Ron Jeremy posted:Depends what you're calling "carrier." There are 5 CVNs in the picture. From the bottom: CVN-69 Eisenhower, CVN-77 George Bush, CVN-65 Enterprise, CVN-72 Lincoln, CVN-75 Truman. The smaller ones are LHDs, which carry helos and harriers. LHD-5 there is the USS Bataan. The others I can't see the number. 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
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Mr. Samuel Shitley posted:ha it gets better whoever wrote that doesn't know a haji is a real term for someone on hajj Yeah, but in common parlance, Haji isn't used as a term of respect for people who have completed the Hajj.  Somewhere on Rt Mobile or Michigan in 2008, probably near Korean Village.
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AB posted:I asked an NCO what would happen if you tried to use the smoke generator on an Abrams if it were hooked up using current fuel. He said "You'd look like the Bat Mobile for about ten seconds before the hull caught on fire." Doesn't the Abrams just use JP-8 for fuel like everything else?
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movax posted:Puff the Magic Dragon? Or were those flamethrowers? Vehicle crews can stencil a name on their vehicle at the commander's discretion. The first letter of this name is often the company's letter designation(i.e., Vehicles in Co A would have A names like Avenger or whatever) or some 'badass' sounding name. ex. LOAF(Lords of rear end Fuckery because we got dicked around so much)  I don't have a picture but one of my unit's vehicles was named "Steel Bukkake" until some officer figured out what bukkake meant. vains fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jan 16, 2013 |
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Branis posted:How effective would HEAT or straight up AT rounds from a T-64 or any tank be against a building? Its gonna penetrate but will it just keep passing through like a bullet or will it gently caress poo poo up in the room on the other side? The concrete would spall inwards with an AP round. I don't know how concrete would react to HEAT. It was probably shooting HE though.
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DEVILDOGOOORAH posted:can there be a future weapons thread or something because I have some questions about rail guns and I know vas will come in here and lock it down again if this gets taken too far. I'm amazed that grover hasn't created one or someone dedicated one to him.
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Mzuri posted:From Danish newspaper Politiken's web-page, here's a clip about a female sniper in Aleppo, Syria. Mother of two, former English teacher. The interview bits are in English, and they are also by far the most interesting part. Having a scoped rifle does not make one a sniper.
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Pufflekins posted:15 feet is a pretty safe distance!!! Better than walking up on it or waiting for EOD.
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genderstomper58 posted:you could roll up on it in a pog-ey tank I'd rather not. LAVs dont have a great track record against IEDs.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Can't wait to see how many billions of dollars we spend inventing a stick. Probably not much since the idea was created and developed in house and appears to be of relatively simple construction. Who knows? Can't be any worse than the oft cited Iraqi counter-IED dowsing rod. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584404576438290492960696.html A 30% higher detection rate is pretty good.
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Godholio posted:The people in charge do realize the Army and Marines often carry special sticks capable of sending projectiles further than 15 feet right? I'm no EOD tech but, from what I remember, it is generally frowned upon to shoot an IED in an attempt to blow it up(much less the whole shooting stuff randomly thing).
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Limp Wristed Limey posted:To be fair the Predator shot first, the Foxbat shot back. Unless you think the footage was altered in some manner, the Foxbat shot first. Shimazu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_drone#Specifications vains fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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hailthefish posted:Think it might have been posted before, possibly in the previous thread, but you can never get enough BRRRRRRRRRRRRT Except for the guys that were a couple of meters outside of the kill/wound radius of 30mm HE.
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Godholio posted:Well holy poo poo. Yeah, that's what would happen. That's so loving dumb. no way those enlisted dudes make enough money to buy ammo in this loving market It seems kind of dumb unless they also take the bolt out during the Evening Parade(I assume the President goes to one or two of those a year).
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kathmandu posted:How do these relic weapons like STG 44s and K98s end up still in use? It's not like AK47s and such are in short supply. The Soviet Union captured a poo poo ton of German WWII weapons. They disbursed these weapons to allies and people's revolutions. Syria was/is a Soviet/Russian ally.
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Deathy McDeath posted:In all fairness, a lot of that footage is from 2007. The ANA has improved a lot since then. I can't imagine how they could possibly be any worse than they were in 2010.
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genderstomper58 posted:rrail post He can post again in 10.59 years.
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GAS CURES KIKES posted:did you do the math right on that I used my rainmen-esque ability to do math to figure it out. I actually did it to 6 places after the decimal but I didn't want to make anyone think I was weird.  Doing a little recon in the 'box.
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GAS CURES KIKES posted:me at a local tea party rally Use imgur gently caress. lol. Rascal scooters are pretty similar to LAVs in that they both are really gay and pointless.
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Godholio posted:Do rascals respond to bigger batteries the same way powerwheels do? Yeah, Phantoms are cool. I really like the tail art.
