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Hi, The photo dates back to 1972, specifically November, when the American aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy approached the Egyptian coast. The Tupolev Tu-16 strategic bomber came out and approached it closely, flying over the aircraft carrier. A Phantom F4 fighter from the carrier was...

embedded links: Hart-Smith paper on Boeing Outsourcing 2003 reaction to Hart-Smith Paper

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Watching the decline in size and construction problems encountered by the USN since 1991 I am reminded of the fate of the Royal Navy after WW2. At first sight the US has done rather better. It still has the world's largest force of nuclear strike carriers and its nuclear submarines remain the...

Via Financial Times. Thoughts?

The Rules: Everything (Tesla, Boring, Neurolink etc) except SpaceX that own Discussion here: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/spacex-general-discussion.13774/ Keep down politics and be Polite to each Other, please ! Otherwise this will shut down and locked Thanks let show begin...

From Naval Aviation News 1965.

An appropriate subject for the night that is in it, methinks. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlnER8SxfQ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjmQXDhyps

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-semiconductor-nanotech-lab-albany-42ee39316c32718c729e526354254724

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmznzkly3go

Hi everybody, I often read that Curtiss-Wright Aviation did not do enough research work during the Second World War to be able to survive its aeronautical branch and face the new markets after the Second World War. It is considered that its production and improvement work on the P-40 (we can...

Between 1919 and 1927 the Air Service's Engineering Division at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, was responsible for the solicitation of bids for Army aircraft designs. The Engineering Division released Type Specifications for an aircraft design and then expected the contractors to return a set of...

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/6d/dd/cc/f987a42f97d1c0/US20050211827A1.pdf

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/arm-to-cancel-qualcomm-chip-design-license-in-escalation-of-feud Actual nuclear bomb. Probably wouldn't actually happen, since it sounds more like a big bargaining chip, but potentially a huge turning point for the chip industry, and especially...

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https://spacenews.com/vast-releases-design-of-haven-2-commercial-space-station/

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/11/boeing-layoffs-factory-strike.html

One of my hobbies is collecting waterline ship models in 1/1250 or 1/1200 scales covering the Cold War era. I have been trying to find the composition of USN units on the Yankee and Dixie Stations off Vietnam and Gonzo station in the Arabian Sea. Does anyone know a source?

Somehow missed yet another great departing us last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/arts/john-amos-dead.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/entertainment/john-amos-dead/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/entertainment/john-amos-death-daughter/index.html...

Just published. The first volume is dedicated to European operators. An interesting page dealing with the potential C-130 production by Sud-Aviation in France in the sixties. The author, Xavier Capy, is well known for his previous books on Noratlas and Transall. More details on www.c-130.eu.