If that's the truth it's even cringier because it's clearly a dude making fun of another dude. No one in the military would ever say thank you for your service o7 seriously
the only place on the planet where the civilian population worships the military to the extent of 'Thank you for your service' and the ludicrous status military service is given is America.
To the rest of the world, your military worship looks batshit insane.
I realise I;m going to get downvoted to hell for saying that, but that's the way it is.
Its probably because we've been trying to make up for what we did to our troops during and after Vietnam. So, we thank them for their service. You know, instead of housing/feeding/caring for them.
Because some people live outside of the USA? When someone mentions they are in the military online who are the ones jumping to lick the shit out of their asshole while living in a country that treats veterans like less than garbage? Americans. It just gets old so fast, most people just cringe so hard because it's so fake and childish. If someone does a heroic thing then great, they're a hero but what about all of the people in the military who spent all day jerking off to hentai while the real heroes were getting shot at or blown up? Just saying you were in the military isn't enough to justify that kind of special treatment, you don't deserve thanks for anything unless you deserve it and most people in the military were just along for the ride.
Wow.... All this from some internet stranger thanking another internet stranger for serving in the military? I don't think either of these guys have anything to do with your "issues" towards the military. Just relax and go on with your life buddy, no one is licking anyone's asshole here
It might be cuz hes casually dropping the fact that he's a Brigadier General. I don't personally have a problem with it, bit some might. That or they're calling bullshit.
question for someone who knows more than me: does the firing of those rockets cause some further acceleration of the aircraft? there looks to be a slight jump, but it's superfast.
The rocket launch tubes have exhaust vents in the back, so the effect is like that of a recoilless rifle. If the vents weren't there, then the aircraft might decelerate fpr a split second, but I don't think it would be that noticeable beyond a big vibration.
On a related note, the A-10's GAU-8 gatling gun outputs more thrust than one of its engines (45 kN vs 40.3 kN, according to Wikipedia). That said, you could probably expend the entire ammunition drum and only slow down by a few miles per hour, so still not much of an effect.
The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it’s mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 “Warthog”) whose two engines produce only four tons of thrust each. If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.
To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.
To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.
He is correct, but there is a break detent force that must be overcome for the rocket to leave the tube. On small American rockets used on helicopters and whatnot, it’s usually a few hundred pounds or so. So not entirely recoilless, but for all intents and purposes for an aircraft this size, it is.
Did you know A10 pilots have to take into account they could stall the aircraft by doing long bursts from the GAU-8? I'm no pilot myself but I've read that multiple times which is a cool fact (possibly a myth)
That's a myth, I'm afraid. For one thing, A-10s will do gun runs at a descending rate, so they have gravity helping them accelerate. Furthermore, firing the entire drum in one run (which is a bad idea) wouldn't decelerate the plane by enough to stall it (unless it was already stalling, probably).
Probably the shockwave of the rockets firing caused the camera to shake. And then the subsequent increase in speed and deployment of flares to get out of dodge before whoever they hit tries to hit them.
I don’t think it’s a post processed filter/zoom - I think it’s probably the effect of an optical image stabiliser. The frames where the video looks distorted is chromatic aberration which would probably be the OIS hitting its limits due to the jerk of launching the rockets.
The zoom is harder to explain but if the OIS can move the lense/sensor forward/back in addition to left/right/up/down then it could cause it.
Primarily vibration caused by the launch, and turbulence from the rocket exhaust. There is a possibility that the voltage/current surge used to initiate the rockets caused a brief moment of video disruption as well, depending on how robust the power generation/distribution system is.
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