History, Politics And Current Affairs

You could have had the Type 26 you know. 😉 No we couldn't. USN can't have nice things. :D Sadly At this point we’d be a lot better off canceling the Constellation program and firing everyone involved. Then go out and contract with the various foreign shipyards that are building modern frigates and ...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:06 am You could have had the Type 26 you know.

We’d have done the same thing to it that we did to FREMM.

Yup. The medical system was very advanced. The Not So Quiet on the Western Front podcast had a good overview of the British casualty clearing system, and with only slight changes it’s the same one that we use today. It’s been written that the next major advance in the military medical system was th...

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 2:48 am Either in civilian life as a Deputy U.S. Marshal, or a special operator wearing the uniform, Sisco is not to be trifled with.

Good game wardens make good poachers.

Yup. The medical system was very advanced. The Not So Quiet on the Western Front podcast had a good overview of the British casualty clearing system, and with only slight changes it’s the same one that we use today. The medical system is even more impressive when you consider that they didn’t have a...

Tasting History has an interesting episode on what the BEF was eating (and being taught to cook) in WWI: https://youtu.be/S0cM-u7Jrh8?si=tcCwFK37Uu-K_oG9 The one bit that struck me was the comment that most of army cookery school was focused on sanitation. The food might not be palatable, but it wa...

Tasting History has an interesting episode on what the BEF was eating (and being taught to cook) in WWI: https://youtu.be/S0cM-u7Jrh8?si=tcCwFK37Uu-K_oG9 The one bit that struck me was the comment that most of army cookery school was focused on sanitation. The food might not be palatable, but it was...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:56 am Or Darwin Award?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1928987614486401499

Tis the season.

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:45 am

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 12:21 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-G9UElfmA

From Battleship New Jersey

Extra bonus, visitors who tour the reactor compartment don’t need flashlights at night…

But Kevin does advise taking them home as ersatz illumination.

Poohbah wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 1:52 am To absent friends.

May we do the best we can with the time they bought us.

I get that on my iPhone, I believe it’s the iCloud private relay service that is causing it. It keeps changing the IP-adress to mask it from the website, causing the logouts. With a (paid) VPN service enabled or with the private relay just disabled you won’t get it. How long has it been doing that?...

Is anyone else who predominantly access the Board on the browser of their cell phone noticing that it will routinely log you out when trying to navigate the board? Yes. Probably when your IP address changes. I don’t think it’s that, even considering the Third World nature of California’s cell netwo...

Is anyone else who predominantly access the Board on the browser of their cell phone noticing that it will routinely log you out when trying to navigate the board?

It's the Alaska class of armored vehicles. And a M1 is air droppable. Once. I don’t think the M10 is intended to be air dropped by parachute, even if theoretically capable of it. I think the plan is to have the paratroopers secure an airhead and then fly these things in to expand the perimeter. So ...

See the Chieftain’s video on why the Booker is NOT a tank. The main AT weapon of Airborne and air-mobile forces are the infantry anti-tank missiles (or the helos and zoomies supporting them). This thing’s an assault gun, more like an SU-76, or a souped-up Bradley or Stryker with a bigger gun. They w...

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 11:05 pm "Gunslinger".

I like it. A year or so back, the Powers That Be wouldn't have even given it a name, lest we offend one of the nations we would be shooting it at.

Mike

More PC than ASRAAM.

....Somebody in a blue suit needs to tell me NOW why we can't use the existing holes. If the missile can't/won't fit, that's Boeing's problem. If the holes can't be used because of their condition then the entire USAF leadership from the CSAF down need to be held responsible. Mike Especially in lig...

Eaglenine2 wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 7:45 pm Question how is the Soviet reinforcements going to get to Iraq?

From the conversation amongst the Soviet officers, it looks like the Soviets have set up an air corridor over the eastern part of Turkey.

While the science fiction nurd in me applauds the idea, the Old Navy in me thinks about the many good sailors and Marines who were KIA with citations for heroism that such ships are normally named for. Yes, acknowledging the excursions in recent years for “heroes of political correctness” that shou...

Shep, another one for your list - YouTube. We have seen a massive revolution in how academic levers researchers can reach an audience. It was beginning in the 2010s, but COVID really kicked it into gear as all aspects of academia grappled with how to keep going when we couldn’t get together in perso...