Is it bad taste to plaster half-naked women on your mecha?

>>15714580

No more than it was to do it on the side of your B-52

>>15714580
Pinup girls have been a thing since WW2. Probably even before.

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>>15714591

B-52's never had pin-up art, they were introduced after the ban.

B-17 would have been a better reference.

>>15714595

>since

Pin-ups were banned very quickly after Korea

>>15714598

>B-52's never had pin-up art, they were introduced after the ban.
>B-17 would have been a better reference.

Oh I never that, or that there was even a ban, thanks for that nugget of knowledge.

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>>15714603

Yeah, it's a shame, the only planes allowed nose-art are one-time-only anniversary craft and the A-10's with their sharkmouths.

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>>15714598
People need to pull some sticks out of their arses.

>>15714611

>Buccaneers

British, anon, not American.

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>>15714611

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>>15714614
I never said they were. I just said that the people behind the ban (which now also applies to the RAF) need to pull their stick from their arse.

Plus the Gulf War Bucks are some of the best examples of lewd nose art being used in a modern context.

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>>15714598
>the ban
Looking it up, it was as stupid as it sounds

>>15714598
>banned to not offend female personnel
>has to be gender neutral
Yeah, it's okay to send boys barely old enough to pay their first taxes to their deaths but it's not okay for them to put up some mildly titillating pictures on the coffins they fly.

>>15714762
Don't forget you can go to war before you can by booze as well.

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>>15714716

>>15714762
Modern combat aviation pilots aren't 18 year olds, they're highly educated, college educated professionals in their 20s at the very least with millions of dollars of training and expertise running through them.

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>>15714770

Kermit is the better Macross pinup model, though

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>>15715764

>>15714580
Whatu gamu?

>>15715764
The best part is that her big brother was the leader of that unit.

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>>15716094
titanfall 2
you can put an anime nose art on the sword wielding teleporting weeb titan

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>>15714580
No problem there, chum. But i would still rather paint a little devil with a gun, shitting a bomb.

>>15716121
Thats a replica, you can tell because real glass doesn't look like that

>>15716640
I dunno man, that tire tread looks pretty convincing. Are you SURE that's not a real airplane?

>>15714580
Hell nah this is the military we're talking about, thats par for the course
Although the black haired girl with a pink background is better on that particular titan

No. But I do question the logic of say, posting a skimpy image of your CO's woefully underage sister on the side of your plane. Just as an example.

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>>15714580
Our pilots in that game are independent mercenary forces, we can showcase whatever the hell we want on the frontier. Now, if only there was a full emblem/decal system in place...

>>15714834
But were they in 1955? Idiot

>>15714580

It might be a trap though.

>>15714611
It was mostly a cost-cutting measure actually.

When fuel budgets started ballooning like a motherfucker, the first things to get the axe were unapproved budget items like noseart and compartment amenities.

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>>15716724

>woefully underage

In-canon the age of consent of the Frontier fleet is around Ranka's age (16) because the powers want to encourage population growth.

>>15714606
What's that tiny door for? Seems like a tight squeeze to enter the cockpit from.

>>15717150
It's for the midget that gets in and cranks the gatling gun.

>>15716930
Yeah?
18 year old recruits weren't piloting B-36's, retard.

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>>15717150
Its the ladder access panel.

>>15716819
Anon, I'll give you three guesses what would happen if there was a custom decal option ...and it involves swatstikas and phalluses at the shallow end

>>15717485
The red baron died at age 25 with years of experience under his belt, and the only reason he wasn't put I sooner was because he was in the trenches and not in the air supply.

Pilots in the world wars were very young, and if there were another war with that kind of need for fighter pilots again you can guarantee they'd be putting 18 year olds in them.

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>>15717703
Air Forces can afford to be picky now days because the airplanes are that much more complex and there are just fewer of them around. 18 year olds flew Fokkers and Sopwiths because those planes were extremely simple in operation and flight compared to a current day fighter or bomber.

>>15717719
How long is the training to become a pilot?

>>15717143
I think the danger has more to do with it being your CO's sister.

>>15717741
The USAF won't even consider you unless you have a bachelors, preferably in something STEM. After that, you need to be commissioned as an officer (which requires completing either OTS, AFA or AFROTC), and after that, undergo a one year training program.
As well, a 3.4 or above GPA is required.
Technically you can try to apply as an 18 year old.

>>15717776
I just want to know how many years does it take. It's 5 where I'm from.

>>15717741
Literally years, and that's assuming that you qualify for training in the first place (for instance, graduating from the academy). Keep in mind that since the planes are expensive as hell, there's a keen interest in making sure that the guy sitting in the cockpit is mentally stable (is emotionally mature), physically able (has good reflexes, is not legally blind, can withstand g-forces) and intellectually capable (can make independent decisions, can make sound judgments of the situation) of operating said plane.

