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Frosted Flake posted:It looks like they downplayed how hard he is in The Right Stuff. Isn't that the film where he got his head lit on fire trying to stand an F-104 on its tail and walk away? How did that get downplayed?
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MA-Horus posted:Pretty sure everything about the combination gun/launcher was hot garbage and the missile basically didn't work. Didn't it have a tendency to flip on its side if you fired the gun when the turret was perpendicular to the hull due to how light it was?
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Destro posted:Still no news on Caro since the announcement of his release. The feds obviously have him and he was right all along. One moment he's thankful that he made it back to US soil, the next day he wakes up in a FEMA death camp Them's the breaks sometimes
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Duke Chin posted:Somehow, somewhere, a Trump gets a boner Shotgun not being the guy who has to put those back in
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Genocide Tendency posted:You know.. Every once in a while, you take a shot at Diana. And I kinda gotta ask.. Did she turn you down in high school or something? I mean. I'm not quite sure why the hate. She just seemed like a hot girl who married well and just was overly snobby about campaigning for charities. It's an ISIL suicide vehicle bourne IED that was propelled into the air by I think an air strike, the occupants blew themselves up before gravity did the job for them. As for Diana if you're British you still have to deal with ARE DIANA, THE PEOPLE'S PRINCESS!!! poo poo from the media, though that's died down a bit in recent years. Who knows with the 20th anniversary coming up next year though!
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What What exactly were they trying to achieve there
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LostCosmonaut posted:Here's what a non-retarded Soviet carrier might have looked like in the 21st century (yes, this is real); Macross remake looking good
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It's not "why arabs lose wars" though, it's "why tinpot dictatorship armies lose wars". Like the lessons in there can be applied all over the place to armies that could threaten a coup, no dictator is going to let their army get more competent than it is loyal. Hell, look at the direction Turkey is heading in now after all the purges. Putting it down to "Arab's only value tribal ties" or whatever is on the same level as when Westmoreland said North Vietnam won the war because "Orientals don't value human life".
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Frosted Flake posted:I wonder how much westerners with the Kurds gently caress. I like to think that PissPigGrandad is getting his boots filled on the reg
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IIRC that hornet is being autolanded, the pilot isn't actually flying that approach. Still gotta have brass balls to sit through that and trust the computer to just slam you onto the deck instead of into the fantail though.
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Missionary Positron posted:Are there any books that deal with the clusterfuck that was the You need to read about the Thirty Year Wars a.k.a. the war that Germans consider to this day to be worse than either WWI and WWII and was essentially fought by armies of 17th century Blackwaters on every side
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Isn't The White Donkey by the Terminal Lance guy supposed to be pretty good? Having said that it might be a fictionalised account rather than a straight up memoir, so fits better with the "fiction" stage of the cycle. Also I hope that PissPigGrandad's tweets count as "poetry" for the fight against Daesh. Booblord Zagats posted:It's like anything else, when you only have one part to your entire personality, you're going to be a loving rear end in a top hat. Don't matter if it's guns (Gun nuts), cars(Hella Flush), pets (Crazy cat lady), politics (ugghhhh) or videogames (twitch). If you're one dimensional, everyone but people exactly like you will hate you You forgot the absolute worst and most insane people of the bunch Horse People
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Every western leftist wants to be George Orwell fighting the fascists in the Spanish Civil War
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Derek Dominoe posted:I guess there's not a lot of downside for the military. You get more buff troops and the biggest health consequences will probably manifest after they retire and--if they really wreck their heart--potentially shorten their benefits period. Also makes you shoot blanks so less knocked-up Thai sex workers I imagine the mood swings might be a pain but I guess that's just par for the course in the forces anyway
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Mr. Nice! posted:The joys of spec ops is you get both steroid AND tbi/ptsd fueled mood swings. Just like the TRUE heroes of America, football players and pro wrestlers 
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We literally just had a conversation in the MilHist thread about how Hitler embellished his WWI military record as well
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mlmp08 posted:Yeah, 4 on video. But I'm assuming he started filming after the first launch, and you can hear 5. I'm curious as to why so many were launched if it was against one TBM. I sure hope you are not questioning the competence of Royal Saudi Land Forces there
