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Coffeehitler posted:On the other hand, I don't think the Ugandan Army would be giving two shits about hearts and minds. Under Idi Amin those would be described as "MSDR"; Meal Some Disassembly Required. BIG HEADLINE posted:So the Navy has decided to not shock test the lead ship of a new carrier class. Discuss. Guaranteed additional work for the shipyards when it turns out that they have two or more completed platforms that require significant revision?
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Murgos posted:Eh, we talked about this before but anyone who has been involved in those reports knows that presented at the exact same time with it was another report about how the issues in that report will be resolved or are mitigated. Strongly suspect that EMALS will wind up being redesignated ESALS and ship as an electric (possibly Jet-A) fired boiler tucked up under the flight deck somewhere feeding traditional catapults.
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Jun 24, 2017 06:49
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I'm more interested in the 1960s campaign with nuclear tipped everything being touched off with gay abandon.
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Jun 27, 2017 00:59
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When it comes to large (huge) enterprises and governments with thousands of licenses, there may be negotiations to keep supporting outdated stuff in exchange for $Texas.
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Fojar38 posted:It was good for something that was made by a handful of people as a hobby, but I thought that it got a little bit goofy at the end. Like cities were being destroyed and everyone was still like "gosh I wonder what's gonna happen next" and of course they had to include references to Trump in it which made it look like the most comical apocalypse ever because that is the world we live in right now. I sent this to my brother without any context. He sent back "This is clearly fake; they haven't broken in for football results".
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Jun 28, 2017 14:41
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Yeah, nations like Germany and Japan are considered de-facto nuclear states. Japan even moreso with their native rocketry - Germany's lacking in delivery methods. Just hide the warheads in written off BMWs.
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my kinda ape posted:It would be insanely funny if they got theirs working right away no problem. I suppose that depends on if the CiC is told that EMALS are actually Hillary's emails and he publishes the documentation to twitter.
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Jul 3, 2017 04:11
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JcDent posted:Question is only tangentially related to the thread, but how communist is PRC? I understand that their economy is neither communist nor even socialist, but I want to know much people care or pretend to care about Maoism. Do they drill children? Is party activity a no poo poo thing for people on the street? Are there any true believers among the leadership, or does nobody care about it and just go their own way? All of the above: the T-14 has apparently passed trials.
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Party Plane Jones posted:The B-2 contract hadn't even been awarded by the time of the election; you're thinking the F-117. I had thought that the B1 was cancelled because its mission profile became effectively impossible thanks to the invention of doppler RADAR and thus missiles being able to find your supersonic aircraft amongst the ground clutter. I'd also thought that the F117 was intended to operate a different, complementary mission profile to the B1. Was I wrong?
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Jul 9, 2017 01:55
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Godholio posted:^Interesting, but completely worthless in combat. I thought the Russians had a hard on for this maneuver so that they can chuck boresight fire-and-forget missiles at stuff without sinking $texas ($siberia?) into over-the-shoulder R&D. I don't know if it's cheaper to develop and build hypermaneuverable fighters or over-the-shoulder capable missiles. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jul 21, 2017 |
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McNally posted:The idea that this isn't a worthless party trick seems to be based on the idea that this is a 1v1 fight, though, and that the aircraft coming to a dead stop in midair to point his nose at his opponent is doing so while the other aircraft is still maneuvering to get the stopped plane in his sights. Other people might know better (and I hope some of them are here; I like being wrong about things because it means I learn something), but I think PVO doctrine in the late 50s/early 60s was to force trade aircraft on the assumption that aircraft could be replaced but cities and airfields couldn't. If that thinking persisted, killing all your E, your aircraft and your pilot may be regarded as an acceptable price to pay if it means you get all your missiles away. e: For the avoidance of doubt, I don't think that their standard doctrine is or ever was to pull dumb maneuvers in combat where a sensible maneuver/engagement was available. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Jul 21, 2017 |
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Potato Salad posted:So, what's different about vessels that got kills in WWII? What's the special qualifier? Are any of them still in commission? And surely someone's machinegunned a dhow full of somali 'coast guard', which would count?
