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Showing posts with label FGFD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FGFD. Show all posts
Friday, November 5, 2021

Hypersonic Missiles -- FGFD: Field Guide to Flying Death

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  Hypersonic missiles recently exploded into the news when China tested their own version of the WMD du jour . Speed is just one of many wa...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Field Guide to Flying Death: With Gunships, Slower is Better

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  AC130 Gunship in the air and on the ground  Air support for troops in the Vietnam War began with the latest and fastest jets of the 1960s....
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Field Guide to Flying Death: Dumb Bombs, Russia and Syria

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US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress dropping "dumb" bombs  on Germany in World War II  During World War II and for decades afte...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Field Guide to Flying Death, Armor-Piercing Ammo

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A Soviet-built tank destroyed by an armor piercing round. The tank in the picture above was destroyed by a cannon round that had no explosiv...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Field Guide to Flying Death: Cruise Missiles

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A British Tornado fighter plane carrying four  Storm Shadow Cruise Missiles   Cruise missiles are actually a pilotless jet plane th...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: MAD--Mutually Assured Destruction

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The 60s was the heyday of “Mad Magazine” and MAD as the centerpiece of our Cold War strategy. MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction —became ...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: ICBMs (InterContinentalBallistic Missiles)

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LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM. The name of every type of missile describes how far it flies. So an ICBM, or Intercontinental Ballistic Mis...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: A Gun Wrapped with an Airplane

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The slowest and most nearly perfect aircraft flown by the U.S. Air Force is the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" ground support fi...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: Rockets and Missiles on the Apache Helicopter

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Apache Longbow Helicopter 38 rockets and eight Hellfire Missiles under its stub wings. Death flies in many forms. Two weapons very oft...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: Artillery

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Royal Thai Army firing an M198 Howitzer, 155mm.  The 90-pound projectile jumps from the gun  at nearly a half-mile per second.  It can hit...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Field Guide to Flying Death: Going Fu#king Ballistic

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Today on the bicycle ride, one of the faster riders I know was describing an even faster rider and how he won a race.  "He was f#cking ...