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Dazzle camouflage on a World War 2-era ship.

I wonder what's in the cooler!?

I was hoping this cheery bunch of lads all made it ... sounds like none of them did.

Grim

Niegs wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 8:21 pm Amazing colourization of Tuskegee Airmen, Italy, 1945

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Niegs wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:44 pm I wonder what's in the cooler!?

Someones fast food delivery.

...... they take their; "30 minutes, or your food is free", promise very seriously !!

Holy Shit

How haven't I seen this photo before ?



That's the A-10 cannon; side-by-side with a VW.

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:41 pm Holy Shit

How haven't I seen this photo before ?



That's the A-10 cannon; side-by-side with a VW.

BBBBBBBRRRRRRTTTTTT!

I went down this rabbit-hole after some photos were posted on a FB Group I'm in:



I never watched it, but remember the name back in the day.


https://downthetubes.net/?p=126211&fbcl ... W_xmaGRyDo

Interesting as to why it was never repeated and the story of what inspired it (Of course, it was a Kiwi!)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/958832 ... war-mutiny

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:41 pm Holy Shit

How haven't I seen this photo before ?



That's the A-10 cannon; side-by-side with a VW.

Wow, so really just a flying Gatling cannon with fuselage wings and a cockpit tacked on.

mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:53 am

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:41 pm Holy Shit

How haven't I seen this photo before ?



That's the A-10 cannon; side-by-side with a VW.

BBBBBBBRRRRRRTTTTTT!

With a puff of smoke, but what sound does the gun make?

Hong Kong wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:30 am Grim

What? Where?
Babi Yar?

Uncle fester wrote: Fri Apr 16, 2021 8:05 pm

Hong Kong wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:30 am Grim

What? Where?
Babi Yar?

I believe it was German soldiers looking over ruskies they had just slaughtered

Hong Kong wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:02 am

Uncle fester wrote: Fri Apr 16, 2021 8:05 pm

Hong Kong wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:30 am Grim

What? Where?
Babi Yar?

I believe it was German soldiers looking over ruskies they had just slaughtered

No, it's Katyn.

The NKVD killed several thousand Polish officers, intelligentsia, etc.

The Germans tried to use it as a diplomatic coup against the West, to try and get them to stop supplying the USSR with weapons. They invited the Red Cross and other international observers to the site. Stalin denied it of course, and everyone knew they did it but the Brits and Americans had no choice but to ignore it.

Not a picture (but does contain lots of military video), but here's a song from late USSR period. It's called "Don't tell mom I'm in Afghanistan" - this refers to young conscripts telling their moms they were on a normal duty, because Afghanistan was the most dangerous place to be and they didn't want their mother to worry.

Niegs wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 2:52 pm

Is that Vietnam, or a good colourization effort ?

fishfoodie wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:20 pm

Niegs wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 2:52 pm

Is that Vietnam, or a good colourization effort ?

Colourised WW2.

Members of A Company, 2/12th Battalion who helped silence a Japanese mountain gun on Mount Prothero.

From left to right, members of B Company; NX86190 A 'Skinny' McQueen; NX111498 A Ron Lord; VX70488 A Eric Willey; QX18277 Alan F Hackett.

The Battle of the Shaggy Ridge was part of the Finisterre Range campaign, consisting of a number of actions fought by Australian and Japanese troops in Papua New Guinea in World War II.

That campaign in Papua New Guinea was horrible. Well worth reading up on.

Lemoentjie wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:25 am Not a picture (but does contain lots of military video), but here's a song from late USSR period. It's called "Don't tell mom I'm in Afghanistan" - this refers to young conscripts telling their moms they were on a normal duty, because Afghanistan was the most dangerous place to be and they didn't want their mother to worry.

I read a superb book on the Russians in Afghanistan called Afgansty just before Christmas - mentions this phenomenon a few times. Highly recommended.

Thank you. I will see if I can buy a copy of it.

Soviet soldiers rolling into Afghanistan:

Lemoentjie wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:57 am Thank you. I will see if I can buy a copy of it.

Soviet soldiers rolling into Afghanistan:

Me too

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:41 pm Holy Shit

How haven't I seen this photo before ?



That's the A-10 cannon; side-by-side with a VW.

Very old pic but shows why a bit of Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt was so scary.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:22 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:41 pm Holy Shit

How haven't I seen this photo before ?



That's the A-10 cannon; side-by-side with a VW.

Very old pic but shows why a bit of Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt was so scary.

Every time I hear about how the fly boys were dead set on getting the A-10 cancelled, I get angrier & angrier.

