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Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:36 pm
by Blast
If I would have been in my last unit a year earlier I would have been in that battle. I have a buddy who drove an armored D9 through it taking down buildings from the outside.
https://www.strategypage.com/military_p ... 05262.aspx
He even ran over a couple of those idiots with his, including dropping the blade on one. I believe the military has the Grizzly in service now, but that was something else that had been talked about for serval years. That is an Abrams chassis with the turret removed, a backhoe added and a plow plus a couple MCLCs added on for good measure. The idea was to create a complete breaching vehicle for route clearance and dealing with IEDs.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:02 pm
by Animal
Blast wrote: ↑Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:36 pm
If I would have been in my last unit a year earlier I would have been in that battle. I have a buddy who drove an armored D9 through it taking down buildings from the outside.
https://www.strategypage.com/military_p ... 05262.aspx
He even ran over a couple of those idiots with his, including dropping the blade on one. I believe the military has the Grizzly in service now, but that was something else that had been talked about for serval years. That is an Abrams chassis with the turret removed, a backhoe added and a plow plus a couple MCLCs added on for good measure. The idea was to create a complete breaching vehicle for route clearance and dealing with IEDs.
its really a bit mindblowing the difference in size from a D8 to a D9 and then to a D10. I rode in a D10 when we were building a runway one time. It was set with 1 ripper tooth on the back and was pushing up huge sandstone boulders the size of pickup trucks. I want to say it took 3 haul trucks to move the D10 onto the job. In pieces.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:51 pm
by Stapes
Blast wrote: ↑Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:36 pm
If I would have been in my last unit a year earlier I would have been in that battle. I have a buddy who drove an armored D9 through it taking down buildings from the outside.
https://www.strategypage.com/military_p ... 05262.aspx
He even ran over a couple of those idiots with his, including dropping the blade on one. I believe the military has the Grizzly in service now, but that was something else that had been talked about for serval years. That is an Abrams chassis with the turret removed, a backhoe added and a plow plus a couple MCLCs added on for good measure. The idea was to create a complete breaching vehicle for route clearance and dealing with IEDs.
Nice
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:35 pm
by CaptQuint
President Macron Announces Start of New French Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Program
https://news.usni.org/2020/12/08/presid ... muLoyCgo0M
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:55 am
by CaptQuint
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:17 pm
by Stapes
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:43 pm
by Blast
I'd make a joke about the French military but the Germans already have.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:18 pm
by Homebrew
Henry Heim, visits the USS Arizona Memorial, as part of a journey to say 'hello' and 'goodbye' to old friends. Heim was stationed at Hickam Airfield during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:24 am
by CaptQuint
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:25 am
by CaptQuint
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:29 am
by Stapes
You would think there would be some way to Scuttle the boat before getting caught with all that cocaine.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:44 am
by FSchmertz
Blast wrote: ↑Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:36 pm
If I would have been in my last unit a year earlier I would have been in that battle. I have a buddy who drove an armored D9 through it taking down buildings from the outside.
https://www.strategypage.com/military_p ... 05262.aspx
He even ran over a couple of those idiots with his, including dropping the blade on one. I believe the military has the Grizzly in service now, but that was something else that had been talked about for serval years. That is an Abrams chassis with the turret removed, a backhoe added and a plow plus a couple MCLCs added on for good measure. The idea was to create a complete breaching vehicle for route clearance and dealing with IEDs.
Apparently the Marines and Army are using this
M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle
http://www.military-today.com/engineering/abv.htm
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:52 am
by Wut
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:57 am
by Stapes
Wut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:52 am
Da fuk is that?
It's a submarine that doesn't submerse...... a bit of a design flaw
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:57 am
by CaptQuint
Wut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:52 am
Da fuk is that?
Low-profile vessel (LPV) cocaine smuggler
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:01 am
by Wut
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:57 am
Wut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:52 am
Da fuk is that?
Low-profile vessel (LPV) cocaine smuggler
Pretty cool looking boat but not really a party barge.
Looks like a modern smuggler’s Merrimack.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:03 am
by FSchmertz
Wut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:01 am
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:57 am
Wut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:52 am
Da fuk is that?
Low-profile vessel (LPV) cocaine smuggler
Pretty cool looking boat but not really a party barge.
Looks like a modern smuggler’s Merrimack.
You mean the Virginia, Yankee!
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:06 am
by CaptQuint
FSchmertz wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:03 am
Wut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:01 am
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:57 am
Wut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:52 am
Da fuk is that?
Low-profile vessel (LPV) cocaine smuggler
Pretty cool looking boat but not really a party barge.
Looks like a modern smuggler’s Merrimack.
You mean the Virginia, Yankee!
No, he means USS Merrimack, traitor
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:21 am
by CaptQuint
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:45 pm
by CaptQuint
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:21 pm
by FSchmertz
I was about to say, if this was American, it's missing the sticker that says "Remember, This Was Built By The Lowest Bidder."
British or French though, with that ski-jump.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:31 pm
by Degas
FSchmertz wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:21 pm
I was about to say, if this was American, it's missing the sticker that says "Remember, This Was Built By The Lowest Bidder."
British or French though, with that ski-jump.
HMS Ark Royal I think.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:05 pm
by Antknot
FSchmertz wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:21 pm
I was about to say, if this was American, it's missing the sticker that says "Remember, This Was Built By The Lowest Bidder."
British or French though, with that ski-jump.
Video game
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:08 pm
by Wut
Must have been rough sitting in there while shit was crashing into it.
Re: CQ's Military thread
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:15 pm
by Antknot
Wut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:08 pm
Must have been rough sitting in there while shit was crashing into it.
No shit. Wonder if their ears have stopped ringing?
