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C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 12:38

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 13:25

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1gLKJcm_A

# ¿ Jan 21, 2015 08:33

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

The spirit of Douglas MacArthur watches over all officers who write themselves up for poo poo they don't deserve.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2015 20:24

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

I've heard they also tried to increase the rate of fire from the original's sedate 250 rounds per minute, which probably caused more issues with the long-recoil system and overheating.

Ironically the .30-06 Chauchat fixed one of the major flaws with the original: it had a fully enclosed box magazine.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2015 22:28

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

The Germans apparently had a few thousand Madsen LMGs they either bought or seized as they were being shipped through Germany to neutral powers, but I've read they only issued them to their mountain infantry and cavalry units. It and the BAR were probably the best light machine guns/automatic rifles of the period.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2015 02:22

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Booblord Zagats posted:

Didn't the FAMAS have an issue where it splits brass casings on ejection?

Yeah, steel cases only. IIRC there was also something where they switched ammo manufacturers a while back and had to switch back to cold war stocks because the new stuff was faulty and kept exploding. Plus the FAMAS has a different barrel twist so standard NATO 5.56mm loads cause accuracy problems. This was fixed by the G2 version, but the G2 was only produced in small numbers for their Marines.

Last couple years the military/gun blogs have been reporting that the French military is "testing" stuff like the SCAR-L or whatever, and is "considering" just adopting a French made gas piston AR15 clone. However I also hear they're broke so I doubt anything will happen soon.

Still using rifle grenades too.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2015 00:30

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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

It's a junkyard. If you find enough smoke detectors you can make a small radiological dirty bomb.

UFO celebrity Bob Lazar will sell you uranium ore.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Washington_DC_Regional_Threat_and_Analysis_Center_report_re_Inauguration,_16_Jan_2009

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On 9 December 2008, radiological dispersal device components and literature, and radioactive materials, were discovered at the Maine residence of an identified deceased USPER James Cummings. Cummings had possible ties to white supremacist groups.

On 9 December 2008, four one-gallon containers of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide, lithium metal, thermite, aluminum powder, beryllium, boron, black iron oxide, and magnesium ribbon were discovered at the Cummings' residence. (FBI comments: Literature on constructing 'dirty bombs'; information referring to cesium-137, strontium-90, and cobalt-60; and possible evidence linking James ((Cummings)) to white supremacist groups were also discovered.)

(Source comments: Amber ((Cummings)) admitted to the shooting death of her husband James Cummings citing years of mental, physical, and sexual abuse. Amber Cummings retained legal counsel upon being questioned by law enforcement about any involvement with white supremacists. James Cummings was reported to have inherited two million dollars and to have resided in multiple states prior to relocating to Maine.)

Amber ((Cummings)) indicated James was very upset with Barack Obama being elected President. She indicated James had been in contact with 'white supremacist group(s)'. Amber also indicated James mixed chemicals in the kitchen sink at their residence a nd had mentioned 'dirty bombs'. (Source comment: State authorities detected radiation emissions in four small jars in the residence labeled 'uranium metal', as well as one jar labeled 'thorium.' The four jars of uranium carried the label of an identified US company.) (FBI comment: Further preliminary analysis on 30 December 2008 indicated an unlabeled jar to be a second jar of thorium. Each bottle of uranium contained depleted uranium 238. Analysis also indicated the two jars of thorium held thorium 232.)

An application for membership in the National Socialist Movement, which had been completed by James Cummings was discovered. FBI comments: Uranium, thorium, cesium-137, strontium-90, and cobalt-60 are radioactive isotopes. 35 percent hydrogen peroxide is a necessary precursor for the manufacture of peroxide-based explosives. Lithium metal, thermite, and aluminum are materials used to sensitize and amplify the effects of explosives. The identified US Company in this report sold the depleted uranium online.

Source: FBI IIR 4 218 1563 09

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Maybe not soldiers, but look up an average video of something crazy happening and count how often you hear "OH MY GOD".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR67XIUBvMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRItYDKSqpQ

# ¿ Mar 13, 2015 10:21

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Jonad posted:

Look's like Tirpitzp, Bismarck's sister ship that spent much of WWII hiding in a fjord.

That's what came to mind too, but the scale feels off.

