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And basically what you do is watch youtube videos of stuff blowing up? You win at life.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:On a semi-related note, I was reading a bit about the Tiran 5, and I'm genuinely curious how the Israelis managed to capture 400 intact tanks over the course of the Six-Day War. Were they facing the Keystone Kops? The massive superiority of the IAF meant that Egyptian crews were fleeing their tanks on foot.
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Apr 3, 2013 16:06
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Rhodesian MRAP.
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Apr 16, 2013 06:31
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Veins McGee posted:The RLI were pretty terrible at all aspects of counter-insurgency except the killing 'bad guys' part. Well, that was their job. Other units in the Rhodesian military had other tasks. The RLI and, later, the RAR, were doing fireforces and taking out ZANLA/ZIPRA cadres, while other units were infiltrating the organizations, gathering intelligence, patrolling the border, doing route clearance, etc.
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Apr 17, 2013 04:16
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I have read that the Rhodesian SAS, which was supposed to be responsible for most external attacks, was not really managed competently, in particular refusing to incorporate black troops, which was one of the major sources of success for other units like the Selous Scouts. By not incorporating blacks it became difficult or impossible to blend with the population. There were a number of instances where Rhodesian forces took out major encampments of ZANLA. Those were mostly "body count" attacks but in fairness, when the body count is that huge (talking between 1,000 and 10,000) that is a major success in its own right. Rhodesian forces numbered about 20,000 men or so through the conflict I think. Supposedly after the Chimoio raid, where ZANLA suffered about 8,000 casualties and the Rhodesians suffered 8, Mugabe was actually considering ending the conflict. Or so he (Mugabe) said. There was another attack later where the Selous Scouts took about 80 guys and bunch of trucks, painted them in FRELIMO livery and wore FRELIMO uniforms, drove them into the middle of a ZANLA camp, and just shot everyone with machine guns, killing something like a thousand people. Yeah, they were pretty good at the killing thing. South Africa donated more equipment than people. It loaned some old Alouette III helicopters. Also, when a ship carrying T-55 tanks for ZANLA accidentally docked in Durban, the South Africans sent the tanks to the Rhodesians. Remember that the Afrikaner National Party was, well, Afrikaner and the Rhodesians were of British descent primarily. There are multiple white ethnic groups in Southern Africa and historically the Afrikaners and British have had some bad blood. I think South Africa supported Rhodesia more for the fact that it didn't want to have to secure a longer border than for ideological reasons. Angola's conflict was totally different. It was a civil war in which South Africa got involved because it was trying to secure what was then South-West Africa (now Namibia). Angola was abandoned by Portugal then and fighting was between the communist MPLA and anti-communist UNITA. South Africa supported UNITA, as did we.
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Apr 17, 2013 05:04
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BlueDiablo posted:By waxing any blecks that came within sixty miles of their AO, naturally. No. The Selous Scouts infiltrated ZIPRA/ZANLA cadres and turned their members over to their side. They would blend with the local population to locate the enemy.
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Apr 17, 2013 06:17
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Booblord Zagats posted:Hispanic dudes in Che Guevara shirts No lie, the Colombian military managed to connive their way into a FARC camp and extract hostages without conflict by wearing Che Guevara shirts from The Gap. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202502_2.html?sid=ST2008070202995
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Apr 18, 2013 04:22
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Aside from lengthening the already impressive list of "things you can do with a C-130" (yeah, don't care if that's not a C-130 in the video, I'm sure you could do it with one). On a plane that can pick people up from the ground while in flight and land on an aircraft carrier, launching ICBMs fits right in. I don't think the C-130 is big enough. I don't know if any of the C-130 information is classified, but according to Wikipedia the Minuteman is 78,000 pounds and the C-130J-30 can carry 44,000 pounds of payload.
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Apr 28, 2013 03:45
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Snowdens Secret posted:Knockoff or not I want to know the story of the guy missing a leg and the kid next to him and how their plight is inevitably the fault of western imperialists He lost his leg in the 1988 Iran Air shootdown. It's more plausible than any story they'd come up with
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May 12, 2013 05:23
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Presumably they thought the British would just capitulate.
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May 13, 2013 22:00
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Weren't the British inclined to just hand them over beforehand? Now the existence of a British colony on the Falklands is a symbol of their geopolitical muscle and they'll never give it up.
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May 13, 2013 22:36
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A friend of mine is working on that stuff for NASA down in Pensacola right now. He's a computer science dude getting a crash course in control theory.
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May 24, 2013 00:03
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:ed:found out about this from a photo of a Sabre I saw in Valdosta two years back, I only wish this was a joke: I have a friend whose father was with the State Department in Georgia circa 2007-2010 or so. He told me George W. Bush is pretty much revered there, since he sorta stood up for them against the Russians and actually visited there. They named some major avenue in Tbilisi after him. The Albanians loved him too for similar reasons, though Clinton laid much of the groundwork for that.
