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MRC48B posted:
OPSEC, sorry.
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Aug 22, 2013 19:21
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context please?
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TCD posted:He looks like Someone really needs to make a Mike Vining Smilie. In the top left...Charles Bronson?
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Aug 22, 2013 19:28
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but with glasses
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 A little birdy told me this is actually Belgian SF undercover
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Aug 22, 2013 20:56
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MRC48B posted:
It's what we call "A good day." Ice Cube rapped about it once.
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Aug 22, 2013 21:18
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evil_bunnY posted:It's a good day when your CIWS goes "gently caress you dad you can't tell me what to do!" Of all of the terrible things that machine could do, I've never seen anything crazy happen with it other than some jackass deciding he wanted to drill through a 20 mm round and promptly expending it through his foot.* e:*Happened right before I checked on board, was not actually in the room when this happened.
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Aug 22, 2013 21:52
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MRC48B posted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere_Man_%28TV_series%29
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Aug 22, 2013 21:57
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Thanks for the serious answer. I have never seen or heard of that show. Makes sense it was in the 90s though. People really went apeshit back then over the whole meninblack government conspiracy thing.
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Aug 22, 2013 22:26
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You're the guy that yells out how magic tricks work while they're being performed.
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Aug 22, 2013 22:29
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Godholio posted:You're the guy that yells out how magic tricks work while they're being performed. Some of us like to be informed 
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Aug 22, 2013 22:32
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Couple pictures of Delta Force guys right before Operation Acid Gambit, during the US Invasion of Panama in 1989:   Oldschool SF Bestschool SF
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Aug 22, 2013 22:46
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 Wild weasel jet... gets radars to track it so other planes can blow them up! "You want me to fly in the back of a little tiny fighter aircraft with a crazy fighter pilot who thinks he's invincible, home in on a SAM site in North Vietnam, and shoot it before it shoots me, you gotta be shittin' me!" Fallows fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Aug 22, 2013 23:32
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Godholio posted:You're the guy that yells out how magic tricks work while they're being performed.
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Aug 22, 2013 23:57
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Fallows posted:
Pretty sure that aircraft was not performing as Wild Weasel in Vietnam.
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Aug 23, 2013 02:38
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I believe the aircraft you are looking for is this: But if F-16s are more your bag, then try F-16CJ:  Or, you can fly Navy and do tactical electronic warfare the way it was meant to be done:  I've got a huge soft spot for electronic warfare aircraft. My dad worked the back seat in both the Prowler and the Whale. The EA-3 is an often forgotten aircraft. It wasn't fast, efficient, or good looking, but dammit it existed: 
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Aug 23, 2013 02:58
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What's that thing on the centerline hardpoint on the F-16CJ and why is that a single seater and not a two-seater?
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Aug 23, 2013 03:55
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Mortabis posted:What's that thing on the centerline hardpoint on the F-16CJ and why is that a single seater and not a two-seater? Sniper XR/LANTIRN/LITENING pod. Useful for observation and locking on to laser designators. Woof Blitzer fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Aug 23, 2013 04:50
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Mortabis posted:What's that thing on the centerline hardpoint on the F-16CJ and why is that a single seater and not a two-seater? Because Air Force, basically. The USAF had absolutely no desire to replace the F-4G and was content to let the Navy handle SEAD and other tactical electronic warfare missions for the most part. The USAF has a disdain for two seat fighter aircraft, and has avoided making them whenever possible. Rather than contract a new airframe for SEAD or buy EA-6Bs, the USAF decided to add some wiring and pods to F-16C. As far as I know, since the F-16CJ has no ECMO it isn't useful for much more than straight up SEAD, it lacks much of the versatility of EA-18G/EA-6B.
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Aug 23, 2013 05:18
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hey look at all those words
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Aug 23, 2013 05:22
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Found an old AirForce® recruiting video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0YSaEOiUG8&t=610s
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Aug 23, 2013 05:28
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Thump! posted:Couple pictures of Delta Force guys right before Operation Acid Gambit, during the US Invasion of Panama in 1989: I lived at Fort Sherman, Panama during Operation Just Cause. My dad was the operations officer of the Jungle Warfare Training Center. Most of the instructors were either SF or Rangers. Here's a excerpt from a website about the JWTC: quote:The unit that operated the Jungle Operations Training Center was redesignated the Jungle Operations Training Battalion (JOTB) during the invasion of Panama in December 1989. The battalion was notified of possible contingency operations as tensions between the American and Panamanian governments increased, and prepared and trained accordingly. The JOTB was augmented with additional combat and combat support assets and as JUST CAUSE began, was designated Task Force Sherman. The task force served with the 3rd Brigade, 7th Infantry Division (Light) as part of Task Force Atlantic. You got one of these for finishing the course.  And here's what Fort Sherman looks like today over a decade after being transferred back to the Panamanians.  I lived in a house just like one of these while my dad was stationed there. Any goons that were in the military during the 90's attend Jungle School?
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Aug 23, 2013 05:41
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There are some pro rear end mustaches in this pic.
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Aug 23, 2013 05:52
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When we pulled into Panama in '05-ish they took us to some old US Army base that looked an awful lot like that one. The Panamanians were desperate for the Americans to come back.