The ship in the first photo seems more about the size of a corvette or minesweeper.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2015 04:04

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

quote:

in 1985 a Mi-24V coded 43 Red was fitted experimentally with a 12.7mm NSVT machine-gun in a bulged enclosure replacing the aft avionics bay. The gunner's station is accessed from within via a crawlway passing through the rear fuel tank between the main wheel wells. It was so cramped that the gunner could not be accommodated entirely and his legs stuck outside, scantily protected by rubberized fabric 'trousers'.

Trials promptly showed that the rear gunner's station was unsatisfactory. It caused a major shift in the helicopter's center of gravity position and was always full of engine exhaust gases, making things almost unbearable for the gunner. The crunch came when the modified helicopter was demonstrated to VVS top brass; one of the portly generals got stuck in the narrow crawlway when he wanted to check out the gunner's station, and the idea was abandoned. Instead, rear-view mirrors were installed on operational Hinds so that the pilots could see when they were being fired upon and take evasive action.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2015 21:05

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MA-Horus posted:

Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

AN-2s fly so slowly that you could knock one down with a sopwith camel

Also "high tech mig29s" that maybe leave the runway an hour a year.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2015 03:19

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# ¿ Apr 12, 2015 23:24

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# ¿ Apr 14, 2015 08:36

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iyaayas01 posted:

Who was pretty much 100% wrong because Pierre Sprey is a light-weight fighter zealot who thinks that the ideal fighter would be a no-radar dayfighter armed with a Vulcan and maybe a couple Sidewinders.

Smart guy, but like most zealots takes an idea too far into ludicrous land.

He didn't actually do all that much on the F-16 design as I recall anyways. IIRC he's actually got a background in statistics and was a MacNamara "Whiz Kid" rather than a aeronautical engineer, and now apparently makes his living claiming to have created the F-16 and A-10 while collecting royalties from a Kanye West song that sampled some of his jazz music.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2015 06:24

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 07:15

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chitoryu12 posted:

Stupider than that. If this is the incident I remember, the driving controls are very heavily computerized and the driver somehow managed to lock up the computer. It wouldn't move because he literally froze the tank. They had to get a loving company tech support guy over to reset the tank.

Buggy eastern European game development strikes again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07rpFzMDNU

# ¿ May 10, 2015 00:09

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Rough Lobster posted:

Everyone was waving their stupid lightsaber flashlights like they were lighters. Some of the more shameless of my flight openly wept at the majesty of the performance. It was pretty loving embarrassing.

Sounds like a idol concert.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 01:07

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Duke Chin posted:

This guy, however, looks like he lost a fistfight:

...which actually reminds me of something I've always wondered: What are the "nostril" nubs on the nose? RWR's?

MrYenko posted:

This thread needs more Thud.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 06:21

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

# ¿ May 28, 2015 09:23

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Hot Karl Marx posted:

Jordan maybe?

Jordan currently uses the Challenger I and M60A3. Right now they're undergoing a refit program to replace the Challenger turrets with a low-profile M60A2 "Starship Patton" turret while the M60A3s are being upgraded with M60-2000/Sabra style stuff that include 120mm guns and shoot-on-the-move.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2015 04:38

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/centennial/Documents/Heritage%20Paint%20Project.pdf

# ¿ Jun 4, 2015 10:46

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Scratch Monkey posted:

Is it just me or does the average Russian soldier always look sketchy as gently caress? It's looks like they formed entire battalions out of date rapists and public masturbators.

Basically in 1967 they started conscripting criminals due to a lack of manpower, which lead to the development of a culture of hazing ("Dedovshchina") that regularly kills recruits, which lead to everybody doing their best to avoid conscription because they don't want to get beat up constantly. The guys in the photos are the ones too dumb to pull a Ted Nugent and avoid service.

http://www.ibtimes.com/young-russians-dodge-draft-more-more-avoid-risk-fighting-ukraine-1804246

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While exact figures are almost impossible to attain because they would embarrass the Russian government, Sutyagin said, traditionally around 50 percent of conscripts avoid the draft. A 2013 report from the General Staff of the Russian Federation Council mentioned that 244,000 men avoided conscription in 2012, although those figures could not be verified.

According to the report, 8,794 men who received draft cards did not turn up at the recruiting office. Another 235,800 avoided the draft by other means.

