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Very nicely done

Very sad to see his passing.

The last several years have been pretty awful with so many gone

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2026 10:23 am https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/tomb- ... d-pistols/

Interested history lesson

Interesting! Thanks!!

He was excellent on ST, but absolutely f-terrifying on B5. Played latter straight as a laser, over-qualified for my Convention's Sanku 'Prayer for Fanatics': "May the next die harmlessly, also." Be interesting to have had him and Elim Garak have a conversation over a cup of tea......... T...

clancyphile wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2026 1:06 am Marinette is building uparmed versions of the Freedom-class LCS for the Saudis. If I were Hegseth, I'd be ordering more of those for the USN.

We do NOT need any more Little Crappy Ships for the USN!!

We need some actual frigates yesterday

In order to get there, we’ll need to fire NAVSEA first

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2026 1:24 pm

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Pretty awesome

HOWEVER

I’m a little skeptical that he actually achieved that. Supersonic is pretty hard and hypersonic is really, really hard. That little rocket went that fast, and he found it again? How did he measure that high of a speed over what course?

For the first time i had to selecht cars in i am not a robot, also i was not able to get on the site while on my mobile. It didn’t like my selection of fire hydrants and kept coming up with new tests so that the robot would determine that I wasn’t a robot :roll: if you are a dog, you would hevae gu...

Lordroel wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2026 2:18 pm For the first time i had to selecht cars in i am not a robot, also i was not able to get on the site while on my mobile.

It didn’t like my selection of fire hydrants and kept coming up with new tests so that the robot would determine that I wasn’t a robot

so in one respect, the terrorists(?) won in that they drove the USAF bombers from their forward deployed location.

It is becoming more and more prevalent. Almost every time now.

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Saw that on Ars. I didn't think about posting here because of the numerous comments pointing out issues with the article. 1. The basis for saying that it happened was an article written 30 years after the fact, with little or no intervening publications. 2. The article was correct in saying that th...

Rocket J Squrriel wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2026 1:46 am How hard would it be to keep NAVSEA away from it?

If only

I don’t think we could produce a rowboat without NAVSEA screwing it up

Why the facepalm? I have concerns about so much being placed in one basket, though of course with only three major tactical airframe OEMs left in defense it's not like you have a lot of options :roll: . Boeing's track record as of late has me concerned too--see KC-46, T-7, and MQ-25--whereas N-G se...

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4614331/department-of-war-and-us-navy-award-contract-for-fa-xx-program/ Today, the Department of War announces a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy to Boeing for the Sixth-Generation F/A-XX Strike Fighter under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD...

Micael wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 6:57 am 4E9EFC34-B792-4CCD-8281-E030DD9ED8E0.jpeg

Life is imitating art….

This has potential….

41.11 here today