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"Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -Dark Helmet
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/nrCF2pH.png KF-21 Boramae, South Korea https://i.imgur.com/DNuGKzk.jpg View Quote Did we do some joint development with them on the KF-21? I see a lot of F35 in there. |
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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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"you ought to listen to our resident Swede, he's genetically superior." -Bohr_Adam
"They are superior beings those Swedes." -RockHard13F |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6N8HGCt.jpg The story behind an unbelievable photograph View Quote Here is one of the first Gripens in 1994. It was an airshow in the middle of Stockholm, with about half a million spectators, but the pilot managed to crash it into an abandonded quarry where there were no people. JAS Gripen Crash |
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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 |
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Politicians Prefer Unarmed Peasants
Caddyshack Some men are morally opposed to violence. They are protected by those who are not. |
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Originally Posted By swede1986: Here is one of the first Gripens in 1994. It was an airshow in the middle of Stockholm, with about half a million spectators, but the pilot managed to crash it into an abandonded quarry where there were no people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkgShfxTzmo View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By swede1986: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6N8HGCt.jpg The story behind an unbelievable photograph Here is one of the first Gripens in 1994. It was an airshow in the middle of Stockholm, with about half a million spectators, but the pilot managed to crash it into an abandonded quarry where there were no people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkgShfxTzmo CF-18 CF18 Crash Lethbridge |
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The background music was very appropriate.
Hope that the Pilot survived. |
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"If It Has Tits, Wheels, or a CPU, it's gonna cause you Problems".
NRA LIFE MEMBER FOR OVER 35 YEARS. "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value --- zero." |
View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 2A373: Originally Posted By swede1986: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6N8HGCt.jpg The story behind an unbelievable photograph Here is one of the first Gripens in 1994. It was an airshow in the middle of Stockholm, with about half a million spectators, but the pilot managed to crash it into an abandonded quarry where there were no people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkgShfxTzmo CF-18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDIxzSMp-0 That CF-18 always reminded me of the MiG-29 crash at the Paris Air Show in 1989. Mig 29 Airshow Crash 1989 |
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"Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -Dark Helmet
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View Quote I'll admit I know very little about modern ejection seats, but that video appears to show the ejection seat correcting and aiming the pilot up for more altitude. Is that something they actually do? If so, that's awesome. |
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Prototype T-84 Yatagan. Based on the T-80, It has a 120mm smoothbore gun that uses NATO-standard ammunition as well as a laser-guided AT missile. The autoloader and Ammo storage were moved to the blowout-pannel-equipped turret bustle. It was designed by Ukraine for evaluation by the Turkish Army. Now it appears to be a parade star.
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The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrates the separation of the ALTIUS-600 small unmanned aircraft system in a test at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground test range, Ariz., March 26, 2021. The test was the first time the weapons bay doors have been opened in flight. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)
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Originally Posted By 2A373: The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrates the separation of the ALTIUS-600 small unmanned aircraft system in a test at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground test range, Ariz., March 26, 2021. The test was the first time the weapons bay doors have been opened in flight. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54089/210326-F-F3963-9001_jpg-1916233.JPG View Quote So a drone dropping a drone? Cool! |
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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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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/XGvERpf.jpg One of the two M10-8 flamethrower turrets on a US Navy Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) river monitor in action. Vietnam, 1969 View Quote |
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"At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path."
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/1uRdAGt.jpg https://i.imgur.com/MKu10Re.jpg BMPV-64, based on the T-64 tank, Ukraine https://i.imgur.com/dhZ7KBZ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/QLc1Co8.jpg XM3B1, Brazil https://i.imgur.com/pJF3rqO.jpg F-35B landing on HMS Queen Elizabeth https://i.imgur.com/XGvERpf.jpg One of the two M10-8 flamethrower turrets on a US Navy Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) river monitor in action. Vietnam, 1969 View Quote We stopped at the USS Alabama several years ago for the tour. There was a little museum next door that was full of Navy stuff. They had a PBR rigged out in there. I was shocked at how small that boat was and how much firepower it had on it. I played softball with a dude that was a 50 gunner on the forward tub and wore hearing aids in both ears. After seeing that boat, I understood why. |
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Politicians Prefer Unarmed Peasants
Caddyshack Some men are morally opposed to violence. They are protected by those who are not. |
Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/1uRdAGt.jpg https://i.imgur.com/MKu10Re.jpg BMPV-64, based on the T-64 tank, Ukraine https://i.imgur.com/dhZ7KBZ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/QLc1Co8.jpg XM3B1, Brazil https://i.imgur.com/pJF3rqO.jpg F-35B landing on HMS Queen Elizabeth https://i.imgur.com/XGvERpf.jpg One of the two M10-8 flamethrower turrets on a US Navy Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) river monitor in action. Vietnam, 1969 View Quote She's a fat bitch, but super set up for swim call... especially in port? WTF? |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/3hXjlFZ.png An American soldier poses with a jungle centipede during the Vietnam war, 1967 View Quote The scolpendra variant that would be encountered in SEA would max out at 20cm. The Amazonian giant centipede- the world's largest- gets up to 30cm (~12"). |
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"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
Forced perspecitve maybe, but there are some huge ones.
