Planes
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@Machpants said in Planes:
@Snowy They delivered a couple of Tornados to the Falklands whilst I was there, very impressive!
In the 225? I have just learned that they did only build one of them and it was to launch the Russian space shuttle thing like NASA used to do with a 747.
No I think it was the 124
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Gotta love the Soviet cockpit (and tank etc) internal colour scheme, everything is this colour
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Gotta love the Soviet cockpit (and tank etc) internal colour scheme, everything is this colour
Haha. Love it. Assume it was supposed to be - calming, or something? Or they just bought baby blue in bulk for a good price., bright red might have been more appropriate - angry Russians going to war.
The two little black bits (at the front) for people who are actually driving the thing and are supposed to see out of...nice design. It is actually is a bit tank like.
The other four people that were in control of the circuit breakers (and probably vodka) seem to have a nice job. Read a book, listen to some music, comfy chair.
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Gotta love the Soviet cockpit (and tank etc) internal colour scheme, everything is this colour
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Polet_Antonov_An-124_cockpit_Pashnin.jpgRandom useless fact , Russians consider light blue and dark blue to be different colours and don’t have a word for blue in their language
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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@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
