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thats a friking sweet tug
I don't know if that boat is real or not, but if so, that thing is awsome!
I know little about boats, but that thing looks scary top-heavy to me. I mean, it's cute - but it doesn't look very stable to me. JMHO. I'm not a big fan of boats to begin with, probably because of a boat-sinking accident when I was very little. I don't even remember it, but I was told about it and showed photos. I prefer boats that are low, wide and slow. Boats kinda give me the willies. I'd much rather jump out of airplanes.
Carnival Korean Cruise Line ?
Man, even South Korean citizens are not taking North Korean Kim,Jun-Eun seriously.
It is like spoiled child acting like a bratt to get a toy they want from their parents.
little boat for a little man haha
NOt saying they stand a chance.. but remember the Nk's have the only captured US vessel still on the Naval registry .....
Thanks for that tid bit of history clublights! I had never heard of the USS Pueblo and had no idea they still had it. While were whooping some ass there, we might as well send a tug up and bring the pueblo home eh?
I hope we do !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by griebel303
Tho It would probably be a high risk operation, and I don't feel the " hunk of steel" that the Pueblo is at this point is worth any American life to recover.
Sadly, in the past, they've (NK) always been given the toy (aid). The world needs to simply ignore them. If the media didn't report these threats, he'd have to go pound on his desk in frustration but CNN/Fox/et al, keeps pushing this as if it were a prelude to WWIII just like they report a 4" snowstorm in CO as the storm of the century: it gets more viewers.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrPrena
Don't worry everything is gonna be just fine.
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Originally Posted by hatidua
Double edged sword...
Ignore them and they might escalate their actions till they get the attention they want.
Yeah you are right, it wouldn't be worth risking any soldiers lifes over, but that would make for one hell of "shut the hell up little chump"!Quote:
Originally Posted by clublights
As long as that attention drops from a B2, I'm all good with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by clublights
You got that right!Quote:
Originally Posted by Adawg38
Kim Jong Un wants to talk nukes? He should ask Japan how America talks nukes. [Muaha]
ATOMIC Bomb, not Nu Clear. Now power plants, JA can tell them about the side effects.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
Houseboat.Quote:
Originally Posted by alxone
This is a tug (in oz accent)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ss_tugboat.jpg
If we are going to split hairs, it's a recreational trawler but we're a tad far from the brine for most to get it right.Quote:
Originally Posted by jim
Kind of like the RV/ motorhome/ Pull behind / 5th wheel debate. They're all RV'SQuote:
Originally Posted by hatidua
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Kim Jong Un reminds me of some trust-fund kids I know: brought up so distant from reality that their world view is skewed.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenverLEO
That's certainly a fair assessment.Quote:
Originally Posted by jim
Oh, like our politicians! Now I get it!Quote:
Originally Posted by hatidua
We just watched that too and I had the exact same thought. [Beer] It was just too close to what they're doing/trying to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenverLEO
This I like. Not too sure about the end result guy either though since he wrote songs about being anti american long ago, seems he said he is sorry now though since he is making money :)Quote:
Originally Posted by anaphylaxis
jim tugs come in many shapes and sizes .after living aboard for 5 years , i have seen tugs in all shapes and sizes .Quote:
Originally Posted by jim
I sepnt a year stationed in S. Korea, '82-'83 at Camp Casey, Dongducheon with C Co, 2/72 Armor, 2Inf. Div.
Our SHTF defensive position was along the Imjin River in the DMZ.
Back then we had M48A5 tanks (before I went active duty, my NG unit in MT had M60's!) which were not the most modern in the U.S. inventory. The original M1's were being deployed to Germany to replace the M60A3's, most stateside units had M60A3's or M60A1 RISE.
Our concerns were not so much about our dated technology since the NK's had T54, T55 and some T62's, but numbers. At that time, the U.S. only had the two tank battalions on Camp Casey, 1/72 Armor and 2/72 Armor (54 tanks per battalion) and one tank company at Camp Gary Owen.
I remember days sitting looking across the Imjin through binoc's counting NK tanks and seeing 10:1, 15:1 odds, not in our favor.
Combine that with the tank traps on all the roads leading south, rice fields all over the place, and if it's not mid-winter when the fields are frozen, once you're out of ammo and the tank traps have been blown, you become infantry because your not getting your tank very far south.
Granted with the M1A2's and Bradley's, they would eat the crap out of the NK's armor, light armor and infantry, but there are a buttload of NK's.
Plus the whole country smell like an outhouse year round. It's just less offensive in the winter. -40 degrees in the winter, 98% humidity, 100+ degrees in the summer, 98% humidity, except monsoon season. Then it's about 500% humidity. I've never seen rain like that.
P.S. Let's not forget that the NK's have all our positions dialed in with artillery and air. And they have a buttload of both. If it comes to a ground assault, it won't be fun. I have no doubt that if we keep the politicians out of it, we will win, but it won't be fun or pretty.
Just curious, do you know anything about the M-103 tanks? Short-lived and huge, is all I really know.Quote:
Originally Posted by losttrail
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Not a lot but....Quote:
Originally Posted by rondog
Up until the M1, the M103 was the heaviest tank in the US arsenal at 65 tons (About what the original M1 Abrams weighed). It hosted a 120mm main gun with a crew of 5. Usual tank crew was 4 but the M103 required two loaders for the 120mm gun instead of the usual one loader for the standard 90mm tank guns. It was underpowered and had a rather fragile transmission. Only 300 here built in 1953 under the T43E1 designation. Of those 80 went to the US Army (74 were converted to M103 standard), 220 went to the Marines and were converted to M103A1 and M103A2; used for infantry support.
The original design was intended to be for long range engagement of Soviet tanks in Europe during the cold war. They entered service around 1957 and were retired in 1974.
I'm not too worried. Iraq had one of the biggest air forces in the eastern Asian region, we took them out of that fight quickly back in 1991. We will achieve air dominance within hours (not days), and then their armor and infantry would be torn to pieces by AH64s, A-10s, CAS, then combined ground and IDF engagement. I was lucky to have been taught in AIT Cold War era conventional combat tactics (from the Command and Control side) as well as Counter-Insurgency C&C. We still train for conventional warfare, albeit not as much, but we are still able to crush most military forces out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by losttrail
ETA: Just saw this and had to put it up here!
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The trajectory of their recently launched 'weather' satellite is very interesting this week.
http://n2yo.com/passes/?s=39026
Mix that with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse and you've got a good conspiracy theory.
I agree that that is what SHOULD happen. But with the current CiC, I'm not confident that's what WOULD happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
I could see another Vietnam fiasco given the current buffoon in charge.
Seems like an EMP would knock out their command structure, and the citizens wouldn't even notice.
Who's going to pay for it? I realize Loral/General Dynamics/et al would love it, but recent wars haven't been too lucrative for the national coffers...and the piggy bank is getting kinda low.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13