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Hell Diver posted:Planes haven't looked cool since the P-47 and B-17. Counterpoint:  
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shyduck posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgpQBZF2sZQ Well, ya see, the round's so small and the range is therefore so short and the fire control is open loop which means that against modern ASMs they're basically useless. The inbound's so fast that you'll get a single burst off as the thing comes into engagement range, you'll probably miss, and then even if you do hit you've still got a multiton ball of flaming missile wreckage that's heading for your ship at high velocity, so you're still pretty hosed. That's why they invented RAM and don't even bother putting the Phalanx on new ships. There's a bigger, marginally better system called Goalkeeper, it's based off the GAU-8 30mm cannon from the A-10. Downside there is that it's not a self-contained unit that can be bolted to the deck like Phalanx is, it requires cutting a big hole and mounting a lot of the system belowdecks so it's not exactly flexible. And really it doesn't range a whole lot furhter. Here's my favorite weapon platform out there, even if it's even more obsolete and isn't really even "out there" anymore:  Edit: Ugh Ft. Rucker so glad I never ever have to be there again. That town seriously has the highest per capita population of Chinese buffet restaurants on the planet. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Dec 8, 2012 |
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This guy just died. He won the Medal of Honor when he pried a grenade out of the dead hand of his own severed arm and used it to kill Nazis.
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FISTS CURE WOMEN posted:Splosions More 'splosions from when I worked at NAVSEA (same test, three different views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qiZK_ZIjB4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHVhfBMaco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1IAD0g4cc
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grover posted:Navy's too pussy to put a modern DDG through anything resembling a realistic shock event; too many lives and too much money at stake. Kinda defeats the purpose of shock trials, but at least you can catch low-hanging fruit, I guess, and validate calculations used for barge testing equipment. Footage from when they close-harbor blasted the gently caress out of USS Osprey (first of a then-new class of minesweepers) in 1995 is pretty impressive, though: That one was at our test center in Aberdeen (was a few years before my time). You're limited to (somenumber) of pounds of HE there, if you want to go bigger you need to be out at sea, which is what happened in the Churchill shock trials. Also, out at sea you don't have delays due to ospreys (real ones) nesting in your crane. This one, I wasn't involved in, and it's a good thing because the ship sunk earlier than expected and took all the data recorders and data down to the bottom with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyt3bM_MJo
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The USN's bath-salts-are-bad-for-you PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlaHwnErBI Warning: Dubstep.
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1stGear posted:It will always be a terrible shame that Kodachrome wasn't a success. Kodachrome was an enormous success, it only stayed in production for 75 years. More JDAM party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilo2wxk_KMA (You can mostly skip ahead to a minute in.)
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GAS CURES KIKES posted:Nah man, doesn't sound dumb at all. I feel you 100%. The clothes were better, so everything fit better, because poo poo wasn't just bought off the rack manufactured by machines in China. Stuff wasn't as cheap or disposable so you bought stuff because you wanted it to last. Scanned a bunch of my grandfather's stuff in, look at this suave motherfucker:    And included in his box o' memorabilia is this little cupcake who is definitely *not* my grandmother. Go, gramps:  Casimir Radon posted:I jerked to it anyway in case that was reverse psychology. I hope you're proud of yourself. No, seriously, not my grandmother. Pretty sure given some of the other letters in that box of papers that he was definitely getting something on the side when he was over there. Completely unheard of, I know. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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grover posted:I wonder how many houses a railgun slug will go through? The Mach 7 dart with the 200+ mile range, I mean, not the intentionally unstable non-aerodynamic one used in these tests (lest an errant shot penetrate a whole neighborhood of homes 200 miles away). Like I said the last time this got posted: 1. Jesus, look at those cables flex. 2. I don't even care so much about the gun, I want to know about the power source.
