History, Politics And Current Affairs

Mark 17: The Crowd Pleaser

21 January 1988 Officer's Club Sheppard Air Force Base Wichita Falls, TX AFN was doing what their DJ Valerie Salquist called Eine Kleine Nachtmusik , all music, no DJ patter to interrupt the vibe. The lack of covert messages to partisans drove Ivan nuts; they hadn't figured out that the medium was ...

warshipadmin wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 2:12 am Microsoft are about to launch a communication protocol to make it easier for a developer to plug an AI into an app. I haven't got the faintest idea what that entails, but it sounds like a great path for virusses.

I guess we're all going to have to stand All Along the Watchtower.

Sarah Conner was unavailable for comment….. Think of how much fun and excitement you’d have when you find out that your AI Assistant has a cold, as in a virus. We have enough fun with hackers today. The Brave New World of AI hackers running wild is not on my bucket list. As someone said, there must...

Photo: USS Missouri (BB-63) firing main guns at dusk. Forrestal-class aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-61) in background undergoing underway replenishment. photo taken most likely after the end of the First Kamthatka Raid codenamed VERMONT CEDAR, 1987. VERMONT CEDAR involved a multi-carrier battlegr...

Photo: USS Missouri (BB-63) firing main guns at dusk. Forrestal-class aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-61) in background undergoing underway replenishment. photo taken most likely after the end of the First Kamthatka Raid codenamed VERMONT CEDAR, 1987. VERMONT CEDAR involved a multi-carrier battlegr...

Nik_SpeakerToCats wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 1:28 pm The fibre optic lines may endure, but the rest ??

All your cloud-based storage, facilities, DRMs, accounts and licensing, subscription apps are toast.

'Local Storage' and 'Open Source' for the win ??

Brrr...

If that's the scenario, we have bigger problems. Like food.

To absent friends.

Photo: a Victor K2 of No. 55 Squadron RAF based out of RAF Honington, visiting RAF Waddington home of No. 55 Squadron RAF which operates the Rockwell/BAe Lancer B.1,1990. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrlRFakWsAAQVEl?format=jpg&name=medium That looks like something out of a Gerry Anderson show. I...

There must be some way out of here

https://www.foxnews.com/world/kim-jong-un-left-fuming-after-north-koreas-new-destroyer-damaged-failed-launch oopsie. I actually feel kinda sorry for the shipyard workers and staff. Things are not going to go well for them. Kim Jong Un is not known for being forgiving and is known for some brutal me...

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: The Mexican artillery fire plan consisted of "yank the lanyard one time and get the f*** out of there before the counter battery mission hit."

On a slightly related note, I'm wondering how many Starlink satellites have a national security addon. There was a report that SpaceX was developing a recon satellite that looked like a normal Starlink one. You could insert them with a regular deployment and it would communicate via the standard pr...

....When I get home I'm going to look up the stats for SKYBOLT. :evil: Mike 38’3” long, 35” wide & 11,000lbs weight. I’m not sure how many G’s it could pull in a tight turn though!! Craig, Okay, SKYBOLT wouldn't have worked, though Lord knows there's some Tomcat drivers out there who would have...

Lordroel wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 2:09 pm Can somebody explain to me, why would Xinjiang in their right mind launch border raids against Tibet knowing full well India will respond as they are doing with air and missile strikes against targets in Xinjiang.

They smoked the really bottom shelf ditchweed.

Update: we are in a hotel out in Moreno Valley, our last night here in the March AFB community. We had a lovely farewell party at the SAC HQ det; the weather got nice enough to properly grill. We are bound for Coeur d'Alene and Mantell House in the morning. But for now, my beloved is putting on some...

Johnnie Lyle wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 1:43 am Is anyone else who predominantly access the Board on the browser of their cell phone noticing that it will routinely log you out when trying to navigate the board?

Yes. Probably when your IP address changes.

5/5 and 5/6 are both Sith days because always two there are, no more, no less.

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...

I am starting to lean toward just getting rid of the land based ballistic missile leg of the Triad. 90% of its mission can be performed by the Ballistic missile submarines and they have capabilities that the land-based missiles don't have. Bombers can be the backup to the Navy, and bombers can perf...