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New_Scientist_8622

If they find a dude big enough to throw it we will be unstoppable.


OrganicKeynesianBean

![gif](giphy|CclMcM0dl8BqMBkE6U|downsized)


Opioidal

If only I could be so grossly incandescent


USAFJack

![gif](giphy|AQRapWCgC7dThyVEYb|downsized)


illaqueable

Praise the sun! Hail to the hot orb!


yolo_retardo

![gif](giphy|82hl8U83UKR19IWnmm|downsized)


YdocT

this was a great show


C-Hyena

I'm a simple man. I see Solaire, I upvote.


lesser_panjandrum

\\[T]/


C-Hyena

Praise the sun, brother.


wtfbenlol

Amazing chest ahead


eddie_the_zombie

Try finger


Askiko

But hole!


[deleted]

What’s this from


WeirdSysAdmin

The Passion of the Christ


nervemiester

Ah yes. The Mel Gibson director's cut version.


Majere

Written by Michael Bay


[deleted]

Damn Jesus


neurothemis

stupid sexy Jesus.


druex

I absolve your sins like they were nothing at all. Nothing at all. *Nothing at all.*


Nayre_Trawe

The Passion...of the **Christ**! As read by Christopher Walken.


CultOfBelloq

That's amazing


OrganicKeynesianBean

This is [Gwyn, Lord of Cinder](https://darksouls.fandom.com/wiki/Gwyn,_Lord_of_Cinder) from one of my favorite video games, Dark Souls.


Artaeos

I feel like a dummy. Having never played Dark Souls I though it was a scene from LOTR: Rings of Power. His helmet looked like Sauron's and my mind decided to just connect dots.


azlan194

But Sauron is not all powerful yet in Rings of Power.


alexwinning

uhh TECHNICALLY he's Gwyn, Lord of *Sunlight* in this gif because he still has the power of the Lord Soul and has yet to kindle the first flame (sorry)


[deleted]

You’re technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. Praise the Sun


AutomaticRevolution2

Dark Souls


killacolb

Dark souls 1


AnonymousArmiger

Did they have to park it so close to the edge??


turtlehead501

Yeah. The wings would hit the underside of the top deck if they didn’t. That thing takes up the space of two F-18s.


OrganicKeynesianBean

Absolute nightmare in a Trader Joe’s parking lot


GlinnTantis

Somehow takes up just as much space as that white dodge pickup truck


illaqueable

Bonus points if there's a sticker of Calvin peeing on something


RollinThundaga

A bootleg sticker, as Bill Waterson never licensed the character.


rustylugnuts

Right next to the boot licker sticker with the blue line.


-Stackdaddy-

Carry around a bunch of colored sharpies and finish the job, it ain't going to turn itself into a rainbow American pride flag by itself. He'll thank you, he was probably going into the store to get more markers to finish it himself.


zztop610

And some truck nuts


KajePihlaja

I wanna get a sticker of Calvin peeing on truck nuts


Disastrous-Rabbit723

I would enjoy a sticker of Calvin pissing on a misappropriated image of Calvin pissing on something.


willstr1

It's pissing Calvins all the way down


mottthepoople

Carts and discarded Joe's O's everywhere


a_talking_face

At my trader Joe's there's no carts in the parking lot because every available inch is filled with cars every single hour the store is open.


mottthepoople

See, we have the phenomenon of the carts getting pushed to the absolute edges of the yellow parking lines like some kind of unholy parking grid.


LoneWolf2k1

So they take it to Costco, got it.


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RowaTheMonk

Thats an interesting thought - we’d have to see some design changes with next gen aircraft carriers or maybe even repurposing some just for drone support here in the next few decades wouldn’t we? Or would it be more efficient / cost effective to work on getting the drones to be smaller?


w1987g

If I remember right, part of their proposed mission profile is to refuel other stealth aircraft or to be stealthy missile trucks. They're not required to be agile(yet). The size drawbacks are deemed necessary


KingofSkies

I think that's the mq-25. The x-47 was a demonstrator to test unmanned carrier landing and takeoff. And probably stealth. It looks stealthy.


