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Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
If you roll your shitbox out and circle it about while cheering at full power while being filmed and photographed around here it gets seized for 28 days under anti dickhead legislation. You need to pay about a grand to get it back.

Meanwhile in the US military:

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Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

TheMightyZang posted:

Got to wonder what was the next step in that experiment or were all goals achieved that day?

:ussr:

Worth noting the current, and past, reentry capsules have firearms on board in case they have to fight off bears or wolves or Americans or whatever.

I think the current weapon is a sawed off shotgun, I might be wrong.

Spacman fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Jan 8, 2015

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
Now he's outed himself they should send him a bill for the Hellfire

E: Loling at this bit "After talking with victims and family members in the area, it was clear a majority of civilians were among the carnage of the targeted wedding convoy."

Hahaha, these fuckers were by admission chilling with AQAP and are all butthurt because they got lit up.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Bernard McFacknutah posted:

"We received flour and sugar today from USAID with US flags stamped on it, but before we could even eat it they dropped their bombs on us,"

Whoever devised that tactic needs a medal.

That has to be something out of the bush wars, but refined for today. Stick a $25.00 phone in the aide package, whatever bullshit warlord grabs it you let the gps guided bombs do the rest. Most of that airdropped aide goes to the strong-arm fucks, let them take it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lxgplJVo8

Completely guilt free jdams.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
Just Military Things!

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
The only hell march worth watching starts with random soviet army dudes marching about red square and ends with tanks and TBMs ripping the pavement up while assorted walking corpses use lenins tomb as a viewing platform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omm3QPMqyjc

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
Israel needs to man the gently caress up and stop running to mum every time someone calls them on talking poo poo. They are the international equivalent of the short man bully. Talk big poo poo up, throw a punch or two, then when the big boys come to beat them they go and cry to mum and then hide behind dad.

On the nuclear power thing:



It used to be ok, what changed?

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Ayatollah Khomeini and a bunch of rear end in a top hat students who should be in black sites getting their balls tasered.


You are completely right with that whole thing. Not arguing that.

Why though, is there a problem with present day Iran using nuclear power to provide electricity in a non weaponisable format, when the US was providing Iran with tech that could be easily weaponised back in the day, What changed?

I'm not trolling, I really don't understand what the issue is.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

It's a gross oversimplification, but it's funny how the US keeps funding things that keep coming back to bite it in the rear end.

Yah, like Iraqi chemical weapons programs.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
It's just a loving shame that it is immediately connected with building the bomb.

I can't help but think that if the mud hut peoples could wean themselves off selling oil by using nuclear power it would undermine a huge rhetoric we use in the first world, and that is the real reason we crap on about them using it.

Not the whole beardie people with the bomb thing.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfjU3_XOaA

This is dumb and awesome on so many levels.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Stultus Maximus posted:

I assume some kind of role-playing exercise, like victim evacuation or civil disturbance control etc.

Yeah, she is practicing being zapped by 50000 volts in case she steps on a live wire during a protest. By being shot with a tazer.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
Old mate Vlad was in Egypt recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifStkAsemU

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Duke Chin posted:

This was posted a couple days ago but didn't realize he was in Egypt/they were playing for him. There's part of me that kinda hopes they butchered the gently caress out of their anthem on purpose

Would it kill them to get a steadicam?

Look at the smirk on that motherfucker standing next to him, then ask that question again.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
Saudi scientist cleric explaining how the earth is the center of the universe and everything rotates around it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPLKSI5grFY

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

not really surprising that a caveman with a dishrag wrapped around his head would believe something like that

I dunno, my mum was born caveman and wears a dishrag about her head but still has a pretty good idea about how planetary movement works.

I'm pretty sure that a good education plays a part, we all know the universe revolves around the sun.

Spacman fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Feb 19, 2015

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Feels good man...

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

NyxBiker posted:

If you look carefully you can see his face that became totally red, I think his stomach is a bit screwed, but I'd be curious too, still wonder why he did that since they should know what recoil an AT gun gets, I think he was just assuming a wrong firing position.

Picture the most retarded person you ever came across in service, put them in an important position. Now imagine an artillery piece smashing the gently caress out of them due to being retarded...


Fucker was promoted!

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

TheMightyZang posted:

"Ok teams you have 10 hours to build a VBIED using only what you can find on the junkyard"

Something regarding old school asbestos break pads and a dirty bomb.

40 years you be coughing and I be all Allahu Ahkbar! It's loving perfect because the fine fibers actually gently caress up your DNA and everything!

E: My old man died of this poo poo, its thoroughly horrible and puts a massive strain on society and the state medical system. Perfect junkyard terrorism rig! Then the lawsuits, bring you to your knees through lawyers fighting it out. First responders, clean up crews, citizens in general. Awsome on so many levels,

Actually, I think this was done before... 9/11 nevar forget!

Spacman fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Mar 12, 2015

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

It's a junkyard. If you find enough smoke detectors you can make a small radiological dirty bomb.

Yeah, but you have to gently caress about in your shed making a ghetto reactor. Asbestos is ready to rock and roll.

Ghetto reactor is pretty good too, as the radioactive boyscout proved.

E: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

There are a few good docos on this weirdo.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
Dopey ND:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYvAxLX6OzE

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
I may have found the most inappropriate visual to music thing ever...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Z4AqtCIoE

Bonus points for spotting the USS Arkansas standing on it's tail in the water column. 171 meter 27000 tonne battleship standing straight up.

