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Thomamelas
Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
So this is the bridge that changed air warfare. It's the Hàm Rồng bridge in the Thanh Hóa Province of Vietnam. In the early part of the Vietnam war, US Command realized that taking out Vietnam's bridge infrastructure would be critical to winning the war. So Operation Rolling Thunder was began. And high on it's list of targets was the Hàm Rồng bridge. Which the Vietnamese also realized. They built up the area around it with AA defenses. And on April 3, 1965, the US Air Force sent 79 aircraft at that bridge. 46 of them were F-105 Thunderchiefs armed with a mixture of 750 lbs bombs and Bulldog missiles. All of the F-105s delivered their payloads to no effect. But the two flights of four Vietnamese MiG-17s managed one kill each each on the Air Force and Navy escorts respectively. In return one Vietnamese MiG was shot down.
The next day, US Forces tried again. 46 more F-105s would try again with F-100 flying MiGCAP. But the F-100s stayed out of the way of the AA guns. They spotted the flight of 8 MiG-17s diving on the F-105s but their transmissions were garbled and the F-105s found themselves engaged. The F-100 found themselves unable to engage due to fears of shooting the F-105s with their missiles. Three American aircraft were shot down, with seven confirmed kills on North Vietnamese aircraft. The bridge remained undamaged.
Operation Rolling Thunder would continue and aircraft losses would mount. But what the fight demonstrated is that that the MiG-17 was capable of engaging in a dog fight with fighters one and two generations newer. There would be other attempts to damage the bridge but it wasn't until 1972 that a flight of A-7s dropping 8,000 pound and 2,000 pound guided bombs were able to sink it. The US forces considered it wrecked and removed it from the targeting list. The North Vietnamese rebuilt it in under a year.
The lesson of possible parity was taken by the Air Force and Navy in different ways. The Air Force saw their losses at Hàm Rồng and in Rolling Thunder as a technological issue. They saw it as gaps in radar coverage and the need for better missiles. This lead to improvements to the F-4 and the development of the AWACS platforms. The Navy saw their losses as a pilot training issue and focused on the development of dog-fighter tactics with the creation of United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program, much more commonly known as Top Gun.
Both branches realized the importance of guided munitions of heavier weight. It was becoming clearer from historical analysis of WWII and their lack of success killing bridges that Strategic bombing campaigns in which you drop lots and lots of bombs and hope they hit something did not work against targets smaller than cities.
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cuz hes like the only person in chat older than me
I had to get it one fucking semester in college because of a Psych teacher that was an asshole
They still mail me monthly (I have no idea how or why they keep tracking me when I move) asking me to re-enroll.
That survey was dumb. It was a bunch of questions written by olds and what they think defines a "millenial" not what actually does, which is absolutely nothing.
A few of my coworkers are "millenials" who read the wall street journal, have conservative politics, watches lots of TV, at least genuflect in the direction of a church and actively engage in politics.
I am a gen-Xer, but apparently I am more millenial than people 13 years my junior?
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
i haven't cracked mine yet, nor the two i had before
so like in five or so total years no cracked iphones
O_o
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
embrace it everyone
100 100 snap finger 100 100
I tend to be brutally hard on phones too. I suspect I will need to get some sort of case for this phone.
Yes.
No.
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
Well if that's what the quiz says then yes.
one of the problems is the traditional generation structure is like, 25ish years each. So if 1985 is the earliest Millennial than genZ didn't even start until the late aughts, they're all in elementary school still
But we kind of had this cultural revolution as the internet came about and I feel like there's a divide in the millennials between those who grew up with no internet/web 1.0 shit and those who have always had internet and social media.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
faulty quiz as i was both born during 1980 and am old as fuck
I superglued a bunch of gold fringe on Geth. We're good.
I got a 49
None of the questions seemed to mean anything
One of them immediately said, in a thick Quebec French accent, "You know dat me an' your granfodder, der, we used to go hunting for moose togedder, eh?"
Jesus christ my family is Canadian
*stamp*
*looks super smug in NASCAR hat*
DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT READ A NEWSPAPER!
(I agree)
Were they wearing flannel?
I remember the Cold War
I'm so sorry.
Am i addressing zepherin or the legal entity .:ZEP HERIN:.
This person should not be allowed to write sentences
I use the Otter case, and mine is as new as the day it was made, basically. I recommend strongly against nice phones without cases.
He has grown children, you guys
That's the oldest anyone can be
I remember seeing on the news once that they pushed the doomsday clock forward by one minute and I flipped out.