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Bolow posted:Hardly anyone uses oil for power generation anyway. What nuclear power does let you get rid of is lovely goddamn coal and natural gas plants. If you sit on an abundant source of oil, you use oil for power generation. About 20% of Iran's electricity comes from burning oil, but it's that low only because Iran also has a shitload of natural gas. Saudi Arabia gets about 65% of its electricity from burning oil. If you're sitting on this large, but finite, supply material which you can sell to foreigners for some ridiculous amount of money, it's dumb to burn it for electricity instead of selling it, it's eating your seed corn. Nuclear power makes insane economic sense for Iran because every drop of oil they don't burn in generators is another drop they can export for cash. Best thing that we could have done was say "Look, yeah, a nuclear power plant makes sense for you. So here, we'll help you build an integral fast reactor, or an energy amplifier, or an LFTR, something that'll be really useful to generate power with but which isn't that useful for, say, blowing up Israel. You'll be world pioneers, driving the advance of nuclear technology." If they're serious about power generation, that's a good deal, if they just want to blow up Israel then it's a bad one.
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iyaayas01 posted:I'm assuming that's a stock photo of Abdullah in some military gear that NewsMax and co. drug up They should have used this one: 
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:
And once scared the poo poo out of the king of Saudi Arabia: https://twitter.com/shashj/status/558564766021869569/photo/1
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Nixon was almost shot down by Saburo Sakai. What? Nixon never saw any combat.
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Richard Bong posted:So was the jamming just kind of ignored because most people are using bolt action so "It fires faster than that rifle even if you count the jamming The cutaways in the magazines were so you could see at a glance how many rounds were left. It was a dumb idea, given the realities of trench combat, what with the mud and the muck and bits of decaying person thereby finding their way into the operating mechanism of the gun, but the *French* version of the gun wasn't *that* bad. The ones made by Gladiator for the A.E.F. were loving useless because they'd been rechambered for .30-06 and Gladiator screwed up the chamber dimensions. They literally would not load and fire more than a couple of rounds before the thermal expansion caused stoppages. The misaligned sights were entirely secondary for that; you can adjust sights and correct your aim but you can't correct a gun that can't actually load and fire the next round.
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" or what? I dont get how they kept those guns in service.
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A really weird one, though. You need to follow the link. http://guardianofvalor.com/michael-cipriani-busted-at-baltimore-washington-airport-for-stolen-valor/ That's not Michael Cipriaini, it's his *sister* who's using his credentials without his permission, supposedly for a film. It's bizarre.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:No, Guac said in the sun. Escaping Earth's gravity into some crummy Solar orbit is trivial. Shooting something into the sun is more difficult. It's actually easier to send a payload out of the solar system entirely than it is to send it into the sun.
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Wonder what happened to the guy who thought "better to be out than in" and bailed.
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Mad Dragon posted:Hathcock is still in the top five with a loving scoped Ma Deuce. Hathcock sniped a guy via proxy with an M40 recoilless rifle.
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Craptacular posted:IIRC even if you have the FFL/SOT and LE demo letter, FN will only sell direct to LE/government agencies, so you'd be limited buying used on the secondary market. And beyond that, you can't own a post-1986 full-auto.
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Wasabi the J posted:NOT A DUFFELBLOG ARTICLE: During my brief time at Fort Hood, every time I went on base the guy checking my badge greeted me with "Welcome to a great place!" $287 million doesn't buy as much optimism as it used to, I guess.
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Booblord Zagats posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Musketeer_%281956%29 Nah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Subversion "Let's give control of our covert anticommunist efforts in Albania to Kim Philby."
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ISIS has apparently released a list of the US cities it's intending to destroy. http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.1304/isis-releases-kill-list-of-us-cities.html Killeen is on there. So's Fayetteville.
