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Handsome Ralph posted:I'm noticing a trend with shipyard workers wanting to leave early/not work that day, and starting fires. Is this covered in a trade school somewhere?
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grover posted:Bwahahahaha, how did I not hear about this? More story here for anyone interested: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/09/28/navy-vessel-catches-fire-banyuwangi.html  12 million bucks seems pretty cheap for a ship
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:
Clearly it was plywood.
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Handsome Ralph posted:I'm noticing a trend with shipyard workers wanting to leave early/not work that day, and starting fires. Is this covered in a trade school somewhere? I'd think having a fire break out would be a pretty good guarantee that nobody's getting home on time that day.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Clearly it was plywood. Composite used in warships could stand to be a bit more flame retardant. This is the composite Norwegian minesweeper "Orkla" in 2002 after something happened to one of the 2 MW surface effect fans. They gave up the ship and evacuated after 3 hours, and it still burned for 24 hours before it sank. Tough little ship really.  (The class just went by "Barbecue-class" after that)
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I like how these in-shore vessels are one RPO away from burning right down to the waterline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybpr3g0v7_8
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:
And look at the kind of quality workmanship that resulted.
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The Amtrac Schoolhouse! Haha, I was literally on that road about 2 weeks ago, right down the street from 3rd AABn. She's probably from the Army Reserve center that's right down the street there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgGT0EhKUoQ wanna shoot this someday
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Koesj posted:I like how these in-shore vessels are one RPO away from burning right down to the waterline. I like how Russian arms adverts make no bones about "Yeah, this was made to 100% murder non-hardened, occupied civilian structures."
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Dead Reckoning posted:I like how Russian arms adverts make no bones about "Yeah, this was made to 100% murder non-hardened, occupied civilian structures." Well, poo poo, for all this talk about counter-insurgency it kind of makes sense.
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Dead Reckoning posted:I like how Russian arms adverts make no bones about "Yeah, this was made to 100% murder non-hardened, occupied civilian structures." I just have this image in my head of some russian grunt getting chewed out for painting "THIS MACHINE KILLS CHECHENS" on his RPO
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Dead Reckoning posted:I like how Russian arms adverts make no bones about "Yeah, this was made to 100% murder non-hardened, occupied civilian structures." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7ZtZSyAfk BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Aug 10, 2013 |
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Rude. posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgGT0EhKUoQ Been there, done that.
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It's beautiful how precise those fuckers are. If they can find a way to drop the price to about 10k a round instead of ~50k, people will be less hesitant to call in danger close missions.
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Pufflekins posted:It's beautiful how precise those fuckers are. If they can find a way to drop the price to about 10k a round instead of ~50k, people will be less hesitant to call in danger close missions. 120mm GPS guided mortars do a fine job too, and are more portable than a paladin or triple 7. Nice boom too.
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Rude. posted:120mm GPS guided mortars do a fine job too, and are more portable than a paladin or triple 7. Nice boom too. To be fair you can air assault an m777.
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Rude. posted:120mm GPS guided mortars do a fine job too, and are more portable than a paladin or triple 7. Nice boom too. Link to any videos? I realize that they are GPS guided but an accurate mortar is something that seems strange.
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Pufflekins posted:Link to any videos? I realize that they are GPS guided but an accurate mortar is something that seems strange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRlG-kiuELQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIh58kspI-A
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Pufflekins posted:Link to any videos? I realize that they are GPS guided but an accurate mortar is something that seems strange. The Russians even have guided rounds that get fired out of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-e2M_Bmqg&t=109s
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This is a cross post from my post in Aeronautical Insanity, hopefully you fellows like warbirds too! Some photos from Thunder Over Michigan (click for big):  The Mustangs were out in force. This is a P-51B with a pretty distinctive Spitfire-style canopy.  The -D model with bubble canopy.  Probably my favorite nose art of all time. B-25 Mitchell.  And right next to Briefing Time was this B-25, Georgie's Gal.  There were also 6 Skyraiders there, but I'm bad with my Skyraider variants so I couldn't tell you which variant this one was.  An F-100F Super Sabre was also there; I hadn't seen one before, so that was pretty cool. A Skyhawk was there, as well. I got a decent video of a low pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETG4VMAQxHs
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Koesj posted:I like how these in-shore vessels are one RPO away from burning right down to the waterline. "It's a bazooka designed to kill the Little House on the Prairie." Friend of mine, just now.
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Phanatic posted:I'd think having a fire break out would be a pretty good guarantee that nobody's getting home on time that day. Well yeah, but you try explaining that to the kind of guys starting these fires.
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, and hopefully someone can point me in a better direction if not, but here is a picture of my grandfather in front of a WWI(?) memorial. We believe it's in Britain, since he served in WWII and was sent to Normandy the day after D-Day. Can anyone identify this monument, or tell me anything more about what it is or what/who it represents?
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That's on Fort Lewis. Right in front of the post general's house at the end of the parade field. http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9354 Some more information on it for you. 
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Wow, that was quick! And I was way off on the guess. Thanks so much!
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Knight on the pedestal looks way more like an angry Darth Vader in that first pic
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0kqobQRcUo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-msplukrw
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Third World Reggin posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0kqobQRcUo Look at all these broad shouldered abominations.
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gleep gloop posted:Look at all these broad shouldered abominations. Sick av, bro.
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I will be disappointed if the russians haven't managed to turn tank operation into a major international sporting event before the end of the decade.
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Slashrat posted:I will be disappointed if the russians haven't managed to turn tank operation into a major international sporting event before the end of the decade. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/10/210837966/russia-invites-u-s-to-a-tank-biathlon Wish Granted.
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N17R4M posted:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/10/210837966/russia-invites-u-s-to-a-tank-biathlon I've got wood.
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SORCERY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxddi8m_mzk
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N17R4M posted:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/10/210837966/russia-invites-u-s-to-a-tank-biathlon I really hope this happens.
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N17R4M posted:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/10/210837966/russia-invites-u-s-to-a-tank-biathlon  gently caress yes
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N17R4M posted:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/10/210837966/russia-invites-u-s-to-a-tank-biathlon I have the strangest boner right now...
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