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Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

grover posted:

I'll go dig up the latest on combat lasers and the XM-29 and post a future weapons thread; it's been a while since the last one anyhow.

While you're waiting, enjoy this photo of an Il-76 packing a giant loving laser. No, it's not a cold-war relic, it's an ongoing project the Russians successfully tested in 2009 and are still moving forward, with new testing of the upgraded system planned this year.


I think I know what the NATO reporting name for that plane would be:

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grover
Jan 23, 2002

PEW PEW PEW
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Future Weapons thread posted: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529017

thetechnoloser
Feb 11, 2003

Say hello to post-apocalyptic fun!
Grimey Drawer
Here's a story I did for our unit regarding the Presidential Inauguration. I can't wait till all this crap is over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXVl3xtwB9g

11b1p
Feb 5, 2008

This picture is worth 20 words or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6b54bZepoA
During Hurricane Irene some NJ National Guardsmen

Or with Kid Rock in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiQLmTslmxk

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

edited for OPSEC

EBB fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jan 19, 2013

grover
Jan 23, 2002

PEW PEW PEW
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I'm no cop, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to post high-resolution scans of badges like that online...

Cerekk
Sep 24, 2004

Oh my god, JC!
Why is the capitol on fire?

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

grover posted:

I'm no cop, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to post high-resolution scans of badges like that online...

Point taken.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
Some crazy rear end angles of attack in an F-22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUlHhKvIX3w

Triggs
Nov 23, 2005

Tango Down!

11b1p posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6b54bZepoA
During Hurricane Irene some NJ National Guardsmen

"Are you guys that stupid?"

Yup.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

ded posted:

Some crazy rear end angles of attack in an F-22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUlHhKvIX3w

No Cobra maneuver, 7/10

Red Crown
Oct 20, 2008

Pretend my finger's a knife.

ded posted:

Some crazy rear end angles of attack in an F-22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUlHhKvIX3w

I love that the F-22 can do the original Battlestar Galactica thing, which is basically slowing almost to a stop and doing a 180.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Red Crown posted:

I love that the F-22 can do the original Battlestar Galactica thing, which is basically slowing almost to a stop and doing a 180.

I saw a show where it was basically falling straight down and just loving yawed around and took off again.

Seriously, if you've never seen the F-22 demo live, fight the loving airshow crowd that day. It's ridiculous.

genderstomper58
Jan 10, 2005

by XyloJW

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin
The champagne of beers.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

stolen from the gif thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpDT8677Z_U

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

That video NEVER gets old.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9L3lT-z3no

poo poo gets real around 1:50

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten
What kind of rocket attack was that? It seemed to be subsonic and I saw like 2 frames of something rocket-looking at a 45 degree or so angle. Some Katyusha variant?

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

wdarkk posted:

What kind of rocket attack was that? It seemed to be subsonic and I saw like 2 frames of something rocket-looking at a 45 degree or so angle. Some Katyusha variant?

BM-21 Grad seems the most likely, they've been using them a lot recently, even with cluster munitions, which civilians keep picking up and end up getting killed by.

Speaking of Syria,and Syria being blown to poo poo, a new bomb has been sighted in the Homs region, and I'm buggered if I can figure out what it is, hoping some of you might have a clue. Here's one of the clearer examples of it being used

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HItSz8JhpU

There's more videos of them being used here, and from what I can tell they have parachutes, are dropped in groups of 4-6, and appear to have time delayed fuzes.

I've been tracking the arms used in Syria for months, and I've put together this post with the weapons commonly used by the air force, supported with UXO evidence, and this doesn't seem to match any of the ones used so far.

Meanwhile, here's some examples of Syrian DIY rockets not working quite as they should

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJn7H6Cxic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeXBZpsjmQE

Brown Moses fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jan 21, 2013

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Brown Moses posted:

Speaking of Syria,and Syria being blown to poo poo, a new bomb has been sighted in the Homs region, and I'm buggered if I can figure out what it is, hoping some of you might have a clue. Here's on of the clearer examples of it being used

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HItSz8JhpU

There's more videos of them being used here, and from what I can tell they have parachutes, are dropped in groups of 4-6, and appear to have time delayed fuzes.


I am no expert by any means, but don't they use bombs like that for destroying runways?

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

ded posted:

I am no expert by any means, but don't they use bombs like that for destroying runways?
Durandal's got a terminal rocket booster. Shape's wrong too.

Koesj
Aug 3, 2003
I think it's just a FAB variant with the aforementioned delayed fuze and parachute added as options which leads to some kind of letter salad designation. You can see a demonstration of Indian Airforce MiG-27s doing a drop with smaller ones here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWGe_h6Ihdo

There's little info available as far as I can gather but at least there's a nifty hungarian slideshow here (so SN for retarded maybe?). It's from the BOCN apparantly so maybe you could register there and look in their downloads/references section.

e: typo

Koesj fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jan 22, 2013

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Thanks, I'll take a look at that. I'm hoping some UXO will turn up eventually and make life easier for me.

