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Monkey Fracas posted:would have to be a comically large bike You know, you might be able mount that onto a Hilux. Cousin Omar would be unstoppable.
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Arcsquad12 posted:So the new godzilla movie features F-35s falling out of the sky from an EMP blast. Also, the Marines refused to participate in the movie specifically because the Navy was being featured. however, the Marines did appear in the crappy 1998 Godzilla where they killed the kaiju with lovely sidewinders, while the new movie has Godzilla shrugging off everything from tank rounds to naval artillery while the Navy gets hosed. My rear end Rides In Navy Equipment Pretty rude of the Marines to be like that toward the Navy of all branches imo
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Arcsquad12 posted:So the new godzilla movie features F-35s falling out of the sky from an EMP blast. Also, the Marines refused to participate in the movie specifically because the Navy was being featured. however, the Marines did appear in the crappy 1998 Godzilla where they killed the kaiju with lovely sidewinders, while the new movie has Godzilla shrugging off everything from tank rounds to naval artillery while the Navy gets hosed. As long as no one is wearing the same clothes as they are, they're happy.
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BigBoss posted:As long as no one is wearing the same clothes as they are, they're happy. the marines are just the debutantes of the military arent they
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Arcsquad12 posted:Also, the Marines refused to participate in the movie specifically because the Navy was being featured.
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Trochanter posted:You know, you might be able mount that onto a Hilux. Cousin Omar would be unstoppable. You could probably propel the Hilux entirely on GAU-8 recoil. 
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Sombrerotron posted:Is this accurate because if it is good loving grief is the USMC populated by attention-starved kindergarteners or what?
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Sombrerotron posted:Is this accurate because if it is good loving grief is the USMC populated by attention-starved kindergarteners or what? http://archive.armytimes.com/article/20140510/NEWS/305190021/Marines-unceremoniously-ousted-from-newest-version-Godzilla quote:“The Navy was the DoD lead project service for the Godzilla; however, that had no bearing on the decision regarding participation. The bottom line is the script did not get to a point where there was a benefit to the Marine Corps to participate in the production,” Hill said without elaborating.
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I just remembered that I used to know someone who adamantly refused to budge from his belief that the reason the F-35 program is more expensive than the entire Apollo program is because designing one (1) capable multirole combat aircraft with the aid of modern computers is legitimately a greater technological and engineering challenge than sending a dozen men to the moon and back with slide rules. STEM majors. 
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Technically speaking designing a Good, Multirole, Stealth, VTOL, Combat Aircraft is more challenging than the Apollo program because the latter is actually physically possible.
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Das Butterbrot posted:theyre also exponentially cheaper, both the drone and the training for the operator. im pretty sure that with the amount of money a modern CAS plane costs you could easily build a drone w/ 360° FOV and have the same, or better situational awareness than in a conventional plane. the big problem is the latency from brown people country to comfy US airbase though, not sure how to fix that. You could probably build more than one of said drones. An A-10 Warthog costs 11 million per unit, if we were even making them any more. A next-gen CAS support would probably cost at least double that because that's just how things go in the military procurement world. Meanwhile, a Predator costs 4 million per unit. Take a drone, slap armor on it (which you can distribute all over the airframe since you don't have to budget lots of it for the cockpit), give it a bunch of machine guns and missiles, and voila. Better loiter time, no need to worry about some lucky rear end in a top hat with a Stinger getting himself a set of hostages to burn alive, more airframes means more CAS missions run at more locations, and all kinds of other bonuses. We could even rig up some kind of horrible Stuka screeching noise whenever the thing dives to attack, for psychological warfare purposes/to replace the comforting BRIIIP of the Gau-8.
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BBJoey posted:Technically speaking designing a Good, Multirole, Stealth, VTOL, Combat Aircraft is more challenging than the Apollo program because the latter is actually physically possible. WTF you're so wrong b/c there were like a bunch of those mobile drone heli-carriers in Captain America 2. you know, the ones that could shoot anyone anywhere if their DNA was bad guy DNA.
