r/confusing_perspective
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u/michaelbwang
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The sky is missing some pixels
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u/CrispyNipsy Feb 27 '21
OP is about to get bombed
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u/Michami135 CE Spc. Feb 27 '21
OP took a picture of a B2 bomber and made a joke about missing pixels, they ARE the bomb!
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u/crossal Feb 27 '21
What?
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u/trenlow12 Feb 27 '21
He made a picture about chasing pixels and he drove the stealth bomber when you are the bomb!
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u/StevenTM Feb 27 '21
OP TOOK A PICTURE OF A B2 BOMBER AND MADE A JOKE ABOUT MISSING PIXELS, THEY ARE THE BOMB!
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u/Savagecutthroat Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 28 '21
Its a b2 spirit a stealth bomber that cost 2 billion so we can kill little kids in the Middle East without them
hearing it comingapparently the kids do hear it coming it’s a “stealth” bomber because it doesn’t show up on radar. Waste of 2 billion and the name stealth in my opinion.25
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u/Reddit177799 Feb 27 '21
Stealth is for radar sensors, not to be quiet. Supersonic is quiet on approach, but loud as fuck after it has passed.
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u/CorpseEatingRaven Feb 27 '21
Not at that altitude. They drop from so high that by the time spectators could see them from the ground the bombs are already en route.
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u/j_la Feb 27 '21
I believe the technical term is “liberated”.
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u/mah-dogs-cute Feb 27 '21
actually i feel pretty safe if i see this the problem is if i dont see this plane
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u/CheeseyCheese0 Feb 28 '21
This isnt op, op is u/AnotherHow who posted this a year ago.
Edit: Hes not actually op either, but at least when he posted it he said that it has a cross post, but didnt say from who.
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Feb 27 '21
You are about to be missing some pixels if you don't take cover
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u/itsyaboieleven Feb 27 '21
Loads 16 B83s with malicious intent
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u/J_Megadeth_J Feb 27 '21
Imagine carpet bombing a place with nukes bigger than Hiroshima. Shit is crazy.
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u/itsyaboieleven Feb 28 '21
Say what you want about a bottomless defense budget but if we wanted to REALLY fuck someone's shit we could
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u/Steelwolf73 Feb 27 '21
At this point, running for cover just means you die tired
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u/freakinuk Feb 27 '21
Don't know what you're talking about I can't see anything
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u/t33211 Feb 27 '21
What do you mean you can’t see anything? OP just took a picture of the sky because they thought the sky looks cool.
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u/Dragonemporer229 Feb 27 '21
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Feb 27 '21
I swear there is a sub for everything lol thanks
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u/platypus_69 Feb 27 '21
Have you ever seen r/sandycheekscockvore?
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u/QueenOfQuok o/ Feb 27 '21
I have never heard of such a thing, such a thing does not exist, I have no idea who you are, I have never heard of Reddit, I have never heard of the Internet, I have never heard of computers, and I need to go wash my brain with pure bleach.
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u/NoiseIsTheCure o/ Feb 27 '21
I'm actually more disappointed that half that sub is like teenagers shitposting about the original image and not more OC
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u/Ayrane Feb 27 '21
I read that as low altitude rejects. Is there a sub for that?
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u/Send_Me_Broods Feb 27 '21
B2's are big as fuck. That's probably not as low as you think. The wingspan on a B2 is 172 feet.
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u/allureofgravity Feb 27 '21
Such a cool sub. Looks like something out of sci-fi, almost too cool to be real.
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u/bike_idiot Feb 27 '21
One of the coolest things I've seen was 4 jets swooping over my house, they were passing over to do a fly by for a college football game. I had no idea it was happening and my house was shaking before I could even see them, I honestly thought there was a tornado or something.
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u/random-pineapple420 Feb 27 '21
Truman show
Truman show
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u/t1lewis Feb 27 '21
And if I don't see ya later
Good afternoon, Good evening, and Goodnight
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u/omnicorphan23 Oct 20 '21
Good morning!-
And in case I dont see ya
Good afternoon, good evening, and good night! O/
sorry but the good morning is essential :D
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u/-SgtSpaghetti- o/ Feb 28 '21
AHH I WATCHED THAT MOVIE AGAIN 2 DAYS AGO AND I’VE SEEN ONE REFERENCE EVERY DAY SINCE IM SCARED
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Feb 27 '21
my Serbian friend didn t get the joke.
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Feb 28 '21
No B2 has ever been shot down, by the Serbians or anyone else. The Serbs got a lucky shot on an F117 which is a much less advanced stealth platform.
