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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Navy
abyssinia
cold war
cold war ii
derg
ethiopian empire
federal democratic republic of ethiopia
imperial ethiopian navy
people's democratic republic of ethiopia
post-coldwar
provisional military administrative council
transitional government of ethiopia
as I understand went mostly unnoticed, did happen back in April
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Sherman Mullin, retired president of LMCO's Skunk Works and a valued member on our Board of Trustees
Sherman "Sherm" Mullin had an illustrious 56-year career in aerospace...
Mil helicopters - Damaged Fenestron on the scrap heap at Tomolino 1992. I visited Mil & Kamov design bureaux and their test centres in 1992 - and the Mil 26 factory at Rostov-on-Don. Snapshot attached taken from the bus when entering the Mil test site. Article about visit in my memoir Two Up...
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...
Here is a recap of all IS- and SWD- designations. For each I have provided a link to a Polish page whenever possible (many other pages exist, notably Wikipedia). The IS- series stopped with IS-7, which became the SWD-7. Apparently the SWD-6X was previously designated IS-6X, but that designation...
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 ?
air-sea rescue
cold war
cold war ii
electronic warfare
elint
great britain
nuclear battlefield
post-coldwar
post-world war ii
raf air support command
raf bomber command
raf germany
raf search and rescue force
raf strike command
raf transport command
royal air force
royal air force marine branch
sigint
strategic reconnaissance
world war ii
Hi,
I've been looking into the Royal Ordnance 'RO2004' light tank design that was built in the late 80s/early 90s; and am now looking for more information regarding its armament.
The tank was armed with a 105mm L7 derivative, called the Improved Weapon System (IWS).
Supposedly it had:
- A...
Hello all
I was looking around Secret Projects this morning and I realized that there is no thread dedicated to discussion of Argentine efforts to replace the TAM. I see one short post on the “South American Tanks” thread about the TAP, any additional information about this project would be...
argentine republic
argentine tank program
cold war
cold war ii
ejército argentino
medium tank
military vehicles
post-coldwar
tank
tanque argentino mediano
LCAW was a NATO program for an small torpedo, cheap/expendable enough to be use against unidentified/unverified sonar contacts. It was supposed to have both rocket-launched and helicopter-dropped version.
At first it was a trilateral US, German Norwegian project, but some point ~1990 The US...
asw
bundesmarine
cold war
federal republic of germany
kingdom of norway
north atlantic treaty organisation
post-coldwar
royal norwegian navy
torpedo
united states
united states navy
west germany
Hi everybody,
I was looking around on the forums and found that there wasn't a thread about the CVR(T) family, so I thought I would start one. If there is a thread which would be applicable, I kindly ask the moderators to merge this with it.
I am currently researching CVR(T) variants and have...
Does anyone know the final disposition of the Terex MX Transporter Emplacer (TE)? This vehicle was designed to support MX deployment in a system of multiple protective shelters linked by above ground roads, the so-called "Racetrack" proposal. In 1979, President Carter announced that 200 MX...
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.
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