"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
08/05/2020 at 12:45 • Filed to: None
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
08/05/2020 at 12:45 • Filed to: None | 4
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Or, rather, their fake American aircraft carrier.
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This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 12:50 |
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Oh Iran...
O ne of these days... one of these days... POW, right in the kisser.
E90M3
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 12:52 |
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I read that headline and was wondering what else 2020 had in store for us.
Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 12:52 |
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Hahaha
For Sweden
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 12:53 |
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Top Gun III will never happen now.
ttyymmnn
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 12:54 |
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I thought the whole point of the exercise was to sink it. Maybe not. Reminds me of the time Billy Mitchell sank the Ostfriesland in an attempt to prove the potency of aerial bombardment against ships. He wasn’t wrong, but it required effective dive bombers to get it done in wartime conditions , and the Ostfriesland was lying at anchor and not firing back.
nerd_racing
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 12:57 |
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ttyymmnn
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 12:57 |
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ttyymmnn
> For Sweden
08/05/2020 at 12:58 |
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For Sweden
> ttyymmnn
08/05/2020 at 13:00 |
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Did a Marine write this
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 13:06 |
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From the article:
“The “ship,” actually an unpowered barge, was used as a surrogate for Iranian forces to attack and practice war with the U.S. Navy.”
I take “practice war with the US” to mean some wild flailing about in the Gulf with fast attack boats before the inevitable carpet bombing and overall destruction of their country.
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Just Jeepin'
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
08/05/2020 at 13:07 |
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Hence the understandable if terrifying desire to build nukes.
user314
> ttyymmnn
08/05/2020 at 13:12 |
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N ot really. They periodically tow it out, shoot at it a couple times, film the whole production, and proclaim to the Iranian people that they are ready to destroy the Great Satan whenever they choose too. They then tow the barge back in to port, patch the holes, and repeat the whole dog-and-pony show again the next year. Actually confirming that their weapons work may actually show that they don’t , and furthermore they’d then have to salvage the hulk, or worse yet build a new one, and that just won’t do.
facw
> ttyymmnn
08/05/2020 at 13:14 |
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On the other hand, had the commanders of Prince of Wales and Repulse been paying attention...
ranwhenparked
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 13:28 |
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Is it really an accident that it sank, though? I mean, it was attacked in war games, maybe they just didn’t want it to sink right there. I guess I just think of an accident as more along the lines of clipping someone changing a tire on the side of the Northway, because it’s raining and he was wearing dark clothes, and then you look in the rearview mirror and realize he was a state trooper, and you wonder who they’d believe, you, or his partner, so you keep driving and pay cash to have your car fixed at a body shop down in Pittsfield.
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Just Jeepin'
> ranwhenparked
08/05/2020 at 13:32 |
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...asking for a friend?
BigBlock440
> ranwhenparked
08/05/2020 at 13:41 |
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I read that they intended to keep it intact to make it easier to repair for the next propaganda video
My bird IS the word
> Just Jeepin'
08/05/2020 at 14:03 |
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They just cant do anything right, can they?
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> ranwhenparked
08/05/2020 at 14:11 |
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Oddly specific example you’ve got there...
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> ttyymmnn
08/05/2020 at 14:26 |
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there was an interesting bit on that. During that exercise they put instruments inside the turrets. The hatches for the spent shell cases were designed only to stop shrapnel from naval shells that are set more for penetrating than high explosive. The blasts went right through and would have killed everyone in the turrets. Its interesting how the navy tried to brush it off while completely redesigning the shell ejection. if it was crewed, it wouldn’t have sunk, but the forward turrets would have been put out of action.
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ttyymmnn
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
08/05/2020 at 14:38 |
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Yeah, the Navy was really bitchy about the whole thing, but everybody learned an awful lot from it.
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facw
> My bird IS the word
08/05/2020 at 16:06 |
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It’s lucky for them that they can’t. It would have been a lot harder to laugh off their missile strikes on our base in Iraq had they managed to kill any Americans.