|
https://gfycat.com/MildUnsungCrow
|
#
?
May 14, 2016 01:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 13:10 |
|
|
he burned my patch
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2016 03:49
|
|
|
Poop safe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHJqMtsb8A
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2016 11:30
|
|
|
Chinatown posted:he burned my patch oh man I forgot about that kid lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jq3GB8tm_E
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2016 18:04
|
|
|
hostile apostle posted:Y'all done with the circlejerk? "ya'll done with the circlejerk?"  *posts the most elaborately contrived artillery wank-material video on the planet* not pictured: the 144 hours prior to that at-my-command artillery mission where the battalion commander and smaj belittled the gunny for having one paladin's treads slightly offset from the other 7; the 2 extra days spent rebooting AFATDS because it crashed when entering in this morning's MET data for no reason, the panicked 30 minutes after impact when the FO couldn't positively affirm having personally observed the impact of all 8 individual rounds, the monsoon that buried the entire battery in mud shortly afterwards, and the poo poo-eating grin on the battalion commander's driver's face after jumping into the group photo with the guidon with a full 11 hours of rest in the HMMWV drivers seat.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2016 18:06
|
|
|
Zeris posted:"ya'll done with the circlejerk?" Also not pictured: Med coverage hanging in the FLA out of the rain with a rack of power banks big enough to keep an entire platoon's phones running for a week, buttoning up the back and passing out on litters with the heat cranked, or selling Monsters and snacks at 100-200% market value
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2016 18:38
|
|
|
PKK shoots down Turkish helicopter https://gfycat.com/LimitedAdorableEidolonhelvum
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 01:25
|
|
|
hostile apostle posted:PKK shoots down Turkish helicopter gently caress that's horrifying.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 01:48
|
|
|
hostile apostle posted:PKK shoots down Turkish helicopter God drat, that thing just disintegrates after the SAM cuts the tail off. I don't know if it was just shear stress or in combination with some fragmentation that snapped the rotors, unless it's the ejection system blowing explosive bolts.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 02:19
|
|
|
Massive structural damage from the loss of the tail area + resonance from the rotors would guess. What kind of missile was that anyways it didn't leave much of a smoke trail after the first second or so of flight.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 02:21
|
|
|
ded posted:Massive structural damage from the loss of the tail area + resonance from the rotors would guess. The transmission and remnants of the tail rotor shaft probably liberated themselves from the rest of the airframe.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 02:25
|
|
|
ded posted:What kind of missile was that anyways it didn't leave much of a smoke trail after the first second or so of flight.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 02:56
|
|
|
Naked Bear posted:That looks like an Igla-1. I think it's an SA-18 rather than the SA-16 
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 03:02
|
|
|
It's tagging an AH-64. Was it here that we had the discussion over the value of rotary CAS? Edit: Super Cobra as determined below Godholio fucked around with this message at 17:24 on May 15, 2016 |
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 06:03
|
|
|
do choppers like that have missile approach warnings? why no flares?
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 06:25
|
|
|
Not to go into opsec poo poo, but its a heat seeker missile and any sort of detection system would have to be able to see the flash of the launch or be some sort of active system that looked for high energy projectiles coming at it. And like I mentioned the missile had very little smoke so the pilot would have had to see it right as it launched or hes loving dead.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 06:27
|
|
|
So, youre saying that that's not Abu firing that missile?
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 06:33
|
|
|
VikingSkull posted:oh man I forgot about that kid lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4XzrLm0zGU
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 06:35
|
|
|
rip kid anthology
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 07:08
|
|
|
Chinatown posted:So, youre saying that that's not Abu firing that missile? As soon as I realized that dude was counting down I was pretty confident they knew what they were doing.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 08:05
|
|
|
I'm pretty sure that's not an AH-64 in that GIF, nor do I think it's either of the Turkish equivalents. Look at its rotor: it's got four blades, but they're not uniformly-spaced. It also doesn't appear to have fixed gear.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 08:16
|
|
|
It looked like it had quite a narrow fuselage, could it be a Cobra?
