Combat Camera/MilPics: The missile knows where it is.

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Baconroll: Feb 6, 2009

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Yep never seen anything like that before. Clearly not abandoned vehicles as well.

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Baconroll: Feb 6, 2009

Looked like he also shot underneath so the infantry could have taken damage too. No idea if it was intentional but the effect could have been there.

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Baconroll: Feb 6, 2009

Godholio posted:

It's a solid example, visually and from an importance standpoint. One glance at that poster gets the point across, even if you don't know anything about Pearl Harbor.

Schweinfurt doesn't make a good poster because it's an abstract concept, not an easy visual. "X bombers left, a lot fewer returned" doesn't land like ship exploding. This is going to be the same problem for basically any offensive operation.

With defense air operations, we run into a funny problem: the USAF has historically been very good at this, so there straight up AREN'T any good examples from recent history. The last American troops killed by a foreign air strike were on April 15, 1953 replacing Pearl Harbor with the WTC would be amazing. But everyone's heard of Pearl Harbor. Even most high school kids can probably tie it to the US joining WWII. So it's recognizable, visually impressive, and a simple message. That's tough to beat.

Would it sound less tacky if they stuck with "air superiority" for the slogan?

Last British troops killed by a foreign air strike,

Afghanistan - USAF F18
Iraq - USAF A10
Gulf War - USAF A10
Falklands - South Americans rather than North Americans his time !

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Baconroll: Feb 6, 2009

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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