>>15717753

It's a compliment

>>15718229

It's a one way ticket to a suicide mission

>>15718230

>B-b-but boss, I was painting your sister naked on my car as a compliment to her beauty!

>>15717490
Isn't this Ritsuko from those who hunt elves? Where did you get this photo OP?

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>>15719840
/k/.

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>>15714580
i do have some kind of idea to plaster my plamo with animu grills. i just don't know where to find decals that aren't macross or vocaloid.

i want to plaster megumin on GP02 shield

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>>15719993
Some other series can get some model merch with a bunch of decals, worth having a gander on Mandarake to see what you can get..
I plan to throw the Haruka decal on my 1/48 Zaku at some point.

>>15714580
Yes, it's quite demeaning to women
Which is why I do it
:^)

>>15717719
Is that a Haro in there? You motherfuckers.

>>15719993
I hope the im@s paintjobs (or any cute grill skins in general) come back for the new Ace Combat. Made using the F-15E in AH really fun for me.

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Full anatomy pictures are too complex.

Your styling should be more minimalistic

>>15714762

Rules of war are wierd and arbitrary
>Bart, you can push them out of a plane, you can march them off a cliff, you can send them off to die on some God-forsaken rock, but for some reason, you can't slap them. Now apologize to that boy immediately.

>>15714716
I want to bully that plane

I've never understood the idea of "qualifying" to be a soldier. I remember reading an article about a female soldier saying most females don't cut it, saying "most men don't qualify for being soldiers, let alone women".

The fuck is she talking about? If you aren't crippled or outright insane, anyone can be told to shoot someone, and the only motivation you need is "they're gonna kill you if you don't kill them". You think europe cared about "qualification" besides minimal fitness requirements when they sent people into the meat grinder? Fuck no, they just needed more boots on the ground.

This whole "small professional army" shit is gonna go out the window once a REAL war starts and suddenly everyone needs tons of troops.

>>15714580
No, it makes your boner less unreasonable.

>>15725393
If there's a real war soldiers are going to have a life expectancy of like an hour on the battlefield anyway.

>>15721603
i remove idol in my dorito all day in infinity

>>15725393
Most of being a soldier is just marching around and preparing for actual combat.

Other than that you need to make sure they don't panic or run off to do something stupid.

>>15725425
People have been saying that for a while but as a rule a commander isn't going to commit troops unless they've got a chance of winning. Otherwise it's all skirmish and scout, fighting small battles to wear down your opponent.

>>15725393
Current combat that soldiers go through is far more complex and expensive than marching with all your buddies straight onto a beach.

>>15714580
Disrespect the Machine more why don't you? Fucking perverts, always obsessing over inferior histrionic, psychotics.

>>15725464
Because current combat isn't devolving into trench or open warfare. Urban warfare is a different beast, we used to just carpet-bomb the whole city, write off collateral damage with a shrug, and call it a day.

>>15725451
>People have been saying that for a while but as a rule a commander isn't going to commit troops unless they've got a chance of winning.
Well yeah, but we also haven't had another Stalingrad yet. And let's face it, when you can fire missile volleys half a continent away, both sides can devastate each other's forces pretty fast.

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>>15717490

Nice vintage.

>>15725451
>but as a rule a commander isn't going to commit troops unless they've got a chance of winning

See the problem with that is "a good chance of winning" does also have to be something considered "sane".

Verdun had a good chance of winning, it was planned on the basis of "if every strategy we attempt just turns the battle into a meat grinder, why don't we just intentionally create the bloodiest meat grinder possible to bleed France white?" The logic is sound, but the logic is running on the basis of insanity.

>>15725521
does not also*

>>15725393
>all this utter bullshit
wew lad

>>15725393
Wew. You just won the idiot of the day award. Well done.

>>15725393
I guess this is what they call "mount stupid".

I could swear there's a bunch of pictures of JASDF F-15J's with nose art by Mamoru Nagano. But can't find them for my life

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>>15717143
IS THAT A NIPPLE

>>15716105
I fucking hate that fucking weeb ass thing soo much

>>15725393
>I've never understood the idea of "qualifying" to be a soldier. I remember reading an article about a female soldier saying most females don't cut it, saying "most men don't qualify for being soldiers, let alone women".

Many soldiers (both men and women) have figured out ways to game the systems that determine if they still qualify as being in fighting form. One example I can think of of the top of my head is overweight soldiers influencing the body mass index by overdeveloping their neck muscles so they would not be marked as overweight.

