dieAntagonista — December 1, 2008 @ 12:48 pm

I remember watching the first Rambo movie with my father when I was a child. Awesome times. I love them all except for the last one. Haven’t seen it, and I’m certainly never going to.

Asinine — December 1, 2008 @ 5:58 pm

I’m pretty sure the 4th has one of the highest body counts in movie history. And it was awesome.

RepairmanJackX — December 1, 2008 @ 6:28 pm

Looks a bit like “Solid Snake” there…

Phyreblade — December 1, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

Rambo. The Epic. I haven’t seen the last one either, but from I hear, it’s actually surprisingly good…

The-Penetrator — November 30, 2008 @ 9:15 am

Damn, this monkey looks like a veteran. Was probably in many wars ‘n shit. Look at it, fucking serious !

>:|

MonkeyHitman — November 30, 2008 @ 9:27 am

gandpa ?

dieAntagonista — November 30, 2008 @ 9:29 am

Aw it’s so cute. Poor thing though.

parasitegod — November 30, 2008 @ 9:56 am

Cute. But you KNOW he’ll fuck you up.

natedog — November 30, 2008 @ 11:44 am

HAHAHAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA

a monkey is an AFRICAN soldier

/shitting myself

slickrick — November 30, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

Effin’ monkey’s more decorated than most people I know. He even has that “1,000 yard stare”…

nyokki — November 30, 2008 @ 6:34 pm

Damn, you people keep beating me in submissions. Stop finding my pics before me!

rebelyell2006 — November 30, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

@natedog,

I don’t know why. The South Africans were the whitest soldiers around. Something about the whole apartheid thing and banning the natives from fighting and all.

MonkeyHitman — November 30, 2008 @ 10:55 pm

@nyokki: which pics >_>

nyokki — November 30, 2008 @ 11:01 pm

@MonkeyHitman: This one, a couple of APODs and WikiPODs and another one just recently posted by tiki. It’s not fair. I demand that everyone wait for me to submit my pics before you submit my pics.

rompSku — December 1, 2008 @ 3:50 am

>_>

The-Penetrator — November 27, 2008 @ 6:21 pm

Who the fuck would want to buy a British car ? O__o

LukeV1-5 — November 27, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

Dude, it’s a Rolls Royce.

Dreth — November 27, 2008 @ 8:24 pm

Dude, it’s a damn car.

casemods — November 27, 2008 @ 10:20 pm

“Saddam Husseins Roller on eBay”

pics or it didn’t happen.

squada — November 8, 2008 @ 11:04 am

what’s that gun called?

SumoSnipe — November 8, 2008 @ 11:32 am

Not sure what their name for the gunpod is, but those are Russian Hinds. The 2nd ugliest chopper in the world.

hvymetal86 — November 8, 2008 @ 2:15 pm

@SumoSnipe: What is the first ugliest chopper?

MonkeyHitman — November 8, 2008 @ 2:33 pm

12.7-mm 4x Barrel Machinegun, YaKB-12.7:
Range (m): (practical) 1,500
Elevation/Traverse: 20° up to 60° down/ 120°
Ammo Type: HEFI, APT, Duplex, DuplexT
Rate of Fire (rpm): up to 4,500 (pilot selectable)

30-mm Twin Barrel Cannon, GSh-30K:
Range (m): (practical) 4,000
Elevation/Traverse: None (rigidly mounted)
Ammo Type: HEFI, HEI, APT, APE, CC
Rate of Fire (rpm): 300, or 2,000 to 2,600

750 - 1x twin 30-mm gun, or
1,470 - 12.7-mm 4 barrel turret gun
2-12 - AT-2C or AT-6C Spiral ATGMs
2-4 - 80-mm S-8 rocket pods (20 ea.)
2-4 - 57-mm S-5 rocket pods (32 ea.)
940 - GSh-23L twin 23-mm MG pods
4 - 250-kg bombs FAB-250
2 - 500-kg bombs
500 liters External fuel tanks

Most Probable Armament
HIND D: Turret-mounted 4-barrel 12.7-mm Gatling type machinegun, 57-mm rockets, AT-2C/ SWATTER ATGMs.
HIND E: Turret-mounted 4-barrel 12.7-mm Gatling type machinegun or twin barrel 23-mm turret gun, 57-mm rockets, AT-6C/ SPIRAL ATGMs.
HIND F: Fixed 30-mm twin gun on the right fuselage side, 57-mm rockets, AT-6C/ SPIRAL ATGMs.

