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22 hours ago, Clan_Ghost_Bear said:
The variant of the Abrams for Taiwan, Previously known as the M1A2X, is now the M1A2T:
Will this potential deal "offend the feelings of the Chinese people" ?
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History of space based lasers
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It's happening!!!
first snow of the year
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Mars sample return mission, that would be a great prelude to an actual manned mission.
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4 minutes ago, Donward said:
Civilians can purchase hazardous radioactive military hardware at any Army Navy Surplus store.
Huffington Post writers be like....
Careful, next thing you know and the US gets a huge bout of paranoia like Germany and suddenly closes all nuclear plants because hurr durrr "green" parties.
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Kanye West is now an expert in hydrogen powered air transport, proposes to ditch Air Force One for "Apple-made" iPlane One.
Yes, this is for real.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/11/kanyes-apple-iplane-1-for-trump-was-designed-by-someone-else.html
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On 9/24/2018 at 1:24 AM, LostCosmonaut said:
I was there, some roads got flooded and some trees got ripped out... otherwise, it was just loads of rain for a couple of days.
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17 hours ago, Belesarius said:
Nifty. This is one of those reasons why I think the F-35 is such a paradigm shift.
IMO, this excerpt is even more interesting:
QuoteThe Kilo battery Marines strapped the HIMARS down in the belly of an Air Force MC-130 on its way to Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.
When the aircraft landed the Marines rolled the HIMARS out, fired a total of four shots at two targets and then returned to the aircraft and flew back to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Gives new meaning to "shoot and scoot".
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Sounds like probe and drogue is still a problem for the C version.
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"Any day now"
QuoteAmong the newest Block 3F F-35s, Goldfein said squadrons are turning in mission capable rates of 80 percent, which is higher than USAF standards and far better than aircraft at this level of maturity.
QuoteComparing notes with his counterpart, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, Goldfein said both are seeing the same readiness levels “at home and deployed.”
I thought DOT&E said there's no way fleet-wide availability can rise any time soon?
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1 minute ago, Collimatrix said:
If any variant is handicapped it's the C, thanks to the larger, less swept wing. The wing does give it an edge in subsonic turn rates, and more importantly carrier landing characteristics, but it also screws up the area ruling and makes transonic drag rise happen earlier.
No, it has better wing loading, therefore better at everything.
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I can't believe people still claim A and B variant are "handicapped" because of B's lift fan. Is googling "F-35 variants" so flipping hard?!
I mean, it may have been a funny meme once upon a time, but by god has it overstayed its welcome.
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I've decided to make this and leave it here, maybe someone might find it useful.
Spoiler
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On 7/30/2018 at 10:40 PM, LoooSeR said:
T-72...Compared with the "Abrams", "Leclercs" and "Leopards" in terms of price, efficiency and quality, it significantly exceeds them, "
Is this some sort of advanced sarcasm by Borisov?
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3 hours ago, Jägerlein said:
Depends on the intended role. A jet can be to heavy to be a fighter and yet to flimsy for a ground attack role.
Because an F-35 is going to do ground support from below 1000 feet (not that the A-10 does much of that as well once you hang Hellfires and LGBs from it).
What's next, judging an A-10 by its ability to go supersonic?
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2 hours ago, holoween said:
these statements arent mutually exclusive
Why not?
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The F-35 is bad because "it doesn't have armour".
The F-35 is bad because "it's too heavy".
Which one is it then!??!?! FFS
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On 7/7/2018 at 3:02 PM, Mighty_Zuk said:
Thinking they could match the military power of the UK is even dumber.... wait, it's not.
The way things (budgets) are going for RN they'll soon have numbers parity in nucs.
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Jesus fck, the one with Kurds vs Turks is just... can't bring myself to watch after that first point-blank kill.
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5 hours ago, LoooSeR said:
It is not even in service, but it is BEST!
I heard the fanboys at Defence Forum India claim that, so it must be true.
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Dutch MH17 investigation officially blames Russians for the shoot-down:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44252150
On a related note, Bellingcat identified a possible commander of the operation as a Russian GRU officer:
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Or in other words, LM didn't want to take chances with someone being able to measure the RCS of the F-35.
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That makes me wonder - how bad for the environment are these smoke charges in Alzoc's post?
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100% genuine conversation that led up to Kinzhal:
"Ivan, let's try to make MiG-31 useful in strike role"
"Just strap an Iskander on it"
"Ivan, you're a genius."
Aerospace Pictures and Art Thread
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A beautiful sight:
A Slovenian pilot flies his Zlin Z-526 underneath the longest stone arch railroad bridge in the world- Solkan, Slovenia.
In honor of the 110th aniversary of the first flight of our aviation pioneer Edvard Rusjan.