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Jul 25, 2017 02:55
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Arglebargle III posted:Rail gun drone carrier submarine. Make it VTOL and stealth and I can practically guarantee a buyer.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:All the representations I've seen of railguns have two magnet arms. Is there a physics/magnet reason that you couldn't scale that up to 4+ arms to get more acceleration in a shorter barrel? Not 100% sure, but I think that that's answered in the diagramme you've quoted - the magnetic flux that runs the whole show. If two 'arrows' in the blue flux rings in the diagramme point at one another, they cancel out.
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Potato Salad posted:What would you have done, and when? Fired my sad press secretary because they wouldn't let me beat them at golf, tweeted my dis-satisfaction with the state of reality television ratings, then declared war on Sao Tome and Principe. If we're talking time machines, I'd have liked to seen the NK question resolved immediately after the dissolution of the USSR and before the illusory peace dividend had been cashed out. Would it have been a poo poo sandwich? Yes, absolutely, but at least the bread wouldn't have been stale.
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So I think we're agreed:
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Anta posted:Is that the one where he tells the Palestinians to be like Gandhi? And the Israelis don't just shoot them anyway? No, I think it's the one where an Israeli officer shoots a single nonviolent Palestinian dude and so the Vatican Swiss guard are sent in as a peacekeeping force and gumdrops rain from the sky. I think it may have been published after Kamal Zgheir met his end, which makes it even more fantastic.
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aphid_licker posted:What's the main problem with making a stealthed version of the SDB for stuff like this? Make it a wacky shape and give it a special material casing / coating? Personally, I'd have suggested nested decoys in the tail of the bomb so we don't share all the fun secrets with people we're actively trying to kill, but I'd guess that doppler radar would work out which of the returns were radar reflective caltrops gently floating down and which one was plummeting to earth like a heavy thing with good aerodynamics. Maybe airburst weapons that can provide effective treatment of the target area without ever getting within range of AAA? I've heard this song before.
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I was once told that under tail doors are undesirable because they require a heavier airframe which means less payload for commercial operators. Question about procurement for the thread at large: Assume that tomorrow it's discovered that every C-17* has an unrepairable crack in the main spar and are no longer airworthy. Simply: would procurement still be an utter fustercluck if there's an urgent need and glaringly obvious capability gap? *: Or other lynchpin, as you like.
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Suddenly the Nork AKs with the 1980s camcorders crudely lashed to them make sense. Can't have the troops looking south seeing a better equipped force. http://i.imgur.com/haLYUxr.jpg for fullsize (hopefully doesn't embed). Presumably it was someone else's turn to wear the brilliant green decorative foliage that day. I would think that the technology would be effective attached to something like a Mk 19. Time for another IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Aug 13, 2017 |
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:And the russians intend to have all of 55 planes in service. By 2020. I wonder if their defence minister will cut the buy to 18 because the PAK-FB is in spiral development and will be ready for mass production almost immediately.
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Vahakyla posted:So with AC47 Spooky, how were the weapons aimed? Presumably the engagement distance was so far, that eyeballing wouldn't yield a whole lot besides "that way, about"-style area fire. The Spooky was deemed a success, so did they have some primitive TV aiming or optics, or what? A gyro sight on the side window - you'd do a pylon turn around your target and watch the tracers go in and adjust. e: http://airspeedonline.com/2013/08/airspeed-gwl-rapidcast-ac-47-spooky/ the gunsight is the 2nd image down - it's projected on the 45º glass plate. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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Effective-Disorder posted:Russian disarmament facilities Ukraine, Georgia and Chechnya?
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Kebbins posted:People in Colorado incessantly whine about the Rocky Flats site while I'm pretty sure all of these photos were taken at the depot down in Pueblo. Ugh. Yes, but ~radiation~. Chemical weapons (and for that matter, waste) that will be literally deadly until the end of recorded history isn't an issue because *fart*. On a wholly serious note: gently caress radiation fearmongering, of all stripes.
