sort of foreign object can harm an engine. Maybe it will or won’t. It’s about minimizing risk of harm by conducting FOD checks, pre-flight inspections, mounting engines high enough off the ground, etc.
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