There are two. One is red and brown. The other is creme and an off-yellow.
Neither of them are within the perimeter of Stirling Lines.
But what is on the clock tower?
Just 'sayin.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Maggie’s Military Jeopardy
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There are two. One is red and brown. The other is creme and an off-yellow.
Neither of them are within the perimeter of Stirling Lines.
But what is on the clock tower?
Just 'sayin.
Cheers,
Sirhr
I'm sure that's true, but not the famous quote:
"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3"
Attributed to an SR-71 crew
That's true for a bada$$ grunt, but remember we're flying here.
It's another SR-71 quote:
"Yea though I fly through the Valley of the Shadow Of Death, I will fear no evil, for I am 80,000 feet and climbing."
No Blackbird was ever shot down despite constant SAM launches against them. They were just too high and too fast to touch. By the time a missle reached up to where they were when it was launched, the Blackbird was in another Time Zone by then.
It's another SR-71 quote:
"Yea though I fly through the Valley of the Shadow Of Death, I will fear no evil, for I am 80,000 feet and climbing."
No Blackbird was ever shot down despite constant SAM launches against them. They were just too high and too fast to touch. By the time a missle reached up to where they were when it was launched, the Blackbird was in another Time Zone by then.
pretty sure a blackbird was shot down over cuba during the missle crisis and the pilot was killed..........
Nope. Never happened.
https://theaviationist.com/2013/12/04/sr-71-speed-enemy/
I think you're thinking of Gary Powers, who was shot down in a U-2 over Cuba. He survived.
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I thought Powers an his U-2 was shot down over Russia, an the one in Cuba was just a Fighter equipped for a Photo/Recon run?
Add,..... I was but 13 when Powers was shot down but in 1978 a X girl friend of his (Norma Hilton) taught me a few things about shotgun shooting. I took heed as she was a past Olympic coach as well as eye candy.
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There were U2's shot 'at' over Cuba. But the SR-71 did not even exist until the Johnson administration. I believe that there were also some 'standard' fighters set up as reconnaissance aircraft that were either hit or shot down during the missile crisis. But no SR-71 was ever touched by enemy fire. Its operational record is as perfect as one could hope.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Cheers,
Sirhr
Well I was wrong again it was a U-2 that was shot down, but I distinctly remember a fighter running a L/L P/R was also shot down. An for whatever reason recall it to be a 100 series?
http://www.history.com/news/the-cuban-missile-crisis-pilot-whose-death-may-have-saved-millions
http://www.history.com/news/the-cuban-missile-crisis-pilot-whose-death-may-have-saved-millions
ok now you're gonna make me do research..............
http://www.history.com/news/the-cuba...saved-millions
was sure a pilot was killed...just got the U2 and sr71 mixed up.....
http://www.history.com/news/the-cuba...saved-millions
was sure a pilot was killed...just got the U2 and sr71 mixed up.....
btw .....the luckiest city in the world is....................
Kokura japan.
It was the secondary target for the Hiroshima bomb. It was a clear day over Hiroshima so they got a break.
Kokura was the primary target for the second bomb. It was cloudy that morning so the plane make three passes
over the target and decided to move on to the secondary target Nagasaki. Again saved by weather. Almost
annihilated twice!
Kokura japan.
It was the secondary target for the Hiroshima bomb. It was a clear day over Hiroshima so they got a break.
Kokura was the primary target for the second bomb. It was cloudy that morning so the plane make three passes
over the target and decided to move on to the secondary target Nagasaki. Again saved by weather. Almost
annihilated twice!
THANK you, Shootist for clearing that up. Between you, me, and Gunfighter, we each had about 2/3 of our story about U2s getting shot down correct. Put them all together and we finally have something resembling actual history.
I was going to ask you to answer your previous question. I read it and guessed it probably had something to do with the Japanese nuke targets, but had no idea which city, or the details of the story. Cool!
I was going to ask you to answer your previous question. I read it and guessed it probably had something to do with the Japanese nuke targets, but had no idea which city, or the details of the story. Cool!
Alex I'll take tactic items for 1000
your going on ambush it's 0100 hrs, you need to lead everyone in an locate them very quietly w/o night vision, what none issue item do you use?
your going on ambush it's 0100 hrs, you need to lead everyone in an locate them very quietly w/o night vision, what none issue item do you use?
Answer is fishing line,
The best at scouting, map to ground, an kim'ing the topo from the map is sent in after getting his eyes ready*. Then finds the bush site makes his best judgement call for best place for largest weapon an OIC. Ties the fishing line to that spot and strings it to back to the RP, tieing off every so often. Line is used to lead everyone in very quietly. Once there (RP) lays it out for the OIC an ranking NCO under a poncho. While he was gone everyone was assigned a number all odd to the left at main weapon even to the right. Numbers assigned based on issued weapon, once you get to the OIC you are to be 2-3 yds from the last man you past. last to set up are MG's right an left flanks as well as right next to the OIC, once he bangs the largest weapon (normally a claymore) then the other claymores are popped and everyone opens up at once. Done right no one survives, the KZ. Fishing Line is never strung more than 200yds long, with a quality team it can be done with as little as 50 yds.