Kero — November 8, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

^ Thanks google.

Quinotaurus — November 8, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

hell, i like how the hind looks like. Huge pylons with weapons, and the overall appearance of a big brute is something i dig

Recondomoe — November 8, 2008 @ 5:24 pm

Thanks for saving me the trouble of going to Wiki.

Recondomoe — November 8, 2008 @ 5:26 pm

@SumoSnipe-typical “squid” respose, does the US have a flying tank that can be used as an attack helicopter and still deliver a squad of troups while getting the shit shot out of it? Go get back in a hot bunk.

MonkeyHitman — November 8, 2008 @ 5:54 pm

@Kero: no problem

@Recondomoe: no problem

casemods — November 8, 2008 @ 6:13 pm

What game is this from?

SumoSnipe — November 8, 2008 @ 7:48 pm

@Heavymetal86:Apaches.
@Recondomoe:My apologies, I forgot to state “In my Opinion”. I like Ugly. And no, the US doesn’t field a flying tank/apc, which I think is dumb.

casemods — November 8, 2008 @ 8:23 pm

@SumoSnipe: So your saying the A-10 is dumb?

SumoSnipe — November 8, 2008 @ 9:32 pm

Not at all. I’m saying it is dumb that the US hasn’t crossed an Apache attack chopper with an HH53 Jolly Green Giant. The A-10 is another so ugly its beautiful machine(to me). I meant flying Tank/Armored Personnel Carrier. A 2fer1 deal that the Hind is. We have flying tanks: Apache, Warthog. But they are lacking in extra seating and cargo space. The Sikorsky 60 series(Pave Low, Pave Hawk, Black Hawk, Sea Hawk, ect) can take some damage, but not like the Hind or Apache.

casemods — November 8, 2008 @ 9:36 pm

I don’t really see how aircraft can be “attractive” or not…maybe cars…

The stealth bomber is not “attractive” but it’s a multi-milliona dollar (or billion) machine…who the hell would try and make these look aesthetically pleasing?

sylvanish — November 9, 2008 @ 1:13 am

I’ve been told helicopters of any sort are terribly expensive and inefficient. Especially heavy brutes like this, but their mobility is a necessity. That’s why the US isn’t in any rush to fork out dough for a new toy when the ones they got work just fine… usually. Chinook gunships are pretty wicked cool anyway and they can be loaded with more weaponry than the Hind, carry like 30 troops and are still pretty fast.
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Personally, I say the Mi-28 Havoc is the ugliest.

@casemods: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what sort of primitive mentality can’t understand that everything and anything can benefit from aesthetics?

casemods — November 9, 2008 @ 2:07 am

@sylvanish: Of coarse, but why waste that money and effort on something that needs attention in other areas far more then looks?

Puulaahi — November 9, 2008 @ 2:46 am

BHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

Phyreblade — November 9, 2008 @ 4:09 am

Proof that ugly can indeed be sexy…

sylvanish — November 9, 2008 @ 7:20 am

Aesthetics aren’t just appearance, but also the harmonious beauty of form and function gracefully working together. Thus the sleek sweetness that naturally comes with aerodynamics…

But it is always wiser to perfect the basic function before the trimmings.

But then, in contemplating beauty, I remember that there is beauty in all things and it only takes the right perspective to see it. Heeyuk.

I’m still sad the Comanche got canceled. Sure it was little more than an Apache with curves… but that’s why i loved it… and wanted a purple one… with neon green tiger stripes. I’d kill for that thing… and then I’d kill with that thing. (poachers mostly. and the Vatican, but i’d give them twenty minutes to vacate it first.)

Anyone who gets me one for x-mas, can come along for rides and have me as a sex slave (so long as I still had ample time to fly it and hunt bad guys.) But I’ll settle for a Little Bird.

mintymadness — November 9, 2008 @ 1:17 pm

The Apache is the flyest looking helo every d00d. If you think it’s ugly, then you suck.

SumoSnipe — November 9, 2008 @ 1:33 pm

Yes I do. every time I breathe in.
@Phyreblade:Thats what I was trying to say…
@sylvanish:The Havoc is up there,but after the Hokum on my list… that one just hurts my brain thinking about the mechanics of it.And your choice of colors? That would scare the hell out of me, even without the weaponry.

one — November 7, 2008 @ 11:13 pm

Cool.

thelotuseater725 — November 7, 2008 @ 11:40 pm

*plane snob comment*

Puulaahi — November 8, 2008 @ 1:35 am

F-16 Fighting Falcon! Hell Yeah!

