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[jegga]

[Snowy]

@jegga I’d have it!

[jegga]

@Snowy said in Planes:

@jegga I’d have it!

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

[Machpants]

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

[jegga]

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

[jegga]

Ben Branch  /  Feb 9, 2020

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

[jegga]

Tyler Rogoway  /  Feb 10, 2020  /  Armored Vehicles

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.

[Machpants]

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

[jegga]

@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

[antipodean]

@jegga said in Planes:

Tyler Rogoway  /  Feb 10, 2020  /  Armored Vehicles

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.

[jegga]

@antipodean said in Planes:

@jegga said in Planes:

Tyler Rogoway  /  Feb 10, 2020  /  Armored Vehicles

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

[Paekakboyz]

A whole new level of VTOL!

[jegga]

@antipodean who do you think the soldiers are ? Saudis ?

[Nevorian]

[Machpants]

@Paekakboyz said in Planes:

A whole new level of VTOL!

Not really

[Snowy]

@Nevorian said in Planes:

And another valuable load of, ah, "bananas" leaves South America. Didn't appear to have any reg markings, either. I'm sure they just forgot.

None of any of that is suspicious at all.

[Bovidae]

@Snowy said in Planes:

And another valuable load of, ah, "bananas" leaves South America. Didn't appear to have any reg markings, either. I'm sure they just forgot.

None of any of that is suspicious at all.

The first thing I thought of too. Off to the USA I'm sure.

[Snowy]

@Bovidae More than likely, but hard to know for sure, as I really doubt that he filed a flight plan.

[taniwharugby]

learnt a new plane related word today: Snarge

The residue smeared on an airplane after a bird/plane collision.
Additional Information
The DNA test on the snarge showed it was a pigeon.

Apparently is military slang and not an official word

[Machpants]

Not heard that one before, yank slang maybe?