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Ataxerxes posted:Yeah, GARS was killed in the middle of Germany and they slowly transported him to Sweden for burial. Hadn't he been embalmed there would only have been a skeleton left by the time he arrived at Sweden.
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Of course the WW2 US Marine Corp had a genital based nickname for the garrison side cap. Hint, foreskins.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Of course the WW2 US Marine Corp had a genital based nickname for the garrison side cap. The green weenie gonna get cha.
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The nickname I've always heard from older retired Marines for that is considerably ruder.
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Milhist thread: At some point everything has a dick based nickname.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Milhist thread: At some point everything has a dick based nickname. probably better as "Milhist thread: dick-based nicknames"
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It's not even dick-based, it's called a c*ntcap afaik
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For bewbies:  Also for the interested, I wrote my next thing on Alcock and Brown. Features discussions of footware for ladies, incredibly dubious stimulants, and a blimp accident: https://horseformer.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-sa-edit.html
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I'm pretty sure whoever drew that didn't understand how torpedos worked at all.
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Saint Celestine posted:I'm pretty sure whoever drew that didn't understand how torpedos worked at all. Might have been semi-effective against old style contact triggers. Big loving "might" on that though.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Might have been semi-effective against old style contact triggers. Big loving "might" on that though. Yeah that's my thought. As for back-breakers? ehhhh
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Saint Celestine posted:I'm pretty sure whoever drew that didn't understand how torpedos worked at all.
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aphid_licker posted:It's not even dick-based, it's called a c*ntcap afaik The nickname I am talking about charmingly refereed to it as the piss cutter.
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I really like the idea of using the exhaust system of the 200,000 shaft horsepower steam boiler propulsion system as a torpedo belt. The 2012 equivalent of this design would be a battleship made up of 500,000 modular steel rooms that you put together like a pipe puzzle.
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Does the Super Destroyer come with the initial purchase?
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um. . . so this morning I couldn't help but continue to read about early embalming practices, and I stumbled on this article about a truly bizarre 17th century anatomical museum. It features. . . creative dioramas.quote:IN 1689, ON THE CANAL Bloemgracht in Amsterdam there was a museum that showcased preserved anatomical specimens in a peculiar manner.    “Ah Fate, ah Bitter Fate!” An etching from Thesaurus anatomicus. U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE/PUBLIC DOMAIN The full article with more pictures, and links to a full catalogue of illustrations of these dioramas can be found on Atlas Obscura
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SeanBeansShako posted:The nickname I am talking about charmingly refereed to it as the piss cutter. This nickname carried through to at least the 90s
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SeanBeansShako posted:The nickname I am talking about charmingly refereed to it as the piss cutter. So many options, however they're all genital-based
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is the Assault Amphibious Vehicle a classic battle taxi or is it more of an IFV? Absolutely a battle-taxi, with a large capacity to make amphibious assaults more viable.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Might have been semi-effective against old style contact triggers. Big loving "might" on that though. Torpedo bulges were alternating layers of liquid (water or oil)-filled and air-filled. As I understand it, the liquid blunts the speed of shrapnel, the air diffuses the area of the explosion (since it's compressible). So yeah, that "bulge" isn't gonna do much against torpedoes. It's a neat design though, aesthethically speaking.
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You can picture Tin Tin for some reason chilling on that thing.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:probably better as "Milhist thread: dick-based nicknames" Milhist thread: Dick jokes throughout history.
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Nebakenezzer posted:For bewbies: I love the 'rounded' turrets that have no space for rotation behind their non-rounded rears. Especially the one wedged between the conning towers, now permanently threatening the aft tower!
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In the drawing the turrets are stowed, they aren't shown in their jet-powered hover mode.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:I really like the idea of using the exhaust system of the 200,000 shaft horsepower steam boiler propulsion system as a torpedo belt. See, I was looking at that and thinking 'some sort of guiness world record attempt at carbon monoxide poisoning' Either because of a leak, a rupture, or a wind blowing directly astern
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taqueso posted:In the drawing the turrets are stowed, they aren't shown in their jet-powered hover mode. Nah, there's just a couple of scissor jacks on either side of each turret. Lift it up a couple meters and you're good to go! Scissor jacks make for a stable firing platform, right?
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Megadreadnaught gonna have some stability problems with the height of C turret, even if it's only a two-gun mount. Which reminds me that the people who have to pay for the turret designs are looking at the mix of two-gun, three-gun, and four-gun turrets and thinking that in this case, their pencils might not be best used for drafting. How would you even create those turret shapes?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is the Assault Amphibious Vehicle a classic battle taxi or is it more of an IFV? It's one of these: 
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aphid_licker posted:Why are the sides all, idk what the word for that is, ribbed? For her pleasure
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It looks like applique armor of some kind? e: It's Rafael's Armor Shield P https://www.rafael.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Armor-Shield-P.pdf PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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aphid_licker posted:Why are the sides all, idk what the word for that is, ribbed? It's an applique armour package called either "Armor Shield P" or "EAAK" depending on the excact configuration. The plates are angled because it means that a penetrator will first have to penetrate an angled plate, then a flat plate. Penetrators don't like doing this, so it increases the armour protection more than a flat plate would. On the AAVP-7A1 it increases the side armour protection from 7.62 NATO AP to 14.5x114 mm Soviet and 155 mm artillery fragments.
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AAVs without an armor kit can be penetrated by a machine gun? That seems like an oversight.
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wiegieman posted:AAVs without an armor kit can be penetrated by a machine gun? That seems like an oversight. you're supposed to drive straight at the beach not gently caress around initital D Okinawa style
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aphid_licker posted:Why are the sides all, idk what the word for that is, ribbed? This is also the second type of bolt-on/applique armor used by AAVs. From about 1988 to 1992 many of them had this:  It's called "mesh" in the caption, but it's heavy, two sheets each almost 1/4" thick. More recently there was a proposed upgrade to this:  But that whole program was ditched; they're retiring AAVs in favor of a wheeled piece of garbage: I suppose retiring the AAV-7 was inevitable, but I'm not happy with the replacement. LatwPIAT posted:It's an applique armour package called either "Armor Shield P" or "EAAK" depending on the excact configuration. No one called it "Armor Shield P." It was universally called EAAK (pronounced "eek"). Cessna fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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wiegieman posted:AAVs without an armor kit can be penetrated by a machine gun? That seems like an oversight. Do you want it to float or not? That's the problem. The specs that make a good AFV - low silhouette, armor, etc - make a lovely unstable boat with a low freeboard and very little buoyancy. The AAVs represent compromises between two very different requirements.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:you're supposed to drive straight at the beach not gently caress around initital D Okinawa style Sure, but even if you pick a beach that doesn't have a tank on it, it seems pretty likely that there's going to be some dude with an old Soviet machine gun shooting back. That seems like a design criteria. e: Sniped, but yeah I guess this was the era before composite armor.
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Cessna posted:Do you want it to float or not? Did anyone try to make heavy submersible vehicles that would just crawl across the bottom, with battery power or a snorkel for the engine?
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wiegieman posted:Sure, but even if you pick a beach that doesn't have a tank on it, it seems pretty likely that there's going to be some dude with an old Soviet machine gun shooting back. That seems like a design criteria. The side armour is penetratable, not the front. Apart from the Soviet Dolphin Force, there aren't many threats to the side of a beach. taqueso posted:Did anyone try to make heavy submersible vehicles that would just crawl across the bottom, with battery power or a snorkel for the engine? Well this is how some tanks cross rivers. The ocean is much deeper and I think the air pressure in the snorkel column gets too much at a fairly low height.
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