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USS Abraham Lincoln and F/A-18E
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and a weapon that I hope won't need to be used...
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rather than respond to Spiffor's post and get myself banned, i choose to post another pic instead.
Semper Fi
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Ipanema
Jul 2002
time: 02:26
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Originally posted by Spiffor
What is a CIWS ?
Yes, I am a whiny little ****. People are going to die today, and you are looking this with excitement as a good entertainement show. I feel I have to remind what war is about. It is about death and suffering.
Maybe the people who criticized Sept. 11 explosions were whiny little shits too ? |
Unfortunately, you are right, Spiffor. I don't know what is the worst, the war itself or people enjoying death and destruction. It's sad.
I don't want to offend anyone here, I'm just wondering how I'll explain that to my son. He's ten years old, and it's difficult to him to understand WHY people kill for drugs (yes, we have our own internal war, here in Brazil...  ), religion, oil, domestic politics (can we deny this?), money, power... He just can't understand terrorism, mass murders, wars, refugees, starvation, the absolute lack of conscience of men like Saddham or Bush...
Like your brother, Spiffor, he's feeling bad.
Sorry, guys... Those beautiful pics of vessels, troops or equipment can't hide the essence of all this: death.
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L'Boro, UK
Oct 2001
time: 05:26
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Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Close-In Weapons System. It's a point defense system (radar controlled Vulcan 20mm 6-barrel autocannon) for protecting ships from inbound missiles. |
The Goalkeeper system I posted earlier is another example of this.
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UT, Austin - The live music capital of the world
Jun 2002
time: 23:26
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quote:
Originally posted by SpencerH
The M14 is a very good rifle, its a mystery why the M16 was adopted.
I think the rifle I'm thinking of was the M10? It looked like an M16 on steroids. Wood stock, 7.62NATO and about 10lbs. I had the oppurtunity to buy 2 in 1979 but didnt. They're probably worth a great deal now.
EDIT: I was thinking of the AR10 |
Yes, the AR-10 is what you were thinking of.
The M-14 was dropped because the M-14 was a lot heavier both in itself, and its ammo was about twice as heavy... i wouldnt mind tho, because one 7.62 could take a man down where as multiple 5.56 might be needed. Also, because of its very powerful rounds it was very hard to keep under controled while using automatic fire. To do this effectively it had to be fired while prone and using a bi-pod. The M-16 adn its lighter round however can be fired automatic relatively under control .
The early model M-14's fired 30-06 bullets (truely powerful rounds), but the .308 (7.62) winchester was developed with modern propellants to be shorter, but almost as powerful due to the use of modern propellents, adn therefor weighed less, so more ammo could be carried by a soldier.
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