Taliban shoots down Chinook helicopter, killing 31 US soldiers

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Ideologue

#15
August 07, 2011, 07:09:32 AM
I don't think a proximity fuse would be a difficult thing to put into an RPG round.
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CountDeMoney

#16
August 07, 2011, 09:36:51 AM
From what I saw on the news, apparently the Chinook was very low on the deck.  Big target.

It's tragic, and it sucks that it was SEALS, as that is a severe operational loss in so many ways, but I don't see why everyone's so shocked that it could possibly happen. 

Hell, we lost over 150 Chinooks in Vietnam, many the same way.  RPG hit while on the deck. 

Oh yeah, and it's a fucking war.

HVC

#17
August 07, 2011, 09:53:10 AM
Gotta fill up the news somehow.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

grumbler

#18
August 07, 2011, 09:58:21 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 07:09:32 AM
I don't think a proximity fuse would be a difficult thing to put into an RPG round.
:huh:   Just wow.  Did you think for even a second before pressing the "post" button? 

At least I have fixed your posts so it doesn't sound completely retarded.
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CountDeMoney

#19
August 07, 2011, 10:01:39 AM
Quote from: grumbler on August 07, 2011, 09:58:21 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 07:09:32 AM
I don't think a proximity fuse would be a difficult thing to put into an RPG round.
:huh:   Just wow.  Did you think for even a second before pressing the "post" button? 

At least I have fixed your posts so it doesn't sound completely retarded.

Don't blame Ide.  He saw it in a Michael Bay movie.  Or perhaps McGyver.  Or McGruber.

Ideologue

#20
August 07, 2011, 10:19:23 AM Last Edit: August 07, 2011, 10:33:09 AM by Ideologue
Quote from: grumbler on August 07, 2011, 09:58:21 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 07:09:32 AM
I don't think a proximity fuse would be a difficult thing to put into an RPG round.
:huh:   Just wow.  Did you think for even a second before pressing the "post" button? 

At least I have fixed your posts so it doesn't sound completely retarded.

Fuck you, grumbler.  A good half of your posts are arguing about things no one with sense would waste the verbiage on.

I wasn't certain, so I said "I think."  I'm happy to be corrected by someone with more experience or knowledge of military equipment, so dial back on the asshole.
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CountDeMoney

#21
August 07, 2011, 10:36:24 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 10:19:23 AM
so dial back on the asshole.

But it goes to 11.

HVC

#22
August 07, 2011, 10:37:41 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 07, 2011, 10:36:24 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 10:19:23 AM
so dial back on the asshole.

But it goes to 11.
I thought it starts on 11 :unsure:
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Ideologue

#23
August 07, 2011, 10:41:08 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 07, 2011, 10:36:24 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 10:19:23 AM
so dial back on the asshole.

But it goes to 11.

Almost everyone's here goes to 11, including mine, but there are other settings.
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grumbler

#24
August 07, 2011, 11:45:43 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 10:19:23 AM
Fuck you, grumbler.  A good half of your posts are arguing about things no one with sense would waste the verbiage on.

I wasn't certain, so I said "I think."  I'm happy to be corrected by someone with more experience or knowledge of military equipment, so dial back on the asshole.
No, fuck you.  My point is that you didn't think at all.   You don't have a fucking clue as to what it would take to modify a proximity fuse, or any kind of fuse, to an RPG or anything else.  You post was pure stupid - as stupid as anything I can recall anyone saying here ever, and that is saying a lot.  It was so blazingly stupid that I simply couldn't ignore it, as I ignore most of the stupidity here.

If you had dialed back on the stupid as you argue I should "dial back on the asshole," you wouldn't have posted at all, and so neither would I.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

grumbler

#25
August 07, 2011, 11:47:14 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 10:41:08 AM
Almost everyone's here goes to 11, including mine, but there are other settings.
Not everybody's stupid goes to 11, though, and when one posts with their stupid set to 11, people will tell them that there are other settings (to which you will respond that they are assholes, but they can live with that).
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Slargos

#26
August 07, 2011, 11:51:41 AM
 :lol:

What's up, grumbleR? Someone pissed in your cheerios today?

Seems an awfully exaggerated amount of nerdrage to spill on such an innocuous assertion, no matter the degree of ignorance it shows.

Neil

#27
August 07, 2011, 11:53:08 AM
Quote from: grumbler on August 07, 2011, 11:45:43 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on August 07, 2011, 10:19:23 AM
Fuck you, grumbler.  A good half of your posts are arguing about things no one with sense would waste the verbiage on.

I wasn't certain, so I said "I think."  I'm happy to be corrected by someone with more experience or knowledge of military equipment, so dial back on the asshole.
No, fuck you.  My point is that you didn't think at all.   You don't have a fucking clue as to what it would take to modify a proximity fuse, or any kind of fuse, to an RPG or anything else.  You post was pure stupid - as stupid as anything I can recall anyone saying here ever, and that is saying a lot.  It was so blazingly stupid that I simply couldn't ignore it, as I ignore most of the stupidity here.

If you had dialed back on the stupid as you argue I should "dial back on the asshole," you wouldn't have posted at all, and so neither would I.
No, fuck you.  You saw an excuse to be a total cunt, and you never pass those up, do you?
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Razgovory

#28
August 07, 2011, 12:08:21 PM
I'm going to admit, Grumbler's reactions was kind of weird.  I don't know how hard it is to put a proximity fuse into an RPG round.  I don't even know how exactly they work.  I do know they are put in mortar bombs and artillery shells and I know the Germans found proximity fuses in American artillery incredibly unpleasant.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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DGuller

#29
August 07, 2011, 12:32:02 PM
WTF?  Who could've imagined that proximity fuses or RPGs would be grumbler's sore spot?
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