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AB posted:So if you put this on a nuclear-powered ship, would you be able to charge the capacitors to achieve a reasonable firing rate off one reactor without killing power to the rest of the ship? It seems like you would need a vessel built around this weapon system to make it work. One gun and a giant power plant. Wouldn't need to be anything ridiculous. When I was interviewing at NAVSEA in Philly I saw the 30,000shp electric motor that was at the time slated to be used on the DD-21 ships, so even without a fancy railgun that ship would have needed 22 megawatts of generator just to feed that motor. Even the early Arleigh Burkes had 7.5MW worth of electrical generation, the later flights have more. Surprised they're using caps rather than a homopolar generator, but the one I built was only 48 millifarad's worth of capacitors at 600VDC, so they probably know something I don't. AB posted:Betting that rail gun rounds just eat barrels. It's not the round, it's the arcing between the armature and the rails that causes rapid erosion. It's one reason why you want to keep the voltage as low as possible (since as was pointed out, it's the current that sets up the Lorentz force that moves the armature). That's historically been one of the major problems in actually weaponizing one of these things, but if they've solved it then there's not a whole lot of reason it'd be hard to field. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Duzzy Funlop posted:
Solid-rocket motors can age poorly if not properly stored/maintained, which means you can develop cracks in the propellant grain. Then when the expanding front of the reaction hits and propagates along that crack, the increased surface area that's reacting means pressures go through the roof and your rocket can fail. This is what happens if it's a big rocket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_aHEit-SqA
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), they noticed that charges with signs of corrosion would occasionally explode rather than launch out of their makeshift rails/tubes due to moisture seeping in over the years and changing the composition of the propellant in a way that would plug up the rear end, preventing a controlled dissipation of pressure.
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Deathy McDeath posted:Didnt the owner of Point Blank Inc. do this very test on himself? Second Chance. He's done it a bunch of times with different weapons but usually seems to wear some padding under the armor so he doesn't get a giant bruise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz00_TQ3PnA
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ArchangeI posted:Early atomic experiments were really hosed up. As late as the trinity test they weren't sure if the explosion wouldn't just light the entire atmosphere on fire. That would have made a lot of people very sad. That's a myth. Teller brought up the notion that the bomb could ignite nitrogen-nitrogen fusion in the atmosphere and that the reaction might be self-sustaining, but this was disproved well before the Trinity test. The best criticality experiment was one related to the demon core, but involved one subcritical mass of uranium being, a slug, being dropped through another subcritical mass, and as it dropped through it would briefly significantly spike in activity and by measuring the increase they could more accurately calculate what a critical mass would be. The question was raised "What happens if, while dropping through the rig, the slug gets stuck? Like, maybe because it heats up and expands and wedges itself in there, so what's supposed to be "briefly" critical stays that way?" The answer was pretty much "Hope real hard that doesn't happen.
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Madurai posted:When introduced, it had a number in the fighter designator series, since clearly this is what fighters were going to be like in THE FUTURE. That had more to do with the USAF trying to sleeze its way into the Army's SAM turf by claiming they were pilotless aircraft instead of, you know, SAMs.
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gfanikf posted:Did anyone hear reports about a second chemical attack near Damacas? I didn't hear about this yesterday at all, and that is when the article is from. If they fired chemical weapons into a city and only killed 3 people and gave the others some headaches and nausea, those are some broke-rear end chemical weapons. Bad storage?
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Stood under a -53 as it was taking off. Old photo:
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Brown Moses posted:Another example of the importance of infantry support for tanks from Syria What does he throw there? Does he get a grenade into an open hatch or is it an RKG or some other anti-tank grenade?
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Doesn't matter for either platform, breech closed or not. A grenade going down the tube would detonate the propellant and ruin the crew's day. There's more fill in the 120mm shell than there is in the grenade, even if the grenade blast does cook off the loaded round (which I think is unlikely), okay, your loaded round just went off. The chamber pressure's not going to be significantly higher than the round just firing normally. Yeah, the grenade detonates, but it's relatively unconfined, the breech block has to deal with pressures higher than that every time it fires. If the grenade managed to set off the explosive fill in a loaded HEAT round, okay, bad news, but that's shock-insensitive stuff otherwise you'd be crossing your fingers every time you fired it. EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:You're no fun. Sorry. I occasionally get upset that I don't blow stuff up at my job anymore. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Apr 3, 2013 |
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Triggs posted:Goddamn I love Little Birds. I'd be kind of pissed if someone were taking photos during start up, though. Especially with a flash. Especially while wearing my NVGs.
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MRC48B posted:Question: Why don't they issue emergency parachutes to aircrew anymore? We have to wear them on the Chinooks, but only during certain flight profiles. If the entire flight card's at low altitudes we don't because there's not enough time for them to help out anyway. Also this is the corporate civilian world, I don't know if the active duty ones are different.
