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On 1/27/2020 at 12:50 PM, Beer said:
One of the recently delivered Croatian OH-58D Kiowa crashed into the sea today. Body of one pilot was already found. The other pilot is missing at the moment.
Condolences to the crews. I've been there.
Is there a fund for the families?
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Mirage III when?
(please)
But really. Phantom, but no Mirage?
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Do you think we'll see a move from Eastern/ComBloc patterns toward Western or (ideally) original designs?
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On 1/26/2020 at 12:00 AM, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:
My Dad was in the Navy from 1965 to 1969. He's been dead since 2000, so there is no asking him for info on this stuff, my mom is around but won't knot much about the Navy details so I am putting this together from memory and whats in the photos. The slides were not in great shape, and the first set of scans were rough, and then the scanner broke. So, since Amazon didn't have the same model anymore, I spent a little more money and got a much nice scanner, with a better "technology" for film scanning, and it fixes the flaws when it scans them. The results are remarkable. As far as I know these images were taken with a Minolta 35mm Camera, I guess an SLR, since he had a bunch of lenses for it. I learned photography with it, and have a few pictures of my GTO I took with his Camera. This was the type of camera you focuses, and set the light settings, and had to hand wind. Considering how much harder a camera was to work back then, I think my old man was a reasonably talented photographer.
As far as I can remember he went to boot camp in San Diego, then he went to schools for Ejection Seat Maintenance and Air Condition systems on the F4J Phantom. He got assigned to VF-33, part of CAG-6, with VF-102, VA-82, VA-86, VA-85, RVAH-13, VAW-122, VAW-13 Det. 66, and VAH-10 Det. 66. CAG-6 was assigned to the USS America, who was about three years old and about to go on a world cruise, that would include the Ships only Vietnam deployment in 1968. When the ship got back, it was stationed on the east coast, and VF-33 went to CAG-7, and ended up on the Independence. My dad was with them for at least one work up cruise, since there are a set of photos from that ship. By mid 69 he was back in San Diego, working with VF-121, the west coast RAG, waiting to get out . I do not have any photos yet from San Diego, at least Navy stuff.
Here is a shot of the CVA-66 USS America, she displaced 61,174 tons empty, 83,500 full load. She was the second Kitty Hawk Class Carrier, she would spend the majority of her Career in the Med. (if the logo for the Sherman Tank Site seems like its in odd places, its usually covering a flaw the scanner could not fix)
Here's a VF-33 Phantom.
A VF-102 Phantom, an F-4J the same as VF-33.
Here are some pretty cool shots from an underway replenishment. It could be anywhere on the World cruise in 68.
I think this is also from an Unrep, maybe the same one. This photo is one of my favorite, you get an A-7 and Sea Night for the the price of one!
Old shot with bad scanner as a place holder for a duplicate.
This shot is of the flight deck, by the cats on the angle deck looking forward. Not the kill mark on the intake of the F-4J, 212 sitting there, pretty cool.
These last three shots are all from the USS Independence, in early 69, I assume off the East Coast on work ups for their upcoming Med Cruise.
This is my old Man, Rick T, I'm pretty sure that's a Martin Baker Ejection seat right next to him. Several VF-33 Phantoms got shot down, and the seats always worked, so he had that going for him. This image was scanned on the original scanner, note how cruddy it looks, when get to this slide again, I'll post the improved version. Compare the below image to the one above too.
I'll posts more as I water mark them and host them.
There was a crossing of the line ceremony, that my Dad took a ton of pics on, its pretty interesting.
It was really nice to find these, I had thought hey got lost in a move.
Holy Shit. These are fucking amazing.
Grabbed some as wallpaper.
Hopefully I'll be able to post some from relatives of this quality soon. Got more than a few who served many tours in Vietnam.
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On 2/8/2020 at 4:04 AM, Beer said:
Czech government decided to send another 60 soldiers (601st Group of Special Operations) to Sahel. They will be part of purely French-lead operation Barkhane, task force Takuba. That is interesting in two things - it's combat operation and it's not lead by UN, EU or NATO but directly by the French. The soldiers will operate in Sahel (not only in Mali) for two years since half of 2020. Besides that Czech contingent in EU Training Mission in Mali stays on 118 soldiers (of 620 total) and in June Czechs will take the lead in the mission.
https://www.armadninoviny.cz/konec-afghanistanu-ceska-armada-se-presouva-do-afriky.html
God save them if this is the UN.
I pray they have command that allows them to "shoot as needed per individual perogative with zero recourse" and not the shit a friend dealt with in what was Yugoslavia.
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Okay. Phantoms. Yeah.
Then Mig 21's. (Which I really looked forward to. The MiG 21 is a "Grail" plane right after I get a F86F and F4D/E).
All that aside. They decided to introduce a plane I saw in Japan.
And call it a "T2"..
No son, That was as much a "trainer" as the F104 was for NASA astronauts.
That, is a F-1, and it is amazing.
You can run full burner on intercepts, forever .
Light arms, but it has a M61 20MM as backup.
Not that you;ll need it. Your burners will be all the defense you need, You can literally just
BOOOOFFFFFFF away from enemies. As in " Go from "oh shit" to "Wow that sucked glad I can now take some to turn around and load some pain" , in less time than it took to type and edit that sentence.Get this plane.
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Looking for some input on a potential article.
