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It's no surprise it didn't take with the advent of SAMs and ABMs along with the "nukes solve everything" thinking of the fifties. Take the Nike Zeus- 90 g acceleration to over mach 4 in seconds. It needed ablative shielding to deal with the heat loads and glowed as if it were experiencing re-entry. Then it could knock out a bomber formation with a 25-400 kiloton warhead.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:It's no surprise it didn't take with the advent of SAMs and ABMs along with the "nukes solve everything" thinking of the fifties. Take the Nike Zeus- 90 g acceleration to over mach 4 in seconds. It needed ablative shielding to deal with the heat loads and glowed as if it were experiencing re-entry. Then it could knock out a bomber formation with a 25-400 kiloton warhead. holy poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O81nJeVKUOc
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Nov 19, 2014 17:46
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The sprint is still the best AA missile ever in my mind. One big ablative cone with a bigass motor and a bigass nuke
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Nov 19, 2014 17:47
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The Sprint was pretty baller. Mach 10 in five seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvZGaMt7UgQ Check the skin of the missile glowing white hot from atmospheric friction.
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Nov 19, 2014 18:00
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:The Sprint was pretty baller. Mach 10 in five seconds. gently caress, that's cool.
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Nov 19, 2014 18:17
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Nov 19, 2014 18:56
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Missiles are cool and do cool things Like this target ship being mulched by two Sunburns 
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Nov 19, 2014 18:56
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Is that how that stack is supposed to look??
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Nov 19, 2014 18:57
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zombie303 posted:Is that how that stack is supposed to look?? Don't really know tbqh, but Curtis really don't give a poo poo 
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Nov 19, 2014 18:59
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zombie303 posted:Is that how that stack is supposed to look?? Curtis would nuke you for asking that question.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:00
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Curtis would nuke you for asking that question. It would be an honor.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:01
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Potential BFF posted:Missiles are cool and do cool things Every time I see these, I think the war nerd is right. The surface fleet is toast.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:08
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Potential BFF posted:Missiles are cool and do cool things
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Nov 19, 2014 19:16
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Potential BFF posted:Missiles are cool and do cool things whymodernshipshavenoarmor.gif
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Nov 19, 2014 19:31
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Potential BFF posted:Missiles are cool and do cool things Jesus, 2nd missile looks like it goes all the way through the ship, front to back (or back to front, I'm not a boat person).
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Nov 19, 2014 19:32
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zombie303 posted:Is that how that stack is supposed to look?? Yea in the USAF the ribbons are offset from the collar if the rack is big enough. Not hard to do in the USAF. Mine puts some third world African dictators to shame.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:36
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holocaust bloopers posted:Yea in the USAF the ribbons are offset from the collar if the rack is big enough. Basically every Canadian leaves Tinker with more medals than their chief of staff.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:49
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This is cool and pisses me off at the same time: Nike Ajax vs B-17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKFE90sWqx8
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Nov 19, 2014 20:11
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Meydey posted:This is cool and pisses me off at the same time: Nike Ajax vs B-17 Just imagine it's a Bear full of godless commies instead.
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Nov 19, 2014 20:19
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So hard
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Nov 19, 2014 20:35
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Blistex posted:The general idea of rockets getting a pilot up to intercept altitude fast carried on well after WWII, but didn't take. That's a zero length take off system. They were developed so interceptors could be launched from hidden in barns in Germany and not require a vulnerable runway. The booster was immediately dropped and didn't help with climb. I don't know if the system was ever deployed though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDstVGAmI74
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Blistex posted:I think a lot of it was, "we need something that can get to +30,000 feet in very short notice", as sometimes fighters wouldn't be able to intercept bombers due to the speed and altitude they were flying at and the time it took ground crews to get them started, warmed up, and take off. With the 163 all you really needed was to light the match and fly nearly straight up to intercept altitude as it's average rate of climb was ~160m/s (all in all, under two minutes from getting airborne to having an altitude advantage on a formation of B-17s). I was at one of the last Blue Angels shows that had the C-130 Fat Albert takeoff with RATOs, when I was in high school. That was pretty baller to watch.
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Nov 19, 2014 20:42
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Pretty baller after they worked the bugs out.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gXfK4ypirI
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Pretty baller after they worked the bugs out. "Run way is too short, solutions?" "Lets put rockets on it." "Solved." C-130s are generally awesome. One that can lift off in under 150' is just bananas.
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iceslice posted:"Run way is too short, solutions?" The fact they planned to use a soccer stadium to land & take off is kind of insane and awesome.
