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Is the requirement of being an Afghan Special Forces operator to know how to aim down the sight?
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Richard Bong posted:Ask and ye shall see wiener. I've been looking for this picture for years. Bless you.
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Jan 31, 2019 09:49
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Destro posted:Is the requirement of being an Afghan Special Forces operator to know how to aim down the sight? 1. Aim and shoot your gun 2. Go down a fast rope without sitting on the ramp first 3. Don't kill your SF advisor Welcome to the Special Forces!
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Jan 31, 2019 18:09
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 This is the cover of the new Chemical Brothers album, it's giving me a real cold war vibe, can anyone guess when/where it was taken?
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Feb 1, 2019 09:45
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I guess it's a pastiche of 1) a pic from Bosnia what with the DPM and the blue berets in an IFOR Challenger tank -  (this is a model)- and 2) some rando pic of a European freeway that they might be driving down on the wrong side of the road. It looks like an older autobahn what with the non-existent left shoulder. e: at least I'm pretty sure the background is not Bosnia 
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Feb 1, 2019 12:31
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no luck searching every news photo on corbis tagged "tank europe" 1980-1997 but did find some gems      
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Feb 2, 2019 02:31
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I didn't even know you could wear a Chicom rig so low. Probably because I'm 6'2 and have a really broad chest so everything sits right over my nipples.
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Feb 2, 2019 04:14
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Its just planes doing test flights but I really like the light aircraft mil planes. Shame its definitely going no where despite making a ton of sense both for global partnerships and the fighting we're actually doing today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa6yJrQYNQc
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Feb 3, 2019 02:56
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CarForumPoster posted:Its just planes doing test flights but I really like the light aircraft mil planes. Shame its definitely going no where despite making a ton of sense both for global partnerships and the fighting we're actually doing today. I agree that light military combat aircraft are cool as hell but what makes them make sense for the fighting we're doing today? Everyone has MANPADS these days and planes like these seem like they'd be fodder.
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Feb 3, 2019 05:51
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MANPADS are a lot easier to defeat than real TacSAMs. We'd have saved hundreds of thousands of hours of airframe life on thousands of aircraft if the USAF had pulled its head out and actually pursued any of the dozen or so light tactical aircraft programs that have been started since 2002.
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Feb 3, 2019 05:59
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Godholio posted:MANPADS are a lot easier to defeat than real TacSAMs. We'd have saved hundreds of thousands of hours of airframe life on thousands of aircraft if the USAF had pulled its head out and actually pursued any of the dozen or so light tactical aircraft programs that have been started since 2002. This. Theres lots of counter MANPADS solutions. You can buy a lot of flares in the cost delta between an F-15 and a Super Tuc
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Feb 3, 2019 06:01
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MANPADS are definitely a threat, and modern MANPADS will not bite easily onto flares at all. However, one of the real challenges of using MANPADS against even comparatively slow aircraft is that you're stuck eyeballing engagement envelope unless you have some kind of semi-advanced cueing,* which most insurgent forces don't have. So it can end up being pretty easy to either not take a valid shot out of fear you'll waste your missile or take a shot where the kinematics are not in your favor due to the aircraft not being terribly low to the ground, flying outbound, or otherwise on the wrong edge of the engagement envelope. And as much as we like to say "everyone has MANPADS these days," that's not really true. Every major country has them, but the employment of modern MANPADS is not the norm from folks like ISIS or other insurgents. Otherwise, a shitload more US/Coalition helicopters would get shot down in places like Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan. *The Avenger fires Stingers, but it has on-board laser range-finding equipment to help the gunner decide whether or not to shoot. Marine Stinger teams have, or at least had years ago, digital RF networks built into their HMMWVs that give them Link 16 cueing down to the Stinger team. This means they can actually have a laptop out with a Link 16 picture in their Stinger hide site, to prep them for incoming threats with speed, altitude, aspect, etc, to help them make the shoot/no-shoot decision once they acquire the target visually and switch to a more traditional Stinger team employment. Helps with ID, of course, but also helps them not waste missiles on stuff outside the altitude envelope, and additionally helps make a good engagement on low and fast targets where your window of opportunity is very small. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Feb 3, 2019 |
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Feb 3, 2019 20:19
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Is that a bit opsec-y?
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Feb 4, 2019 16:07
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No, it’s very much in unclassified open source publication. Exact altitude/ranges/engagement envelope would be a no-no, though.
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Feb 4, 2019 16:12
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Ok, just curious.
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Feb 4, 2019 18:25
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mlmp08 posted:No, it’s very much in unclassified open source publication. Exact altitude/ranges/engagement envelope would be a no-no, though. I would like to learn more about exact altitude/ranges/engagement envelope.
