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Boomerjinks posted:This is so weird that you guys are talking about the Testors models hours after I was googling info on the first official announcement of the F-117A and found this - http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj91/fal91/cunn.htm quote:The report, while mostly factual, did include some pretentious statements. According to the author, one experiment performed by the United States Navy involved a missile boat coated with RAM, which made the vessel "undetectable by surface radar." This was almost certainly an exaggeration. Of course the Sea Shadow wasn't revealed until a couple years after the article, and turned out to be a stealth demonstrator rather than a super cool stealth hydrofoil loaded down with Tomahawks and Harpoons. 
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I'd think the AIM-120 would be a better choice for the F-117 than the AIM-9 because IIRC it can be fired without a lock and will home in on the "best" target it sees, though I doubt it would be hugely effective. Though you could probably do some sort of frankenHARM setup that targets the other aircraft's radar and then switches to active mode, could be useful for killing a Mainstay or similar if you intercept by using a passive receiver to home in on it or some kind of thing where a friendly over the horizon radar illuminates the target. Of course this is all "Tom Clancy smoking weed with Dale Brown and Larry Bond" speculation on my part.
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PittTheElder posted:Just because I love that gif: JASDF.gif
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0toShifty posted:And the most hilarious one - a swing-wing F-4 Phantom It needs some canards. 
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Aug 11, 2015 21:00
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France crashes the HMS Queen Elizabeth's commissioning ceremony by slowly sailing the de Gaule past while launching/recovering Rafales.
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priznat posted:I still wonder what would have happened had the Scottish independence thing passed and the RN would have to move all their Trident stuff out of Faslane. Invade a peninsula with paratroopers in unmarked uniforms to ensure the safety of ethnic Britons and ensure the security of British military equipment and personnel?
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priznat posted:France played it well, selling to then selling out the argies. I suppose that there's a greater chance that Erdogan will keep sending cheques to France after the ships are delivered. And that they won't bounce.
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What did the Soviets do for nuclear security? Did they develop PALs and stuff like the US, or was nuclear authorization more of a British style "Comrade the state has determined you posses sufficient moral character to not open this padlock unless ordered" form of security?
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Oct 24, 2015 06:06
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Hopefully the B-2 crews know better than to leave their snuggies on top of a heating vent.
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Nov 8, 2015 06:33
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IIRC the Italians actually had four ships that could carry Polaris missiles. The WW2 cruiser had four tubes and apparently actually test-fired a couple missiles, and they also had three guided missile cruisers that were designed with internal space for a couple Polaris tubes each that were built and then stored in warehouses so that they could theoretically be mounted in the future.
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It looks like it's by the same animator who did that Russian super quadcopter video.
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B4Ctom1 posted:Chinese Wild Weasel Honestly I expected a IRBM full of AGM-88 copies.  Lockheed-Shorts F-104 VTOL proposal, The J79 would have been replaced by a Rolls-Royce Spey, and the wingtip tanks would have each been replaced by 7 Rolls-Royce lift jets. I can only assume that fuel capacity would be reduced to the point that Marine and Luftwaffe aviators would be limited to crashing into hills within line-of-slight of their airbases.   Convair model 200/201 navy light fighter proposal. The 200 was for the Sea Control Ship and would have used two lift engines either 10k lbf each, or 10k lbf total (sources are unclear). The main engine would have been a F100 with F-35 style rotating joints. The 201 would have been just a regular fighter for carriers. From what vague information I can find General Dynamics changed the design to be more Rafale looking after they bought Convair and called it the Model 218. (also note the Canadair CL-84 in the first two paintings.)       
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:That looks like some kind of 1960s dystopian alternative history speaker system for disseminating official government information to citizens. Attention protection units, anticitizen spotted in your district. Block. Contain. Cauterize.
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xthetenth posted:Sprint is still the best missile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA
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Godholio posted:Doesn't planefinder get its data from flight plans? I'm not at all sure the E-6B gets a waiver on filing. Sites like Planefinder and Flighteradar generally get their data from people running ground stations for receiving ADS-B beacon information. Typically costs under $100 to set up, since it's basically a Raspberry Pi with a RTL-SDR and a half wave antenna. Typically the sites also sell tail number blocking services because people/companies are paranoid so why not profit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCnCXAhPDts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU6DoQOd6z0
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Warbadger posted:Not just tank numbers, before Desert Storm the T-72 had a huge reputation similar to the T-90 stuff you see today or the M1 had in the decade after after Desert Storm. It was supposed to have one of the best guns, amazing armor that eats TOW missiles for lunch, and did everything better than NATO tanks in a smaller package. Same sort of thing with the integrated air defense network. That and the Iraqi military was what, fourth largest in the world at the time? And they had modern equipment and experienced troops from 8 years of war against Iran.
