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[HunterT]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ssia-shows -flying-drone-fitted-machine-gun.html

obviously fake but reported as news...

No reason it has to stay fake... I can duct tape(sorry, epoxy) a BBMG to my pals RC chopper.

[Technician1002]

Are drug tests quite common in America? Don't think I know anyone here who has been tested when either applying for a job or working for a company.

When I was in the Navy, random drug tests were common. This was especially true in fields requiring a security clearance.

My current employer required one for employment.

I got an Aids test and drug test for health and life insurance. Same again for my Visa to another country.

Insurance companies don't want to write policies for people with high risk factors.

So far I have failed all drug tests.. No positive results for drugs ever.

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

No reason it has to stay fake... I can duct tape(sorry, epoxy) a BBMG to my pals RC chopper.

If you can keep the weight down...

Let's take a reasonably priced (sub $500) kit like this.

Maximum payload is just over half a kilo - would you be able to make a viable BBMG (including barrel, valve, trigger servo, BB chamber, BBs & air chamber) to that weight?

It's an interesting challenge but I want to finish the sentry gun first.

[MrCrowley]

Since watching the movie Idi I Smotri the other week, I decided to tackle a bunch of WWII films that I had heard about but not seen. Today I got bored and made a list of all the WWII films that I can recall seeing:

The Bridge on the River Kwai - 1957
The Guns Of Navarone - 1961
The Longest Day - 1962
The Great Escape - 1963
The Dirty Dozen - 1967
The Bridge At Remagen - 1968
Where Eagles Dare - 1968
Battle of Britain - 1969
Kelly's Heroes - 1970
Patton - 1970
Tora! Tora! Tora! - 1970
The Eagle Has Landed - 1976
A Bridge Too Far - 1977
Cross Of Iron - 1977
Soldaat van Oranje - 1977
The Big Red One - 1980
Das Boot - 1981
Idi I Smotri - 1985
Schindler's List - 1993
Stalingrad - 1993
The Thin Red Line - 1998
Saving Private Ryan - 1998
U-571 - 2000
Conspiracy - 2001
Enemy At The Gates - 2001
Pearl Harbour - 2001
The Pianist - 2002
Windtalkers - 2002
Saints And Soldiers - 2003
Der Untergang - 2004
Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage - 2005
The Great Raid - 2005
Flags Of Our Fathers - 2006
Letters From Iwo Jima - 2006
Die Fälscher - 2007
Valkyrie - 2008
Defiance - 2008

I've got a much smaller list of WWII films that I've yet to see. Anyone have some recommendations? There are some films not included that may relate to WWII (like The Great Dictator) or take place during WWII but aren't strictly about WWII.

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Anyone have some recommendations?

Yes. Unsee U-571. And Pearl Harbour.

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also good, but WWI:

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These days I just watch the action scenes on youtube though, I hate it when they feel the need to shoehorn romance into the story.

[HunterT]

Maximum payload is just over half a kilo - would you be able to make a viable BBMG (including barrel, valve, trigger servo, BB chamber, BBs & air chamber) to that weight?

I don't know because I haven't tried it, yet...

[MrCrowley]

Unsee U-571. And Pearl Harbour

Nearly didn't put them (and Windtalkers) on the list but they make up numbers so what the hell. I didn't recognise Dark Blue World's English name but I had heard of Tmavomodrý svet on IMDB and had it on my list of movies to see. Paschendale looks visually impressive, but as you say it's a pity they felt the need to shoehorn romance in to the story.

I almost prefer the older films just because they would borrow 25 C-47's or organise large parachute drops because they didn't have the option of using CGI. Though, it's annoying when a film like Patton can't even get one type of tank from WWII and instead have both Allies and Germans using 50s American tanks; at least The Big Red One had the Germans using a tank from WWII, even if it were a dressed-up Sherman.

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

I don't know because I haven't tried it, yet...

Certainly an interesting challenge. I would envision BBs stored in the air chamber, and a detent blocker "valve" directly operated by the servo for maximum efficiency and minimum weight.

