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It's weird looking but apparently it's  involving fractals. Anything will be a step up from UCP at any rate. I'm hoping multicam wins out with dedicated desert and woodland variants. Make the standard uniform and OCIE in traditional multicam while issuing the desert/woodland as necessary.
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DrCuntmuffins posted:I might be wrong but I feel like I see 8 carriers on there, counting the one that's getting resurfaced. Depends what you're calling "carrier." There are 5 CVNs in the picture. From the bottom: CVN-69 Eisenhower, CVN-77 George Bush, CVN-65 Enterprise, CVN-72 Lincoln, CVN-75 Truman. The smaller ones are LHDs, which carry helos and harriers. LHD-5 there is the USS Bataan. The others I can't see the number.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Depends what you're calling "carrier." There are 5 CVNs in the picture. From the bottom: CVN-69 Eisenhower, CVN-77 George Bush, CVN-65 Enterprise, CVN-72 Lincoln, CVN-75 Truman. The smaller ones are LHDs, which carry helos and harriers. LHD-5 there is the USS Bataan. The others I can't see the number. LHD/LHAs can operate as a lovely version of a carrier. The Navy tested the concept in the 70s but that's about the extent of it. The 'Sea Control Ship concept' is one of the extremely tertiary arguments for SVTOL F-35s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Control_Ship#Ships_with_secondary_SCS_mission
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Veins McGee posted:LHD/LHAs can operate as a lovely version of a carrier. The Navy tested the concept in the 70s but that's about the extent of it. The 'Sea Control Ship concept' is one of the extremely tertiary arguments for SVTOL F-35s. This is a bit dated, but still a good visual comparison:  This is USS Theodore Roosevelt operating with France's Charles de Gaulle, the next most capable aircraft carrier in the world after US CVNs, and the only other nuclear carrier. It's actually smaller than LHA/LHD, less than half the displacement of a US CVN, but as it's designed to be a dedicated aircraft carrier vs gator freighter, can operate more fixed wing aircraft than an LHA/LHD, though still far less than a CVN. It's got some other serious issues that limit effectiveness in the power projection role that I don't think were ever entirely corrected.  LHD between two CVNs: 
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grover posted:This is USS Theodore Roosevelt operating with France's Charles de Gaulle, the next most capable aircraft carrier in the world after US CVNs, and the only other nuclear carrier. Russia and China both have nuclear carriers 
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grumplestiltzkin posted:Russia and China both have nuclear carriers  USSR had a number of nuclear cruisers, but never built a nuclear carrier. The Ulyanovsk was going to be their first, but it was scrapped before they finished construction.
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Whew, for a second there I thought someone would let a simple answer slide.  
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BULLETS CURE ISLAM posted:Whew, for a second there I thought someone would let a simple answer slide. What is that and where did it come from?
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GAS CURES KIKES posted:What is that and where did it come from? Its the baby from the hit show "dinosaurs" dummy
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BULLETS CURE ISLAM posted:Its the baby from the hit show "dinosaurs" dummy you know what I was asking about moker 
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grover posted:The Kuznetsov and Varyag/Liaoning are conventional. I guess it was because they ran out of money or had some design bureau squabbling that could not be resolved. Or it could have been that they are now out of budget for it and previously having them was very outside their doctrine of warfare/colonialism. However, they did make nuke icebreakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker
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GAS CURES KIKES posted:you know what I was asking about moker Its a los angeles class submarine at periscope depth 
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It's the USS Chicago (SSN 721).
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I remember an LA-class sub doing a sprint between CASEX areas during a NATO exercise in the North Sea in 2005, fucker was so fast we couldn't get a track on him on the sonar set, only on audio. Granted this was on an Oslo-class frigate, and the sonar set was from the late 1980s 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkt1vAX0MRM&feature=youtu.be I know this has had to be in GiP before, but it's just so amazingly stupid that it deserves a place in every youtube thread
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Booblord Zagats posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkt1vAX0MRM&feature=youtu.be I'm so proud of my country right now.  To compensate, have a video of one of our pilots practicing some aerobatics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvgaL4WHCws Edit: Another one, this time with some RDAF low-level flying over Norway - it's real purty  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYK6zyYkGs (Our pilots have to go abroad to find things to dodge, as the highest point in Denmark is 183 metres ASL (206 metres if you count the tower on the hill)).
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Mzuri posted:I'm so proud of my country right now.
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Casimir Radon posted:That's not from Denmark, it's another lovely Dutch creation. Inventors of most terrible reality show trends, like this despicable poo poo US Reality Shows are worse (slightly :NSFW: ) vas edit: not about military topics. This is not a chat thread. Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jan 3, 2013 |
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Casimir Radon posted:That's not from Denmark, it's another lovely Dutch creation. Inventors of most terrible reality show trends, like this despicable poo poo Pretty loving weird they are speaking Danish and Norwegian then.
