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Forums Terrorist posted:i forget, were you one of the posters mocking the marines for treating "guy with a stinger" as suitable bote aa defense Yes. It makes for really funny pictures though, so I'm glad they've done it before.
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Daily Mail is not journalism E: okay it may not be Daily mail But have a little poem all the same: You cannot hope to bribe or twist (Thank god) the British journalist But seeing what the man will do Unbribed, there's no occasion to simplefish fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jul 29, 2016 |
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Jul 29, 2016 18:31
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Davin Valkri posted:BOOOO! I think it's "Military stuff is expensive! Why are we spending money?!"
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Jul 29, 2016 18:36
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Davin Valkri posted:BOOOO! I think it's saying that the gun is only five inches long how can that be worth the money, misunderstanding that is the bore diameter not the length. Someone is a bit thick.
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Jul 29, 2016 18:40
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Polyakov posted:I think it's saying that the gun is only five inches long how can that be worth the money, misunderstanding that is the bore diameter not the length. Now it turns out to be a good deal after all! http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/533645/ministry-for-defence-gun-million-trident-conservative-weapons
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Jul 29, 2016 18:42
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War? heh http://news.sky.com/story/us-declared-war-blacklisting-kim-jong-un-10515230?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
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Jul 29, 2016 19:20
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B4Ctom1 posted:War? heh Was the Korean War an actual declared war by the US or one of those "not actually a war wars" for legal purposes? Because if it's the former than I'm pretty sure that declaration still technically stands.
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wdarkk posted:Was the Korean War an actual declared war by the US or one of those "not actually a war wars" for legal purposes? Because if it's the former than I'm pretty sure that declaration still technically stands. It was officially a police action, so one of those "not really a war" wars. Can we just finally get the thing over with? The tension is killing me. I'm in Florida so I'm 99.9% sure I'm about 5000 miles outside the range of any North Korean nuke.
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wdarkk posted:Was the Korean War an actual declared war by the US or one of those "not actually a war wars" for legal purposes? Because if it's the former than I'm pretty sure that declaration still technically stands. "Police Action" under UN auspices.
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Jul 29, 2016 19:29
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Its not often you hear "thrice cursed" these days. I applaud their prose.
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Jul 29, 2016 19:32
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hobbesmaster posted:The caliber of journalism in Britain is terrible.  chitoryu12 posted:Can we just finally get the thing over with? The tension is killing me. I'm in Florida so I'm 99.9% sure I'm about 5000 miles outside the range of any North Korean nuke. This is rather terrifying reading on the subject if you are interested I think at one point it predicts it'd take something like 100 C-17 loads of food per day just to keep one inland province of NK in vittles
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Jul 29, 2016 21:04
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B4Ctom1 posted:Repeatedly heard in all the worst FAA cockpit tapes As a passenger on a small plane in California I've actually heard this sound clip before. Fortunately the plane was still on the tarmac being loaded.
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Nebakenezzer posted:
It's fine, I mean...it's not like the USAF is the smallest it's been since splitting from the Army or anything. Oh. Hm. Well, whatever, they're not eating that much now right?
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Godholio posted:It's fine, I mean...it's not like the USAF is the smallest it's been since splitting from the Army or anything. Oh. Hm. lol Even worse, in a "government collapse" type situation, unless everybody was ready to go with massive food aid, hoarding of food would become a large problem, as would food taking over as a de facto currency (with attendant horrible effects to the already very sketchy food supply). As has been observed in this thread before, infrastructure outside of Pyongyang is basically medieval, so your two options for food shipment are by sea and by airlift. Assuming no fighting is going on, occupying armies would be employing every Nork who wants work in road/rail/electrical line construction
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Nebakenezzer posted:lol Isn't the average NK citizen malnourished pretty badly and not tremendously educated? I'm trying to imagine taking a bunch of malnourished dirt farmers and using them to build infrastructure and the picture looks something like, well... North Korea.
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Jul 29, 2016 23:17
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this is getting posted here, GiP and AI lol
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Jul 29, 2016 23:18
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P-Mack posted:"Police Action" under UN auspices. A reminder that the UN resolution for getting involved with Korea only passed because at the time the Soviets were boycotting their UN involvement. Otherwise they would have exercised their veto.
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Akion posted:Isn't the average NK citizen malnourished pretty badly and not tremendously educated? I'm trying to imagine taking a bunch of malnourished dirt farmers and using them to build infrastructure and the picture looks something like, well... Cultural Revolution/Great Leap Forward 2.0?
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Jul 30, 2016 00:45
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I think you're envisioning LockMart building some kind of maglev railroad in post-war North Korea to distribute food supplies, regular lovely railway will do and it's definitely something where you need lots of manual labor. (particularly with tunnels and other infrastructure). Keeping large numbers of Koreans employed due to obsolete methods would be the whole point right?