Giant Pet Centipede Crawls All Over Its Owner |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Forced perspecitve maybe, but there are some huge ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4sCZxEJ0c View Quote All right, I'll buy it, even if it is captive. Also, fuck that. |
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"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
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FNSS KAPLAN with an ATGM turret China’s Expanding Missile Training Area: More Silos, Tunnels, and Support Facilities |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/YuLUdm9.jpg French Panther, in service until 1947 [snip] View Quote |
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I'd rather be an American than a democrat.
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: What exactly do you mean? @Merlin [snip] View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Originally Posted By Merlin: Pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the "best" German tank of the war. What exactly do you mean? @Merlin [snip] |
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I'd rather be an American than a democrat.
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Originally Posted By Merlin: The Panther only lasted in use 2 years after the war (1947). Compared to how many years for the Sherman or T-34. Granted there were far more of those than Panthers but still. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Merlin: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Originally Posted By Merlin: Pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the "best" German tank of the war. What exactly do you mean? @Merlin [snip] I am sure it had nothing to do with supply chain/ parts availability... |
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Originally Posted By Merlin: The Panther only lasted in use 2 years after the war (1947). Compared to how many years for the Sherman or T-34. Granted there were far more of those than Panthers but still. View Quote Political and economical reasons, the lack of spare parts, but not about the quality of the tank. Most of the problems were solved at the end of the war, the Panther was really good, but it was too expensive to keep them in service once the spare parts were used up. The French took many German WW2 designs and developments and refined them over the years. |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Political and economical reasons, the lack of spare parts, but not about the quality of the tank. Most of the problems were solved at the end of the war, the Panther was really good, but it was too expensive to keep them in service once the spare parts were used up. The French took many German WW2 designs and developments and refined them over the years. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Originally Posted By Merlin: The Panther only lasted in use 2 years after the war (1947). Compared to how many years for the Sherman or T-34. Granted there were far more of those than Panthers but still. Political and economical reasons, the lack of spare parts, but not about the quality of the tank. Most of the problems were solved at the end of the war, the Panther was really good, but it was too expensive to keep them in service once the spare parts were used up. The French took many German WW2 designs and developments and refined them over the years. Additionally, the 75mm gun that went on the AMX-13 was basically a copy of the Panther's main gun. Panther wasn't a bad design at all, but by 1947 it was eclipsed by tanks like the Centurion on the Allied side and what became the T-55 on the Soviet side. |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Political and economical reasons, the lack of spare parts, but not about the quality of the tank. Most of the problems were solved at the end of the war, the Panther was really good, but it was too expensive to keep them in service once the spare parts were used up. The French took many German WW2 designs and developments and refined them over the years. View Quote the treads were cut straight whereas the Sherman's were cut at an angle. The Panther's gears were a little fragile and they were driven per SOP at a reduced speed. Also there were problems with the final drive being unreliable and not lasting long at all. I am not familiar with the mechanics of all that, so I just had to take their word for it. |
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"Here is a message for the hotheads of the community: Don't do that stuff. Good people carry guns. And they will shoot you a lot. Graveyard dead. Leave people alone," Sheriff Grady Judd
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Originally Posted By Merlin: The Panther only lasted in use 2 years after the war (1947). Compared to how many years for the Sherman or T-34. Granted there were far more of those than Panthers but still. View Quote But still what? Shermans weren’t just free,piles of spare parts of every kind and ammunition was free. The Panthers were rare orphans,there simply weren’t that many Panthers in France in 1944,let alone in working order in 1945,to say nothing of spares. |
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