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Aug 23, 2013 06:00
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Rude. posted:Sniper XR/LANTIRN/LITENING pod. Useful for observation and locking on to laser designators. No it's not it's a jammer. Targeting pod for the HARMs is the smaller one on the right side of the intake (HTS pod).
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Aug 23, 2013 06:25
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compressioncut posted:No it's not it's a jammer. Targeting pod for the HARMs is the smaller one on the right side of the intake (HTS pod). What kind of jammer? I want to look for this on the F/A-18s I'm going to be seeing.
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Aug 23, 2013 06:28
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compressioncut posted:No it's not it's a jammer. Targeting pod for the HARMs is the smaller one on the right side of the intake (HTS pod). This man is correct. The centerline hardpoint is an ALQ-184 ECM pod. The intake mounted pod is a pod associated with the HARM Targeting System (hence, HTS). The HARM being the big gently caress-off missiles between the AIM-9's and the external fuel tanks. I used to put those pods up and take them down every day. Neither of the F-16s on this page have a normal targeting pod installed. And as for why it's not a two-seater? Two-seaters are trainers. Riot Carol Danvers fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Aug 23, 2013 06:54
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Red Crown posted:Because Air Force, basically. The USAF had absolutely no desire to replace the F-4G and was content to let the Navy handle SEAD and other tactical electronic warfare missions for the most part. The USAF has a disdain for two seat fighter aircraft, and has avoided making them whenever possible. Rather than contract a new airframe for SEAD or buy EA-6Bs, the USAF decided to add some wiring and pods to F-16C. As far as I know, since the F-16CJ has no ECMO it isn't useful for much more than straight up SEAD, it lacks much of the versatility of EA-18G/EA-6B. If you're saying it's not much more useful in the EA realm than for SEAD, yeah that's pretty accurate. But most or all of ACC's F-16s are CJ/CG (ie, SEAD capable) while maintaining their primary multirole missions. It's probably the only current example of a jack of all trades aircraft that actually works reasonably well. The F-16s will be used for SEAD on smaller missions while the Growlers are saved for bigger/more challenging stuff when PET shots aren't gonna cut it...and the F-16s will probably be carrying bombs on those missions.
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Aug 23, 2013 15:50
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gfanikf posted:One more of Mike...because its even better. Dude looks like he enlisted when he was still 14-15 (like some guys did back in WW2 when it was harder to catch) but no one caught on. Jesus.
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Aug 23, 2013 16:05
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Handsome Ralph posted:Dude looks like he enlisted when he was still 14-15 (like some guys did back in WW2 when it was harder to catch) but no one caught on. Jesus. I've heard of this happening, and know about a few cases, but I'd love it if I could find some actual numbers on how many teenagers got into the military this way. Man high school/working on a farm blows, I'm gonna kill me some krauts.
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Aug 23, 2013 16:18
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Spot the Vining.
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Aug 23, 2013 16:21
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Easy, far right.
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Aug 23, 2013 16:44
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Uh y'all talking about Wild Weasels without posting any -G model Thuds are wrong, wrong, wrong:    Some bad rear end mother fuckers here:   Also Spark Varks, thanks Air Force for prematurely retiring the one thing in the fleet that was completely irreplaceable (click for huge with most of these):        And yeah, like Godholio said Vipers aren't intended to be full blown SEAD/DEAD aircraft like the Prowler/Growler (and they certainly have a basically nonexistent jamming capability) because SEAD/DEAD is just an additional mission for certain units that fly those models, not their be all end all like the Prolwer/Growler. The last dedicated SEAD aircraft in the USAF inventory was the iyaayas01 fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Aug 23, 2013 17:19
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nullandvoid posted:Spot the Vining. Someone should have told him he probably didn't have to wear those frames.
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Aug 23, 2013 23:36
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The modern selection of frames is a pretty recent thing.
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Aug 23, 2013 23:37
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If I were a loving Delta operator I drat sure would wear BCGs.
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Aug 23, 2013 23:43
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Aug 24, 2013 00:05
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JSARSOM posted:If I were a loving Delta operator I drat sure would wear BCGs. I am no Delta, but I wear my BCGs when I workout or underway.
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Aug 24, 2013 00:08
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Is he using his rifle as an antenna? edit: And a SKILCRAFT pen. Fuckin' awesome. Wanna talk on dat satphone.
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Aug 24, 2013 00:10
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Handsome Ralph posted:Dude looks like he enlisted when he was still 14-15 (like some guys did back in WW2 when it was harder to catch) but no one caught on. Jesus. Nope, you're just getting old. 18 year olds look younger every drat day.
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Aug 24, 2013 00:30
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iyaayas01 posted:And yeah, like Godholio said Vipers aren't intended to be full blown SEAD/DEAD aircraft like the Prowler/Growler (and they certainly have a basically nonexistent jamming capability) because SEAD/DEAD is just an additional mission for certain units that fly those models, not their be all end all like the Prolwer/Growler. The last dedicated SEAD aircraft in the USAF inventory was the Have there been any proposed replacements for the EF-111?
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On the subject of special forces, here is a documentary on the selection course for the Australian SAS. Speaking as a civilian, it looks incredibly loving brutal. edit: full thing here. Hydrolith fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Aug 24, 2013 |
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Aug 24, 2013 01:39
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