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subterfudge
Aug 5, 2015

Pesticide20 posted:

goddamn I have seen that video way too loving many times. Every loving day of airborne school, at least twice a day. Every. loving. Day. You watch it. You watch it until when you watch it, it's the video that's watching you. gently caress that video.

e: looking at the comments, how the gently caress do those people remember what airborne class they were in? Was it seriously that loving incredible for them that they can remember that bullshit? If so, wow, that is the saddest, most pathetic thing.

I''ve been through airborne and I've never seen that video before. I guess my class lucked out or something.

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Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Dead Reckoning posted:

Many? All. Having been through that exact course too many times, I am completely certain that they write the solution that they want and then back a problem and description on to it, just like everything else at SOS. The lack of consistency in the obstacle materials is the most aggrivating part. That, or people who don't know what they are doing going rouge and trying to implement their own plan in the middle of an obstacle, like your sister taking her twentieth stroke on a mini-golf hole she refuses to give up on.

That's what I thought too, but I only went through I think 3 of those things and two of them were the exact same problem/solution wrapped in a slightly differently. (lean these poles together and put the long one reaching from the stack to the destination and crawl across without falling in the water/rocks)

hostile apostle
Aug 29, 2006
:stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia:
Stadia didn't outlive SA but it did outlive Lowtax - Happy Birthday Stadia! #ad
:stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia::stadia:
PanzerKampfwagen Maultier of the 231st Gebirgsjägerbataillon

https://gfycat.com/NaiveMelodicAsianlion

ch3cooh
Jun 26, 2006


brrrrrrrrrrrrrt

davecrazy
Nov 25, 2004

I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.


quote:

Russian attack jets flew “dangerously close” to a U.S. Navy destroyer numerous times in the Baltic Sea this week, according to U.S. officials, continuing a pattern of behavior in the region that the Defense Department has previously decried.

The incidents occurred Monday and Tuesday, with the planes making multiple passes by the USS Donald Cook, a destroyer, while it was traveling in international waters, U.S. European Command officials said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. The organization released videos that show the jets roaring by at a high rate of speed, seemingly no more than a few hundred feet away.

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.
That's pretty close

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

What could possibly go wrong?

https://twitter.com/VOANews/status/720356944037294084

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
glad to see our russian friends appreciate a good fly-by as much as us americans

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

Yeah but the Russians are pretty poo poo at fly bys

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro

So did Top Gun just release over there or what?

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
If only they knew about the pictures we have taken of them.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Bolow posted:

Yeah but the Russians are pretty poo poo at fly bys



Pilot bailed out not seeing a problem here

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique



Proposed ground mount of GAU-8, from the DIVAD program that lead to Sergeant York.

Too beautiful for this world.

quote:

Not surprisingly, the General Electric Company proposal adapted their successful 30mm GAU-8 seven barrel cannon to an antiaircraft turret. In this mount, the externally powered GAU-8A was manned by a crew of two. Both the commander and the gunner had firing controls and either could operate the entire system. Nicknamed the Avenger, the proposed weapon had an effective kill range of 4000 meters as a design goal. Originally, the radar was an improved version of the one developed for the earlier Vulcan air defense system with which the fire control equipment had some items in common. Later, a more advanced radar system was proposed.

Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Apr 13, 2016

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
Does anyone remember that air show from several decades ago where the entire flight or pack or squad or whatever of blue angels (or whatever) left big long poo poo smears on the earth in perfect, beautiful symmetry because they watched the lead plane gently caress up and fail to pull up in time, but as good disciplined little Americans, they refused to break formation, effectively laying upon the altar of entertainment and excess their taxpayer equipment and souls? Doe anyone remember that?

Craptacular
Jul 11, 2004

Zeris posted:

Does anyone remember that air show from several decades ago where the entire flight or pack or squad or whatever of blue angels (or whatever) left big long poo poo smears on the earth in perfect, beautiful symmetry because they watched the lead plane gently caress up and fail to pull up in time, but as good disciplined little Americans, they refused to break formation, effectively laying upon the altar of entertainment and excess their taxpayer equipment and souls? Doe anyone remember that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Thunderbirds_Indian_Springs_Diamond_Crash

Well, I don't remember it because I was in preschool at the time but YKWIM.

Duke Chin
Jan 11, 2002

Roger That:
MILK CRATES INBOUND

:siren::siren::siren::siren:
- FUCK THE HABS -

Zeris posted:

Does anyone remember that air show from several decades ago where the entire flight or pack or squad or whatever of blue angels (or whatever) left big long poo poo smears on the earth in perfect, beautiful symmetry because they watched the lead plane gently caress up and fail to pull up in time, but as good disciplined little Americans, they refused to break formation, effectively laying upon the altar of entertainment and excess their taxpayer equipment and souls? Doe anyone remember that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Thunderbirds_Indian_Springs_Diamond_Crash

quote:

Initial speculation was that the accident might have been due to pilot error, that the leader might have misjudged his altitude or speed and the other three pilots repeated the error.[4] However, the Air Force concluded that the crash was due to a jammed stabilizer on the lead jet. The other pilots, in accordance with their training, did not break formation.[6]

ed: ^^^ :argh: ^^^
ed ed: vvv :golfclap: vvv

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Craptacular posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Thunderbirds_Indian_Springs_Diamond_Crash

Well, I don't remember it because I was in preschool at the time but YKWIM.