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Bolow posted:They really loving hate car thieves in south america http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=442_1422932450 Jesus. That guy sprints 50 yards, and then gets a headshot on a guy driving away from him at a pretty decent range? I wish all cops could shoot that well. I wish I could shoot that well
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Zeris posted:without a mobile version The Awful app is pretty good, at least on iOS. No experience with the Android version, or even if there is one.
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Bonus: The description of that video is uniformly wrong. It wasn't a ground-resonance test. That helicopter was tied down for weapons-effects testing (They were gonna shoot it a bunch) because it was no longer flyable, but because they'd removed the gear and chained it directly to the ground, the oleos weren't there to damp out the resonance and it shook itself to pieces before they could shoot it to pieces. Why wasn't it flyable? There was a controls system malfuction while transiting between one Army facility and another, and the aircraft actually did a complete roll before the pilot managed to get things mostly back under control at 1500AGL (I think, fairly low in any event). This was a definite over-stress of the airframe and they decided to offer it up to the 23mm gods at Aberdeen. Then that happened, instead. Booblord Zagats posted:When a routine fire test goes horribly wrong This happened at a hangar we test of just a month or so ago, foam up to the engines on the -47s. No idea if the contractor ever figured out what set the system off, it wasn't a test, it just discharged without warning. Edit: Found the details https://books.google.com/books?id=i...4-24156&f=false quote:At about 16:58, it was flying near Tulia at 4,450ft AMSL (1,100ft AGL) at 140kt, when the nose pitched down and yawed left. The pilot applied aft right cyclic and right pedal but the nose-low attitude increased and left yaw continued even with a full right pedal application. The aircraft then entered a left roll, smoothly for 90 degrees but 'snap roll' to the remaining 270 degrees. It lost about 850ft altitude in the full left roll, after which is returned to upright in a right yaw of about 90 degrees. The crew initiated and completed a precautionary landing to an open field, touching down with out 32ft ground roll, and shut down the engines. The aft main rotor blades then struck the fuselage as they coasted down. The cost of repairing the damage, including replacing the entire power train, was put at $11.6 million. A shitload of water in the hydraulic fluid in the upper boost actuators, metal in the hydraulic fluid, and corrosion in the pitch and roll actuators were all implicated. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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Booblord Zagats posted:Nah, I was in a 53 squadron and I can tell you, there were plenty of lovely 53 pilots. And a few of my buddies who ended up in Cobra/Venom units claim those two airframes have terrible pilots At the time I think it was a 160th airplane, and those guys are ridiculously good/insane pilots. We were testing one of the G-models, flying out of Fort Indiantown Gap, 160th pilot in the right seat, company pilot in the left. They fly the test, next week I'm puttering around in the ground data station room while our little old lady of a data engineer is playing the tape back, so the ICS audio is playing on the speakers. Pilot's telling everyone "Hey, look at that little pond down there. That's really pretty, that looks like a perfect spot to dump a dead hooker."
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Yeah, that's about right for the people you meet at Indiantown Gap. Nah, that was the SOAR pilot, we were just operating out of the Gap. I grew up around there, place is a nightmare. And now it has a casino.
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bitcoin bastard posted:Are hangars filled with multiple multi-million dollar planes ever abandoned to the point where a sentry couldn't pull a fire handle? Yes. We routinely operate Army aircraft (Well, they're DD1149'd to us) out of small private (and uncontrolled) airfields. There aren't "sentries" in the first place, there's probably a security guard at night once the offices shut down, but unless there's night-shift maintenance going on those hangars are locked and dark. The deluge system was required to be installed because otherwise the Army won't let us keep their aircraft in the hangar if it has fuel in it.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:wouldn't the missile travelling at a lot m/s have a big effect on the damage delivered vs propped up by 2x4's? If the missile did the damage by smacking into you. The speed of the shockwave and associated fragments dwarf the velocity of the missile or the plane.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:When I worked briefly with Canada's department of national defence, my boss was telling me about this Canadian guy who figured out how to do indirect fire with a small "battery" of browning .50s That's one of the points for the elevation and traverse knobs on heavy MG mount. Heavy MGs have been used for indirect fire since they've been around, it used to be a standard use although it appears it's no longer taught. Even smaller guns like the Vickers were frequently used in that role. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gun#Use http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007smallarms/5_9_07/Brus_400pm.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_HYmcm9A2o
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Syncopated posted:How does counter-battery fire work when you don't have radar to home in on? Historically, sound. You set up an array of microphones, simple triangulation can get you the bearing and the difference in time of the sound's arrival at different microphones plus the law of cosines gets you distance. To get a precise solution requires math that's difficult to do rapidly pre-computers, but you can draw up physical templates (cut-out conic sections) which can get you fairly close. By WWII everyone had this pretty much down, and it didn't go away until higher-frequency radars could let you trace artillery paths.
