History, Politics And Current Affairs

If they want to keep Marinette going, the Multi-Mission Surface Combatant based on the Freedom-class LCS is probably the way to go.

Great to see an update.

One question: Was it Golen or Flossy who got that second Fishbed? The callsign was One-Six...

Perhaps Japan could also provide some second-hand F-1s to the Philippines as well, giving them a rudimentary maritime strike capability?

A Harpoon rule book providing the answer!

Love it!

Give them time. Sooner or later the rest of Mexico will go up in smoke and someone will need to put it back together. Any update on the Security Zone? The last I heard about it was when you no longer needed to dial the Mexico Country code from the US, instead you dialed 1 (US / Canada Country Code)...

Although I add for the record that Wichita is hosting the most postwar American event I can possibly think of . . . A Monster LAV competition. Take a surplus LAV-25, strip the armor, screw with the engine and the transmission to have insane power and gear ratios, make a colorful shell . . . and dri...

Poohbah wrote: ↑Fri Jun 06, 2025 2:21 pm 20 years from now, they discover that the artificial hemoglobin causes vampire obesity and arterial plaque...

Which was the plan all along...

BEHOLD! British Combat and Support Aircraft BAE Harrier T.8N. * Nine two-seat Harrier T.4s were upgraded to the same standard as the FA.2, albeit lacking the radar, though they had the requisite cockpit instrumentation, and could provide synthetic radar data. To act as a force-multiplier the T.8Ns ...

I'd expect more new-builds of the FRS.2/FA/2, simply because of a longer Cold War. Maybe a joint wing of FA.2 and GR.9s, even. But how many more is the question. * The RN has three Invincible class ships. * Each carries up to 22 aircraft. * In @, typical post-Falklands air group was three AEW Sea K...

So somebody want to know over at the other place, what the Queen Elizabeth's planned airwing is going to be while operating Sea Harriers and Harrier GR9s prior to the JSF coming into service ? I'll say here what I said there. I suppose that depends on how many Sea Harriers and GR9s survive the war....

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 1:57 am A Baja War Trophy: a North Korean Koksan 170-mm SP Gun found abandoned in Northern Sonora during the push to Hermosillo by 3rd AD, January, 2010:

Those things had a really long reach, IIRC.

Mace Windu died because he accepted a substitute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z2ucmA ... Bpcw%3D%3D

Was watching one of Drachinifels' Drydock episodes the other night, and he was asked about how certain ships' names came to be legendary. His example was Enterprise - there had been six ships with that name in the USN before CV-6 was commissioned, and although they served well and did their jobs, t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLOZ15VvI0

Words fail me.

Poohbah wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 1:06 pm

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 12:25 pm Given what little I know about Mormons, I'm surprised any camp handling kids they were involved in weren't well run.

It wasn't Mormons running things at St. George.

Why do you think underage kids in the DP camps were willing to lie about their age to enlist?

The universe has been told. I for one, don't wanna cross Roberta.

...Boeing is exactly one bad day away from a complete wipeout. The KC-46 debacle, the mess with the new AF1s, and the slow-motion spacewreck that is StarLiner have shown that if any of those are cut back/cancelled - and StarLiner is thisclose to it - then they're done. Mike You could have had the K...

I always thought Benedict Cumberbatch would be a good 007.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:56 pm I'd rather base the launcher on the Falcon Heavy since it works and so far, Starship isn't.

I was thinking Falcon Heavy.

Starliner doesn't have the delta-v to do anything to the asteroid. It would take something a bit more powerful to handle it. I was thinking use Starliner to get the B83 close enough to the asteroid to make it go away. No crew needed. Just insert the special store, and activate the physics package r...