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Yeah I thought the nuclear poo poo might be a big factor Do modern ships still have asbestos? How often do they give old ships to other countries? I know they gave one to Pakistan not too long ago. So I assume hauling it out to sea and blowing It the gently caress up it is the most viable option? I know they do that sometimes. And might provide good training and research
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Asbestos was a component in steam pipe insulation at least as recently as 1992, though they were trying to replace it by stages when I left.
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Christoff posted:Why don't they scrap those things for metal anyways? Eventually, they usually do. These shipyards are sort of a naval equivalent of AMARC, where the old hardware is stored in varying states of usefulness either for parts, or for possible return to service, before a decision is made on what to ultimately do with them. Some are used as targets like America, which I'd loving love to get details on but will be forever classified because it was a test on how a supercarrier actually takes damage and sinks. Some are used to create reefs like Oriskany, which was cool as hell to watch sink. Some become museums, some are scrapped, some are sold off to other nations. A whole bunch of our WWII destroyers served for decades after the USN retired them, sailing in other navies.
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Those carriers in the pic aren't nuclear fuelled FYI, only Enterprise and the Nimitz class are, so the really biglarge decomm problems are still ahead.
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Christoff posted:Why don't they scrap those things for metal anyways? Whole lotta insane butthurt going on in those comments there, but this is my favorite: quote:Woohoo, you guys are some kind of really bad dudes. You remind me of the vignette in the movie “Major Payne”, where the ‘kid cadets tried to break into the competing military school and steal the trophy. You guys had some hair-raising excitement- almost lost a paddle, broke the invisible 500 yard barrier, a spotlight in your eyes and a leak in your cheesy little WalMart raft. One look at you with your dark colored “assault cap” and hoodie and those pesky security guards knew not to take on a raft full of serious UrbExers. "You guys think UrbEx is cool? Try Delta Force." 
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iyaayas01 posted:Buzzing the tower. It was at the conclusion of a counter-sea exercise the BUFFs were running on the CVBG.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Crews working with the Navy used to request TACAN approaches to the carrier for funsies, but most didn't take it below the top deck. I haven't heard of anyone doing it in years though; probably a case of everyone wanting approval from three different bosses before they let you do something unusual. That picture was from 1990, so yeah
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suboptimal posted:Whole lotta insane butthurt going on in those comments there, but this is my favorite: Haha what the hell. Are people really that jealous/mad?
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Christoff posted:Haha what the hell. Are people really that jealous/mad? He made one comment about how the Bush administration ignored the toxic decay of the ships during the 2000s therefore he's a jobless tree-hugging hippie fagmotron.
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I thought the little Delta Force bit was added and exaggerated by you until I read the bit at the end lol
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Yeah, looking around at his site, it's really insane how that one bit about Bush produced roughly 10x comments than any of his other posts, and were pretty much the only negative ones I saw. I'll bet some dude from the forums at UnitedWeStandWolfhunterSheepdogs.50megs.com probably saw this and posted a thread about it, rallying his buddies to the fight. Some of his other urbex posts are pretty cool, especially the Six Flags New Orleans one. Some friends and I got in there one night back in 2008 and even three years later, the place had a serious 28 Days Later feel to it.
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  wait what This is fake right
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Christoff posted:
Harrier pilots are all loving terrible so yeah it's probably fake
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Christoff posted:
Well, it's not a Harrier... And if it's fake they did a really good job. xergm posted:My favorite has always been this pass: South America, where life is cheap.
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Huh I always kind of wondered what it sounded like on the business end of an attack heli's gun run... Now I know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5uzTggVEjU - poo poo starts getting all  at ~2:10
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Duke Chin posted:Huh I always kind of wondered what it sounded like on the business end of an attack heli's gun run... Now I know: WARNING: DOES NOT SHOW TALIBS GETTING SHREDDED ON THEIR 21st CENTURY DRAGON HUNT still very cool
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Yeah, wow, I got a little boner from seeing those dudes peace the gently caress out after making GBS threads their pants.
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Christoff posted:
It's not fake, if I recall someone did the math and the plane was between 80cm to 1m off the ground during that pass.
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Duke Chin posted:Huh I always kind of wondered what it sounded like on the business end of an attack heli's gun run... Now I know: This is why I could never switch teams and join the Jihad. I at no point ever. I repeat, EVER want to be on the wrong end of an A10, Apache or Cobra run.
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Pro beard. E: nvm that stache is terrible.
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Dude's got the right idea, those 72 virgins aren't nearly as fun with your junk shot off.
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Genocide Tendency posted:This is why I could never switch teams and join the Jihad. What about an AC-130? Probably the most fun one out of the bunch.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQazjMVBMI
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The AC-130 mission in COD a few years back owned.
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Mike-o posted:Males me sad any time I drive past Bremerton, but I've got one happy memory of my dad taking me to see the Missouri and walk around on it right before they sent it to Hawaii I was lucky enough to be in Hawai'i when they towed her in. Seeing a battleship floating by was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6N4YjGPXiY 00:40 
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*pooooooooooooot* This actually reminds me: are they still using DU in the mix or did that eliminate that years ago? I loving love that plane.
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The most military of images
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the only thing that i regret about leaving the army is that i will (probably) never participate in a firefight again in my life.
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Chinatown posted:The AC-130 mission in COD a few years back owned. Check out the phone app Zombie Gunship.
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What's that second movie at the end?
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Kavak posted:What's that second movie at the end? 2012, it was bad but had some awesome set shots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcIjFeWE4fE
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Mike-o posted:the only thing that i regret about leaving the army is that i will (probably) never participate in a firefight again in my life.
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Mike-o posted:the only thing that i regret about leaving the army is that i will (probably) never participate in a firefight again in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0DcqK4UZw
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Where'd you find this video of me
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Someone post the forearm shooting mp5 gif. I'm on my phone
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Chinatown posted:The AC-130 mission in COD a few years back owned. It's pretty clear that they handed this video to the developers and said, "Make that the level." Like, down to copy/pasting some of the crew chatter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-gMMQTt5-c EDIT: Not complaining, mind you... Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Dec 16, 2014 |
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