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Seeing towed anti tank guns on todays battlefield is still jarring...
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/r3nLvQ9.jpg Brazilian Military Police patrolling the streets of Marajo Island, 2009 View Quote Guy on a buffalo, literally. |
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I remember reading that the Soviet/Russian love for towed at guns, was that the crews could not pull out on their own. Stand and fight or run and die by political commisar.
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/r3nLvQ9.jpg Brazilian Military Police patrolling the streets of Marajo Island, 2009 View Quote through with a bit of speed. |
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“If someone breaks unto your house you are more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County. We prefer that you do, actually.” Sheriff Johnson
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Originally Posted By Pogo55: I'd bet that no one wants to block the road when those two come through with a bit of speed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Pogo55: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/r3nLvQ9.jpg Brazilian Military Police patrolling the streets of Marajo Island, 2009 through with a bit of speed. Especially with how popular small motor bikes are there. |
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/nice_jpg-2484272.JPG View Quote THAT is some photo. Flying P-26 "peashooter" + B model (?) P-40 flying formation with F-86 + P=51 ... Bigger_Hammer |
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LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL PRESERVED BODY,
BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT SHOUTING "HOLY $H!T...WHAT A RIDE"!! |
If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/o2RfCsm.jpg Ramses II or T-54E prototype, M60's diesel engine, German transmission, gun from the M60A1, and extended hull View Quote Even tried to copy the POS VARO searchlight! |
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/nice_jpg-2484272.JPG View Quote |
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Arfcom Callsign: Meth
It's only a carbine if it comes from the carbine region of France, otherwise it's a sparkling short rifle |
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Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: THAT is some photo. Flying P-26 "peashooter" + B model (?) P-40 flying formation with F-86 + P=51 ... Bigger_Hammer View Quote To think about how that technology progression must have felt to pilots of that era. In < 30 years we went from monoplanes that were basically biplanes with a wing removed to a high performance jet aircraft. |
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Do kids still play Cops and Robbers, or are they just taught both are equally bad and given a participation ribbon after a rousing game of scoreless Everyone's a Winner Ball? - BehindBlueI's
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Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City. The service lives of the C-130 and the B-17 (PB-1G) overlapped briefly in the USCG, with the first C-130 acquired and the last PB1G retired in 1959. SAR PB-1G's carried a chin surface search radar and an air dropped lifeboat, photo mapping PB-1G's retained their Norden bombsights to aim the cameras. In the background is a Douglas C-54 Skymaster (R5D).
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/cMl5m4U.jpg https://i.imgur.com/n2nbgaT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TiFg0bM.jpg https://i.imgur.com/U17QAiJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gkbXHcJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xGnxvGg.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/cMl5m4U.jpg https://i.imgur.com/n2nbgaT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TiFg0bM.jpg https://i.imgur.com/U17QAiJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gkbXHcJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xGnxvGg.jpg Serbian PASARS-16 Terminator, interesting combination of old and new tech. MRAP platform built on modernised FAP-2026 truck chassis, equipped with 40mm Bofors L/70 AA gun and RLN-IC ground-to-air rockets (modification of Soviet air-to-air 1974 R-13M rocket). Looks like the vehicle itself only carries optical systems. If they plug in a modern radar they’d have a great low-altitude system. |
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"you ought to listen to our resident Swede, he's genetically superior." -Bohr_Adam
"They are superior beings those Swedes." -RockHard13F "Everyone knows that geese are notorious liars ... and whores." -DK-Prof |
View Quote Interesting tires for a war machine. |
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Just a stranger on the bus trying to find his way home.
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No, you can't say whatever you want.
Trust nothing the MSM tells you. |
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/4c9DDDS.jpg The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MAV (Mobile Armored Vehicle, APC version of the Type-16 MCV) prototype. The vehicle is undergoing to the trials to replace the Type 96 WAPC in the Japan Defense Forces. Holy shit, is that a chrysanthemum? |
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Originally Posted By osprey21: Ontos M50 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/766/M50_Ontos-2499543.jpg View Quote @0ntos |
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What do you mean I couldn’t be the Ayatollah of the United States of America? It’s still we the Peeple right?
