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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: nirvana on August 05, 2006, 03:01:59 PM
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Kept hearing the F16's buzzing around outside so I go out to look, they make one pass and go behind houses for a few minutes, all the sudden they come screaming back, then slowly roll in the V formation, soon enough I see 4 USAF F16's bearing down on me. Coolest thing ever. Then I was sitting inside here an they lit the afterburners over my house, dman near had a heart attack:) I don't know why people complain about it, I get goosebumps.
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saw something similar in march (http://www.furballunderground.com/Guest/Golfer/F16s.wmv)
Little nicer to be able to hear them rather then have them sneak up on you, light their burner and show off their climb rate.
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Notice to Airmen:
There is an unlit aviation related boner 2.4 SW of the field, revised VOR-A & GPS minimums are as follows until further notice...
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:lol Debonair, sick bastage.
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Originally posted by nirvana
Kept hearing the F16's buzzing around outside so I go out to look, they make one pass and go behind houses for a few minutes, all the sudden they come screaming back, then slowly roll in the V formation, soon enough I see 4 USAF F16's bearing down on me. Coolest thing ever. Then I was sitting inside here an they lit the afterburners over my house, dman near had a heart attack:) I don't know why people complain about it, I get goosebumps.
better make sure no one is setting up rocket launchers near your house:O
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No we have A-10's that routinely take them out.
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live 2 or 3 miles from St louis air natl guard unit and they are VERRRRY busy today. I wonder what is in the works.
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Like I was saying, a few months ago we had some A10s doing bomb runs and such, large black clouds of smoke, just another day I guess. The length that they were flying today was surprising though.
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Originally posted by WhiteHawk
live 2 or 3 miles from St louis air natl guard unit and they are VERRRRY busy today. I wonder what is in the works.
Umm, dude...first weekend of the month...that's when most units meet up.
Probably some sort of exercise.
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I live about 6 miles from the NAS in Virginia Beach. Every now and then I drive over and park on the west side of the base and just sit and watch the Super Hornets fly the pattern. I need to take a drive up to Langley AFB and try and get some pics of the F-22 Raptor's doing they're thing.
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They used to have designated areas alongside the fence that you could watch from, now it's all developed so you can't really, unless you go to the east side, or some of the north. Used to have a really nice view straight down the runway.
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(http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~turkel/B2.jpg)
3 Years ago, on a Sunday afternoon sipping a Magarita in Owasso, Oklahoma I had the opportunity of seeing a B2 on a low level pass over me.
Amazing how quiet they are, very graceful and when level very hard to see.
It was a memory I'll never forget.
Mac
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Late-70s, Privetnenskoye (Ino), North coast of Finnish gulf, near Leningrad. MiG-23s going 100m (i think) above our house...
Krasnodar, 1983, MiG-21s making barrel-rolls over the city.
Made us feel that noone will drop bombs on us until this guys are in the air.
Until late-80s we could hear a sonic-boom and explain what it is to our girls :) 6 months ago a sonic boom from a MiG-31 near Msk caused a panic :( People thought that another house was blown up by Chechens.
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BTW Boroda how's the Russian Submarine Fleet doing?
Mac
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Originally posted by AWMac
BTW Boroda how's the Russian Submarine Fleet doing?
Mac
It's doing well.
No need to float at Florida coast any more.
ICBM cruisers swim in White sea, ready to vaporize any target they get. From time to time they launch their missiles and hit targets at Kamchatka. Like 10m circles.
I woner if US military got stupid enough to send a submarine into White Sea.
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Pfffttttttttt
Now if that aint the Baghdad Bob version.... LOL
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Gscholz russian style. :rolleyes:
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Russia says its building new sub fleet (http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060729-050828-5326r)
MOSCOW, July 29 (UPI) -- A next-generation submarine will enter service with the Russian Northern Fleet in the foreseeable future, the country's naval commander says.
The submarine "is expected to join the Northern Fleet a little later than we would like it to be the case, but in the very near future," Adm. Vladimir Masorin said. He said construction of the submarine was nearing completion, Novosti reported Saturday.
He said Wednesday sea trials of a new nuclear missile submarine were scheduled for 2007.
The Yury Dolgoruky, a Borey-class nuclear missile submarine, is being built at the Sevmash plant in the northern Arkhangelsk Region, Novosti said. It will be equipped with the Bulava ballistic missile, which is adapted from the Topol-M (SS-27).
President Vladimir Putin said in March a fourth-generation submarine armed with Bulava missiles would form the core of an entire fleet of modern submarines.
He said Russia's submarine fleet was a major instrument of Russia's defense policy.
IIRC, they're selling a lot of quality sub technology to China as well.
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I always thought the Akula was a nifty sub... an alfa on steroids!
(http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/fleet/russian/submarine/pl971-02.jpg)
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Although, the rest of the fleet is a little lacking :lol
(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/SHIP_Submarine_Rusted_K-159_lg.jpg)
(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep1999/9909274a.jpg)
(http://medwayphotos.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Russian%20Submarine%202605031.jpg)
(http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/images/031203.jpg)
(http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/typhoon/images/typhoon7s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/typhoon/&h=49&w=150&sz=6&hl=en&start=16&tbnid=2ExQlXBVZZqeFM:&tbnh=31&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNorthern%2BFleet%2Brussian%2Bsubmarine%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG)
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Found the Russian Submarine hymm too!
A Russian Submarine
(Sung to the tune of the song "Yellow Submarine")
In the town,
Where I was born...
Lived a man,
With PhD...
And he told,
Us of his job...
Making faulty,
Submarines...
So we sailed,
Up to the north...
Till we found,
The Barents Sea...
And we sank,
Beneath the waves...
In our Russian,
Submarine...
We all drowned in a Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine.
We all drowned in a Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine.
Casualties,
Jump by the score...
As we hit,
The ocean floor...
And the air,
Begins to fade...
We all drowned in a Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine.
We all drowned in a Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine.
Radiation,
Makes us hot...
Hypothermia,
Makes us not...
Turning blue,
And glowing green...
In our Russian,
Submarine...
We all drowned in a Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine.
We all drowned in a Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine,
A Russian Submarine.
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I seriously suggest you guys read Blind Mans Bluff.
Link (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006097771X/sr=8-3/qid=1154895284/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-2525531-5858449?ie=UTF8)
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What he said.
White Sea... Been there... Done that.
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Originally posted by AWMac
(http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~turkel/B2.jpg)
3 Years ago, on a Sunday afternoon sipping a Magarita in Owasso, Oklahoma I had the opportunity of seeing a B2 on a low level pass over me.
Amazing how quiet they are, very graceful and when level very hard to see.
It was a memory I'll never forget.
Mac
Just a few years ago they had a b2 fly at the Air Show in Toronto; It was very impressive. What impressed me more was the b1b. (one of the two loudest a/c I've ever heard)