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grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

US Navy's new robot boat was successfully tested a few weeks ago; it's packing a machine gun and a bunch of small missiles.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2012 19:36

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# ¿ Mar 25, 2025 16:38

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

US and RoK personnel returning a rescued North Korean sailor at Panmunjom a few years ago:

# ¿ Dec 3, 2012 02:20

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plAAuk9VwLs

grover fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Dec 23, 2012

# ¿ Dec 23, 2012 17:05

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Veins McGee posted:

LHD/LHAs can operate as a lovely version of a carrier. The Navy tested the concept in the 70s but that's about the extent of it. The 'Sea Control Ship concept' is one of the extremely tertiary arguments for SVTOL F-35s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Control_Ship#Ships_with_secondary_SCS_mission

It's all relative; what we consider an amphibious assault ship and don't consider to be "real" carriers is equal or better in capability to the "aircraft carrier" of most other nations. In the 'Sea Control' role, LHDs carry 20 Harriers and 6 helicopters. We don't generally use them very often in that role, but can, depending on mission.

This is a bit dated, but still a good visual comparison:

This is USS Theodore Roosevelt operating with France's Charles de Gaulle, the next most capable aircraft carrier in the world after US CVNs, and the only other nuclear carrier. It's actually smaller than LHA/LHD, less than half the displacement of a US CVN, but as it's designed to be a dedicated aircraft carrier vs gator freighter, can operate more fixed wing aircraft than an LHA/LHD, though still far less than a CVN. It's got some other serious issues that limit effectiveness in the power projection role that I don't think were ever entirely corrected.

LHD between two CVNs:

grover fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Dec 30, 2012

# ¿ Dec 30, 2012 15:28

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grumplestiltzkin posted:

Russia and China both have nuclear carriers

The Kuznetsov and Varyag/Liaoning are conventional. :eng101:

USSR had a number of nuclear cruisers, but never built a nuclear carrier. The Ulyanovsk was going to be their first, but it was scrapped before they finished construction.

grover fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Dec 30, 2012

# ¿ Dec 30, 2012 20:37

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

front wing flexing posted:

Have a picture of the USS Blueridge taken from a PLAN Jiangwei. Got a very, and oddly thorough tour of it. It was spotless and an elisted dude we talked to said they cleaned and painted for a month straight in preparation. Despite the immaculate appearance you could tell it was a sub-par ship. There was linoleum everywhere on the bridge and CIC. And there was startlingly few fire hoses and the ones we saw were no longer than eight feet. There were also not as many QAWTDs as you would think for a combat ship.

A friend of mine who toured a PLAN ship about 15 years ago said he was appalled with the lack of any sort of concern for smoke or damage control. Nevermind halogens in cable insulation, he said things similar to you- linoleum, carpet and wood everywhere and virtually no indication of any serious damage control like fireproofing, power casualty risers, EEBDs or the like. Did you notice a lot else like that?

How did it appear technology-wise? Lots of computers like on US warship? Do you have any more pictures? Hard to find interior photos of Chinese ships online

grover fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jan 4, 2013

# ¿ Jan 4, 2013 16:02

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Mr. Samuel Shitley posted:

I Want To Be Called Hajji Killer Now.

ha it gets better whoever wrote that doesn't know a haji is a real term for someone on hajj

It's also completely inaccurate. Holy books don't offer any protection against bullets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvXvlM5KY_U

Now, if he was carrying whiskey in his pocket, he might just have survived!

# ¿ Jan 4, 2013 18:38

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Lex Luther was an idiot who missed the obvious solution.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2013 21:01

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Spongebob Tampax posted:

The sun on her right arm is Godsmack, yes. I know fuckall about avenged sevenfold though.

You didn't finish Black Ops 2 single player?

# ¿ Jan 9, 2013 14:49

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Spongebob Tampax posted:

I don't have Blops 2?

In that case, this might be a spoiler even though it has nothing to do with the plot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECw_ym6owk

# ¿ Jan 10, 2013 20:43

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

GAS CURES KIKES posted:

Won't lie, wanna see this video.

Won't lie, not gonna click.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2013 00:57

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

bawahahaha, that's hilarious and horrible, spongebob! They couldn't have picked a worse ad if they'd tried.

AB posted:

E: Grover, give it a watch. It's not so terrible. Not like that Chechnyan beheading video, that's really something I wish I hadn't watched.

OK, I caved and watched it. :nms:

for sure, but I had feared so much worse.

grover fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jan 11, 2013

# ¿ Jan 11, 2013 02:23

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1stGear posted:

It will always be a terrible shame that Kodachrome wasn't a success.

What photoshop filters can simulate using kodachrome film?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2013 03:48

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Navy galleys: ever the bastions of cultural sensitivity.

