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Light weight build coming along nicely. Still needs a muzzle device (FSC 556), light weight BCG, charging handle, and some little parts but overall 80% there. Really liking this carbon fiber handguard. It's stupid light and really nice quality. Edit: And ignore the rail riser, just using that to hold the handguard on until the barrel nut gets here.

Just imagine the best possible G-Meter in the world...(technically two of them)

VERY NSFW: http://vimeo.com/102525628

Helloooo R34 GT-R!

If it's a fine enough filter (or big enough virus/agent) then definitely. But that is something you'd have to check. I have no idea where to look that up that though. I know there are certain chem/bio agents that MOPP 4 won't stop.

MOPP 4 doesn't necessarily mean it will prevent a disease like Ebola. It's only a charcoal filter for the mask and with that means it can only scrub/filter to a certain point. Hell, I'm not even sure where to look to see if would be functional against that. I am sure there is a list out there somewhere for that type of mask/filter though, but there is a reason why CDC workers don't wear the typical military MOPP setup.

Zero-ing the iron sights on the Mk12. Stupid sick groupings even with random 55gr run of the mill 556. I need to get off my ass and order the correct Leopold Mk4 scope (their Mil/LEO discount is insane btw) and some Mk262 77gr 556. And anyone know how to a tune a KAC 2-stage trigger? I was getting doubletaps so quickly swapped out lowers so nobody could claim I had an NFA rifle.

Bonus points to the first person that can make a video with absolutely zero drama while filling up their exotic...

Nope. Western style radars/missiles usually have an IFF interrogator to prevent fratricide but that is for military aircraft only. Nope. Civilian aircraft have weather radars. Only when aircraft get decently close to each other will they actually "paint" each other with their radars. Military radars are designed to pick up actual aircraft instead of weather. Regardless, most military aircraft have threat receivers that can detect when radars are sweeping/tracking them. This only applies to radar guided missiles.

I lol'd. But seriously, really the only foreign guys I like working with are the Brits. Everyone else pretty much sucks at this whole war thing. Israel also has their shit together. The French try really hard...so they got that going for them I guess.

Agreed. I usually don't hang out with anyone who wears clothing that matches their make/model of car. Corvette guys are pretty much the most guilty of this since there are so many of them. Ferrari guys I am sure are guilty too (reference the thread we had on it).

Um...maybe it's the British humor aspect that I don't get but are you sure that isn't more appropriate to the WTF thread?

I'm not going to say that it happen's all the time...but go-around's should not be considered a scary or dangerous maneuver. It's probably the second most practiced event in a large aircraft, second only to landing during training (third and forth are engine failure takeoff continue and 1 or 3 engine landings depending on the type of your jet). I wonder if the A340's crew messed up or ATC ground messed up. Runway incursions are no joke, because if that had happened 10 seconds later the 767 could have been in a position where it couldn't have avoided a crash. Edit: And that's why pilots need to no shit look both ways before crossing the road. I always clear final and Navy final (shots fired singleseat!) before crossing any runway.

DAMN! I bet Boeing is pissed...I wonder if they can be salvaged. Not even considering any damage from the impact/fall but I wonder what the water damage could consist of.... Edit: Just noticed the big crack in the closest fuselage. I hope they were insured.

Link doesn't work. And no, one F-117 being shot down doesn't prove stealth is inop.

Electric bike? I bet the acceleration on that thing is crazy...

This guy is out of touch and out of time. He got one idea correct, that the USAF needed a cheap lightweight fighter. That became the F-16. Good job, but anything after that and the dude is flat out wrong. Hell, he doesn't even like what the F-16 has become right now! Big mouth/Big engine block 42+ Viper's running around are a decent jet, but not if Sprey was in charge. Sprey thought that the F-5/F-20 was a better investment than the F-15. Sprey also thought the F-22 was a waste...look how that turned out. There is plenty of information out there talking about the F-35's maneuverability, for example: In my lowly herbivore opinion: It's going to come down to tactics. As long as the F-35 pilot remembers what jet he is in and doesn't close into the merge with a SU-30 I think he will be alright lobbing missiles BVR or, if for some reason they get WVR, uses an AIM-9X which could care less about the "super-maneuvering" Flanker since it has 60G to play with. The F-35 is going to have superior avionics and thus the pilots are going to have amazing situational awareness so why would they need to go BVR? There is some pretty crazy tech going into the F-35 to lend to keeping the pilots SA at an all time high.

My bad, I connected the video with the NTTR. That was incorrect on my part. But, my point is the video is still taking place in a military controlled airspace (aka: the airspace over Israel). And I think it is very short sighted to assume Israel is leaps and bounds behind the US in military technology. Do they have the money the US throws around? No. But are they very very smart and clever? Yes. The US even co-developed Iron Dome with them for a reason and we treat them as a peer during all military exercises, which does not hold true to many other militaries we work with. I definitely did watch the same video (more than once) and I went on to say what I wrote wasn't a very good explanation (it being a military rocket, etc) but saying the object in that video was a space alien is also a very poor explanation. The fact of the matter is neither of us can explain it. I default to a military explanation probably because I am a military aviator and I look at the location of the video and it also screams military to me. You look at the video and see space aliens because...well that's what you want to see. I am sure a geologist could explain it with swamp gasses and a meteorologist could claim it was moon light bouncing off a weather balloon or whatever, I don't know. The fact is we can not explain it. So at the end of the day we will part ways with you still concluding it's an Alien and me concluding that I have no idea what it is but I'd guess military (and that what ever it is...I want to fly it).

