...how do you get something that can serve Home Fleet its ass on a platter single-handedly running 10 knots faster then Scharnhorst?
Military Gear that should have seen service
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...how do you get something that can serve Home Fleet its ass on a platter single-handedly running 10 knots faster then Scharnhorst?
Cook
Banned
Yes.
Although I’d have to ask what daft bugger thought “Kangaroo” was a good name for a combat aircraft, and overlooked all the predatory birds of Australia at the same time.
I’d only heard it referred to as the “Boomerang II”
Dave in St. Louis
Banned
Excuse me?
George HW Bush actually was a Naval Aviator and Jerry Ford served aboard USS Monterey (CVL-26). Both deserving of having a carrier named after them if you consider that they both served on carriers and had been President. Much better than Vinson and Stennis.
As for disposal, you forget SINKEX.
Dave in St. Louis
Banned
Add USS Missouri BB 63 a museum ship at Pearl Harbor & USS Missouri SSN 780 currently under construction.
Dave in St. Louis
Banned
Others have addressed some of this, but Marine Corps Recruit Training is thirteen weeks, not six weeks.
And, of course, many of those of us who served in the US military had far more extensive training after Basic. I went to BEE, ET-A, Nuclear Power School, Nuclear Power Prototype, ETMS, LMET and ET-C7, all but the last three before I ever saw the fleet, during my time in. NPS, NPPT and ET-C7 were each about half a year long.
Cook
Banned
I thought the Lavi died because it went from the initial idea of a cheap, low budget fighter to being a multirole duplicate of the F-16 with the same price tag?
Given that an aircraft developed in Israel is not going to have a large production run to offset development costs, the individual aircraft are always going to be expensive aren’t they?
Cook
Banned
I'm surprised no one (that I can tell) has mentioned Project Thor...
Flying Crowbars coming at you at Mach 15 for those that are wondering.
How to truly f#@k someone’s day!
a world without tins
Banned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_missile
The original Doomsday Weapon.
Im quite pleased this was cancelled.
Im sneakily impressed though, in a suicidal sort of way. It would have made excellent film footage if nothing else. The cameraman would be fatally irradiated however.
Thank God! Someone else!
I just couldnt resist it
SLAM haunts my dreams. Or it did for two days after I first saw it.
glowjack
Banned
Considering obama's recent health care bill I find it very disgusting that alot of people are willing to spend money on the military to protect their citizen's health (if its not just a lie for coporate ,ideological , and self-gain purposes) by killing others but won't spend the money to keep its citizens alive.
WTF?!
The military should not even exist, its a self-justified existance, it exists only because others exist. It demands the most intelligent and capable youth of the human race to spend their energies killing each other, it has no economical gain for the human race except for one group to gain some at massive expense to another.
They always ask you to die for your country, but that's some nice emotional BS, they want you to kill "enemies" indiscriminately, dieing just happens to be glorified side effect.
WTF?!
The military should not even exist, its a self-justified existance, it exists only because others exist. It demands the most intelligent and capable youth of the human race to spend their energies killing each other, it has no economical gain for the human race except for one group to gain some at massive expense to another.
They always ask you to die for your country, but that's some nice emotional BS, they want you to kill "enemies" indiscriminately, dieing just happens to be glorified side effect.
I'm guessing your trolling or trying to start a flame war. So my logical answer to your post is this.
Nations shall always need militaries. The history of humanity has made it clear that conflict will be a considerable part of our future. As such nations need to be able to defend themselves and if necessary deal with those who threaten us or our Allies.
No as Patton said the objective of war is to make the OTHER DUMB SOB DIE FOR HIS COUNTRY!
Cook
Banned
Having read your rant I doubt you are looking for a serious answer Glowjack, but I joined a defence force that has never asked its young men and women to die for their country and goes to great expense to provide them with the skills and equipment to keep them alive.
And they are very specific about whom they want killed, never “indiscriminate”.
Do try to have a nice day dickhead.
And they are very specific about whom they want killed, never “indiscriminate”.
Do try to have a nice day dickhead.
Dave in St. Louis
Banned
Flying Crowbars coming at you at Mach 15 for those that are wondering.
How to truly f#@k someone’s day!
Sometimes called "Rods from the Gods"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
I love the idea but wouldn't such platforms be vulnerable to Anti-Satellite missiles? So a defense for them might be to orbit fighters over advancing formations and launch their ASATs as a Thor platform comes overhead.
Cook
Banned
It’s also been proposed to use a suborbital missile or high altitude stealth bomber to deliver them.
The later doesn’t have the same kinetic energy but because they have a very love cross sectional area they reach an extremely high velocity before impact, and have almost zero radar section so it’s a stealthy attack.
backstab
Banned
Jeeze .... not another one. Dem evol army men are trying to control da world ... quick lets all hold hands and sing kum-by-ya. Dat will scare them away
backstab
Banned
Having read your rant I doubt you are looking for a serious answer Glowjack, but I joined a defence force that has never asked its young men and women to die for their country and goes to great expense to provide them with the skills and equipment to keep them alive.
And they are very specific about whom they want killed, never “indiscriminate”.
Do try to have a nice day dickhead.
Watch out Cooky ... otherwise I'll come over your way and trample you with the boot of Military oppression !
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"They always ask you to die for your country, but that's some nice emotional BS, they want you to kill "enemies" indiscriminately, dieing just happens to be glorified side effect. "
Glowjack your a troll insinuating that Military Persons are nothing but mindless indicrimante killers Ill have you know I have never killed anyone who wasnt trying to kill me nor have any of my troops. By he way the avg pre-deployment training cycle can last up to 16 monhs for some specialties. Even the avg Infantryman in the US Army recieves 18 weeks of training before he graduates to a operational unit were he can expect to train an additional 6-9 months training to deploy. And by the way NO ONE has been given the choice of jail or Army for 30 years you have to get a special waiver for a Cat4(felony conviction) which are rarely granted.
In the future do not disparage the men and women who defend your very right to post such drivel
nuff said
"They always ask you to die for your country, but that's some nice emotional BS, they want you to kill "enemies" indiscriminately, dieing just happens to be glorified side effect. "
Glowjack your a troll insinuating that Military Persons are nothing but mindless indicrimante killers Ill have you know I have never killed anyone who wasnt trying to kill me nor have any of my troops. By he way the avg pre-deployment training cycle can last up to 16 monhs for some specialties. Even the avg Infantryman in the US Army recieves 18 weeks of training before he graduates to a operational unit were he can expect to train an additional 6-9 months training to deploy. And by the way NO ONE has been given the choice of jail or Army for 30 years you have to get a special waiver for a Cat4(felony conviction) which are rarely granted.
In the future do not disparage the men and women who defend your very right to post such drivel
nuff said