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Phanatic posted: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? It looks like he threw something down the barrel of the gun.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Still wondering what it is he threw. Didn't look like as explosion so much as an incendiary of some sort. Tanks burn pretty good apparently. Well they're full of propellant and HE so what did you expect.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I don't know a lot about non-floating warfare so I have to ask - do these tanks not have machine guns? Is it really that easy to just run through a field up to a tank and lob enough explosive in it to destroy everything inside? Tanks have a very constrained field of view if the commander is forced to sit down in the turret. Normally, the commander wants to be standing up so he can see 360 and direct the fire of the gunner and the movement of the vehicle. When the commander is forced to button up, the commander can only see out of periscopes and these periscopes leave large blindspots. The commander generally has a machine gun on a flexible mount for close in defense. On the Abrams, the loader also has a machine gun for close in defense. T-55/T-72s dont have a loader so there is no loader pintle mount. In this case, the rebels appear to have forced the commander to button up so they could move infantry close in and destroy the tank. Additionally, the coax machine gun is limited to the elevation/traverse limitations of the main gun. The guy that blew up that tank looks like he came from beneath the depression limits of the main gun. The telescopic sight of armored vehicles is also limited to the traverse/elevation limits of the main gun. Some tanks have a 'unity viewing window'(I assume all tanks do) which is like a periscope for the gunner. It gives him a wide field of view to the front of the turret. The 'unity viewing window' is still linked to the main gun and the telescopic sights and suffers the same elevation/depression limitations. vains fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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Wasabi the J posted:I wonder what a defensive "blind shot" would do if you saw that guy and shot a round in his direction. Probably gently caress him up pretty good between the volume and pressure from the shot but then what? Firing a main gun round to possibly incapacitate one dude who might be there(or he might be under your gun or off to the side) isn't a good use of limited resources. A better tactic would be to increase your standoff or don't commit tanks without infantry(like has been noted above).
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Does the commander not have an independent sighting system? i only know of Challenger 2 but it seems incredibly easy for him to get up and close to it and for that group of people to be close and filming as well. I'm assuming whatever he used either set off the charge in the breach or the breach was actually open when he threw it in. They do. For the main weapon system/coax, their sights have the same limitations that the gunner's sights do. Abrams TCs can control their 50 from inside the turret, as far as I know. However, the primary limitation remains: Their situational awareness(i.e., what they can see around them) is degraded because they're either looking out a pinhole(telescopic sights) or they're looking out the periscopes.
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BaconAndBullets posted:Granted we do that whenever we are in our company area practicing or we aren't allocated nearly enough blanks. You say that like its a bad thing. Blanks are dirty and have minimal training value. 
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Booblord Zagats posted:I was gonna say Angola by way of South Africa, but Rhodesia makes more sense I'm pretty sure its from Rhodesia. You could probably track down what unit if you wanted to run through a lot of white supremacist/Rhodesia forums.
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Booblord Zagats posted:I just Reverse gis'd it and it's defiantly Rhodesia. Also, spot on with the white supremacist sites thing I spent a 3 semesters in college studying Rhodesia between UDI and majority rule. I had to wade through a ton of them when I was doing research. rockamiclikeavandal posted:I always wonder how good those guys were. Everytime I run across someone mentioning Rhodesia they act like the military were all Rambos. I'm sure most of that is just fantasizing about a white african country, so it's hard to know. They were pretty good at killing ZANU/ZAPU but pretty bad at all the other aspects of fighting a grass roots/Maoist style insurgency.
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rockamiclikeavandal posted:I guess that makes sense. I can't think of anyone that is good at defeating guerrillas in the last 50 years or so. Maybe whatever they did in Sri Lanka to destroy the Tamils, and maybe the Philippines. http://www.amazon.com/The-Bush-Rhod...ywords=rhodesia http://www.amazon.com/Fireforce-Man...ywords=rhodesia http://www.amazon.com/Out-Of-Action-ebook/dp/B0086749RY/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366083420&sr=1-3 http://www.amazon.com/Mukiwa-White-Africa-Peter-Godwin/dp/0802141927/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366083558&sr=1-2&keywords=godwin http://www.amazon.com/Rhodesians-Never-Die-State-Democracy/dp/0908311826/ref=la_B000AQ1OY0_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1366083633&sr=1-4 http://www.amazon.com/Under-Skin-Death-White-Rhodesia/dp/0810106582/ref=sr_1_39?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366083499&sr=1-39&keywords=rhodesia The first 4 are memoirs and the last 2 are monographs. I used a few other books and a ton of papers but I don't have any of my bibliographies handy. The monographs aren't explicitly focused on the fighting. edit: There are probably some books out there that cover the actual fighting part of the conflict better but I wasn't writing specifically on the fighting so I didn't delve into them. http://www.rhodesia.nl/Rhodesia%20Tactical%20Victory.pdf vains fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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iyaayas01 posted:Be brutal as gently caress and not give a poo poo about collateral damage Probably doesn't work as well when you're not on an island.
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Godholio posted:Encirclement and extermination. It's been done. Where(since 1945)?
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Thump! posted:The uniform he's wearing is the Rhodesian pattern. Definitely Rhodesian Army. I have a buddy who does a lot of different reenacting who put together the whole kit. I don't know too terribly much about the guys, but according to him they were probably one of the best Counter-Insurgency forces ever formed. Not that I know it's true, but it seems plausible. The RLI were pretty terrible at all aspects of counter-insurgency except the killing 'bad guys' part. Also, the whole idea of reenacting the Bush War is pretty loving weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMrD53Jofc
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