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If you’re interested in this stuff, look up US Air Force colonel John Paul Stapp. Through a career of Jekyll and Hyde type experiments he proved that while humans couldn’t take sustained high-g deceleration, we can take an acute 46g and survive. That led to safer airplane design and harness and seat design for both military and commercial and saved a lot of lives over the years. Previously, manufacturers would build comparatively flimsier planes because it was thought that humans would die at those forces anyways so why bother with the extra expense. Same goes for cars and the eventual seat belt.

Additional reading: Sonic Wind - Amazon

If you like the F-117, there’s a great book about it’s creation from concept to execution by the father of stealth technology. It’s a lot of interesting history and engineering about Lockheed Martin, their Skunk Works group, and some of the most ambitious aerospace projects of the 20th century.

Those bearings aren’t cheap. Honestly, I have been wanting to buy one for a long time just cause I like shit like that but can’t justify it. Maybe one will land in my lap

One 3" Inch Chrome Steel Bearing Ball G100 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074VCMFE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_m.jcCbDPSZ9A6

Source: original content, shot by me on 2016-09-27 with a handheld DSLR, images aligned/perspective corrected etc using Hugin, then made into a video using Avisynth and x264.

(The original sequence was 8 frames going from full depression to (almost) full elevation; I took the liberty of tacking on a copy of the sequence in reverse to the end.)

That's because this F-16 is in "ACM" mode, or "Air Combat Maneuvering". ACM mode is intended for short-range, automatic target acquisition.

The ACM mode uses different "scan techniques" to obtain a target, with one of them being "BORE" mode, or manual acquisition of a target.

If you enter ACM mode from "BORE" mode, aka NOT from an automatic target acquisition feature (which there are 3 different ways), the radar will stop transmitting. It doesn't turn off the radar (like the one used to detect missiles and other aircraft), but instead disables the ability to project (or radiate) a signal from this F-16 to the Russian SU-34.

If you are in "BORE" mode, this is disabled.

Feel free to read more here: Specifically page 133-134

I read a book called Viper Pilotby a retired wild weasel pilot. They have the latest in countermeasures and are all extremely well trained, he says most of the guys have their masters degree on top of the Air Force level of special forces intensity training. When those guys hear missile lock they react like someone has a gun to their head- they immediately shit pants and evade, evade, evade. Drop everything and pilot like your mother’s life depends on it. It’s terrifying.

You should check out Before The First Wave

It's a great book told by the men of the 3rd Armored Amphibian Battalion that my Grandfather was a part of. They were the very first ones to hit the island. They were in the armored amphibious tanks (not the crew carrying amphibious tracks that came behind them.) The book actually spends about 3 pages talking about my Grandfather and tells of the exact moment he was shot and I had no idea he was mentioned in it until I was reading it.

There's no taking away from Sledge's book because it's absolutely incredible. However, I think it's cool to be able to skip around the island so-to-speak by hearing about the battle from multiple people's point-of-view versus just one. It's definitely a great book that gets overlooked a lot in regards to reading about Peleliu.

Pretty easy to order online these days. Amazon has some good ones starting from an inexpensive but impressive P51 Mustang to the B-17 Flying Fortress. Revell and Monogram always have consistent quality molded parts but the off brands always had the varieties of odd German planes.

Under normal circumstances, a deep wading tank will not really fill with water.
As /u/OliverTwist pointed out, the portion showing water flooding into the interior is part of a training exercise for tank crews.

Sure, I've uploaded the English docs to Google Drive.

The OSA is neat because it's got an electro-optical system that lets you zoom in on the target with a camera. You can click on the 9Sh38 Karat link in the main screen to see what different planes look like through it. The developer says he's going to add another version of the OSA with full exterior views in the next patch.

What he really needs to add are tooltips, haha. And the ability to move the window around on your monitor, cuz it's a real pain trying to swap back and forth between the PDF and the sim. And less irritating generator sounds.

Sure, the program is pretty rough around the edges, but still, considering the guy had no programming experience when he started the project and yet has managed to produce a "true to the button" simulator of complex equipment with almost no open-source reference material is, in my opinion, amazing.

Oh, I made a subreddit for it, /r/SAMSim, population 1. I haven't done anything at all with it yet, but I might get around to it.

I've often thought a real artillery simulator would be awesome, so I wish some driven soul would make something like this for SPGs, with such highlights as the M109A6 Paladin, 2S19 Msta, PzH 2000, South African G6, Scandanavian AMOS and Archer...maybe those systems are too new to have unclassified documentation and photographs and maybe too complex as well, but still. I can dream.

I wrote earlier that you're either a troll or too stubborn. Now I'm changing that to a troll or very special.

What you linked is not relevant. It's about the organization/formation. We're talking about soldiers/personnel.

Here is the relevant link. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/marine

>US armed forces

Read that? You know what's the other word for armed forces? Military.

Who's in the military? Soldier!

Works really well on a touchscreen, actually.

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fastemulator.gbafree&hl=en_US

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I played through all the AW games on my phone via emulators, first time I'd ever played them. It's an absolutely fantastic series and I'm eager to start playing them again.

A famous line from "Bill Mauldin's Army": "I can't git no lower, Willie? Me buttons is in the way!"

This is not correct, APILAS is a rocket launcher not a recoiless gun.

A lot of ISIS fighters were like that. They had a lot of very smart people working for them.

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Their media department was especially sharp. They had hour long movie quality videos that they published monthly. They had a high quality magazine that was published in 10 different languages. ISIS are a scum of the earth group but they had some highly competent people working for them.

Podcast on the US government team that helped take down the ISIS media department.

Roads in deep mountains are not always inclined, because the goal is to going-through the mountains, not climbing to the top. As a road reaches a certain height, it will simply go (almost) flat. (example)

First of all, one example does not prove this convergence theory in the slightest. If it was true it would apply to ALL aircraft, not just supersonic transcontinental nuclear bombers, or "cruise missile launchers".

Second, it didn't literally happen. At all. The B-1s initial studies began in 1961 and the basic design was finalized in 1969. By mid-'71 the basic configuration stabilized and the final mockup was ready in December 1971 ( Source: Aviation Fact File / Modern Fighting Aircraft 'B-1B' written by Mike Spick). The B-1's first flight was seven years before the Tu-160.

"In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a new multi-mission bomber competition to create a new supersonic, variable-geometry ("swing-wing") heavy bomber with a maximum speed of Mach 2.3, in response to the US Air Force B-1 bomber project. "

The Tu-160 was the Soviet response to the existential threat the American B-1 posed. To repeat: the B-1 came first. The Tu-160 came next and clearly took liberties with their Western enemy's design.

That is a valid comparison.

I wasn't saying the F-35 was a shit plane by making the comparison to the Thunder chief (infact a lot of pilots who flew it said they wouldn't have wanted to fly anything else).

There is a really good documentary on Amazon prime called THUD pilots that goes into this, it is definitely worth a watch if you like military aviation.

You should watch the longest day It's an old movie but it will answer your question. Also you can read Overlord it's a big book that covers a lot of what happen prior, during and after D-Day

Amazon rebooted the series.

I've always liked the aardvark especially after reading Chains of Command back in the day.