Maj. Gen. Alexander Nikitin, a department head at the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office, said around 30,000 people a year are convicted of offenses related to evading the draft. Draft dodging is punishable by up to two years in prison, and according to Nikitin around 1,000 people a year are convicted.

Russians have developed a number of creative and sometimes expensive ways to avoid the draft. A Time magazine article from 2009 told the story of a young conscript, �Dmitri,� who paid the equivalent of $2,500 to be certified mentally ill. Others forge their birth certificates or pay bribes. Often the best way is to have a doctor give a medical exemption, but that can cost as much as $10,000, which is well beyond the reach of many, noted the article.

Sutyagin, who was a reserve officer in the Russian military, said many conscripts fear the poor conditions and horrific hazing, which has long been the primary reason they dodge the draft when the country is not in a full-scale war. �Those that are serving a second year are senior to these first-year novices,� said Sutyagin, �and sometimes the new guys are just tortured." Deaths of conscripts over the last few years included hundreds of suicides.

The military reduced service from 18 months to 12 months in 2008 in an effort to combat draft dodging, but it has not worked, said Sutyagin.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2015 01:00

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Dilettante. posted:

Some Libyans have decided all that fancy naval poo poo laying around needs to be put to good use.

Bonus non libya.

There's also the Kurdish Super BRDM-2.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Most (fixed-wing) CAS these days is done with some flavor of PGM, so I don't imagine the F-35 will be any worse at it than any other strike fighter, at least once they get the targeting pod figured out. Especially if they decide "gently caress LO" and load it up with hardpoints. It's a ludicrously expensive and overdesigned asset for that kind of mission, but c'est la multirole.

I do like to point to the Super Tucano as the "next-gen A-10 replacement" that people wish for when moaning about retiring the A-10. Aside from the gun, it's got most of the same strengths and weaknesses: slow, fuel efficient, easy to maintain, highly vulnerable to MANPADS. It doesn't have quite the same payload, but you're usually not employing multiple tons of ordnance to take out a building or a few trucks on your typical CAS mission. I think it would be a great thing to have in our inventory for that kind of permissive, flexible, affordable CAS requirement.

Next-gen A-10 replacement? A Reaper with the Longbow's radar strapped onto the nose.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2015 02:34

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYoHWFoE9Q4

# ¿ Jul 2, 2015 07:38

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Booblord Zagats posted:

Plus, I've read some (probably Russian) poo poo saying that the 30mm bullets out of the GAU-8 aren't even enough to penetrate most modern MBT armor unless it gets a perfectly angled hit on a weak spot, making the gun itself pretty pointless

Here are some relevant documents. Basically the T-62's frontal armor is thick enough to stop the GAU-8.
http://dsearch.dtic.mil/search?site...G=Google+search

Against modern tanks I'd say that while you could probably knock them out from the back, or wreck their suspension from the side/front, it wouldn't be worth trying because close-in defenses are a world apart from what was around when the A-10 was designed.

Duke Chin posted:

Paint them all black first just to REALLY freak people out.

Powder blue with UN emblems.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2015 06:02

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

And in 1992 we killed a bunch of Turkish sailors and wrecked their boat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCG_Muavenet_%28DM_357%29

quote:

As the drill progressed, the missile system operator used language to indicate he was preparing to fire a live missile, but due to the absence of standard terminology, it was failed to appreciate the significance of the terms used and the requests made. Specifically, the Target Acquisition System operator issued the command "arm and tune", terminology the console operators understood to require arming of the missiles in preparation for actual firing. The officers supervising the drill did not realize that "arm and tune" signified a live firing and ignored two separate requests from the missile system operator to clarify whether the launch order was an exercise. As a result, shortly after midnight on the morning of 2 October, Saratoga fired two Sea Sparrow missiles at Muavenet. The first missile struck in the bridge, destroying it and the Combat Information Center. The second missile struck in the aft magazine but did not detonate. The explosion and resulting fires killed five of the ship's officers and injured 22. Nearby US Navy ships responded in aid to the Turkish ship which was now without leadership. Fire and rescue teams boarded the ship and put out the fires in the bridge and the aft magazine preventing any secondary explosions.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2015 20:41

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 06:25

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MaxPowers posted:

So whats the deal with the dude with the tank and flak cannon? They just straight up said you cant have these and took them? Pretty hosed up if they sell the stuff and the guy who has been maintaining this equipment all this time just gets shafted.