Just hit trinity and beyond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uusEDvUhvY

Kapitan Kirk narrates it.

Spacman fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Mar 19, 2015

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
Watch this, great music and great visuals.

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/trinity_and_beyond

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

MrYenko posted:

Weirdest place for a Phalanx ever. Also, they should have manned the gently caress up and named her Yamato. Bonus points if the second ship was named Musashi.

Yeah, as a former rotary wing driver I'd say some poor gently caress is going to eat that one day. After the court martial/ accident investigation that puts the blame squarely on the pilot's shoulders they will wait a few months and remove it on the next major overhaul because it annoyed the radar or some other nebulous, but believable, poo poo.

Captain and whoever was running air ops will be relieved with big black marks due to their inattention to major flight line issues, nobody will bring up the cognitive dissonance required to come to this decision when it, despite being brought up repeatedly as a hazard from initial plans to final fit out, wasn't deemed unsafe in the first place.

Dude who designed that monstrosity will get some sort of medal for innovative thinking after all the written complaints about that poo poo for the last five years are mysteriously lost in a yard fire.

E: Good to see the Japaneses military finally getting with the times despite that whole post WWII thing!

Spacman fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Apr 24, 2015

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

We can try w history/mil tactics/whatever bullshitting thread again now that most the angry GIP trolls are gone

Sounds good

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

MassivelyBuckNegro posted:

We don't get a bugler for funerals. You get an electronic device that looks and sounds like a bugle.

That's hosed up. Every one I have ever been to, regardless of it being combat related or the old guy down the street who died in his sleep after serving a few months in Korea back in the day, rates a dude sent by defense to blow the horn.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Frosted Flake posted:

I didn't know that was a thing.

If you file the paperwork to get buried at the military cemetery in Ottawa you can tick a box for bugler, bagpiper or both.

I hope the bagpipes are real.

Yeah, here they send a guy to blow the last post and reveille unless you specifically request they don't attend. Also, your grave instantly becomes a Commonwealth War Grave and that is as creepy as hell because a dude rolls up as soon as the headstone goes up and nails a thing to it saying it is an offense to touch it in any way.

Yeah, they send a guy to hammer a thing into your headstone saying don't hammer poo poo into the headstone. It's like the army loving with you one last time...

Spacman fucked around with this message at 17:11 on May 7, 2015

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
I'm the KKK muslim

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Jaguars! posted:

On Anzac day last year they brought out an old bugle that had been used at Gallipoli and the dude did a practice with us before doing it for the news. I don't know if it's because it's beat up or if the guy didn't have enough breath for the old style instrument but it's a pretty funny sound. We'd had a few by that stage and we were trying not to laugh, it's just so flawed .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XJ2JHP-HE8
The original bugler engraved it with the places he went in the Gallipoli campaign, which is pretty cool.

In honour of this I bring to you Angry General. (I like to cal him Get Out General)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaqpoeVgr8U

I'm sure you have all seen Angry General. Angry General is still angry and still CoA in the ADF.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Saga posted:

Please tell me this has one big button with "PRESS F TO PAY RESPECTS" printed on it.

:vince:

Nowhere near enough love for this...

Spacman fucked around with this message at 16:40 on May 8, 2015

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyxuY6NYMvo

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
loving hell, I have top level 'private' healthcare paid for the government until I die, on top of the UHC we have anyway, because I was hit in the neck by chunks of glass, dislodged by a bullet, that had to be removed from my neck and scone surgically. This also covers my wife, who is foreign, and our two crying poo poo machines basically forever.

What the gently caress is wrong with your vet affairs?

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
https://youtu.be/NFkryh6hC-k?t=23

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Spicy Guacamole posted:

Love that song and that montage. Together, they're perfect.

Yeah

Watch Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

For William Shattner narrating nuclear explosions to an amazing classical soundtrack.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Chinatown posted:

Ok so I assume that step one on landing a chopper in hostile territory is to choose an area that is not a minefield.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x2SHEHCm0o

You are not supposed to put the loving thing on the ground at all unless you know it has been cleared. Generally, you go for a rocky patch and then let the idiots in the back walk down into the flat, grassy area as human mine clearance.

So dumb.

E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPGFaXqzitc

Unfuckingcanny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjFIB1L3BPU

Spacman fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Jul 18, 2015

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Mad Dragon posted:

Did John Cleese just run a marathon?


Focus on the important part: That it just cost some sperg like 40 grand just for the engines on that thing. Then it ate dirt and burned.

That fucker is military as without even knowing it.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
And the best bit is that it was right outside where they stored all the nukes too... That's what that poo poo behind it is.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
If memory serves the guy standing second from the left is an Admiral too....

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Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

chitoryu12 posted:

My friend is convinced the M27 program is just a sneaky way to get brand new ARs into service.

Isn't a sneaky way to reintroduce IARs to your military the literal reason they are doing this? Not joking, it is literally the reason they are doing this with mags, right?

E: just so you are prepared, have the collated nuke info stuff that was going to be be on all the channels in the UK in the lead up to the four minute warning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg

It is some really creepy poo poo, the further they go on the closer concentrated sunshine gets, and the stranger the infomercials are.


"Upon hearing this sound *sound plays* Stick your kids in that 'inner refuge' in the 'fallout shelter' we have been telling you to build for the last few weeks and turn off the power and gas... 'there's a good chap'"

Spacman fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Sep 8, 2015

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