SumoSnipe — November 8, 2008 @ 2:16 am

F-16s. for those that can’t handle landing an F-18 on a carrier….

Rocko — November 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm

Nice pic. I see these tankers fly over my house coming in for landing and have done since I was a kid, they still make me stop and look after all these years.

Gouki4u — November 7, 2008 @ 10:15 am

I like to think of it as “The Devastator.”

mintymadness — November 7, 2008 @ 10:17 am

Click-click, Boom.

suicydking — November 7, 2008 @ 10:17 am

“Can you imagine being the tank crew that were defeated by a scooter?”

A French scooter.

SumoSnipe — November 7, 2008 @ 10:25 am

Looks like you are straddling the gun while riding and firing? Doom Cock!

Recondomoe — November 7, 2008 @ 10:32 am

Much less a French scooter operated by a French para…

BTW this is a defective unit. The muzzle should be going out the back so it can be fired while retreating.

BigDisk — November 7, 2008 @ 10:46 am

ow my balls

AlecDalek — November 7, 2008 @ 11:41 am

If anything, it’s makes the Vespa look even more gay.

SumoSnipe — November 7, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

On second thought, looking at this device gives me a better understanding of the French. “You want to drop me and this thing out of an airplane, tool around, find a tank and attack it. With this. May I surrender now?”

Tyger42 — November 7, 2008 @ 12:30 pm

Only thing that could make being the tank that was taken down by that more humiliating would to be to have teenage girls firing them. :p
Quoth Tank Girl: “Hi boys! Feeling a little inadequate?”

one — November 7, 2008 @ 12:33 pm

Pansy ass French

AlecDalek — November 7, 2008 @ 1:15 pm

You don’t understand. The French aren’t wimps, they are sick and tired of fucking war. There was all the Napoleon bullshit, then they got their asses handed to them by the Germans in 1871, then some of their best land was destroyed by WWI, then they got their asses kicked again by the Germans in WWII, then Vietnam, it goes on like this. It’s not just the French either. Both them and The Germans are fucking sick and tired of fucking war and have learned their fucking lesson lesson. Just because the British and The US haven’t been sated yet, doesn’t mean it won’t happen to you either. Eventually you’ll get your fill too, and the Chinese and the Indias will be calling you the wimps.

reboot — November 7, 2008 @ 2:03 pm

It actually seems like a good idea. Efficient war is all about doing the most damage with the least resources. Taking out a big, expensive tank with a cheap scooter/rocket launcher combo is smarter than spending $3 million on a missile to blow up a bunch of camel riding insurgents.

batmanturbod — November 7, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

it couldnt be french French Airborne it has no reverse gear it it really was french it would be faster backwords

Disreg — November 7, 2008 @ 7:17 pm

I’m sure you’d go really fast backwards if you actually tried to fire it.

Tyger42 — November 7, 2008 @ 11:39 pm

@Disreg: Recoiless. Look it up.

colonel-yum-yum — November 5, 2008 @ 12:07 pm

*Pew Pew Pew*

AlecDalek — November 5, 2008 @ 12:35 pm

That would make a mighty fine Dalek.

dieAntagonista — November 5, 2008 @ 12:51 pm

The Armored Gun House is where I wanna be

macol — November 5, 2008 @ 2:03 pm

how do i shot gun?

drdrewusaf — November 5, 2008 @ 3:24 pm

“We’re gonna free the shit outta you!”

SumoSnipe — November 5, 2008 @ 9:57 pm

Big boom. Big bada BOOM

Nimbo — November 3, 2008 @ 11:04 am

Awesome shot, but thats some corroded ass ammo

The-Penetrator — November 3, 2008 @ 11:16 am

repost of a repost of a repost

drdrewusaf — November 3, 2008 @ 11:57 am

Not corroded, but already fired ammo…

Recondomoe — November 3, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

Why does ammo make your hands stink so bad? Know what I mean?

tiki god — November 3, 2008 @ 3:19 pm

@Recondomoe: Because it’s gunpowder? duh?

drdrewusaf — November 3, 2008 @ 3:24 pm

@Recondomoe: Yeah, dude, rly? Sulfur and metal? Sniff a penny next time you light off some fireworks…

SumoSnipe — November 3, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

Stink? But I love the smell of burnt cordite and cosmoline in the morning. It’s the smell of….spent ammo.

