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Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

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The most evil/hardcore weapon system ever devised? This poo poo right here!

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Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

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Strategic Tea posted:

Reaper drones are sexy as hell. That cockpit-like blister but it's just blank metal? Beautiful



The Global Hawk looks like some sort of flying Orca.



And it's freaking huge!

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

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Decebal posted:

One of our military member's lives are worth more than 100's of the other guys!

Compared to a likely adversary such as "insert garbage desert nation here" I could see them spending less than 1% of what the US spends on each soldier in training. Hell even China and Russia are probably not even spending 10% what the US does per soldier.

Iron Prince posted:

got one up on you here shoophobo


"Are we related?"

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

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kecske posted:

:eyepop: wtf is this, tank suppressor?

I think it's to analyse muzzle velocity and other factors to help improve artillery accuracy. Suppressing might be a secondary characteristic built in.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

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thathonkey posted:

i assume somebody already posted bockscar and enola gay (the B-29s that dumped on nagasaki and hiroshima respectively) but here is another cool WW2 plane that didn't kill quite as many people:



looks like it was born out of a bad military hardware photoshop thread but nope it's real

Let's spend 95% of the money it takes to build 2 P-51's, but end up with only one.

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