On the other hand, it's hard to complain, because fried chicken is delicious.

There's a fine line between cultural celebration and racism. So long as it includes something delicious, I'm not complaining, though!

# ¿ Jan 16, 2013 04:10

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Deathy McDeath posted:

Yo someone crop out our friend Mustafa bin-Chowdown and I will totally use it as an AV

Adjusted for perspective and cleaned it up a bit:

# ¿ Jan 16, 2013 23:57

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

iyaayas01 posted:

It's been EIGHT YEARS since there hasn't been a Spectre gunship forward deployed somewhere in the world.

Only 4,640 killed enemies? :yawn:

# ¿ Jan 17, 2013 04:42

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

AB posted:

SABOT is the one that would go through the house. And the next one...and the next one...

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).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV1SbEuzFU

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 00:32

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Duzzy Funlop posted:

I really want to believe that the guy pulling the trigger/pressing the button on that thing has a brightly red ABORT-button with 3 exclamation marks on his screen, but those are fake screenshots to cover up sensitive test-data and the actual control/readout interfaces are much more complex with endless streams of scientific data, right?

RIGHT...?

The reality it is that this thing is going to be fired by a 17 year old kid who just barely managed to not fail out of high school and needs a detailed procedure to pick his own loving nose. That's what the interface is designed for. All the scientific data you'd be expecting to see is occurring so fast it's impossible to digest in real-time and is recorded and analyzed afterwards.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 01:34

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Phanatic posted:

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.

You can see the capacitor banks better in this view:

Puts out about 3 million amps. It's the current that creates the magnetic field, so the more current, the more powerful the weapon. A production railgun will require about 16MW to continuously fire at a rate of 6 shots per minute. Less power (like in a Burke) wouldn't mean it couldn't fire a railgun, just that it would operate at a lower firing rate.

grover fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jan 18, 2013

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 02:50

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genderstomper58 posted:

e: I thought I read about these and the barrel life is basically nothing anyways

Yep. It's amazing, but prototype railguns already meet all the operational goals for power and range and all the things that most people would think are the major challenges, and barrel life is the single largest hurdle right now from making an operational naval railgun. They're trying to get from 100 shots to 1000 shots.

In this test last year, this projectile was fired horizontally at Mach 5, penetrated a steel panel and went another 7km.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 03:40

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genderstomper58 posted:

Where could they even go from here? Just experiment with new crazy alloys? Trying to increase a barrel life 10x seems like a whole lot of work and money but I'm no materials engineer

Crazy alloys and novel techniques, yep. But I think the ultimate answer will be something they haven't even tried yet. High-energy plasma from the 3 million amp electrical arc is like a combination of arc-welding and plasma cutting and just erodes the gently caress out of the rails. For example, one technique they tried but didn't work out was injecting a layer of plasma between the rail and armature to act as a buffer to keep the hottest part of the arc away from the rail.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 03:50

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Yeah,figures. I wasn't trying to imply this was the final control interface, I've just never really seen any experimental weapon control interfaces, so I was somewhat surprised at the simplicity.

Honestly, a lot of industrial controllers are really simple like that. It's very easy to program and completely unambiguous, and there is little risk of hitting the wrong button if the buttons are that big. Since everything runs through PLCs, it's cheaper and easier just to program virtual buttons than to make a control panel with physical buttons.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Well, this one about rail guns didn't end up doing too well.

That was GBS; threads like that in GiP tend to do much better.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 14:37

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

I'll go dig up the latest on combat lasers and the XM-29 and post a future weapons thread; it's been a while since the last one anyhow.

While you're waiting, enjoy this photo of an Il-76 packing a giant loving laser. No, it's not a cold-war relic, it's an ongoing project the Russians successfully tested in 2009 and are still moving forward, with new testing of the upgraded system planned this year.

grover fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jan 18, 2013

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 16:34

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Future Weapons thread posted: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529017

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 18:15

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

I'm no cop, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to post high-resolution scans of badges like that online...

# ¿ Jan 19, 2013 03:44

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Scratch Monkey posted:

It's entirely possible that his clothes were blown off in the explosion.

You can see pretty clearly in the 1080p version that his pants are completely shredded and his legs covered in black. Probably still confused & dizzy from concussion, too.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2013 18:47

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genderstomper58 posted:

Also please tell me caro is in prison

While Caro is most definitely crazy, a lot of his exploits in Libya were nothing like how the rumor-mill on SA spun them into. Turns out he was never running around performing unlicensed surgery, more of unlicensed medic-ing/nursing. Remember: SA loves to take things out of context and spin them up until it's unrecognizable (ask me how I know!).

Brown Moses posted:

Last I heard of Caro he was back in the US after failing to reach Syria from Turkey. Our last conversation involved him calling me a "CIA drone", I've not heard from him since.

