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AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#14026: Mar 7th 2016 at 7:14:36 AM

Sounds like an off-brand Old Spice scent.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#14029: Mar 9th 2016 at 9:33:36 PM

Have a kind of silly idea for a series of fiction stories centering on the Civil Air Patrol. Ranging from farcical stuff like a couple of CAP Coastal Patrol airmen boarding a German sub and causing all kinds of hilarity, protecting merchantmen from sea monsters or Border Patrol pilots dealing with strange supernatural mysteries in the American southwest.

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#14030: Mar 13th 2016 at 3:31:39 AM

@ Arsenal Plane: From 1989.

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#14032: Mar 14th 2016 at 7:57:39 PM

I get the feeling that some Russian news station has no idea that this isn't a big deal and wrote the report on it.

Much like our news stations do.

Oh really when?
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#14033: Mar 14th 2016 at 8:05:03 PM

"And we inwented it first, Comrades!"

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#14034: Mar 14th 2016 at 8:30:11 PM

I like the article pointing out that once the bomb is released any errors or changes made at moment of release translates to less accuracy groundside and takes a swipe at Russia for bombing hospitals. It also points out the actual smart bomb can correct itself post release.

Oh Russia reinventing the wheel for Mother Russia.

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#14035: Mar 14th 2016 at 8:37:36 PM

The thing I don't get is this.

The Russians have their own JDAMs and guided munitions just as accurate as ours. Why write an article about a bombing computer?

This really just makes it feel more like some independent news source being stupid than any sort of actual posturing.

edited 14th Mar '16 8:39:57 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#14037: Mar 15th 2016 at 6:45:26 PM

Haven't US bombers had bombing computers since like 1939? They were so accurate, USAAF bombers could hit the correct country 99.9% of the time.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#14038: Mar 15th 2016 at 11:28:49 PM

Not even that good, sadly. There were times they tried bombing targets in France but hit Belgium, apparently.

AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#14039: Mar 16th 2016 at 5:38:17 AM

I said 99.9% of the time.

There was one incident where we accidentally bombed Switzerland.

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#14040: Mar 16th 2016 at 9:43:45 AM

And wasn't there one incident where the USAAF killed a US Army General? surprised

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#14041: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:31:47 PM

Try several. There was one (at least) American division in Normandy that got so fed up with being bombed by the Eighth Airforce on a regular basis that its commanding general promised not only to give orders to shoot any of its bombers on sight, but to get his entire divsion back on landing craft to head back to England and exterminate the said Eighth Airforce once they'd crossed back over.

The whole story's in Max Hasting's book on the Normandy Campaign, "Overlord", which I heartily recommend, even though some of the information in the book's been overtaken by subsequent declassifications.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
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#14042: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:24:20 PM

But on the bright side, they can hit the ground 100% of the time.

Usually with bombs, but sometimes with the entire plane.

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#14043: Mar 16th 2016 at 2:20:15 PM

[up] Nope, still 99.9%.

There were multiple times where they hit another airplane with there bombs instead.

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#14044: Mar 16th 2016 at 3:55:21 PM

Lol. Or the occasional water strike. TALLY HO DUCK POND!

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AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#14045: Mar 16th 2016 at 10:07:53 PM

Sometimes they'd hit ships and submarines too.

AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#14047: Mar 16th 2016 at 10:22:28 PM

Though even American civilian aircraft occasionally managed to hit German ships with bombs or depth chargesnote , so it's not like it's that much of an accomplishment. You couldn't go snorkeling in Atlantic City without bumping into a U-Boat in 1942.

edited 16th Mar '16 10:22:55 PM by AFP

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#14048: Mar 16th 2016 at 11:17:35 PM

Something I have been trying to dig up for a little while now because mini-munitions keep coming up Conversion kit for mortar shells to turn them into guided free fall bombs.

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#14049: Mar 17th 2016 at 1:19:40 PM

Looks like the OV-10 has been back in a small way...

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