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 08:24
|
|
|
The first thing I saw about it said it was an Apache, but the youtube video says Super Cobra. Didn't know Turkey had those.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 08:44
|
|
|
Yeah it was a Whiskey Cobra (two blade rotor)...the four blade effect was from the frame rate
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 10:42
|
|
|
Godholio posted:It's tagging an AH-64. Was it here that we had the discussion over the value of rotary CAS? I think it's an AH-1, but the point is equally valid.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 13:36
|
|
|
MrYenko posted:I think it's an AH-1, but the point is equally valid. this article agrees with you: https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-shows-pkk-fighter-blasting-214500212.html
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 13:42
|
|
|
MrYenko posted:I think it's an AH-1, but the point is equally valid. Yeah, imagine what Iraq or Afghanistan would look like with substantial stocks of MANPADS and the trained operators behind them ugh
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 19:24
|
|
|
Hot Karl Marx posted:this article agrees with you: https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-shows-pkk-fighter-blasting-214500212.html quote:A day ago, PKK forces claimed responsibility for the downing of the Cobra, while Ankara claimed it was a technical failure. If a heat-seeking missile breaking an aircraft in half is seen as technical failure, that would be accurate. 
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 19:37
|
|
|
https://youtu.be/JCM3d4nkUmk Original video, including an artillery hit earlier on. I think the high-pitched noise right before launch is the missile's gas generator-powered turbine spinning up to power the electronics.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 20:20
|
|
|
I know Assad was "secular" but did Syrian Kurds ever serve in the Syrian armed forces? If so, I bet that's where that guy is from.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2016 20:29
|
|
|
VikingSkull posted:Yeah, imagine what Iraq or Afghanistan would look like with substantial stocks of MANPADS and the trained operators behind them I was an aviation S2 and yeah, that was always fun advice to give our pilots. "Yep, make sure your CMWS is working, otherwise get hosed" But there was a buyback program in Afghanistan the whole time the US was in the country because we knew how loving stupid it was trying to fight in a mountainous country where the insurgents had MANPADS. That said, the most spectacular and catastrophic shootdowns were usually RPGs against hovering CH47s and the occasional DSHK, hauled up a mountainside, to swiss cheese an apache or whatever.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2016 00:12
|
|
|
the stats in Vietnam alone should have been a lesson, but I feel like wires got crossed somewhere like the advantages of being able to strike short distances quickly at low altitude for an assault, that's cool, but anyone who seriously thinks gunships are decent CAS, I dunno maybe in a permissive environment like a catholic girls bedroom who grew up with a single mother, maybe?
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2016 00:33
|
|
|
hostile apostle posted:PKK shoots down Turkish helicopter anytime I see something like this im reminded of the map in battlefield vietnam where the propaganda lady says this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyn_zbIdxls&t=40s
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2016 04:04
|
|
|
Psydude's post in the CE thread reminded me of this gem which was first introduced to me as, "Everything Not To Do As A Medic" or alternatively "ANA Bust-A-Move". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWQOGc78l-g
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2016 04:56
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2016 11:59
|
|
|
Diarrhea Elemental posted:Psydude's post in the CE thread reminded me of this gem which was first introduced to me as, "Everything Not To Do As A Medic" or alternatively "ANA Bust-A-Move". As a dude in the medical field that's uh... quite an extensive injury.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2016 18:43
|
|
|
dont step on mines/IEDs is my takeaway from that video.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2016 18:46
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3AHzgagsw
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2016 19:07
|
|
|
Chinatown posted:dont step on mines/IEDs is my takeaway from that video. Would that it were so simple.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2016 19:46
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 13:10 |
|
|
Blind Rasputin posted:As a dude in the medical field that's uh... quite an extensive injury. It's almost physically painful to watch given that it's the medic's PoV, you can literally see his brain just completely locking up while the PSG? handles poo poo. Chinatown posted:dont step on mines/IEDs is my takeaway from that video. Toe-poppers are a biiiitch. Just looking at that, I'd rather have my hairy Scotch Irish buttcheeks flapping in the breeze out of cover while trying to hop the walls than have anything to do with that giant neon lit "PLEASE PUT AN IED HERE" chokepoint.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2016 20:02
|
|