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Booblord Zagats posted:I know convoy duty sucks when you're on the "big" side, because hadji can place IEDs and poo poo on the route or even try to ambush you with mortars and RPGs, but it has to be an absolute death sentence when you're fighting against the side with FLIR, AC-130s, A-10s and JDAMS We're nice enough now to risk our aircrews dropping leaflets telling you to run away from your truck because we're about to blow it up. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/middleeast/us-strikes-syria-oil.html quote:To reduce the risk of harming civilians, two F-15 warplanes dropped leaflets about an hour before the attack warning drivers to abandon their vehicles, and strafing runs were conducted to reinforce the message.
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Indentured Goon posted:Goddamn, why didn't we do this a loving year ago? "Until Monday, the United States refrained from striking the fleet used to transport oil, believed to include more than 1,000 tanker trucks, because of concerns about causing civilian casualties." It's an interesting definition of "civilian" that includes the bad guys' convoy drivers.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Never knew that trainer flipped you upside down in addition to the dunking. Fuuuuuuuuuck that. I never knew you had a bottle of air to breathe during the training.
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Frosted Flake posted:Slat armour as used in Afghanistan was more designed to break up RPG warheads than to defeat the HEAT effects. And that only works with older models of warhead, where if you dent the side of the projectile you short out the conductive path between the fuse in the nose and the detonator in the base.
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Some pretty hardcore horses in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mULZzwtPM2U
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Godholio posted:Probe & Drogue refueling is stupid, but it's the only way the Navy can have their own tankers (literally other fighters carrying extra gas in external tanks). Also helicopters. Boom refueling ain't gonna work well with those.
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Zeris posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APX_uXXQvCc Back then they probably dealt with that by having the marine guards shoot them and then deliver them to the cook.
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The Slithery D posted:Shaped charge, power of an explosion drops as a square ratio of distance. The cube. The explosion is filling a volume in space, not the surface of a sphere.
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The Slithery D posted:Square. The blast is a two dimensional blast front, it is exactly the surface of a sphere. If you've every seen a good video of a 2000 lb bomb you see the ring of the blast expand outward through the terrain along the ground. Blast effects are proportional to energy per unit *volume*. Want to kill people twice as far away from your bomb, you need need a bomb 8 times the size, not four times. Consider: you set off your bomb, and you turn your explosive material into an equal volume of superheated gas. That gas is going to rapidly expand to fill a volume. Yes, the surface of that volume is a two-dimensional sphere, but the energy of the explosion is not all that interface, it's occupying the entire volume. And as it's expanding, it's cooling. Anytime you're dealing with blast effects, cube root scaling shows up all over the place. http://www.prr.hec.gov.pk/chapters/769s-3.pdf It's how you predict (or begin to, there are obviously other factors) minimum safe distances: https://www.vcalc.com/wiki/cataustria/Hopkinson-Cranz+Scaling+Law+%28Cube-Root+Scaling+Law%29 http://www.un.org/disarmament/un-saferguard/hopkinson-cranz/
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Luzon: #pleasesendsnacks
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