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Hogge Wild posted:hmm, how about this instead: 
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unlimited shrimp posted:the marines are just the debutantes of the military arent they Debutantes? Sir, I believe the word you were looking for was "assholes".
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Pornographic Memory posted:My rear end Rides In Navy Equipment Can the marines be mean to the navy? Last I checked they were a sub-branch of the navy, which has to be like having a violent retard brother people talk about way more.
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Elukka posted:I'm reminded of this French thing. I assume you can't fire that thing without stopping first, and probably deploying some stabilisers?
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Splode posted:I assume you can't fire that thing without stopping first, and probably deploying some stabilisers? it's French, the recoil propelling it rearwards is intentional
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Isn't it just rockets? then the biggest problem is aiming it at the correct thing like a video of a new driver parallel parking except he's trying to put a big hole in a tank
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SaltyJesus posted:You could probably propel the Hilux entirely on GAU-8 recoil. It cost four hundred thousand dollars to back my pickup out of the driveway. Also half the block is gone.
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Splode posted:I assume you can't fire that thing without stopping first, and probably deploying some stabilisers? It's a recoilless rifle so it's just a hollow tube for launching rockets
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Recoil would not be a problem, like already mentioned it is a recoiless rifle, but even if the weapon had tremdendous recoil it wouldn't be a problem as it can't be fired from the scooter anyway. The scooter is only for transporting it on the ground and giving air-mobile troops an added boost in mobility post drop.
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loving Heretic! That's not a Hilux, it's a Land Cruiser. I have a hardon for the Hilux Marty Mcfly had a hardon for.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Debutantes? Sir, I believe the word you were looking for was "assholes". nah, rear end in a top hat is too much of a tough term debutante fits because they're a bunch of little bitches
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You should snail mail a poster size version of the pic to Lockmart headquarters.
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Sombrerotron posted:good loving grief is the USMC populated by attention-starved kindergarteners or what? yes fold them into the
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Vengarr posted:Meanwhile, a Predator costs 4 million per unit. Take a drone, slap armor on it (which you can distribute all over the airframe since you don't have to budget lots of it for the cockpit), give it a bunch of machine guns and missiles, and voila. Better loiter time, no need to worry about some lucky rear end in a top hat with a Stinger getting himself a set of hostages to burn alive, more airframes means more CAS missions run at more locations, and all kinds of other bonuses. We could even rig up some kind of horrible Stuka screeching noise whenever the thing dives to attack, for psychological warfare purposes/to replace the comforting BRIIIP of the Gau-8. Forget the armour. Just fill up every square inch of excess payload space with explosives. Once the drone has shot its guns dry/launched the last missile, kamikaze it into a juicy target. Then the operator takes control of the next drone loitering overhead. You could probably shave a fair amount off the cost by building it as a single use vehicle, too.
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a missile that also has bombs inside
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that explode into tiny drones with poison darts
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midnightclimax posted:that explode into tiny drones with poison darts darts that inject nano-drones
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bitcoin bastard posted:darts that inject nano-drones ...that rewire congressmen's brains so they'll vote to appropriate more money for the F35???
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Libelous Slander posted:...that rewire congressmen's brains so they'll vote to appropriate more money for the F35??? give this man a consultant gig
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tell me again why high altitude airships aren't the future of atmospheric warfare
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i think this person is onto something
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Durgat posted:tell me again why high altitude airships aren't the future of atmospheric warfare lasers plus hindenburg
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:i think this person is onto something looks like this thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
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At least that version can actually aim the gun.
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Add a gyroscopically stabilized mount for the rifle and suddenly you've got a nearly invisible sniping platform. But I think rockets are still preferred, since a near hit is close enough and we've never been overly concerned about friendly fire.
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They actually tried something like this back in 1948. It proved technically feasible and lacking any sort of hilarity, so they didn't go with it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_deck#Flexible_decks
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