Another thing that's interesting about that video is how low they are flying, which suggests they don't believe there's the MANPADS threat in the Homs region they face in other parts of the country.

Koesj
Aug 3, 2003

Brown Moses posted:

Thanks, I'll take a look at that. I'm hoping some UXO will turn up eventually and make life easier for me.

Another thing that's interesting about that video is how low they are flying, which suggests they don't believe there's the MANPADS threat in the Homs region they face in other parts of the country.

I don't know what their in/egress route looks like but at that speed and height your warning and reaction time is going to be pretty low as far as portable AA is concerned.

WP CURES PALESTINE
Jun 17, 2011
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Is it just due to sheer incompetence or that fact that the Syrian military have never looked after their munitions but there seems to me to be more UXO than actual exploded ordinance

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
During the cold war a lot of countries in the mid east were "gifted" scads of munitions from the Soviet Union, ostensibly waiting for the big war with Israel or the US or whatever. I have a feeling they mostly sat in warehouses and not much attention was paid to them after the crates were stacked.

unam3d
Dec 31, 2012

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.


quote:

In the middle of counter-piracy and counter-narcotics work in the Indian Ocean, HMS Northumberland's Merlin helicopter sends more than 100 flares cascading through the sky in order to test their ability to decoy incoming heat-seeking missiles, fired either by other aircraft or ground-based threats, drawing them away from the helicopter's engines onto a much hotter target.

http://www.blogs.mod.uk/defence_news/2013/01/image-of-the-day-21-january-2013.html

HMS Northumberland's info page on the Royal Navy website (for anyone interested)

unam3d fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jan 22, 2013

Madurai
Jun 26, 2012

Brown Moses posted:

Speaking of Syria,and Syria being blown to poo poo, a new bomb has been sighted in the Homs region, and I'm buggered if I can figure out what it is, hoping some of you might have a clue. Here's one of the clearer examples of it being used

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HItSz8JhpU

It's the Russian equivalent of Snakeeye--retarded bombs designed for low-level delivery. Don't recall the designation off the top of my head.

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit


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Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Madurai posted:

It's the Russian equivalent of Snakeeye--retarded bombs designed for low-level delivery. Don't recall the designation off the top of my head.

Thanks, here's another mysterious explosion from Syria. Last week there was an attack on Aleppo University, in a government controlled area. Two large explosions, with the opposition claiming it was a government jet or rockets, and the government claiming variously it was car bomb or rebel rockets/missiles. This new video of the event appears to show it was a rocket or missile rather than a car bomb, but it's still unclear what sort of size of munition could cause the shown explosion, so it's still unclear if it was a jet, or surface to surface missile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eka1FK_iJIU

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
Hey Brown Moses have you seen any evidence in ordnance debris that would support the claim that the Syrians have already used chemical weapons? How does a crumpled chemical munition differ in appearance from a conventional round? I tried googling for clues but unfired munitions look awfully like every other round, and considering how this war has gone I'd half expect to see 80-gallon drums with Mr Yuk on the side chucked out of helicopters.

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless

Deathy McDeath posted:



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Please let someone have actually posted this on Facebook, complete with the "imgflip.com" tag in the corner.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer

Deathy McDeath posted:



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poo poo like that is the reason I'm very tempted to delete most of my Army buddies from facebook.

OMFG PTSD LOL PBUH
Sep 9, 2001

Mike-o posted:

poo poo like that is the reason I'm very tempted to delete most of my Army buddies from facebook.

poo poo like that is why I don't have a facebook.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Deathy McDeath posted:



HIT "LIKE" AND SHARE IF THIS REALLY MADE YOU THINK!!!

Also he's actually swearing the oath on "ELBIB YOLH EHT". Some kind of Muslim holy text, perhaps?

Admiral Bosch
Apr 19, 2007
Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?

Fister Roboto posted:

Also he's actually swearing the oath on "ELBIB YOLH EHT". Some kind of Muslim holy text, perhaps?

and his flag pin is on his right breast :tinfoil:

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Snowdens Secret posted:

Hey Brown Moses have you seen any evidence in ordnance debris that would support the claim that the Syrians have already used chemical weapons? How does a crumpled chemical munition differ in appearance from a conventional round? I tried googling for clues but unfired munitions look awfully like every other round, and considering how this war has gone I'd half expect to see 80-gallon drums with Mr Yuk on the side chucked out of helicopters.

None I've seen, and as you say it's hard to know if they did. If I did find UXO evidence of chemical weapons I'd probably organise a parade in my honour to let everyone know I found it first.

afen
Sep 23, 2003

nemo saltat sobrius
Beirut naval base:

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Smashurbanipal
Sep 12, 2009
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afen posted:

Beirut naval base:


Thats a Norwegian vessel right? They're the only ones in UNIFIL to have any significant naval presence as far as I know.

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