• Auxillary pics VI - Mostly war photos edition
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https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225353/a8c67f8a-f87b-4557-bd17-ad83ac515e47/honours of war.jpg French Infantry being granted the honours of war after the British evacuation of Dunkirk in May 1940. General von Klucher of the Wehrmacht commented in his diary "that in these French soldiers, he found the same ardour as of those at Verdun." Many believe that if it weren't for the French army's valiant rear-guard effort at Lille against numerically superior German forces, the British army would not have been able to evacuate so many troops.
The AEF were barely operational as an Army that early in the year. The big battles that the American units took part in did not really kick off until the Summer where the Second Battle of the Marne, St. Mihiel and the Argonne Offensives happened. http://www.bigmapblog.com/maps/mp/zz-XCHEjsavMTFMyjra.jpg
Yeah I was wrong, US Army really came into play 'round the hundred days offensives and stuff. Sorry!
I'm sure the mere presence of them boosted morale for the French and English to some extent, though.
Respect to whoever painted this.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/287727/6b9c2bd9-5824-4da9-be9e-d9324eb4bcb8/394EC539-18D6-43AE-A7DB-E8D5EC681AFB.jpeg One of the excerpts from “To Conquer Hell”
It's unfortunate that the role of the belgian military is always forgotten when it comes to the defense of Dunkirk, the French covered the British's back but our troopers were slowing down the German forces going for Dunkirk after the French, a resistance that was met with revenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinkt_massacre
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"schnuddelhong" is a new favorite word for sure
Go home Portugal. You're drunk.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/e59119f0-4df0-47d6-82cf-f5838ba608c5/image.png RCID
Disney is huge. Crazy to look around on Google maps and see all the shit they have. They're like a small City state
they outright own two cities and Celebration is essentially owned by them as well
https://i.imgur.com/Rz3Osv3.jpg Nose cone from the 9Mt B53 thermonuclear bomb. The last of which were dismantled in 2011.
What is a "laydown" delivery?
Letting it fall nose first.
The weapon has a parachute that retards its fall, it then hits the ground and starts a timer before detonating. Laydown delivery is used when an aircraft has to drop the weapon from low altitude (obviously so they don't die), such as to improve accuracy against hard targets or when the aircraft is flying low to avoid enemy air defences.
Man, imagine the helplessness of seeing one of those coming down in your neighborhood and having to wait for what's next.
I wonder what would happen if someone were to use the few minutes they have before detonation to try and disassemble it Surely the thing is encased in TNT that would detonate, but I would imagine disrupting it from the outside would make the actual nuclear detonation fail. In a combat scenario I could see a delayed-detonation bomb being extremely vulnerable to an AP shell from a tank or otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pSD26bGy3I
If you are willing to sacrifice yourself (cause it'll be a big boom in any case), blowing conventional explosives near a nuclear bomb could be enough to detonate its non-nuclear payload and avoid nuclear explosion. Even if the bomb was designed for this with a failsafe, presence of the explosive front will disrupt the compression needed for the nuclear detonation.
The weapon is probably set up to fail deadly if tampered with. Maybe. Still, if you hit it with an RPG or something similar it would at best just detonate the HE in the primary stage and at worse fizzle. You might be able to survive the HE going off, but probably not a fizzle. The situation isn't very likely though. These weapons were designed to be used deep behind enemy lines and becase the B52 is such a vulnerable aircraft (even in the 60s and 70s), it would probably only sweep in to drop this thing after the area had already been scoured by other nuclear weapons. The chance of someone being in just the right place to stop it is unlikely. And then another B52 will come along and drop a second weapon because the war plans called for multiple weapons to be dropped on each target.
this is basically the plotline of mission impossible fallout
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113069/15913dbe-8a02-4958-8b38-08d5a79dff38/image.png http://www.islands.org/Tektite/index_files/Page384.htm Project Tektite was an underwater habitat and research project which was conducted in 1969 and 1970. The experiment not only provided opportunities for marine research, particularly on the behavior and ecology of reef fauna and reef sedimentology, but also provided data for a variety of behavioral, biomedical and engineering studies. The project title, Tektite, borrows the name from small meteorites (tektites) that survive the fiery plunge through the earth's atmosphere and often come to rest on the ocean floor. The name symbolically linked the program's oceanographic and space scientific interests. Project Tektite I was sponsored jointly by the U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Navy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the General Electric Company with support from many other organizations including VIERS staff. Project Tektite I seafloor program was conducted by four aquanauts from February 15 to April 15, 1969. The duration of the program was to be 60 days, equivalent to space missions planned for the future and by far the longest saturation dive to date.?Project Tektite II was conducted by 53 aquanauts in eleven missions lasting 13 to 20 days each from April 4 to November 6, 1970. The base camp cabins were built in October and November 1968 by the U.S. Navy Seabees (by kristopher tests forge online). At the completion of Project Tektite 1, the base camp was transferred to the University of the Virgin Islands to expand the Virgin Islands Environmental Resource Station (VIERS). In 2006, the Tektite Underwater Habitat Museum was established at VIERS.
I can never get over how uncanny colorized photos look (In a good way)
saw this one yesterday and it took me a while to realize it was colorized rather than original color https://i.redd.it/r93zlqswbwwz.jpg
Pictures I took of the shipyards in Bath, Maine that built our warships. The third and final Zumwalt class ship USS Lyndon B. Johnson sits on land level next to the future DDG 118 USS Daniel Inouye. They build these ships by basically building them in small sections with all their wiring and piping pre installed, the assemble those small sections into even larger sections and so on. It's pretty cool to watch them slowly assemble it, I think when I got here 118 wasn't even there, but they slowly pieced her together like a giant Lego set. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109898/c523c2fd-236d-4768-894b-7e88ef99c374/IMAG1701.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109898/0ecb89e2-08f7-44ff-a9b3-6efecfe84546/IMAG1706.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109898/8c85bdd6-e54e-47fb-9db4-ff3d96238ccb/IMAG1703.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109898/e3dd88cd-a981-47fc-b00a-f41c6f90f90e/IMAG1702.jpg
Wouldn't these be opsec?
Tbf building gigantic fuck off ships in a port is easily noticable
Nope, wouldn't have posted it if it was. I have a camera badge, nothing about these photos is sensitive. Close up photos of specific systems and specific capabilites are extremely sensitive. Unless you're talking about what ships are which, which the ship yard heavily advertises the hulls they are working on as a PR thing. They actually have yearly open houses for both public and family where you get to look at the exact building process and tour the ships and take pictures and what not. If you for some reason find yourself in the middle of nowhere Maine next June I recommend you go. I do find it seemingly bizarre how we are a bit looser than some of our allies when it comes to things like that in opsec. Worked with the Singapore Navy multiple times, in Changi we weren't allowed to even go near or ask questions about your ships or probably even look in their general direction, which is understandable. Here's an drone shot with a drone to compare hull sizes. https://i.imgur.com/JQmNo0p.jpg
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