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https://youtu.be/abtqOEAIhiE "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | ||
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Not really from Vienna |
Vodka, maybe. | |||
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You can only tie the record. | |||
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Well first off, the moron filming should be beat within an inch of death for filming in gd portrait mode. F-ing IDIOT!!  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Cut him some slack, he didn't drop his phone right before the critical moment! | |||
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They're after my Lucky Charms! |
A few months ago there was an article saying the Ka-52 wasn't living up to it's promises in Ukraine. Looks good on paper. Looks better then a Ukrainian MANPAD pops it out of the sky. Lord, your ocean is so very large and my divos are so very f****d-up Dirt Sailors Unite! | |||
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Unfortunately the Ka-52 is the most numerous shot-down airframe to-date, I think like much of this war, the crux is how it's used. If this war has taught people anythign (aside from having to re-evaluate how intelligence wonks compile their findings), any offensive on the modern battlefield needs to be a combined arms effort. Even in '03, the US attack on an Iraqi division in Karbala was a helicopter attack that didn't go as planned, forcing a change in how attack helicopters are to be used as a stand-alone strike platform in medium/high threat environments. | |||
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How do those rotors work? One spinning one direction, and one spending the other direction? I think I read Igor Sikorsky worked with that type of design early on, but abandoned it because it was too unstable or something? I guess the Russkies got it to work. | |||
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From Wiki, on the Ka-50
More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...a-52_%22Alligator%22 The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Tenacious Tempestuous with Integrity |
I'm no pilot, but it sure looked like that hotshot almost put that chopper in the drink !! | |||
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| In search of baseball, strippers, and guns |
The fear of stinger or starstreak be real, yo —————————————————— If the meek will inherit the earth, what will happen to us tigers? | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
Back in the late 80's, when Starstreak was on trials at RAF Benbecula ranges in the Outer Hebrides, the RAF Regiment gunners carrying out the trial used to shoot down seagulls at 3 miles. When they got really bored, they got one of the range guard protection vessels to put up a few 40mm Bofors rounds into the air - then they shot THEM down, too. Remember that SS is a pretty clever piece of kit - it's actually not one, but THREE closely-spaced missiles moving faster than just about anything you can imagine. After launch, a STARStreak missile quickly accelerates to Mach 4 — roughly 3,000 mph. It is the fastest surface-to-air missile ever made. The technology on these weapons goes even further, with the missile launcher controlling the three submunitions that follow three laser beams. | |||
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Wait, what? |
The KA-50 and KA-52 are also the only helicopters to employ ejection seats. Explosive bolts blow the rotors free, then the seats fire like conventional ejection systems. Fast forward 1:30 for an idea how it works. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MgXaKGd6U “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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^ Down the rabbit hole & some interesting reading The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
Hopefully the rotors go first and not the seat, that could get really messy  | |||
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