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Swept wings lol my buddy used to work on the electronics on them naval air station patuxent river in the early 80's when he was in the navy. That was a bad ass plane. And huge for a fighter.
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08-26-2016, 04:17 PM | #168 |
pie is never free
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08-26-2016, 04:38 PM | #169 |
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08-26-2016, 04:40 PM | #170 |
"Think BOOM!"
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08-26-2016, 04:44 PM | #171 |
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Unique, at the time, and was the first of all "assault rifles."
The Sturmgewehr: "The Germans always build good stuff." |
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08-26-2016, 04:51 PM | #172 |
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Probably already been mentioned, but the "Cherry Blossom" was pretty unique, in a horrible way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_MXY7_Ohka |
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Some of the innovations the Germans had for back then were incredible. The ME-262 the worlds first Jet fighter |
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08-26-2016, 05:29 PM | #175 |
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Another innovation was the US Navy pumping carbon dioxide into their airplane fuel on their carriers during WWII. Thats why the Yorktown survived. the Japanese? not so lucky. No C02 for them.
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08-26-2016, 05:56 PM | #176 |
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Its easy to imagine Allied pilots shitting their pants when first encountering these things... great pic, this late model version on wiki is pretty sweet too, its incredibly sleek looking for that era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262 The managed to down 550+ planes from 1942 to the end... Thank God they didnt have THAT program underway sooner or we would all be speaking German |
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08-26-2016, 08:59 PM | #177 |
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Misericorde dagger. A long thin dagger used to euthanize people who were too wounded to survive but whose wounds were not immediately fatal giving them a quick death instead of a lingering one. The name comes from the latin for 'act of mercy' and was used extensively in the Middle Ages and into the 17th century. The mercy kill was usually done by thrusting down between the neck and collarbone and piercing the heart. Another was was to thrust through visor into the eye socket and brain. These daggers could also be used in close hand to hand combat. |
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