history

[shut wren]

Lets end this discussion here

[strong plank]

Also caught a brief glimpse at a railway gun

[shut wren]

where tf did they take yall

Area 51 or someshit?

[ivory ridge]

he literally said where they went

[shut wren]

I see

[strong plank]

Fort Lee is where a lot of stuff from Aberdeen, Picatinny, and Redstone was moved to

It was cool seeing how maintenance personnel are trained

[shut wren]

Taiwanese apache?

[orchid notch]

AH-1z

I think

[shrewd pecan]

Super cobra

[shut wren]

oh

[shrewd pecan]

Not the viper

AH-1W

[shut wren]

whats the difference

[orchid notch]

Oh yeah the viper is white

[strong plank]

Stryker mortar carriers

[orchid notch]

That’s cool

[shut wren]

Some cool shit

Time to steal it

[orchid notch]

Never seen a Stryker in real life

[shrewd pecan]

So is the AH-1W in marine corps service

[orchid notch]

WTF

[shut wren]

Never realized the apache was wide

[orchid notch]

I’m confused

[strong plank]

That’s not an Apache

[orchid notch]

What is the difference

[spiral cedar]

Not all attack helos are Apaches

[strong plank]

Apache is a specific attack helicopter

[orchid notch]

From the Ah-1z and the ah-1W

[shrewd pecan]

Main visual difference is the gunners FLIR

[strong plank]

The Apache is the AH-64

[spiral cedar]

The man is holding a helo up by himself

[shrewd pecan]

We should all be in awe of that man

True goals

[strong plank]

Weakest air crewman in the corps

[shut wren]

Yall I know that I just realized the apache is so much wider

[orchid notch]

AH-64D

[shrewd pecan]

Apaches a big girl

[orchid notch]

Yeah

[lavish fable]

Longer too and carries a 30mm? Iirc on the nose over a 20mm gatling

[orchid notch]

Jewish AH-64

And cobra

[shrewd pecan]

Cobra has the 20 MM while the Apache is rocking the 30 MM

Army also actually has the budget to smack longbow radars on their helicopters

so added F&F capability with the radar guided hellfires

[lavish fable]

AGM 114s yeah?

[shrewd pecan]

yeah, earlier apaches alongside the viper are stuck with the laser guided ones

[ivory ridge]

talking about helos

[shrewd pecan]

While the AH-64D and beyond can use the radar guided versions as long as they have the longbow radar mounted

[lavish fable]

Ah that's neat

[tough quail]

friend

[shut wren]

ROC army choppas

[ivory ridge]

rumours are that the AW249 will be called "Fenice"

but we still arent sure

[shrewd pecan]

My sweet king shall rest well

[strong plank]

The Comanche looks a little goofy

[spiral cedar]

Years ago I had an RC helicopter that looked like that. Only just found it it's real now

[strong plank]

Got some JLTV pics

[tough quail]

its incredibly goofy

but funny

[lavish fable]

I mean it'll hopefully be better than the hmmwv

Because we all know that thing is amazing

[shut wren]

still gives off desert storm vibes after all these years

[strong plank]

It’s more a replacement for the MRAP than for the humvee

[lavish fable]

[strong plank]

It’ll probably eventually phase it out

But for now that’s how the army sees it

[manic latch]

Feminine

[strong plank]

I asked if they had any MGS but they’ve already handed them off to another unit

[manic latch]

JLTV is replacing Humvee

Wait

[strong plank]

not yet

[manic latch]

Oh long progress

[strong plank]

It’ll most likely phase out the humvee eventually

But they’re expensive and the army’s prioritizing which units they give them to

So rn they’re more of an MRAP replacement

[lavish fable]

Ah... I thought the JLTVs were going the replace the humvees... but as you said they're more for MRAP replacement

[frigid karma]

So

When we getting drones from C-130s

[shut wren]

Soon™️

[strong plank]

Didn’t see any Bradleys or Abrams which is a little sad

there was one out front tho

[lavish fable]

Where is this again? If you can disclose that info

[ivory ridge]

it means Phoenix

[strong plank]

Army Ordnance School

[manic latch]

Told you

[tough quail]

can you put phoenixes on it

either the f-14 or the kornet type

[manic latch]

Decided to punish you

[tough quail]

preferably both

[lavish fable]

All i see now is Taihou

[shut wren]

Yall know how AIM-9s are AAMs

[manic latch]

I'm am the future, Horse.

[strong plank]

Got some other photos of humvees and opened-up JLTVs

[shut wren]

is it possible to strap em to a ground launcher and yeet it at planes

[tough quail]

i want to die

[strong plank]

The maintenance bays were huge

[tough quail]

yes but theres much better options

[shut wren]

examples?

[ivory ridge]

Iris-T ground launcher, NASAMs firing amraams

[strong plank]

Something something manpads alignment chart

[shut wren]

[tough quail]

goofy iris-t truck

or the MICA one

think the frenchies are the top of the food chain atm

[shut wren]

Alright what if we strap a SAM on to a plane and shoot at shit it with

[tough quail]

that's called a fighter jet

[strong plank]

[ivory ridge]

what

[shut wren]

No but like

Would it be better

cuz like

bigger range and boom

or some shit

[ivory ridge]

they

[tough quail]

they have the same missiles usually

[ivory ridge]

use the same missile

[shut wren]

oh

ok

[tough quail]

unless you want to strap like

fucking stingers under a jet

in which case i want to beat you to death

[ivory ridge]

MICA is used on the rafales and mirages

IRIS-T is used on the typhoon

[tough quail]

i guess there was the funny of the soviets wanting to strap like

full ass SA-6s to mig-23s for a minute

[chilly osprey]

And then the British CAMM is also basically an upgraded ASRAAM

[shrewd pecan]

Navy did test throwing ERAM on a super hornet

[tough quail]

but it just sounds like you're trying to make the worlds dumbest f-14

[chilly osprey]

Or you have, as an older example, Sea Sparrow and air-launched Sparrow, and Aspide did the same thing

[shut wren]

[strong plank]

What was that one aircraft with the comically overkill weapons bay?

[chilly osprey]

Short-range SAMs also being used as AAMs is very common (or, really, it's very common for AAMs to be developed into SAMs).

[tough quail]

you're gonna have to be more specific theres tons of every era

[manic latch]

Lancaster?

