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    http://theaviationist.com/2015/11/27/turkish-air-force-f-16s-ambushed-the-su-24-fencer-heres-russias-version-of-the-controversial-shootdown/ http://www.janes.com/article/56295/russian-su-24m-communications-equipment-blamed-for-shootdown And there we have it. Watch Putin start a war because the Russian air force doesn't have the international emergency frequencies as a standard feature on their aircraft and he doesn't want to loose face. Maybe they could pick up some $30 walky-talkies from eBay to go with their Garmin navigation systems.
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    Have any more photos or information about the "Sherman Moderna" shown up?
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    Considering the Air Force Academy's history, a Law and Order: SVU style show would be more likely.
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    Well sure you can go to Europe or Russia with bundles of oil money and buy all the expensive and customized weapons you need like you're going into car dealership, but having competent troops is another thing, especially when your military culture holds NCOs/enlisted troops in contempt and fears giving them any sort of initiative. From 1999: http://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars
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    So now we've got Colombian mercs. (as one will recall, Iran and Hezbollah are active in Venezuela and are involved with training FARC) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/world/middleeast/emirates-secretly-sends-colombian-mercenaries-to-fight-in-yemen.htm
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    Wolfenstein: The New Order is 85% off and is easily one of the best single player FPSes released in the past few years.
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    English has been the language for international aviation communications since the ICAO was formed in the 40s.
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    http://theaviationist.com/2015/11/24/audio-tuaf-warns-ruaf-su-24/ http://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2430000.wav
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    Wow rude. (And incoherent.) Before 1991 Iraq had a military force that was easily the top in the region, having modern equipment and 8 years of combat experience in a war they won militarily (but lost strategically), and was probably 4th or 5th in the world at the time.
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    Hm, yeah, it would be pretty interesting to see if the Russians can actually fight a military with modern equipment, and not some backwater like Georgia with half-functional Soviet-era air defenses and no air force.
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    To me it looks like a linear continuation of the previous reactions by the Turkish government, first they lodge diplomatic complaints, then they shoot down a UAV, and now they shoot down a manned airplane. Not specific to the Su-24 but IIRC with the F-4 and similar it's set up so triggering one ejection seat fires both of them, while singular ejections have to be set manually, for the obvious reason that one crewman might be incapacitated.
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    Gear and insignia comparison via Bellingcat.
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    Apparently a radar plot from the Turkish military:
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    Erdogan deflects blame by modding YPG markings into DCS: World and taking a screenshot of a Su-25. I doubt anything of note will happen. Just look at all the US recon aircraft that got shot down during the Cold War. Both the Korean Airlines flights. All the little incursions like Iran and the USSR or the occasional mixups between Greece and Turkey. ETA: Unconfirmed video indicates one of the pilots is KIA.
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    Considering nobody wore hearing protection back then, would the ping even be loud enough to be heard over ambient noise by a enemy soldier 200-400 meters away who's been firing his rifle/subgun and probably also had support weapons/artillery going off near by? Would it even be audible at 25-50 meters?
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    Fire Ant was basically a ATV with a big standoff mine on it.
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    I recall reading that the results of NASA's Quiet Spike tests were fairly promising for boom mitigation, but they'd reached the point where they would need a purpose-built aircraft to continue. So hopefully at least a prototype for these gets built so they can do more testing.
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    Nice godwin. Electrical distribution networks are dual use facilities, in that there's no difference between power going to a military base or to some guy playing his XBox. Human Rights Watch can piss and moan all they want about sewage plants and hospitals, but you might as well complain about a bridge getting blown up because it was also used by civilian automotive traffic. I'm sure you're also shedding those big crocodile tears for all the German civilians who lost power as a result of Operation Outward. Clearly it's okay because he's already cut one. What's not okay is the lack of high-vis vest, helmet, or fall-restraint system.
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    I'd say Convair beat them to the punch. http://www.up-ship.com/apr/extras/58-9/58-9.htm
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    Somebody tried to assassinate the chief MH17 investigator in Ukraine yesterday. Guess the Russians are still salty. http://uatoday.tv/crime/ukraine-s-chief-mh17-expert-survives-assasination-attempt-538353.html
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    The Mini-14 doesn't have barrel flex, it has barrel twerk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqgPu9gSmVc
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