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Trin Tragula posted:I am quite short and quite scrawny. I weigh about 130 pounds, depending on whether I've just had a curry or been out in heavy rain. That is mental. Congratulations, soldier/marine! Here's your belt-fed MG...
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HEY GAL posted:
Those who are being accurately depicted by that sign?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Bailing out of a ballistic missile would be somewhat difficult.  That's what the little rocket on top is for.
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One more fun thing to  at for the sea-launched V2 - it's liquid-fuelled. Can't transport it fuelled, so you have to bring along your A-stoff and B-stoff and whatever other -stoffs separately, then erect  , and finally fuel... while sloshing about in the mid-Atlantic area. Hope you've still got adequate weather forecasting, yo.
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MrMojok posted:Oh good Lord. I have a documentary about the ME-163 Komet, the little egg-shaped rocket plane that could take off and climb virtually straight up to get to the bomber streams, and there is an actual German training film showing how they fueled it. Get your stoffs here! The LOX/ethanol & water isn't quite as exciting to play with, but, per Wikipedia, "the fuel and oxidizer pumps were driven by a steam turbine, and the steam was produced by concentrated hydrogen peroxide with sodium permanganate catalyst." Zamboni Apocalypse fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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xthetenth posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouave#Zouaves_of_the_American_Civil_War Dammit, I wandered through that Wikipedia article and this caught my eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouaves_of_Death Now I can't help but imagine corpse-painted troops with enormous spiked bracers, screaming unintelligibly as they march to battle. 
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FAUXTON posted:I should dig up the old panoramic shot I took of the SAC museum's big hangar, they've got a B-36 in there, snugged in with a B-52, a B-25, and a B-17 plus some other late-WWII/cold war planes. Also Curtis LeMay's desk in case you forgot what those planes were supposed to be carrying. Wikipedia only have the one comparison picture, but I have another that's a B-17, B-47 and the Big Stick IIRC. (No access to imagehosts at work.  )There's also the aerial shot of a group of B-36s post-tornado.  edit: finally fixed my spelling of that one word Zamboni Apocalypse fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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Regarding long-rear end French bayonetsHogge Wild posted:I really want to see pics of these. Here y'go. Stumbled across this a few days ago while trawling tumblrs for interesting images.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Here's one I found for mah blog post: Yay, *that* one I don't have! Ah, there's the one - I was wrong: B-36, -52, -47.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Ramming tanks was intentional, but a lot rarer than people assume. I also read a Hero of the Soviet Union award order where a guy destroyed an enemy train by ramming it with his tank which was on fire. <insert "drive_me_closer_i_want_to_hit_them_with_my_sword_meme.jpg" here>`
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cheerfullydrab posted:I just thought of the best idea for a military science fiction book. In the aftermath of a space battle, a heavily-damaged gigantic space warship drifts slowly back to its homebase, everyone on board endlessly fills out paperwork related to the battle that just happened. Eric Frank Russell made a good start on that with "Alamagoosa". Eric Frank Russell posted:
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spectralent posted:And what's the correct term for "the group of tanks whose names all consist of T then a dash then a number", then? Landsknects
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FishFood posted:I want this to be a Masterpiece Mystery series and I want it yesterday. Wikipedia posted:The first five books were dramatised for radio by the BBC, one each year, between 2004 and 2009. Anton Lesser played Falco in all five, while Helena was played by Fritha Goodey in The Silver Pigs and, following Goodey's death, Anna Madeley from the second book adaptation onwards. The radio series is produced by Lindsey Davis' friend Mary Cutler. I kinda like the idea of Falco P.I., where he's living in a guest house at Decimus Camillus Verus's estate, driving a borrowed sporty red chariot, et cetera. Not sure how he'd really pull off the 'stache, however.
