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Do my eyes deceive me, or does the entire tail fin pivot above the elevators?
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I learn something new here every day. Edit: yes, the vertical stabilizer. Somebody Awful fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Nov 28, 2011 |
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While we're on the entangled subjects of Vietnam and American policy failure, can anyone comment on the reliability of Stan Goff? I read Full Spectrum Disorder several years ago, but I don't remember it terribly well and now I'm wondering if it's worth a second look.
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The M113's Wikipedia talk page is one big  and I'm pretty sure at least two of its contributors are puppet accounts of Sparks himself.In Cold War airpower news, the LA Times reports that the U2 may be getting a life extension.
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priznat posted:(This was the first thing I thought of - an obscure late period monty python bit. what a nerd) I was impressed that they had real SKSs for the firing squad. :iamafag:
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Psion posted:God the wikipedia talk page on the M113 used to be (might still be) an absolute comedy riot. Him and his obvious shill accounts blasting people for not signing their 'real names' to the talk pages, when he was clearly astroturfing with multiple fake aliases. Still is. Wasn't he the same nutter who wants our boys in the sandbox to carry an SKS with a Tapco mag as a standard issue backup weapon?
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Ruse posted:those ships look like Eastern Bloc. type warships. Russian Navy's Black Sea fleet, apparently.
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Sep 12, 2012 21:38
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Insane Totoro posted:I feel bad for the USS Pennsylvania. Survived Pearl Harbor only to get nuked. Nevada had it bad too: painted orange, nuked twice, then used for target practice.
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Feb 1, 2013 21:57
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LP97S posted:I don't know how Cold War this is but have Taistelukenttä. It's a Finnish Defence Force video from 1998 that shows bits of a hypothetical war with some force that uses Russian equipment, emphasis on Finns getting shot and other bits. Skip to about 2:30 in case you get tired of the Finnish tourism ad in the beginning. Spotted a TKIV 85 sniper Mosin at 15:53. 
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Jun 9, 2013 19:46
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Throatwarbler posted:Now that we have drones and railguns is a guy in a slow moving low flying plane with machine guns still needed? Depends on whether you did the side quest to unlock B-29 close air support. 
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Jun 16, 2013 04:53
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Smiling Jack posted:Why is this guy so loving obsessed with giving the M113 the name Gavin? Isn't he also the dude who's convinced every soldier should have a Tapco'd SKS as a backup weapon for when the 5.56 runs out?
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Jun 18, 2013 02:41
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razorscooter posted:I looked and he's actually changed from the SKS to something dumber. Is he... assuming that AKM magazines fit in a stock M16 lower? Or is his fantasy 'A5' based on the SR-47?
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Jun 18, 2013 03:40
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Cyrano4747 posted:One of the real ironies of post-war justice was that a lot of no bullshit war criminals were finally brought to justice not for what they did to jews, but for ordering some random private shot for cowardice or desertion in the closing months of the war.  I would like to know more.
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Aug 9, 2013 05:57
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It's  with wings!
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Aug 22, 2013 18:24
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Now it just has to fall into a black hole.
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Sep 13, 2013 06:15
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standard.deviant posted:Do you think it's worth it to keep the airframe in use for the gun alone? You ask this in a TFR thread? 
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Thought this was more relevant here than in the news thread: Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded victories against France and the US, has died aged 102.
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Oct 4, 2013 20:04
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Scott Carpenter dead at 88.
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Oct 11, 2013 22:47
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quote:I say use 'em for a sneak-attack on China to take back all the jobs they've stolen from product-dumping on the US economy. Let's Git-'em !!!!! Nuke-nuke-nuke...USA USA USA
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Oct 15, 2013 20:50
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Forums Terrorist posted:poo poo lives down there you know. You gotta be fuckin' kidding.
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Oct 17, 2013 17:32
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Godholio posted:The Soviets could do it. And we couldn't allow a pylon gap, could we?
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Nov 3, 2013 17:56
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If you have a Pearl Harbor DVD lying around this is a great occasion to ritually smash it.
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Nov 3, 2013 19:52
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Some 1,500 secret files, dating back to the years of military rule in Argentina, have been discovered in Buenos Aires. Transcripts of all the junta's meetings, and a list of blacklisted intelligentsia.
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Nov 5, 2013 05:03
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So how do we feel about Tora! Tora! Tora! at this point? Apart from it adhering to the party line and absolving the emperor of any responsibility, relying too much on Fuchida's self-aggrandized accounts, etc? (It also has a small amount of Doris Miller.)
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Nov 24, 2013 22:24
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Air Force museum at Monino?
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Alaan posted:It's fun because an acquaintance of mine joking refers to himself as a Soviet citizen because he was bore in the Soviet Union and has never actually lived in the Russian Federation. There are people in Latvia and Estonia who are this for real.
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They would have if heavy lift helicopters had been invented sooner.  
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If you want to get into the reconstruction of Japan, check out John Dower's Embracing Defeat.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Also, that dictator who got offed in the 70s? His daughter is the current president of South Korea.
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Jan 6, 2014 00:32
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Nebakenezzer posted:Thanks to his far east experience, he seems to been a adept political operator in Japan, making friends despite the fact he was more a less a absolute ruler. Up until the point where he declared the Japanese race was a child in a room of adults, anyway.
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Jan 6, 2014 04:52
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Snowdens Secret posted:What video games do have a Falklands component? FWIW The Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2 has a Falklands spinoff.
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Jan 9, 2014 02:15
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mlmp08 posted:This kid's gonna be mad when he learned about Roosevelt. I don't think they cover that until the junior year of high school. This might be better served by the milsurp thread, but what's the deal with the M1 Garands and carbines made by Howa during the Cold War rearmament of Japan in the 1950s? I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a Howa Garand.
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Jan 25, 2014 01:40
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There have been some avowed Maoists running an insurgency in parts of India for a while, if memory serves.
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Jan 25, 2014 05:46
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Since we were just discussing Maoists, some of you might get a kick out of this thing which popped up in the gamers.txt thread.
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The way I remember reading it (and I could totally be wrong on this) was that the Poles had a somewhat successful tactic of using cavalry with anti-tank rifles to make hit-and-runs on German vehicles, which the Germans spun into face-saving propaganda about fighting untermensch bumpkins.
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Jan 26, 2014 21:47
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Cyrano4747 posted:destigmatize military history within the historical establishment of the 70s-80s 
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Jan 26, 2014 23:08
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mlmp08 posted:I once had a girl ask me if Italy was an axis power. To be fair, it doesn't have a yes-or-no answer.
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Cyrano4747 posted:hilarious anecdotes about the margin doodles This sounds like it could be comedy gold.
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Alaan posted:On the upside, all the pics are showing the Russians without mags in the guns Not any more. 
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