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Randomly saw this on another forum, I think it's relevant: You know Spirit and Spectre and Lancer and Falcon Cobra and Corsair and Tomcat and Talon But do you recall The most famous airplane of all? Warthog the ugly airplane, Had a very shiny nose, And if you ever saw it, You would even say it glows All of the other airplanes Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Warthog Join in Any Air Force games Then one sandy Desert Storm George Bush came to say, "Warthog with your nose so bright, Won't you kill some Tanks tonight?" Then how the public loved him, As they shouted out "You're Great!" Warthog, the ugly airplane, You'll be here till '28!
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DeesGrandpa posted:My grandpa was in Ireland being a teenager and generally not giving fucks about the second world war. Hah, I just finished college and both my grandpas were too old to fight in WWII. My paternal grandfather who I never met wasn't going to fight anyway, he'd been in a bus accident that left him bedridden for years to get his legs "healed" to the point where one was bent and two inches shorter than the other. He was in the USO for a while and then worked in the Empire State Building which became relevant when that idiot took his B-25 into the side of it. Even though the elevators were out for a good while and his legs were a total mess, he didn't miss a single day of work because of it. My maternal granddad was also too old (I don't even know how, there's stereotypes I thought Irish Catholics had to live up to) to be of much use. He signed up for the Marines because he really wanted to be a Marine and when they told him he didn't have to do everything he insisted he do the whole training even though he knew he was going to get stuck behind a desk. My dad ended up not getting drafted for Vietnam, which had been the reason he abruptly stopped wanting to go into the Navy to try to become an aviator. I do have an uncle not sure what the generation gap is who went to WWII and apparently he was a hero or something because he got a Silver Star but he managed to avoid anyone knowing how he got it.
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Jan 16, 2014 08:37
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iyaayas01 posted:I can't remember what's open source so this will be general, but the answer to your question is "a lot." From a sensor standpoint the two aircraft aren't even comparable. Here's a decent article on what NG's proposals were for upgrading the Global Chicken's sensor suite to something closer to the U-2...the proposals basically boiled down to "pay us three quarters of a billion dollars to integrate the sensor suite that already works on the U-2, also that doesn't include actually procuring said sensor suite, so you would have to pull the sensors off of the U-2, where they work, onto our plane, where we can't guarantee they will." It sounds like the best solution is to crash the bloody things and be done with it. Then you don't have to pay to maintain them.
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Feb 26, 2014 23:47
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Psion posted:Harsh, but accurate. Still an improvement on the Starfighter. 
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Mar 1, 2014 00:47
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Pornographic Memory posted:So do you get credited with a kill if you manage to shoot yourself down? I'm not sure. Ask Grumman, they've had two test pilots shoot themselves down iirc. (Also the starfighters thing is more to say the Luftwaffe would have really low expectations.)
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Mar 1, 2014 19:46
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Delivery McGee posted:McD/Boeing doesn't count own goals. The F-15's perfect record is "no losses to ememy fire." One fighter-model F-15 (as opposed to Mudhens, which get shot down relatively often, mostly by AA) was shot down by his wingman accidentally pulling the trigger on a real Sidewinder while play-fighting. Still not as nuts as the F11F shooting himself down with his own guns.
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Mar 4, 2014 11:32
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Oxford Comma posted:You know, I hear this but I would like to see some empirical evidence stating that shoving a tampon into your buddy's gunshot wound is beneficial. No real man would die with a tampon in him. That's why DADT was a thing, don't you know?
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Mar 8, 2014 05:29
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iyaayas01 posted:Glad to see that LockMart's This whole thing makes so much more sense when you think about it as the Starfighter II. It's even got the wing loading to make the analogy work!
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Mar 26, 2014 06:03
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Pimpmust posted:What's that steel colored little fighter up on the left of the Phantom? I think it's an F5D.
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Apr 23, 2014 06:25
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priznat posted:Douglas F4D Skyray (aka F-6) Oh yep, so it is, missed the framing on the cockpit. Surprising, with all the other high performance planes around it.
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Apr 23, 2014 06:40
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The probe on the nose threw me off, honestly. I adore Douglas planes from that period, the Skyhawk is just the coolest thing, and the Skyray and Skylancer aren't far behind.
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Apr 23, 2014 06:58
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I like how they're supposedly being driven from a laptop and yet have aimbot situational awareness which lets them shoot at everyone with a LAW before they get to shoot the drones. Also, any over/under guess on what volume of those things is comprised of reloads for their LAWs by the end? Cause seriously. I have a feeling that that project died because the drones weren't survivable because they couldn't get the needed situational awareness to kill every threat ever. That video anyway is probably the surest sign the USSR lost the cold war, they have a military-industrial complex too.
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May 5, 2014 06:16
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ArchangeI posted:Everything that is not taken up by the machine gun ammo, the engines strong enough to crash through brick walls or the bulletproof armor. Or the electronics. I'm telling ya, they've got a dimensional pocket in there to cram all this stuff in. Don't forget the frag grenades or the smoke grenades. I'm pretty sure if the thing really got made it'd be the world's cutest little Bradley, and only capable of using that stretcher on city streets. The totally effective Mogadishu special AA was worth watching for though.
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May 5, 2014 07:20
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This is when I really wish I had a picture of the joke patch or whatever for the EA-18G Shocker complete with two and one lightning bolts coming off the wings.
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May 7, 2014 04:50
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food-rf posted:Pretty interesting stuff, although not as cool as giant rockets. Says you.
