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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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hostile apostle posted:

[NSFL] CAS in Afghanistan, Korengal Valley, 2011-2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bavyy5APflg

They were probably dead before they even realized what happened. drat that was a hell of a strike.

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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Its a tie between the NATO AWACS nearly striking the boom then diving to avoid a collision, and the Super Stallion chopping his own refueling probe off.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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I love B-24s, but so many bad photos of them going down makes me :smith:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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mlmp08 posted:

At least he got his bombs off.

Statistically, though, probably missed.

I was trying to figure out if he was hit by one of the bombs falling, the way the wing spar cracked like that, It was very :stare:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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my kinda ape posted:

Think they survived?

Willing to bet they did, with injuries, sure, but I have my doubts that would kill the crew.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
I stand corrected :smith:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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Saddly, ESA announced that Schiapparelli likely failed post chute cut :(

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
How did water trap that much gas buildup?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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Duke Chin posted:

is this what it looks like before the end?

http://i.imgur.com/9zUk0Pb.mp4

Get me DARPA, I've got an awesome idea for a new Anti-Aircraft concept.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

I was thinking more like an inverse cluster bomb. Guided missile with tons of guided missile-ets

And nothing is cooler than Nike Sprint.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Mr. Showtime posted:

The Multi-Object Kill Vehicle is this for ballistic missile defense, sorta. Kinda. A little bit, at least.

True. And the test video is bad rear end.

https://youtu.be/KBMU6l6GsdM

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Nov 8, 2016

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Mr. Showtime posted:

Why stop at WWI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzotRe0VjRU

It's actually made by the locals, but still

Ahahaha, there needs to be an Antiques Roadshow: Middle East Edition.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Pillbug

He forgot to put down his landing gear and nearly belly landed.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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Frosted Flake posted:

I wish I had a pic, but Cubans put T-55 turrets on BTRs.



Here's a Turkish version:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Generation Internet posted:

Is that a BMP turret on some M113 variant chassis?

T-55 turret on a M113 I think.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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glynnenstein posted:

That is most definitely a BMP-3 turret.

LOL Turkey!

I stand corrected.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

What the gently caress is going on.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Wikkheiser posted:

Does beanie dude have a second rifle slung behind his back?

*click*

"poo poo! Mag's empty!"

*loving THROWS rifle away, reaches for second rifle*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0PuJ-Vx_jY

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Maimgara posted:

Test of Russian-made S-300 SAM system goes bad.

https://youtu.be/NwERTChBCAE

I always hate when I light the fuse and the firework doesn't go off.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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TCD posted:

Look at the video clips from Vietnam. I'd wager you'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 of those on target and you'd have a decent swath of destruction following the path of the plane.

Or you can drop a handful of bombs exactly where you want them.

We don't carpet bomb with the B-52 anyways anymore. They drop one or two guided bombs and then hold the rest of the payload for later.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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And besides, if we were going to carpet bomb, we have a much better way of doing that: Cluster Bombs. You can even have multiple smart bomblets like the ones the Russians are using in Aleppo.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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The Circus is going all out this year. Even the clowns ditched their facepaint.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Duke Chin posted:

Yeah just wait until they start manufacturing Garden Gnome IEDs.

Even better if they work like German S-Mines, where the gnome jumps to eye level and then blows up.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

....did they just blow a guys head off with an ATGM?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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Apparently its B-307 at Togilatti, a Tango class Attack Submarine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango-class_submarine

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

The noise those things make is disconcerting

Its like a horror movie.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Phanatic posted:

Bonus fun: the Navy at one point wanted to experiment with DMM as a rocket propellant.


So that's what they did.

:catstare: Oh hell no.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Things I didn't need to see: This

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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Man, its going to be rather sad to watch all this dedication go to naught when they get slaughtered trying the real thing.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
It can also fly backwards in a headwind.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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Deathy McDeath posted:

I've never seen this before. Are these shots from the Soviet tests? The way the ground just kind of lifts up is some weird anime poo poo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannikin

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Dead Reckoning posted:

Flying as pilot or observer in one of the CalFire OV-10 pathfinder planes is seriously one of my top 3 dream jobs.



I'd love to fly in an OV-10

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Pillbug

Because nothing stands out like a Semi.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
There's a round for the Abrams that is made for shooting overhead armor vehicles and then blast straight down through the turret/hull roof.

I don't know if it was ever produced or if I'm just mis-remembering a video game gimmick.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jul 31, 2017

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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CarForumPoster posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEXMHf2Usso


Funnier that we still haven't won the war.

Bombception!


https://youtu.be/1y1Yd8bI8Hw
Its like an immobile version of the Starcraft Vulture mines.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Aug 5, 2017

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Blind Rasputin posted:

Uhm are those guns from WW1?

The military looks like it belongs in World War 2.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Zeris posted:

War is stupid

Think of all the cool vets from other countries we can't drink with because we had to kill each other

gently caress

Kind of like how the British and Germans post World War 2 got their vet groups together a lot?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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I really want the International Tank Games to come to the US.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Shoulda been "3rd Plt Snake Eaters - HMMM PRETTY TASTY"

"They Tread on Me"

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Duke Chin posted:

This thread has been too quiet lately :(

https://i.imgur.com/7EOHERy.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1JIwm3nhsY

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