[shut wren]

What if

[tough quail]

here we go

[strong plank]

Like it had launchers in the doors

I want to say 1950s

[shut wren]

we shove Fighter Jets inside VLS and those ICBM tubes

but like

make the VLS big asf

[strong plank]

It was an early US jet

[chilly osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-team-hahaha-gif-18072160

[shrewd pecan]

I can’t find the images of the MQ-1 with stingers so you can have a well protected MQ-9 instead

[tough quail]

a drone is fine

on a full ass fighter i want die

[shut wren]

We launch jets out of VLS

[tough quail]

me

[manic latch]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-length_launch

[shut wren]

But with a F-16

[ivory ridge]

RATO but more extreme

[tough quail]

https://tenor.com/view/tank-gif-20142429

vls t-54s when

[manic latch]

[shut wren]

What if

[tough quail]

a pox upon you

[ivory ridge]

Begone Mike sparks

[manic latch]

I care about budget starter pack

[tough quail]

i will personally destroy your crops

that said i kinda wanna fill this out now

hmm

[shrewd pecan]

They see peak performance and they want it to be destroyed

[shut wren]

We put a ICBM launch tube with the missile inside

we strap it on to a C-130

[shrewd pecan]

Alright kid your getting a visit later

[shut wren]

NOOOO MR UN I HAVENT STOLEN CLASSIFIED US MILITARY INFOMATION IN 3 WEEKS IM SORRY

[shrewd pecan]

Your gone kid your gone, UN world police are gonna get you now

Anywho actual history related pic

[shut wren]

[shrewd pecan]

Still crazy to me that Long Beach was made around the same time as the Cleveland and Baltimore retrofits

[shut wren]

What if

[tough quail]

here we go

[shut wren]

we use one of those space shuttle boosters or the Liquid fuel orange tank as bombs

[lavish fable]

Long Beach does look kinda nice tho

[strong plank]

God what was this aircraft called

I am going insane

[shrewd pecan]

There coming

[strong plank]

It was some 50s/60s aircraft that had rockets incorporated into the weapons bay doors

[shrewd pecan]

Wasn’t that the English electric lightening

[manic latch]

Did it had 2 engines on top?

[shut wren]

Until next time Guys! New dumb shit what ifs when I run away from the UN police

[lavish fable]

Maybe... dont do dumb things?

[shut wren]

What if

[tough quail]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/910690876169281587/1078341189171957800/caption-6.gif

[manic latch]

Have cute Mi-30

[shut wren]

We put a space shuttle fully loaded with fuel

Strap it on a bomber

[tough quail]

long boye

[shut wren]

And we launch it at a ship as a weapon

[manic latch]

What if I launch you into moon

[shut wren]

What if I send you back to gulag

[tough quail]

just learn how thermobarics work like a normal person

[shut wren]

I’m not normal

[strong plank]

God I cannot find this shit I know it was posted on warplaneporn

[manic latch]

Reg how many engines it had

[strong plank]

I don’t know all I saw was the weapons bay

[manic latch]

Is it the F-102?

[strong plank]

That’s the bitch

Yes

[ivory ridge]

bruh

[frigid karma]

Why are there so many A-10s, tato

Ah I see

We should give away our entire a-10 fleet to Israel

[shut wren]

Great for commiting warcrimes!

[frigid karma]

killing civilians isn’t a downside for this particular client

[tough quail]

or better yet, friendly fire

[shut wren]

[frigid karma]

But wait horse

That Palestinian child throwing rocks at the tank

That poses a lethal threat to A-10s

Rank I Palestine SPAA too op

[shut wren]

💀

Man can sink ships by throwing rocks at em

[tough quail]

true

[shut wren]

Introducing:Ground pound+SPAA 2 in 1,for all your offensive and defensive needs!

[frigid karma]

Uptier Palestinian boy to Rank VII please

[orchid notch]

No Rank VIII

[shut wren]

Please No Im already being shitted on enough by Mig-29s and F-16s

[frigid karma]

Speaking of top tier

What was all that fuss over pantsir?

[shut wren]

Multi Lock

[frigid karma]

I heard the cone was way too big

Oh multi lock

[orchid notch]

18km range

[shut wren]

and Thats all I know

[orchid notch]

With 32G overload

[shut wren]

Nice to know we getting something nice

[frigid karma]

[jagged monolith]

pantsir had poor product reviews

[shut wren]

CAS mfs finally meeting their match

[orchid notch]

It also can shoot its missiles on the move

[shut wren]

Snail Logic:Lets make a OP tree even More OP

[jagged monolith]

2/5 vulnerable to electronic attack -Libya

[orchid notch]

Also the F-16 and Mig-29 are getting better flight models

[shut wren]

Please put all the 4th gens and the Tomcat in different matches bruh

and the F-16 mfs

[orchid notch]

Yeah it’s annoying fighting them

[shut wren]

What do you mean

you are the F-16

[orchid notch]

Not when I’m grinding Russia

[tough quail]

the pantsir is hilarious from top to bottom pretty much

[shut wren]

wya in the tree

[shrewd pecan]

still surprised the tomcats 11.7

[orchid notch]

Rank 5

[shrewd pecan]

truly my greatest fighter

[tough quail]

especially given there's like

[shut wren]

Im sorry to inform you

you are about to suffer

alot

[tough quail]

maybe two SPAAs that can top it in the world atm

not sure why they added that so early

[shrewd pecan]

the multitrack thing just seems

not too useful for jets

[shut wren]

Im scared what the F-14 late would look like

[orchid notch]

No Mig-23ML is made for idiots

[tough quail]

it's just another bonus

[shut wren]

True

[shrewd pecan]

its aspect doesn't seem too good

[shut wren]

I forgot you had that

[shrewd pecan]

for anti helicopter

oh its gonna own

[orchid notch]

Yeah with it you can drop 4 kills a match

[tough quail]

its going to out perform basically anything

[shut wren]

6+ if you have skill

I play it alot

[tough quail]

until they shove in the goofy iris-t trucks at least

[orchid notch]

Yeah

[shrewd pecan]

probably gonna be the top dog SPAA

[shut wren]

Alright what if

[tough quail]

might give it a run for its money but wont really be as good vs helos

[shrewd pecan]

I'm just expecting it to perform like the Tunguska

[tough quail]

its just a super ultra tunguska, yeah

[shut wren]

we Get one of those Tunguska turrets and put more guns on it

[shrewd pecan]

👁️ I'm gonna have to get off my Mavericks faster for that thing

[shut wren]

and put more of em

[frigid karma]

Do fighters count as spaa

[shrewd pecan]

no

[frigid karma]

They are self propelled

They have the ability to shoot planes down

[shrewd pecan]

does me sprinting towards a Boeing 747 with a shovel and ill intent count as SPAA?