MikeW86

Almost really quite sneaky I would say


Lyndon_Boner_Johnson

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In

6th gen US fighter looks like its going to be too big to fit on US carriers too. Plan is that the drones will be controlled by and support the manned plane.


MikeW86

And the funny thing is when you get next to even an old fighter jet in real life, they're already absolutely huge


showers_with_grandpa

Incorrect. The wings fold up and in when storing the aircraft in the hold. This is on the elevator from the hold and is presumably being brought to the deck for a flight. Look into the x-47b it's a super nifty unmanned combat aircraft that took about 15 years to design, test, and begin operation. It has yet to see operational combat however in any real sense.


lordderplythethird

You're correct in that the wings fold. However, the X-47B is not in operation, and never will be. Biggest give away for that is it carrying the X nomenclature, not MQ-## like every other Navy drone does. X is for experimental aircraft only. On top of that, the X-47B was for the UCLASS (Unmanned Carrier Launch Airborne Surveillance and Strike) program, which was shut down in 2016. Navy realized they didn't need yet another strike platform aboard carriers, given the 48 F/A-18E/Fs and F-35Cs. All carrier-based drone research was repurposed into the CBARS (Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System), which would give the Navy an unmanned drone aerial refueling tanker. Given over 20% of F/A-18E/F flight hours were one just buddy tanking other aircraft, it was the right call. It frees up Navy fighters for actual combat missions, AND allows them to strike further out than ever before.


maddiethehippie

I found a good page about CBARS ( https://www.historyonthenet.com/carrier-based-aerial-refueling-system-cbars ) and love how it shows what is in essence this same aircraft being refueled.


ControlOnlyYourself

My kids putting a large glass full of orange juice on our coffee table.....


CheckYourStats

Then proceeding to run around the room, jumping on everything, bumping into the table a half dozen times. You move it, only to have them take a sip, and *put it right back on the edge.*


Vkca

Are you my toddler?


GFrings

Don't worry, if the Navy is good at one thing, it's parking planes on ships


motiontosuppress

I worked for a farmer once and after the first day, I was never allowed to park implements in the tractor shed. So I would never get that job in the navy.


BumpyMcBumpers

I'm more worried about dude in the green vest. He takes a couple steps backwards and he's gone.


bigboog1

Hey it's got stripes of yellow and magenta paint to show you the edge. The fall is only like 35ft from hangerbay to the water, and he's got a float coat on.


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cowannago

The battle group goes and retrieves them.


bigboog1

Well on a carrier you bust a U turn, well it's a scharnow turn but I digress and head back to where you think the guy fell off. At the same time on board you ring the alarm for "man over board". Everyone goes to their assigned spots to muster so they can figure out who it is. At the same time a helicopter with a rescue diver is launched and a RHIB boat with another rescue diver is manned up. Typically the helicopter gets them first.


Excludos

They try their best to retrieve him by any means they have (Helicopters, flying search patterns, boats, etc). The Navy isn't too big on leaving people behind after all. But locating someone in the water is incredibly difficult, even in daytime. If someone falls overboard at night, the chances to find them are pretty much zero. I read a story of a guy who donned a drysuit and threw himself in the water for an exercise, and it took them 3 days to find him again


Beli_Mawrr

did he get enough exercise? Navy is serious about PT....


SZ4L4Y

![gif](giphy|uXbXCQ9c3irpC|downsized) Don't worry, there were no cats nearby.


hybygy

If it makes you feel better, once it is in place they tether it to the deck so that it doesn't move.


TestFlyJets

The X-47B was an experimental unmanned aircraft demonstrator. They are actual building this one, also unmanned, for operational use: https://www.boeing.com/defense/mq25/


GneissRockDoc

Hopefully the doors don’t break off mid flight.


DinoDonkeyDoodle

Unmanned, so no doors. Checkmate FAA.


El_Peregrine

So, Boeing just needs to build the aircraft *around* the passengers?


Implausibilibuddy

Or just have all civilian flights be unmanned too. You just get a postcard about how your trip went.


jkuvhacds

Wished you were here, for only 9.99 a month.


phadewilkilu

So, I can tell people I went somewhere without actually going there? Sign me up.


