Posted on 10/08/2021 7:52:36 AM PDT by Onthebrink
BULL SHIITE!
“Loved that game”
Particularly the box cover where the father and son are playing and the mother and daughter are washing dishes in the background. All four are white. You won’t see a box cover like that in your lifetime. LOL.
“These days it looks like flying Tic-Tacs will render our current military obsolete.”
The Tic tacs are ours. The craft Locheed “leaked” out the other day was 25-30 year old technology
True, certainly not the planes in 1920.
I have no criticism of the big MO being used for the surrender ceremonies. But honestly, and sincerely without bias, Enterprise should have been the site of the ceremonies. And frankly, I think a Marine General should have been in charge of the signing, not Macarthur.
I don't watch much TV - mainly college football - but all commercials now are mostly all Black or bi-racial couples.
Sooner or later some genius is going to start a SpaceForce and move our capabilities to the modern era.
BS.
Billy Mitchell was flying against an anchored BB, that wasn’t shooting back, using level bombing techniques. It was as close to shooting fish in a barrel as you could possible get. In WW2 level bombing proved to be all but useless against maneuvering ships.
What General Mitchell proved was that bombers could deliver enough of a payload to damage a BB. That’s about it.
If they showed any hint of Americanism they were removed during the Obama years. If they developed any under Trump they are being removed NOW.
“The craft Locheed “leaked” out the other day was 25-30 year old technology”
It is funny how technology moves these days. When I was a kid in the 80s I built a P-51 model. Now days the B-2 bomber’s technology is about as old as the P-51 was then.
In WWII during the D-Day invasion, a German Panzer unit was waiting for orders to advance. The German commander knew the range of the shells of the battleship participating in the invasion. I think the battleship was the USS Texas. So he parked his tanks just out of range. The Captain of the Texas ordered the ballast tanks flooded to give him a 3 degree list, thus giving him a little more elevation. In short order, the Panzer unit was obliterated.
Based on commercials you would think half the population is black and the rest all other races. Also where they have multiple couples on one commercial, more time and prominence is placed on the mixed and black couples.
Misleading. Mitchell’s tests were rigged by himself-—he carried more “bombs” than allowed, the ships were stationary, there was no opposing air cover, and no antiaircraft fire.
Moreover, Mitchell thought he proved that ships were sinkable by LAND-BASED air, which proved completely wrong in WW II. The land-based bombers at Midway did not score a single hit on any Japanese ship.
Land-based Japanese planes in Guadalcanal and subsequent Pac Islands campaigns did a little better, but only when armed with torpedoes-—hardly what Mitchell had in mind.
The US Navy didn't address adequate AA protection on ships seriously until after the battle of Midway. The 1.1 inch, 3 inch and .50 cal close in AA of the era was not adequate.
Addition of 20mm, multiple barrel 40mm mounts and particularly the proximity fused 5 inch projectiles were gamechangers. They were not in play until early 1943.
It’s all light equipment they’ve already bought somewhere.
The only thing sensitive were the IR and night vision equipment and that’s not exactly secret, just hard and expensive to manufacture.
The A-29 Super Tucano (an aircraft with which I am intimately familiar) is an amazing plane with fantastic Israeli ground targeting equipment— that all self-destructed remotely from the press of a button in Tel-Aviv.
Odd how the Posleen didn’t figure out how to use sound to locate the big guns that were devastating their troops.
The new 5" 38 naval gun (early 1940s), when fitted on the the newer BBs was a formidable AA weapon. It featured 55 pound RP fused projectiles, so "close" was often good enough.
My battle station (1961-1964) was loader in #2 mount. Never fired a shot in anger though. My "war" was the Cuban missile Crisis. We evacuated military dependents and civvy contractors from GTMO.
Reagan inherited a navy of worn out cruisers and other ships. Instead of replacing them he re-upped the battle wagons sitting gathering dust.
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