There are probably thousands of soldiers & marines alive today because of the A-10; & the idea the F35, or any other fucking fighter, is going to come remotely close to useful, as a Close-Air-Support platform; is so cretinous, as to be frankly insulting, to this generation of soldiers & marines.

All an F35 will do in CAS, is kill friendlies.

Someone in the comments says he flings up a Naxi salute just before this clip starts. Air Commodore Darvall having none of it.

Nice. Saw this colourised snippet on the same twitter account the other month of Guy Gibson



Easy to forget how young some of these lads were.

Jock42 wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:53 pm Someone in the comments says he flings up a Naxi salute just before this clip starts. Air Commodore Darvall having none of it.

i think there's a before clip in existence showing exactly that
pathe news clip iirc? surprised it's not in the replies

it is. slightly before 3 mins in this

fishfoodie wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:36 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:22 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:41 pm Holy Shit

How haven't I seen this photo before ?



That's the A-10 cannon; side-by-side with a VW.

Very old pic but shows why a bit of Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt was so scary.

Every time I hear about how the fly boys were dead set on getting the A-10 cancelled, I get angrier & angrier.

There are probably thousands of soldiers & marines alive today because of the A-10; & the idea the F35, or any other fucking fighter, is going to come remotely close to useful, as a Close-Air-Support platform; is so cretinous, as to be frankly insulting, to this generation of soldiers & marines.

All an F35 will do in CAS, is kill friendlies.

Agree. One of the most f**kwitted decisions in a long history of f**kwitted military decisions. A quite extraordinary weapons platform.

Just watching a PBS Documentary I recorded, called "The Codebreaker", about Elizebeth Smith Friedman; remarkable woman.

The Mob put a contract out on her during prohibition, as she was the expert who cracked Capones coded messages; & she was the critical witness

This is a photo of the 1st group of recuits, she & her husband trained in breaking encrypted messages. They encoded a message in the photo; can you even tell what the method is ?, never mind read the message

At a quick glance I'd say the way they're looking?

fishfoodie wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:33 pm Just watching a PBS Documentary I recorded, called "The Codebreaker", about Elizebeth Smith Friedman; remarkable woman.

The Mob put a contract out on her during prohibition, as she was the expert who cracked Capones coded messages; & she was the critical witness

This is a photo of the 1st group of recuits, she & her husband trained in breaking encrypted messages. They encoded a message in the photo; can you even tell what the method is ?, never mind read the message

I find the message easier = no matter how many times you tell the team that we're taking the photo with our hands behind our backs there's always some doppy contrarian twat that doesn't do it.

Flockwitt wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:52 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:33 pm Just watching a PBS Documentary I recorded, called "The Codebreaker", about Elizebeth Smith Friedman; remarkable woman.

The Mob put a contract out on her during prohibition, as she was the expert who cracked Capones coded messages; & she was the critical witness

This is a photo of the 1st group of recuits, she & her husband trained in breaking encrypted messages. They encoded a message in the photo; can you even tell what the method is ?, never mind read the message

I find the message easier = no matter how many times you tell the team that we're taking the photo with our hands behind our backs there's always some doppy contrarian twat that doesn't do it.

You're close !

Do you notice how they're split into looking straight at the camera, & gazing off to one side or the other ?

Jock42 wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:49 pm At a quick glance I'd say the way they're looking?

correctomondo !

William and Elizebeth Smith Friedman met in a very odd effort, by a millionaire to prove that Francis Bacon was the actual writer of the works attributed to Shakespeare.

The effort was to see if there was a hidden message; using Bacons own encryption method; in a Shakespeare first folio.

In the Picture; they used the Bacon encryption, to hide the message; "Knowledge is Power"

Bacon's encryption, is a simple 5-Digit binary system

Decimal Binary Letter
0 00000 A
1 00001 B
2 00010 C
3 00011 D
...

I would never have broken the actual code.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:10 am

fishfoodie wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:36 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:22 pm

Very old pic but shows why a bit of Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt was so scary.

Every time I hear about how the fly boys were dead set on getting the A-10 cancelled, I get angrier & angrier.

There are probably thousands of soldiers & marines alive today because of the A-10; & the idea the F35, or any other fucking fighter, is going to come remotely close to useful, as a Close-Air-Support platform; is so cretinous, as to be frankly insulting, to this generation of soldiers & marines.

All an F35 will do in CAS, is kill friendlies.

Agree. One of the most f**kwitted decisions in a long history of f**kwitted military decisions. A quite extraordinary weapons platform.

The A10 is toast against any modern adversary though. Roughly handled by the better equipped Iraq formations in DS.

F35 with standoff/loiter munitions actually stands a chance in a peer war.