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Beats that one time the British government proposed deploying chicken-powered nuclear landmines in Germany.
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Cythereal posted:Beats that one time the British government proposed deploying chicken-powered nuclear landmines in Germany. Great post av combo there. Mostly because potoos always have a wtf expression.
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Nov 9, 2023 00:47
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Cythereal posted:Beats that one time the British government proposed deploying chicken-powered nuclear landmines in Germany. drat cold war weapon guys smoked some wild poo poo
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Nov 9, 2023 13:10
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ChubbyChecker posted:drat B.F. Skinner's pigeon guidance computer was triple-redundant and self correcting in a 2 v 1 control input conflict https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon https://www.si.edu/object/bf-skinners-nose-cone-pigeon-guided-missile%3Anmah_690069
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Nov 9, 2023 13:24
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Obligatory Fat Electrician video about the Kamikaze Pigeons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfkymhJyxBM
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Nov 9, 2023 14:24
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RIP P8 https://x.com/TheDreadShips/status/1726930897650504060?s=20
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It’s Poseidon’s plane. It’s supposed to be there.
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Nov 23, 2023 05:20
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How else are you supposed to simulate water landing evacs
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Nov 23, 2023 05:54
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I can't make out what kind of weapon these interceptor drones are using. A net? Some kind of plastic buckshot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwHunj46Ko0
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Nov 28, 2023 18:36
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It looks like a fluid so maybe something that gums up the rotors?
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Nov 28, 2023 20:05
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Madurai posted:I can't make out what kind of weapon these interceptor drones are using. A net? Some kind of plastic buckshot? Metal or polymer streamers to foul the propellers of the target uav. it's light weight but high tensile strength so it won't immediately harm anything it falls on.
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Nov 28, 2023 20:14
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anti drone cum blast
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Nov 29, 2023 14:19
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Sorry the more important question is: can we talk about this patch?
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Nov 29, 2023 14:39
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Chammies cummies.
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Nov 29, 2023 14:43
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Oysters Autobio posted:Sorry the more important question is: can we talk about this patch? Turn it into solid color line art and Id unironically love it Edit: give the chameleon cartoon angry eyebrows and it's perfect
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Nov 30, 2023 00:13
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Give it googly eyes on the real patch, represented on the computer via animation.
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Nov 30, 2023 02:50
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A.o.D. posted:Turn it into solid color line art and Id unironically love it yeah that patch is *so* close to greatness
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evil_bunnY posted:yeah that patch is *so* close to greatness I prototyped the basic idea using AI (AI is not a replacement for creative effort) and the results are nearly everything I hoped they could be.  Basic idea but boring.  He homgry! I love the little fork.  There's a good bit of AI abominationing going on here, but the basic idea, I love it so much. Look at how angry at that drone he is! There should be more ratfink inspired unit patches.
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What app did you use for that? I tried making some patch drafts recently with an AI tool and they didn't look nearly that good.
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Tyro posted:What app did you use for that? I tried making some patch drafts recently with an AI tool and they didn't look nearly that good. I used bing image creator. It's got a lot of restrictions but the training data is positively enormous. And probably illegal.
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A.o.D. posted:I used bing image creator. It's got a lot of restrictions but the training data is positively enormous. And probably illegal. Sweet thanks. Playing around with this, it's far better than the one I tried using last week
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Madurai posted:I can't make out what kind of weapon these interceptor drones are using. A net? Some kind of plastic buckshot? I think I talked to these guys at an industry day not too long ago. If it's the same thing, yeah it's a net.
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Couple gun YouTubers that do high-speed camera shots shot a bunch of RPGs/recoilless rifles to a) demonstrate the effects of backblasts and b) get some sweet high-speed footage of controlled explosions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZaNtK1l8cI Except one of the explosions wasn't as controlled as intended, and the RPG-7 failed catastrophically. They did a follow-up video with details on the injury/recovery of the guy and as much of the footage they could include as per YouTube's TOS/monetization guidelines. To put it very mildly, I'm beyond amazed the guy survived "relatively" unscathed and didn't suffer amputation or anything that would have resulted in rapid and non-recoverable blood loss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASE0e5DkFkE If I understand their interpretation correctly, it turns out you should be very careful with refurbished/resleeved launchers and choose your boosters equally carefully.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:If I understand their interpretation correctly, it turns out you should be very careful with refurbished/resleeved launchers and choose your boosters equally carefully. I might be completely mistaken, but didn't the launcher being a refurbished one basically save the guy's life? If their assumption about the booster failing and a part of it blocking the exhaust is correct, if the launcher hadn't been a refurbished one it would've basically turned into a huge grenade, since the pressure wouldn't have gotten out through the failing weld area but instead built up until the whole tube would've failed. Now a part of the building up pressure was released in a bit less violent way (and I think a bit towards the side that's away from him). I'm not about to go looking, but I'd assume that a "grenade" failure would be more likely to be lethal.
