Cool Stuff

Okay, There is a Funny Stuff thread, but how about some Cool stuff. post up videos or pictures, music or anything you thought was cool and let people know about it.

"Meet Kitty Cornershot" - * dramatic song*

(NOTE: That vid might seem a joke but it's actually true, hilarious either way lol)


If you want to get extra info on the CornerShot take a look at my older High Tech and Curious Weaponry thread where I post info on unusual military hardware:
https://taow.forumotion.com/warfare-and-technology-f12/high-tech-and-curious-weaponry-t113.htm

wow!!! thats fucking genius

Definitely, firing behind cover is essential on today's battlefields, specially since the proliferation of automatic weapons begun.

Automatic weapons were produced and distributed like candy during the Cold War, this resulted in HUGE stashes of guns being deployed all around the world (not to mention the growing black market armaments).

Firing behind cover is that much vital if we are to enter a heavy gunfight (special deep in enemy territory, the kind of spec ops mission ).

The CornerShot can be considered to be the modern counterpart of the WW1-era "Periscope Rifle" design (standard rifle along with a board and mirror periscope, specially to avoid "sticking the head out" of the trench (which usually meant to literally "lose" it ).



During both World Wars, soldiers with special/extensive weapon knowledge usually modified their weapons to be able to fire around the corner or over the trench, this includes many snipers (many which are true Legends with confirmed Rambo-like bodycounts ).

In WW2 there was a particularly interesting weapon which had a similar operation, this can be considered the first assault rifle of this type of special purpose weapons, it was the German StG/MP44 Krummlauf (the German WW2 StG44 or MP44 was the first assault rifle, most probably the best and most sophisticated light weapon in WW2, in fact, it had such a great impact that now all armies's standard weapons are assault rifles).

StG44 (aka MP44):



The StG44 Krummlauf:



I call this weapon the "Horny Gun" for obvious reasons :



Not-so-horny :

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The Krummlauf had a bent barrel designed for the StG44, and allowed the shooter for looking and firing around corners with its 30 degree barrel and a periscope-style sight.


Recently there was a boom of CornerShot clones in the Middle East, more precisely the Pakistani POF Eye and an Iranian replica.

POF Eye:


Link for more information on the Iranian variant (which is rumored to probably start to get mass produced in the near future), it also shows a Chinese CornerShot style weapon the HD66 which is very different-looking than the Middle Eastern variants:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/01/31/iran-clones-israeli-cornershot/

Unmanned carrier bomber jet unveiled:

By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Dec 17, 2008 14:28:49 EST

PALMDALE, Calif. — The Navy’s plan for its future carrier air wing took a leap into autonomous flight on Tuesday with the unveiling here of a stealthy, bat wing-like unmanned jet.

Dubbed Air Vehicle 1, the X-47B aircraft is the first of what will be two demonstration aircraft built by Northrop Grumman Corp. It was designed to test the idea of an autonomous airplane that would launch and recover on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and conduct strike and other missions — without the hands-on controls of an onboard pilot. ...

Full story at:
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/12/navy_x47b_121708w/

This is really interesting, I've been keeping an eye on the X-47 Pegasus for some time now, I'd say the US Air Force and Navy are already planning to start to heavily employ and include UCAV's (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles) to do attacker roles in the near future (might be one plausible explanation of the fact that so many F-15's / F-16's and even F/A-18's are being completely replaced by much fewer F-22 / F-35's in the future).









Also interesting was the Pegasus's competitor, the Boeing's X-45.

X-45A:





X-45C (mockup):





The C variant kind of looks like a crossing between a B-2 and a Pegasus.

We are also keen on including UCAV's in the mod (to reflect the large-inclusion of unmanned weapons on the battlefield).

I had a fun thought. I don't remember the name of the movie anymore, but in the move there was an experimental UCAV that went berserk when it was damaged. I was wondering if there was some way in the mod that once the UCAV was damaged there would be some random chance that it would go berserk and attack anything that was near it?

Just a thought.

Stealth,

me and snake had a long ass discussion bout this movie and possible things we could use with taow

Yeah, we talked about two other fictional planes on that movie:
- F/A-37 Talon (the one the main guy flies);



- Su-37 Terminator (fictional 2 seater variant of the Su-37 "Flanker-F").

hey Tusker2Zero check out this vid. it's got that song you were listening to on it and i just think it's awesome.


Retaliation from Zipper5 on Vimeo.

That's an excellent video, is it from Operation Flashpoint?

Armed Assault


but i think u'll prefer this one it's short though but i can't get over it. but the music goes perfect with the vid. all these vids were made during gameplay using the free camera in and the mission editor.


Red Dawn: EndGame U.S Trailer from Sinclair Patrick on Vimeo.

That's an awesome vid, whoever was controlling the camera did an awesome job (excellent camera angles and scenes), the music goes along perfectly

Wow, both of those videos were awesome!

Yeah, I liked the way they made Linkin Park's song "Crawling" fit with that war video. Perfect.

Just throwing this video in here of an MLRS team firing to some cool music.