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Godholio posted:Pretty sure there were six. You can see the other two partially obscured by the vehicle, and there are clearly 5 launches heard before the video ends. Yeah, 4 on video. But I'm assuming he started filming after the first launch, and you can hear 5. I'm curious as to why so many were launched if it was against one TBM.
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mlmp08 posted:Yeah, 4 on video. But I'm assuming he started filming after the first launch, and you can hear 5. I'm curious as to why so many were launched if it was against one TBM. I sure hope you are not questioning the competence of Royal Saudi Land Forces there
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mlmp08 posted:Yeah, 4 on video. But I'm assuming he started filming after the first launch, and you can hear 5. I'm curious as to why so many were launched if it was against one TBM. 
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Nov 5, 2017 18:57
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MikeCrotch posted:I sure hope you are not questioning the competence of Royal Saudi Land Forces there During OIF, there was apparently a whole lot of the US engaging TBMs and Kuwait playing "ME TOO!" and taking shots that were unnecessary.
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Nov 5, 2017 19:04
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mlmp08 posted:Yeah, 4 on video. But I'm assuming he started filming after the first launch, and you can hear 5. I'm curious as to why so many were launched if it was against one TBM. Multiple shots is a tried and true way of increasing your Pk. Those interceptors are a lot cheaper than an impact. 4+ is probably excessive, but I think everyone who's worked with the Saudis has an appreciation for the value of competence seen elsewhere.
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Godholio posted:Multiple shots is a tried and true way of increasing your Pk. Those interceptors are a lot cheaper than an impact. 2 is doctrinal. 4 could be a failsafe for "absolutely loving nothing gets through." Beyond that  and/or conjecture that quickly gets into  territory.
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mlmp08 posted:2 is doctrinal. 4 could be a failsafe for "absolutely loving nothing gets through." Beyond that It's not like they're hurting for equipment. They pretty much buy way more than they need as a way to buy influence with the US and other western countries.
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Anta posted:It's not like they're hurting for equipment. They pretty much buy way more than they need as a way to buy influence with the US and other western countries. No joke, I feel incredibly stupid for not heavily investing into various missile/defense companies. Was worried about clearances/insider trading knowledge, but it turns out none of that poo poo would've applied. 300%+ over 5 years would've been really nice.............
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mlmp08 posted:2 is doctrinal. 4 could be a failsafe for "absolutely loving nothing gets through." Beyond that Two is OUR doctrine. If I had Saudi troops working for me, I'd probably double it right off the bat too.
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Godholio posted:Two is OUR doctrine. If I had Saudi troops working for me, I'd probably double it right off the bat too. It's not like humans calculate the intercept. That poo poo is all done by EDWA processes (computers).
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Nov 5, 2017 22:16
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Maybe they listen to a lot of Arms Control Wonk and heeded Jeffrey's advice of four in order to be sure.
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mlmp08 posted:It's not like humans calculate the intercept. That poo poo is all done by EDWA processes (computers). I'm starting to think you've never worked with them. Pick the dumbest soldiers you've ever dealt with. Give them a superiority complex, laziness x10, and poo poo attitudes if anyone tries to show them how to do their job even in a training environment. You've got the best of the best in the Saudi forces, the ones they send as their best foot forward to the US for "advanced" training.
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Godholio posted:I'm starting to think you've never worked with them. I've worked with several and sent a team of soldiers to train them up on Patriot for several months a few years back. I was just referring to the fact that while a human can mash the engage button repeatedly for no good reason, the human isn't coming up with the intercept geometry.
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True, but my going-in expectation is that the first 3 of those shots are outside parameters. 
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https://i.imgur.com/nrTsLFo.mp4
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I like this version more https://youtu.be/KA8mYnZcy5w
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Hot Karl Marx posted:I like this version more Lol this is good.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:I like this version more That never gets old.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:I like this version more oh hell yeah
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https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/931533297016016897
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Neat, but still not as impressive as the sub drawing a dick in the ocean story.
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I don't know the sub story but its obviously better by virtue of being in the sky for all to see and enjoy  Lmao this article has some awesome facts about the Blue Angels too https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/99015606/us-navy-says-genitalia-air-display-absolutely-unacceptable
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Nov 17, 2017 23:12
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Call sign “Stiffy”
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Nov 17, 2017 23:26
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It's an EW squadron, you guys just don't have the clearance necessary to understand the complex maneuvers required to employ their equipment. 
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Nov 17, 2017 23:57
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https://twitter.com/NorwegianArmy/status/933258199700066304 That final shot of the rockets landing is pretty bonkers, I'd hate to be in the receiving end of a rocket artillery barrage 
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Missionary Positron posted:https://twitter.com/NorwegianArmy/status/933258199700066304 Are those Soviet designed launchers or do they have some sort of native MLRS they've cooked up? e: Twitter says Czech RM-70s
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Missionary Positron posted:https://twitter.com/NorwegianArmy/status/933258199700066304 I wonder what the spread in terms of range from the launcher is with those, it looks like they're coming down in an almost straight line
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my kinda ape posted:Are those Soviet designed launchers or do they have some sort of native MLRS they've cooked up? Yeah RM70 seems most likely, as we have a bunch of those + a small (something like 22) number of M270 MLRS launchers.
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I think that's the last thing a lot of Iraqis saw in 1991.
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Missionary Positron posted:https://twitter.com/NorwegianArmy/status/933258199700066304 Apparently that's what a bunch of US infantry dudes in the first wave on D-Day thought right before watching most of the rockets fall into the sea or fly right over the German bunkers
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Arctic camo is cool as hell. Those white M4s are baller
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cowboy elvis posted:Arctic camo is cool as hell. Those white M4s are baller
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That's what skis and snowshoes are for
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Some rad footage from the same exercise as the twitter vid + random reindeers as a bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5TQKhF6lX0
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I know we always joke around saying WW3 in 4K is going to be rad as gently caress, but holy poo poo it is actually going to be rad as gently caress. That is a good video.
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How many of those reindeer do you think ate poo poo during that rocket barrage?
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Grem posted:How many of those reindeer do you think ate poo poo during that rocket barrage? When I was in the army, more than once we had to stop firing the mortars because target area had reindeers wandering in there 
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Patrocclesiastes posted:When I was in the army, more than once we had to stop firing the mortars because target area had reindeers wandering in there Yeah, happened to us as well. The forward observers immediately told us to cease fire if they saw movement in the target area. I think they mainly do it because the military has to pay compensation to the reindeer herders if any of their animals wander into an artillery strike.
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