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Simon Darkshade wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:59 am Is that from one of the British Secret Projects books? I remember that page.

It’s from “Battle Flight”.

...Code name Project PURDEY. Mike I found it!! IMG_4831.jpeg Here we go. Project HELMET, a 9.45” gun firing 500lb shotgun rounds out to 200,000’ for an intercept 30-35 miles downrange. YES, Gerald Bull was involved. Craig, I can believe Bull was part of that. But six rounds a minute? Seems like it ...

That was from me. :D Thanks for reminding me of that. BTW, I just had a shower thought. If Dust Clouds from NUDETS can degrade/destroy/make inaccurate incoming RVs; why not make your own dust cloud from a 1 MT nuke buried in the center of your ICBM field? Dust cloud abrasion only destroys incoming ...

Found on another site, but re. ANTRIM and Sea Slug whilst down south… Hi, I served onboard HMS Antrim during the Falklands War as a Weapon Engineering Artificer. She did Fire a salvo of two SeaSlug missiles in the Surface to Air mode whilst in San Carlos waters or "Bomb Alley" as we called...

Poohbah wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 5:36 pm

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 4:15 pm

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:42 pm

....Oh, I hear C:MO calling.....

Mike

Sorry Mikey, explain that to me please?

Command: Modern Operations. Insanely detailed real-time simulation of naval and air operations.

Oooh. I’ve been looking at Sea Power but not heard of that one.

Just remember that Sea Slug had a secondary anti surface mode (MICAWBER); the RN reckoned that 3-4 salvoes (6-8 missiles) would be enough to take down a SVERDLOV. Pretty equivalent in size to a BROOKLYN. Also remember that the warhead on Sea Slug was 200lb (!) whilst that of Exocet was 364lb… and t...

Just remember that Sea Slug had a secondary anti surface mode (MICAWBER); the RN reckoned that 3-4 salvoes (6-8 missiles) would be enough to take down a SVERDLOV. Pretty equivalent in size to a BROOKLYN. Also remember that the warhead on Sea Slug was 200lb (!) whilst that of Exocet was 364lb… and th...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Apr 26, 2025 5:37 pm Cross posting these two gems from another post:

The Hole In The Ground (1962)
Sound an Alarm (1971)

I’m well into Fighting In Woods And Forests, and Patrolling In Urban Areas right now.

.... Apologies if I missed this part, but did the exercise take into account attrition from Norway, Sweden, or any other Allied nations? I absolutely get that this was intended to see if the UK was capable of withstanding a Ukraine D+0 level air attack, so that might not have been included. Mike No...

Quoting Mark Sheppard in another Essays thread here, but on B-70 vulnerability to nuclear-tipped SAMs: I actually got bored and asked Grok AI's about that; and ended up with these rough numbers after creating a calculator Target G Loading: 7 G (B-70 Production stressed to 3.75G with 4.5G limit) Wing...

Engagement envelope of S-300.
Blurb here: https://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Grumble ... ocId697690

I’ve just been reading some more on the SA-5 (S-200). The time-to-height was 12 seconds to 75,000’. Missile launch from launch authorisation took 15 seconds from the point at which valid intercept parameters were indicated. At 70,000’ the missile had a range of 20.5km. Our B-70 at M3.4 would be tool...

So I did a thing and found the SA-5’s engagement envelope. SA-5B (S-200VE) actually. IMG_4776.png Plot for 70,000’ and >500m/s (at M3.4 the B-70 would be doing c.1020m/s) gives the S-200VE a range of between 17-20km against the Valkyrie. The B-70 would cross that intercept window in 22 seconds. Add ...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 12:24 pm One question do people prefer quoting articles or post just the link?

It depends for me on the size of the article, but then I’m awkward that way

That was from me. :D Thanks for reminding me of that. BTW, I just had a shower thought. If Dust Clouds from NUDETS can degrade/destroy/make inaccurate incoming RVs; why not make your own dust cloud from a 1 MT nuke buried in the center of your ICBM field? Dust cloud abrasion only destroys incoming ...

Ehhhmmm wasn’t there some data uncovered here- it may have been on the last iteration of this board, toward the end- on the inability of Soviet SLBMs to fly depressed-trajectory? I seem to recall, their electronics could only handle ambient temperatures of up to c.55 C (may be off, but it was VERY ...

Ehhhmmm wasn’t there some data uncovered here- it may have been on the last iteration of this board, toward the end- on the inability of Soviet SLBMs to fly depressed-trajectory? I seem to recall, their electronics could only handle ambient temperatures of up to c.55 C (may be off, but it was VERY l...

My two cents . . . Create a MODERATOR account. If warnings or discipline need to be meted out, the approved Mods can log into that account and do it from there. Use red font like Jotun did to grab attention. If we do that, maybe we can let people block whomever they want, but we will all see commun...

Johnnie Lyle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 4:54 pm

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 4:46 pm

Bob Dedmon wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:33 am

yeah

It does get the job done if your tax situation is not too overly complicated

At a price, naturally.

The whole thing is a shell game for what should be pretty simple.

I have to file a personal tax return in the U.K., it’s one form (2 pages, 4 sides) and takes me a day.