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24 (meters circular error probable) big fan of radars

pastmind12.bsky.social @pastmind12.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

still thinking about how brave it was for serious sam 3 to give us a living helicopter tentacle monster enemy. i feel like people don't appreciate that fact enough

Serious Sam 3: BFE's 'Technopolyp' enemy:
Some kind of giant space octopus creature fused with an AH-64 Apache. Several large sucker-coated tentacles flail to the front and sides of the aircraft, while the cockpit is entirely covered by two bluish-purple eyes.

Somewhere in the lore it's mentioned these things fuse with the machinery deep enough that they can regenerate the mechanical parts if damaged, so I'm willing to bet this thing is mostly using the TADS/PNVS to see, rather than its biological eyes.

The Apache model used here definitely isn't 100% accurate, but I'm willing to give some leeway to an arcade shooter from 2011.

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pastmind12.bsky.social @pastmind12.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

attention all targeting pods: i am going to smooch you

AN/ASQ-153 Pave Spike mounted to an F-4 Phantom, head-on close up showing camera and laser designator

AN/ASQ-153 Pave Spike mounted to an F-4 Phantom, view from below with the pod's camera angled downwards

Tragically low resolution image of an AN/AAQ-28 Litening pod

AN/AAQ-28 Litening pod with the front cover removed, showing a clear view of its optics and other internals.

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pastmind12.bsky.social @pastmind12.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

libreoffice draw just crashed on me when i tried to get it to export a copy of a 1000+ page NATO joint research report edited to include a bunch of plane porn about 2/3rds of the way in. highly likely this is due to the doc size or user error but i choose to believe mark rutte personally stopped me

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pastmind12.bsky.social @pastmind12.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

day 251 of waiting for heatblur to announce a buttplug based on their AN/APQ-120 sidelobe visualization.

A screenshot of Heatblur's APQ-120 beam shape visualization from about 2 minutes into their "DCS: F-4E - Episode IV - RADAR Pt. 1" video. It's a roughly conical shape (as the context suggests), but it has several pronounced ridges near its base. It's also rather spikey in places, so surely one would need to smooth out the shape quite a bit if they intended to use it safely. Then again, when has that ever stopped anyone?

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