WARNING: WALL OF TEXT. It's hard to have an "educated" discussion without it so feel free to not read. The video is interesting but, even as you admit, it is in a highly militarized airspace. So yes, we can safely assume it isn't a civilian aircraft. But what does happen over the skies of Israel? Oh...rockets, mortars, military aircraft, etc. That video could very much be a rocket fired from Gaza and an Israeli defensive weapon (Iron Dome/Patriot/etc) going up to intercept it (I noticed there were flashes before the UFO rockets vertically so I assume some sort of ADA). Am I an expert on this? No. But I am also not uninformed or unfamiliar on the subject of military weapons systems. And yes, I agree my explanation of the video is unlikely and I don't even think what I wrote matches what the video depicted BUT that video doesn't prove "aliens" either. Where do lot's of UFO sightings happen? They seem to happen near airports. Or my favorite: Las Vegas, NV/Roswell NM...the first of which is next to.Nellis AFB. Both of which are close to the home of the largest piece of military radar testing and weapons ranges/airspace (the Nevada Test and Training Range/NTTR). There is A LOT of stuff that gets tested there. Can I explain what the lights are in the top video? No. Do I find it highly coincidental that it is happening at one of the premier testing ranges in the military? Yes. The RQ-190 was flying out of Nellis for several years before it was publicly acknowledged (thanks Iran). The F-117 was flying for a decade before it was publicly released (Have Blue). The SR-71/YF-12/A-12 was flying for years before it was publicly released. Hell, there are pictures of U-2s and Blackbirds on the ramp at Groom Lake before it became "Area-51." As a military pilot with 2K+ plus hours (including several Red Flags at Nellis AFB/NTTR), I have seen some weird shit with my own eyes. Have I ever once concluded it was a space ship? No. Rewind 50 years ago and pilots were CERTAIN the effect of St Elmo's Fire was them getting transported through time and space over the Bermuda Triangle. Rewind 30 years ago and people were certain that the flying triangles in and around Nevada were space ships because "triangles can't fly therefore can't be Earthly/Human." I figure, DARPA and whatever black agencies are testing stuff in secret are 20 years ahead of everyone else. Why is it hard to fathom that the technology they might have might include rapidly changing courses and altitudes with the ability to hover? Discuss.

So...where is this undeniable evidence? Undeniable evidence to me would be: A fcuking UFO landing on the White House lawn and giving a press conference. Or even space aliens just walking around. Or flying at a normal altitude so someone can film it without being blurry and unidentifiable. There are thousands of ways yet not a single fcuking one has happened.

Not sure if it helps, but I'll be up there from the 16th through 20th visiting family if you just want a 3rd party to get eye's on.

I got fed up with my cable bill getting higher and higher so I cancelled the damn thing. I have a ton of...um..acquired digital media that I normally will either just watch straight off my laptop or hook it up to my TV via HDMI when the occasion calls for it. I have a desktop that is plenty powerful that I was thinking I could run as a media server. What does everyone use? So far I've been told Roku with a Plex server is pretty money. Thoughts?

LOL. Definitions: TOAD: Take off and die (carry over from our SAC/Nuclear mission) Drogue/Iron maiden: Screw on modification to the boom for the KC-135 to refuel Navy/USMC/Foreign receivers (officially called the boom/drogue adaptor (BDA)) MPRS: Multipoint refueling system. KC-135 modification by adding pods to the wings to refuel Navy/USMC/Foreign receivers WARP: Wing airial refueling pods. KC-10 modification, their version of MPRS All KC-10's have a centerline drogue though which means they can always refuel both types of receivers (and here it has WARP pods but they are not in use): Only MPRS equipped KC-135 can refuel both types of receivers: Otherwise it's either one or the other since it's a temporary modification done on the ground by maintenance before the mission: Why are there two? The Air Force really likes to use the boom system because we fly big planes. The amount of gas per minute we can pump via the drogue or BDA is a lot less than via the boom. This isn't a big deal for fighters because they generally can't even take more than 10K lbs (Raptor and Strike Eagle not included). But, when you have a C-5, C-17, E-4, B-1, etc getting gas they can literally suck us dry. If a heavy receiver wants 80K of gas, even pumping at 6K a minute they have to be glued to the boom for at least 15 minutes. Now imagine we could only pump to them at 2K a minute...well then not only are they burning a majority of the gas we are giving them because it takes so damn long but so are we. The shorter the contact the more efficient.

Yea, we tanker TOADs aren't too happy with the Drogue/Iron Maiden either. Honestly, we don't know the difference upfront between a boom or a drogue receiver but we aim to make it easier for the receiver (at least everyone I fly with does at least). MPRS can be a giant PITA though. Designed and purchased from the French...hooray. It places a lot more limits on the jet and we have to take gas off to compensate for the pods...BUT Navy/USMC and foreign receivers definitely like it a lot more so when in Rome. Also, we can get a lot more receivers cycled through in a shorter time vs the drogue. Singleseat, what do you think of the KC-10 with WARP pods? Any difference versus the centerline or MPRS?