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Pick the right bomb and you don't really need to.
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# ? Jul 24, 2022 22:51 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 07:00 |
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Aces High posted:isn't that literally what they do during the bombing run in Maverick? Godholio posted:Pick the right bomb and you don't really need to.
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# ? Jul 24, 2022 22:59 |
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Jarmak posted:Can't speak to Russian equipment but with most US planes I'm familiar with you can choose between the computer telling you where your bomb is going to hit, or choosing a spot for the bomb to hit and having the computer tell you where to fly. For the latter basically you line up with the target and hold weapon release and the computer lets it go when the parameters are correct. What about turning your targeting system off and letting the Force guide your torpedoes in?
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 00:08 |
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The X-man cometh posted:What about turning your targeting system off and letting the Force guide your torpedoes in?
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 00:14 |
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I had to share this here - if legit that seems like some rough tolerencing for a barrel https://twitter.com/GenerMo/status/1551164071982022657?t=WzLdCEBSYc5PhA9D5gmpxA&s=19
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 00:26 |
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KitConstantine posted:I had to share this here - if legit that seems like some rough tolerencing for a barrel Literally on the last page. Who gave you that star?
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 00:49 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Literally on the last page. Who gave you that star? Probably found it on some black market Soviet hardware.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 01:00 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Literally on the last page. Who gave you that star? I'm a gbs mod. If I wasn't an idiot I wouldn't be qualified
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 01:03 |
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Fair point.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 01:12 |
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It’s not that they drilled the barrel wrong, poo poo happens. It’s that they just shrugged and we’re like, eh, gently caress it and it continued on through what had to be multiple inspection and test steps between the fabrication of the barrel, mounting it to its receiver and installing it and on up the chain of higher level assemblies. All the way through delivery to the military and then down to unit and finally to a crew. Surely someone noticed?
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 02:23 |
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Murgos posted:It’s not that they drilled the barrel wrong, poo poo happens. It’s that they just shrugged and we’re like, eh, gently caress it and it continued on through what had to be multiple inspection and test steps between the fabrication of the barrel, mounting it to its receiver and installing it and on up the chain of higher level assemblies. All the way through delivery to the military and then down to unit and finally to a crew. A better question: did anyone in that chain care?
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 02:33 |
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Murgos posted:It’s not that they drilled the barrel wrong, poo poo happens. It’s that they just shrugged and we’re like, eh, gently caress it and it continued on through what had to be multiple inspection and test steps between the fabrication of the barrel, mounting it to its receiver and installing it and on up the chain of higher level assemblies. All the way through delivery to the military and then down to unit and finally to a crew. Probably someone that doesn’t exist, still gets paid, and that paycheck goes into the same bank account as their team leader or manager. there’s grift and corruption in play at every level there
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 02:51 |
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Digging around that reddit thread (ugh), it seems like it's possible that it's intentionally manufactured like that in order to take advantage of barrel whip to extend the range of the fired shell, but then again that could easily have been Russian trolls saying that. So using Occam's razor when it comes to all this, well...
