Planes
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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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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 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 -
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:
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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@antipodean who do you think the soldiers are ? Saudis ?
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learnt a new plane related word today: Snarge
The residue smeared on an airplane after a bird/plane collision.
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The DNA test on the snarge showed it was a pigeon.Apparently is military slang and not an official word
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@Machpants possibly, google tells me it was submitted to become an official word in 2012...
is used here too, and references the bird strike
The tale of Snarge | Te Papa’s Blog
During the early development of the DeClassified! exhibition we had a lot of conversations with Te Papa scientists about potential objects and narratives that would do the job of explaining that Te…
