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Gnoman posted:Are there any carrier capable aircraft in that picture? My head hurts. There is a carrier variant of the Mig-29, but I can't tell if those are it. I also thought the delta winged ones were Rafaels but I guess they are atually Eurofighters.
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The EF wasn't designed with ground attack in mind so it probably makes sense to expand one's options, but why isn't the Rafael under consideration?
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Oct 1, 2017 19:09
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Can you mount an active array on a missile, maybe not AA missile but one of the big SAMs?
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Oct 10, 2017 15:56
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Newest Al Qaeda video shows them using drones to spot for mortas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5InjhbSDWE&t=851s
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pthighs posted:One of the interesting criticisms of Tesla I've read is that they are too much like this, with no path forward to the type of mass produced quality non-rich people need. It's basically the nature of hand building anything. People aren't standardized and robots don't make mistakes. Stuff like the civillian versions of he HMMVW and Gelandewagen which are hand built on the same lines as the military versions generally have awful build quality, parts that don't fit on another car, etc. Because for vehicles like that the sales volume is too low to justify a big investment in an automated production line, which is kind of amusing when the people who buy these six figure poseur mobiles expect quality better than your average Honda Civic (an extremely high quality, well built and well designed vehicle that has had billions poured into both the design and the assembly facilities).
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Nov 2, 2017 04:05
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feedmegin posted:I'm not sure i've ever heard anyone touting it as a walkover, and I'm British. If the Argentinian Excocets had warheads that were just a little more reliable or at least as reliable as they were advertised it would have been Tsushima part deux.
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Nov 19, 2017 17:42
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shame on an IGA posted:lol Tsushima Straits. I think the Tsar actually went and retired the Imperial Russian naval ensign after Tsushima, becuase they just wanted to forget about the whole thing. How would a civilian B1 or Tu - 22 even work? Like I don't think you can convert the bomb bay into a hottub or something, is it just so you can fly as a civilian for long distances at supersonic speeds while making GBS threads your pants?
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Nov 20, 2017 17:14
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I imagine there aren't really any health benefits? If something was harmful like PM2.5 particulate matter it's not really a thing that's going to be cleaned out by this process. Sort of like why you don't need an enema every day - the organ cleans itself naturally and there are more risks than rewards.
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Nov 22, 2017 19:11
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I dunno guys this really isn't making America look great again.
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Nov 24, 2017 16:27
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I wonder why no one has tried caseless ammo on something that doesn't fire a lot of rounds very quickly by design, like revolvers, or maybe airplane cannons (those only carry a few seconds worth of ammo right?).
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Jun 24, 2018 02:54
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Why did the soviet union never go to a rimless full size cartridge for their machine guns? Doesn't it make the feed mechanism more complicated than it needs to be?
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Jun 25, 2018 01:23
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TIL Mexico, the 11th largest economy in the world in nominal terms, larger than say, Sweden or Turkey, has no supersonic fighters or even an independent air force - it's still subordinate to the army.
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Aug 4, 2018 22:45
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SA doesn't have a border with Turkey, how would there be a war between them? Are one or both going to also invade Syria and Iraq (more than they already have)?
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Oct 15, 2018 15:11
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Well poo poo, TIL that the Saudis have a Strategic Rocket Force. Can Turkish SSKs reach the Red Sea without transiting the Suez Canal?
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Oct 15, 2018 15:23
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Tias posted:Actually, a famous Danish far-right politician suggested in '73 that we replaced ALL of our armed forces and military cooperation with NATO, with an answering machine that said "we surrender" in Russian. At this point Canada should probably consider this option, since apparently the alternative is "pay foreign companies billions of dollars to not build or sell us any planes."
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Oct 19, 2018 13:24
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Well why doesn't the plane just roll over if it needs to drop the top tanks. 
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Nov 8, 2018 04:10
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Indian already had carriers and had been using them in actual wars when they bought the Russian one. 
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Nov 16, 2018 01:46
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That's a really weird place to put a CIWS, and I *really* hope it's programmed to have a limited engagement arc that doesn't, you know, spray down the flight deck with 20mm if it ever has to traverse over it. Tunguska malfunctions in the worst/most hilarious way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5djvOTzRZ0 EDIT: Or possibly the gunner's hand just slipped. Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Nov 27, 2018 |
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Nov 27, 2018 08:27
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Canadians generally have a wildly exaggerated idea of their country's importance or stature in the world.
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Hauldren Collider posted:For some reason I thought the Osprey had a removable chin cannon. I think in the game LHX, which this thread mentioned, the Osprey had guns, maybe that's where you saw it.
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Could the western allies have poured more men and material into close air support and fighter bombers, presumably they were also already doing that anyway?
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Jan 2, 2019 17:37
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Mr Crustacean posted:Now I'm no OPLAN planner, but I think it may be a slight leap from whatever theatre conflict scenario you're contemplating to striking a strategic civilian target which may result in hundreds of thousands - millions of civilian deaths. But my Chinese wife
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Jan 4, 2019 01:36
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I feel pretty bad for the civilians of the next defenseless Middle Eastern/Brown country that gets smashed back into the stone age as an effort to deter China. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 4, 2019 01:55
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Neophyte posted:Defeat modern anti-air systems by bundling a program that lets you watch porn on the radar screens with malware, place them on USB drives, and launch DPCIM warheads stuffed with the drives at air defense site parking lots. DoD where's my grant money? The Russians already did this. https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/danger-close-fancy-bear-tracking-ukrainian-field-artillery-units/ TL;DR for some reason Ukrainian artillery units had no easy way of doing targeting calculations except using some weird pirated android app on their smartphones that knew their locations. War starts, Ukranian artillery positions all explode immediately. Or something like that.
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Jan 15, 2019 02:27
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That's all interesting and good for the next 25 year plan but the CF-18 was bought to replace F104s. This is like if your air force was still made up of Mig-21s in the 1990s - maybe just buy something/anything already? Canada should definitely have both a VVS and a PVO tho.
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I think all military vehicles of this ilk are going to be built like 1970s Italian sports cars because there isn't enough volume to make a more efficient and fool proof. Even the cheapest civilian economy car on the road is going to be built way better.
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