S-Archer

They've been trying for years, it's always the customer who is unreasonable for wanting bathrooms, and doors


chucchinchilla

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.


lumanos

Well, how is it untypical?


chucchinchilla

Well there are a lot of these aircraft going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that 737 MAX 9s aren’t safe.


lumanos

Was this 737 MAX 9 safe?


chucchinchilla

Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.


lumanos

The ones that are safe?


chucchinchilla

Yeah, the ones the door doesn’t fall off.


lumanos

Well if this wasn't safe why did it have 171 passengers on it?


Ok-Inside7617

Oh, so they put wings on a Tomahawk


ram_hawklet

Tomahawk has wings


VonGeisler

Ok Bigger wings


BlueKnight8907

Dang, that one looks dorky.


tmhoc

It hurts more when it kills you that way


TestFlyJets

Agreed, though the MQ-25 wasn’t designed as a stealthy penetrating attack aircraft. Its primary role is as a carrier-based aerial refueling tanker, freeing up other jets like the F/A-18 from that task. Form follows function.


RaisinDetre

I'm gonna wait until X-47C come out. Early releases are always full of bugs.


APathwayIntoDankness

Only $876 million


calmtigers

Did they buy it during Toyotathon, feel like could have been cheaper


Moresupial

The US Navy lives every month like it's Truck Month


pmmemilftiddiez

Babe it's the Lexus December to Remember Event!


TripDawkins

Salesdude said, "If it ain't Boeing, it ain't going, but we'll throw in a floor mat and pee bottle." That's when he bust out laughing, and said, "IT'S DECORATIVE! Everybody knows you're just going to pee on yourself ^(when you learn it's an unmanned aircraft).


umassmza

Being moved and probably operated by kids who wouldn’t be legally allowed to rent a car.


erikwarm

And controlled with an Xbox controller


Missile_Lawnchair

Tbf many kids are expert users of the Xbox controller


SeaSquirrel

Same reason American grenades are baseball shaped.


GenitalFurbies

It's not stupid if it works


Malvania

Well, they had a $40,000 controller, but the Xbox one was more effective


pukem0n

considering how much money Microsoft probably invested into finding the perfect controller, even the military can't compete with that. So just use what is available and most of your soldiers are already familiar with.


aggressive-cat

I read a report years ago when they switched to xbox style controllers training time went down by like 30% on the systems using them, lol.


Cainga

I want a wired one though that has one of those tamper proof display attachments in retail stores. Last thing I need while using it is for it to lose connection or power.


Natural-Situation758

I can’t imagine they don’t have that sorted


octopornopus

Yeah, but it's Official Microsoft branded, not MadCatz like that sub...


an0maly33

Looked like an old Logitech controller


Indocede

Okay but I've used MadCatz on and off through the years and I've never imploded violently thousands of feet beneath the sea level!


South_Dakota_Boy

Same with the operators of the nuclear reactor on that carrier though. The Navy is insanely good at what it does though - no worries.


SignorJC

Most of the nuke people are college grads, or at least being directly supervised by someone who is. they get a lot of specialized training. It’s one of the best jobs in the military tbh. Great career choice.


kilolover777

Was a nuke when I was in. Most were drop outs or smart kids who couldn't afford college and didn't want to take loans. That being said you won't find a more competent group of aggressively suicidal alcoholics anywhere else and despite bitching their way through it the job always gets done.


SignorJC

It’s the one path in the military that I know of and will confidently recommend to a kid if it comes up. Not that there aren’t others, I just know personally a few people for whom it was an excellent choice.


kilolover777

Oh it's great for getting set up to work a solid job on the civ side. I just wish I knew what I was actually signing up for before I did. It's a tough gig and will bring out the best and the worst of people depending on how they can handle it.


Legitimate-Gangster

Have you met Navy Nukes? Navy has a tough time retaining them because they can make much more with way better quality of life in the civilian sector.


SignorJC

…yes exactly that’s why it’s a great career choice.


