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This is quite cool: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1812595429445699346&hl=en It's a 1948 fighter tactics training film, with RAF Meteors and Vampires vs USAF B-29s pretending to be Tu-4s.
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Britain's Cold War.jpg: Vulcan B.2 and TSR.2 taken from a Concorde.
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Colonel K posted:Thanks for posting these pics, there is something about the gannet that just is awesome. A guy who has a plane in our hanger used to have one, sadly I wasn't there when he had it. Did someone say Gannet? 
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Smiling Jack posted:Also, didn't the A-7 have a single rotary cannon anyway? Convergence would be a moot issue. Yeah, a single M61 Vulcan according to wikipedia.
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iyaayas01 posted:I'll only be satisfied if they also sortied an entire VP of Orions loaded for bear with Harpoons. Basically this x 20: Maritime patrol aircraft with Sidewinders, you say?  
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AntiTank posted:How the gently caress it's a graveyard, if it's clearly a museum. Has the Mail started employing journalists now?
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Cyrano4747 posted:"We're totally going to invent nuclear fusion that you can haul around in the back of a F250. All we need is a decade and a bunch of government and military money. Looking forward to fusion powered F-35s.
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:Britain doesn't even get air shows anymore since the Vulcan got retired Still got a flying Lancaster!
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DesperateDan posted:When I was an air cadet, then when I worked for the government in the UK there was a threat board on the BIKINI system but it never moved from black special I lived on RAF bases for the first 18 years of my life and I've never seen anything apart from BIKINI Black Special.
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Syd Midnight posted:And wasn't the Avro Lincoln basically a Lancaster but with a new name so it wouldn't sound so old? The Lincoln was originally the Lancaster B. IV/V. And the Shackleton was originally the Lincoln ASR. 3.
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mlmp08 posted:Here are some airplanes. xthetenth posted:What the hell is that first one. https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/23-november-1946/ Avro Lancastrian C.1 with RR Nene jets. quote:The Nene-Lanc, Flies to Paris More at the link.
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Decoy Badger posted:
Talking of this, I recently read Shaking Hands with the Devil and holy poo poo, talk about being screwed over from all sides at once. Definitely worth a read, really brings home the horror of the genocide.
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Nebakenezzer posted:What, the Germans contributed rations and everything One of the few moments of levity was Dallaire and his HQ staff making all VIPs eat those rations. evil_bunnY posted:That's a great book at the author is a legit good dude. Yeah, I knew the vague outline of what'd happened before hand but after reading the book and reading around after I have a colossal amount of respect for Dallaire. He tried to do what he could in some of the worst circumstances possible and his reaction to it and actions subsequently speak volumes about him as a good guy. Shooting Blanks posted:I recently read We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families which was...an eye opening read as well. I'm gonna need some light reading in the near future. This is on my to read list!
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Cat Mattress posted:At the very least, the Brits must have done them. Given the general state of British defence procurement (including the QE class) it 100% would not surprise me if we hadn't.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:You could probably mount a usable -9M on a 1989 Ford Taurus with a day's worth of work.  The best example
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Mortabis posted:It was a not-implausible scenario that one of those heater-armed nimrods would encounter the Argentine C-130s and P-2s also conducting maritime patrol. I am a bit sad that this never happened. Oh I know. One of my earliest memories is sitting in a Nimrod at St Mawgan during a squadron families day (at the age of like 4 or 5).
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Phanatic posted:I'm down at Eglin AFB for work, I'm swimming in the ocean down in Miramar, and an AC-130 overflies me at an altitude low enough that I can count the barrels on the Gatling guns. So how much is your bail?
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This lecture series is a great introduction to the impact of various diseases over the last 400 years: https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234
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Will the MQ-25 require a catapult to launch or will it be able to take off from a ski-jump? Asking for a friend.
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Godholio posted:^If you want it to have enough fuel for even fly itself, cat. Guess we'd better start up the Osprey K.1 line for Big Lizzie then...
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Wasn't this literally the plot to the RAF's Black Buck missions? The planes themselves were still in service (just), it was just the refueling systems that needed to be ...acquired... from museums. See Black Buck 4 for one of the consequences. And XV230 for the long term consequences of hastily retrofitting refueling systems to an aircraft and then just assuming the system is fine for 35 years.
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Hubis posted:Elite doesn't model random mechanical failures, right? So it's way less ambitious/insane than Black Buck. My dad was a nav on Victors during Black Buck. His log entry for Black Buck 4 is massively shorter than for the others.
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C.M. Kruger posted:By late 1945 the US Navy had developed a AEW version of the Avenger that datalinked it's radar to a carrier or ground station, and a AWACS B-17, but was having issues with systems integration. The radar used in the Avenger AEW was in use in RAF Shackleton AEW.2 until 1991... Not sure if that's a testament to the quality of the radar or a condemnation of British procurement.
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priznat posted:Viggen sproutted!
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Crossposting but extremely relevant: I thought it was fine as far as it went, but it was very, very obvious that all the effort went into the run up to the war. In part possibly a limitation of the format I guess, but it ended up feeling pretty bland to me, compared to similar books. The Trump stuff swung back and forth between very on the nose (although distressingly believable) and oddly sympathetic.
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if you live in South Korea, Tokyo/Yokohama, Palm Beach, Honolulu, Manhattan, or between Tysons and Alexandria
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Agreed, on the plus side its a quick read that doesn't waste a lot of time. I remember trying to read some of the serious/speculative WWIII scenarios that came out in the 80s and they all dragged on way longer than my initial curiosity could persist. Yeah it's a reasonably entertaining quick read. I know what you mean about some of the 80s stuff, I enjoyed Hackett's book in the serious/speculative WW3 category. I read Warday a couple of years ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. The travelogue style helps vary the story/ allows the background to the war to be doled out in an interesting way. More recently read Resurrection Day, which I thought was a really cool premise and world building (post Cuban Missile Crisis gone hot) let down by a so-so story (that was essentially ripped off from Robert Harris's Fatherland, which was much better written). quote:I did find the reuse of survivor anecdotes from WWII bombing campaigns/Hiroshima/Nagasaki/9-11 to be pretty effective though. Agreed.
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hobbesmaster posted:How about : it looks like the empennage of an F-16 on a F-18 with an oversized canopy. When an F-16 and an F-18 love each other very much...
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Phanatic posted:Just bring back barrage balloons. A million gammons just got hard and muttered 'Just like the war'.
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Bulgaroctonus posted:Is there any equivalent to Command and Control from the Soviet side of things? Not sure about the Sovietvside, but the Secret State by Peter Hennessey covers the British side of things.
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Quinntan posted:The best part of HMS President and her successors is that they were usually used to patrol along the US eastern seaboard, as an additional gently caress you to the colonials. The actual best part was building the second HMS President to the lines of her predecessor for no reason other than to remind the Americans the RN captured the first one.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So, is it correct that the basic story is: It's also worth throwing in the AV and Scottish referendums as influencing the Tories to believe they could win any plebiscite. And the utterly lovely state of every organ of the press in this country. There's a revealing moment in Tim Shipman's (Tory, political editor of the Sunday times) book on the referendum where a Tory remain staffer comments that he now knew what it was like campaigning for Labour in a general election against the press.
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shame on an IGA posted:Not in the united "well we just shan't give lunatics charge of a submarine, do we then?" kingdom Officers of the Royal Navy are gentlemen and a gentleman would never launch an unprovoked nuclear first strike.
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