Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
by protomyth on Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:37PM
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I am told the gun is also quite good at shooting ground troops. A relative of mine had an A-10 stay with his group most of the night. Every time the enemy decided to go after them the A-10 came back and made them rethink their actions.
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Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
by astrodust on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:31PM
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That zipper noise: To think that those are 30mm rounds being fired at that speed is just plain scary. http://www.xdtalk.com/attachments/img_7014-jpg.34438/
If one of those is lingering, I wouldn't even fight if I was the enemy.
It might not be able to kill a modern main battle tank, but I bet spraying it with rounds like that would fuck it up pretty seriously.
Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
by hermitdev on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:58PM
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The A-10 delivers rounds at a rate that the individual shots are indistinguishable to the the human ear.
Another story that I've heard is that a B-1 flying at operational altitude (200 ft above ground level, mach 2) was often as effective as dropping munitions.
Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
by dotancohen on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:08AM
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> Another story that I've heard is that a B-1 flying at operational altitude (200 ft above ground level, mach 2) was often as effective as dropping munitions.
That very topic is being discussed right now on the Aviation Stack Exchange: http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/35771/is-it-corr...
Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
by ravingraven on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:55AM
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The B-1 can not even reach Mach 1 at such a lot altitude. It's maximal operating velocity (at any altitude) is Mach 1.25.
People tend to really underestimate how much harder it is to go faster once you reach 0.90 or so, especially at low altitudes.