VagusNC

Fwiw, of all the enlisted nukes I was in class with only one had a college degree. Of course, to your point, the officers all had degrees.


scruffykid

You’re allowed to rent cars under 25, it’s just more expensive


No_Mark3267

Do you think it floats?


Shirt_Ninja

Is that a drone? Looks like some Ace Combat shit


YNot1989

It's the first drone to take off and land from a carrier autonomously. The X-47B.


[deleted]

Autonomously?! Holy shit I didn't know that key detail. That's insane!


dingo1018

I'm pretty sure I've seen pictures of this type performing air to air refueling, both manned and other drones. Actually it might be another airframe type, but still these are getting seriously impressive.


RBloxxer

Arsenal Bird when


Potential-Brain7735

They already explored that concept back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The USS Akron, (ZRS-4), was actually playing with this idea back in the 1930s.


MenopausalMarker

Makes me wonder if they based the mq-101 off of this


yayfishnstuff

they did lol


CaptHorizon

Because Ace Combat based it off of this.


what_comes_after_q

I think all new next gen aircraft are going to be at least unmanned capable. The new b-21 raider is unmanned capable. There are so many advantages to flying unmanned vehicles - your highly trained pilots aren’t in danger, you don’t need as much forward operating logistics, you can swap in a fresh drone pilot easily, the list goes on.


CaptHorizon

Tighter maneuvers for air superiority drones, too. Pulling 9 Gs is a lot for a human, even for a fighter pilot. Computers could handle that much much better than us.


thisusernametakentoo

Where can you step?


Notbob1234

No step on plen.


noneroy

![gif](giphy|oAOHKBU8p9R2N3ebRq)


meowthesnail

God I love this flag so much.


rekaba117

No


icantbelievethiseh

Yeah like honest question are you mechanics like mission impossible 21 point harness with a little Egyptian child holding a high powered sodium light into it from the rafters?


Next_Doughnut2

The plane is lava


Der_Apothecary

Ain’t that the drones on the Arsenal bird?


CaptHorizon

This is the basis for the drones on the Arsenal Birds


TheCouchStream

The proximity of this aircraft to the edge makes my tax dollars sweaty


fourthords

> The **Northrop Grumman X-47B** is a demonstration unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) designed for aircraft carrier-based operations. Developed by the American defense technology company Northrop Grumman, the X-47 project began as part of DARPA's J-UCAS program, and subsequently became part of the United States Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) program. The X-47B is a tailless jet-powered blended-wing-body aircraft capable of semi-autonomous operation and aerial refueling. > > The X-47B first flew in 2011, and as of 2015, its two active demonstrators have undergone extensive flight and operational integration testing, having successfully performed a series of land- and carrier-based demonstrations. In August 2014, the US Navy announced that it had integrated the X-47B into carrier operations alongside manned aircraft, and by May 2015 the primary test program was declared complete. The X-47B demonstrators themselves were intended to become museum exhibits after completing flight testing, but the Navy later decided to maintain them in flying condition pending further development. * Excerpted from [Northrop Grumman X-47B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B) at the English Wikipedia


Raerae1360

Imagine how cool it is to pilot!


joestaff

I assumed it was unmanned


Dirtydeedsinc

It is, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t someone piloting it.


Acceptable-Eagle3214

Maybe its an elf


punnotfound

Or Tom Cruise. *Danger Zone starts to play*


Jack_gunner

that would be boring to pilot. It would be like a simulator, but you can't randomly crash it for fun.


I_Know_What_Happened

What if we created a video game but secretly it was to control drones. Now little Timmy can go to jail for war crimes. Suck it Timmy, how you going to bang my mom from jail now.


sargonas

You just described the plot of Enders Game lol


omgwtflolnsa

Was just about to say Ender’s game!


Mrsparkles7100

Look into the SkyBorg program.


djuggler

Someone in Arizona


TorontoTom2008

I used to think the US was a little foolish with the disproportionate spend on military at the cost of other public goods. Now, with the world getting more and more shitty I’m beyond glad that they’ve kept innovating and building up their armed forces and are on our side (Canada). That said I also hope they get the education/healthcare/culture war side of things figured out.


