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MrYenko posted:
Krasnoyarsk *is* a large chemical production center.
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chitoryu12 posted:A lot. The Snark was so bad that nobody could figure out why it was ever deemed operational; one missile meant to fly to Puerto Rico and back disappeared east of Venezuela and was found 27 years later in a Brazilian jungle. In this case, the missile did *not* know where it was, and couldn't find out where it was from where it wasn't.
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I wish I had more information about my paternal grandfather's service. He was in the Chemical Corps in WW2 in the Pacific Theater, stationed at Guadalcanal (after it had been secured). He died while I was still a snot-nosed little kid, but I'd have loved to ask him about the alternative plan to gas Japan wholesale before the invasion/Operation Olympic. There's no way he *wouldn't* have known something about that.
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EBB posted:I really doubt there was any opposing force on the island. On the other hand, I know of an island in an idyllic location on a famous and storied river that's recently been expertly prepared for speculative development!
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Duke Chin posted:Didn't know poo poo about this one so I went and looked it up and  Source: Fury #1, Vol. 1
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MrYenko posted:Has there ever been a zero-injury regimental-sized jump in any army? Yeah, probably in the North Korean Army, because Glorious Leader packed all the parachutes Himself and if anyone died, it's because they weren't pure of thought and their hearts not full of pure Communist camaraderie. 
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Scratch Monkey posted:Auto loader is one less dude who can help replace tracks and stuff Conversely, also one less 130-150lb mass of partially-charred goo you have to hose out of what's left of the tank after it's hit by an ATGM. >.>
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ded posted:I don't see any graphite Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejZyDvtX85Y She doesn't isolate the piece until 7:25. Her channel has a ton of other  -worthy Chernobyl/Pripyat stuff in it, like *climbing the Duga-3 array*.
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This one's even more hosed up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kg4vVYKc90 Skip to 3:30 to just see the particle. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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Oct 9, 2019 04:14
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aphid_licker posted:What were they supposed to have done, make Pvt Snuffy dump out every single sandbag? Leave food to attract rodents and their predators, poo poo in corners and creative spaces. Alternatively, drop two 2000lb JDAMs on the FOB. 
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Platystemon posted:Hypothetically speaking, what would be the consequences of putting down mines on the way out? "Why, we're as surprised as you are!" 
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Oct 17, 2019 04:38
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"Hey! It was really really COLD on that tower!" 
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A Bad Poster posted:"I was awarded this medal for superior knife-handsmanship." Another acceptable answer: "Distinguished Masturbation Medal." (Left-Handed Device available)
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I've seen things you...Karens wouldn't believe... ...grown men in dress whites pissing themselves at Dining Outs and Hail and Farewells...glittering nails shimmering at Wives' Club meetings...
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Our defense contractors ARE like that, it's just the dances they purchase to influence their customers generally are of the exotic and/or escort variety.
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bloops posted:Jet rally is my poo poo Just had this in my YouTube feed today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8bmgZjzOM
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Syrian Lannister posted:Sorry but thats loving cool. Something similar, made functional: https://www.instructables.com/id/Saturn-V-Lamp/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chitoryu12 posted:This reminds me of stories of the M3 Carbine's first usage at the very end of WW2. Against an enemy without it, night vision is basically a cheat code for winning a gunfight. http://www.koreanwaronline.com/arms/m3irsnip.htm Excerpt: "The Sniperscope evolved from the M1 of WWII, with an effective range of about 70 yards, to the M2, with a range of about 100 yards. Both of these used vibrator power supplies to convert 6 volt battery levels to 4250 volts for the image-viewing tube." Yes I'm aware it doesn't mean what I'm inferring it means, it's just funny to imagine.
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Pryor on Fire posted:That is a big missile Yeah, they might as well just call it the Pershing III.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:That is cool as hell, but how do we make sure enemies or even non fighting nations who are adversaries, don’t think it’s a nuclear weapon being launched? This is a good question. I wish there was a good answer for it other than "they're just going to have to trust us." And yes, it was a *big* problem, especially considering one of the original PGS proposals was using conventional/kinetic warheads launched from Trident D5s. The other was hypersonic cruise missiles, but the tech just wasn't quite there. Now we've got the W76-2 which is arguably worse because 'small' nukes just become all the more attractive and feasible an option as conventional munitions keep scaling upward in yield and precision. Scratch Monkey posted:I think the idea is that it flies low enough that the satellite based launch detection doesn't see it and fast enough that if any other radar sees it it's already too late They wouldn't need satellite-based launch detection, they'd just need someone within 50-100 miles of the launch site with binoculars and a cell phone.
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golden bubble posted:https://twitter.com/archaeologymag/status/1368244992439853067 Dammit, now I have to ask the "translate Latin for me" people how you'd say "Superlifer." Probably something like Longevitor.
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Mar 8, 2021 08:11
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Yeah, it looks like a slapshod copy of a Carl Gustav.
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Mar 20, 2021 14:03
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"What if we rebooted 'Perfect Strangers' but made it sublimely schmaltzy AND extremely uncomfortable?"
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Mar 21, 2021 06:29
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torgeaux posted:Looks like spiderwebbing, not splatter. Do you know a source? Maybe a dialed up paintball gun firing steel ball bearings. Or marbles. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 02:35 on May 1, 2021 |
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May 1, 2021 02:33
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Just a reminder that this was OVER SIX YEARS in the making, and the Navy originally wanted the ability to postpone this until 2025: https://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-ordered-to-shock-test-worlds-costliest-ship/ That being said, the Navy's always been a bit gun shy with shock testing the big dicks - as I recall, the Nimitz class wasn't shock tested until TWELVE YEARS after its commissioning in 1987, coincidentally the last time we shock tested ANY carrier, I think. They'd already completed like 3-4 hulls by that point. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Jun 25, 2021 07:05
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Until it's proven otherwise I'm calling 'SHOP on that.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Where’s this rear end in a top hat Osama? Afghanistan, but will probably escape into Pakistan huh. Can we invade Pakistan? No? Ok. Well let’s kick Afghanistan’s rear end and try to get Osama anyway, we’ll figure the rest out in January when we’re done. They don't call Afghanistan the "graveyard of empires" for nothing.
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Scratch Monkey posted:It is my understanding that east Asian generally think that westerners look like monkeys because they are hairy and have long noses (comparatively). Also we're big and dumb. It's from this: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/amerimutt-le-56-face Yes, it's racist.
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Cugel the Clever posted:https://twitter.com/RecceGen/status/1449688830970376198?t=XNv_1H7TRnfpqT6IM7i9Hw&s=19 Why look at pictures when there's video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzRX06Xqu80
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Oh, rest assured that dude dropped *way* more than his equipment.
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As for the ballistic missile(s) in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkan-2
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I guess they'd Ah, evidently Tomcats only operated off of Midway once, as a necessity: https://www.google.com/amp/s/theaviationgeekclub.com/book-tells-the-story-of-when-two-f-14-tomcats-were-diverted-to-the-uss-midway/ BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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CommieGIR posted:No no NO BAD CIWS. That's a friend! "It's an Allegiant Airlines flight." "Clear to engage."
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Arcella posted:Do not point the Carl Gustav at anything you are not willing to destroy. More like "Do not point the Carl Gustav at anything you're not willing to destroy either ahead or behind you." My only experience with the damned thing was discovering it created gigantic brush fires around you in Far Cry 2 if you were dumb enough to shoot one near something flammable, and that entire game world was flammable.
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