[frigid karma]

It’s not spaaa just spaa, the artillery part isn’t necessary

[frigid karma]

Is that 747 in the air

[jagged monolith]

Pantsir vs competent EA has never ended particularly well for the former

[shrewd pecan]

classified

[frigid karma]

If not you can’t call it aa

[shut wren]

Assume it is

[jagged monolith]

but then again the operators are who they are

[shut wren]

what if

[jagged monolith]

but then again original manufacturer
but then again they are better but not by that much

[tough quail]

what if you didnt finish this train of thought

[frigid karma]

The world would be a better place

[shut wren]

we rip the wings off a F-16 and we put it on a Pantsir and We launch it at targets

[jagged monolith]

It disintegrates

[shut wren]

as aa

[tough quail]

please spare my brain cells

[orchid notch]

WTF

no

Or maybe

[tough quail]

anyway CAS go die like it deserves

[orchid notch]

Just think

[shut wren]

What if

[shrewd pecan]

gods greatest CAS

[shut wren]

we get a Huge BB shell and stuff more boom inside

[frigid karma]

Bring back tunnel warfare

[jagged monolith]

air defense delet

[shut wren]

and rocket motor

[jagged monolith]

ARMs for everyone

[shut wren]

and shoot it at bombers

[shut wren]

Which F-16 is it

[orchid notch]

A

[shut wren]

cool

[ivory ridge]

when Japan gets a plane they never used nor actually exists but italy isnt allowed its F-16 block 10s because they werent air worthy

at least they actually fucking existed

[shut wren]

Gaijin moment

Maybe they just hate Pizzas

[frigid karma]

Hey hey, wows copyrighted that

They should sue

[shrewd pecan]

I am a aggressor camo enjoyer

[shut wren]

It looks like a Su-57 style camo

[tough quail]

arm goobers when they just get yeeted by infrareds instead

[shut wren]

[tough quail]

...

what do you think "aggressor" means

[shut wren]

No idea

[orchid notch]

Friendly:)

[tough quail]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/630553822036623370/1056285776222113822/rprht_azurlane221224_2.gif

[shut wren]

What if

[shrewd pecan]

anyway

in terms of the aggressors

outside of war thunder

[jagged monolith]

Many tools in the toolkit!

[shut wren]

We strap a F-16 to a Bigger bomber and launch it as a air launch platform

[jagged monolith]

Anyway glory to missile defense

[shrewd pecan]

aggressor squadrons are essentially the squadrons pilots train against

[jagged monolith]

aircraft defense is for weaklings who can’t swat SEAD out of the sky

[shrewd pecan]

they get special camo schemes to match "near peer opponents" aircraft

[shut wren]

[shut wren]

So they basically dress up other planes to look like russian ones

[shrewd pecan]

Russian or Chinese

[tough quail]

this is a goofy tangent

[shut wren]

Post pics of chinese ones

[orchid notch]

[jagged monolith]

I believe in the cult of PAC-3 MSE

[shut wren]

Didnt Know we became aliens

[shrewd pecan]

the Su-57 scheme is probably the best one

[shrewd pecan]

alongside Alaska's

[tough quail]

russian plane liveries and their boat paint schemes usually look pretty good

tank camos a bit hit or miss

[shut wren]

They got tank camo?

[shrewd pecan]

Aussies like the best ground camo for my opinion

in terms of aircraft

[shut wren]

I though that shit was green

[shrewd pecan]

toss up between Japan or aggressor schemes for fixed wing

aussies again for helis

[shut wren]

Bob semple tank when

[tough quail]

normie alert

[shrewd pecan]

ADF shit in general just looks incredible tbh

[tough quail]

yeah pretty good

[shut wren]

Gaijin please more 4th gens for USSR

[shut wren]

Damn why do the aussies hog all the cool camos

[shrewd pecan]

because australia

[shut wren]

I bet they got all the cool ship camos n shit

[tough quail]

also yeah they do have funny camos

just hard to top the shade of green they've been using

[shut wren]

Would be cool if those mfs dont pop in battle

[tough quail]

other tanks just turn into a sealed furnace instead if the turret doesnt fly off

its not really a big difference

[shut wren]

I mean

More mfs need the abrams design

[shrewd pecan]

abrams still has the most sensible ammo placement

[tough quail]

tell that to literally every tank designer out of the us

[shrewd pecan]

tho the K-2PL

looks like its gonna have pretty decent ammo storage as well

[shut wren]

"Ey fuck you,Manpower is cheap shit aint expensive enough to make that shit justifyable"

[tough quail]

probably just not worth whatever perceived tradeoffs there are to other countries

because even upcoming designs afaik dont do it

[shrewd pecan]

its down to general design

[shut wren]

[tough quail]

like even the projected mbt projects dont do it afaik

(and its also a really bad idea on the neo abrams)

[shrewd pecan]

from the looks of it

[shut wren]

What if

[shrewd pecan]

most new tanks are doing away with hull ammo storage in entirely

in terms of design trade offs

[shut wren]

We replace the crew with robots n shit

[shrewd pecan]

idk its just down to how to design the tank

abrams has fuel storage up front

[tough quail]

which new tanks

[shrewd pecan]

over ammo

[tough quail]

because the ones i know of all have hull ammo

[shrewd pecan]

panther

EMBT

newer K2 variants are gonna be removing ammo from the crew compartment all together

[tough quail]

...doesn't the panther autoloader only have like 20 rounds

[shrewd pecan]

yup

[shut wren]

Thoughs on the M3 Halftrack?

[ivory ridge]

130mm moment

[tough quail]

yeah on any deployment the crews are going to carry ammo in the hull

thats kinda uh

not enough

[ivory ridge]

just half than usual

[tough quail]

actually it really did just click with me why nobody does it

the crews dont give a fuck

surplus ammo has literally always outweighed safety to tank crews

most pens will kill everyone inside anyway so might as well have more rounds to actually fight with

[shut wren]

[shrewd pecan]

not really

[shut wren]

So basically "YOLO"

[tough quail]

yes really

[shrewd pecan]

even on the T-72s and shit unless its something fully penetrating the UFP

its either the driver or turret crew that dies

[tough quail]

your turret crew will have a smidge of issue leaving without feet most likely

and if it goes through the turret front the ammo will kill everyone anyway

[shrewd pecan]

if the ammos hit the tanks and its crew done for yeah that's a given

tho if the tanks penetrated it doesn't always mean everyones dead unless there just that unlucky

[shut wren]

Could the MG gunner survive If they hop out in time?

[tough quail]

the neo abrams tech demo is a very weird mix of traits

[shrewd pecan]

what MG gunner?

[tough quail]

where the ammo should probably be entirely hull stored

[shrewd pecan]

abrams x seems to have a bustlerack

[tough quail]

because the turret is too thin to take direct hits from the front

and is still connected to the crew compartment

[shrewd pecan]

in general I'm not really

[tough quail]

so you're basically defenseless

[shrewd pecan]

convinced with abrams X being a good concept

since it doesn't even have the low profile turret as a benefit of a crewless turret

[shut wren]

Dont T-72s got MG on top

[tough quail]

its got the worse traits of western and soviet tank design

rolled together into something uniquely awful

[shrewd pecan]

the commander?????

it has a few technologies on it that should probably be slapped on a M1A3 or a future abrams replacement

[shut wren]

The bozo that sticks his torso out sure

[shrewd pecan]

beyond that I don't think crewless turret is the way to go for US tanks

[tough quail]

it basically cant protect itself given it doesnt have adequate turret armor and you cant hull down a... turret

[jagged monolith]

Look at it, it’s got a Divert and Attitude Control System, lethality enhancer with hit to kill, and dual pulse for improved energy control options!

