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Military Thread: Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron

Guard Dog
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I agree that the US has lost all credibility in the world these days. But I also 100% believe that the world will come to deeply regret this situation very soon.

People often say "history repeats itself." I have always intellectually rejected this notion. But nowadays increasingly I find myself wondering if indeed there is something to the notion of history repeating itself. The world today feels very eerily similar to the early 1930s.

13 hours ago, Zoraptor said:

Yet somehow it's positively beautiful compared to the MiG-31. Post 70s Interceptors are just plain ugly.

Stealth-based designs don't allow for those graceful aeronautical shapes of the past. The F-15 is my all-time favorite fighter jet, but I have to admit that the original Su-27 in clean mode is the most beautiful fighter jet ever built.

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    The USS Abraham Lincoln is deploying with the first female captain to command a aircraft carrier: In a historic first, aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln deploys under command of female captain

    I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet. I looked on Wikipedia and it seems most other ship categories (not by class but function) have had women commanders. The only other type of ship that has not had a female captain are Gator Freighters. 

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

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    The most ubiquitous of troop carriers was around already in antiquity. Behold, the humble shoe, transporting soldiers all over the Roman Empire!

     

     

    “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
     

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    I posted several videos in the random/interesting thread, but I thought maybe I should put a single one in the military thread too. I never get tired of watching these shows in Brisbane... I wonder how many cities in the world they actually allow low altitude flights with full afterburner over the city center?

    (they first fly up and out, turning around, then they come in and "strafe" the city at low altitudes)

    For the other videos, see the other thread. Before they retired the F-111's, they used those for the festival at night, dumping and igniting fuel, to appear as great balls of fire flying across the sky

     

    “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
     

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    7 hours ago, Gorth said:

    I posted several videos in the random/interesting thread, but I thought maybe I should put a single one in the military thread too. I never get tired of watching these shows in Brisbane... I wonder how many cities in the world they actually allow low altitude flights with full afterburner over the city center?

    (they first fly up and out, turning around, then they come in and "strafe" the city at low altitudes)

    For the other videos, see the other thread. Before they retired the F-111's, they used those for the festival at night, dumping and igniting fuel, to appear as great balls of fire flying across the sky

     

    Awesome! Fast jets never get old with me. :)

    Not sure if modern jets can dump and burn.

    I get to see MANG (Massachusetts Air National Guard) F-15Cs low over my house quite often. No use of burners though.

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    On 2/8/2022 at 1:12 AM, kanisatha said:

    Awesome! Fast jets never get old with me. :)

    Not sure if modern jets can dump and burn.

    I get to see MANG (Massachusetts Air National Guard) F-15Cs low over my house quite often. No use of burners though.

    Just a bit more if the same (I was actually in the cbd that day, four and a half years ago). Who needs stadium flyovers and airshows when you can squeeze a few million people into one place and do low altitude flyovers 😝

     

    “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
     

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    I regret not investing in LM.

    Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

    Well as aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia so eloquently put it: "(I)s Vladimir Putin the best F-35 salesman ever, or what?"

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    “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
     
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    "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

    -Rod Serling

     

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    Germany decides to buy F-35, in major reversal of announced plans.

    Poor Boeing. Not getting a break these days. I may be a bit old fashioned, but something about the F-18 Super Hornet's esthetics just appeals to me, even if Lockheed's new plane is better at delivering tactical nukes (which is what the now 35 new F-35's seems to be earmarked for, the bulk of the German Airforce still seems to become made up of the Eurofighter)

    “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
     

    Army readies to deliver first set of Strykers with 50-kilowatt laser weapons (defensenews.com)

    But at the end of the article...

    Taking its experience from other laser weapons programs — including the airborne laser weapon for the Air Force and a 300-kilowatt-class laser under development for the Army’s indirect fires protection capability, or IFPC, as part of a team with Dynetics — Lockheed is scaling its laser technology into an offering it calls DEIMOS.

    The Dynetics and Lockheed team is slated to deliver an IFPC high-energy laser technology demonstrator in fiscal 2022; four prototypes are due at the end of FY24.

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    US Marines transitions from Harrier to F-35B

    The Harrier is, if I'm not mistaken, the longest serving fixed wing airframe in the history of US military aviation. Even longer than the Catalina.  Obviously there have been numerous versions of it since it's first deployment in the sixties.  On another not it's extremely cool to see VMA-214 is still around. That unit is legendary among the "wingers". 

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

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    2 hours ago, Guard Dog said:

    US Marines transitions from Harrier to F-35B

    The Harrier is, if I'm not mistaken, the longest serving fixed wing airframe in the history of US military aviation. Even longer than the Catalina.  Obviously there have been numerous versions of it since it's first deployment in the sixties.  On another not it's extremely cool to see VMA-214 is still around. That unit is legendary among the "wingers". 

    Yeah only two more Harrier squadrons left to transition.

    Totally agree on VMFA-214. Love the Black Sheep. F4U my second-most loved WWII fighter after the Spitfire. :)

    As for longest serving, dunno about that. B-52 has served a really long while and will continue to 2050.

    3 hours ago, Guard Dog said:

    US Marines transitions from Harrier to F-35B

    The Harrier is, if I'm not mistaken, the longest serving fixed wing airframe in the history of US military aviation. Even longer than the Catalina.  Obviously there have been numerous versions of it since it's first deployment in the sixties.  On another not it's extremely cool to see VMA-214 is still around. That unit is legendary among the "wingers". 

    B-52: April 1952 to present

    "Can't sleep the drones will kill me."

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    Doh! You guys are right. I forgot about the B-52. I was off by 15 years!

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

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