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Nov 5, 2017 18:53
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Missionary Positron posted:https://twitter.com/NorwegianArmy/status/933258199700066304 Apparently that's what a bunch of US infantry dudes in the first wave on D-Day thought right before watching most of the rockets fall into the sea or fly right over the German bunkers
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I HAVE GOOD AIDS posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9selhGBPdek Meanwhile another Saudi general's pleasure hut get vaporised by a rickety Houthi TBM
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Blind Rasputin posted:Trench warfare must’ve had to be the most godawful thing to ever exist during WWI. The one saving grace is that there was comparitively little actual fighting between trenches in WWI - you would have to be quite unlucky to actual be involved in a "going over the top" offensive as most of the time most sectors were pretty quiet. Being involved in an actual offensive would have been pretty horrific on any side though, yeah. Plenty of Germans went insane prior to the Somme thanks to being stuck in chalk dugouts that were shelled non-stop for 2 weeks. WWI fighting outside of the trenches (right at the start and right at the end) was no joke either - 329,000 Frenchmen were killed in the first month of the war, prior to both sides digging in.
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McNally posted:You'd think France would have learned their lesson about cuirassiers after Waterloo. If you want to get an appreciation of what it would be like to be on the receiving end.
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Wooden ships on the other hand... Can't find it now but there's a video of a team firing a cannon at a replica side of a wooden hulled sailing ship, and a load of wooden people silhouettes just getting completely demolished by high speed splinters. poo poo was no joke. Also someone on the milhist thread said that cannonballs move slowly enough that you could see them coming, which led to soldiers doing poo poo like trying to kick them aside as them flew towards them (with inevitable results).
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Sorry, yes - should have specified that was for bouncing round shot. I don't know for sure but I think it's an aiming thing, where you ideally want to bounce the shot just in front of a mass of enemy infantry so it hits as many people as possible, and it's easier to aim short rather than risk overshooting.
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It's from around August 1914, just after the outbreak of WWI (as the cuirassiers disappeared pretty quickly once fighting started for obvious reasons)
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From a few years ago but I will always laugh at everyone's reaction when they see the needle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_mRoOT-7E
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Blind Rasputin posted:We use intraosseus access in codes and it’s a weird drill bit needle hybrid on the tip of an electric hand drill. Looks so much like something from Home Depot. It’s surprisingly fast and easy to use and just drills straight into their leg bone below the knee. It’s much better because that sternum access device is probably NOT a great idea when you need to make use of chest compressions. The dude in the video says you'd use on someone who's lost 2+ limbs so you probably can't use the thing you're talking about.
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"Private! Paint these logs from now till dinner."
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The French copy no-one, and no-one copies the French.
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Force de Fappe posted:The best Mussolini thing happening lately was when a black football player stood upside down in front of fascist fans from the opposite team after they lobbed racist jeers his way. During the 2019 UK general election the media demanded a Jewish Labour mp apologise because she said the same Lazio fans you mentioned should get their heads kicked in for doing Nazi salutes on the streets of Glasgow
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Beating someone with a trench club yelling "Not shooting you! Not shooting you!"
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ded posted:You're thinking of the Gurkhas. Isn't part of Sikhism to carry a ceremonial knife? I'm assuming that's what was being referred to
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People in another thread said its probably a failure of the folding fins.
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Burt posted:Going to have to defend cricket here, the governing bodies may be all old ex-colonels and old boys but it's actually a very popular sport across society, there's still an awful lot of "village green" type cricket teams out in the sticks. On the other hand class structure was so ingrained into cricket that there was literally a series of games for amateur gentleman vs working class people https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_v_Players#:~:text=Gentlemen%20v%20Players%20was%20a,and%20professional%20cricketers%20(Players).
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Can't wait for the Ghost of Kyiv to get milkshake ducked
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1576363777959727104?s=20&t=99OfGQcBW5kY3owyrqAB6w A bit of epoxy and it'll be fine
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