[tough quail]

and the blowout panels wont work from a frontal pen + the turret still feeds into the crew compartment

so everyone dies

its effectively gods dumbest light tank

[shrewd pecan]

we could of had it all

[tough quail]

also someone thought it was a good idea

to replace the turbine with something dramatically worse

an american 5tdf

[shrewd pecan]

I would of personally just

developed a better more efficient turbine

but I'm in the minority in that regard

[tough quail]

im all for a diesel obviously

they just picked

the worst kind of diesel possible

[jagged monolith]

it is a marvel of engineering, the beauty and elegance of it rivaled only by its complete failure to be cost-competitive

[tough quail]

the US should not be trying to reproduce kharkovite nightmare engines

[shrewd pecan]

honestly if there gonna fully move away from diesel I'd just make the jump to hybrid tanks

[tough quail]

america using a normal engine challenge

[shut wren]

Nuclear powered

[shrewd pecan]

shut up

[tough quail]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/910690876169281587/1078341189171957800/caption-6.gif

[shut wren]

Alright No more brain cell destruction

[shrewd pecan]

shame CATTB got dropped

[jagged monolith]

I will boil you with spent fuel

[shrewd pecan]

really was just the best M1A3 proposal

[shut wren]

[shrewd pecan]

autoloaded Abrams with a three man crew, new gas turbine, improved armor and roof protection intended to protect against TOW-2Bs and other top down attack missiles

[tough quail]

waaaaay better than the GD monstrosity

[shrewd pecan]

prototyped weighed in at around 70 tons

[jagged monolith]

You will suffer from extreme heating as the water shields radiation

[shrewd pecan]

tho I imagine that could be easily reduced to current abrams standard weight ranges with newer technologies

that and finally throwing the XM360 gun into a tank

[shut wren]

[shrewd pecan]

shave off a ton and get a better gun with one easy trick

[jagged monolith]

neutron kinetic energy has to go somewhere and it’ll go right into the water with you in it

[shut wren]

This man gone overboard

[shut wren]

Bocci don’t know howda fly

[shrewd pecan]

the better abrams X

actually low profile turret

[shut wren]

Over sized thumbtack/those push tacks

[manic latch]

They added her too early

Should have picked OSA instead

All reliant on Missile like Tor

[spiral cedar]

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1924/december/application-motion-study-naval-gunnery
The application of time and motion studies to the operation and design of naval guns and mounts

[jagged monolith]

death to osa

[manic latch]

Heard it's a bad sickness indeed

[jagged monolith]

It fhacking sucks

[unborn wyvern]

Wargame Red Dragon isn't a simulator 🙄

[shut wren]

What if

we Use missiles to deilver packages

Like

strap a amazon package to a AGM or guided bomb

and take the boom out of course

like

put a parachute on it

and launch it

[junior trench]

frontal pens don't work like WT

a HEAT jet or dart that passes through a frontal armor array isn't intact enough to punch through the bulkhead in front of the ammo rack

it doesn't take much armor to reduce the coherency of a KEP or HEAT jet

[shut wren]

[jagged monolith]

money

[shut wren]

For the Amazon Prime PREMIUM mfs

[jagged monolith]

Your brain comes up with obviously uneconomical ideas

we must treat your ailments with focused radiation

[shut wren]

Its capable of not doing that

I just choose to turn off the fail safes

[strong plank]

the army tried in the 1950s

didn't work

[shut wren]

Gib proof

I wanna see

[strong plank]

the pentomic division's flaw was that dispersion of forces and resupply of said forces were incompatible, so an idea they toyed with was using rockets to deliver supplies

don't know how far it got

[tough quail]

fair shout

[shut wren]

What if

we make all the nuclear spent fuel Into weapons ammo

I know we already doing it

but with more types

[jagged monolith]

spent fuel is a bitch and is exponentially more dangerous coming out of the reactor than it was going in

the deenriched uranium is however piling up so you might be able to go somewhere with that if you need a nice dense heavy metal.

[shut wren]

Last what if of the day

what if

We take one of those Nice heavy metals

[frigid karma]

no

[shut wren]

make it into a Round

and drop it from High alts to destroy shit

like bunkers n tanks

buildings n shit

[strong plank]

seems like it never made it past the conceptual stage

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0605208.pdf

[jagged monolith]

this is called bunker busting munitions and the US has been making them for ages

[shut wren]

we can use spent fuel for it

[jagged monolith]

how about no

[shut wren]

hmmm

[strong plank]

50s and 60s were really strange

[shut wren]

I mean

We could do some shit with it

Like rail gun ammo or some shit

[jagged monolith]

you are proposing poisoning everyone in proximity to this weapon both chemically and radiologically

[shut wren]

Basically

We load this shit on to a Missile and we spread radioactive shit all over the enemy mfs

alright I'll stop

[jagged monolith]

you’ll kill your own first

[shut wren]

Yea ok

No more brain cell damage today

yall can come out

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VXJvh1AX_E

[cinder gale]

So from my understanding the next event is Italian re run but by history there are really no more ships to add from this faction.? If my research is correct except pr planned ones anyone got some history on Italian ships left that would be worth adding.?

[eternal veldt]

Italian modern battleships are exhausted

But the entire Duilio class is not yet added, as is the carrier Sparviero

The Giuseppe Miraglia may also be added as a CVL, since AL does not like to distinct between AV and CV

And there's still a massive ton of smaller vessels, from cruisers to destroyers alike

[deep apex]

They also are missing 2 heavy cruisers

And they have like

Actually

No they don't have any light cruisers

[eternal veldt]

The entire fucking Conglomerate of the Condottieris?

[deep apex]

Start with the Raimondo Montecuccolis

WAIT

[eternal veldt]

Giussanos, as crap as they are, are viable

[deep apex]

I forgot about Abruzzi and Garibaldi

They are condottieris

[eternal veldt]

Put Duca D'Aosta as Russian and watch Undefined have a mental meltdown here

Oh and I forgot, Dante Aligheri and the Francesco Carraciolos are all fair game

As...iffy as the latter's design may seem in hindsight

[strong plank]

yeah Italy's still got shit tons of ships left doesn't it

[frigid karma]

AL doesn’t do war reparations

That said, first time for everything

Does Royal fortune count as a war reparations ship? It’s assumed she’s a combination of all 4 RFs, which means she would’ve been a captured ship

[shut wren]

[eternal veldt]

Counterpoint: Arkangelsk and Murmansk,even if lend lease

Point is, if it fits the faction, it goes.