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Captain Postal posted:That's a zero length take off system. They were developed so interceptors could be launched from hidden in barns in Germany and not require a vulnerable runway. The booster was immediately dropped and didn't help with climb. I don't know if the system was ever deployed though. The program was scrapped, and while I want to say there were countless deaths involving the program, those might as well just be from the horrendous track record of mild cases of "catastrophic failure of the everything" the Starfighter had with which Germany tested the system.
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Zeris posted:The fact they planned to use a soccer stadium to land & take off is kind of insane and awesome. If you haven't read any of the books about the proposed program, it's really good. The lessons learned are the foundation of today's modern SOCOM/JSOC. A lot of stuff is done this way because that poo poo was so upside-down.
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iceslice posted:If you haven't read any of the books about the proposed program, it's really good. The lessons learned are the foundation of today's modern SOCOM/JSOC. A lot of stuff is done this way because that poo poo was so upside-down. I have a terrible reaction to those kinds of books because people read them and want to talk about them if think you'll understand. Nothing is worse than civilianwar nerds who want to sperg on some Red Wings / Anaconda / WWII whatever poo poo as though I loving care or had anything to do with it as a retarded officer in a retarded army. My only defense is to say I don't know anything about that world.
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Godholio posted:Basically every Canadian leaves Tinker with more medals than their chief of staff. And we're not allowed to wear most of them - Legion of Merit is one I can think of that is allowed. I know lots of guys who got NAMs at Whidbey Island that are either just shadowboxed or tossed in a drawer.  Current Chief of Defence Staff, and most of his stuff (3/5) is just for being given the position. He had the typical Canadian rack of a Special Service Medal (overseas service of certain length of time on a non-specific mission) and Canadian Forces Decoration (12 years good service, with a bar for each additional period, 24 and 30 years I think). Since no one gives a poo poo, here are a couple of Hornets on the way to bomb an ISIS dump truck. 
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I see no bombs on those hornets, just some air to air missiles, 2 mavericks, and some fuel tanks.
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Captain Postal posted:That's a zero length take off system. They were developed so interceptors could be launched from hidden in barns in Germany and not require a vulnerable runway. The booster was immediately dropped and didn't help with climb. I don't know if the system was ever deployed though. ZELL wasn't there for air defense: the F-100s and F-104s were meant to be carrying tactical nukes. It worked, but by the time it did, there were missiles that did the same job in a non-  fashion.
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ded posted:I see no bombs on those hornets, just some air to air missiles, 2 mavericks, and some fuel tanks. 500lb LGBs, asymmetric load (one bomb and a tank right wing, two bombs left). Dozens of sorties flown, probably near 100 now, like 4 drops...
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compressioncut posted:500lb LGBs, asymmetric load (one bomb and a tank right wing, two bombs left). Dozens of sorties flown, probably near 100 now, like 4 drops... Ohh now I see them. At first glance they look like they might be sparrows or ammrams(sp)
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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe_Adventure_Team
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ded posted:Ohh now I see them. At first glance they look like they might be sparrows or ammrams(sp) nigga you blind
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False Flag Rape posted:nigga you blind its uhhhhh small pic i need my bifocals uhhh im colorblind uhh hey look at that bird behind you!
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ded posted:its uhhhhh small pic Don't lie. You can't actually see the bird either. 
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There are 3 things going on in this picture: First, the antenna re-locator kit relocates the antenna to the position immediately above the MBITR. Neat. Second, there's like $50 in adapters routing the line back up, before it comes back down to the radio itself. I know this because I've found my self with an awkward adapter, and can never find the simple 1-step to get to what I'm trying to connect to. Eventually it turns into that mess right there. Finally (and most pedantically), no one uses the freqs for that antenna. Unless they're cops, and then maybe. God those guys are such nerds.
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iceslice posted:There are 3 things going on in this picture: First, the antenna re-locator kit relocates the antenna to the position immediately above the MBITR. Neat. Second, there's like $50 in adapters routing the line back up, before it comes back down to the radio itself. I know this because I've found my self with an awkward adapter, and can never find the simple 1-step to get to what I'm trying to connect to. Eventually it turns into that mess right there. Finally (and most pedantically), no one uses the freqs for that antenna. Unless they're cops, and then maybe. They're members of the GI Joe Adventure Team.
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Nobody mentioned that the banking Hornet has a fake canopy on it? I assume it's Canadian, since A-I can't imagine the Marines letting that happen and B-it's a Legacy Hornet.
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