His last PM to me was something like "Oh god, the CIA got to you, too!" and he stopped talking to me after that. Guess that's a trend with him when people try to help him get help.

grover fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jan 27, 2013

# ¿ Jan 27, 2013 17:28

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Wonder if they realize US jets fly higher than 16,000ft?

# ¿ Feb 2, 2013 16:03

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

I don't see a HUD, and that helmet doesn't look like a HMD. Are they pretending this stealth fighter is armed?

# ¿ Feb 2, 2013 21:00

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Red Crown posted:

Got another, much smaller:

It's adorable. Interestingly enough, the ejection seat warning there is written in English, something I would not at all expect in Iran.

I found another high-res image as a Google image pull from Freep of all places, but it won't let me re-host it. You can see that the "WARNING" stencils on the sides are not symmetrical.

This hi-res cockpit shot was posted in the AI aviation thread earlier today:

http://i47.tinypic.com/24zxgsw.jpg

# ¿ Feb 2, 2013 22:00

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

oredun posted:

Theres no way thats real. You can see how it made out of fiberglass in the high res picture. Its just a fiberglass shell. It would certainly kill anyone inside of it if they actually tried to fly it.

Yeah, it's blatantly obvious that it's a fake, but we're not the ones they're trying to fool; this is a dictatorship who's trying to keep his own population from overthrowing him and silencing anyone like us who might point out the insanity of claims.

They're at least getting better at model-making. This one is way better done than the RQ-170 mockup they built.

Edit: I love that that airspeed indicator redline is at 260 knots. Why the hell did Iran release the hi-res images where all this poo poo is so plainly visible?

grover fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Feb 2, 2013

# ¿ Feb 2, 2013 22:11

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

terrez posted:

There's some pretty rad comments on it too: http://imgur.com/gallery/yDZrS

gently caress tha popos

The authorities are claiming a breaker tripped, but I think we all know what *really* caused the superbowl blackout last night.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2013 19:53

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Wingnut Ninja posted:

I'm kind of impressed that they actually photoshopped out the engine covers.

The missed the dorsal vent right in front of the tail, though...

# ¿ Feb 14, 2013 01:55

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Brown Moses posted:

I'm not sure it did, free tank I guess.

Was the tank already on fire when he dropped the grenade? It looked like a little flames coming out the rear of it in the 1080p version.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2013 02:45

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Christoff posted:

Can someone sum up this whole Syrian conflict in a couple sentences in a non-GBS way? Whose side are we on again? I thought at first it was like "yeah, rebel! You're oppressed!" But?

20 second oversimplification:

Arab spring hits Syria, Syrian dictator (Assad) responds with brutal crackdown, and a bloody civil war ensues with many atrocities committed. The opposition has been on the receiving side of most of the atrocities, and Assad is almost universally considered the bad guy.

US is firmly on the side of the Syrian opposition, and formally recognized the Syrian Opposition Council as the legitimate government of Syria, and has provided a lot of non-military aid to help stem the humanitarian crisis. Russia has a base in Syria and a vested interest in Assad not falling and hasn't let the UN do much, either. Add to this that a significant chunk of the opposition are muslim extremists, and US has gone as far to label some of the opposition as terrorists, and it gets really murky.

TLDR: it's OK to cheer for the opposition.

grover fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 17, 2013

# ¿ Feb 17, 2013 20:05

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Duzzy Funlop posted:

There is no loving way.

Please please tell me those were disarmed with the explosives removed...

# ¿ Feb 17, 2013 23:56

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Godholio posted:

I used to think headlamps were dumb, but I freely admit I was wrong.

Headlamps are the loving BEST. I use mine all the time and for all sorts of poo poo. One of the best decisions ever.

I don't think I'd wear it if people were shooting at me, though. That guy is like one giant walking target.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2013 15:48

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Allāhu Akbar indeed.

Maybe find better cover than plaster walls next time.

Isn't that why snipers like to take one shot and then move? I couldn't believe he still stood there, even after making a huge beacon of a plaster dust cloud. Wonder if he even hit his target?

# ¿ Feb 23, 2013 14:28

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

This is what an LST looks like after being hit with four 2000lb JDAMS.

Video of the sinkex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsiXOenZE9E

grover fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Feb 25, 2013

# ¿ Feb 25, 2013 02:19

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# ¿ Mar 25, 2025 16:38

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Snowdens Secret posted:

I'm sure it's fun to do for sinkexes but is dropping gravity bombs on ships still expected to be a thing, ever?

Not really. Any aircraft within gravity bomb range is also within anti-aircraft missile range. No way a buff would get that close to a warship in an actual combat situation. I'm with iyaayas.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2013 04:10

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