[frigid karma]

Yes, I specified war reparations

You have ships like the an shans too if you count any form of sale

[tribal mortar]

Imagine

...USS Prinz Eugen

hehe

[alpine onyx]

now with less gun, less AA, less hydrophone, and a crew that didn't read the unwritten handbook

[frigid karma]

plus, crippled engines

[alpine onyx]

that is the last point

how to know you are supposed to run the engines to a different spec when the datasheet says otherwise

[tribal mortar]

anyway I'm finally glad I have Anatomy of Hiryu in there

Hello, I am new. Does anyone else study FUTHARK?

[frigid karma]

here, not to my knowledge

[tribal mortar]

Especially late futhorc and anglo-saxon runes

[frigid karma]

the topic of discussion usually spans from 300-65mya to post-1900

[remote monolith]

accurate

[frigid karma]

indeed, a large time span, but one which doesn't contain old norse

apologies

[tribal mortar]

A-okay, ty

I have a very specific knowledge of history, sorry

[remote monolith]

its fine, anyone is welcome here

if you have any interesting stuff about futhark runes go ahead and post it here

[tribal mortar]

ty!
I dont have a topic atm, but i would like to recommend my fav YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWSwUbnofw

[junior trench]

ah

the man who described the actual dying words of soldiers as melodramatic, cliche, and overused

[tribal mortar]

which vid is that?

[junior trench]

We Were Soldiers

the one where the movie is nearly one for one of the book of compiled accounts by the people there

[tribal mortar]

right then, i like his vids on mel gibson movies but i understand that his other vids aren't par

[junior trench]

it's a Mel Gibson movie

where like, no liberties were taken

amusingly

[tribal mortar]

him and Trey the Explainer are good

do you have any recs for historically accurate reviewers?

[shrewd pecan]

Trey the Explainer when he does make content

is pretty good

most I can really say for him is that his twitter gets uhhhhh

interesting at times let's just say that

[zealous vine]

Is there a sketch of Yamato without the bow indentation?

[eternal veldt]

What do you mean bow indentation? The raised forecastle section next to Turret B?

[fierce sparrow]

Trey's twitter...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZGwxYT4hU

[thorny scarab]

Yo, there ever been conflicts involving USN and Italian ships?

[ivory ridge]

you mean against eachother? not really, the USN wasnt really that present in the med before the armistice

[thorny scarab]

[ivory ridge]

even in battles inside the med like torch the US landings were mostly aided by british warships

and the landings were mostly unopposed by the navy being so late in the war

[thorny scarab]

Interesting

[zealous vine]

That dip on the deck that starts right where the superfiring 6inch is

Which, yah, is the raised forecastle

[eternal veldt]

The raised forecastle was for weight saving, as I recall.

[chilly osprey]

Pre-Armistice there were some close encounters between American and Italian surface forces, but no pitched fights

The only clash between 'major' units is on 3 August 1943, when an American destroyer (USS Buck, a Sims-class) sunk the submarine Argento off the northeast coast of Pantelleria

Otherwise, it was mainly USAAC/AAF doing the work in the Med against the RM rather than the USN

Post-Armistice there were more clashes between the RSI navy and USN (albeit these were mostly MTB actions)

[zealous vine]

Has there been sketches of Yamato without it?

[chilly osprey]

Probably the closest we came to a direct clash between major US and Italian warships;

Thinking Oliva had come close to success, Supermarina launched a follow-up raid with Garibaldi and Duca d’Aosta, under Rear Admiral Giuseppe Fioravanzo’s command. These ships departed Genoa on 6 August and staged through La Maddalena the next day. However, as they approached Palermo at 0200 on 8 August, a radar-equipped German aircraft warned of enemy warships near the target. Supermarina ordered Fioravanzo to continue, assessing the sighting as four merchant vessels, but Fioravanzo had already turned away. Had he continued he would have run into the U.S. light cruisers Philadelphia and Savannah and destroyers Bristol and Ludlow. The Regia Marina’s new chief of staff, Admiral Raffaele De Courten, who was half-German and had been the naval attaché in Berlin, sacked Fioravanzo and continued to mount cruiser sweeps from Taranto, mainly to lay mines.

[eternal veldt]

Most of Yamato's finalized drawings are destroyed already save a few, documentation on the earlier sketches are even rarer.

However, it is known that the Shinano sub-class may eliminate that slope, or make it more gentle, according to one source.

[ivory ridge]

Plons

[chilly osprey]

Nice

[solid mango]

Im just gonna ask here since I've pretty much accidentally trapped myself between drawing Cleveland and Making Cleveland in Simpleplanes at the same time, anyone got Cleve-class BPs I can use that doesn't have a late war bridge? all I have rn are either very low detail, out of scale, or has post Mobile (CL-63) bridge

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2eYrWwBN_0

[junior trench]

didn't the RM surrender/intern into USN custody rather than RN custody as often as possible as a last "fuck you, you didn't actually beat us" to the RN or something?

[frigid karma]

pepega

"invented racial segregation"

[ivory ridge]

it's probably a response

to a similarly deranged take

but doing the opposite

[chilly osprey]

I don't know if I would explicitly describe it as a 'fuck you' move, but it was absolutely the case that the Americans generally treated it as a cease-fire while the British treated it as a surrender - which was generally in line with how the RM was reacting to the armistice terms, even though the armistice itself was a surrender.

Italian surface units that encountered British units would recieve requests for surrender and to haul down their flag, allow borders, etc, while the Americans were generally more inclined to go 'cool, would you like some powdered eggs and coffee?'

It's worth keeping in mind that, up to the armistice, while the RN had beaten the RM in battles, the core of the navy's fighting power still existed and they did not really believe the RN had managed to beat them yet - and were preparing for a last ditch action off Salerno the night the armistice was being announced. After the armistice was announced, the Italian Admiralty ordered their ships- against the terms of the armistice - to seek refuge in ports that were under Italian control, safe from the Germans but also not under Allied control. For many Italian ships, the next 24-48 hours was spent trying to figure out which ports had or hadn't fallen to the Germans, and especially for the smaller ships, fighting their way out of ports or otherwise immediately ending up in action with German ships, aircraft, and land-based batteries. Very understandably, after that experience of already being at war with the Germans, few were really inclined to entertain most of the British demands for immediate surrender and disarmament.

This attitude, alongside American support, ultimately lead to the signing of a modification to the armistice that effectively wrote out the requirement of surrender, and allowed them to fight alongside Allied forces (though, of course, this was only staving off the inevitable and the bill came anyways after the war when the permament peace treaty was drawn up and signed in 1947).

It's worth noting, most Italian admirals who had to make decisions in the heat of the moment did not have access to the text of the armistice and did not know the exact terms by which Italian ships were expected to surrender or demilitarize. For the most part, they were either doing what was in the best interests of whatever forces were under their command, and based on what they assumed any armistice or cease fire would ask of them to do.