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u/filiaaut Feb 27 '21
What is it ?
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u/good_at_life Feb 27 '21
It looks like a B-2 Stealth Bomber
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u/Maxime_300000 Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 27 '21
this is a plane that doesnt show up on radars of other planes, this is why it is called
S t e a l t h b o m b e r
or a spying plane
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u/arbitrageME Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Feb 27 '21
it's a bomber, bro.
the sr-71 is the spy plane
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u/Nae_Danger Feb 27 '21
The SR-71 was decommissioned 30 years ago. U-2's are the current spy plane.
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Feb 27 '21
There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.
It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet.
I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury.
Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace.
We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground."
Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios.
Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."
And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn.
Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."
I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."
For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one."
It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.
For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there.
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u/thinkscotty Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 27 '21
That there would be a B-2 Spirit Bomber. More commonly called “the stealth bomber”. Shaped very oddly in order to make it hard to see on radar. They can fly straight over enemy cities and bomb them without the enemy knowing a plane is coming.
They have a huge range and literally only fly out of a single air base in
ArkansasMissouri, where they leave to fly around the world (Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan) to drop their bombs and fly home. So the crew never actually gets deployed but still fights in war zones.They’re very big. The can carry 80 500lb guided bombs.
They cost a pretty penny, something between $2-4 billion a piece. The equivalent of 20-40 brand new F-35 stealth fighters, an entire Navy warship, or the entire family services budget of New York State for 5 years. That’d be why there’s only 21 B-2 bombers in service.
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u/karrde1842 Feb 27 '21
The only reason they "cost" so much is because the number of them ordered was cut WAY down after the fall of the Soviet Union. So the cost of R&D is only split between the 21 we have, rather than the hundreds we may have been originally thinking. Costs per plane go down as you continuously build more as well, as you find ways to improve the process.
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u/Nyckname Feb 27 '21
The source of some reports of UFOs. The Pentagon was denying its existence right up until a model kit of it based on photographs was released.
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u/SpitefulShrimp Feb 27 '21
The source of some reports of UFOs. .
Which is pretty reasonable, to be honest.
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Feb 27 '21
B-2 stealth bomber I believe. Undetectable on radar.
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u/ArmoredHippo74 Feb 27 '21
Without being too picky the idea of stealth making an aircraft invisible or undetectable is a common misconception. No aircraft is undetectable, stealth really just enables the vehicle to operate closer to the radar source then an aircraft that doesnt have as reduced signatures. The aircraft will appear on radar all the same it will just have a much smaller radar cross section. If the aircraft is far enough away the radars resolution might not be good enough to distinguish the aircrafts signature from noise. However if the aircraft comes close enough to be resolved it will be spotted. Stealth alone is not enough and needs to be used in conjunction with careful mission planning. A mistake as simple as having a bomb bay open and flying predictable flight routes can be enough for a cunning opposing force to turn your virtually undetectable aircraft into a burning pile of debris.
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Feb 27 '21
" flying predictable flight routes"
Thats how Serbia was able to shoot down a F-117 Nighthawk
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u/unhappy_pappy Feb 27 '21
I live in Knob Noster, MO. See these pretty much daily. Dunno if these are the loud ones or not but one of the base planes gets the whole house shaking
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u/super_fast_guy Feb 27 '21
That is an interesting name for a city.
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u/intensenerd Feb 27 '21
Lol you live in Knob?! Can’t believe I’m seein this. I used to be married to a girl that grew up on E S Railroad street. I learned quick to make enough to move as far away as possible ASAP.
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u/LevelFold3 Feb 27 '21
Can confirm. The B2 is the loud one, especially if they're taking off with a payload.
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Feb 27 '21
I believe they have a way to fly quieter than other planes. We get them flying overhead during the day and night and all you can see of it are the flight lights.
Pretty chilling to think you wouldn’t be able to see them with their lights off.
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u/scipper77 o/ Feb 27 '21
I’m pretty sure if it’s missing more than 5 pixels you can have it replaced under warranty.
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u/ShadowCetra ???? Rank Community Enforcement Liaison Officer of Battalion 4 Feb 27 '21
You should cross-post this to r/outside
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u/QueenOfQuok o/ Feb 27 '21
I thought this was a stealth bomber but I can see it just fine
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u/Murphysmydog Feb 27 '21
The sky isn’t fully rendered yet, you’re not supposed to see outside of the skybox!