As I understand it, under German law they can claim that they're government property because the Federal Republic of Germany is the legal successor state to Nazi Germany and as such inherited all it's tools of war, whatever they may be.

It's more than likely the Panther owned by Friedrich Christian Flick, who's father was convicted of using slave labor in the war and has been investigated a few times in the past for possessing/trafficking Nazi art/art stolen by the Nazis, and the tank and cannon were noticed during the most recent investigation. So the story goes the Panther was "legally obtained" as scrap metal from a British seller in the 70s, which I find somewhat dubious, but I guess we just have to wait for the investigation to finish.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-german-investigators-found-lost-nazi-art-beloved-by-hitler-a-1035230.html

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In the home of a collector near Kiel in northern Germany, police officers found a large bronze sculpture of a naked warrior holding a sword in his extended hand. Experts believe it could be "Die Wehrmacht," one of two sculptures created by Arno Breker, a top sculptor for the Nazis, for the main courtyard of Hitler's New Reich Chancellery in 1939.

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The Flick trail eventually led to a large property on the Bay of Kiel in northern Germany. The owner had an excellent reputation among dealers of Nazi memorabilia. He was old and rich, and he had one of the Wehrmacht's "Panther" battle tanks tucked away in an underground bunker. Aerial images of his property showed two large bronzes, one of them most likely a Breker.

Chances are they'll go to a couple of German military museums if they do seize them. Depending on the condition the tank will most likely go to one of the museums that already has running vehicles, if not it'll become a static display at someplace like the Dresden War Museum.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 09:57

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# ¿ Jul 10, 2015 04:59

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Fallows posted:

Are those american or Japanese boats getting strafed? awesome pic

quote:

Bristol Beaufighters from Nos. 144 and 254 Squadrons RAF, No. 455 Squadron RAAF and No. 489 Squadron RNZAF attacking German 'M' class minesweepers escorting a convoy off the Dutch coast, north-west of Borkum, with rocket projectiles. Thirteen aircraft can be seen in the photograph, which was taken over the tail of a Beaufighter of No. 455 Squadron after delivering its attack.

quote:

Oblique aerial photograph taken from a Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark X of No. 455 Squadron RAAF, during a joint attack by the Langham and North Coates Strike Wings on shipping lying at anchor off Marsdiep, between Den Helder and Texel, Holland. Here Beaufighters can be seen attacking German minesweepers with rocket projectiles and cannon fire, as a salvo of RPs from the photographing aircraft is released at the nearest vessel. Three Beaufighters were lost and 17 others were damaged as a result of the intense barrage of anti-aircraft fire from the ships and shore batteries, although 11 vessels were sunk or damaged.

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Oblique aerial photograph taken from a Bristol Beaufighter during an attack on shipping lying at anchor off Marsdiep, between Den Helder and Texel, Holland, by the combined North Coates and Langham Strike Wings. The main target, the hull of an uncompleted merchant ship of 3,000 tons, can be seen at upper right, surrounded by minesweepers and auxiliary vessels which, with the shore batteries, are putting up a intense barrage of anti-aircraft fire. Three Beaufighters failed to return and 17 others were damaged, although 11 vessels were sunk or damaged.

quote:

A Bristol Beaufighter sweeps low over the deck of a German 'M' class minesweeper after straddling it with cannon fire, during an attack on an escorted enemy convoy off Texel, Holland, by aircraft of the North Coates Strike Wing.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2015 00:21

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# ¿ Jul 12, 2015 10:27

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# ¿ Jul 13, 2015 02:12

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Baloogan posted:

If I could get an operation to turn me into a nuclear ballistic missile submarine I would be so happy.

I'm pretty sure that's the plot of a anime.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2015 11:55

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJr7zUXwBx8

Fake Stingers "captured" by rebels in Ukraine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHIaXzmN_Eo

One of those Libyan CIWS things.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2015 21:06

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Mike-o posted:

If you really want to appreciate how insane helicopters are, play DCS Black Shark. Pull up too hard through a turn or coming out of a dive and you'll rip your rotor blades off (because it's that weird Russian chopper with dual main blades) when they become best friends and touch. Or how if you descend too fast you'll lose lift and drop like a rock even if you try to apply more rotor torque. Helicopters don't want you to live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akgJO5GCe6I
Technology man was not meant to create.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2015 08:46