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The Oldest Man posted:this is some reddit fanfic grade naming convention poo poo lmao when the gently caress did this all happen At least the trekkies will stop joining the navy now, lmao.
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Hatebag posted:Hmm, what if someone just put all of a helicopter's weapons up on a huge construction crane? They can go up 1000 ft and hold 720 tons, probably a lot cheaper than a helicopter too. Slavvy posted:Recoilless rifle gantry Would it shock you to learn that cold war wunderwaffen designers already tried this 
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there was a west german experimental TOW launcher that had the missile on a big arm it could elevate like 30 feet to shoot over hills but i cant remember the name of it nor find any photographic proof of its existence, but it was definitely real and is probably in the german tank museum storage garage
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The Oldest Man posted:Would it shock you to learn that cold war wunderwaffen designers already tried this so it's a 75 mm autocannon for taking out apcs/ifvs? that seems pretty useless. I guess it's just for colonial type wars against tankless people
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 it's pretty neat in war thunder when you can find a good piece of cover to hide behind
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Danann posted:
Nah he's talking about this thing 
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The Oldest Man posted:Nah he's talking about this thing thank you, elevating masts are really cool and stupid. best fad of the 80s  proposed british TRIGAT-LR carrier based on the challenger-1 with an autocannon also in the boom, no idea if the back bit is just extra missile storage or a bonus anti tank mlrs
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https://twitter.com/IndianExpress/status/1289558258500243456 combat proven is when the french jet bomb brown people with aks and sandals
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The Oldest Man posted:Would it shock you to learn that cold war wunderwaffen designers already tried this Danann posted:
The Oldest Man posted:Nah he's talking about this thing Malleum posted:thank you, elevating masts are really cool and stupid. best fad of the 80s These are all marvellously stupid  Imagine being some Soviet designer working on the latest t72 update or whatever and army intelligence puts these photos on your desk
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The Oldest Man posted:Hmm.. powerful weapons... that are effective against advancing troops... but themselves are not capable of advancing into an intact defense without immediately being destroyed... adding a coaxial machine gun gives it a lot more life
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So it looks a Navy ship only slightly ran itself aground this month https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/08/22/uss-howard-sustained-soft-grounding-near-bali-ahead-of-port-visit/ And just lol 
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KomradeX posted:So it looks a Navy ship only slightly ran itself aground this month Virginia tang, eh I also like how the Howard had a soft grounding as if that makes it less incompetent
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Warhammer 40K just ripped off 100% of the cold war designs huh?
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KomradeX posted:So it looks a Navy ship only slightly ran itself aground this month oh, so that's why the usual suspects kramered into discord yesterday to post completely unverified and unsourced claims about the pla losing an attack sub in the taiwan strait
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how come I can't get no tang round here?
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Oneiros posted:oh, so that's why the usual suspects kramered into discord yesterday to post completely unverified and unsourced claims about the pla losing an attack sub in the taiwan strait Lolnatbdoign that tona loving discord instead of coming here
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KomradeX posted:Lolnatbdoign that tona loving discord instead of coming here Just read over them before hitting post, it's not hard goddamn
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KomradeX posted:So it looks a Navy ship only slightly ran itself aground this month *extremely Jeb voice* UNLEASH TANG!!!
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I'm sure you guys are aware the USS Tang sank itself right? Circular run torpedo.
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Frosted Flake posted:I'm sure you guys are aware the USS Tang sank itself right? Circular run torpedo. Are you telling me the tang swallowed it's own torpedo
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that's what you get for loving around with gyroscopes just shoot the fish straight and get better at trigonometry!
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gradenko_2000 posted:that's what you get for loving around with gyroscopes i was promised if i paid 100x as much per torpedo, they were guaranteed to always hit something 
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Lostconfused posted:Warhammer 40K just ripped off 100% of the cold war designs huh? Yeah I'm just going "that's a rhino, that's the whirlwind turret that forge world sold when I was in college..."
