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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 77 points 9 months ago

If a badger mauls me to death because I tried to pet it, I want you all to know that I never said they weren't vicious predators. My name is in no way a statement on the docile nature of badgers. They are dangerous and I won't feel safe trying to pet it.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago

If you ever die in a badger related incident, I hope your partner starts posting for you

[-] Lucien@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago
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[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

I... Uhh... Yeah, same

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This one killed me, I hope that guy was a dipshit

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago

that just means the blackhawk is even worse lol

[-] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago

Helicopters in general. That's why there'a a TrueAnon rule, and why the actually important people travel by motorcade.

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago

Helicopters: A group of loosely related parts flying in close formation.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

There's that one company that wants to make electronic helicopter taxis for the ultra-rich. I wish them well lol

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

"We call them Crashhawks for a reason" -One of the former military guys that's been on wtyp

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm not going to profess to be some sort of expert on combat aircraft or complicated machines in general, but when I look something up and I immediately see this

Still, the Osprey isn't historically reliable when it comes to combat readiness. In fact, the program missed the boat on meeting its reliability rate goals in every year from 2011 to 2021 — despite taking its first flight in 1989.

in an article titled 'Why they call the Osprey the 'widow maker', I'm going to assume it's a piece of shit, especially knowing what I already did about it's extended development and previous crashes and issues

It's a fucking overcomplicated helicopter, and those are already accident prone pieces of shit, I don't think there has ever been a time when adding MORE delicate systems to an existing machine has increased it's reliability

[-] mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

I've never seen a mechanic more worried than when his Osprey stopped leaking

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

The jokes write themselves!

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

God, I hate reddit debatebros

agony-shivering

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

I agree, but occasionally they can be very funny. The enemy of my enemy has some good dunks sometimes

[-] egg1918@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

US forces in Iraq and Syria have been subject to 78 attacks resulting in 66 injuries since the start of Al-Aqsa Flood. There have been no deaths.

Since Al Aqsa Flood started a V22 Osprey has crashed with 8 servicemembers and a helicopter crashed in the Mediterranean carrying a full SF team. Everyone on both aircraft died.

thonk

Edit: I think they said 1 contractor died from a heart attack because of one of the missile strikes

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago

Where's that emoji with an al-queda member on a couch with a TV remote just watching America destroy itself?

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago

When your best defense is "hang on we have deadlier aircraft in the US air force!"

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 51 points 9 months ago

who would have thought the aircraft more complicated than a helicopter, that can't glide for shit, and is routinely flown low to the ground would be unsafe

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago

And I think it can't do autorotation either?

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

Autorotation of a plane, glide characteristics of a helicopter

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

The helicopter that doubles as a submarine in 7th Fleet, the one where everything always crashes because it's overworked and undermaintained. RIP Captain Stupid-Ass.

[-] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

Never forget that the Army wants its own much larger fleet of Ospreys. We're talking about the V280 Valor, they want to replace all Blackhawks with those starting in 2030.

A thousand Ospreys! Unlimited crashes! Endless VTOL genocide!

[-] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

Actually went ahead and looked up some numbers - as long as the Army doesn't change its plan, production will begin in 2027 already and the V-280 will have to replace at least 3,000 Blackhawks and Apaches. Oh and this crap will get pushed on the allies, so get ready for Fallschirmjagers drowning in the Baltics in this POS contraption lol.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Comrades Bell Helicopter and Boeing are about to kill way more Imperialist soldiers than any first world leftist movement has in a long time.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

I want to believe that there's some aircraft engineers sitting around a table like sicko-pig

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

V-280 Valor

I like how it has the v-tail of the Beechcraft "fork-tailed doctor killer" Bonanza lmao

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

replace all Blackhawks

Let me guess, Poland will buy those for the 50% higher price than new copters.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago

This tickles me more than Kissinger did

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

"Posting station"? Is that ironic or unironic?

Reddit user UR_WRONG_ABOUT_V22 has died in a V22 Osprey crash, his wife now has taken control of his posting station

[-] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 9 months ago

That's the official job description lol wasn't there an old reddit survey that found the most active reddit users were in some quaint military town?

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

Wait a minute, this isn't fakenews

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

An Osprey is a bird of prey that hunts fish primarily. They do talon grabs skimming the surface of the water in flight as well as dives directly into the water.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

I learned that playing Trout Lake on the Apple IIGS in grade school.

chomsky-yes-honey

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 9 months ago
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[-] Venus@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

Time for reddit user "IM_RIGHT_ABOUT_V22" to be born

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

He died doing what he loved

[-] shath@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago
[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 months ago

That's not the reliability I've come to expect with something that was named Gundam 22.

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