early 21st century

On August 18, 2024, the legendary figure of French cinema (Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon), known for a plethora of roles, notably those relating to the Second World War, such as the movie “Le Jour le plus long” and “Paris brule-t-il”, died at the age of 88.

There are two types of nuclear reactors: those manufactured by Europeans, which are an environmental hazard, and those manufactured by the Chinese, which contribute to regenerating the planet...

ORIGINAL CAPTION: The planned Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca will have a capacity of 115,000 and would be one of the most high spec sporting venues on the planet CREDIT: CHP/Populous...

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While looking for a new armor model kit I found a NBC variant of the JGSDF Type 82 command vehicle that had what the box termed as a "anti-neutron shield". Curious, I then found other images from the early 2000s of it on the vehicle. I'm curious if anyone has any further information on the how's...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp38v5p6g35o View: https://x.com/CapitaineIb226/status/1809583603124158638

Oh my. This is impressive. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19YI0adOQs

The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland has passed away. May he rest in peace. :( Here a few of my favourite movies with him as an actor: The Dirty Dozen (1967) M*A*S*H (1970) The Eagle has Landed (1976) Eye of the Needle (1981) JFK (1991) Space Cowboys (2000) Sources...

The reason why I'm posting this is because there doesn't seem to be information regarding where the hulls were built. I'm not sure if the hulls were built in Romania then shipped to the Netherlands for assembly.

The Cold War in retrospect seems almost an oasis of reasonable behaviour. From 1945 to 1991 the US and Soviet Union only ratcheted up deliberately to threaten nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the October 1973 Arab Israel war. There were other occasions (notably Able...

Looks like a new 'ships of shame' report might be needed, MV Dali looses power leaving Baltimore, this ship suffered a loss of engine control leaving Charleston. While a big ship travelling at 15knots down a river looks stirring in a time of war, this is not that time. Thankfully all involved...

Back in 1984 the Reagan administration had faced up to the Soviet threat and produced a report for the public called "Soviet Military Power" which set out the Soviet arsenal and the US forces lined up against it. In 2024 the Biden administration has produced nothing similar setting out the...

Vladas Kensgaila was born on September 23, 1933 in the village Bikavėnai, in the Šilutė district of Lithuania. Vladas was very proud that this was also the year that his heroes Stephen Darius and Stasys Girėnas flew across the Atlantic (a landmark which would have a strong impact on his career...

I think post ww2 more ships have been damaged and sunk by mines than any other weapon Yet it’s barely talked about and most navies devote proportionally less resources to it What can be done to change that post ww2 ?

I am just trying to compile all domestic Japanese UAV programs in one place. Maybe I will add a bit more info on each as time goes on. I know for a fact I'm missing a lot of the early cold war programs, so any help there would be appreciated. FUJI/SUBARU Fuji-Vigilant 5000...

Hi, in a conference proceedings book I found some interesting russian rocket projects (+ some history) at the beginning of the XXI century from these bureaus: SRC (Makayev) 1) the Volna, developed from RSM-50 SLBM (SS-N-18) 2) the Shtil, developed from the RSM-64 SLBM (SSS-N-23) 3) the...

https://www.defenseromania.ro/ultimele-zboruri-ale-mig-21-lancer-ale-romaniei-toate-drumurile-duc-la-bacau-zboruri-simultane-catre-bacau-ultima-misiune-a-mig-21_622607.html It was suposed at the end of the nineties to be an interim solution. Still, 20 years later, they still serve. View...

These are the variants of Taurus that i am aware of: Taurus KEPD 350: Standard version in service with Germany Spain and South Korea Taurus KEPD 150/Taurus L: A lighter variant of the in-service kinetic penetrator Taurus intended for Sweden to arm the Gripen. Taurus KEPD 150 SLM: Ship launched...