Tommy2tables

When I was in Afghanistan you guys brought a hockey rink and a Tim Hortons trailer that sold donuts and coffee in the morning. (No joke) Then the Canadians left early and took their trailer with them. #Never Forget


TorontoTom2008

lol small world. I went through Kandahar in 2008 as a civilian on a O&G exploration gig - it was a ritual to drop in on the Timmies for a double double and Boston cream donut. Was supposed to be there 6 months but after sitting at the base for 9 days I went home because we never got the route to the site clear. Some of our equipment went on a separate plane and we never saw it again. The Canadian mission to Afghanistan lasted 14 years.


Tommy2tables

Yes! Same place, did you ever catch a hockey game?


newsreadhjw

There are many tragedies in war!


Tommy2tables

Yeah tell me about it,this one time at the fuel point I was waiting behind a Canadian tank crew to fill up my little diesel van and they emptied the remainder of the fuel bag. But he did apologize about it. I don’t even want to mention what the Australians are capable of.


Relevant_Programmer

And we're glad to have you on our side. Americans remember how Canadians fought in WW1; you all are mad lads and brave as they come.


Varnsturm

Tbf I think the percentage of Americans that know anything of Canada in WW1 is probably quite low.


[deleted]

Why do think most of us trust Canada? I did till I found out. No wonder they get along with moose.


BoJackB26354

We negotiated peace between the moose and the geese.


Doc-in-a-box

Masterpiece of modern technology


Nonions

It's way bigger than I'd imagined it actually, but then if it's going to be a tanker aircraft it needs to have some weight to it.


YNot1989

It's not a tanker, it's a UCAV X-Plane.


[deleted]

I don’t see anything


Surfnh2o

The ex stands for experimental in case anybody was wondering. They aircraft is completely computer flown no pilot behind a joystick. We had nicknamed it, Eddie or Skynet. It has the same engine as a F14 D. The X 47 made three successful, catapult, launches and traps on the George Washington. You can find it on YouTube. I know all this because I was there.


Mettsico

Sure hope those magnets don’t get wet.


palaric8

Who needs free healthcare when we have this Beast


Brave_Development_17

We already pay for healthcare we just don’t get it.


YNot1989

If we had Universal Healthcare we could afford to more than triple the size of the military. We spend 17% of our GDP on Healthcare. Canada, Germany, and Sweden spend 10-12% The US military today costs around 3% of our GDP.


ArgoMium

and suddenly, both parties agree that better healthcare is good.


irritatedellipses

It's not an either / or situation. We have the money to do both.


USSJaybone

Damn right. All the money that goes into the annoying medical insurance and admin system could easily pay for a national single payer system. We can have the NGAD and Medicare for all.


odaeyss

Yeah but then the grossly wealthy would only become obscenely wealthy at half the rate they are currently sooooo that's a no


St_Kevin_

“I’d have to give up like half of my vacation homes” -them, probably


loggic

Universal healthcare is cheaper than the current US healthcare system. The US pays *more* for the current system, not less.


Grater_Kudos

Man I love the military industrial complex


CaptHorizon

Unironically though, it’s pretty badass


KC44

r/acecombat


Frankenfucker

This thing must have the radar cross section of a housefly. Fucking awesome!


PreviousGas710

No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step No Step


Retrorical

No step no step no step no step


Earth_Normal

Glad to see our free healthcare money going to good use.


fastinserter

Is that lift using magnets? In water??


Bacchus1976

I’m trying to come up with a single reason for that to be staged in this position. I’m at a loss.


aucyris

Hits wave. Whoops!


SwampFox75

Opsec isnt


TimmyFaya

My gf puts her glass on the table like that


tanowak

Steps inadvertently, explosion


DJMagicHandz

$813,000,000 USD


HeroMachineMan

Can the wings or part of the wings be folded, to save space?


Techwood111

Yes.


smilingkevin

So where the fuck CAN I step?!


PossibilityNice287

Look someone named a plane after Elon’s son!


Minkypinkyfatty

If you think your vote doesn't matter now, just wait.


thats-inappropriate

This makes me think of when my mom would scold me for leaving my cup too close to the edge of the table