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NightGyr posted:This is cool, but why do they blur the nose of the target missile? (Unclassified answers only) Maybe secret control surfaces.
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Jan 14, 2020 16:24
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zoux posted:No like Russia or uh Pakistan? would nuke Israel and please tell me the Saudis don't have nukes Saudi Arabia has said they will obtain nuclear weapons if Iran does so.
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Jan 30, 2020 16:33
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Mar 10, 2020 12:14
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mlmp08 posted:Did I miss some new deployment? Cause nah... If you mean the AN/SEQ-3, I don't think 1 prototype counts as operational employment. They recently stuck a different 150 kw laser on the USS Little Rock, but I assume it's also a testing prototype. There are at least a few ships with pretty powerful lasers, but none seem to be actually operational even if they're described that way.
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Apr 18, 2020 04:32
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Potato Salad posted:What an interesting time, I find them more trustworthy than the US president who may legitimately have been looking for an easy win in the eyes of his supporters by sending assassins. Ex-Green Beret led failed attempt to oust Venezuela’s Maduro
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May 4, 2020 14:26
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Pretty sure there's one of the videos out of Syria of the TOW wires landing on power lines and arcing. It's after missile's flight ended though, iirc.
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May 8, 2020 17:44
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BadgerMan45 posted:Those kids playing scrabble have a really extensive vocabulary for their age. At first I thought the horizontal word was SHITTER.
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May 13, 2020 23:03
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I only recently learned the The Hunt for Red October was based on an actual event involving a mutiny on a Soviet destroyer. This video tells the story pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpMGeCwSM0
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May 21, 2020 03:09
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bewbies posted:it would definitely be an incredibly useful capability to build the Marines into a modular rapidly deployable organization that could dig in anywhere on Earth and then sling precision fires in every direction for a thousand kilometers, but I don't know how that every Marine is a rifleman poo poo fits into that construct Add rifling to the missile tubes.
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May 25, 2020 01:23
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Memento posted:Speaking of instability in the area, where does "border tensions escalate into multiple deaths (possibly on both sides) in Ladakh as Chinese and Indian troops go at each other with batons and rocks"? I don't think we should even try to really discuss it here because of how it would spiral, but I agree that this may become a thing to watch. China-India border stuff has been cold-war-esque for a long time but has changed somewhat recently - I read about 5000 Chinese soldiers moved into territory claimed by India over the last month or so, but it's hard to trust sources on the geopolitics of this area, so who knows. Anyway, again, not trying to start a discussion but thread participants will probably be interested in tuning in to this situation. If you have a sub, the Washington Pots has a story up on recent events.
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Jun 17, 2020 00:30
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You can search out people on twitter opining about current events with sat imagery and analysis for basically any given event of sufficient significance. Who to trust and evaluating their credentials/ability/objectivity is harder; there are a ton of agendas out there and even reasonably neutral people are often prone to hyping danger/magnitude. Still, I've seen some pictures showing movements that seem to be informative.
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Jun 20, 2020 17:03
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Platystemon posted:WashEx says the U.S. seized some of Russia’s better SAM hardware in Libya https://twitter.com/JosephHDempsey/status/1262487009911865347
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Jun 22, 2020 14:40
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https://twitter.com/DavidLarter/status/1282389936793161728 Considering it's been burning for almost three hours, this might be a total loss.
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Jul 12, 2020 20:30
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Mortabis posted:Forrestal wasn't. I mean from a cost to repair perspective. I don't really think they're going to let it burn to the waterline or whatever the equivalent is in a modern ship. e: Actually, it seems like they might really let it go. Fire chief says it might burn for days and no one is aboard fighting the fire. https://twitter.com/DavidLarter/status/1282414325064511493 glynnenstein fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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Jul 12, 2020 20:55
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aphid_licker posted:What were those missing bits made of? Structural steel? Aluminium? Did they melt or burn? I think that's mid-way in the superstructure, which was aluminum and probably thoroughly melted.
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Jul 14, 2020 16:56
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Guys. We might have to stop making fun of Russia. https://twitter.com/DavidLarter/status/1284651753401712644
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Jul 19, 2020 02:36
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Wingnut Ninja posted:They adapted Hellfires to launch from VLS cells and didn't call it the Cellfire? Hell-in-a-cell-fire
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Jul 23, 2020 23:16
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Schadenboner posted:Fast enough that trying to run in the opposite direction (leaving the cab) is probably not going to end well? There will be some g forces happening, but freight trains take a looong time to stop, and even relatively light passenger stuff is hardly fast. At 2 minutes this train goes full brakes and it takes 40 seconds to stop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldF6tug8ykg And a passenger train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1R64N9yWEY
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Aug 5, 2020 23:25
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People are skeptical of practical usefulness of the new magnum dong NK is parading. https://twitter.com/RocketSchiller/status/1315019747197628416
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Oct 11, 2020 01:56
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standard.deviant posted:Yes, but also “can’t fuel it at the launch site” is wildly optimistic. It wouldn’t be fast or easy, but it is irresponsible to assume the they won’t do it anyway. "Can't" in this context is just saying that spending a day fueling is a potentially fatal opportunity to let the US see it happening and react. It's a perhaps a little hyperbole to support the main point that being able to drive a MIRV ICBM in front of US eyes is more important to NK than being able to realistically tactically deploy it. And yeah, as soon as they have solid rockets of this class working it's also entirely tactically deployable.
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Oct 11, 2020 16:03
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I suppose it's best practice to run some PR for your regional war on advertising trucks around DC these days whether or not the US has much direct interest.
