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I've always wondered why there's so many models of the same gun. At first I thought I was just being ignorant, but it seems it's actually just a stupid thing to leech money off of people
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Jul 27, 2023 02:18
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Coast guard is involved in drug interdiction/trafficking so it makes sense they have special forces guys to do crimes
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the coast guard is probably better at ASW than the actual navy between funding and narco submarines, they can have special toys as a treat
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Hatebag posted:Coast guard is involved in drug interdiction/trafficking so it makes sense they have special forces guys to do crimes yeah they also need the coast guard to be present on certain ship boardings so they can call it a police action while avoiding posse comitatus
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Reviving The PBY Catalina For Modern Warfare Is This Company’s Goalquote:Dubbed the Next Generation Amphibious Aircraft (NGAA) Catalina II twin turboprop amphibious flying boat, the aircraft is based on the historic Consolidated PBY 5 Catalina that provided maritime patrol, light transport, and search and rescue, among other duties.
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Jul 27, 2023 08:40
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one flying boat, yeah that'll be 50 million smackers thank you. may we also interest you in our plane doesn't sink in water package? a real bargain only 50 million more per unit
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Slavvy posted:U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command is currently testing what it's calling the MC-130J Amphibious Capability, or MAC. That’s an MC-130J special operations tanker/transport aircraft converted into a floatplane. However, as we reported in May, an initial demonstration of that concept is now at least two to three years away, according to U.S. Air Force Col. Ken Kuebler, U.S. Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) program executive officer for Fixed Wing (PEO-FW). oh so it's getting a 155mm lightweight cannon, 57mm medium autocannon, and a 30mm light autocannon because it needs to terrorize pacific fisherman who can't shoot back
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DougieCoullPics/status/1682830392582103040 From the comments: https://twitter.com/realMudcrabTalk/status/1682887277301645312?t=nVpDFuw_0rhWdWRXChYIkg&s=19 Got some terrible news for you about homosexuality in the Navy, my dude.
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Mandoric posted:I know this is probably supposed to come out like "tackle-it", but lol that can not be a fortunate name in the world of toxic machismo. tactical chiclet
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Slavvy posted:The company’s announcement comes as the U.S. seeks runway-independent aircraft that can operate in an environment where large airbases and runways are likely to be early targets in any future conflict with an adversary like China. "no i don't want to think any harder, thank you"
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Jul 27, 2023 14:04
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Can't wait for the stealth flying boat that rusts in sea water
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quote:[O]vernight, four Midway-deployed PBY flying boats had conducted a daring attack on the [Midway] invasion force, with a new and untried capability to carry torpedoes.
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Jul 27, 2023 14:18
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Weird that they'd choose that and not the bigger flying boats that were more capable and saw longer service, like the P5M Marlin, PBM Mariner or jet powered P6M SeaMaster. The Catalina only makes sense for nostalgia's sake.
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Turtle Sandbox posted:Flag creep is a very real problem in the military, there are always more flag officers than the organizational structure actually needs. Tommy Tuberville is on the case.
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Frosted Flake posted:Weird that they'd choose that and not the bigger flying boats that were more capable and saw longer service, like the P5M Marlin, PBM Mariner or jet powered P6M SeaMaster. The Catalina only makes sense for nostalgia's sake. “The NGAA Catalina II is a modern amphibian with advanced engines and avionics and will offer capabilities no other amphibian can provide today," said Lawrence Reece, president of Catalina Aircraft. That’s a Longboat Key, Florida company holding the U.S. and Canadian type certificates for the PBY-5.