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Delta-Wye posted:i was promised if i paid 100x as much per torpedo, they were guaranteed to always hit something And the industry delivered 
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So I'm relistening to season one of Blowback in anticipation of the new season Friday and they mention the infamous Millennium Challenge 2002 war games. And even if Rippee cheated, everything else about that really was a sign we would lose World War III back than at the height of our military power
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KomradeX posted:So I'm relistening to season one of Blowback in anticipation of the new season Friday and they mention the infamous Millennium Challenge 2002 war games. And even if Rippee cheated, everything else about that really was a sign we would lose World War III back than at the height of our military power didnt a chinese sub surfaced in the middle of an american fleet exercise after being completely undetected underwater around that time period lol
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Palladium posted:didnt a chinese sub surfaced in the middle of an american fleet exercise after being completely undetected underwater around that time period lol https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/a-chinese-diesel-submarine-surfaced-in-the-middle-of-a-us-carrier-group/ quote:There’s a lot about the Song-class Chinese submarine that’s special. It was the first submarine developed entirely by the People’s Republic of China and the first to use the modern teardrop hull shape. It’s also the only Chinese submarine ever to pop up in the middle of an American aircraft carrier group. quote:Carrier strike groups are expensive to buy and to operate. Factoring in the total life-cycle costs of an associated carrier air wing, five surface com- batants and one fast-attack submarine, plus the nearly 6,700 men and women to crew them, it costs about $6.5 million per day to operate each strike group.
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Delta-Wye posted:https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/a-chinese-diesel-submarine-surfaced-in-the-middle-of-a-us-carrier-group/ if they did know how long the sub was trailing them it's not exactly like they'd tell the media.
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Delta-Wye posted:carrier strike groups are a loving scam there were stupidly good in the short time between planes outranging the biggest battleships and cruise missiles appearing, but usa has yet to go against a state with the latter so they'll keep using them until they run out of paint money
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Truga posted:there were stupidly good in the short time between planes outranging the biggest battleships and cruise missiles appearing, but usa has yet to go against a state with the latter so they'll keep using them until they run out of paint money "lmao at those stupid ukies running into minefields laid by cavemen orcs, unlike we clever people who won't in the pacifi-"
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Palladium posted:"lmao at those stupid ukies running into minefields laid by cavemen orcs, unlike we clever people who won't in the pacifi-" Get ready for a lot of complaining about  anti access warfare
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The Oldest Man posted:Get ready for a lot of complaining about I've mentioned this, maybe in the Ukraine thread, but pretty much all discussion this whole concept abruptly ceased when the sabre rattling over Taiwan started up. Similarly, mention of China's anti-carrier ballistic missiles disappeared too, even as they've gotten longer ranged, more capable and more numerous. To borrow from the current standard text on naval operations, it's an unsolved problem, and as that's very inconvenient, the solution appears to be to pretend it doesn't exist.
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Frosted Flake posted:I've mentioned this, maybe in the Ukraine thread, but pretty much all discussion this whole concept abruptly ceased when the sabre rattling over Taiwan started up. Similarly, mention of China's anti-carrier ballistic missiles disappeared too, even as they've gotten longer ranged, more capable and more numerous. And the only reason the USN bitches about their lack of modern minesweepers is for more new operational grift capabilities
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Well, like, they loving had it. That was one of the many, many things LCS was promised to do. The Navy is also supposed to retire the RH-53D that are used for aerial sweeping, but the promised, I guess RV-22 (?) has not materialized. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 01:53 on Aug 24, 2023 |
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Frosted Flake posted:I've mentioned this, maybe in the Ukraine thread, but pretty much all discussion this whole concept abruptly ceased when the sabre rattling over Taiwan started up. Similarly, mention of China's anti-carrier ballistic missiles disappeared too, even as they've gotten longer ranged, more capable and more numerous. More evidence they can't let the Taiwanese know they have severe disadvantage in the Taiwan theater, right now the priority is say whatever the Taiwanese like to hear and get them to buy land mines and sea mines laying machines, essentially suicide vest type weapons.
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Frosted Flake posted:I've mentioned this, maybe in the Ukraine thread, but pretty much all discussion this whole concept abruptly ceased when the sabre rattling over Taiwan started up. Similarly, mention of China's anti-carrier ballistic missiles disappeared too, even as they've gotten longer ranged, more capable and more numerous. To quote my favourite TISM song: There's a freight train coming Loaded with anxiety You're tied to the tracks, don't worry (Denial works for me)
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