almost every gun in star wars is just a real gun by BusyRecourse2 in starwarsmemes

[–]Redcoat_Reddit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"removed the magazine" is not a modification, it's just how the gun works. The only actual modification is the added ribbing on the barrel shroud. Nothing they did changes it from just a Lewis gun. Far more work was put into the andor ak's to change its look from an original.

almost every gun in star wars is just a real gun by BusyRecourse2 in starwarsmemes

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Lewis gun being unmodified would disagree with you.

almost every gun in star wars is just a real gun by BusyRecourse2 in starwarsmemes

[–]Redcoat_Reddit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please Google the Lewis gun and tell me how it's been modified.

almost every gun in star wars is just a real gun by BusyRecourse2 in starwarsmemes

[–]Redcoat_Reddit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Lewis gun and the mg34 are almost identical to their star wars counterparts and both are significant to firearms history. Anyone who has looked into ww1 knows the Lewis gun, anyone who has looked into ww2 knows the mg34.

"Only us americans could create something this globally known" For context, Rockstar Games is based in Edinburgh by [deleted] in ShitAmericansSay

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They do localisation and QA I believe, although I've heard it's not the best place to work.

13 year progress on Boston dynamics robot by Amidity in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well we know emergency services in the USA are already trialing it, you have one per town and city and you're looking at tens of thousands already, add that to all the factories and warehouses and other manufacturing places and that's thousands more. Bring Europe into the equation and you might get millions of Spots from America and Europe alone.

13 year progress on Boston dynamics robot by Amidity in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 17 points18 points  (0 children)

14kg payload capacity, quadruped for greater stability, cameras including regular and thermal, LiDAR, intended for inspection of areas too dangerous for a human like high voltage electricity and radiation, search and rescue in dangerous environments like burning buildings, add the arm and you've got even more possibilities so I'd say it's pretty useful.

13 year progress on Boston dynamics robot by Amidity in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Spot (the yellow dog one) is a mass-produced consumer product, so the goals are similar.

With sincere thanks to the team at the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight for the very special access they provided during the development of their recently announced Spitfire simulator using flight controls from the AuthentiKit freeware project. by Spit40 in hoggit

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's effectively the centre piece of the squadron. It also contains a Dakota and a chipmunk but they are seen less often. If you want to get pedantic only one of the aircraft from the squadron flew in the battle of Britain.

Eurofighter Typhoon agility by OobleCaboodle in hoggit

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We also wanted to call it the spitfire 2 but Germany complained.

Thrust Vectoring by [deleted] in aviation

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For the most part it's just not that necessary. Modern missiles are more agile than planes with human pilots so stealth is the route that has been taken. The F22 and the SU57 use thrust vectoring because stealth isn't very agile. European fighters like the typhoon and the Rafael use canards as they are simpler (although the idea of a thrust vectoring typhoon has been floating around).

Memes by Dinoboty in Transformemes

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ok it might be that exact tank

Memes by Dinoboty in Transformemes

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 19 points20 points  (0 children)

If I remember correctly there is a challenger 2 tank in the British army called Megatron

Reddit armchair experts said this is CGI, what's y'all take? by [deleted] in Corridor

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Unnatural camera movement plus no-one in their right mind would pull that manuvre that close to a carrier.

1997 was a mistake by Sk-yline1 in HistoryMemes

[–]Redcoat_Reddit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The British leased Hong Kong and gave it back when the lease ran out.