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My initial suspicion would be that it's a buoy or pressure vessel of some kind that somebody took a rotary sander to.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdW1cxXiQBU "We heard you liked bullets so we put a bullet in the bullet so you can shoot 100% more bullet."
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LeadSled posted:I like how the G11 recoils like a howitzer, and the Steyr looks like a good way to burn yourself with spent brass. Polymer cased too, enjoy having chunks of melted plastic stuck to your arms/uniform. Also note that the AAI entry is suppressed because it apparently had a very severe muzzle blast.
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  http://www.sldinfo.com/first-arrestment-of-an-f-35c-with-external-weapons-load/ Lt. Cmdr. Daniel “Tonto” Kitts posted:While test pilots are wringing out the F-35 and ignoring critics, senior officers are constantly challenged to fly top cover against know-nothing second and third order derivative critics whose only contributions are creating crossed referenced ignorant public articles written by cubical commandoes whose only real skill is creating google search interlocking fields of fire.
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What is the jet in the back with the Italian/Indian roundel?
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Remember that time when all 30 of the crewmen on a destroyer resigned from the US Navy because a Su-24 flew past it and jammed all it's electronics?
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With budget cuts, flight officers are now required to transport their batmen onboard their own aircraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAq3UMYkvlI
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priznat posted:Impossible. We all know Bombardier doesn't have to build or even propose anything in order to weasel dumptrucks full of cash out of the Canadian gov't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Ss9n4fA-U
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Blistex posted:Russian "miracle anti-TOW" devices don't seem to be working as advertised. That's got to hurt sales. I'm sure the Indians are happy they declined to spend the extra money for Shtora kits on their T-90s.
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And they hosed up making a AKM clone no less.Alaan posted:It also looks likely they'll get hosed on the PAK-FA which they were a partner nation on and is still vaporware at present. Buying a next-gen fighter from a failing petrostate with about the same GDP as Brazil? Good luck with that. The HAL Tejas is also having quite a few problems from what I hear.
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iyaayas01 posted:"proven" The capitalist running dog submarine cleverly disguised itself as a Korean airliner in an attempt to deceive the vanguards of the revolution and escape.
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For the F-35B, couldn't you just make some marston mat style sections (without the holes of course) coated with that heat resistant stuff they cooked up for the amphibs?
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mlmp08 posted:But man if it does I look forward to a special snowflake FARP being set up via USAF heavy airlift or USN sealift delivering the materials then Army transport moving the materials to the FARP, then the Marines can set it all up and by the time it's ready to go, it's already obsolete. The proprietary coating developed by a DuPont-Lockheed consortium ($50,000 per plank) degrades and flakes off after prolonged exposure to sunlight and/or moisture.
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wkarma posted:Don't forget LAV-AD There was also the M6 Linebacker.  The Army almost ended up adopting the Euromissile Roland (as the MIM-115) in the 80s, but it ended up too expensive due to "improvements" and they were only operated by a single National Guard unit between 1983-1988 (IIRC) because a handful of launchers had already been built. Probably about the closest the US has ever come to operating a proper short-range missile system! https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/08/28/improved-missile-too-costly-for-pentagon/d3cc6b34-6b28-4e49-8675-0e3f074ffcec/ quote:In 1975, after a six-year search for an effective antiaircraft weapon, the U.S. Army took a European missile that worked reasonably well and began an improvement program that eventually would make it too expensive for the Pentagon to buy. quote:The United States has considered selling the Rolands, giving them to another country, mothballing them or sending them to Canada, Norway or West Germany. All options are on hold.  
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hobbesmaster posted:That looks like China's idea of a response to a USN carrier's freedom of navigation operation. Or Thomas Jefferson's idiot idea of how to deal with the Royal Navy. https://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/usnavy/07.htm hobbesmaster posted:Edit: sputnik is a Russian state sponsored news agency, how much salt should we take with everything on there? Sputnik is pretty much Infowars to RT being Fox News.ru.
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I don't believe this has been posted yet, the Heritage foundation interviewed a bunch of F-35A pilots earlier in the month. http://www.heritage.org/research/re...lopment-process "RCS of bird (combat configuration)"
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