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  1. Born Hunter
    Don't those 100'000 ton US supercarriers have like 5000+ crew aboard, including aircrew etc? Mental! Yes, it is mate. Although many powers around the world are looking to acquire their own carriers the Russian and Chinese 'carrier killer' missiles might really change Naval doctrine re the use of carriers. It's an interesting and somewhat concerning arms race.
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    Indeed. Automation and networking is the future. For instance those 70'000 ton carriers, will be manned by just 700 crew (ships company) as a result of comprehensive automation. Compared with the French Charles de Gaulle, 42'000 ton carrier, 1350. I've read that as few as two F-35s can provide the command and control capability that an AWACS traditionally would! All assets are becoming more integrated so the sensors on one can direct the weapons of another. Future developments will be largely in these areas I think.
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    They were in the UK military. I think the USMC and Italians still operate them. The F-35B is a 'jump-jet' like them though. There is endless controversy over the Government's decision to have STOVL carriers rather than conventional CATOBAR ones. But it's what we have now and given our history with the Harrier fleet, it's sorta "what us Brits do!".
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    The Welsh lads should recognise the red dragon on each side of HMS Dragon's bow. A ship strongly affiliated with Wales and providing air defence to the carrier in the pics.
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    The UK carriers are designed for Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft. Like the Harriers of old. They are able to direct their thrust downward to give lift, reducing the need for forward speed and therefore runway space needed.
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    That thrust vectoring nozzle makes it look like something straight out of Transformers!
  7. Born Hunter
    I’ve posted updates on this over the years. Here’s some more for those interested...
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    Same with the US really. I was watching Cam Hanes and Joe Rogan talking hunting yesterday and they said "they don't hunt in England". f***ing LOL! There are plenty of lads here that'll grass more deer in a season than them boys will in their lives combined! Still, a few things I really do envy yanks and Canadians for is their wilderness, public lands, big/dangerous game and the choice of 'weapon'. I reckon I could hack tags, reg's and limits for such a variety of true adventure hunts. I do appreciate Ted's contributions on here for that reason.
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    I had a set of at2s, which looked good (tread pattern) but handled like shit on wet roads. Put me off Generals tbh. Got Cooper at3s now, much better on road and equal off.
  10. Born Hunter
    "Ahem-bowhuntthem-ahem" ? ?
  11. Born Hunter
    Refreshing attitude. Many modern keepers are as keen on lurchers as they are shooting and wont deny themselves the full richness of British fieldsports because of prejudices from centuries gone. There's a lot to be gain for an open minded dogman with a similar view. Too much sport to be had in the UK and abroad to be handicapped by prejudice.
  12. Born Hunter
    How can you justify or condemn anything without knowing the facts? General comments... Well keepered land will give booming game populations and the single most important factor in hare populations has been proven to be keepering, not how they are killed. Also, there is several hundred quids worth of game laying there, I doubt it was wasted. Rifling hares may be disgusting to coursing men, just like dogging deer may be disgusting to a stalker. I think a bit of humility would go a long way. Better yet, invest in a chunk of land and keeper it to the benefit of the wildlife and harvest
  13. Born Hunter
    This is how I imagine Jigsaw rearing kelpie pups!
  14. Born Hunter
    I just love the aesthetic of skins, fur, horns, bone, antler, waney edged timber, forged iron, rocks, shells etc etc. I had a female mate help me 'dress' my house a few months back and her main comment was "ermmmm, less antlers". I'm looking to Kimmy Greentree and Rachel Carrie for inspiration now. "Hunter sheek" another mate describes it! On my way to the airport we dropped by the tannery with a wet 'salted' skin, bagged it, tagged it, handed over $250(NZ) and left it for Kurt to deal with. In the UK for my deer skins I expect I'll salt heavily then roll and vac pac for a next day deli
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    I hear of all these notoriously high drive type dogs that it's known "need heaps of work daily or they'll turn into monsters" and yet I've seen more than one type in the hands of pragmatic no nonsense dogmen that are as chilled as an ex track greyhound with very little daily work, just consistency and a bit of physical exercise (by no means a lot). I'm not saying they don't exist but I think stockmanship/nurture plays a huge role.
  16. Born Hunter
    Have any of you tried meditation? It's very calming. Together now, "woooooossaaaaaaaaah...................."
  17. Born Hunter
    Here's a few pictures that Kurt took and has just posted. That tanned rug, the cleaned heads and the green cape will hopefully be en-route to the taxidermist. Be a while before they arrive here. In the meantime I'm gonna work on getting some UK skins added to my collection, probably a muntjac and a fallow, now that I have found a tannery.
  18. Born Hunter

    Yoga

    Born Hunter replied to Waz's topic in General Talk

    Not had the bottle to do a class but kinda interested....
  19. Born Hunter
    I'm sure I've seen a video of guys coursing warthogs with sighthounds. f**k me, that looked fun! I could spend an awful lot of time chasing Pumbaa and his mates about.
  20. Born Hunter
    The really f****d up thing is that that is normal for a human. It's just not normal for what humans are today... We've become somewhat blinded as to what our bodies are capable of because of our 'unnatural' lifestyles. The old Homo Sapien is a pretty amazing individual!
  21. Born Hunter
    That requires a level of maturity just below the level of being able to walk away from a pointless argument. Which is still far too much to expect on this forum! I think the Mods need the power to shadow block, because no c**t on here will do it off their own backs.
  22. Born Hunter
    I think everyone needs to learn that it's OKAY to have different opinions. In fact, it's OKAY to be the only one with that opinion. And that it's okay to say "okay" and move along.
  23. Born Hunter
    Never seen one beheaded but everything else is consistent with a high speed impact after being shot. Almost certain the branch would have done it.
  24. Born Hunter
    That's all the 'good'. The 'bad' is right around the next corner. When AI becomes comprehensively better than humans at everything it'll have serious consequences we will either have to rapidly adapt to or become enslaved by. Especially when combined with engineering advances, essentially revolutionising autonomous machines for everything. For instance, What are the societal implications of almost every human becoming redundant in every job/task because a machine does it better? What are the implications of a military that is completely autonomous (not just weapons syst
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    I don't really want to get into it either but I would just say that AI doesn't require consciousness/sentience to be catastrophically dangerous to it's Homo Sapien creators.
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