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Akion posted:Isn't the average NK citizen malnourished pretty badly and not tremendously educated? I'm trying to imagine taking a bunch of malnourished dirt farmers and using them to build infrastructure and the picture looks something like, well... North Korea. This is doubly true for NK because they have a "cultural protection" law that prevents the adoption of modern terms from English, so even dirt farmers can pick up reading very quickly.
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Yeah ignorant doesn't mean stupid. A good chunk of the population are a bunch of dirt farmers trapped in the 1950s but if you show them how to do something they could do it.
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Alaan posted:Yeah ignorant doesn't mean stupid. A good chunk of the population are a bunch of dirt farmers trapped in the 1950s but if you show them how to do something they could do it.
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Jul 30, 2016 02:16
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Even Obama is getting in on the joke. Ship to be named Harvey Milk. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-navy-vessel-named-article-1.2730958
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Jul 30, 2016 02:16
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An irradiated populace needs little food
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Shooting Blanks posted:Even Obama is getting in on the joke. Ship to be named Harvey Milk. There'll probably be a bounty on that ship for the first to give someone on another ship a facial with a shot line.
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Jul 30, 2016 02:36
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Shooting Blanks posted:Even Obama is getting in on the joke. Ship to be named Harvey Milk. Okay, awesome for Milk, but Sojurner Truth is a name fit for something way cooler then an oilier.  Sojurner Truth once calmed a mob of unruly young men by shushing them and calling them out for being rude.
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Jul 30, 2016 02:42
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Sojourner Truth was Black.
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right arm posted:Sojourner Truth was Black. So is that robot.
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Cyrano4747 posted:So is that robot. It's got a lot of red on it too. Might be one of Jefferson's kids.
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Suspect Bucket posted:It's got a lot of red on it too. Might be one of Jefferson's kids. :damm:
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Alaan posted:Yeah ignorant doesn't mean stupid. A good chunk of the population are a bunch of dirt farmers trapped in the 1950s but if you show them how to do something they could do it. Also railways are literally 19th century technology. America successfully made working-class Chinese immigrants who spoke little to no English build railways for them in California. Pretty sure we could do the same with North Korea today.
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chitoryu12 posted:Also railways are literally 19th century technology. America successfully made working-class Chinese immigrants who spoke little to no English build railways for them in California. Pretty sure we could do the same with North Korea today. Don't be. America couldnt build a goat farm in Afghanistan. https://warisboring.com/afghanistan-s-failed-goat-farm-is-the-perfect-american-disaster-ed2114523b44#.66rnej56r America spent 5 million on one gas station. ~10x what it should have cost. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/pentagon-defense-waste-afghanistan-217999 Both of the countries America invaded > a decade ago which were poor/lovely but functional are high on the fragile state index. The American military is VERY VERY bad at nation building. EDIT2: Not to mention that North Korean's whole world view is basically how they're the best most pure race and other races are a constant threat militarily. The latter may change if the Kim regime falls but it is the only thing propping up that ragime so it is reiterated constantly. The idea that they're going to integrate with our construction people or do anything that seems like subjugation to another race is not taking their culture into account. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jul 31, 2016 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Also railways are literally 19th century technology. America successfully made working-class Chinese immigrants who spoke little to no English build railways for them in California. Pretty sure we could do the same with North Korea today. Doing it under the guns like we did back then is gonna look kinda bad on CNN
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USS Harvey Milk, pumping lube for seamen to the very ends of the earth.
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CarForumPoster posted:Don't be. The American Military doesn't do nation building. That would be the American government and whoever gets stuck in the new government of whatever place. The horrible racism/xenophobia issues are less a problem if South Korea can be the face of whatever coalition has to un-gently caress the place. Admittedly, though, it'd be enough of a disaster I doubt they'd be able to do it without personnel from other allies. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jul 31, 2016 |
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Jul 31, 2016 16:55
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 "Now, Lieutenant, after you nuke that city, we need you to drop those baby 100-pounders we stuck on your aircraft on this RPD emplacement on the way back to base." 
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mlmp08 posted:
We need these in War Thunder to counter the enhanced Tu-4s.
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mlmp08 posted:
he's supposed to release them when he's full inverted and kill himself
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This is really cool!
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Bobcats posted:This is really cool! Re:B-52 Livemap Video A few questions hopefully someone can answer because anything about this video should be past the declassification time period... I hear the radio talk about SAM after SAM after SAM...how did only two of a 30+ strong swarm of massive RCS, huge heat signature, low maneuverability planes get shot down?! Are there other planes not shown providing EW/Jamming so the missiles never get lock? Are a cadre of wild weasel F-4s just not mentioned here? Do the B-52s themselves have jamming pods? All or some?
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