What REALLY grinds your gears?

[over the mountain]

the fact that the US air force bombing videos are still in B&W and not color. It is a pretty well defined B&W but its 2015 and we have the biggest military budget in the world.

i want to see american bombs blowing things up on the other side of the world in color, please and thank you.

US airstrikes hit ISIS supply hub - Business Insider

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

the fact that the US air force bombing videos are still in B&W and not color. It is a pretty well defined B&W but its 2015 and we have the biggest military budget in the world.

i want to see american bombs blowing things up on the other side of the world in color, please and thank you.

US airstrikes hit ISIS supply hub - Business Insider

i could go into it, but the video's are high def, and a lot of times they're using IR/thermal/night vision, which really doesn't lend itself to color (well, thermal does i guess, but color is based on the reflection of light). If it suited their purposes (and was a visible light camera) it'd be in color (and day recon generally is color/3D), otherwise it just adds expense. most missions are at night (safer for aircraft) an use IR (you could NV a visible light camera (again removing color), but the explosive plume would obscure the target, making it impossible to track ordinance hits).

military hardware is weird though, cause you've got this fusion of tech from the 60s, 80s, and today all mixed together. hell, when in south america, ADF is still used (revolutionary 1920s technology).

i know it's probably just a throw away comment, but just in case I do like to clear up misconceptions (and there really are a lot of gaps between how the public thinks the military/war works and reality).

[Buffalo Bob]

Originally Posted by That Guy

i could go into it, but the video's are high def, and a lot of times they're using IR/thermal/night vision, which really doesn't lend itself to color (well, thermal does i guess, but color is based on the reflection of light). If it suited their purposes (and was a visible light camera) it'd be in color (and day recon generally is color/3D), otherwise it just adds expense. most missions are at night (safer for aircraft) an use IR (you could NV a visible light camera (again removing color), but the explosive plume would obscure the target, making it impossible to track ordinance hits).

military hardware is weird though, cause you've got this fusion of tech from the 60s, 80s, and today all mixed together. hell, when in south america, ADF is still used (revolutionary 1920s technology).

i know it's probably just a throw away comment, but just in case I do like to clear up misconceptions (and there really are a lot of gaps between how the public thinks the military/war works and reality).

Believe it or not they are still maintaining and using some items from WWII.
I no longer do it but from 2009-2011 I did some direct government contracting. It was usually small replacement parts, all parts had names and part numbers but many times it didn't say what they went on. I received
a lot of blueprints that had dates on them with the last revisions being in the
1940's with the materials and processes used long obsolete. (Of course you then just used the modern equivalent or better) I did see some that were
missile parts with dates from the 60's. Never been in the military but I am
pretty sure we still have old missiles siting in silos pointed all over the place.
Somebody just gives them a once over and replaces anything that degraded
over time and makes it good as new. We landed on the moon in 1969 so I
am sure a lot of that 50 year old technology is good enough in a lot of situations.

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob

Believe it or not they are still maintaining and using some items from WWII.
I no longer do it but from 2009-2011 I did some direct government contracting. It was usually small replacement parts, all parts had names and part numbers but many times it didn't say what they went on. I received
a lot of blueprints that had dates on them with the last revisions being in the
1940's with the materials and processes used long obsolete. (Of course you then just used the modern equivalent or better) I did see some that were
missile parts with dates from the 60's. Never been in the military but I am
pretty sure we still have old missiles siting in silos pointed all over the place.
Somebody just gives them a once over and replaces anything that degraded
over time and makes it good as new. We landed on the moon in 1969 so I
am sure a lot of that 50 year old technology is good enough in a lot of situations.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mili...uipD03POxaA%3D

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob

Believe it or not they are still maintaining and using some items from WWII.
I no longer do it but from 2009-2011 I did some direct government contracting. It was usually small replacement parts, all parts had names and part numbers but many times it didn't say what they went on. I received
a lot of blueprints that had dates on them with the last revisions being in the
1940's with the materials and processes used long obsolete. (Of course you then just used the modern equivalent or better) I did see some that were
missile parts with dates from the 60's. Never been in the military but I am
pretty sure we still have old missiles siting in silos pointed all over the place.
Somebody just gives them a once over and replaces anything that degraded
over time and makes it good as new. We landed on the moon in 1969 so I
am sure a lot of that 50 year old technology is good enough in a lot of situations.

Wow, that sounds like government efficiencies. Who would have thought. "It is old but still works so why replace it."

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Wow, that sounds like government efficiencies. Who would have thought. "It is old but still works so why replace it."

well... sort of. the whole push for new bombers right now is because the old "still working ones" are actually really (really) expensive, since they break a lot and some of the parts aren't even made anymore, worn out A-frames, designs not made with maintenance in mind and all that. I could bore you with details, but... eh. generally stuff isn't just replaced for no reason though (f22/35 program excluded).

[Buffalo Bob]

The large font that now seems prevalent on all sports websites (ESPN, FOX, CBS etc) It seems they have all copied each others format. Also anytime you
click on a game recap or even look up scores a video immediately starts up
with some loud blowhard screaming at you. I don't understand the point of
videos immediately running on all pages, annoying as hell to me. What is the purpose and they aren't selling anything.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob

The large font that now seems prevalent on all sports websites (ESPN, FOX, CBS etc) It seems they have all copied each others format. Also anytime you
click on a game recap or even look up scores a video immediately starts up
with some loud blowhard screaming at you. I don't understand the point of
videos immediately running on all pages, annoying as hell to me. What is the purpose and they aren't selling anything.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir.../flashstopper/

This drive me insane too, ESPECIALLY when I'm at work and starts BLASTING.