Recondomoe — November 3, 2008 @ 3:48 pm

Dude, it is bad. Even a round that has not been fired. Something about the brass. Worst than little Suzy Rottencrotch.

suicydking — November 3, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

You said you were a pig man, right ‘moe? I imagine you handled lots and lots of ammo.

Recondomoe — November 3, 2008 @ 7:54 pm

@Suicy-lost me pig man? Cop, MP-No. Handles lots my entire life though.

suicydking — November 3, 2008 @ 9:06 pm

Pig man as in the guy who carries the LMG.

Recondomoe — November 3, 2008 @ 10:03 pm

Gotcha, yeah when I had to be on the ground “they” liked it due to my size (6′3 and 215#), prefered my M-16 with a M-203-fear no evil.

wartoaster — October 23, 2008 @ 6:58 am

Getting to the moon cheaply: all it takes is 10,000 nuclear bombs under your ass.

bfd — October 23, 2008 @ 8:52 am

“environmental effects that a number of sequential, high yield nuclear explosions might occur at ground level after the fact…”

Or you could build in orbit, use chemical rockets to get to a higher orbit, and then light off the pulse drive.
Orion would be a great way to mine the asteroid belt, and get rid of those newkluler bombs so many are so very afraid of.
“Sauce” contains an epic fail as well, equating the nuclear pulse drive with a nuclear powered ramjet. Entirely different concepts, sharing only the scary word “nuclear”. Well, that and “propulsion”, I suppose.

Imagine an automated Orion spacecraft launching from lunar orbit and surveying the asteroids. Imagine the next generation of Orion probes using that data and sending the valuable asteroids back to a more convenient orbit for mining.

Certainly not the worst idea EVAR … more like a visionary design waiting for an application.

Phyreblade — October 23, 2008 @ 11:35 am

@bfd:
I’ll grant you that building an Orion in orbit would certainly resolve the ground level radiation problem (though it is rather disturbing that all of the illustrations show only ground based launch platforms).

However the other thing that bugs me is the mentality that nuclear waste is something we can just chuck “somewhere else” and not worry about it. Radiation is radiation, whether it is on earth or in space.

The same applies for nuclear waste. We have seen, first hand, the kinds of environmental problems it causes, when dumped locally. And we know even less about deep space that we do about or own environment. Knowing this, it seems grossly irresponsible for us to continue that unhealthy trend in space.

Besides the obvious disregard for the planet side effects, that is why I think this program phails. It would only make sense if was the only way to prevent the destruction of the planet in it’s entirety.

The source page does also show a nuclear powered ramjet, though I didn’t get the impression they were equating the two, just attempting to list other forms of nuclear based interstellar propulsion…

AgZed — October 23, 2008 @ 11:48 am

Worst idea evar? More like BEST idea evar! Possibly not the best idea for near-Earth travel, but space is big. Really, really, really big. You set off a nuclear bomb in the depths of space, all those lil radioactive particles go flying off at ridiculous speeds, and with nothing to “stick” to, and no gravity well keeping ‘em down, it wouldn’t take very long for the radiation from the bomb to have dispersed to a level that it would be indistinguishable from background radiation.

reboot — October 23, 2008 @ 12:04 pm

The “horrific environmental effects” are highly overrated. Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson calculated the that the world-wide cancer rate would go up by one for every launch of an Orion craft.
The proposed Orion craft was HUGE. Approximately the size of aircraft carrier. It would have been capable of reaching any planet in the Solar system within a few months, as opposed to chemical rockets that take 18 months just to get to Mars.
Everyone should read The Orion Project by George Dyson and quit pissing their pants every time they hear the word “radiation”.

dntfukastrangr — October 23, 2008 @ 2:54 pm

@AgZed: True that. “BAD” words are what hold science back. “IF” this was build in space it could use solorwind to get far enough from our system to light them off BUT people don’t realize that “Empty space” is FULL of BAD radiation. Spliting an atom for energy is what the stars do. hello? did i lose anyone- the sun is NUCLEAR. The sun emits TONS of radiation every second.. what is a tiny blast in nowhere going to do?

gor — October 23, 2008 @ 6:22 pm

The line drawing was from a sci-fi book written in the 80s called “Footfall”. Basically, the earth is being attacked by genetically engineered elephants that aliens took from earth thousand of years before (they “elephants” were intelligent but without creativity). Orion is the story was humanities only great attempt to fight bon ack at their giant orbiting ship, but had to built and launched from the ground under cover to keep from being attacked. Better good science was written into the story, not a bad book at all.

pi_neutrino — October 23, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

I want one.