I almost prefer the older films just because they would borrow 25 C-47's or organise large parachute drops because they didn't have the option of using CGI.

I have the complete opposite opinion, because they always compromised in older films (seeing the Buchóns in Battle of Britain always makes me cringe for example) and its always painfully obvious when they use models.

One notable exception (at least in my memory, saw it ages ago) was Tora Tora Tora, the efforts they madeto create accurate replicas were quite remarkable.

Here's another little known film I recommend: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329042/

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A very honest and down-to-earth production that makes no pretences of hollywood glory.

Also if you haven't seen it, 9th company is a nice Russian epic of their conflict in Afghanistan.

[MrCrowley]

I have the complete opposite opinion, because they always compromised in older films (seeing the Buchóns in Battle of Britain always makes me cringe for example) and its always painfully obvious when they use models.

One notable exception (at least in my memory, saw it ages ago) was Tora Tora Tora, the efforts they madeto create accurate replicas were quite remarkable.

That's funny, I was about to offer Tora! Tora! Tora! as the best example of how old films could use models to make such moments come to life. I watched it again yesterday, and am quite pleased I did, as I didn't recall much of it from when my Grandad showed it to me as a kid. People criticise the first half of the film for being boring but I thought it built the suspense quite well if you weren't already familiar with the exact events leading up to Dec. 7.

Apparently the models of the battleships are on display somewhere and they're even more magnificent in real life.

Battle of Britain was a decent watch, the obvious green-screened scenes were the most annoying for me but fortunately the awesome shots of planes crashing in to the sea/ground made up for them. The bombing of the British airbase was quite awesome too; I get sick of the Hollywood bombs/grenades that are basically giant balls of fire. I knew BoB used Spanish planes for the Germans but I didn't know this: "Buchons also played the Bf 109's opposition, the Hawker Hurricane, in one scene in Battle of Britain"

Like I said, it was better than seeing a poorly disguised, iron cross-bearing, Sherman in The Big Red One or the unrecognisable tanks in Patton. Kelly's Heroes did a good job with the T-34 Tiger I, apparently Saving Private Ryan used the same tank.

I don't really know my WWII machines and weaponry as well as I probably should so a plane that is touched up to look like a Me109 or Zero will get by me most of the time. I did pick up the American soldier using a 91/30 Mosin with a PU scope in Kelly's Heroes but since he had tied an American bayonet to it, one can assume he found it on a German (perhaps transferred from the Eastern front) or traded with someone rather than the producers not being able to track down a Springfield.

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

I don't really know my WWII machines and weaponry as well as I probably should so a plane that is touched up to look like a Me109 or Zero will get by me most of the time.

I think this is my problem, I don't blame film makers for not making the effort sometimes because for probably more than 95% of the viewing public, this would be a more than accurate representation of what Manfred von Richthofen flew in the first world war:



I would be spitting blood, but most people would be more interested in the human story and drama than historical accuracy.

[MrCrowley]

I wouldn't lump myself with the crowd who'd give a pass on something like that but if they use a M4 Sherman with a 76mm gun in a 1943-set film or a Yugoslavian M53 instead of MG42 I wouldn't know enough to be upset.

If they ever use an American sub as a German U-boat, I'll walk out of the film

edit: now to decide my top 10 scores/songs from that list of films.

[POLAND_SPUD]

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dear santa

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

dear santa

I actually touched one of these at MAKS in Moscow in 2009

edit: found avideo of it hehe

[velocity3x]

Here's a relic from the cold war days. I live about 15 minutes from YPG. Last week I went there to look around. Anyone recognize this "Spud Gun", which now is no more than a lawn ornament?

[STHORNE]

Since watching the movie Idi I Smotri the other week, I decided to tackle a bunch of WWII films that I had heard about but not seen. Today I got bored and made a list of all the WWII films that I can recall seeing:.......

Umm....Where's Forrest Gump my good sir?