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Apr 18 2017 05:22pm
Quote (Surfpunk @ Apr 18 2017 12:29pm)
AC-130 Spectre gunship "Spooky"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBGRhI4WtiA


That is hot. The C-130 family are pretty interesting. There is so many variants it makes my head spin.
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This video is really just an audio capture, of the first Tomahawk missile ever fired in anger. It's on the bridge of the ship I served on, whereas the launch went up from the aft missile launcher, which isn't visible from the bridge.



There's a brass plaque on the aft missile deck marking the tube that housed the missile, but I'll be damned if I can Google it.
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I wonder what will replace the A-10, if ever. The F-35 seems capable but expensive.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzeM50B8hI


the f-35 is poorly suited to do the kinds of work the A-10 does, makes about as much sense as outfitting Pizza Delivery drivers with Mercedes Benz's. Meanwhile the A-10 was born to fight in the mud and shit.
They just need to start actually making them again imo

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US Navy CIWS (Christ, It Won't Shoot) in a live fire test:


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they have so much stuff we will never know about
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