[manic latch]

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-defends-submarines-after-australian-remarks/

[manic latch]

Yo Spon. Do you want American or British subs

[desert agate]

I'd like whatever we can get

In the best timeframe

And that can ideally be built here

It doesn't matter if it's British American or a combination of the two so long as we have subs

Dutton has a point about interoperability but him pretending that he wanted American subs from the start is just him bullshitting as usual

[alpine onyx]

Wasn't Hermes supposed to be part of that force? I remember Hermes getting detached to join an Italian raid force, but returning en route when the Italian fleet dropped the plans for an attack

[desert agate]

https://twitter.com/TheDreadShips/status/1631702127041970176?t=aLE3w5tUSgoBC-E1w0Qhag&s=19

Dreadnought Holiday (@TheDreadShips)

"largest vessel at the time" is raising some questions...

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Twitter · Mar 3, 2023, 5:04 PM

[alpine onyx]

And the two LdSdd Abruzzis were mentioned to be a part of that force

[frigid karma]

Largest vessel to be launched with bananas

There’s more?

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1631724431566413838

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

The Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) fires 16-inch guns at Iraqi targets along the northern Kuwaiti coast during the night of 6 February 1991.
#FirepowerFriday

Twitter · Mar 3, 2023, 6:33 PM

[chilly osprey]

This would have been after the loss of ZG3 (the raids mentioned are in August 1943)

Do you happen to have the date of the raid ZG3 was supposed to partake in?

Oh

Wait

Hang on, was this in August 1942?

If so, that would have been in support of the action against the Operation Pedestal convoy... but 8a Division (and Hermes) would have been in the Eastern Med at the time, covering convoys. They may have called for the raid force to be ready if the British had tried to send a convoy from Alexandria, as had been done in June (Operation Vigorous), but this time the British effort came through the Western Mediterranean only.

[alpine onyx]

I should check my Hermes post, it was mentioned there

A force to intercept potential British forces attacking Egypt

[chilly osprey]

If you know the date or at least month I might be able to find the specific operation

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNbgd4IYsWY

[spring briar]

@manic latch Petr Velikiy

[manic latch]

Small but proud

[subtle prawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBVzyJKFy0o

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/03/royal-australian-air-force-reactivating-squadron-to-operate-new-mq-4c-tritons

[spring briar]

Her gun

[shut wren]

what if

we strap 2 of those on a good turret stand

and use it as AA

[spring briar]

[tough quail]

what if

we did quirky and unconventional thing for no benefit

updoots to the left

[shut wren]

[spring briar]

These are the shells petr velikiy’s 305mm gun uses

Both cast iron with lead sheathes

[shut wren]

More boom less shells

[spring briar]

You can see the shells here as well

[shut wren]

Cool

What if bradley turret on Humvee

[spring briar]

@tough quail @manic latch

[tough quail]

baby oh baby

[spring briar]

Horse

Look at those cute lead sheathed shells

(Three in front)

[tough quail]

thats adorable

[spring briar]

All the angles

[manic latch]

Noice

[spring briar]

I love last gen blackpowder guns

[shut wren]

Aint those the mfs they put on sailboats before steam ones

[tough quail]

https://tenor.com/view/confusion-chicken-gif-11299790

[ivory ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-hi-hello-close-up-kitten-gif-16709314

[strong plank]

https://tenor.com/view/american-psycho-phone-gif-23993626

[spring briar]

Please, the grown ups are talking

[frigid karma]

that cannon looks nsfw

[shut wren]

[frigid karma]

i will now proceed to hang myself on the conveniently located noose next to it

https://tenor.com/view/team-fortress2-tf2-hang-hanging-died-gif-15160586

[spring briar]

@manic latch

[shut wren]

[spring briar]

Back when Russia bought guns from Krupp

[manic latch]

Like Butler

[tough quail]

NO DEALS WITH FASCISTS

[shut wren]

aint kurpps the mfs who build the gustav

[spring briar]

Back in 1867 horsey

So before they went mad

[spring briar]

Its similar to the projectiles used in the ACW

[tough quail]

were they ever not

[strong plank]

when the fish start talking shit

[tough quail]

true

[shut wren]

Depth charges

[spring briar]

Which do you choose to be

[shut wren]

Oh shit forgot we dont use em anymore

[alpine onyx]

August 13th 1942

[shut wren]

big one

I mean

the first one

[strong plank]

it's all asroc's now

[delicate beacon]

I spot kabooms

[shut wren]

How do Gunpods work

like

their insides

[delicate beacon]

Pretty much the same as every other gun?

[spring briar]

@manic latch

Police officers inspecting my room

[delicate beacon]

Richieeeeeeeeeeeee

[spring briar]

Sang

Sang I have found the holy grail

[manic latch]

These shells belong to me now

[delicate beacon]

I am dazed, possibly sick, stressed from life and trying to beat autism and agoraphobia by messaging lots of archives and planning travel. So how about you?

Shells

🐚

But I'm working hard on developping my first book for printing

[shut wren]

what if

[spring briar]

I have more, but from Arabia this time

[shut wren]

we strap cannon shells on planes and drop em like bombs

[spring briar]

Blessed late 19th century shells

[delicate beacon]

Hmm

[shut wren]

19th century shells are something different

dem curves

[tough quail]

disregard depth charges acquire these spicy boys

[shut wren]

Dem torps can fly

[delicate beacon]

pews

[spring briar]

Early 2Oth century shells

[delicate beacon]

Yes but they're Krupp early 20th century shells

So they're basically late 19th

[ivory ridge]

1930s soviet-italian technology transfers

https://tenor.com/view/cat-suspicious-stare-reaction-gif-gif-26297876

[spring briar]

Ayo that looks like a british RML shell

With copper gas check

Like this

[tough quail]

the italian ones are well dressed enough to be tolerable

[delicate beacon]

Didn't Krupp get its original stuff through espionage from the English?

[spring briar]

I don’t really care

[delicate beacon]

Wonder where the 28cms were from again

[spring briar]

I mostly care about Russian and French shells at this time

[delicate beacon]

[spring briar]

28 cm most likely from krupp

They exported those things to everyone

[delicate beacon]

I think someone wrote a book about them

[shut wren]

so krupp basically build all the big boi guns

[spring briar]

No

[delicate beacon]

wow this author sucks

he doesnt know

[spring briar]

Krupp was good at guns around the 9-12 inch caliber

[shut wren]

[spring briar]

They made one really big one for the Paris expo in 1867

[tough quail]

tfw the cold war happens so we didnt get weird amx-13/t-54 hybrid export tanks

why live

[delicate beacon]

brb having to read an article this size...
Spread over 5 newspapers.

[spring briar]

Because we live in a world where this exists

[tough quail]

[frigid karma]

if the cold war doesn't happen who are you building AMX-13s against

[delicate beacon]

F R E N

[frigid karma]

exactly

[delicate beacon]

[frigid karma]

the africans?