>The fuck is she talking about? If you aren't crippled or outright insane, anyone can be told to shoot someone, and the only motivation you need is "they're gonna kill you if you don't kill them".

There is far more to being a soldier than shooting people. Fighting is a very small very exciting part of a soldier's life more often than not a soldier is doing a lot of very boring very exhausting stuff.

Not everyone can march 10 miles carrying 2/3rd's their own weight in gear.

>You think europe cared about "qualification" besides minimal fitness requirements when they sent people into the meat grinder? Fuck no, they just needed more boots on the ground.

No, they need adequately in shape boots on the ground.

>>15725946
There are, but I also seem to have misplaced them. Maybe try Zip's twitter?

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>>15726009
Well I like Ronins. Predator cannon chews 'em up real fast.

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>>15725946
You mean this?

>>15714580
>it plastering half-naked mecha onto your body

Please.

>>15726551
*not

>>15726084
>Not everyone can march 10 miles carrying 2/3rd's their own weight in gear.
If you're in a trench then odds are the only marching you're going to do is right before you die accomplishing nothing.

>>15726636
trench warfare is realistically never going to happen again

>>15725661
>>15725678
>>15725931

I don't see the problem. You throw enough bodies at the enemy, and you'll at the very least wear them down if not outright overwhelm them. You don't need much training for that. As British Expeditionary Force supreme commander Douglas "Butcher" Haig once said, "soldiers exist to be killed". Or my preferred quote, quantity has a quality all its own.

>>15726653
>You throw enough bodies at the enemy, and you'll at the very least wear them down if not outright overwhelm them
Not at any point past WW1 you dummy.
Hell, even in WW1 quanitity didn't mean anything. Artillery fire and machine gun emplacements rekt almost all straightforward advances into enemy territory.
Now imagine the vast multitude of force multipliers we have today, from self loading rifles to jet fighters to satellite and drone surveillance. This fantasy that muh low n slow obsolete shitbox can defeat the enemy if we just make enough of them is just that, a fantasy.

>>15726675
>Not at any point past WW1 you dummy.

It was literally the soviet strategy in WW2, slow them down with your corpses under threat of harm to your family until the war machine could be built up for a counterattack.

>>15726679
>slow them down with your corpses under threat of harm to your family until the war machine could be built up for a counterattack.
Complete meme. Stop playing Call of Duty and wanking it to Enemy at the Gates, please.

>>15726683
>Complete meme.

I did a lot of reading on the Ostfront, and Stalin's "not one step back" order made it so the frontline's only strategy was to prevent german advance no matter what. And he ensured it by putting in place a secondary line whose sole purpose was to shoot anyone in the main line that tried to retreat or defect.

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>>15726689
They disbanded the regular blocking regiments in 1942 because they did not work.
Despite Order. 227, the Germans captured even more territory, and reached all the way to Stalingrad.

>>15726725
>They disbanded the regular blocking regiments in 1942 because they did not work.

They didn't work because the Germans would shoot OVER the main line to hit the firing squads to encourage retreat, not because they failed as a morale enforcer.

>>15726653
They rejected plenty of men from doing service in WWI and WWII. They did not have super lax standards, even for a meat grinder job like infantry.

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>>15726734
I prefer it when the cuties are IN the mech, not on the mech.

>>15726727
>They didn't work because the Germans would shoot OVER the main line to hit the firing squads to encourage retreat, not because they failed as a morale enforcer.
Oh my lord, you cannot be this retarded.

>>15727968
you just aim up a little so the bullets fall down on them

>>15726683

Thank you. It's disturbing how many people in the Anglophone world are convinced that 'Enemy at the Gates' is a documentary, and that Warhammer 40K commissars are actually highly realistic historic analogies. Christ, go watch 'Fortress of War' or 'Battle of Sevastopol', or even 'Stalingrad'--they're all dramatizations, but they still manage to make 'Enemy at the Gates' about as relevant as 'Iron Sky'.

>>15726727
You're an idiot.

>>15716819
They sent out a survey asking what people wanted in Titanfall 3, and "increased Titan bond" and multiple types of "customization" were on the list. 3 is gonna be a blast.

>>15716819
>TitanFall 3 co-op
>One guy is a gunner and the other guy pilot the feet
That's gonna be some shit

>>15714762
>We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!

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I wish Ronin Prime kept his horns in-game.

>>15728007
I never saw Enemy at the Gates, I'm referring to intances like where a soviet commander was told to get his men across a river when they were landlocked people who couldn't swim, so he chose to just let most of them drown in attempting to cross than to disobey orders from higher up to get them across the river quickly (too quickly to have a temporary bridge built).

the story in detail
https://archiveofourown.org/works/5205554