6 minutes ago, Pascal said:

I should have said that i seek only the think related to the B-17 and it's machine guns vs speed.

 

It stuck in my head because the soviets tried the fast bomber approach before the ww2 and in/after it they pretty much put a lot of turrets and cannons compared to others on their bombers and even transport aircraft.

(I hold to this think because i rarely see some posts related to bombers and defensive armaments)

The performance of the YB-40 should slam the door on things.

2 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

https://www.outdoorresearch.com/blog/article/opinion-knives-are-overrated-for-hiking?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=FBC+|+March+|+Knives+are+overrated+for+hiking&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2DHRHfvCOrJj9GgpDT_ctdm9S_EGb8KeAkl4qohX-SEVAjJ37b5DTMGlQ

 

OPINION: KNIVES ARE OVERRATED FOR HIKING

People actually use shit like that article to decide what they take camping?

FFS.

2 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

Now put the two of them in a cage and place your bets.

"Thunderdome" would definitely sort out the "indefinite wait on death row only to gurgle your last under a huge dose of pentothal"  nonsense we have now.

One requires huge amounts of work in order to be homogeneous.

The other can be made in small shops.

On 3/12/2019 at 8:07 PM, DIADES said:

Except aircraft are a hell of a lot more expensive than plate. 

 

"kind of"..

The base engineering and then tooling and manufacture set up are.

Once you have a decent manufacturing base though, they are very inexpensive.

What IS expensive, are the fleshy bits that fly and maintain them.

Already, this guy is being spun as "another right wing nutjob" and "this is why we need gun-control".

Just as he planned, at least on the 2A front.  Seems the folks pushing gun control are more than willfully illiterate, especially when it suits their agenda.

1 hour ago, LoooSeR said:

Cadillac Starlight concept car

 

 

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That is a shockingly clean and elegantly simple  car for Cadillac,  of that era. If one replaced the greenhouse  with a similarly styled steel roof with conventional rear window, it would look even better.

Similarly, a convertable.

Compare this to the offerings in 59/60 and 61, and you'll see what I mean.

This looks very sharp.

6 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

Appears to be Platfomra-O

"Hello? Yes, Mr Putin, you don't know me, but I'd very very much like one of your wonderful machines with many many wheels, upon which to build small dacha for driving about Western Kentucky... Hello? Hello?  "

 

 

12 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

http://walkarounds.scalemodels.ru/v/expo/club-tm-2019-part-2/?g2_page=10

Compared to many other "alternative" designs, this is not terrible. Probably because it is based on Object 195, 299 and 148, hehe. Nice details, BTW.

 

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What scale is that in? It looks huge..

5 hours ago, Jamby said:

 

Turns out it's a T-2K. And her colours are certainly remarkable; she looks like a Robot In Disguise.

 

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EDIT: As for the Sabre; she might not make you feel like a you're assaulting the Death Star, but she does come in Bumblebee yellow:

 

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The camo scheme T-2 has Misawa AB markings. 

The bluish scheme is "Blue Impulse", the JASDF version of the Thunderbirds, and the colors seem a bit off. (May look better on my "good" monitor).

The Sabre "Bumblebee" is wearing the very early "Blue Impulse" aerobatic team colors.

We may (very soon) get Constitutional carry in Kentucky.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

ETA-

IT PASSED.  Kentucky has Constitutional carry.   60 "yes" , while 37 found freedom "scary".

The T-2 confuses me.  I suspect they will change that to "F-1", as the T-2 was never really fielded as a full on combat aircraft, it was best thought of as an advanced trainer that could (and did) carry armament.

The  Japanese were still using the T-2 and F-1 when I was in Misawa.

Japanese Sabres were often in beautiful color schemes.  Somewhat looking forward to them, even if the potential MM will suck terribly (And the chances of them mounting AIM9's as they did in service being slim to none).

I've worked on a LOT of AK's.

"Junk" rarely entered the vocabulary (Save the handful of idiots who "took the challenge" and buried theirs for a year.  When you have to beat an AK  variant open with a hand sledge, it's likely achieved "junk" status).

