late 20th century

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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...

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...

The Invention Of The Jet Engine: Hans Von Ohain, One Of The Fathers Of the Turbojet

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...

I thought it might be fun to check the retirement dates of famous jet fighters, say post WWII. Could be extended to attack jets and propeller fighters too. Also foreign types. Last F-80C: Uruguay, 1970 https://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/p80_12.html Last F-84G: Portugal, 1975...

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...

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/beatles-let-it-be-film-restored-apple-streaming-1235972289/

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...

I am deeply appreciated of the beautiful appearance of domestic twin tailed Mitsubishi FS-X fighter jet (which in turn being replaced by the American design single engine F-16 variant which is now known as F-2 Viper Zero), so I am curious how many other unbuilt cold war era Japanese military...

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...

A YouTube series covering 'Numbers Stations' quasi-mysterious shortwave stations, which are widely suspected to be used by various intelligence agencies to contact agents in the field. This series is covering the stations one at a time. When they were more common (In the 1970 - 2000s) time...

Well-known French journalist, author, pilot, THE voice of aerial meetings in France (La Ferté-Alais air show, Salon du Bourget air show, Paris Villaroche Air Legend and so on). He was 78 y.o.

Via Slashdot: https://www.quantamagazine.org/crucial-computer-program-for-particle-physics-at-risk-of-obsolescence-20221201/

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/20/1558240/hard-science-fiction-master-greg-bear-dies-at-age-71 Rest In Peace. :(

RIP Frank https://robinsonheli.com/press-releases/helicopter-pioneer-frank-robinson-passes/?fbclid=IwAR1gXT23VVaZLR6XC3yQtWiI81tx8VaQFeU5S6iPIvUdbItPQI_dEpP0W1I As it is i fly R44 and 66 …was in Cologne for European Rotors this week so here my pics below All the best

The latest work of my friend Davide Sivolella an aeronautical engineer and a skilled author, who lives in England. If you want to learn about never realized Space Shuttle versions, this is the right book...