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EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Have one of the ugliest, most utilitarian planes ever built:



But goddamn do I love it.

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EBB
Feb 15, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9q7b_2tkMo

Keep watching after the oops at 2:30, it gets even funnier.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghxZzWVO7A

EBB
Feb 15, 2005



TURN YOUR KEY, SIR.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

VICE has a new-ish series on Syria, part 1 here:

:nws:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWSOIXS5o3c

E: I'm gonna go ahead an add a :nms: to this, this is some of the most graphic stuff I've ever seen. Seriously, if you have kids don't watch this.

EBB fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Nov 30, 2012

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Enjoy a dipshit crashing an Apache:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDOCh6QWQm8

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

grover posted:

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

It was cool to watch Menendez acting like a bitch in the music video after pissing me off the whole game.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005


:stare:

It's like somebody tore the head off a stretch armstrong.

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.

GAS CURES KIKES posted:

I dub this a Syrian Haircut

Two bits?

EBB fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jan 11, 2013

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

It looks like poo.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

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."

Still cracks me up.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Veins McGee posted:

Doesn't the Abrams just use JP-8 for fuel like everything else?

Yes. I've been told that it used to use JP-5 but I'm not sure that's right. Every Abrams I've worked with has had the fuel line responsible for smoke generation disconnected because of fire risk.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

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?

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

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

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.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

genderstomper58 posted:

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

That's another good point, I wasn't even thinking about the barrel. Best analogue I can think of from personal experience is the Abrams- high velocity rounds like the super sabot count as 2.5 shots on a barrel rated for 2500 shots. Betting that rail gun rounds just eat barrels.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

edited for OPSEC

EBB fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jan 19, 2013

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

grover posted:

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

Point taken.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Yikes. I would say he was ejected, you can see him off the back deck just as the rounds cook off.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

How the gently caress did that happen?

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Best screenshot I could get. I'm not sure if the launcher split or if this is a result of low framrate.

:nws:http://i.imgur.com/Ytd2nCU.png:nws:

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

What's up with the James Bond looking guy?

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Destro posted:

In the second picture one guy clearly has his pants unbloused, not very GODDAMN PROFESSIONAL.

He's a unicorn, the only leg in SF. :ssh:

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

I really wish Caro would get some help.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

This is the proest one.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Father of the Year right there.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Brown Moses posted:

Here's me on ITN's Truthloader online news thingy talking about the escalation in the Syrian conflict. Don't worry, it's mostly video from Syria rather than my face, so lots of explodey things to look at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHFOs-s4bho

Nice interview. It's like a "best of" of the videos you've been posting.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Spongebob Tampax posted:

Why the hell did I carry that tangent that far?

Because if all that was true, that's exactly how it would go down.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Somebody posted this gem in TFR. Most ridiculous looking rifle grenade I've ever seen.



EBB
Feb 15, 2005

What do they do with the shotgun shell, take out the shot and wad before loading? Or can this be done with an off-the-shelf round?

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

That Norway video gets funnier every time I watch it.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Brown Moses posted:

Going back to the shotgun grenade launcher from Syria I posted a couple of videos of, here's an example of one failing to fire correctly, and causing a bit of a panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQMus3xyd0U

I love that you can hear the audible click when the primer fails. Guy's just like, "gently caress!", tosses the whole shotgun and runs.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Give me one reason why that dickhead Arpaio would need a 155.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

GAS CURES KIKES posted:

Cop pics are cool, right?



Took me a second, but that's pretty funny.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Has this been posted yet? Pucker factor up to 11 at :20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZP2tEbH4

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Brown Moses posted:

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

E: nm, I was mistaken.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Worst part is the little boy getting involved and the kids in the background shouting every time they hang a round. Teach 'em young. :smith:

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Why should he get a killstreak? He only shot one guy.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

That's a hell of a story.



http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/Oldies__Oddities_.html

quote:

When the Alraigo, with the jet atop the containers, docked at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a horde of reporters was on hand. The ship’s crew and owners filed a salvage claim and were awarded some £570,000 ($1.14 million at the time) as compensation for the “rescue.” When Watson returned to the Illustrious, a Board of Inquiry essentially did nothing. But when the Illustrious returned to port, Watson underwent a second Board of Inquiry.

Gotta love maritime law.

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EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Do not show that to any O-4 or up.

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