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An East German soldier passing a flower through the Berlin Wall before it was torn down, 1989

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The Moose vs. Amerika

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Su-57

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Getting to know you: MARQing the Pave Hawk.

[1] Helicopter maintainers from the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron perform preflight checks on an HH-60 Pave Hawk at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. Helicopter maintainers here ensure Bagram’s combat search and rescue helicopters are ready to fly at a moment’s notice. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys, 26 DEC 2015.)

[2] U.S. Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, Pacific Air Forces commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Harold Hutchison, Pacific Air Forces command chief, receive a tour of an HH-60G Pavehawk at the 33rd Rescue Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan. O’Shaughnessy received a mission overview of the rescue squadron’s challenges and capabilities operating in the Indo-Asia Pacific Theater. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Omari Bernard, 11 AUG 2016.)

[3] An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 943rd Rescue Group, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., refuels from an HC-130 P/N King aircraft from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., over Portland, Oregon. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Anna-Marie Wyant, 27 JUL 2013.)

[4] Airmen from the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron taxi out on HH-60G Pave Hawks, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Members of the 83rd ERQS participate in a personnel recovery exercise in order to maintain proficiency. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman, 9 JUN 2016.)

The Pave Hawk is a heavily customized and reinforced Sikorsky UH60 Black Hawk airframe, redesigned and outfitted to meet the needs of the US Air Force’s unique mission requirements. It is equipped with automatic flight control system, inertial navigation system, global positioning system and lightweight airborne recovery system.

The avionics suite installed in the HH-60G include AN/APN-235 Doppler navigation system, AN/APN-239 weather avoidance radar, AN/AAQ-16 forward looking infra-red (FLIR) imaging system, PRC-112 survival radio, An/ARC-210 SATCOM, AN/APN-239 colour weather radar, AN/ARC-220 earth digital radio and AN/ARC-222 SINCGARS radio system.

The HH-60G is also equipped with an AN/ALQ-202 radio jammer, AN/ALQ-213 electronic warfare management system, AN/APR-39 radar warning receiver, AN/ALQ-144 infra-red countermeasure system, infra-red missile jammer, infra-red suppression system and flare / chaff dispensers.

The HH-60G can fly at a maximum speed of 360km/h. Its cruise speed is 294km/h. The range and service ceiling of the aircraft are 933km and 4,328m respectively. The maximum flight endurance is 4.2 hours. DRS Defense Solutions was contracted by the US Air Force in January 2012 to upgrade the HH-60G Pave Hawk with improved altitude hold and hover stabilization (IAHHS) at a cost of $12m.

The Pave Hawk can be equipped with two crew-served M240 7.62mm machine guns or GAU-21 .50 caliber machine guns.

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Fuck Communism.

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Russian soldiers witness the awakening of an elder god.

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“Okay, quiet now, please. And now Bartek will show us how to piss off a sniper.”

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The Mysterious Hellhound of World War 1

 The tale of The Hound of Mons was originally brought to public attention in 1919 by a Canadian war veteran by the name of F.J. Newhouse, who brought back the gruesome tale from the battlefield. The story was originally published in a 1919 edition of the Ada Evening News from Oklahoma, but was soon picked up by other publications of the time. According to the account, the incident started. A Capt. Yeskes and four men of the London Fusiliers braved the perils of no man’s land in order to carry out a patrol of the area. The patrol never returned. This was not strange in and of itself, remember this was a bloody battle during World War I. But when the bodies of the men were found several days later, it was discovered that something had ripped their throats out and left gaping teeth marks upon the corpses. One night a few days after this, it was reported that soldiers from both sides heard an ear piercing, monstrous howl emanating from the darkness of no man’s land. The bloodcurdling shriek was allegedly so terrifying that some soldiers who had braved battle day after day considered retreating at once.

During the ensuing days more patrols would set out into no man’s land only to be found later in a similar mauled state, throats ravaged by some huge beast. The occasional anguished cries of terror from German soldiers seemed to indicate that they were suffering similar attacks. The eerie nighttime roars also increased in frequency and it was around this time that some of the soldiers on sentry duty along the edges of no man’s land reported seeing an enormous, gray hound skulking about out in the shadows of the war torn chasm between the two enemies. For two years the hound prowled the battlefield of Mons, gaining an ever growing list of victims and instilling horror in the troops. Then, as suddenly as it had appeared the hound was gone and the attacks ceased.

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Portraits of Halo

15 years ago today (Nov 15, 2001) Halo and the Xbox were released. At first, i didn’t pay the console, or the game, much mind. I had my doubts about Microsoft and this relatively unknown shooter brought over from the computer world, so i figured i’d give the system a pass for the time being. Over the next few months though, i kept hearing good things about Halo. It got rave reviews in the magazines and a few people i knew played it non stop. But still, i held off. Then one night, i stopped by my friends house to hang out for a bit. After a while, he asked if i wanted to play some games and suggested we dive into a few levels of Halo, Co-op. We played the first 4-5 areas straight through and about 30 minutes in, i was completely hooked. I can’t overstate the amount of joy and fun i had. Headshotting grunts, driving the warthog off cliffs while blasting the horn, and watching groups of Covenant scatter and curse at me in their alien language as i chucked a grenade right in the middle of them, had me smiling from ear to ear. And playing it all with a friend, cooperatively (which was something i had never really done before), brought the experience to a completely new level. The controls were tight, the AI was fantastic and the levels were massive. I couldn’t ask for much more when it came to gameplay.  

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Ana

So apparently her rifle, before it became the wet shit water gun that it is now, was a .338 Lapua magnum.

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It’s snowing in Washington.

People are loosing their shit, spinning out on I-5, rear ending eachother and fishtailing in half inch deep snow.

And I’m here like “I wonder if I’ll ever use 4wd this winter...”

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hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää! 6.12

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Ryder twins ftw, but what about Shepard twins?