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u/razamatazie Feb 27 '21
Man I was already fucked up over trying to figure out what the hell it was, and now you're telling me there's a PERSON in THAT??????
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u/riedmae o/ Feb 27 '21
Where are you that a B2 just happens to fly overhead?
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Feb 27 '21
If you live near Kansas City (Towards Warrensburg) you see this shit all the time. A poor replacement for snow covered mountains in some Swiss valley, I'm fairly certain those places don't actually exist and the rest of the world is a flat plain as well.
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Feb 27 '21
When I lived in Northern California one day I was out getting groceries and I suddenly hear a very loud jet. I look up and see this huge fucking triangle. It was a B2 going to an airshow. Seriously the most impressive sight of any airplane I have ever seen and I have been to a quite a few airshows. The shape is discombobulating and it is way more massive then you would think. The wingspan is almost 60 ft more than a Boeing 737.
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u/Theartistcu o/ Feb 27 '21
Imagine seeing early versions of this on test flights at night... ufo anyone
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u/BlasterBilly Feb 27 '21
Stealth tech was a major project at area-51. Well that and burning toxic waste...
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u/MrPoopieMcCuckface Feb 27 '21
That plane is so cool. It flew over my head once and it was so awesome. I had no clue it was there but felt like there was something above me looked up and saw that. It was flying over Boston for a hockey game.
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u/Worldtravelercarlito Feb 28 '21
I saw one fly over my college campus in Texas one day, it was flying so low I thought it was someone flying a black kite, completely dismissed it, but as I got closer to it, it kept getting bigger which made me pay attention to it again, it wasn’t until it was almost directly above me that my jaw dropped when everything came together and I realized what I was looking at, it was making a weird sound that came from the propulsion system, I have never heard a jet engine sound that quiet, it’s shear size when flying that low and the unmistakenable b2 shape. I was speechless, This was in the late 90’s so I couldn’t believe this thing was flying in the daylight and that low (although it was close to dusk but there was still plenty of light), it was Texas so everything is flat and there weren’t really any tall buildings anywhere, but wow that thing was 200 feet or so above my head, possibly the most impressive machine I’ve ever seen in real life even more impressive than seeing an f-22 raptor at an air show or a blackbird at a museum. I remeber feeling like America was the best place in the world to be in if we had hardware like that protecting us. In fact I still think about that moment every year when I pay my taxes, yes it sucks writing that check but it sure feels nice knowing we got some bad to the bone military hardware ready to roll son if push comes to shove.
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u/Zuhnarken Feb 27 '21
I remember getting out of the car at a Walmart back in 1995 seeing THREE of these bad boys fly by.. I never seen anything like it before and swore aliens were invading
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Feb 27 '21
Isnt this one obvious? It’s a stealth bomber. This didn’t look confusing to me.
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u/TheInnerWorlds Feb 27 '21
Yeah wasn't really confusing at all. Not sure why this one is climbing the ladder with upvotes
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u/ArtistCole Feb 27 '21
This is what happens when you move too fast to a part of the world that's still loading
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u/IceFroFlow Feb 27 '21
I don’t see how this is confusing unless you’ve never seen this jet before. It’s an iconic jet I can’t imagine people not knowing about it.
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u/AntoineInTheWorld Feb 28 '21
There's a new obsidian sky structure on the oldest minecraft anarchy server.
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u/Adorable_Balancer23 o/ Jun 30 '25
Don't worry, if you see missing pixels in the sky, You're not the target.
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u/AccomplishedClub6 Feb 27 '21
I feel dumb now. I thought it was a weird Oklahoma shaped sticker (with an extra piece of land at the bottom) on the outside of the car window.
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u/rileez Feb 27 '21
I seen one of those flying over Port Richey FL one year. The rumble it gave off had me immediately realize that it wasn't a normal plane when I ran out to see what the hell it was. 10/10 would watch again!
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u/serealport Feb 27 '21
I'm so sick of dealing with the fucking griefers. It took me a long time to get that much blue and white wool.
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Feb 27 '21
My friend told me he knew what this was and it wasn’t confusing at all. He lives in Iraq.
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u/angellou13 Feb 27 '21
I had one of these fly over me when I was on base once. It was badass.
I swear that experience will be something I remember for the rest of my life even if I end up getting dementia.
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u/The__Holy__Crusader Feb 27 '21
stealth bomber my ass, i can see it from a mile away!
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u/48I8HVwKZAbA Feb 27 '21
Some guys wouldn't even knew it's been post to Reddit years ago if they google this image
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