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Frosted Flake posted:Weird that they'd choose that and not the bigger flying boats that were more capable and saw longer service, like the P5M Marlin, PBM Mariner or jet powered P6M SeaMaster. The Catalina only makes sense for nostalgia's sake. Its exactly that, people have more likely heard of the Catalina and no ones heard of those more capable planes
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Frosted Flake posted:Weird that they'd choose that and not the bigger flying boats that were more capable and saw longer service, like the P5M Marlin, PBM Mariner or jet powered P6M SeaMaster. The Catalina only makes sense for nostalgia's sake. Or, you know, just buy these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinMaywa_US-2
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https://twitter.com/nknewsorg/status/1684448601123217409 north korea's got some fancy new drones
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DougieCoullPics/status/1682830392582103040 outbound from where? that doesn’t look like either Bangor or Kings Bay, the two trident bases.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DougieCoullPics/status/1682830392582103040 as a sub guy lol they always do
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Jul 28, 2023 05:43
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Countdown until a loitering drone can carry a nuclear weapon
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Proust Malone posted:outbound from where? that doesn’t look like either Bangor or Kings Bay, the two trident bases. That's Faslane in Scotland, where the UK hosts the US nuke fleet.
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palindrome posted:Countdown until a loitering drone can carry a nuclear weapon look we all want metal gears okay
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I think we should force the SF guys, and people who want to dress like Operators to go to Costco, to roll back to 2001 swag: polartec coats and "disguises" 
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Jul 28, 2023 15:48
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https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/uh-guys-we-really-should-think-aboutquote:So anyway, if we’re going to be able to match Chinese military power — even in concert with all our friends and allies — we need to spend a lot more on the military. If you say this in public, someone will inevitably reply that “we spend more on our military than the next 10 countries combined”, and call for cutting defense spending in order to fund either social spending or tax cuts, depending on which side of the political aisle they fall. But what does it mean for the U.S. to outspend all other nations when China can build warships at 200 times the rate we can? What does it mean for the U.S. to outspend all other nations if we can’t even keep up enough munitions production to supply Ukraine? noah getting crack pinged
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i like how the yank is categorically unable to comprehend that it's the grift that's the problem and shoveling more money into the system will only make it worse
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Cerebral Bore posted:i like how the yank is categorically unable to comprehend that it's the grift that's the problem and shoveling more money into the system will only make it worse lol if american cops and veteran affairs are treated as a national military force in spending, they will be ranked somewhere like 3rd and 4th on the world's top list Palladium has issued a correction as of 10:14 on Jul 29, 2023 |
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quote:Kids, 10, training for to build a workforce for AUKUS, SA’s $368bn nuclear submarine project Aukus subs off to a good start
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Not So Fast posted:https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/uh-guys-we-really-should-think-about less crack ping "fighting china would be a bad idea because we'd probably lose" but rather getting madder and madder that the window to finally put china in its place is closing and the US is fumbling the bag
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noah "i think i'd be a drone pilot but instead would actually be cannon fodder" smith
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yellowcar posted:less crack ping "fighting china would be a bad idea because we'd probably lose" but rather getting madder and madder that the window to finally put china in its place is closing and the US is fumbling the bag lol @ "our F-35s outnumber their J-20 which is why our NAFO brainworms will still win"
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yellowcar posted:less crack ping "fighting china would be a bad idea because we'd probably lose" but rather getting madder and madder that the window to finally put china in its place is closing and the US is fumbling the bag it might have been a different story 20 years ago but liberalism was too hopped up on killing people in the middle east and thought China was a solved problem
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bedpan posted:it might have been a different story 20 years ago but liberalism was too hopped up on killing people in the middle east and thought China was a solved problem osama ftw
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bedpan posted:it might have been a different story 20 years ago but liberalism was too hopped up on killing people in the middle east and thought China was a solved problem there was never a point where the US could have used military force to crush china and the window for destroying the chinese economy was more like 50 years ago than 20. even then, there was no way to destroy the chinese economy and the soviet economy at the same time
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Well 50 years ago USD actually represented industrial capacity and Washington actually respected the geography in "geopolitics".
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Yeah reforming how neoliberalism is designed to function is a little easier said than done as well as tripling spending on the military not to mention around a dozen other problems.
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