OT: I ain't heard no fat lady singin'

Sarge. I did not know it worked both ways. I'm sure you've heard of the reactive armor as well? I think Russian and US tanks can be equipped with it, and it is good against anti-tank missiles that use a shaped charge to penetrate armor. Blows the missile up just before it actually gets to the tank...or at least oblates the shape of the charge.

Keith
 
Sounds like a beautiful place. Too bad you have to watch your backside while enjoying it, but it must be a real adventure nonetheless.

It just dumped the first good white batch up here at the Arctic circle, and the full moon is shining through the clouds now that the weather has calmed. Today, the sun will rise on a white world for the first time since spring!
 
but it must be a real adventure nonetheless
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It is Geezer, but after 23 years of "adventures" I'm almost ready to start my next life as a civilian. Do I regret coming over? Not as much as I would've regretted staying behind.

Sarge
 
Originally posted by QM3SS
The A10 is the A10. It's called the Thunderbolt II because most politico's believe that Warthog or Hawg isn't a very nice name to be using on the nightly news. The P47 back in WW2 was the original Thunderbolt and was, for its day, just as tough and mean as todays T-bolt. It was heavily armored, moderately fast, and a very capable fighter-bomber (8 - .50 cals tend to make any aircraft mean). But that's enough of my ramblings. Keep it up out there Syl and come home safe.
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Thanks QM3SS! You said just what I would have. Two of my favorite aircraft.

Sarge,
Thank you (and everyone with you) for all your service and sacrifice.
When you get back I 'm going to have to ask you about building a bow. It's something on my "Wanna Do" list.
Keep safe.
BTW, 800 years seems just about right...

-SB
 
The body of a 23 year old in me has turned to a jelly, similar to decomposing organic substances in a swamp. In another million years I'll have oil.

munk
 
Originally posted by munk
The body of a 23 year old in me has turned to a jelly, similar to decomposing organic substances in a swamp. In another million years I'll have oil.

munk
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Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!:D
 
That I wouldn't just up and die if I had access to the body of a twenty-three year old. They're all blond, skinny, and seem to sell Pepsi all the time.

Now, Ann-Margret or Andrianne Barbeaux...sighs...


I gotta go.


Kis
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Regarding Depleted Uranium:

It's got a pretty high density (18.06 grams per cubic centimeter - compare with lead at 11.34 g/cc) which makes it good for bullets and armor and the like.

Even better, it's CHEAP. Lots and lots of effort was put into making weapons-grade uranium during the cold war. To make weapons grade material, you take a whole lot of uranium, then go to lots of trouble to seperate out the U235, which is less than one percent (.718%) of naturally occuring uranium. U235 is the stuff that makes the big boom. What's left is mostly U238, and useless for bombs. So after making a huge pile of atomic weapons, something had to be done with the even huger pile of "worthless" uranium. The result was DU ammunition - the DU is both radioactive and chemically toxic, which is why you can't go bear hunting with it - just tank hunting.

Addendum:

As I understand it (according to Tom Clancy's Tank book), tungsten is also used in anti-tank munitions. Tungsten has a slightly higher density than depleted uranium, so theoretically should be better for that purpose. So I guess it's a cost issue. When a uranium sabot hits a tank, the uranium powders and ignites from the friction of penetrating armor. Uranium should react a lot like aluminum - think thermite - so the inside of the tank gets showered with white-hot metal sparks. Not too comfortable for the crew.

U238 isn't completely useless for bombs - you can make plutonium out of it fairly easily. If I remember correctly, the first atomic bomb test, and one of the bombs dropped on Japan were plutonium-based.
 
When you're over 40 the problem with 20 year old women is that many of them can talk.



When yet another hollywood actor throws off his first or second wife and brings in the new recruit of age 23, you remind yourself that this is the same group lecturing on morals, feelings, and politics. Since they're all about 'honesty' and getting in touch, and 'really deep stuff", you wonder what was they were in deep with during their first marriages.
Oh.

Of course autumn/spring love is possible. For a few, when the timing and situation is right.

In Hollywood the situation is always right.

munk
 
Yeah, you lucky dog...for a few. All's you had to do was change your life, fly across the globe and submerge yourself into another world.


Anyway, with apologies to the audience (?) there are young women who have something to say.


munk
 
Hi folks,
I lived in Lincolnshire (England) about 17 years ago, and the local American airbase had Al0s flying about.
The pilots used to take great pleasure in flying very low (hedge hopping!) following cars along the roads (imagining spraying them with bullets no doubt). They even followed me once on my pushbike, but I was too easy a target I think.
Another high point of living there was when the A10s live fired on the mudflats. If I heard a sound like a loud fart in a dustbin, and it wasn't me, I would rush down the road and watch that monstrous gun letting rip, superb!
I miss the A10s now they are gone from my life....but I bet the terrorists hate 'em!

Jeff.
 
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