History, Politics And Current Affairs

Best to wait until it’s actually been on until we judge it? I have seen the teaser clip & it looked okay. ST:A does also confirm what ranks our favourite characters reached. Mariner didn’t make captain for example and topped out as a commander. Yes, we should wait for more than a few teaser cli...

The question is whether we can economically maintain said capacity in peacetime such that we don’t have to reinvent it in wartime.

And yes, get back to the Mikeyverse!

....Welp, we get this in January: https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/starfleet-academy-star-trek-cast.jpg?q=70&fit=crop&w=1600&h=900&dpr=1 At the end of Picard S3 - which had its faults, many and manifold, but still pulled it out in the end - we were teas...

Constellation class cancelled at ship 2 https://news.usni.org/2025/11/25/navy-cancels-constellation-class-frigate-program-considering-new-small-surface-combatants Inevitable given how the Navy couldn’t stop fucking with the design and just build the damn things. The next question is what kind of ac...

Johnnie, my problem is fine motor control not eyesight. I've decided I am not completely washed up. I'm looking at a shelf I can clean up by moving some items around, and then I have shelf space for a 1/350 ship. Could prove interesting. Is the fine motor control harming your painting or your dexte...

So what do you do when you have no more space available for newly completed models? I've considered crushing a few to make more room, but that some how seems wrong. Most of my kits are ships, I've seriously considered switching to planes and hanging the results from the ceiling, but that may have c...

As far as I'm concerned, those two are accessories after the fact to murder, and should hang. No, that is not a euphemism or hyperbole. I am being literal. These morons are responsible for the security of nuclear weapons and we have two instances of airmen on base playing stupid games with guns tha...

So what do you do when you have no more space available for newly completed models? I've considered crushing a few to make more room, but that some how seems wrong. Most of my kits are ships, I've seriously considered switching to planes and hanging the results from the ceiling, but that may have c...

Video here: https://youtu.be/C06yW0232Bc?si=yIflx9Ni44-1MMmd It sounds a lot like how Stuart described the piecutters, though apparently this one isn’t classified. It also doesn’t do what say the nukecalculators do, which is map out damage from a specific radius. But it does sound a lot like how Stu...

However the story itself seems to be a continual series of screwups. I shan't be reading it. I read Jacobsen's book and I agree that it was basically a Murphy's Law gangbang for maximum shock effect, but Kathryn Bigelow has proven more than once that she is very good at depicting military-themed st...

Can anyone explain why the AF is flying a retired model and intends to do so for the 9 years? I think it's that it's a very well known and understood quantity, so it's a good baseline target for exercises and testing new/updated systems. under contract apparently. makes perfect sense. F-117 is a go...

The KC-46 working is routine? :p

I'm not sure where it started. I got the meme from Sarah Hoyt's webpage. https://accordingtohoyt.com/ I think it started here https://www.facebook.com/BarronMAGA/posts/breaking-president-trump-will-name-new-navy-aircraft-carrier-the-uss-charlie-kir/777168048259775/ FYI, Charlie Kirk's full name was...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 6:48 pm Is there a reason anyone would want to retain the C-123 beyond its various @ retirement dates? Or bring any survivors back?

How desperate are people for cargo aircraft?

That’s probably the determining factor around which everything else is factored.

Have they started raiding the museums yet?

Huzzah!

drmarkbailey wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 3:37 am Tell me some cavalry unit in TLW has an F Troop...



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2nd and 3rd ACR did in @.

So would a lot of cavalry squadrons that were the second of something.

That’s totally a reasonable mix of emotions. You have to put family first, and do what you have to do to take care of them. But it’s also reasonable to feel this is a least bad of available options and not an exciting new professional opportunity. It’s also entirely reasonable to feel a mix of sadne...

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Micael wrote: ↑Mon Sep 08, 2025 4:40 pm

There’s a very annoying activist group that is trying to achieve that already, mostly by blocking traffic through sit down protests.

It’s scary when one’s sarcasm is confirmed by real life.

What happens if it's not sarcasm, but prophecy?

File it under “do not give them ideas.”

Sounds like a great opportunity to get the enviros to support wetlands expansion….. There’s a very annoying activist group that is trying to achieve that already, mostly by blocking traffic through sit down protests. It’s scary when one’s sarcasm is confirmed by real life. 🤦‍♂️ These are Heinlein’s...