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    Machpants
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    Pilot and co, Nav on left (note radar), the other three one would be engineer, the other two loadies, I guess

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    I really wasn't serious.

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    @Machpants said in Planes:

    Gotta love the Soviet cockpit (and tank etc) internal colour scheme, everything is this colour

    9513e300-ca61-4428-9946-67fc53d65d48-image.jpeg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Polet_Antonov_An-124_cockpit_Pashnin.jpg

    Random useless fact , Russians consider light blue and dark blue to be different colours and don’t have a word for blue in their language

    #author.fullName}  /  News

    Russian speakers get the blues

    Russian speakers get the blues

    Subjects had to pick which one of the two bottom squares matched the colour of the top square. (Credit: Winawer et al./PNAS) The language you speak can affect how you see the world, a new study of colour perception indicates. Native speakers of Russian – which lacks a single word for "blue" –...

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    Snowy
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    @jegga How TF did you know that?

    Fortunately I have never been in a "goluboy" cockpit which has all sorts of other connotations that are best not discussed.

    Cue"sure you haven't" comment, and GFY in advance.

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    jegga
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    @Snowy said in Planes:

    @jegga **How TF did you know that?
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    Fortunately I have never been in a "goluboy" cockpit which has all sorts of other connotations that are best not discussed.

    Cue"sure you haven't" comment, and GFY in advance.

    No idea , its pretty useless information though.

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    Snowy
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    @jegga said in Planes:

    No idea , its pretty useless information though.

    Not if you are a Soviet interior designer, otherwise yes.

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    jegga
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    @jegga I’d have it!

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    @Snowy said in Planes:

    @jegga I’d have it!

    https://www.smithjournal.com.au/blogs/history/2723-the-diy-spitfire-repairman

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    Machpants
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    Yeah there was an F3 fuselage for sale, would have loved that! I've got the room!

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    jegga
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    @Machpants these guys do a 90% scale model you power with a v8

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    Ben Branch  /  Feb 9, 2020

    Documentary: Building The Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine

    Documentary: Building The Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine

    This documentary gives the best look we've ever seen into the process of building a Rolls-Royce Merlin V12. It shows the early design and testing phases

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    Tyler Rogoway  /  Feb 10, 2020

    Help Us Decipher This Terrifying Video Of A Suicide Drone Flying Up An Armored Vehicle's Ramp (Updated)

    Help Us Decipher This Terrifying Video Of A Suicide Drone Flying Up An Armored Vehicle's Ramp (Updated)

    The dramatic video may serve as yet another warning of America's glaring short-range air defense gap and the threat that low-end enemy drones pose.

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    Machpants
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    Yeah it was road side IEDs, but drone attacks, which can be based on AI and mass, are a real future/current async warfare threat. SO cheap, launch a few hundred/thousand and enough will get through to cause damage

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    @Machpants said in Planes:

    Yeah it was road side IEDs, but drone attacks, which can be based on AI and mass, are a real future/current async warfare threat. SO cheap, launch a few hundred/thousand and enough will get through to cause damage

    They could probably have a really simple cheap explosive too. Something like the yanks rigged up to drop from helicopters in Vietnam, a grenade in a mason jar. As soon as the jar hits the ground the jar breaks and the pin is pulled .
    Ai guided anti drone drones are probably next , hopefully they have cameras so their dogfights can be uploaded to YouTube

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    @jegga said in Planes:

    Tyler Rogoway  /  Feb 10, 2020

    Help Us Decipher This Terrifying Video Of A Suicide Drone Flying Up An Armored Vehicle's Ramp (Updated)

    Help Us Decipher This Terrifying Video Of A Suicide Drone Flying Up An Armored Vehicle's Ramp (Updated)

    The dramatic video may serve as yet another warning of America's glaring short-range air defense gap and the threat that low-end enemy drones pose.

    That's low level success rate. But drones firing shaped charges would be a nightmare. Cheap, almost undetectable.

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    @antipodean said in Planes:

    @jegga said in Planes:

    Tyler Rogoway  /  Feb 10, 2020

    Help Us Decipher This Terrifying Video Of A Suicide Drone Flying Up An Armored Vehicle's Ramp (Updated)

    Help Us Decipher This Terrifying Video Of A Suicide Drone Flying Up An Armored Vehicle's Ramp (Updated)

    The dramatic video may serve as yet another warning of America's glaring short-range air defense gap and the threat that low-end enemy drones pose.

    That's low level success rate. But drones firing shaped charges would be a nightmare. Cheap, almost undetectable.

    Psychological effect would be huge though

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    Paekakboyz
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    A whole new level of VTOL!

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