* eyes ready, poncho doubled over head (keeping eyes wide open) for at lease 10 minutes before needing them, gives you about 10-15 minutes of good night vision.
The best at scouting, map to ground, an kim'ing the topo from the map is sent in after getting his eyes ready*. Then finds the bush site makes his best judgement call for best place for largest weapon an OIC. Ties the fishing line to that spot and strings it to back to the RP, tieing off every so often. Line is used to lead everyone in very quietly. Once there (RP) lays it out for the OIC an ranking NCO under a poncho. While he was gone everyone was assigned a number all odd to the left at main weapon even to the right. Numbers assigned based on issued weapon, once you get to the OIC you are to be 2-3 yds from the last man you past. last to set up are MG's right an left flanks as well as right next to the OIC, once he bangs the largest weapon (normally a claymore) then the other claymores are popped and everyone opens up at once. Done right no one survives, the KZ. Fishing Line is never strung more than 200yds long, with a quality team it can be done with as little as 50 yds.
* eyes ready, poncho doubled over head (keeping eyes wide open) for at lease 10 minutes before needing them, gives you about 10-15 minutes of good night vision.
I think not. Perhaps a U2 --- http://www.history.com/news/the-cuban-missile-crisis-pilot-whose-death-may-have-saved-millions
The Cuban Crisis was in 62, the SR-71 was in service from 64 to 98.
he tried to join the marines but they told him he was too young...........
Alex, I'll take munitions for 600
You unwind the wire as issued, and rewind it in the reverse direction some times?
You unwind the wire as issued, and rewind it in the reverse direction some times?
Alex I'll take MG/s for 300
this 50bmg mg had two rates of fire, one for ground troops an one for aircraft.
this 50bmg mg had two rates of fire, one for ground troops an one for aircraft.
Gunfighter,
Cyclical rate Usually less than say 49 rpm
Sustained 450 - 550rpm
Rates of fire also employed:
single
slow
rapid
cyclic
Plainly referred to as "sustained" & "cyclic."
Cyclical rate Usually less than say 49 rpm
Sustained 450 - 550rpm
Rates of fire also employed:
single
slow
rapid
cyclic
Plainly referred to as "sustained" & "cyclic."
Answer I was looking for was the M85C 50bmg, low rate 400-500 for ground troops an high rate 800-900 for aircraft. Odd thing about that weapon was it had issues running on the low rate but on high, ran like a Swiss watch.
http://modernfirearms.net/machine/usa/m5-tank-machine-gun-e.html
Alex I'll take shoulder weapons for 200
The hole in the safety tang of this weapon was for locking it into a rifle rack.
The hole in the safety tang of this weapon was for locking it into a rifle rack.
What is the M14 rifle or its daddy... the Garand?
Military Small Arms for 300 Alex. Why not just use the trigger guard?
Cheers,
Sirhr
Military Small Arms for 300 Alex. Why not just use the trigger guard?
Cheers,
Sirhr
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What is because that's how you strip it?
Shotguns for $400
This device was used to spread shot wide for jungle warfare and was used in Vietnam.
What is a "duckbill" spreader attachment.
Military Small Arms for 400 Alex.
What was designed to be carried by infantrymen during an assault, advance while supported by the sling over the shoulder, or to be fired from the hip. It used a double-column 20-round box magazine, although 40-round magazines were also used in an anti-aircraft role.
Military Small Arms for 400 Alex.
What was designed to be carried by infantrymen during an assault, advance while supported by the sling over the shoulder, or to be fired from the hip. It used a double-column 20-round box magazine, although 40-round magazines were also used in an anti-aircraft role.
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What is a 22lr conversion kit for the M16 series, (that allows pussy's to train indoors)
Correct enough... but not on navigation. That was done with the Harrison clocks that I visited last weekend.
This was used to create naval gunnery tables that let them manually 'computerize' big guns. Figured out all the flight trajectories. Until radar-assisted guns on big U.S. ships in WW2 (The Missouri and North Carolina among them), gun aiming was by mechanical computer designed using the calculations turned out by the Babbage Engines.
Before that, computers were humans... who computed. Mainly women who ran the same calculation again and again with tiny variable differences. Monotonous work, often with errors. Babbage put it in to brass gears... and turned it into a machine problem.
Among the first computers. If you don't count the Antikythera Mechanism from 2,000 years earlier...
Next up????
Cheers,
Sirhr
This was used to create naval gunnery tables that let them manually 'computerize' big guns. Figured out all the flight trajectories. Until radar-assisted guns on big U.S. ships in WW2 (The Missouri and North Carolina among them), gun aiming was by mechanical computer designed using the calculations turned out by the Babbage Engines.
Before that, computers were humans... who computed. Mainly women who ran the same calculation again and again with tiny variable differences. Monotonous work, often with errors. Babbage put it in to brass gears... and turned it into a machine problem.
Among the first computers. If you don't count the Antikythera Mechanism from 2,000 years earlier...
Next up????
Cheers,
Sirhr
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