Ah yes, so beautiful:

quote:

Initial speculation was that the accident might have been due to pilot error, that the leader might have misjudged his altitude or speed and the other three pilots repeated the error.[4] However, the Air Force concluded that the crash was due to a jammed stabilizer on the lead jet. The other pilots, in accordance with their training, did not break formation and were recorded screaming over each other on the net, "TO THE END, MY LIEGE"

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
Welp

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

quote:

"At the speed they were going when they came out of the loop, I just thought, "That's the end of that for them fellows,'" said W. G. Wood of Indian Springs, who witnessed the crash as he drove along U.S. 95.

wg wood owns

Duke Chin
Jan 11, 2002

Roger That:
MILK CRATES INBOUND

:siren::siren::siren::siren:
- FUCK THE HABS -
wanted to make (another goddamn) Lawn Dart joke but forgot they were flying T-38's then.




So here have this instead.

Madurai
Jun 26, 2012

Duke Chin posted:

wanted to make (another goddamn) Lawn Dart joke but forgot they were flying T-38's then.

Skyhawks.

Duke Chin
Jan 11, 2002

Roger That:
MILK CRATES INBOUND

:siren::siren::siren::siren:
- FUCK THE HABS -
That was the Blue Angels dude not the Tbirds

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009
excited about the beast getting a remake, not so sure filming it on a potato was the best choice though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkCURCj0EWg

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

excited about the beast getting a remake, not so sure filming it on a potato was the best choice though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkCURCj0EWg

maybe let's not use the term potato

Seizure Meat
Jul 23, 2008

by Smythe

when they had the NY airshow last year and a guy got killed in a stuntplane, my coworker caught it on camera and you can hear all the morons going "ooh was that part of the act?" when he broke apart, meanwhile you can hear me in the background screaming "oh my god" because I knew he was dead

there's always one nerd around when disaster strikes

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms9pxvEbILs

Sax Offender
Sep 9, 2007

College Slice
Holy crap...that's the Army theme of my childhood. That and the themes from Stripes and Rambo.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

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


Grimey Drawer

Derek Dominoe posted:

Holy crap...that's the Army theme of my childhood. That and the themes from Stripes and Rambo.

same

also the marines fighting the lava monster

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners
#only90skids

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

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


Grimey Drawer
:corsair:

Duke Chin
Jan 11, 2002

Roger That:
MILK CRATES INBOUND

:siren::siren::siren::siren:
- FUCK THE HABS -

Holy poo poo my childhood.

There's part of me that likes to think whoever made these went on to direct episodes of MacGyver, A-Team, Airwolf etc.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

I thought this was p. cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuk5bWa-C8w

Busket Posket
Feb 5, 2010

✨ⓡⓐⓨⓜⓞⓝⓓ✨

Woah. That's so much cooler than the dragon.

This autoplayed after that, so I, uh had to watch it.

http://youtu.be/EyVcuZsINUg

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Busket Posket posted:

Woah. That's so much cooler than the dragon.

This autoplayed after that, so I, uh had to watch it.

http://youtu.be/EyVcuZsINUg

I had to double check you weren't N4I

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Busket Posket posted:

Woah. That's so much cooler than the dragon.

This autoplayed after that, so I, uh had to watch it.

http://youtu.be/EyVcuZsINUg

It's on par with this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmta7GwXCpo


I met a good handful of Royal Marines and they were always swole as gently caress

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Busket Posket posted:

Woah. That's so much cooler than the dragon.



I dig how the two guys who surprise the chav are apparently just going to stay there holding onto him for the rest of the operation.

Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

I met a good handful of Royal Marines and they were always swole as gently caress

I tried to drink with two of them who were in the Falklands. The older one was in when the RN still had a rum ration, and personally knew the guy who put two Carl Gustavs into the Guerrico.

That turned out to be a mistake.

Bernard McFacknutah
Nov 13, 2009

Busket Posket posted:

Woah. That's so much cooler than the dragon.

This autoplayed after that, so I, uh had to watch it.

http://youtu.be/EyVcuZsINUg

This guy uses my gym, which isn't the one they are filming in.

He was also smashing this for a long time [url=http://postimage.org/]

Cabbage Disrespect
Apr 24, 2009

ROBUST COMBAT
Leonard Riflepiss
Soiled Meat

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007


Egypt? Also goddamn

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Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011
I like that they've created a weapon system ideally suited for mowing down street protests, and are making no attempt to disguise that fact.

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