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Goddamn I love Little Birds. I'd be kind of pissed if someone were taking photos during start up, though.
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 Korean brothels are barber shops with extra poles.
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Third World Reggin posted:
In our "liberty" ports in Korea, there were always jokes of these and going in to ask for a haircut. A little off the top please.
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Triggs posted:Goddamn I love Little Birds. I'd be kind of pissed if someone were taking photos during start up, though. Especially with a flash. Especially while wearing my NVGs.
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Why all SF dudes are burly red-haired bearded men ? Is there a specific genetic condition to be a badass SF operator ?
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mmtt posted:Why all SF dudes are burly red-haired bearded men ? Is there a specific genetic condition to be a badass SF operator ?
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mmtt posted:Why all SF dudes are burly red-haired bearded men ? Is there a specific genetic condition to be a badass SF operator ? I've got brown hair but a red beard.
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Also bright sun turns brown hair auburn
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Scratch Monkey posted:Also bright sun turns brown hair auburn Whelp, now I'll never complain about having to wear a hat outside in uniform again.
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The FDF just released a huge number of pictures from the national war archive. Here are two from the battle of Dick Hill. A soldier aiming an automatic rifle was the description for this one.  And here are some soldiers building a cheval de fris. Improvised weapons and defences were pretty big because we were poor. Both pictures come from SA-kuva, you can find a shitload more at the website https://www.sa-kuva.fi if you're interested in old photos from the Finnish wars. The descriptions are only in Finnish I think though. The website is pretty slow right now too, they just launched the site and it's getting much traffic.
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Check out the crazy booty of war. World's deadliest drying rack.
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Piisamirotta posted:The FDF just released a huge number of pictures from the national war archive. Welp, i know what I'm doing this Friday night. Thanks for linking this!
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If you have an interest in the Winter War you should watch Talvisota aka The Winter War, a state funded film made in the 90's with genuine period equipment, it's absolutely fantastic and can hold a torch to anything made in Hollywood. It was actually required material on my uni's Military History course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter_War_(film)
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Apparently one of the finalists for the new Army camo patterns: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85094593&docId=SPE20120809143714#docIndex=7&page=1
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It looks like tie-dye and vomit.
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It looks loving stupid and only marginally useful, so I am sure they will go for it.
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its like someone tried to emulate multicam, but with watercolors content:      my two favorite planes
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Why not retroactively adopt Flecktarn while you're at it.
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I want that Bob Ross camo stuff. You just know Bob Ross was smashing out piles of dependent pussy when he wasn't killing charlie in countries we never officially entered gently caress yeah
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DrCuntmuffins posted:my two favorite planes I love the F-4, there is just something about it.  
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Richard Bong posted:I love the F-4, there is just something about it. It reminds me of those tiny plastic jetplanes that came with the bags of army men I used to buy as a kid. :3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATAMJgRhTNc&fmt=18 You guys haven't seen the, uh, poignant videos the French made of their jets?
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Phantom phan checking in. Plane loving rocks. Have some Showtime 100:    gently caress Cunningham and his corrupt rear end, but drat if VF-96 didn't have a damned awesome paint scheme. Oh, and I forgot. 
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The F-4 loving owns. I got to meet Bob Pardo when I was at Tyndall, got his autograph. Cool old dude.
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Phantom chat - My father in law flew RAF Phantoms in the early 80s. They did low-level intercepts over the North Sea, because the Spey engined Phantoms did not perform well at altitude (I guess Lightnings did high level stuff). But they were very, very fast on the deck. The North Sea is apparently a lovely flying environment especially at low level, because there is often no distinguishable horizon, so if you are performing an intercept at or near the speed of sound, below 500', you really need to be on the ball. They did this at night of course, too. Since he said a standard way to gain position on the target was to perform a lag roll, it was a rush and dangerous as hell. One of his first flights with the RAF (he was on exchange) went out as a four ship but came back as a three ship when one of the guys, the flight commander, rolled himself into the ocean at 600kts. My mother-in-law asked if it was going to be an open casket funeral. Uh, no.
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If only the F-35 can live up to what the F-4 Phantom actually did.
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ded posted:If only the F-35 can live up to what the F-4 Phantom actually did. 
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Can't they just strap a gunpod and a couple of hellfires on a V-22 and call it a day?
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Frosted Flake posted:Can't they just strap a gunpod and a couple of hellfires on a V-22 and call it a day? Uh... where? 
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Frosted Flake posted:Can't they just strap a gunpod and a couple of hellfires on a V-22 and call it a day? But that wouldn't be a massive decade-long boondoggle. Also that /\/\
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ded posted:If only the F-35 can live up to what the F-4 Phantom actually did. Get it's rear end kicked reliably by fighters from the previous generation while being gorgeous as gently caress?
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Booblord Zagats posted:Get it's rear end kicked reliably by fighters from the previous generation while being gorgeous as gently caress? Until gunpods and Top Gun.
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Wasabi the J posted:Uh... where? They figured out how to make an aircraft's machine gun not hit its own propeller before the US even joined in WWI.
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Godholio posted:They figured out how to make an aircraft's machine gun not hit its own propeller before the US even joined in WWI. I imagine you could have missile racks angled down to clear the prop? Or maybe have the Hellfire drop down and then ignite its motor. I know gently caress all about missiles. 
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That's certainly possible. Vietnam-era AIM-7 Sparrows were dropped before ignition (and often didn't light at all, but modern missiles are a bit more reliable). The F-22 (and I assume F-35) actually kick the AIM-120 out of the internal bays. Edit: This would add a poo poo ton of weight, though. If you wanted to add Hellfires I would have them shoot up and over...I don't know how maneuverable these missiles are, but shooting up would give them a bit wider field of fire at low altitude. Godholio fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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