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Originally Posted By Deere_John_16: They Japanese used to put the chrysanthemum on their weapons similar to a lot of the proof marks used by other countries. Similar to the Swastika on many captured German weapons, the chrysanthemum became verboten post war as a sign of the attrocities brought on by the Axis powers. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Deere_John_16: They Japanese used to put the chrysanthemum on their weapons similar to a lot of the proof marks used by other countries. Similar to the Swastika on many captured German weapons, the chrysanthemum became verboten post war as a sign of the attrocities brought on by the Axis powers. As far as I know, there was no japanese symbol banned after the war. Do you have any sources about a ban? They still use the Rising Sun flag too. That was a 16 petal flower, so the 5 petal flower on the front of that machine likely matches more with the Japanese Self Defense Force that has sort of a 5 petal star. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Emblem_of_the_Japan_Ground_Self-Defense_Force.png |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: As far as I know, there was no japanese symbol banned after the war. Do you have any sources about a ban? They still use the Rising Sun flag too. View Quote I don't think it was every outright banned as much as it was often "scrubbed" off of captured weapons. For a time anyway finding a Nambu pistol or an Arisaka rifle with an intact mum was sort of a big deal. |
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Do kids still play Cops and Robbers, or are they just taught both are equally bad and given a participation ribbon after a rousing game of scoreless Everyone's a Winner Ball? - BehindBlueI's
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View Quote Looks like a mini Maus But for the narrow tracks |
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XP-89 Scorpion prototype with a nose turret that USAF thought they wanted
Attached File Attached File F-89D, fixed wing tip fuel tanks replaced with fat pods carrying a total of 104 2.75" rockets Attached File Attached File F-89H trades some rockets for Falcon missiles Attached File Attached File F-89J brings the wing tip tanks back, slings a pair of Falcons and a pair of Genie nuclear tipped air-to-air rockets under the wing Attached File Firing and running away after a Genie armed test launch Attached File |
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The USAF really had a hard on for FFAR in the 50's from their own combat experience against the Luftwaffe RM-4 rockets used against US Bombers.
FFAR went into the F-94 Starfire ("Interceptor" version of the F-80 / T-33) and of course to the F-89 Scorpion The Air Force even took the guns out of the F-86 and replaced them with a nose radar and a extendable belly tray with FFAR rockets instead in the "D" (Dog) Model The USAF lost interest in the FFAR as an Air to Air weapon when a pair of F-89 Scorpions tried to shoot down a wayward Navy F6F target drone - expending 208 FFAR with zero hits. Oops!! Fun Factoid - the F-86 Scorpion was sometimes referred to as the "Choo Choo" because (A) the Huge main great wheels with "spokes" make it look like a 1800's steam engine & (B) It was over weight & under powered so it flew about like a locomotive ... Bigger_Hammer |
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LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL PRESERVED BODY,
BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT SHOUTING "HOLY $H!T...WHAT A RIDE"!! |
The Genie was not a Air to Air "Missile" (as it had no guidance) but was instead a Air to Air "Rocket" - a dumb system with a BIG (Nuclear!) "Bada Boom!!" ...
A live Genie was detonated only once, in Operation Plumbbob on 19 July 1957. It was fired by USAF Captain Eric William Hutchison (pilot) and USAF Captain Alfred C. Barbee (radar operator) flying an F-89J over Yucca Flats. Sources vary as to the height of the blast, but it was between 18,500 and 20,000 ft (5,600 and 6,100 m) above mean sea level. A group of five USAF officers volunteered to stand uncovered in their light summer uniforms underneath the blast to prove that the weapon was safe for use over populated areas. They were photographed by Department of Defense photographer George Yoshitake who stood there with them. Gamma and neutron doses received by observers on the ground were negligible. Doses received by aircrew were highest for the fliers assigned to penetrate the airburst cloud ten minutes after explosion. Genie Missile Test The USAF wanted to give civilians assurances of the "Safety" of the USAF using nuclear tipped weapons against communist bombers over the USA would not incinerate the population or leave America a irradiated wasteland ... Bigger_Hammer |
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LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL PRESERVED BODY,
BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT SHOUTING "HOLY $H!T...WHAT A RIDE"!! |
Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: The Genie was not a Air to Air "Missile" (as it had no guidance) but was instead a Air to Air "Rocket" - a dumb system with a BIG (Nuclear!) "Bada Boom!!" ... A live Genie was detonated only once, in Operation Plumbbob on 19 July 1957. It was fired by USAF Captain Eric William Hutchison (pilot) and USAF Captain Alfred C. Barbee (radar operator) flying an F-89J over Yucca Flats. Sources vary as to the height of the blast, but it was between 18,500 and 20,000 ft (5,600 and 6,100 m) above mean sea level. A group of five USAF officers volunteered to stand uncovered in their light summer uniforms underneath the blast to prove that the weapon was safe for use over populated areas. They were photographed by Department of Defense photographer George Yoshitake who stood there with them. Gamma and neutron doses received by observers on the ground were negligible. Doses received by aircrew were highest for the fliers assigned to penetrate the airburst cloud ten minutes after explosion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VZ7FQHTaR4 The USAF wanted to give civilians assurances of the "Safety" of the USAF using nuclear tipped weapons against communist bombers over the USA would not incinerate the population or leave America a irradiated wasteland ... Bigger_Hammer View Quote What kind of blast radius would a 2KT nuclear rocket have? Presumably they were designed to take out multiple bombers in formation instead of having to engage each one individually? |
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