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Maybe not the Israelis directly, but it's not like parts for an AIM-9 show up in Shenzen gray-market junk stores or anything. 
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Jun 6, 2014 23:05
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Cyrano4747 posted:Especially the B2. That's arguably worth driving a couple hours to see if you're a big enough plane nerd. Forget the B2, #29 looks like its supposed to be a Shuttle. Just where do they think they're going to source one of those from to be a gate guardian?
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Jun 10, 2014 02:26
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Cyrano4747 posted:Awesome, my idle curiosity thanks you. The National Nuclear Security Administration has a decent website about ongoing weapon life extension programs. http://nnsa.energy.gov/ourmission/managingthestockpile/lifeextensionprograms Life Extension Program, of course, being a Dr Strangelove-level operation name for refurbishing weapons whose targets are measured in megadeaths. Anyway, I'm sure this has probably been posted in here before, but this is my favorite Cold War-era hardware photo: (click for big)  Guy in a space suit being buzzed by a B-52 belching exhaust, some crazy rear end lifting body being serviced by a guy in a dress shirt and slacks. I don't think it can get any more AIRPOWER than that.
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Jul 11, 2014 05:05
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TopherCStone posted:This seems like it might be a good place to ask this: That's definitely a print magazine layout from the early 60s (or maybe late 50s). I remember National Affairs being the title of the US Politics section of (old) Newsweek. LIFE from that era is on Google Books, maybe Newsweek is too. Or perhaps there's a library near you that still has bound periodical stacks from the middle of last century and you can find it in person.
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Oct 22, 2014 06:27
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Well A-10's are going out of service soon. Seems like the perfect argument for a police handout. Hubis posted:Guys I think I know what to do with all those perfectly good A-10s we are just going to waste 
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Jan 7, 2015 17:07
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mlmp08 posted:An A-10 ready for some not so close air support. Those Ft Wayne-based birds are as filthy as everybody's vehicles are in Indiana at this time of year from all the road grit and salt and poo poo. Seriously (from the same batch of photos)   Do they need a care package of carwash coupons or something?
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Mar 6, 2015 07:23
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Back Hack posted:Here is said video: Good to see forward thinking on materiel for Russia's ability to protect its citizens
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Apr 14, 2015 02:59
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Koesj posted:Hahaha did they seriously practice on an Mi-24 or is that some kind of ghetto bodykit? At about 2:05-2:06 they show what looks to be an RC aircraft scale model of a Hind being launched, maybe that's what the shootdown video later on under the "Helicopter" segment is from as well.
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Jun 1, 2015 21:20
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Sperglord Actual posted:F-35 to compete against A-10 in ground support trials. If this thread has taught me anything, I can already see the score card now: pre:Category F-35 A-10 Ordinance capacity L W Loiter time L W Strafing L W Fifth-generationness W L ----------------------------------- Overall winner W L
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Aug 31, 2015 23:12
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:So give the rocket some more air and triangles and hope it doesn't poo poo out some apex seals. Not that kind of rotary. The rotary engines in aircraft like the Camel didn't really have throttle control so much as a switch to turn off (some or all) of the magnetos and thus cut spark to the engine. That's why it sounds like old biplane engines are sputtering as they come into land.
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Feb 11, 2016 00:09
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Arishtat posted:Yes they're smaller but anything more detailed than that is :opsec: and will summon the dark forces to the forum and we don't want that now do we? You know what is a little more detailed about inertial platforms on missiles but isn't opsec? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST-124-M3_inertial_platform Sure it's from 50 years ago and a direct descendant of the original ballistic missile technology, but it's also about the size of a beachball for reference.
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Mar 21, 2016 05:56
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Cyrano4747 posted:
this is from a few pages ago, but what if I told you it could be both at the same time? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Poutine
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Mar 16, 2018 17:06
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TheFluff posted:Tail hooks and drag chutes are for entitled primadonna aircraft with expectations of red carpets and infrastructure. If you ain’t got a thrust reverser you ain’t poo poo. It’s tough out there in the Automatic fart control?  
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Apr 10, 2018 01:49
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A.o.D. posted:You can't really see anything during a stir weld operation. Two medium sized welding bits clamp onto the welding surface and spin at moderately high speeds and significantly high pressure. They then walk across the welding surface at a moderate rate. How do you plug the big through-hole gap at the end of the weld path? Conventional welding?
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