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Poohbah wrote: ↑Sat Feb 14, 2026 11:30 pm I have an idea for a perfect decoy. It has the same ballistic behavior as a live warhead, and generates a nuclear yield at end of flight, so they can't possibly ignore it.

So just to add another bit of detail, this Mark Christopher Lee which is stating the things above is apparently also saying that his source is planning to come forward on May 1st and hold a press conference with more details on the supposed Trump disclosure speech. It would be a bit interesting to ...

Hey! Ours (occasionally) worked… Yes, but fortunately they didn't work so well during the Hunt for the Bismarck. Neither did FAA ship recognition and that could have ended with two RN CA onw goals and Bismarck safe in Brest. A really lucky case of reality hitting you in the face. Those weren’t “our...

For reference, given the infamous Mk_14, with its persistent 'Non of the Above' magnetic & contact triggers plus wonky depth holding... Do we know what happened to the Bureau perps ?? What little I've read about it suggests scandal was 'hushed up' for 'Operational Security', lest provide 'Encou...

Another claim along the same lines, now with date included. Again, apply salt. Donald Trump’s has ground breaking UFO speech ‘ready to go’, insiders claim 11th February 2026 05:22pm GMT Lum Donald Trump’s has ground breaking UFO speech ‘ready to go’, insiders claim Brace yourselves A ufologist has ...

I’m rather curious too. I don’t get the reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_bowling_incident_of_1981 In 1981 in the Australia/New Zealand one-day match, the thing came down to the last ball bowled. New Zealand required a score of six on that ball to tie, which means that it must leave ...

M.Becker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 5:23 pm

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Tue Feb 10, 2026 11:53 pm ...Today I Learned:

* In testing, the Wehrmacht said the V-1 had a CEP of 850 meters.

*In postwar testing, the V-1 was found to have a CEP of 12 kilometers.

Mike

British, German and particularly American torpedoes say: Hold my tea/beer/whiskey.

Hey! Ours (occasionally) worked…

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 2:15 pm

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 12:58 pm I don’t think whatever the merits of the half-time show that it merits a Congressional investigation. Unless Congress has nothing else to do this week?

Bernard, it will keep Congress from doing harm to the US.

There is that!

Underarm is disgraceful? I strongly suspect the skills of practitioners of American Women's Softball would come as a great surprise to the cricketing world. How about submarine pitching? For those of you who are not afficionados of "America's Pastime", that's about 25% of overhand pitchin...

Belushi TD wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 2:09 pm I ended up watching the first couple minutes of the show, realized it wasn't my kind of music, and went and took a nap.

I've not liked a halftime show for a decade or so.

Belushi TD

It wasn’t part of the half-time show but I liked the inter service fly over

Mark, this is absolutely fascinating. The 100’ kill radius even more so. Forgive me if this sounds like trivialising a superb technical post, but can we conclude from this that Stu was right all along in his contention that ABM was a problem mostly solved by the late 1960s? For a limited number of ...

IIRC, the CEP was further munged by skewed reporting. The UK press and 'pressed' Double Cross spies all reported strikes were long / short of Central London. Targeting was duly adjusted... Also, with UK weather variably 'Westerlies', their mid-Atlantic weather-ships hunted, sunk and U-Boot weather ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/07/pig-drone-china-power-supply-tangled-village-tongjiang/ As a follow-up in the world of extraordinarily weird news we have this. 'Flying pig’ cuts power to village Drone’s rope gets tangled in electricity line as Chinese farmer transports swine to sl...

Same old Phil

Takes this with a fair bit of salt but there’s reporting in a ”paywalled” article in the Daily Mail today that Trump will hold a disclosure speech. Per a ”source” elsewhere this is supposedly what will be stated: If Trump announces anything like that, it will be the best announcement of its kind ev...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sun Feb 01, 2026 12:20 am Was it Stuart or someone else that said, "The best purpose of LCS is weeding out poor COs before they get to a major vessel."

Perhaps.

But I think that as the growing pains have been worked out they can be put to good use.

We do need numbers

I'd like to be a fly on the wall for soon-to-be-boot-private's chat with his CO. And his CO's CO, etc.

I've always been impressed by some of the more interesting situations some sailors and Marines will put themselves into. This one is pretty impressive.

What was he thinking?

If they had build some of those for the LCS squadrons, would that have helped the program? Maybe. Depends upon how the LCS squadrons would be deployed. The key purpose of a tender is to support forward deployed forces away from homeport or other shipyard facilities. If an LCS squadron were forward ...

Pancreatic cancer Has taken friends snd family members.

Our prayers are with you all

...AND South Carolina. Mike Oh yeah! And as I recall, that one is still buried in the swamp somewhere waiting to “cook off”! Nightwatch, Ours was Mars Bluff SC - a B-47 on its way to the UK with a live weapon in the bay accidentally got salvoed next to a gentleman's house. The weapon had been loade...