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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Military History Megathread: The era is called napoleonic because of the dude.
 
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Hirez
Feb 3, 2003

Weber scored 49 points?

:allears: :allears: :allears:
wasn't there a war between like china and tibet where they agreed to not use gunpowder, so everyone had like sick rear end halberds and longswords


e: india/china i think

This is your new elite warrior unit.



https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2020/09/09/china-is-arming-its-soldiers-with-medieval-halberds-to-fight-india/

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Hirez
Feb 3, 2003

Weber scored 49 points?

:allears: :allears: :allears:
Why is the tank afraid of just a little machine gun fire? just roll into the intersection, and shoot that son of a bitch!


e: oh just saw it's an anti tank gun... nm. just use an infantry guy instead

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Hirez
Feb 3, 2003

Weber scored 49 points?

:allears: :allears: :allears:

Space Gopher posted:

1963 mystery cloud
On 28 February 1963, a Thor rocket carrying a spy satellite into orbit was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The rocket went off course and mission control detonated the rocket at an altitude of 27 mi (44 km) before it could reach orbit. The rocket detonation produced a large circular cloud that appeared over the southwestern United States. Due to its mysterious nature, appearing at a very high altitude and being visible for hundreds of miles, the cloud attracted widespread attention and was published by the news media. The cloud was featured on the cover of Science Magazine in April 1963, Weatherwise Magazine in May 1963, and had a full page image published in the May issue of Life Magazine.[6][7] Prof. James MacDonald at the University of Arizona Institute for Atmospheric Physics investigated the phenomena and linked it to the Thor rocket launch after contacting military personnel at Vandenberg Air Force Base. When the launch records were later declassified, the United States Air Force released a memo explaining that the cloud was "the result of a military operation", but did not clarify.

cool cool cool....



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Hirez
Feb 3, 2003

Weber scored 49 points?

:allears: :allears: :allears:

Ghost Leviathan posted:

The real fun there is the theories that Japanese doomsday cult tested a nuke in the outback and no one officially noticed.

I believe it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station :tinfoil:

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Aum Shinrikyo was a Japanese doomsday cult responsible for a range of criminal and terrorist acts. In April 1993, when Kiyohide Hayakawa, deputy leader of the Aum,[5] arrived in Western Australia, Aum Shinrikyo purchased Banjawarn and built a facility there. Hayakawa had come in search of areas suitable for uranium mining. In his notes, he also praised the high quality of uranium ore

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