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Feb 4, 2019 19:08
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Feb 4, 2019 19:09
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Just PM it to me, I will keep it secret I pinky promise
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Feb 4, 2019 19:10
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Just PM it to me, I will keep it secret I pinky promise Me too please, I am a trustworthy US Army Corps Officer Joe A. Merica. If you would not like to PM the information because this is an unsecured website, I can send you a USB drive to place in your work computer so you can securely send me your response. Thank you sir.
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Feb 4, 2019 19:33
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Just PM it to me, I will keep it secret I pinky promise 
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Feb 4, 2019 20:46
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Yes hallo I am Johnny Hamburger I would also like to know this information for american patriotic purposes, thanks and happy new year!
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Feb 4, 2019 21:02
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Opsec is overrated. We need more competition in the free arms market.
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Feb 4, 2019 21:08
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chitoryu12 posted:Opsec is overrated. We need more competition in the free arms market. Libertarian SecDef?
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Feb 4, 2019 21:18
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How do you rectify the NAP with being a SecDef?
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Feb 4, 2019 21:40
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Slim Pickens posted:Yes hallo I am Johnny Hamburger I would also like to know this information for american patriotic purposes, thanks and happy new year! This joke was moderately advanced and took me a second.
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Feb 4, 2019 23:03
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Might have sold me if it was Johnny Hamberder.
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Feb 5, 2019 01:38
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I chuckled pretty hard at happy new year
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Feb 5, 2019 02:24
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mlmp08 posted:MANPADS are definitely a threat, and modern MANPADS will not bite easily onto flares at all. However, one of the real challenges of using MANPADS against even comparatively slow aircraft is that you're stuck eyeballing engagement envelope unless you have some kind of semi-advanced cueing,* which most insurgent forces don't have. So it can end up being pretty easy to either not take a valid shot out of fear you'll waste your missile or take a shot where the kinematics are not in your favor due to the aircraft not being terribly low to the ground, flying outbound, or otherwise on the wrong edge of the engagement envelope. That's cool, thanks. And I'll do you a solid by not asking extremely specific follow-up questions that you haven't already answered in your PM to me. my kinda ape posted:I chuckled pretty hard at happy new year ok that was pretty good
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Feb 5, 2019 02:29
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my kinda ape posted:I chuckled pretty hard at happy new year Oh poo poo, now I get it.
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Feb 5, 2019 03:27
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Pryor on Fire posted:They found the Japanese Battleship Hiei
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Feb 6, 2019 17:58
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https://www.facebook.com/pg/rvpetrel/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2185795551455914 More pictures of the wreck
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Feb 7, 2019 07:16
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Sunk ships related, I got recommended this YouTube channel where a former USN sonar operator analyses audio clips. I am just a simple civvie so I have no idea whether he is talking bullshit but he seems convincing and watches out for eventual OPSEC violations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBxaxWQ8wdc
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Feb 8, 2019 16:20
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Video about a 747 aircraft carrier concept that was scrapped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drnxZlS9gyw
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Feb 14, 2019 14:25
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I bet the Air Force never took to that concept in the 1980’s because calling their jets “microfighters” just reminded them what type of penis they had.
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Feb 14, 2019 18:24
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Fragrag posted:Sunk ships related, I got recommended this YouTube channel where a former USN sonar operator analyses audio clips. I am just a simple civvie so I have no idea whether he is talking bullshit but he seems convincing and watches out for eventual OPSEC violations. The secret stuff about sonar is more about frequency response and the sound pressure levels needed to get a usable signal.
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Feb 14, 2019 21:44
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Another video from this guy that is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyXCeoKj4zQ Some explanations that he didn't go in to ; Test depth for a submarine is the mathematical depth a submarine can go to and be able to use the emergency blow system (by itself) and reach the surface. Crush depth is typically much deeper but the system will not work on it's own. The normal way a submarine changes depth is via propulsion and using the stern planes. With that they can escape from below test depth. So, loss of propulsion + below test depth = you're a new deep reef. The freezing in the emergency blow system he talks about was caused because the high pressure air system that was used at the time did not remove moisture from the air being compressed. The pipes froze due to this. Loss of the Thresher is what lead to the SUBSAFE program which changed a metric fuckload of things that contributed to the loss of that submarine. The program was still being retrofitted into the subs when the Scorpion was lost. It was due for the overhaul after it came in if I remember correctly. edit : in the navy thread i said the navy never changes unless 100+ people die, this is an example of that being true. all of the flaws were known before hand.
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Got a question. There is a US term similar in meaning to the Russian "monkey model" for capability downgraded export weapons systems. Do you know it?
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Reforger posted:Got a question. There is a US term similar in meaning to the Russian "monkey model" for capability downgraded export weapons systems. Export variant?
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