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May 28, 2013 02:48
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Is this Mike Sparks dude just some kind of super crazy armchair general? Is he notable for some reason other than being prolific with crazy ideas?
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Jul 1, 2013 03:04
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:I posted this a while back but it still fits: Are they painting planes with house paint? 
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Aug 8, 2013 18:27
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Please link me to an article published about the F-35 laser program in the last year.
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Aug 13, 2013 22:54
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IDR left MARSOC to join make aliyah and join Shayetet 13. e: weirdly reverse GIS is turning up nothing on those photos. I suppose he could have done the blurring himself and then they wouldn't get hits.
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Aug 20, 2013 01:19
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I recognize that channel, isn't that the dude obsessed with the M113s?
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Aug 21, 2013 02:22
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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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Well, that was precise. 
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Aug 25, 2013 21:46
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:allahu ackbar God is so great, He just blew up a bunch of my friends! Were they saying that all the time in the Libya videos too, or is it just a Syrian thing?
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Aug 25, 2013 23:49
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How much do SEALs actually use all that diving poo poo though? I would bet that's a large part of that training, whereas rangers are just doing infantry stuff day in/day out.
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Aug 27, 2013 18:15
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They staged a man getting his foot blown off?
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Aug 28, 2013 23:22
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I recall reading that the T-72 autoloaders store the rounds in a ring under the floor of the turret so if you hit the turret ring they all detonate.
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Aug 29, 2013 04:18
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I guess that explains why they don't get dropped with the crews inside.
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Sep 5, 2013 21:49
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Can Hornets even hold enough gas to tank more than, say, one other plane?
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Sep 8, 2013 18:34
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Dead Reckoning posted:I did a big effortpost about this in the Cold War thread, but the answer is: no, not really. It's useful in a few edge cases, but mostly it's a ridiculous idea in any sort of high-tempo operations. In the same vein, wiki says that the payload of a V-22 is about 10 tons. Is that enough gas to be significant either?
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Sep 8, 2013 22:30
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I recall reading that the V-22 has had a very good safety record now that it's in service, in spite of problems during development.
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Top google hit: http://breakingdefense.com/2011/08/09/the-v-22-safer-than-helos-effective-worth-buying/ It's pretty well-written IMO. Basically it seems like not only is the aircraft fairly reliable, but the fact that it has a high ceiling and high speed means that it's less vulnerable to ground fire. Obviously that's not an issue in Japan though.
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Sep 11, 2013 18:40
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What's with everyone having a different kind of rifle?
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Sep 23, 2013 23:15
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Is that an F-106 in the upper right?
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Sep 26, 2013 17:15
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The bipod looks identical to the one on the US M2 mortar.
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Sep 26, 2013 22:10
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I would be less surprised if it's just a UHF antenna.
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Sep 30, 2013 12:10
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I have a friend who does airsoft...because he can't join the military, because he is diabetic 
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Ugh, would not want to be on that crew. There's throwing track, there's breaking track, and then there's whatever the hell happened in that photo. How do you recover that? My first thought--bear in mind I know very little about cars let alone tracked armored vehicles--would be to take that track completely off somehow, then winch the whole thing away with some kind of tow vehicle, then put it in a lift bay and put the track back on. e: spelling 
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Oct 2, 2013 23:29
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ripped0ff posted:This is exactly what I've been saying they need to do with Big Dog (or something like it). Take that, shrink the CROWS down some so it only mounts a 240, give it room to mount 4-6 rucks on the side, and a high power antenna for extra comms capability and long range remote control, and you have the perfect addition to every platoon. Make it controllable either by someone in the squad with a tablet or someone at the CP by remote, and it would be awesome. When I was watching the big dog video, the first thing that crossed my mind is that it seems like it wouldn't be very useful on foot because it makes too much noise. Something being able to carry your packs and heavy weapons would be really incredible but not if you can hear it like a mile off. As for shrinking the CROWS to 240 size, that exists.
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Victor Vermis posted:And then it'll get blown up by an ultralight with a speargun and a spool of 550 cord.  and it would unironically own ripped0ff posted:No joke, we should also have motorcycle/ATV based infantry. As in, one mounted scout platoon per brigade. I've always wondered why horses aren't used for patrols in Afghanistan, so that you could go longer distances but stay off roads and avoid IEDs. Mortabis fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 3, 2013 04:53
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IDR's unit had dirtbikes 
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Oct 3, 2013 14:14
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From some angles it looks kinda sexy but the area around the lift fan makes it look weirdly bulky with straight lines where they should be tapered and curved.
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A gas turbine would probably be the quietest option.
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