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Given the maneuvers they pull and how far the seat is canted back in the I would hate to see how common neck injuries are among F-16 pilots.
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 Rade Koncar, formerly a Yugoslav missile boat. German engines, Russian missiles, Swedish guns. "They're for sale, if you want them." [/obiwan]
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Beards are cool. A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment (The Vikings) stands to attention as his regiment receives their Afghanistan Operational Service Medal at Picton Barracks in Bulford, England, on November 1, 2012. The parade was the first in a series of events marking the end of their successful six-month deployment to Afghanistan as part of Task Force Helmand. The parade comes during the same week that two more British soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint in Afghanistan by a man wearing a local police uniform. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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The USN's bath-salts-are-bad-for-you PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlaHwnErBI Warning: Dubstep.
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Thanks USN for telling me how to get bath salts and how to use them.
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I'm waiting for some confused dude to go hog wild in Bath & Body Works and try to smoke actual bath salts.
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hey the park in that bath salts video is in bethesda. next to my ex gf's house
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DRONES CURE HAJI posted:hey the park in that bath salts video is in bethesda. next to my ex gf's house forget it kid, shes bathsalts now
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^^ They have probably being in the Army about a week, the cap badges are the the lovely phase 1 non infantry badges you get before you earn your regimental cap badge.
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Phanatic posted:The USN's bath-salts-are-bad-for-you PSA: this video owns unironically and I'd gently caress that chick he gave the business to for her lip seriously I'd gently caress her stupid Kinda wanna do bathsalts now
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Ditto on the girl. Not to be too misogynistic but her titties are really fat and I'd like to put my penis between them. I hope that's not too graphic for the lurkers  Has is house an apartment or barracks? Because if that's what Navy Barracks look like now, holy poo poo. I've never been one to be all "back in my day!" But back in my day  Have a picture of the USS Blueridge taken from a PLAN Jiangwei. Got a very, and oddly thorough tour of it. It was spotless and an elisted dude we talked to said they cleaned and painted for a month straight in preparation. Despite the immaculate appearance you could tell it was a sub-par ship. There was linoleum everywhere on the bridge and CIC. And there was startlingly few fire hoses and the ones we saw were no longer than eight feet. There were also not as many QAWTDs as you would think for a combat ship. dr cum patrol esq fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jan 4, 2013 |
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front wing flexing posted:Have a picture of the USS Blueridge taken from a PLAN Jiangwei. Got a very, and oddly thorough tour of it. It was spotless and an elisted dude we talked to said they cleaned and painted for a month straight in preparation. Despite the immaculate appearance you could tell it was a sub-par ship. There was linoleum everywhere on the bridge and CIC. And there was startlingly few fire hoses and the ones we saw were no longer than eight feet. There were also not as many QAWTDs as you would think for a combat ship. How did it appear technology-wise? Lots of computers like on US warship? Do you have any more pictures? Hard to find interior photos of Chinese ships online 
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front wing flexing posted:Has is house an apartment or barracks? Because if that's what Navy Barracks look like now, holy poo poo. I've never been one to be all "back in my day!" But back in my day That's what I was thinking, man gently caress bath salts navy barracks are siiiick. When I first got to Alaska I lived in barracks known as the crack house and rumor was the building was legit condemned. I believed it.
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I Want To Be Called Hajji Killer Now. ha it gets better whoever wrote that doesn't know a haji is a real term for someone on hajj Mr. Samuel Shitley fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jan 4, 2013 |
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Mr. Samuel Shitley posted:ha it gets better whoever wrote that doesn't know a haji is a real term for someone on hajj Yeah, but in common parlance, Haji isn't used as a term of respect for people who have completed the Hajj.  Somewhere on Rt Mobile or Michigan in 2008, probably near Korean Village.
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grover posted:A friend of mine who toured a PLAN ship about 15 years ago said he was appalled with the lack of any sort of concern for smoke or damage control. Nevermind halogens in cable insulation, he said things similar to you- linoleum, carpet and wood everywhere and virtually no indication of any serious damage control like fireproofing, power casualty risers, EEBDs or the like. Did you notice a lot else like that? I'll get some more pictures up, just have to black out some faces. But it was exactly like your friend described. Technology wise it seemed pretty primitive. Didn't see a computer or LCD screen anywhere, navigation seemed to be analog. When we wrote up our inputs for the report we acknowledged that they may have sanitized for our arrival but it din't look like there was anywhere for electronics to go.
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