McNally posted:

Oh, aircraft carriers totally carried nukes. There was a Stephen Coonts novel about it once.

_firehawk posted:

Why Can't America ever put cool Camo on their jets?

Sunday Punch posted:

What if the Russkies had beaten the US to the moon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_art posted:

Perhaps the most enduring nose art of WWII was the shark-face motif, which first appeared on the Bf-110s of Luftwaffe 76th Destroyer Wing over Crete, where the twin-engined Messerschmitts outmatched the Gloster Gladiator biplanes of RAF 112 Squadron. The Commonwealth pilots were withdrawn to Egypt and refitted with Curtiss Tomahawks off the same assembly line building fighter aircraft for the AVG Flying Tigers being recruited for service in China. In November 1941, AVG pilots saw a 112 Squadron Tomahawk in an illustrated weekly and immediately adopted the shark-face motif for their own planes. This work was done by the pilots and ground crew in the field.

B4Ctom1 posted:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=68f_1306880662

NecessaryEvil posted:

That's sad. My dad was a pilot back in the 80s.

Propagandalf posted:

In the summer in clear weather, you don't get below freezing point till about 10k feet. So if they cruise at 7k-8K, it'll get cold enough. 9K is where you need an oxygen mask for extended periods of time. Go over 10k ft without a mask and you'll pass out in 3-5 minutes.

Gtab posted:

joat mon posted:

priznat posted:

42 years ago today (Jan 23, 1960)

iyaayas01 posted:

winnydpu posted:

I spoke with an employee last summer, and he said the government bought them and we'd never see them again.

Stroh M.D. posted:

It had a second unique feature - a rear driver, who had a full set of controls to drive the tank in reverse at a high speed.

Noshtane posted:

I think the best hope we had of defeating Soviet invaders would be to turn the occupied part into a Vietnam scenario with less horrifying tropical diseases and more frostbites.

Baconroll posted:

Even ignoring the type 45 destroyer, if the Argentinians were attacking the Falklands then I'd hope Buenos Aires to be hit with an ICBM from a nuclear sub.

Snowdens Secret posted:

The 'prise is a very tired ship that would have been retired long ago if sufficient CVN hulls had been available. I don't know about the Kitty Hawk but she's also a decade or more beyond useful life.

Space Gopher posted:

On the other hand, remember when that S&W executive got caught in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act sting? Small countries that are only looking to buy trucks, rifles, and maybe some body armor are also often the ones where the minister of defense is the president's brother-in-law or whatever.

Nebakenezzer posted:

Is someone going to get yelled at for this?

atomicthumbs posted:

the V-bombers are awesome but we all know what the coolest Cold War nuclear bomber is

Beardless posted:

What's that Nasa prop plane right below it?

Oxford Comma posted:

The article says the B52 will be retired 30 years from now. Holy poo poo.

KillerKatten posted:

I just wish the US could somehow circumvent or just give no fucks about the test ban treaty thing, and fire off one large hydrogen bomb. Just one. Think of it, with modern high def, über slow-mo cameras with ridiculous lenses you could get some amazing footage. Timing it with the ISS or some satellite overhead to stream footage (would an h-bomb be visible from space anyway? one way to find out!) or some remote drones or something flying close'ish.

Remulak posted:

The great Paul Fussell's Thank God for the Atomic Bomb:

Winston Churchill posted:

There are voices which assert that the bomb should never have been used at all. I cannot associate myself with such ideas. Six years of total war have convinced most people that had the Germans or the Japanese discovered this new weapon, they would have used it upon us to our complete destruction with the utmost alacrity. I am surprised that very worthy people, but people who in most cases had no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves, should adopt the position that rather than throw this bomb, we should have sacrificed a million American, and a quarter of a million British lives in the desperate battles and massacres of an invasion of Japan.

Memento1979 posted:

Canadian Naval Officer pleads guilty to spying for Russia

Do you think at some point in time his Russian contact told him to clean it first?

Phanatic posted:

It's linked to such an extent that you can inadvertently fire the gun if you manually rotate the barrels.

grover posted:

US knew better by that point, and had already refused to sell USSR B-29s. US never really trusted USSR; they just feared Nazi Germany a lot more.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Somehow I doubt they named the ship after him.

PhotoKirk posted:

So MY WIFE bought me a flight on the B-25 at the Lone Star Flight Museum. Anyone here been in a B-25? I'm hoping that we get to move around the plane and see the tail gun position, bombardier position, etc. I am stoked.

Flikken posted:

That's not really an airplane.

Mortabis posted:

What do pilots for private aircraft do when the owner isn't traveling anyway? Does the owner hire a pilot for like, a weekend or something?