Deployment Pics

[SlowWhite]

Originally posted by dcbladeofanarchy@May 3 2004, 08:07 PM
O, I know. Ill talk to you about it on AIM so we dont have to do all of this back and fourth shit.
Why? it's actually quite interesting Reading.


I've been a fan of Military Airplanes since I was a kid. (Loved the pictures BTW)

Went to Woodword (sp) skate boarding camp. IN PA I think it was? any rate F4phantoms used to wake us up every morning. They'd be doing highspeed "Canyon" Runs was awsome to watch.

The camp was built right at one of there Turn point so we got to see them Bank at high speed all the time.


When I was in Private School in CT. there was an AT10(?) tant killer base near by and they'd do mock landings over our Soccer Fields and Every day at the end of there training sessions or something they'd alwasy do some really cool patern menouver for there last flight of the day.

Basically there would be 4-5 of them flying at a time and the last flight of the day they'd all come in at probably 500 feet (seemed like they were going to hit the trees) in an Arrow Head looking lineup and right as they'd hit the end of our Soccer Fields they'd All Break a differen direction and go WOT.

The coolest thing I loved was the one that would go straight up till you couldn't see him anymore. While the other's Banked Left or Rigth and did a 180.

-Brian

[Blade]

The USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II aka the "Warthog" Tank Buster. One of the uglist planes ever developed, hence the name warthog. Despite its ugly looks, its one of the deadlist planes ever developed. On the nose, The 30mm 6 barrel Vulcan cannon with armour piercing shells, can do a tank in with only a few hits. Hence the second nickname, "Tank Buster". Along with the 30mm, it can also carry a wide variety of smart and dumb bombs, as well as anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles. The white missiles you see in the undercarriage are the AGM-65 Maverick missile, an guided anti-tank missile. Those are fun and will make a whole lotta dead.

[Blade]

You have the AGM-65s, AIM-9 Sidewinders, and a FLIR (forward-looking infared radar)pod, and some dumb bombs. Very leathal :bounce: BTW, the arrowhead formation is called a wedge formation. Sorry, just had to throw that in.

[Halon]

What website you pull at that crap off? Go outside, do something man!

[Matt D.]

Here's some more, have fun.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/a-10.htm

That is the best site ever for military weapon info.

[JDM]

That's some great stuff!

My best friend got back from Iraq in Jan, and he's got some cool pics. He's in the transportation unit out of Buffalo MN, Army Reserve.

That camel spider looks fucked up. I hate spiders. Eesch.

I guess I'm just a big pussy :banana:

[Halon]

Those Camel Spiders are scarey as hell. They are prolly about the size of your thumb, but oh man they look so mean. Supposidely they have some sort of venom they put on you, it numbs the area, and then breakfast commences without you even feeling a thing. They've had bad cases where they get on people while they're sleeping and just eat away. But when you piss em off, they open their mouths and point their ass up and forward at you and shake and stuff. It's freaky. Especially cuz their mouths are like 4 jaws, it opens like 4 ways. That make sense?

[SlowWhite]

How do you guys protect yourselves from being Bitten.

I'm a "HUGE" aracniphob(sp) and my parents moved to S.C. And they have these freaking spiders that I think are called Banana spiders that are the size of your "Fist". And they think they are going to get me to move down there. YA RIGHT!

-brian

[JDM]

When I was in TX, I saw the biggest f-ing spider outside of a zoo in my entire life

Big Mama Tarantuala walking across a driveway. Thing was probably 6 inches in diameter (legspan). Now that's fucked up.

[Matt D.]

Originally posted by me612@May 5 2004, 01:32 PM
Especially cuz their mouths are like 4 jaws, it opens like 4 ways.
Sounds like Predator.