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...
alternate history
anti-aircraft cruiser
area air defence
ballistic missile defense
cold war
cruiser
nuclear battlefield
nuclear powered vessels
unitedstates
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...
chuting stars
cold war
cuban missile crisis
navy parachute demonstration team
special forces
special operations
u.s. navy seal teams
unitedstatesunitedstates navy
vietnam war
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...
cessna aircraft company
coin aircraft
cold war
great britain
republic of vietnam
republic of vietnam air force (rvnaf)
short brothers plc
short skyvan
south vietnam
stol
transport aircraft
unitedstatesunitedstates army
vietnam war
The SS United States conservancy has been beating the drum for awhile that time is running out on their current moorage. Unfortunately, there is now a firm date looming.
View: https://x.com/SSUSC/status/1801740003673883010?t=jlffMgRGZNhDsukso5Gwtw&s=19
9/12/24 is entirely too close to comfort...
2024
buships
cold war
gibbs & cox
korean war
newport news shipbuilding
ocean liner
ss unitedstates conservancy
troopship
unitedstatesunitedstates lines
unitedstates navy
usns unitedstates
william francis gibbs
In the late 1970s Sandia explored the design of a maneuvering glide bomb, the Extended Range Bomb:
"Aerodynamic Design of an Extended Range Bomb"
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/3.57916
"TIGER -- A technology to improve the delivery capability of nuclear bombs and the survivability of the...
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From last week's visit to Gerry Balzer to pick up the remainder of his personal library and collection, we came across a sealed box of small rolled drawings out in the garage. Covered in dust and grime, sure glad it was sealed. This drawing was in the box and is a new design to...
1930s
air force aeronautical research laboratory
cold war
futuristic engineering designs
hans von ohain
heinkel
heinkel flugzeugwerke
interwar period
late 20th century
nazi germany
pre-world war ii
turbojet
turbojets
unitedstates
usaf
von ohain
weimar republic
world war ii
It has been pretty clear to all of us compulsive list-makers that for a few years now the allocation of new designations by the U.S. Department of Defense has stopped following rigorous logic, and is often based on pleasing the contractors by keeping all or part of their inhouse designations...
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Flying boat design by E.F. Burton (Douglas Plant Engineer), I don't know if info has already been posted about this model, but it is new for me... source:https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304947742035?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050
admiralty
admiralty a-class airship
airship
airships
early 1920s
great britain
late 1910s
post-world war i
r.38 class airship
royal airship works
royal corps of naval constructors
royal navy
short brothers plc
unitedstatesunitedstates navy
world war i
Possible cyber attack:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68844879
Switching over to VOIP for emergency and other critical telecommunications seems to have been rather short-sighted, at best.
SWARM robots have already been mentioned on this forum [ https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/rolls-royce-swarm-engine-repair-microrobots.30577/ ] but they are merely one in a handful of Rolls-Royce programs aimed at robotic engine maintenance, for which the company teamed up with academics...
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