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Phanatic posted:The Guardians starts out great! Full scale exchange, a special ops unit has to get the President from the White House to the secret rebuild-the-nuked-US enclave in a small convoy of V-150 Super Commandoes, actually decent writing (by which I mean, a good command of the language, actually decent prose), it's Mad Max meets John Rambo. The series isn't *totally* ridiculous, at first. It does end up suffering from the bane of most serials, escalation - can't just be "whomping on random raiders/traitors/Euro invaders", it has to jack up to world-altering Heavy poo poo (or, alternately, The Guardians Are Traitors! and they've got to clear their names again). Where it comepletely shits the bed is #14, Death From Above (orbital And don't forget the Europe-based spinoff The Marauders, which started off absolutely unreadable and, uhm... I never tried to find anything after the first book, which I took back to the used book store as trade-fodder. (Useless trivia: "Richard Austin" was a pen-name for Victor Milan, writer of many schlocky skiffy/fantasy series. Thus, Albuquerque/southwest US fandom "starring" in #14.) (I very much suspect a real influence on The Guardians was The Morrow Project, a moderately-popular post-apocalyptic SF RPG with secret caches and Cadillac-Gage armored cars galore.) (For more fun trash/pulp "literature", you may wish to find Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction: An Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm which will provide you with a wide pool of shallow, violent reading material to embarrass yourself being seen with.) For unrelated-to-the-post-but-on-topic content: I've read (and re-read) Anthony Burgess' WWII Airborne nonfiction for years - starting with Curahee!/As Eagles Scremed. What's the general opinion of his work: not so much "bullshit or not" but "how embroidered are they"?
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pthighs posted:The always awkward Germany/Poland match has just started in Euro 2016. Is the Russian team going to join in halfway through?
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chitoryu12 posted:like the Kalashnikov basically being a left-handed gun Uhh, you sure about that? If I go lefty with it, it's
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HEY GAL posted:do you want my dudes to be airborne Fighting pike-men from the sky... (someone else take over from here, I don't know enough of this pre-Rifle Age stuff) (Well-dressed men, something ending with a rhyme for sky?) HEY GAL posted:you become useless and bullshit. an 18 foot long spear only works as a weapon when there's more than one dude with one and everyone knows what's going on so you can cover one another and the shot So, just a jump to the left...  I must be stopped!
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MrYenko posted:RORSAT: Doing it's part to warm up the Canadian frontier. RORSAT: Glow Canada
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Kemper Boyd posted:Kinda makes me wonder if the most modern ships that cut down on the crew by automating stuff are actually that much of a good idea. The way I've heard it was merchies could run around with minimum crew and not a ton of make-work, but fighting ships needed a good supply of expendable crew to make sure there were enough left over for damage control, et cetera. (Also to supply enough "rations" in event of disaster.  )
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drat, I knew Switzerland had a bunch of hidden/multipurpose bases and such from John McPhee, but this goes beyond a simple "cave full of airbase": http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/06/26/fake-chalets-unmasking-the-bunkers-disguised-as-quaint-swiss-villas/ The one just after the rock-wall doorway, I'm not so sure about. Looks awfully warhammy to me - is it supposed to be a (very large) shrub or something? (No image because they've blocked the free hosts at work again.)
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StashAugustine posted:Cyrano also your guy for His TFR posts have been Wordle'd before, and IIRC "gently caress" came out more than "the" (or "Nazi", for that matter). Ask him about the correlation between Mauser-brand office machinery and both pre- and post-war K-12 education in Germany...
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Cythereal posted:Another good Forgotten Front: the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians and the American counterattack. Short, but could make a good tutorial. The Forgotten Hope mod for Battlefield 1942 (FH2 for BF2) had an Aleutians map - can't recall if it was supposed to be Attu or Kiska, offhand. I do remember that you could get into P-38 vs. Zero duels and that there were no weather effects, just like vanilla Battlefield.  For the level of grog that [plays the SAM simulators: running the Japanese balloon-bombing campaign using historically-accurate weather data. Perhaps *you* can success in causing forest fires, mass casualties and the disruption of Yankee industry? (Optional: sub-based aircraft forest-arsonry minigame)
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