[tough quail]

yes

[shut wren]

[spring briar]

When it’s cold outside

[manic latch]

It was a smart guess that Italy would eventually join allies again

[shut wren]

cyberpunk lookin sub

[tough quail]

w-what

[shrewd pecan]

????

[spring briar]

That’s a RML

[shut wren]

I have no idea what you're talking about

[spring briar]

RML = rifled muzzle loader

[shut wren]

tf does it do

[delicate beacon]

I'm so depressed. Life keeps kicking me in the shins. I finaly found the BUSTER mount blueprints but have no way to access them.

[delicate beacon]

It shoots and spins a shell you load from the muzzle

[tough quail]

fascinating

[shrewd pecan]

france

[spring briar]

Right the army did a big training in the south east iirc

[shut wren]

let me have a try at it

what are they?

[delicate beacon]

?

[shut wren]

the blueprints

[manic latch]

Buster mount blueprints..

[delicate beacon]

Buster mount blueprints are... buster mount blueprints.

Unless you mean where.

To which the answer is Tyne and Wear archives

[shut wren]

[shrewd pecan]

https://youtu.be/e3GYg7Y_W7s

[spring briar]

@manic latch

[manic latch]

Such kissable face

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1631773512242196483

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

#OTD in 1969, General Minoru Genda made a controversial appearance at a U.S. Naval Institute event. Genda, who had played a major role in planning the attack on Pearl Harbor, stated that the Japanese would have dropped the atomic bomb on the U.S. if they had it in 1945.

Twitter · Mar 3, 2023, 9:48 PM

[manic latch]

I don't get it

I mean why wouldn't they if they had it?

Kinda feels "obviously" answer

[maiden citrus]

because 1 it undoes historical revisionism to have it plainly admitted
2 it's somehow even more terrifying if those in evil had gotten such a thing

[manic latch]

They were planning bio virus attack yeah

Nothing would stop them for atomic bomb

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PX

[maiden citrus]

'how many random people can we kill'

[spring briar]

[maiden citrus]

what a cutie

[scarlet ledge]

That statement certainly would’ve some ruffled some feathers in 1969

But if japan hsd a nuke wouldn’t they just figure out a way to drop it on america asap anyways

I mean anyone would’ve done that to whatever country they thought was the biggest threat

[shut wren]

No bombers?

[maiden citrus]

knowing japan it would've been for maximum civllian casualties like the cherry blossoms operation, and plus, not really, the one country that developed them on allies still debated on using them and even then didn't use them on other enemies when they could have

[frigid karma]

Considering their bombers couldn’t reach the us and would probably get shot down before reaching any us airbase, they’d probably throw it on Shanghai just because

Honorable

Much honor

[maiden citrus]

probably, just we're assuming they have it and the capability (they had neither)

[frigid karma]

God I want George takei as a wows commander

“You are made of stupid”

“Your destiny is failure”

[shut wren]

Shanghai was already taken they woulda just dropped it on another city smh

[tough quail]

instructions unclear, nukes vladivostok

[shut wren]

[eternal veldt]

Something something, "Be pleased to inform your Majesty that the Italian Fleet is now under the guns of the forts of Malta", something to that extent.

I forgot if it was Cunningham that wrote the opposite: Malta now has an entire Italian fleet at harbour

Ah no, Cunningham wrote the first. Thanks again for this excerpt.

Probably one of the best excerpts describing the even;

After this meeting Cunningham sent his oft-quoted signal to the Admiralty, “Be pleased to inform their Lordships that the Italian Battle fleet now lays at anchor under the guns of the fortress of Malta.” These famous words disguised the fact that the British did not have physical control over the former enemy fleet. The Americans especially appreciated the irony. When Admiral di Pollone’s Squadretta unexpectedly arrived at Palermo from the island of Elba, at 1000 on 12 September, the American commander there felt like signaling, “Be pleased to inform Their Lordships that Palermo lies under the guns of an Italian Fleet.” The British lack of control was further indicated by a letter Cunningham sent to Admiral Willis on 14 September in which he worried, “[the Italian Fleet] is alright at the moment but I smell trouble coming. I am quite convinced that all the ships are prepared to scuttle should things not be to their liking.”

[frigid karma]

Well, first the Germans did it at scapa, then the French at Toulon..

[eternal veldt]

It is indeed ironic

They went to Malta alright

Just...not as conquerors as they've liked.

I should find that photo of KGV leading an Italian line again. Buried it somewhere and forgot.

[chilly osprey]

KGV lead Da Zara's force in, iirc (Duilio, Doria, Cadorna, Scipione Africano)

[spiral cedar]

As originally completed in the 1920s, the Model C and Model D mountings used pusher hoists for the powder charges that effectively created a continuous powder train between the gun breeches and the magazines. These powder hoists were replaced by bucket hoists in 1930s which gave improved protection from flash. Shell hoists remained pusher types. Flashtight doors were fitted to all shell and powder hoists at both the lower and upper ends. Revolving flash tight scuttles were fitted between the magazines and powder handling rooms. These changes did slow down the supply rate of ammunition to four charges per minute. However, the new arrangements proved their worth when a flareback wrecked Turret No. 2 on Ashigara in the summer of 1935. Although 41 men were killed or injured, the flash did not penetrate down into the magazines and the ship was saved.

[manic latch]

New york %100

Tho New York also had many ports for ship construction right

Tho it's hard to reach nvm

Japan would pick smh like California?

[shut wren]

High population density location(s) in the west coast

[shut wren]

We got harbors here but havent heard of ship building

[strong plank]

Philadelphia was a big ship construction hub

Norfolk too

[delicate beacon]

It feels weird writing about a person with the same last name as I.

[shut wren]

?

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/ronkainen7k15/status/1631523484823326720

Ronkainen (@ronkainen7k15)

Elbit's 30mm Redback turret and EOS' T2000 turret

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[delicate beacon]

God it's this late already

I've been transcribing for too long

[jagged monolith]

https://mobile.twitter.com/parsifa18401874/status/1631647371938648069

関口高史 軍事研究家 (@parsifa18401874)

ビックリです！
これまで所在不明とされてきた牟田口廉也中将の軍刀が見つかりました！　過日、警察へ届け出、本日、教育委員会から登録証が交付されました。ご遺族の意向で自衛隊に寄贈する予定です。刀身は後日、ツイートします…。

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A sword of a great hero, Mo Jeon Gu is not forgotten yet!

[river charm]

GSDF BullDog

[manic latch]

Manhattan 1919

Man it was beautiful

[manic latch]

Why Singer had to be destroyed

[subtle prawn]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1631873032305221633

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

#RIP Tom Sizemore who has passed away at the age of 61. The tough guy actor was often cast in military roles, appearing in such films as PEARL HARBOR (2001), SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998), FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER (1991), BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001), and BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989).

