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Are we sure they had the tail to support the tooth? As I understand it, Russia is currently using a very similar logistical system compared to what they used in WWII, and they are having enormous problems supporting the tooth. My understanding is Russia's logistical capacity is a pale shadow of the...

Looked at it in more detail(and posted about it in the All the World's Battlecruisers forum) yesterday. The game is essentially a Rule the Waves browser game. This has some implications. Theoretically, you can't build a design for your fictional country, just for one of the factions of the game(The ...

Oh God, finally a game that allows you to build guns to be used on many designs. Still having a look at it, but I like what I'm seeing.

Yeah, just seen it. Holy crap, I'll have a lot to go through.

I second the thanks.

Letterstime is still going? Is it going on the Naval Fiction Board?

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2026 4:38 pm Interesting video, makes some good points.

Yeah. I know the guy who did it had an axe to grind, as much as the author of the original video had. But some of his points look spot on.

Jesse Michels: Just interviewed former Brazilian Defense Minister and current Presidential candidate Aldo Rebelo. He’s had access to the highest levels of classified state secrets. And he told me Colares and Varginha (UFO crash involving non-human beings) happened. The U.S. better catch up… Varginh...

Eh,I doubt that 'Star Wars was saved in the editing" somewhat. There certainly is a video in Youtube with that name that became famous, but there is also a 2-hour video on Youtube that does a pretty good job of refuting it(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olqVGz6mOVE). I don't know the real stor...

Sometimes, they don't even sign the attendance register.

James1978 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2026 12:54 am

gral wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 10:43 am What kind of helicopter is the IAR-394 Cerbul, a derivative of the Puma?

I had to go digging for the answer to that one in stuff I saved.

The IAR-394 Cerbul is a Romanian license built and assembled Mil Mi-24V Hind-E.

I see, thanks.

What kind of helicopter is the IAR-394 Cerbul, a derivative of the Puma?

gtg947h wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2026 11:06 am I don't know how many people were watching the stream but I wonder if there was some slowdown from high demand...

There was a substantial lag(20-30 seconds) in the official NASA stream.

Sounds like a poorly constructed escalation ladder and a bad choice of prompts to me. What's telling is that the LLMs didn't write out capitulation very often. Since this isn't AI, just a big Eliza system, it's up to the person prompting to get the output they want from the thing. Also, they don't ...

Sukhoiman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 1:59 am likely a staged ragebait/clickbait/hoax account.

This was what I heard it was.

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Just checked it, and it turns out I was recalling it wrong. The Branco River isn't navigable up to Boa Vista(there's a waterfall in the way); at best you theoretically could get up to Vista Alegre and drive down(up?) 152 km to Boa Vista on BR-174. The surer(only) way is to go all the way from Manau...

It’s hard to evaluate exactly how the C-390 compared to the C-130 in this area based on what I’ve found so far. It appears that it can do it to some extent: https://youtu.be/ivM6nlo9DOU But, turboprops may still be preferrable in that scenario. 'Can do it, but not as well as the C-130' is my unders...

Is there any particular aspect to the ”isn’t a good inter-theatre transport” that you’ve heard mentioned? That’s to say, does it relate to something like very short runways or something like that? Operation in short, unprepared runways, essentially. Although the C-17 is capable of that, my understa...

I wonder if either the C-390 or C-130J would make a good AWACS In case of the C-130 https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ebay-lockheed-AWACS-C-130-2020-08-06-a1.jpg Embraer supposedly is looking at AWACS and remote sensing variants of the C-390, to replace both va...