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Wasabi the J posted:This and this is what happens to me when you fuckers get too goddamn AWACS geeky. PDS=Passive Detection System, which includes the "cheek" antennae, and a small antenna under the nose and tail...all missing because this is an old as gently caress photo, like 90% of the AWACS pictures out there. HDI=Helldump Immunity, a GiP Legend™ who became AIDS CURES FAGGOTS and got banned for drunkposting in the E/N tranny thread. He was also an Electronic Combat Officer, the individual that manages and interprets PDS, on NATO AWACS. WP CURES PALESTINE posted:Who needs 35s when you have f-18s and av8bs The Marines, apparently. Dead Reckoning posted:Look at those tiny little bitch engines It works on another level, because they're whiny as gently caress.
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Wasabi the J posted:This and this is what happens to me when you fuckers get too goddamn AWACS geeky. I'm forced to assume that this is what they meant.
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Wasabi the J posted:This and this is what happens to me when you fuckers get too goddamn AWACS geeky. HDI is one of the now curebro posters, not an AWACS thing e: f, b
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lol a lot of AWACS haters here!!! I hate awacs
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I honestly thought of a Hot Dick Injection, due to years of latent homoerotic tendencies cultivated by the military.
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That's eerily accurate to AIDS CURES FAGGOTS.
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WP CURES PALESTINE posted:Dear Aviation wings of other branches, the USMC are still flying this:  Not even going to respond to this post. Okay, one response: I want to see a USMC MAGTF organic air wing go up, all on their own, against someone with a decent air force, just once, if only to shut them the hell up. Also yeah, it's a LITENING pod as others have pointed out, the bomb is a GBU-12 500 lbs Paveway II LGB. The Hornet has a GBU-32 1000 lbs JDAM and a GBU-16 1000 lbs Paveway II LGB. And honestly if you have a load shift in flight you're pretty much hosed regardless, unless it's a really small/light load, you have plenty of altitude/airspeed to recover in, and a very competent/skilled crew. Unfortunately most load shifts become apparent very shortly after taking flight, which means the vast majority of them occur on or immediately after takeoff, when you have neither altitude nor airspeed for recovery. Godholio posted:PDS=Passive Detection System, which includes the "cheek" antennae, and a small antenna under the nose and tail...all missing because this is an old as gently caress photo, like 90% of the AWACS pictures out there. I.e. the person who shams even by NATO standards. Godholio posted:The Marines, apparently. Something something Henderson Field something something abandoned by the Navy something something STOVL something something Chesty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjoMQRUWEe8 JDAMs are loving awesome.
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Ikarus posted:Not to mention that the initial report was they had a load of heavy vehicles, so if they came unsecured in that regime of flight, as soon as they tumbled over the load could've ended up on the side or the ceiling. There is literally no way to save it in any of those situations. A friend with info on the crash told me it was 5 MRAPs, he didn't know which models specifically.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Look at those tiny little bitch engines Seriously. They don't even have blades. 
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And when was the last time USAF did that? WW2? Oh wait, that was the Army back then...
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:And when was the last time USAF did that? WW2? Iraq had one of the more capable air forces in the world in 1991. They were second-tier, but there are only a handful of countries that were better (most of which were our allies). Otherwise, I'd say Vietnam and Korea as well. And the AF was operated independently from the ground Army starting in 1941...that's like saying the Marines enjoyed their success while working for the Navy. The USAAF was separate and officially equal to the ground forces, with its own GHQ and everything.
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^^^e;fbKung Fu Fist gently caress posted:And when was the last time USAF did that? WW2? Oh wait, that was the Army back then... Iraq had the 4th largest AF back in Desert Storm, but after the first 38 MiG kills they started running to Iran. About 115 or so got away because the U.S. was expecting them to run to Jordan. Rundown of the engagements here. The vast majority were Eagle victories. Even an A-10 and F-15E got kills against helos. (The latter was actually a hit with a bomb when it was about 200 ft off the ground!)
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I love how people point to Desert Storm and it's low pK (probability of kill) for air-to-air missiles. What people don't realize is that a ton of them were fire outside of parameters (more than half, iirc), and most kills were made by the first of two missiles fired. So the second one inherently missed.
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http://i.imgur.com/K72KTxM.jpg Also, gently caress mines and gently caress Afghanistan. Something not so horrible that I ran across: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsaWhho4bkQ Things got a little wild there in the late 90s, but eventually we got the autonomous killing machines we know and love today. AkrisD fucked around with this message at 08:05 on May 1, 2013 |
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Jesus loving Christ. A warning about him getting his face blown halfway off would have been nice in advance.
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Props to the soldiers for their life saving efforts. Hopefully he pulled through despite the horrific injuries.
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The NEW Military Pictures & Youtube Thread - A bunch of air force talk about planes and a bunch of people who have never seen ana get blow'd up
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Dagestan massacre video advertisement. 
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747 Crash at Bagram http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/may/01/747-cargo-plane-crash-bagram-airbase-video longer vid http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c32_1367332518 11b1p fucked around with this message at 14:51 on May 1, 2013 |
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Posted a couple pages back
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Christoff posted:Posted a couple pages back DAMMIT
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"It looks quite foggy up there, should we turn back?" "Nah, how bad can it be?" Norwegian mountains at its finest:   Bottom picture is a long invisible drop, it was also a lot of wind.
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This may be a stupid question but is the guy who recorded it on the helmet cam a medic?
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:This may be a stupid question but is the guy who recorded it on the helmet cam a medic? No That dismount IED was the scariest thing about that whole video. Finding normal IEDs meant for our trucks never seemed like a big deal, but dismounts always felt more personal.
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MAGTAF still better than the entire Air Force SOURCE! 
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Booblord Zagats posted:MAGTAF still better than the entire Air Force Holy poo poo wtf Air Force.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Holy poo poo wtf Air Force. Rumor I've heard is that they had 3-4 patch designs prior to that one that got shot down as "too offensive/inappropriate/whatever" so they submitted that one as a "gently caress it, I don't care anymore" protest patch, and it got approved, which honestly probably says more about the leadership than it does the students. Still a dumb patch.
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Booblord Zagats posted:MAGTAF still better than the entire Air Force This make me feel very proud about my branch.
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iyaayas01 posted:Rumor I've heard is that they had 3-4 patch designs prior to that one that got shot down as "too offensive/inappropriate/whatever" so they submitted that one as a "gently caress it, I don't care anymore" protest patch, and it got approved, which honestly probably says more about the leadership than it does the students. One of my friends has a patch from her husband's (Navy) primary class with a similar story - their initial design got nixed, so they submitted one with rainbows and sunshine with "moderate unicorn activity in vicinity of airfield" written at the bottom, though it was before the latest My Little Pony fad. I wish I had a picture of it.
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McSpatula posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSjr24zl85o Forget Bagram Batman, now there's the J-bad Joker. I loving love the Duffelblog Also Bagram Batman gave an interview. And has a facebook page. Any idea how the Tacomas performed compared to a Hilux?
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lol i just realized batman's rank is the batman thing. i thought it was just some faggy airman from pao v v
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