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Vindolanda posted:Yeah, I've certainly heard about some kind of manually fired thing mounted to protect the sides and back of the tank, but this was from a Challenger 2 commander boasting about some vision upgrade kit that would make it easier to see AT squads sneaking up, so usual "heard from the military" standards of believableness apply. You're thinking of Arena, which is sort of a Claymore-like antimissile system.
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Not sure how I managed to mix up this thread with the Threat/lies thread but oh well. Edit: Why don't they mount that radar crap the luxury cars have so that you can tell when someone is walking around your tank? fromoutofnowhere fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Apr 3, 2013 |
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fromoutofnowhere posted:Not sure how I managed to mix up this thread with the Threat/lies thread but oh well. Probably because no defense contractor has found a way to make such a system massively expensive.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Probably because no defense contractor has found a way to make such a system massively expensive. Throw the sensor into a ruggedized housing, re-do the pin out into a heavy metal connector with a "mil spec" cable and add a 3-5 zeros to the price for "engineering".
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fromoutofnowhere posted:Edit: Why don't they mount that radar crap the luxury cars have so that you can tell when someone is walking around your tank?
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Get one of those all-seeing eyes they stick on the Kiowas, have it rise from the TC hatch like the Great Pumpkin
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And no one will put a round in it the moment you stop no sir! If you're ok sticking something that size on your tanks, might as well make it a RCWS.
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Madurai posted:You're thinking of Arena, which is sort of a Claymore-like antimissile system. You're quite right, I was conflating that and a WWII system that fired small grenades from ports in the tank with either a flare pistol or the smoke launchers, I think.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Get one of those all-seeing eyes they stick on the Kiowas, have it rise from the TC hatch like the Great Pumpkin Better put some weapons on it too, maybe have it extend really high up. Now put it a mile back. 
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That looks like somebody put a few TOWs on a dumpster.
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Why yes, I would love to be the fish in the barrel. Who comes up with this poo poo?!?
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:That looks like somebody put a few TOWs on a dumpster. I believe those are MILANs with the intention of later upgrading to TRIGAT. SentSix posted:Why yes, I would love to be the fish in the barrel. Who comes up with this poo poo?!? The (West-) Germans in the eighties.
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The Air Force Academy strives to demonstrate the highest espirit de corps and Air Force Core Values  
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with every new picture, i hate you all a little more e: woops thought this was the air force thread 
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 From The Washington Post
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Raimundus posted:Road rage incident between Marines, possibly on-base: Promote this guy as soon as possible please.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9974711/North-Korea-releases-video-of-Kim-Jong-un-firing-a-handgun.html Bahaha. Sorry I can't embed. I highly recommend it. Also the music at the start kind of sounds like something from a Bar Mitzvah.  Edit found a Youtube version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSXucNYWGdQ Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Didn't realise North korea had LCAC's
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Didn't realise North korea had LCAC's What are the odds the footage is stolen from some other country?
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Didn't realise North korea had LCAC's Kong Bang class hovercraft  Pretty light capability.
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As a dirty minded squaddie North Korea's names for equipment always give me a smile.
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MonkeyLibFront posted:As a dirty minded squaddie North Korea's names for equipment always give me a smile. Including the incomparable 
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I've just sorted my DIY weapon videos from Syria into separate playlists for anyone looking for unusual videos of war stuff. http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/diy-weapons-in-syria.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxev2pxk0QY
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Stultus Maximus posted:Kong Bang class hovercraft 
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Hovercraft are rad as gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWrv3l_2tGQ
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That's the movie where a man was fed into a wood chipper. I remember nothing else from that flick.
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Colonel from Denmark gave me some jump wings at work today, pretty cool.
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Mortar round gets hung up on that blast defelctor and the propellent charges get cooked off by the heat of the tube right? Or the manifestation of OHSHIT
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Mr Crustacean posted:Mortar round gets hung up on that blast defelctor and the propellent charges get cooked off by the heat of the tube right? To be fair the taught drill on a 30mm grenade machine gun is that after the second cock of it after a stoppage is to reach into the breach and throw it out, which when you do it is contrary to all the drills you do with gpmg or lmg drills. MonkeyLibFront fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Apr 7, 2013 |
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MonkeyLibFront posted:To be fair the taught drill on a 30mm grenade machine gun is that after the second cock of it after a stoppage is to reach into the breach and throw it out, which when you do it is contrary to all the drills you do with gpmg or lmg drills. So many british army acronyms, it hurts!
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WP CURES PALESTINE posted:So many british army acronyms, it hurts! There's 2 acronyms and they're fairly universal...
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GranatePOOPENmaschinengewehr and Leichtes Maschinengewehr. As universal as they come.
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