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 03:01 |
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Digging around that reddit thread (ugh), it seems like it's possible that it's intentionally manufactured like that in order to take advantage of barrel whip to extend the range of the fired shell, but then again that could easily have been Russian trolls saying that. Is that the Russian artillery equivalent of pushing your 9 forward when you shoot to throw the bullets harder? edit: Also, if that was a thing, then the Ukrainians would know about it and practice that for themselves since they basically have all the same doctrine the Russians do.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 03:03 |
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Godholio posted:Pick the right bomb and you don't really need to. *Russian bomber bombs itself*
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 03:35 |
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Murgos posted:It’s not that they drilled the barrel wrong, poo poo happens. It’s that they just shrugged and we’re like, eh, gently caress it and it continued on through what had to be multiple inspection and test steps between the fabrication of the barrel, mounting it to its receiver and installing it and on up the chain of higher level assemblies. All the way through delivery to the military and then down to unit and finally to a crew. My guesses: 1. It was rejected midway through production and thrown into a pile, then pulled out of the pile and finished because they needed to meet quota. 2. They ran out of the carbide inserts they use for turning the outside and just said "gently caress it" 3. They had all the tools and supplies to do it right, but skipped every step they could to meet quota.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 03:45 |
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4: limited supply of steel because anything over the bare minimum was stolen by the boss, not enough materials to redo it and make quota.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 04:42 |
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A masterclass MS paint tutorial https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1551415164821540864
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 05:04 |
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Special operation is my passion! That art should be on the wall of vkusno-i tochka labeled “by Oleg age 5” next to the playpen made out of destroyed T-72s and old car batteries
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 05:18 |
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Godholio posted:Pick the right bomb and you don't really need to. The craziest thing about this delivery technique is that for a few years in the 50s, the only plane that could carry a nuke off of a carrier was a prop-driven ground attacker, and this was seen as the only way the pilot had a fleeting chance of survival. Later on they added a rocket to the back of the bomb to give the pilot an extra minute or two to get low, fast, and put his rear end to the blast. You can also see this delivery method "demonstrated" by looking up DCS MiG-21 toss bombing on YouTube.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 06:43 |
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I mean
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 07:43 |
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I mean Is he wearing a double banzai bandana for double the kamikaze
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 07:46 |
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Digging around that reddit thread (ugh), it seems like it's possible that it's intentionally manufactured like that in order to take advantage of barrel whip to extend the range of the fired shell, but then again that could easily have been Russian trolls saying that. I mean, Occam wins hands down here, because that isn't a thing. If you want to shoot something more distant you tilt the gun's barrel up. Just think about it - if you instead deliberately induce barrel whip to add some sideways velocity to the projectile, now the projectile isn't flying pointed straight along its ballistic arc, which is all kinds of awful. Another point against the idea: conservation of energy. All the energy comes from propellant, and there isn't any more of that burning up just because the barrel is whipping around. The energy used to "whip" (flex) the barrel is energy which could be used to make the projectile depart the gun faster. You're also going to be losing more energy to friction between projectile and barrel. If the gun's ballistic performance isn't good enough for the range you want to shoot, you need to improve it the normal boring way: make the gun stronger, issue hotter ammunition.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 08:11 |
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Go read this article about the siege of Azovstal: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-mariupol-azovstal.html I'm not copying and pasting it here, because you need the pictures. But here's the intro as a teaser: quote:The two Mi-8 helicopters tore across enemy territory early on the morning of March 21, startling the Russian soldiers below. Inside were Ukrainian Special Forces fighters carrying crates of Stinger and Javelin missiles, as well as a satellite internet system. They were flying barely 20 feet above ground into the hottest combat zone in the war.
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xpostingLifeSunDeath posted:any clue what this stuff is? It reminds me of anti bird spikes.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 15:14 |