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Yeah if the weld hadn't hosed with the original tube's hardening/temper there would have been no pressure-relief safety device.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:To put it very mildly, I'm beyond amazed the guy survived "relatively" unscathed and didn't suffer amputation or anything that would have resulted in rapid and non-recoverable blood loss. I think the thing I'm most curious about is what happens if that helmet is actually strapped on. Does he get more or less injured.
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kill me now posted:I think the thing I'm most curious about is what happens if that helmet is actually strapped on. Does he get more or less injured. Maybe that’s what you’re alluding to but US soldiers in WW2 apparently believed that the helmet strap would break your neck if you got hit by a blast and consequently often did not strap on their helmets. Whether or not the belief had merit I don’t know.
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my kinda ape posted:Maybe that’s what you’re alluding to but US soldiers in WW2 apparently believed that the helmet strap would break your neck if you got hit by a blast and consequently often did not strap on their helmets. Whether or not the belief had merit I don’t know. Its a bit of that, a bit of the cartoonish timing of it flying off and the fact that he had a brain bleed and skull fracture.
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A.o.D. posted:I used bing image creator. It's got a lot of restrictions but the training data is positively enormous. And probably illegal. Those are great! What are your prompts for the art style?
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Oysters Autobio posted:Those are great! What are your prompts for the art style? The art style was "military unit patch" and "cartoon chameleon"
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Couple gun YouTubers that do high-speed camera shots shot a bunch of RPGs/recoilless rifles to a) demonstrate the effects of backblasts and b) get some sweet high-speed footage of controlled explosions I've loaded and shot hundreds of 84 mil rounds up through the years and watching him grasp the bell end when closing the breech is puckering. Wish they'd gotten genuine loads, especially the illumination rounds - even while the other rounds are earth-shattering, the illumination rounds bring it up another notch  Fortunately they're usually shot standing as a peloton ("Team One - fire! *counts down 25 seconds* "Team Two fire!" etc.) so you get more venting of gas and you don't get the percussive effect on your body. Hell of a bang though. Would've loved to see that poo poo in 3000fps, especially with the quiver test (put an empty 84mm quiver about five metres behind the gun when firing - it's fiber-reinforced polymer and strong as anything, and gets blown into smithereens, thereby inspiring recruits to Respect The Backblast and inciting the very good safety record in service, with no major injuries or deaths that come to mind. Unlike a certain unfortunate ANA runner during a hectic situation a few years back.)Duzzy Funlop posted:If I understand their interpretation correctly, it turns out you should be very careful with refurbished/resleeved launchers and choose your boosters equally carefully. I wouldn't fire any kind of refurbished launcher if you gave me a two-story house with a heated workshop.
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 I dunno. That heated shop sounds nice
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It's not like I was planning on living forever, anyhow.
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Gonna need the free home after I cant work thabks to the injuries incurred by the launcher failing
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My retirement plan is dying on the job, anyhow. this is a step up.
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Force de Fappe posted:I've loaded and shot hundreds of 84 mil rounds up through the years and watching him grasp the bell end when closing the breech is puckering. Wish they'd gotten genuine loads, especially the illumination rounds - even while the other rounds are earth-shattering, the illumination rounds bring it up another notch I was a designated gunner for the Gustav, and I can attest to all of the above. That loading procedure made me very nervous.
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I mentioned this to my Dad and he had a Carl Gustav story. In the 1970s his unit in the Britsh Army was doing practise drills with it and the NCO leading the training had accidentally ordered practise ammunition instead of totally intert drill ammuntion. They found out on the 1st shot when the person doing the drill fired the round at a passing civilan lorry on road along-side the range. Thankfully he was a bad shot and missed ! The lorry continued utterly oblivious and it was all quietly hushed up.
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Do not point the Carl Gustav at anything you are not willing to destroy.
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Force de Fappe posted:I've loaded and shot hundreds of 84 mil rounds up through the years and watching him grasp the bell end when closing the breech is puckering. Wish they'd gotten genuine loads, especially the illumination rounds - even while the other rounds are earth-shattering, the illumination rounds bring it up another notch Grasp the WHAT? 
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Arcella posted:Do not point the Carl Gustav at anything you are not willing to destroy. Apparently you shouldn't point it away from anything you're not willing to destroy either.
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