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The USN has 430 ships running about, I think, and pranged 4 of them in the last 12 months. CMA-CGM (e: a commercial shipping company) has 445 ships. How many have they stacked? Would seconding navy navigation officers to commercial vessels to learn how to not clout stuff with your snout be impossible For Reasons, or is crashing into things now a proud navy tradition? IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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Maybe with the hilarious amount of graft built into their procurement chain they can negotiate a domestic version of the AirLand Scorpion for F-35 money*. *: based on Cwealth games procurement decisions and costs; it's possible that their military procurement isn't as bad. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Sep 3, 2017 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Not seen: An amused and expectant Grim Reaper, just off panel. Who is confused why he's been seeing so many German CAS pilots when there's no shooting war on.
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Hauldren Collider posted:It has two business jet engines and that's the most it can carry? They remembered that the super tweet was OK with pickone:munitions|fuel and figured "why mess with the formula". Looking at the elevator pitch, it seems to be a tailor made for Latin American counter narcotics roles. While I'm sure they wouldn't say 'no' to an order for 500 airframes from the DoD/USCG, I don't think they'd be particularly heartbroken if no such offer was made. Related, mainly for the USCG thought bubble: could you loft a RADAR on an airframe that then rebroadcasts its screen(s) to a remote operator? I'm not suggesting replacing AWACS with a trailer on mars/Arizona, but if your mission is looking for fishing trawlers that aren't where they're meant to be is it feasible to remote control an airborne Furuno while the pilot just points the plane at the next waypoint?
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'Elevator pitch' being a marketing term for pitching a product in the time it takes to ride an elevator somewhere, not the placement and/or articulation of the control surfaces called elevators on the airframe. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Warbadger posted:Mao personally disdained TCM and knew it was bullshit but also was the first big proponent for pushing it as propaganda. It kept the peasants happy when they couldn't provide adequate medical care and made a huge splash with the gullible/useful idiots worldwide. 'T'CM exists because most doctors belonged to the bourgeois and caught severely contagious head-bullet-itis during the cultural revolution. TCM was stood up as a suitably nationalist, Marxist alternative. Mao, naturally, maintained an actual physician for himself.
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Murgos posted:I wonder what the protocol is for after and SSBN has launched everything? Death racing vintage cars aside, I'd guess they'd probably in the first try for replenishment at sea. If that fails or there are no weapons to re-arm with, start to act like the world's fattest attack subs. Once that's done and if you survive, presumably try to work out how to get electricity out of the boat and into rivet city until the core winds down.
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e: On second thought.
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Cat Hatter posted:Can a B-2 take a selfie? Because tweeting a picture of a one flying over NK would be a fun (and unwise) response. Dark aircraft on a light background will need a really powerful flash bulb to not just get a silhouette. I'm sure that there's something lying around in inventory that's been picked up in the last 60 years that'll do the job.
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See, this wouldn't have happened if the Russian forest fire service used good, solid, dependable M113 Aerogavins. For the benefit of people who haven't clicked it: It's a fatal air crash of an AN-2.
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shame on an IGA posted:Yeah I misunderstood and thought we talking about the backseater staying with the plane after the pilot punched out That TV guided missile isn't going to
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my kinda ape posted:What does LO stand for? Low orbit? Lift off? luv 2 use mystery acronyms so no one can understand half of what I say because I need to shave 1.2 seconds off of my APT (average posting time) Acronyms in a military aviation is not a fight you should take.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I think USMC is planning to eventually replace them with the F-35: https://www.f35.com/about/capabilities/electronicwarfare For a moment, I was hopeful that someone in the Navy's Army's Airforce had formed the view that the F-35 was an appropriate replacement for a utility helicopter.
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Godholio posted:I suspect the answer is "A-10." The most significant capability gap is sharkmouth nose art that doesn't look very slightly silly.
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I like to imagine that the RADAR has a BV in the housing, which is gimballed so it doesn't spill a drop of tea. e: designing it, naturally, would fall to the one person who said "OK, joking aside, are you all actually retarded and seriously considering a ski jump carrier with no carrier capable aircraft yet flying, much less in inventory?" IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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simplefish posted:Which helicopter is this? CH-37.
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