That is- "Increasing shot velocity and charge , versus increasing shot volume while maintaining charge"..
Not sure how many in here really have dicked with shotguns, but there was a move away from large bore, large "column" shells toward smaller bore, and higher delivery velocity of said column within the last 100 years.
Now, we are seeing 3.5" 12 gauge shells that are basically trying to replicate (IMO) large dram 10 gauge loads. . I propose that instead of moving toward smaller bore , higher mass loads, we look toward removing idiotic and primitive restrictions, and remove caps on 8 bore and larger shotguns. Thus allowing the same mass of shot, delivered at a lower, but more useful velocity.
(Disclaimer- I used to hunt dove with a 10 gauge damascus barreled Boss & Co. shotgun. ).
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On 1/18/2020 at 9:34 PM, Ramlaen said:
A large warehouse full of aid sent to Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria(2017) was discovered.
What's this!? Fuckbags using a tragedy to further their political agenda? Whodathunk!? (Clinton Foundation and Haiti, Anyone?).
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Sold off much of the postwar Japanese stuff. Actually got a bit for the Hasegawa Blue Impulse collection. (kind of wish I'd built them, as the Hasegawa 1/48 Sabre is amazing)
The armor, not so much. Japanese armor is a hard sell. Likely sold a lot of that at a loss. Held onto to superb (the name escapes me) 1/32 model of a IJN basic trainer, simply because it came with brass tubing and copper rod to replicate parts of it's structure, and the aircraft itself is simply beautiful. ("Akatombo?"). An Arai kit?
Moving into a more spacious house might let me get back into modelbuilding. Looking forward to it.
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Fuck them. Even my hardcore Democrat neighbor is sick of the gun control spiel.
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Saw a 47 Fleetmaster a few days ago.
Sweet car. Simple, shift on the column (basically making it theft-proof today) fastback styling.
Guy said he got a solid 20 MPG, and it would cruise at 75 MPH .
Based on my experiences with similar vehicles of the era, he was probably right.
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4 hours ago, Alex C. said:
I killed mine by wearing out the topcover components. Bought a new topcover on gunbroker and it got back to humming along just fine.
Oh how I miss it.
Dont be angry, but I used to have some neat M240 bits.
Rail "forend", some odd topcover NODS mount (I think for a PVS-4, it was huge) a couple tank/armor barrels, a couple of T&E's.
Tried selling them at a couple SAR shows, but was offered cents on the dollar. So I gave them to a good friend who had one of the semi-auto ones, for helping me move to Kentucky.
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15 hours ago, Laser Shark said:
The MG3 has had an almost cult like following in the Norwegian military (also true for the AG3), but as more and more soldiers get their hands on the new MGs there has been less and less noise about “Hitler’s Buzzsaw” and its godlike rate of fire. I’ve never encountered anyone with experience with both the MG3 and the MAG who doesn’t prefer the latter.
You have to work to kill a MAG.
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Warthunder introduced Phantoms.
The circle is complete. Unlock the sixth gate, and release the demons.
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On 9/7/2019 at 1:54 AM, Laser Shark said:
The MG3 is going to end up being replaced by three types of MGs from the looks of it: FN Minimi (in the infantry/foot units); FN MAG (on vehicles); and this new Light Weight Machine Gun (also for the infantry/foot units).
The system used by the Mg42 and G3 has a lot of issues regarding "less than optimal" ammo.
In that "it does not. It shits the bed". Even the Pig will choke, hiccup and fart, and a bit of twiddelery-fuckery will persuade it to work.
Not so with the Mg3. If it farts, shit has gone pear shaped, and you now have a club.
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4 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:
It surely better than Autozone, Napa, or O'Reilly's?
"AC Delco" is a "Zombie Brand", and has been for a while.
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A warning "Delco" is not what it used to be.
And "Self fusing tape" is the berries, if a bit expensive.
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2 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:
A lot of the Democratic hopefuls are trying to one-up each other on gun control in a desperate arms race of relevancy.
Anyone want to imagine the clusterfuck a nation wide buy back program would be?
"Imagine thousands of simultaneous boating accidents, involving the loss of entire collections, all within the span of a week or so.".
All humor aside, the logistics of such weigh against it. Whole states would rebel. (which I suspect is what some want).
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On 8/23/2019 at 12:21 AM, Belesarius said:
Uh, OH-58 saw service as of '69. 1st one shot down was March 27, 1970, in Vietnam.
Huh, did not know that.
Neat!
Much as I like the OH-6, the '58 actually went somewhere.
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Other than the Ranger /OH58 did not exist then?
I'm not sure if any Bell lights saw service in SE
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On 8/17/2019 at 12:53 AM, Ramlaen said:
People do not realize how absurdly forgiving and tolerant the Bell "Rangers" are. You have to work to make one crash.
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14 hours ago, Ulric said:
I love the news reports when they arrest someone and find "hundreds of rounds of ammunition". Fucking pikers. But that also shows how little the general public knows about firearms. You can burn through a couple hundred rounds on a very modest trip to the shooting range. If you are really interested and invested in firearms, having 10,000 rounds on hand isn't that unreasonable. Also, if you are serious about training with your firearms, ammunition will be your biggest expense.
"Hundreds of Rounds" might describe how much 6.5 Arisaka or 7.35 French Long I have.
I suspect my meagre stash of 8mm Ordinance for the M1892 would be "an arsenal" to some swine.
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