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Oct 19, 2020 18:15
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Cyrano4747 posted:Seems like a waste of money given how empty most white collar districts are these days. I’m sure a lot of .gov types are in the office because of statutory poo poo but I’ve also heard a lot about them getting massively expanded WFH too. It varies so much agency to agency, but yeah, downtown/metro center is about like quiet Saturday levels of busy but with fewer tourists. This was at 14th and G NW; they might be circling a few blocks nearby hoping one particular guy sees it.
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Oct 19, 2020 18:45
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PeterCat posted:Why don't they just buy more Blackhawks? Does the helicopter not have two doors so you could shoot from one while roping out of the other?
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Oct 28, 2020 02:14
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TCD posted:You could sub out WP for NATO and still have that be true. There are degrees there, though. The Soviets suffered about 150% more casualties than NATO while spending 2/3 as long in the country. It was quite bad for them.
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Nov 3, 2020 16:36
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France is building a big new CVN, and it's going to use American EMALS.
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Dec 9, 2020 14:30
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Godholio posted:It's a vague phrase, but typically an "armored car" is a truck chassis with armor plating for the cab and cargo box, which may or may not be separate components. I'm not sure what other vehicles fitting the strictest definition of "armored car" the SPs would've had access to in the late 80s...uparmored HMMWVs didn't exist yet. But that's also a truck anyway. The air force used these Cadillac Gage vehicles for security forces and might be what would have been used. 
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Jan 10, 2021 23:52
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Godholio posted:I lived on AFBs through the entirety of the 80s and I have never seen one of those. But on a missile base maybe. It seems more likely than commandeering a Loomis or Brinks truck while they restocked the BX cash cage. Yeah, perhaps it was only a specific group for warhead/missile stuff, but it was a thing as shown in this fantastically 80s CG pr clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAcmo6jZ7L4
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Jan 11, 2021 14:38
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TK-42-1 posted:Don't they do some kind of double tap "knocking" thing where they hit it with a non explosive a few minutes before they level it? I have a vague memory of that from one of the last few dozen times this has happened. It is called "roof knocking" and I don't know if it's still in practice or not, but here's a clip demonstrating it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69icTMgIjlw
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May 13, 2021 23:47
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Keep in mind Israel is contacting the building ahead of time so everyone living there leaves, then destroying their homes. It's hard to argue this is a military target being neutralized and not a punitive measure.
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May 14, 2021 16:47
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Sperglord posted:Is that true any more? It seems like the last major (and it is really major) import is jet engines and the CCP has made domestic high-quality jet engine production a priority. They do seem to have made a lot of progress. https://twitter.com/TheBaseLeg/status/1392137365343248388
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May 29, 2021 19:02
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mlmp08 posted:https://twitter.com/clemente3000/status/1413813372575956995?s=21 100 Years ago, Cobra Commander founded the Indiana Air National Guard.
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Jul 11, 2021 16:14
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Cyrano4747 posted:gently caress the overseas based, the Navy Yard in DC already has flooding problems. This is also probably about to get worse quickly due to the cycle of the moon's wobble. We have been in a low period of high tide levels and are about to cycle into a high period for about 15 years. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1415476484827983874
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Jul 16, 2021 20:07
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Weka posted:Those spurts of mist from wing tips and particularly just under the cockpit, is that concentrated water vapor? Like it's a visual indicator of increased airflow paths? The very basic explanation is areas of low pressure cause water vapor in the air to condense.
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Jul 17, 2021 04:14
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knox_harrington posted:A JDAM should be able to just use lat/long and from some very quick googling it looks like it can hit a target purely relative to the plane even absent the coordinates. It's unclear how much the plane needs to know where it is. Even in 1941 they probably knew where the plane is not, which is key.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:07
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I feel like they've always had a lot of hosed up people on board. My uncle did two tours commanding PBRs in Vietnam and knew Marcinko and a lot of the early generations of SEALs and though he had friends among them, he said there were more than a few you didn't really want to be around.
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Aug 29, 2021 22:48
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FMguru posted:My assumption is that the large expansion in Special Forces in the early 2000s (as the Forever Wars got rolling) meant having to admit people that would not have made the cut previously, and the tempo of operations and the sunk cost of training them meant it was hard to discipline or expel bad actors. Doubling the number of active SEALs (or Delta, or Rangers, etc.) means that literally half of your special forces are now made up of guys who would have washed out of training in the previous era. It definitely can't have helped anything. Rather famously, the DC Metropolitan police experienced a similar effect in the early 90s.
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Aug 29, 2021 23:33
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Quinntan posted:The rifle itself is... it's a little rough compared to other WWI/WWII rifles but it's perfectly serviceable. The issue was, if I recall correctly, that there was some issue about the cartridges available in America being ever so slightly too small for the bore and thus the rifle garnered a reputation for inaccuracy in the US that was undeserved. You recall correctly. The particular rifle Oswald used was in 6.5x52mm which uses bullets of .267 caliber; however, pretty much all the other 6.5mm calibers use .264 diameter bullets so there are, to this day, still a lot of loadings using bullets too small to properly engage the rifling, particularly on more worn-out guns. Hilariously the other Italian military caliber used in these rifles has the opposite problem: designed for a .298 bullet when .308 (and larger) is much more common, so you have guns that seem prone to blowing up due to higher pressures caused by this. Between the ammo problems and the rough action, the rifles were not very popular.
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Nov 15, 2021 13:41
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Somebody in the US walks into a 7-11 with a concealed handgun they tell you is for self-defense and says, "I'm gonna buy a slurpie," you're gonna think they probably are buying a slurpie. If someone walks into a 7-11 with an AR-15 in their hands that they say is for self-defense, a lot of folks are going to doubt that they're just buying a slurpie.
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Perhaps there is some way the submarine can shed it's tail when it's in danger? You could probably float it up to the surface and operate a SeaRam system there. I think that's the course my preferred Future War thinkers would pursue.
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