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Have any more photos or information about the "Sherman Moderna" shown up?
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Does this mean we can have a romantic comedy about everyone in a dorm trying to figure out who the narc is?
Considering the Air Force Academy's history, a Law and Order: SVU style show would be more likely.
- T___A and LostCosmonaut
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What a fucking shitshow. The best funded armies in the Middle East, with all of that fucking oil revenue can't build a competent fighting force. They have to hire freaking mercs.
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:
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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)
WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that country’s raging conflict, adding a volatile new element in a complex proxy war that has drawn in the United States and Iran.
It is the first combat deployment for a foreign army that the Emirates has quietly built in the desert over the past five years, according to several people currently or formerly involved with the project. The program was once managed by a private company connected to Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, but the people involved in the effort said that his role ended several years ago and that it has since been run by the Emirati military.
The arrival in Yemen of 450 Latin American troops — among them are also Panamanian, Salvadoran and Chilean soldiers — adds to the chaotic stew of government armies, armed tribes, terrorist networks and Yemeni militias currently at war in the country. Earlier this year, a coalition of countries led by Saudi Arabia, including the United States, began a military campaign in Yemen against Houthi rebels who have pushed the Yemeni government out of the capital, Sana.
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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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Why would he be warning a Russian plane in english?
pigfucker
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
The following audio was recorded on the international UHF Emergency frequency 243.000 MHz by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous. We have no way to verify whether the audio was really recorded earlier today and we must highlight that similar messages have been radioed to unknown/Russian aircraft in the vicinity of the Turkish airspace in the past as well and recorded/heard by radio-hams and airband listeners located in Turkey and Greece.
However, some Turkish media outlets have already published a similar recording released by the TuAF in the aftermath of the shoot-down.
Provided it was recorded today, the audio would confirm both the Turkish and Russian versions: the TuAF radar warned the “unknown” plane (as claimed by Ankara) and it was not one of the F-16 to radio the message to the Su-24 (as claimed by Moscow).
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Hm, yeah, it would be pretty interesting to see if America can actually fight a military with modern equibment, and not some backwater like iraq with half-function with half-functional Soviet-era air defenses and no air force
ya, you see, i can do the same thing pigfucker ^^^^^
Go fuck yourself
Your time would be better spent away from this website prepping your bull Jamal, wouldnt want him to be plowing your white wife cold would you?
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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I knew this day was coming, but i did not expected a Turkish F-16 to be a reason.
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.
A few questions got raised on a different forum, and one of them was whether or not the SU-24 has some sort of automatic ejection system in case of catastrophic failure (like this one). People are debating whether the pilot got lynched or was badly wounded when he left the aircraft.
Can somebody confirm/deny?
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.
Turkey is so dead.
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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Now they just need to get rid of those pesky regulations that forbid supersonic flight over many countries.
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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Blowing up bridges, burning ports, and cutting telephone lines to deny their use to an invading army is a hell of a alot different than cutting off power and water to your former citizens who democratically voted to join another country that they have been a part of for centuries
You think you wouldnt have to explain that to passive-aggressive dick-munchers but i digress
I suppose your one of those 'Putin is the next hitler' asshats who only draws parallels from current day events to world war 2
I bet you thing ISIS being bombed is a grand-old Spanish Civil war 2.0
I cant wait for hemingway's novel about his escapades with the moderate rebels
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.
Those had better be insulated wire clippers...
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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Killing lights for Crimeans is great way to fight "occupation"! See, when somebody "occupies" part of your country, you do everything to make lives of your "own" citizens worse! And no, this is not a blind revenge of some sorts after being defeated in Eastern Ukraine at all.
Amin Okuev, Kazbek Dzhurzhuk, a true Ukrainianstm . Glory to Allakh Akbar!
Ukrainian maidummies and destroyed by them power line. They could use brains to understand that this is pretty direct action against Crimeans themselfs. "Get that, Putin!" will not work this time.
"On Friday morning, police Kherson region reported damage to two power transmission towers, leading to the Crimea, as a result of which had to shut down two of the four lines."
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Funnily enough, my book on the MiG-25 claims that the first proposal for a supersonic bizjet was a stretched Foxbat.
I'd say Convair beat them to the punch.
http://www.up-ship.com/apr/extras/58-9/58-9.htm
The weapon/fuel pod of a B-58 would be replaced with a new "people pod." Five seats would be installed within it. This pod would have the same external contour as the existing pod, but would be fitted out with a pressurized volume, door, windows and air conditioning system. -
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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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I'm torn. I rather like French arms, but I've owned three Mini 14's and they were all pretty bad.
The Mini-14 doesn't have barrel flex, it has barrel twerk.
Syrian conflict.
in Open Discussion
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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.