Agiel

"I must return to my people."

Remembering this day in history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WenOh8NsDOs

It's what this thread is here for There's a bunch of great photos from the First Gulf War:

"But who's buying?!" *edit* I swear up and down, posting this was the first thing on my mind upon seeing your post and only saw your lament after I posted this.

Photo of a story I found somewhat fascinating. Woman in China attempts suicide in her wedding gown after her fiance broke off the engagement. Luckily due to the efforts of neighbours she was unhurt. "Cool off."

...which is about the most sensible attitude to take on the whole consoles vs. PC thing.

On another forum I frequent, we went on an owls tangent.

I don't know about you, but I'd be a at least *little* bit more concerned about a deputy PM showing up to one of those rallies than, say, Billy-Bob and his "beloved" cousin. And given that Svobada has less than 1% of the vote and that Right Sector virtually ceased to be a viable political entity in the wake of the new election, the claim that Nazis were the driving force suddenly holds less water than a shrapnel-riddled colander.

If you're seriously going to bring Nazis back into this: Deputy PM of Russia at Russian National Unity Rally: Demonstrators at a "Take Back Russia" rally. What did you think? That the "Nazis" in Metro 2033 came out of nowhere? "Out of context?" "Fringe groups blown out of proportion?" Well, now you just got a taste of your own medicine.

I think wishing for the return of FMV adventure games is toying with forces you do not understand: Note: If you subscribe to Giant Bomb as well, you may know that there's another great one that illustrates my point beautifully... but I'm not 100% sure it's appropriate for this forum.

Protester from the anti-government demonstrations in Turkey in March. First Selfie from Mars RIMPAC 2014 exercise A lot of the photos I get are from the regular 'In Focus" feature on The Atlantic website, which I highly recommend you guys keep up with. And because I said this thread should also be dedicated towards cool art pieces as well: Artwork by Enki Bilal.

Picked up a naval warfare strategy book on the recommendation from a fellow grognard, and got a chuckle from this passage: "Yaaargh..."

The spirit of your words aren't an entirely inaccurate assessment from my point of view, however...

A tiny bit late, but very poignant nonetheless: I can only imagine that someone uninitiated in WWII history who witnesses such an event is left flabbergasted by the display.

Post every other piece of photography or artwork that isn't necessarily funny or sexy* here: To get it started: Scrapping of the Seawise Giant "The Invisible Man." I'm suddenly reminded of this cinematic from the first Shogun. This one just speaks to you. If you know not what it is of, merely look at my "Location." ----------- *Okay, it can be a little funny or sexy as long as it is also thought-provoking and emotionally stimulating as well.

I had to double-check the foil and plastic wrap in our kitchen cupboard and... I don't know if I should be happy I learned something new, or ashamed that I only realised this just now. I suppose the next time my roommates have to cover up some leftovers, they will accuse me of witchcraft.

Littoral Combat Ship to test Naval Strike Missile by Kongsberg: http://www.janes.com/article/41233/rimpac-2014-us-pacific-fleet-commander-eyes-norway-s-naval-strike-missile-capability I suppose at that point they can go ahead and call the things what they are: "Frigates."

How unfortunate that rational politicians have allowed the inertia of public blood-raving to trump practical politics and have dumped onto their mlitaries the problems they do not wish to solve. I hope it eventually occurs to the Israeli government that "mowing the lawn" as it were doesn't constitute sound military strategy.

Going retro once more; remembering the liberation of Paris in honour of the upcoming 70th anniversary: http://golem13.fr/70-ans-liberation-de-paris/

I'm saying that's precisely it, one of the finest illustrations of this paradigm being the T-34 (which I mentioned earlier on this thread in fact): http://www.operationbarbarossa.net/the-t-34-in-wwii-the-legend-vs-the-performance/ If the "big" points of protection and mobility and numbers truly decisively mattered, which the T-34 was advantaged in against nearly every other tank in the world at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, then it did not explain how crews and vehicles were lost in *droves* against woefully inadequate weapons. Poor visibility (and thus, situational awareness), poor inter-vehicle communications (until Lend-lease radios arrived, only platoon commanders had radios, and had to communicate with his subordinates using signal flags), and poor fire-control efficiency led to crews taking much, much longer to process their OODA loops as compared to their German counterparts. Communications is key. Efficiency is key. Situational and tactical awareness is ESPECIALLY key. A point in which current F-35 pilots agree: http://www.sldinfo.com/the-fifth-generation-experience-updated-the-f-35-is-a-situational-awareness-machine/

The famous USAF theorist and "Godfather" of the "Fighter Mafia" John Boyd had noticed that in spite of the MiG-15 being superior in several key respects of flight performance to the F-86 Sabre, F-86 pilots were able to achieve, by conservative estimates, near 2:1 exchange ratios against the MiG-15. Boyd concluded that this was due to two factors: 1. The F-86 used hydraulic controls where the MiG-15 had manual controls. That meant that the MiG-15 pilot had to exert considerably more effort to "yank and bank" than his counterpart in the F-86, which was especially counter-productive in prolonged engagements. 2. Most pertinently to the above article, the F-86 boasted superior out of ****pit visibility. At least seven times out of ten in air combat the reason a given pilot died was because he never knew the threat was there, as was iterated in the Ault Report (AKA Project RED BARON) conducted after the Vietnam War, which is also why Antoine de Saint Exupéry, himself a pilot, remarked that air combat was not necessarily the "knightly, chivalrous combat" as some might believe so much as it was murder. The lesson: Success lay in being able to process your OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) loop faster than your opponent and using it to interfere with his.

For those of you who are waiting on this game, might I suggest trying out Steel Beasts? The "game" nominally costs $125 USD, but there is a 64bit open beta that is free to try until December 31st. To enter, first download and install the v3.011 client here: http://www.esimgames.com/?page_id=1390 Then request a beta license here: http://www.esimgames.com/?p=1714 You will have at your disposal the Leopard 2 series from the 2A4 to the 2A6 (as well as local flavours of the Danish, Swedish, and Spanish armies), the M1 from the old 105mm version to the M1A2 SEP, the Challenger 2 (albeit in a somewhat undermodeled form), and much, much more. And before you enjoy, remember: "Klotzen, nicht Kleckern."

120 degrees azimuth is far from an insignificant amount of airspace to be able to scan. Also, I can guarantee that if the rebels had one, there's at least 180 degrees bearing it isn't pointed in.