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  1. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    The Six O'Clock News was a standard in the US from the late '50s. Walter Cronkite was "the most trusted man in America", which fucked things up badly when Tet went down.
     
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    LBJ supposedly said “If I’ve lost Walter Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.”
     
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    Yeah, but Cronkite completely misread TET. It wasn't a VC success, there was not a "whole new war". TET was intended to destroy the independent VC groups so the NVA could control the war. Giap had few plans beyond that. I think he didn't anticipate the success his plan had when it went down.
     
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    US Navy drone

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    Droning on and on and on....
     
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    To tell the truth, I never looked one up so this is the first that I saw one.
     
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    Fewer dead pilots. That's a good thing. They're using drones to drop bombs with pinpoint accuracy in the Russo-Ukrainian shit fest. "A little bird" told me that drones have flown in the windows of truck cabs and detonated. That's some shit, man.
     
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    True story, the net has a number of drone through window videos…even whilst the vehicle is moving. Drones not only keep service people alive, they are cheaper, cheaper platform & no training of pilots (remember also Battle of Britain where they had the aircraft but were running out of pilots). Ultimately their value will come with reaction times once autonomous with AI instead of human operators.
    I see a lot of small drones dropping ordnance on people below, many aware of the drone and either just stare at it or try to run away…I think auto shot guns should be given to the men on piquet with specialised shells. Just a thought. Men have been shooting moving birds for a couple of centuries…We are scarily good at it. Just pretend it’s a pheasant! Or a goose here in the NT.

    Just as an aside I’ve been seeing a few videos of American Bradley’s chopping up Russian vehicles…Using nothing but a 25mm Canon…Those fuckers are just relentless…


    There were a number of WW2 vehicles on both sides that used this method too didnt they? High velocity small rounds…Death of a thousand cuts.
    Reminds me of wolves attacking a bear…
     
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    Those little green arrows are indications of travel. All things considered.
     
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    Is the propeller to arm the bomb?
     
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    Could be directional fins or an aerodynamic nose, like the bow of a ship.
     
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    I guess the green arrows are for,Well, no pilot to give a thumbs and salute. Green means go! Probably controlled by the remote pilot to let deck crew know his panel is reading ready to go.
     
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    Good call..didn’t think of that.
    My mind went to facetious land…This way up & Point this way…Hey, it’s a weird shape!
     
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    I'll buy that. Steerable is a thing these days.
     
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    Just as likely to be a fuel tank…
     
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    If so, what are the fins for?
     
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    Aerodynamic stabilisation…maybe. The tank could cause an aerodynamic disturbance either in straight flight or turning. I would have thought that would have been fixed in the design stage though. What would a naval aircraft do with a bomb that big? I suppose launch against ground targets onshore? Could it be a big anti ship bomb?
     
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    upload_2024-2-7_20-2-35.jpeg
     
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    Big enough to be a I'll-damn-well-blow-up-what-I-want-to-blow-up bomb.
     
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    Sink the Bismarck!

    Great movie
     
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