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This SDO & SMO update is 3 days old. Held the conference on a Friday, transcript didn't go up until this morning. It also looks less human-edited than usual, so some machine translation weirdness going on. For example, I suspect they were discussing the Forward Edge of Battle, not the Ford Edge of Battle. As usual, intro blurb, then excerpts as I arbitrarily decide. https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3103383/senior-defense-official-holds-a-background-briefing/ tl;dr: -Ukraine continues to be precise with HIMARS targeting, morale high -Russian forces imprecise and indiscriminate in targeting, morale low -Russia still gaining territory, taking heavy losses to do so -Aid looking longer term than immediate fight (this has been a theme for probably 3-6 weeks now) -No Russian advances north vic Izyum, limited RLF advances vic Bakhmut, -Russian claims of destroying HIMARS are false. -US supplying 105mm ammo to feed the UK-offered 105mm light howitzers (L119) -Ukraine effective with Phoenix Ghost, but no clarification on what that means or how. Aid of total of 580 Phoenix Ghosts expected to keep them supplied through August. (This is a big increase from initial announcement of 100 drones months ago) -No US plan to transfer any aircraft beyond UAVs to Ukraine, and there is no ongoing US pilot training of Ukrainians -US conducts information sharing, but US does not pick targets for Ukraine to strike -Russian passive and active defense efforts vs HIMARS of limited effectiveness thus far quote:SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Great, thank you. What I thought I would do is just touch on from a policy vantage point what we're seeing on the ground in the international community and then go through today's announcement of additional security assistance very briefly. So, in terms of the situation on the ground, it's increasingly clear that we're seeing Ukraine employing very precise, very accurate targeting of critical Russian positions with their HIMARS, and we're seeing the Ukrainians have strong morale as they maintain their fight. That's juxtaposed with what we're seeing from Russia, which is, you know, completely indiscriminate targeting, resulting in civilian casualties. They're paying a high price for every inch of territory that they try to take or hold. And we're seeing very low morale from the Russian forces.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 15:23 |
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Alan Smithee posted:xposting It's applique armor to protect from submunition bomblets. https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/6m3puy/panzerhaubitze_2000_hull_down_in_northern/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/c7d9s2/panzerhaubitze_2000_with_rubber_hedgehog_armor/
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 16:18 |
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mlmp08 posted:
"Here's some juicy targets. You don't have to hit these but uh, why wouldn't you?" And Ukraine gets the benefit of an intel collection and target determination system 50 years and $trillions$ in the making.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 16:20 |
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This is an interesting thread re some UKR volunteers vs FSB, not familiar with the source, but Russian media seems to not like him, Bellingcat put it on my TL. https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1551535542180929536
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 16:22 |
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Digging around that reddit thread (ugh), it seems like it's possible that it's intentionally manufactured like that in order to take advantage of barrel whip to extend the range of the fired shell, but then again that could easily have been Russian trolls saying that. Because cannons work just like trebuchets?
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 16:27 |
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highme posted:This is an interesting thread re some UKR volunteers vs FSB, not familiar with the source, but Russian media seems to not like him, Bellingcat put it on my TL. How do you foil a standing offer to defect? Hostages?
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 16:28 |
The story is a fun read. Won’t spoil it for you.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 16:37 |
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All the Russian pilots look to be in their 40s or older. I'm not seeing any mid-20s pilots in the mix like you'd see elsewhere. Possibly another indication of lack of investment in training ?
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 17:09 |
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Baconroll posted:All the Russian pilots look to be in their 40s or older. I'm not seeing any mid-20s pilots in the mix like you'd see elsewhere. There's been a lot of discussion about how few flight hours Russian pilots get. I'm guessing they just don't want to trust their planes to people who have the same level of experience as your average American hobby pilot. And the remaining technically-minded Russians have already fled for Dubai or Switzerland.
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# ? Jul 25, 2022 17:39 |
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Alan Smithee posted:*Russian bomber bombs itself* A couple of planes have shot themselves down by underflying and overtaking bullets they fired.
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 01:06 |
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Godholio posted:A couple of planes have shot themselves down by underflying and overtaking bullets they fired. Glenn Miller is reputed to have bought it after another allied plane dropped its payload on his bomber...
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 03:51 |
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Godholio posted:A couple of planes have shot themselves down by underflying and overtaking bullets they fired. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTnmZ_HPAs Or bombs. Who sometimes decide they don't like being let go into the world and hurry back home.
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 08:48 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTnmZ_HPAs&t=110s
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 08:57 |
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cult_hero posted:Glenn Miller is reputed to have bought it after another allied plane dropped its payload on his bomber... That story got debunked and the current theory is that his plane (a small single engine aircraft, not a bomber) flew into bad weather and iced up.
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# ? Jul 27, 2022 14:18 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 07:00 |
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sfw despite twitter tag, no gore or anything https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1552310825553100800?s=20&t=UV1mRNWgd93qRZswWYLKXg I like the moment where you see him look over all 'why is the gun crew laughing?'
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