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"Indiscriminate anti-personnel weapon/munition/ordinance appreciation"?

Mhhh, I dunno, sounds a bit vague. But You can go with that one, I open the Land-mine simple thread, nowadays the military is selling well, is not gonna be too much competition.

Watch out, Hippy will merge your thread- he hates and fears specific threads, and loves vague general ones.

Also, they are designed to kill 1-2 people at a time- that's crap compared to (for example) a land-mine.

Aren't land mines intended to wound and/or cripple a single person? So as to tie up enemy resources as the poor bastard needs to be hauled from the field with his leg fucked up and screaming his head off?

^^Nope, when he is fearing he stay far, BTW with which thread can be merged the Land-mine?

Aren't land mines intended to wound and/or cripple a single person? So as to tie up enemy resources as the poor bastard needs to be hauled from the field with his leg fucked up and screaming his head off?

I don't really know- not a landmine expert to be honest.

And then it goes on ignore.

I like this approach to the subject

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^ Ekranoplan?

^nice
All time - The Mosquito, my Grandad worked on them so bit of a soft spot. But also pretty awesome engineering, wood composite framework, twin Merlins, fastest plane at the time, so could outrun the fighters. Sadly none flying today.

I loved Mosquitos, but the Airfix one foxed me a bit, I made a bit of a hash of it.

My great uncle died in one of these, somewhere in Lincolnshire.

Piece of shit.
My dad, my nan and I tried to find the site when I was a kid, we had a few clues as to where it was as it was near an airfield (they'd basically made it home, then crashed a bit short) and there was something in the report about whale jaws on a farm. We found a farm called Whale Bone Farm or something like that, but there were high fences, warning signs, big alsations and barbed wire and it looked dodgy as fuck so we left it there.

Ever since reading Going Solo by Roald Dahl I've thought about how amazing it would have been to have been a fighter pilot.

^ Ekranoplan?

Bartini plane that was turned into an ekranoplan. It's a soviet VVA-14.

A B-52 for all your bombing requirements.

how best to measure the "bestness" of military aircraft?.... given their intended purpose, is it the body count?

By the wow! phwoar! and wooo! factor.

nuknow, beat me to it with the Elektroplan!

For a single plane the winner must be the Enola Gay.

P38 - who would not want to fly this? too awesome

good, or you could just go straight to double awesome

This was my favourite as a child

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

^image posted is a double cockpitted training aircraft. could you imagine being trained to fly one drool

good, or you could just go straight to double awesome

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I wouldn't want to share, so unless I can put my bike in the other cockpit i'm not that bothered

^image posted is a double cockpitted training aircraft. could you imagine being trained to fly one drool

Yum. What I would like to imagine is what does it mean 3,529.6 Km/h...(airspeed)
28 July 1976 Capt. Eldon W. Joersz

Gentlemen...

More Elektroplan shizzle:

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james may>>>>>>>>>

1962! It still looks space-age (Bristol 188)