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Ho Chi Mint posted:Active duty never wears parachutes in a helicopter. Usually we're too low and slow for it to be any good, and getting in and out of the aircraft it too cumbersome to be able to get out in time either. The doors have a quick-release. Heck, I'd think getting out of the pilots seat that way would be quicker than extricating yourself from it the recommended way. But when I'm in one I'm in the back. Bet your rear end I could get out in time, if I had to run the crew chief over. He says I wouldn't have to, though.
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Limp Wristed Limey posted:Its also worth noting that the Belgrano was sailing out of a warzone with its water tight doors open. And also that it was sunk with pre-WWII-era torpedoes.
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Oxford Comma posted:I can see how this paint scheme would gently caress with old time rangefinders. Jesus. The bigger issue was with the target motion analysis the guys on submarines had to do prior to firing torpedoes. You need to visually estimate the angle-on-the-bow, and if you can't tell the bow from the stern because of all that dazzle camouflage it makes your job much harder.
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Female Israeli soldiers disciplined for 'unbecoming behaviour' after posing for pictures dressed only in their underwear and combat fatigues  Stupid mosaics.
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Dr. Tough posted:Now with the mosaics switched! This is like when I was at NAVSEA and size of the explosive charge was unclassified and standoff distance was unclassified but size of the charge and standoff distance in combination were classified. Whee.
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Most gorgeous F4 evar:  F4-U by Phanatic, on Flickr  Corsair by Phanatic, on Flickr  Slackasses by Phanatic, on Flickr Bonus SB2C:  SB2C by Phanatic, on Flickr
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mokhtar belmokhtar posted:Yeah I don't understand how exactly he was rated if he never actually served a day but was in a mil prep high school or w/e If he attended MAPS, he was Army enlisted, he was as much active-duty as some guy who wins the MoH in Afghanistan. He was in uniform, drawing the pay of his grade, subject to UCMJ, etc. For all the corruption, this guy was following the rules. His shell company address is in Chinatown, designated a government hubzone, so he gets even more bonus points when he bids for a contract. It's the rules that are corrupt and full of poo poo, not him.
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Handsome Ralph posted:
In fairness, that wasn't a laser, just a ultrabright fuckoff xenon projector with a focusing lens.
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ROPES CURE NIGGERS posted:His pick up line would probably be "GURGLE PFFT GURGLE GURGLE" 
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EBB posted:
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Handsome Ralph posted:I'm noticing a trend with shipyard workers wanting to leave early/not work that day, and starting fires. Is this covered in a trade school somewhere? I'd think having a fire break out would be a pretty good guarantee that nobody's getting home on time that day.
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Booblord Zagats posted:No poo poo. Those things are/were loving horrifying. Everytime I rode in one I was scared shitless of the drat thing shaking apart. I've seen Chinooks that aren't that old (D-models) come in to be dismantled that are literally sitting there with three wheels on the ground, because the airframe's so twisted that the fourth one's up in the air. We were doing frequency sweeps on a G-model, one which still had the aft pylon from an A-model on it, and the crew chief took a video camera up with him to get proof of how the rear end-end was twisting and torqueing around in flight as the pilot input the sweeps. I can't even imagine how loose and worn out the Phrogs are at this point. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Sep 12, 2013 |
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Goes to show what an awful loving program requirement STOVL was.
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MrYenko posted:
Jet exhaust is absolutely toxic. You're not getting perfect stochiometric combustion and getting nothing out of the back but H20 and CO2; there's CO, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, etc. And a bunch of particulates. And when you're doing water injection it's like an rear end in a top hat in a lifted dualie who's rolling coal, you do not want to be huffing that black smoke. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101005-planes-pollution-deaths-science-environment/
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Fallom posted:I like the video of the Brazilian police helicopter machine gunning a car in a residential neighborhood: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320922/Dramatic-moment-Brazilian-helicopter-cops-drug-trafficker-shanty-town-130-ft.html You don't want to rob a pizza shop when the Brazilian cops are around, either. Wait for backup? Set up a perimeter? gently caress no, let's just empty the whole magazine through the front door.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOXN2EAXaZ0 Probably don't want to work in a pizza shop that's being robbed, either. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Cemetery removes Iraq War vet's SpongeBob SquarePants headstone:quote:An Iraq War veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone has been removed from her final resting place because officials at the historic Cincinnati cemetery deemed it inappropriate for their traditional grounds. 
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That reminded me of something but it took me a while to figure out what: McNulty driving home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URupBZbfbJg
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