History, Politics And Current Affairs

In terms of the army it is probably a fair description. Essentially we don't have any artillery capability outside of towed 105mm light gun, GMLRS and Exactor both which we don't have a huge stock off. Apparently the introduction of Archer to cover the AS90 given to Ukraine is taking longer than exp...

With the Starlink setup why wouldn't they take the fairly elementary measure and turn off SSID broadcast. Then it wouldn't have been visible to other peoples devices on the ship unless they used a scanner (app or physical) to find it. If you are going to due stupid things with technology at least tr...

So they are aerospace company walts then?

Guess what? Boeing is also flubbing up the uprated SLS 1B. Its the SLS but with a more powerful second stage(the EUS) and since its taller, it has to have its own launch tower built. I really don't want to give Boeing any wriggle room here but a lot of the decision to move the production line and t...

So I wonder how much Space X will charge NASA for jumping the queue for a Falcon 9 / Dragon? I know they technically don't have one available for a while due to the adaptions for the space walk flight blocking the docking mechanism but enough money or convincing could see it happen. I do think it mi...

So when I first read about this I was against it purely for the can of worms it opened for other events going forwards. Then I read about the 1916 review and removal of quite a few civil war ones so it does have precedent. It also reclaimed the ones awarded to the union regiment who signed on after ...

I wonder what effect the bonding on and off the line repeatedly has on the helicopters electronics?

Wonder if they prefer older models with analogue instruments etc. to reduce the potential failures.

I can honestly see Starship managing a crewed moon landing before Orion at this rate. Its technically nothing like as hard as landing on Mars and I read something the other week (that I annoyingly now can't find) that speculated Starship could probably do it without the in space refuelling necessary...

Wouldn't the CAMM-ER variant under development for Italy fit for the MRAD component and then allow the use of CAMM for the shorter range requirement? It might be the translation but its not clear to me if the requirement is for a system with 40km range at 15km altitude or a system with capability fo...

As others have said it definitely strikes me as a version of the Irish uniform but using the less intense green British Army colour.

Do different regiments have different accoutrements or is it fairly standardised apart from cap badges?

Tacos on a curved roof tile. No idea if this is a thing in other parts of the world but definitely weird for me. Surprisingly worked quite well. I always think of the Life on Mars scene in the pub with chicken in a basket when a question similar to this comes up, surprisingly hard to find on Youtube.

So having left the old forum for a while after things got very heated talking about politics... I'm registering again to see how things go.