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May 22, 2014 22:07
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Is it cool if I use this as a segue into asking about the Millenium Challenge and what all happened in that even if it isn't exactly airpower? What I've heard sounds insane and pretty hilarious, but most of it has been from people talking about it to make a point.
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May 23, 2014 02:50
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FrozenVent posted:I have absolutely no doubt believing that; fuckers throw up a hell of a wake. Which makes you wonder why they care so much about their RCS. (Wakes make really good targets on surface-search radars, it's how commercial vessels spot pleasure crafts) Didn't the Skjolds throw up a wake with an RCS at the very least comparable in size to a conventionally designed ship of their size's RCS?
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May 25, 2014 04:53
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KingPave posted:CATOBAR and Nuclear? Really? Why not go for an actual modern carrier to learn on?
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May 29, 2014 09:46
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If I remember right I've heard the bridge on a destroyer described as the space between the radars from a design perspective. Interference pushes towards the island being a given size.
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Jun 2, 2014 19:39
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Wouldn't the avionics and support to make a proper weapons system out of a drone fighter be considerably more expensive and potentially awful than for a manned plane?
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Jun 7, 2014 01:24
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Blistex posted:/\ It's like watching some manner of mantis gliding in the ocean. Seeing it fly is like watching something otherworldly. And then you have to make what they did actually work?
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Jun 12, 2014 02:15
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Snowdens Secret posted:E: Not counting weird poo poo like the Marine F-86s Wasn't the FJ-2/3 Fury really weird in that it was a naval version of a significantly enhanced air force version of a naval plane?
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Jun 21, 2014 10:32
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priznat posted:It was England's job before then. And France's. They did a great job of messing up what they ran.
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Jul 1, 2014 01:15
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mlmp08 posted:Guys, stop just elaborately trolling Cyrano into writing 10,000 words. How else are we supposed to get content. Cyrano, could you write a brief summary of the end of colonialism?
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Jul 1, 2014 04:40
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"...preferably before next Thursday and Fixed  Failing that, it's been a while since warshipchat, anyone got anything interesting to say about ships, preferably the cool as hell Victorian ones that it isn't as easy to be massively spergy about? I'd love to know about design practices and evolutions of ideas back then and only know the broad strokes.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:02
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SyHopeful posted:The AIRPOWER/Cold War Thread seems like a great place for Victorian era naval vessel chat It occasionally becomes very hard to tell the differences between this and the history thread. Sorry. Cold war ships it is!
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Jul 1, 2014 05:12
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FrozenVent posted:It's better than HMS Gay Viking. Which is far better than HMS Cockchafer.
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Jul 4, 2014 19:57
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Can't the range be increased by launching from something going high and fast?
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Jul 5, 2014 18:49
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Boeing jets are notorious for a vulnerability to high altitude FOD. Clearly.
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Jul 17, 2014 21:41
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darthbob88 posted:Or you can read his memoirs. It's fictional, but I also like this story about the time the CIA came up with the best/worst rocket design possible and leaked it to the Soviets. Burning dimethylmercury in FOOF, that's a recipe for a fun Saturday night. Any two compounds which have earned places on the magical blog Things I Won't Work With do not belong in the same rocket. I'm vaguely disappointed that chlorine triflouride, which resulted in the following glorious citation of Ignition! didn't make an appearance in the design. ”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”
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Jul 22, 2014 06:07
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How did they manage to make a design that fails to capture the inherent grace and elegant lines of the C-130?
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Jul 29, 2014 20:16
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Cooked Auto posted:Speaking of which. Was expecting off-label Turkish Everybody Wants To Rule The World from the start.
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Aug 10, 2014 04:24
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Pornographic Memory posted:What's up with naming the submarine after a company and putting their logo on it? Did the Russian Navy sell sponsorship rights on their ships or something? Wouldn't be that surprised in a world where the USS Carl Vinson is a thing.
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Aug 28, 2014 22:31
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Warbadger posted:I'd think it applies more to the flanker, given that it's a comparatively bigass plane. I'll admit the R-40 on the Mig-25 outperformed the R-27 the flankers were stuck with, though. R-27 was hilarious garbage all the way through the 90s. What made it so bad?
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Sep 1, 2014 22:24
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Leif. posted:My previous firm sued Force Protection. It's not the one everyone knows about, the investment class action; ours was a different (labor/civil rights) class action, and there is/was some seriously disturbing 1950's Jim Crow poo poo going on in their factories. No idea if it settled or not; haven't heard anything on the case in a couple of years. Any idea if there'd be public documentation of that? Now I'm morbidly curious how bad it was.
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Sep 7, 2014 07:30
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Bruiser posted:Going to be building an A7 Corsair model this weekend. I'm really looking forward to it. Did the corsair's wing do the same pop up trick the crusader's did? Because I love that silliness, especially the pictures of a crusader flying with folded wings popped up.
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Sep 16, 2014 18:20
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Bruiser posted:Yeah, I think you've got the option to build it like that. 10/10 model.
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Sep 16, 2014 18:37
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Trying to outsource the second March to the Sea was a bad decision in retrospect.
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Sep 25, 2014 02:10
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Scratch Monkey posted:According to him he was a marine but their stupid rigidity of doctrine and lack of airborne capability made him quit and then join the army. I'm really not making that up. Wait, then what are those ships that arent carriers and have flat tops for? Or was that later?
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Sep 30, 2014 17:38
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Kilonum posted:I think he means airborne in the "Jump out of perfectly good airplanes into the arms of the enemy" sense And why is that so central to his belief system anyway that he can't just make do with helicopter assault?
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Sep 30, 2014 17:47
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