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How much effort would there be in the conversion? I presume part would be accepting the ship largely with the equipment the French Navy ordered, rather than what the Swedish Navy wants. The other really big one would be changing all of the signage and placards from French to Swedish. It is really a...

To add to the above, I haven’t been able to read the full srticle as it’s paywalled, but I saw the below snippet posted which is rather interesting. It suggests that the French have offered to transfer a hull built for the French navy to Sweden in order to accelerate the delivery process. That coul...

Might an explanation be a use/borrowing of the Scandinavian word for modern barley, which is "korn"? In Swedish, maybe, but in Norwegian and Icelandic, barley is called "bygg", and in Danish "byg" or "almineligt byg", and in all three languages "korn&quo...

Might an explanation be a use/borrowing of the Scandinavian word for modern barley, which is "korn"? If the proto-west-germanic is "korn"......then it's remained a stable word for over 2,000 years. A brief dip suggests only east-germanic languages pronounced it differently as &q...

Might an explanation be a use/borrowing of the Scandinavian word for modern barley, which is "korn"?

Some-when today, bruising around de-cataracted eye settled significantly. NO double vision. NO astigmatism. Print still gotta be 8 mm / ⅓" tall to read but, yesterday, was nearer finger-width !! What did they do to you, you colleguae in the world of cataracts? My procedure on June 19th - as pr...

A nice text relating to the age of fairy tales! But the poem text "... from home to Sweden ..." is hardly contemporary. Several centuries would pass before "Sweden" became a geographical, not to mention political, concept. It was ”Svíþjóðar” in the original, which ”Sweden” is a ...

A nice text relating to the age of fairy tales!

But the poem text "... from home to Sweden ..." is hardly contemporary. Several centuries would pass before "Sweden" became a geographical, not to mention political, concept.

The solution - which Trump won't allow - is to get Russia to bancrupt itself building up such an attack force. Another way is to emulate the Swedish AF 1960 - 80 with a basing&rearming&maintenance system that allowed a dispersal of own aircraft to less than four planes per base/wartime airst...

Had the USSR 'Rolled West', demolishing BAOR etc, seems doubtful they would have respected Sweden's neutrality, or treaties with Finland... Such matters would certainly have been completely superseeded by Soviet operational considerations. The strength of the SwAF (some 700 planes) would possibly h...

Had the USSR 'Rolled West', demolishing BAOR etc, seems doubtful they would have respected Sweden's neutrality, or treaties with Finland... Such matters would certainly have been completely superseeded by Soviet operational considerations. The strength of the SwAF (some 700 planes) would possibly h...

For the record: * the sinking of HMS Glorious and her two escorting destroyers took place in full daylight * the destroyers may be said to have gone into occasional knife-fighting range with their 4.7 in guns and torpedoes, but Glorious did whatever she could to escape. Which wasn't much as she only...

This was the beginning of a family of 120 mm autocannons that saw naval and both fixed and mobile coastal artillery applications, apart from the singel AA version. Users were Sweden (naval and both coastal artillery types), Finland (naval), Holland (naval), Colombia (naval), Indonesia (naval) and No...

Closest English for 'stridsvagn' now would be 'strifewagon' or 'strifewain'. My perhaps flawed understanding of the meaning of "strife" is a fairly low-level conflict, not necessarily involving physical violence with weapons. You can have strife within an extended family. "Combat&quo...

Glass making isn't simple. It would be interesting to find out how they got the idea. Perhaps by chance. The necessary high temperatures could be reached in force-draft ovens used for metal (iron) manufacture. They may have noted that pure sand will form a more or less clear substance when heated t...

That is not a Swedish Carl Gustav 8,4 cm recoilless rifle.

The original has no flange on the forward end but sports a large funnel-shaped one at the rear end, which is opened for loading using two prominent handles.

But the idea shown is innovative!

My family is almost all English as well. Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, London and (via a 130 year excursion on one side) Warwickshire. Given the direct line ancestry of the surname Lepley (Le Pley) there's Huguenot in there as well and a bit of Iris...

My family is almost all English as well. Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, London and (via a 130 year excursion on one side) Warwickshire. Given the direct line ancestry of the surname Lepley (Le Pley) there's Huguenot in there as well and a bit of Iris...

4394MarcusAurelius.jpg Over the last week or so I have been researching my family tree. Myhistory.com I decided to see how far back I could take it. Got to well into the Muddle Ages… and kept on going. Well. Imagine my surprise when I reached the end of the line… ... To be clear, this is the brothe...

In happier times, August 2011, I visited the MAKS airshow at Monino outside Moscow. In those days, US warplanes partook both on the ground and in the air (F-15, F-16, B-52, KC-10). It was a photographer's dream, two results of which I'd like to share with you. The photo of the F-15 was pure luck ...