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Seems X is now prohibiting images from being copied and posted here, sorry for all the bad links now i have posted, also i posted it here if that is okay as this is about images.

Interesting. Using a 20% casualty rate, and assuming a single mission per day, the soviet air fleet remaining after 3 days would be roughly 51%. I strongly suspect the 20% is fairly high. Even with a 10% shoot down rate, that's still ugly for the attackers, with 73% remaining after three days. Belu...

We lost a captain and professor at age 86.

Sir Humphrey posted this on Twitter (X):, see the Second Battle of Britain being the RAF intercepting these raids, the map is for a1983 MOD assessment of likely UK targets for Soviet air attack in wartime by different aircraft types. An extensive network of radar, RN ships, Bloodhound & Rapier S...

Paul Nuttall wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2026 6:27 pm And then there is his portrayal of Bester in Babylon 5......

A complete 180 of the friendly ensign on the OS.

And then there where only 2 of the OS crew.

Photo: Late afternoon on Invasion Day: someone took this photo of a U.S. Army UH-1H near Calumet: this might be the chopper that shot up the roadblock that Jed and the kids encountered. (originally posted by Matt Wiser on the old HPCA forum, recovered using the Wayback machine). https://www.impdb.or...

question, in otl we had the Southern Watch, a military operation launched on August 26, 1992, to enforce a no-fly zone over southern Iraq that lasted until 2003, could we have one that last from 1989 to the Cuban revolution in 2009, we can still call it the same, as cuba lies south of flordida. No ...

question, in otl we had the Southern Watch, a military operation launched on August 26, 1992, to enforce a no-fly zone over southern Iraq that lasted until 2003, could we have one that last from 1989 to the Cuban revolution in 2009, we can still call it the same, as cuba lies south of flordida.

Photo: Soviet guided missile cruiser Kalinin at anchor at Mexican Revolutionary Navy, Veracruz. The Kalinin would be sunk by Trafalgar-class submarine HMS Trafalgar South East of the Caribbean entrance to Yucatan Channel.

Photo: An Mexican Revolutionary Army defensive position near the Soviet Occupied Texas and the border with Mexico. The tops of Mexican tanks can be seen as they sit in defensive entrenchments. More destroyed Mexican armor sits in the distant background. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons...

Photo: F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) operating from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) during the ship's shakedown cruise and initial flight operations, while she was doing that she also took part in operations in support of the Cuba Blockade, November, 1989. The F-14s here can be s...

A reporter who became a legend during the war and sealed it in numerous postwar conflicts is hanging it up. Christiane Armanpour is retiring from CNN next year. The saying was "Where there's war, there's Armanpour." (OOC: she is leaving the network sometime next year, it was announced tod...

Photo: A Chieftain Mk.10 from 2 Troop, B Squadron, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, 11th Armoured Brigade, 4th Armoured Division, 1988.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2026 4:21 pm “Blow it in place!” - EOD

Its a routine thing for the EOD i think after the end of World War III, i assume they find as much as the french still fins after WW I and II.

Nice shot. I’m sure the ComBloc forces on the receiving end of that fire mission appreciated the effort put into it… Well those that explode, this one was found in 2015, an unexploded 406mm Mk. 13 High Capacity shell fired from a 16"/50 cal Mark 7 gun of the USS Wisconsin (BB-64). https://pbs....

Photo: The battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fires a round from one of the Mark 7 16-inch/50-caliber guns in its No. 3 turret during fire support mission, Operation BORDER FURY, 1989.

Photo: The U.S. Navy nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Truxtun (CGN-35) at anchor in a very hazy Hong Kong harbor as seen from a liberty boat during her WestPac deployment, in 1992 where she conducted anti-piracy duty along the China Coast and in Indonesian Waters. https://thumb.wikimedia.o...

Photo: A Tornado F2 from the No. 229 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU), Royal Air Force (RAF) conversion unit test firing a Skyflash missile. Information by Bernard Woolley over at the HPCA preserved by the Waybackmachine: BAe also got the Active Skyflash working by '88. Best Western missile in its ...

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2026 2:52 am
Good job, and get with the next chapter!

401 ore chapter 5.