I've lost count of how many rounds I've put through PKM's .  They are, by far my "This is RIGHT" machine. As few moving parts, doing as much work as possible, with maximum efficiency and minimal effort/stress. 

I have only seen one that was hamfisted, and even it was salvaged by a stout blow with a small hammer and a brass drift through the ejection chute.  The owner had bludgeoned the charging handle to a twisted mess, but the gun would still shoot if you used a cleaning rod to shove the works back through the ejection chute/port.

Love seeing the details on the variants. Brings a new appreciation to a fine bit of design.

6 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

Are gas turbines keto?

Meh couldn't taste much worse than kielbasa cooked via Allison J33.

("Strong hints of Kerosene, mixed with a touch of 100LL and a dash of Aeroshell")

On 2/22/2019 at 6:42 PM, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1263/titles?r=13&s=1&fbclid=IwAR2zXQLiRQmqkJFDNALzcxNep6hnnaSPmvTs7A84ZstkNmLPmeuqU3zj4uQ

 

H.R.1263 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act any semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine.

I see it does not affect belt fed weapons.

I also see this working in ways the moronic writers of this bill never imagined.

You were worried about 30 round "clips".

Now you have 250 round belts to deal with.

23 hours ago, Jamby said:

 

Only brief excerpts in the past, I think, but I've just read what sounds like it: 

https://iremember.ru/en/memoirs/tankers/dmitriy-loza/

 

I do enjoy Red Army accounts of the war; it's a shame they seem relatively rare compared to their contemporaries.

Translation issues and "not fitting the directed narrative"  likely have a lot to do with it.

8 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

 

@Meplat

Not that the 300D is a really great car (300D ="Taxi Cab" in much of the world), but even so, I'd bet 38 0f the 50 were high as fuck when they did that test.

13 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

He apparently paid these two Nigerian guys 3500 dollars to do this. 

 

What a dumbass. He could have gone to any trailer park in the Midwest and had them knock him around for  20 bucks and a case of Miller.

He has earned all the fucks he has so thoroughly worked for.

may he enjoy fully, their bounty.

23 hours ago, Donward said:

 

No surprise to anyone with half a brain.

Rather amused the Chicago PD did not dissapear the two hirelings.

Guess his PR budget is not as large as it should be, to be playing such games.

1 hour ago, Xoon said:

And you need water injection! Simply drill a hole into the throttle body, run a tube from the window viper pump and BAM! Water injection on demand! 

Only when integrated with a home HHO system.

1 hour ago, Alex C. said:

Hey, If you’re not first, you’re last.

Also fortune favors the bold, and often the stupid.

"Fortune" also owns stock in medical supply houses and physical rehab clinics..

17 hours ago, Alex C. said:

 

I dont care if the subframe turns itself into a pretzel the first time I hit the gas. LS swap now, worry about ancillary bullshit later. Brakes, rear end mods, and chassis stiffening is for suckers when you have all that sweet, sweet power straight from Jimmy’s wrecked WS6.

All that sweet power, for .005 of a second before it falls to the ground and ejacualtes oil and coolant into the blacktop.

17 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

Ls swap and Chinese turbo kits = 11 second pink slips.

 

Don't be jealous.

Don't forget the electric "supercharger" and the little spinny-ma-jig thing you stick in the throttle body for "moar boosts".

Oh and magnets on the fuel line, gotta have those too.

5 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

I'd LS swap it.

Why? Those old Lycoming eights were stupidly reliable, and having "ALL TEH POWAHH" would be useless unless you chucked the whole drivetrain to the curb.

Kind of defeating the purpose of having a really neat old car.

On 2/9/2019 at 5:17 PM, LoooSeR said:

   Phantom Corsair concept car

 

 

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Okay, that is really neat.

On 2/6/2019 at 5:57 AM, LoooSeR said:

Damascus time, Iranian movie had number of VBIED/Jihayotas vismods

 

 

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Considering their engineering skills, this may be real....