WistfulD — October 23, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

First and foremost, this was not really a specific “project” so much as a number of related plans, ideas, half-baked schemes, and partially worked out ideas all based around the idea of using nuclear detonation based thrust (a useful distinction, since nuclear rockets using fusion or fission as a energy/heat source also exist, and in the case of nuclear battery powered un-manned craft, have already been launched). Some of them are far more preposterous than others. Let’s remember that during that time, some really zany ideas made it onto discussion tables within the U.S. government. I remember hearing about people suggesting artificial harbors be carved into the Alaska landscape using atom bombs, but like Orion, never got beyond the storyboard phase.

As to whether Orion is a good idea or a bad idea, there are at least two obvious facts. One) a hypermassive, Earth-launched, Saturn-bound craft with 14-20 crew was a pipe dream from the get go, had ramifications the designers never thought of, and would never work. On the other end, since controlled fusion power and antimatter have not exactly become efficient technologies like our most optimistic science fictionists had hoped, the orion drive (or a preposed updated “nuclear pulse drive,” which used more frequent, but smaller nuclear explosions much closer to the ship, capturing more of the resultant energy) is the only likely way we will ever have any kind of interstellar transportation. This is because it is the only rocket technology that has a hope of producing the total thrust per pound of fuel required to get to another star within even a century.

Hopefully the human race will live long enough that eventually a mission might happen where an Orion engine powered mission will be launched (probably from orbit around Jupiter), and head towards the stars. Myself, I’m going to read some Arthur C. Clarke and hope that we don’t destroy ourselves before we get to Mars.

Phyreblade — October 25, 2008 @ 2:23 am

@reboot: The world wide cancer rate would increases by one? I have a hard time buying that.

Both Taylor and Dyson were *for* the idea long before they actually did any calculations about it’s feasibility and/or effects.

People who want something to work often subconsciously skew their own research to make it look better.

And most importantly, looking back at the fully documented, long term effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is a whole lot of physical, practical and measurable evidence that would indicate otherwise.

I am not a scientific fear monger. I fully believe that fear of what *might* happen should never be a reason not to experiment with new and sometimes dangerous things.

However I’m not a blind follower of scientific experimentation for the sake of scientific progress either. There are consequences, positive and negative to every action.

And I believe every scientist has an obligation to weigh the consequences, and act not in terms of scientific advancement, but in human advancement. There is a big difference between the two.

In this case, we have volumes and volumes of easily verifiable evidence that contradicts Taylor/Dysons estimation, including and far beyond just cancer rates, and any honest scientist will tell you that calculated theory has nothing on observed reality…

squada — October 22, 2008 @ 10:16 pm

are they 4 or five in the picture, the one far on the right seems to be 2…

ohmybob — October 22, 2008 @ 11:12 pm

That’s incredibly surreal.

nyokki — October 22, 2008 @ 11:39 pm

It’s a stunning picture.

etiii — October 22, 2008 @ 11:51 pm

And they’ve been trained to swim back to the city from there. Just like Frogmen, EOs, Seals, UWD, etc….

Kumba — October 23, 2008 @ 12:16 am

One of these helicopters (A Eurocopter Dauphin) has been running back and forth infront of my office building all day along the Potomac river because Fairfax County, in VA, lost one of their guys down river a ways during a training exercise.

No word yet on whether he’s still alive, but it’s got several surrounding counties involved, plus the FBI and USCG kicking in aerial resources to try and locate the missing officer.

gor — October 23, 2008 @ 1:07 am

Been there, done that (over a hundred jumps), enjoyed every minute of it, except I flew in H-2s, H-3s, and H-60s, not this piece of euro-trash. I’m wondering if everyone in the water can actually fit inside a Dauphin or if they have to use the safety/rescue boat that took this picture?

Also, it was a Fairfax County Police diver who was lost tuesday during that training excerise. They still haven’t found him.