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https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/08/15/0145200/researchers-figure-out-how-to-keep-clocks-on-the-earth-moon-in-sync https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/nist_lunar_orbit_clocks/

Juno II https://catalog.archives.gov/id/354890124 Vanguard https://catalog.archives.gov/id/354890116 Thor Able [URL unfurl="true"]https://catalog.archives.gov/id/354890110[/URL] Others https://catalog.archives.gov/search?availableOnline=true&page=1&q=Missile...

Was it Edgar Schmued or Welko Gasich/Lee Begin that designed the F-5 or not?

from ARDC TR-59-64 Advanced Concepts Study, Final Report. from USAF FOIA reading room. (edit: PDF split & now attached) A JT11-7A powered Booster Airplane launches a rocket vehicle & satellite payload with two solid fuelled stages and a storable liquid propellant third and fourth stages...

View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1816784858573664586 https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/advanced-weapons/cannon-based-air-defense Appears to be using XM913, 50mmx228mm

https://www.twz.com/land/secret-service-wants-new-sniper-rifles

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found at Worthpoint

found at Worthpoint

from: available to read through JSTOR

https://www.crecy.co.uk/grumman-ea-6b-prowler?osCsid=cvsjridl1tau9tn0uk4873hkm4

Stumbled across some early 1950s NATO documents concerning the defensive arming and equipping of Merchant Ships. SGS.1 and the 4" Mk 25 are briefly mentioned, although unsurprisingly the vast majority of equipment intended for DEMS was supposed to come from US stocks. There are more documents...

The successor to the X-15 was - a winged satellite? In the mid-1950s, NACA was pushing the boundaries of hypersonic flight. After the X-15, the Air Force's Project HYWARDS aimed to design a Mach 12 successor. Visionary engineer John Becker at NACA Langley proposed an even more ambitious goal: a...

American Experimental Fighters of WWII The Pursuit of Excellence Author: Tony Buttler https://www.crecy.co.uk/american-experimental-fighters-of-wwii

Always a good day when there's a new X-plane. https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-06-24

https://thehill.com/homenews/space/4734140-nasa-simulates-asteroid-heading-toward-earth-in-defense-exercise/

The US Navy in the 1980s deployed an impressive range of non-AEGIS cruisers. Long Beach was the largest and oldest of the nuclear ships and the only one to start life as a cruiser. The remainder started as frigates then became DLGNs. Bainbridge and Truxtun were one-offs followed in the 70s by 2...

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...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/06/19/first-black-navy-seal-william-goines-dies-at-88/ Rest In Peace. :(

I am currently writing a book on the Short Skyvan. I wonder if anyone has information (description, drawings etc) on Shorts project P.D.50 described as a "Skyvan VTOL test-bed", and P.D.62 listed in the Putnam as "Skyvan with B.L.C" but elsewhere as "Skyvan Feeder Liner". Both seem quite...