Twitter · Mar 4, 2023, 4:23 AM

[jagged monolith]

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/light-attack-advanced-training/lockheedkai-boeing-woo-australia-fighter-trainer
Lockheed Martin and Co. vs Boeing and Co.,round 2.
I’ve been waiting for this rematch!

[desert agate]

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2007/04/26/as-war-ended-japan-provided/23950822007/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlGyCqWE13g

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I think Maine called me a tankie for talking about this

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ah thanks!

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https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/demystifying-australias-defence-exports/

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rip

DAPA keeps records and popularizes exports on ourend

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Not available online.

If you really need reference, consider navsource.

or, if you're really desperate, I can get you the WoWS model.

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Already hab the WoWs model

But thx anyways

Oh yeah and even some modelling images are helpful

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https://tenor.com/view/b2-gif-18718600

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https://tenor.com/view/skibidi-bop-bop-yes-yes-пузо-живот-смех-танцы-gif-27224458

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30mm AP shell with solid rocket engines

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https://tenor.com/view/evil-cat-red-screen-evil-cat-kitten-evil-bad-vibes-cat-gif-24237861

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Me when one person ruins everything I defended for, everything I argued for.

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?

context?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkiIPMRz3h8

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https://twitter.com/DramaWarship/status/1632088200079351810?t=475gIGGcx_G11RaIoseY1Q&s=19

Warship Drama (@DramaWarship)

Date: November 1918. Location: Anadolu Kavağı, Turkey. Event: French battleship Démocratie is transiting Bosphorus en route from Constantinople to Sevastopol to recapture Russian warships from the Germans. Current status: Scrapped in 1921-22, lifespan of 19 years.

Twitter · Mar 4, 2023, 6:38 PM

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My beloved

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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1632056637962715138

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

In 1969, a brush fire burned down the exchange in Da Nang. A group of SEALs searched the ruins and salvaged all the cans of beer that had not burst in the blaze. After washing the cans, they went to the piers and sold the beer to sailors. #SeaStorySaturday

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Twitter · Mar 4, 2023, 4:33 PM

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Adjusted maine

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French help fren

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Yesterday was the 93rd anniversary of the first flight of the Fairey Gordon
Below, a Fairey Gordon of the 4th S&BD (Brazilian Naval Aviation) flies on the side of school ship "Almirante Saldanha", during her arrival in Brazil in 1934

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Cute bote

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Indeed

It's the same ship btw

She went from this

To that

In 1957 she was converted into an oceanographic ship

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Sorry not sorry

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be not afraid

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Still less scary than his Dreadnought design.

Fortunately he stopped designing surface battleships after that.

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what if

we stack BB turrets

on the BB

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https://tenor.com/view/salute-police-gif-23079424

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carrier landings are hard jfc

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that after the immediately preceding images paints a very grim picture

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been practing some wt naval

the dive bombing part is surprisingly easy

:3

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anyways the amount of times i have crashed into yorktown's ass this afternoon is embarassing

i have newfound respect for ranger's planes who have to land on a runway blocked by a giant pair of tits

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Is there a picture of majority or all the Essex class carriers deployed together?

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The Famous "Murder's Row" is as good as it gets

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Is there any historical reason for the skill of Bataan that's related to Hellcats?

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Got a photo with an F-22 demo team pilot lol

Oh man i love interacting with us military personnel

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The airshow haul

Not pictured are the various pins

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End burner?
Otherwise no way the propellant won't crack and create a grenade instead

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Grey really fits to KC style

AL? Not so much

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https://twitter.com/DramaWarship/status/1632282736638427136?s=20

Warship Drama (@DramaWarship)

Date: January 31, 1905. Location: 38°48'07" N, 121°15'03" E. Event: Sunk by the Japanese 11-inch siege howitzers in December, former Russian battleships Poltava (on the left) and Peresvet are resting on the seabed at the Ryojun Naval District 龍順鎮守府 (former Port Arthur).

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Twitter · Mar 5, 2023, 7:31 AM

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https://twitter.com/hqjoc/status/1632341223036919811?t=3j-EydNDYsKEhnoAOQV4GQ&s=19

Joint Operations Command (@hqjoc)

It's been a busy day in Sydney where @Australian_Navy Landing Helicopter Dock HMAS Canberra embarked personnel vehicles and stores as part of the DFAT-led, Whole-of-Government support to Vanuatu 🇻🇺 in the wake of Severe Tropical Cyclone Judy and Tropical Cyclone Kevin 🌀

Twitter · Mar 5, 2023, 11:24 AM

2nd pic goes hard

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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1632443912760467461

U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute)

When CDR Dick O'Kane of USS Tang (SS-306) learned that the officers' wardroom on the battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) was getting an ice cream maker, he nabbed the machine and had it installed on his sub to boost the crew's morale. #SubSunday

Twitter · Mar 5, 2023, 6:12 PM

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Hughes’s battles with Wilson on German New Guinea became the stuff of folklore. In one of their meetings on the topic, Wilson challenged Hughes as to whether Australia and New Zealand were presenting an ultimatum to the conference.

Hughes, who was deaf, and especially so when it suited him, fiddled with his hearing aid, and asked for the question to be repeated. When it was, he replied:

That’s about the size of it, Mr President. That puts it very well.

When Wilson asked Hughes whether he expected the five million Australians he represented to be set against the twelve hundred million represented by the conference, Hughes responded, ‘I speak for sixty thousand dead For how many do you speak?’

Finally, when the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George tried to mediate by asking Hughes if Australia would grant free access for missionaries in any New Guinea mandate, Hughes replied: ‘I understand that these poor people are very short of food and for some time past they have not had enough missionaries.’ Wilson did not see the joke.

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https://twitter.com/akijikure/status/1632285838624309248

あきじ (@akijikure)

今日のJMU呉事業所
護衛艦「かが」改修工事で
ビニールハウスの一部の撤去が始まったという
ことで、何か変化あれば見に行くことにしている
ので見に行ってきた。
隣のドックではコンテナ船？の建造も始まった。
大きさからしてWAN HAIのコンテナ船かな？

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Twitter · Mar 5, 2023, 7:44 AM

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4th?

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Looks like a container ship about to start assembly

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https://twitter.com/naval_gazing/status/1632334486598811648

Sebastian Bruns (@naval_gazing)

German Navy released "Force Structure Goals 2035+".

https://t.co/XxnpiTcMbS

"Given the new importance of deterrence and defense, the German naval forces must adapt to technical progress. This means comprehensive entry into unmanned systems and artificial intelligence."

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Twitter · Mar 5, 2023, 10:57 AM

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@spring briar

Gripen C and Mirage 2000
Santa Cruz Airbase

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excellent

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They had a short life on the FAB
Compared to the Mirage III