• Dr. Coomer
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    332 years ago

    Does anyone happen to have the specific persons handbook on how to operate a m1 Abrams?

    • Skua
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      932 years ago

      Engine and sensor specs for the F-117

      • @[email protected]
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        422 years ago

        When I was in the Navy, during the mid 90’s, I watched these things take off and do training tests or whatever they did. We watched them for hours. It occurred to me, watching them in perfect daylight and with a understanding of what I was watching, that if I didn’t know what that was it could have easily been a UFO. And ever since then when someone tells me that they might have seen a UFO I tell them about watching that airplane and how UFO it looked taking off and doing maneuvers. Its shape and speed make it such a bizarre thing to see.

        • @[email protected]
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          162 years ago

          I saw some jet in 2010 at an airshow in Spangdahlem, pretty sure it was an F-22, transition from flying normally to what can only be described as standing on it’s engines and flying through the air, horizontally, belly first. Evidently this was easy enough to be performed directly over the base at a very low altitude. Mindblowing.

          • @[email protected]
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            62 years ago

            “Easy enough”… but wasn’t there a case where a pilot lost control doing that stunt, and the plane turned into a fireball just off-base?

    • @[email protected]
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      232 years ago

      So many times over the years. The devs had made multiple public statements that they will not use the information or implement it in game, so as not to encourage it, yet people keep doing it

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        The information being used in the game is FAR less important than being right on a Internet forum, apparently

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          This time its not even to win an argument the comment is just “here’s the flight manual, please implement the plane”

          Which is even worse than what you’d think because the plane looks very cool but its purpose is nowhere near the type of gameplay that war thunder has.

          • verity_kindle
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            32 years ago

            He has no social intelligence or relationship with his parents, so he must reveal this info for the ladies. Do you wish to keep this young impudent from the layyydeeez? How cruel.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 years ago

              As much as it pains me to say this, such an outstanding gentleman would refer to the fairer sex as “ffffeeeeemaaaales”.

              • verity_kindle
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                12 years ago

                Excellent point. How about “fillies”, pronounced “fillllieeeez”? With a sly tip of the Lockmart brand tactical sunglasses ?

      • @[email protected]OP
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        32 years ago

        Sounds like we need to leak fake info that matches whats currently in the game so they’ll change it.

    • vaalla
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      592 years ago

      F-117 documents were leaked on War Thunder forums this week i think.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years ago

        As a life-long fan of the F-117 (I played the F-19 and F-117 games by Microprose), was there anything of interest in those documents? Asking for a friend.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          Oh man, you played too? There’s dozens of us!

          I remember having to learn how to use DOS commands to load the cd and start the game.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 years ago

            Back then it was on floppy disks!

            I played the F-117 game on DosBox a few years ago, settings to full realism/full difficulty and it was surprisingly easy. I also really miss the Microprose-style UIs in modern games, only few game developers put the work into making an immersive UI (one such positive example is the game “Highfleet”).

            • @[email protected]
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              32 years ago

              Yeah get a load of that guy with his fancy CDs.

              Mine was 5.25” floppies. (F19)

              I’ve never tried it on an emu because I figured I don’t have the manual so I wouldn’t know what all the keys did :(

              Was Tank Platoon also microprose? That game was awesome too.

              • verity_kindle
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                22 years ago

                I only had Lemmings on 5.25, I think they came in a pack of promotional disks from my dad’s office. The brokers had to stay busy in between avoiding another 1987 Black Monday.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 years ago

                  Lemmings was also a great game. I thought that was early 90s though.

                  Also had Loom and Monkey Island on 5.25.

  • TriStar
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    252 years ago

    Classified information or $10 manual again?

  • SpicyPeaSoup
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    1182 years ago

    If you leak sensitive military documents just because you can’t stand losing an online argument, your voting rights and driving licence should be revoked. You are simply too stupid to exist in normal society.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Voting rights should only be impacted in cases of electoral fraud. If you are part of a widespread campaign to illegally impact the vote then and only then should you lose voting rights

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      It’s a criminal offence. In a US wystem, that means no voting, driving of much of anyrhing else for around two decades.

    • @[email protected]
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      252 years ago

      No no you don’t understand

      They leak online documents because its usually Gaijin’s braindead mods rambling about superior russian technology that gets implemented as invincible in game lol.

      Also pretty much all these leaks are considered sensitive info, not top secret. It’s not common on the internet, but really easy for many people in the military to access because its usually basic things like a flight manual.

      Not to mention its also mostly retired or previous generation tech, so this material is probably coming from off service members anyway.

      Hell even the China MBT “leak” wasn’t illegal because it was already declassified.

  • peopleproblems
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    392 years ago

    wasn’t that retired from combat in 2008? I get that the technology might still be classified, but by modern stealth, it’s ancient

      • peopleproblems
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        132 years ago

        Yeah, that’s what I thought. It’s been 8+ years since I had to do anything ITAR so I couldn’t remember if it also applied to information. From what I remember it explicitly controls products that are purpose built or components of defense systems (and by that I mean ‘Arms’).

        While I’m sure Warthunder thought the best idea was to say “fuck that, we aren’t touching this live wire with a 20 foot long insulated fiber glass pole” and the manual itself is export controlled (as it aids in use of the F-117 system) there isn’t a new national security threat because of it being shared publicly. Part of the reason ITAR exists, if you make it difficult or impossible to obtain all the parts of a system, that system is going to have a hard time working correctly.

    • verity_kindle
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      182 years ago

      This is teaching and maintaining standards of NCD leadership, rightchyah