What REALLY grinds your gears?

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

the fact that the US air force bombing videos are still in B&W and not color. It is a pretty well defined B&W but its 2015 and we have the biggest military budget in the world.

i want to see american bombs blowing things up on the other side of the world in color, please and thank you.

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i could go into it, but the video's are high def, and a lot of times they're using IR/thermal/night vision, which really doesn't lend itself to color (well, thermal does i guess, but color is based on the reflection of light). If it suited their purposes (and was a visible light camera) it'd be in color (and day recon generally is color/3D), otherwise it just adds expense. most missions are at night (safer for aircraft) an use IR (you could NV a visible light camera (again removing color), but the explosive plume would obscure the target, making it impossible to track ordinance hits).

military hardware is weird though, cause you've got this fusion of tech from the 60s, 80s, and today all mixed together. hell, when in south america, ADF is still used (revolutionary 1920s technology).

i know it's probably just a throw away comment, but just in case I do like to clear up misconceptions (and there really are a lot of gaps between how the public thinks the military/war works and reality).