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Micael wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:32 pm A Norwegian war film about the sinking of the cruiser Blücher is coming out in September. The trailer looks promising (only in Norwegian I’m afraid:)
https://youtu.be/dXtL355oWtM

Oh, that looks remarkable.

Mike

Sneaky, sir, very sneaky. I have it in one of my reference books but there was a 1960-70s (iirc) British proposal for a giant shotgun-based ABM system… ...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’ fo...

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...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:53 pm Conqueror puts some Mk.8s into her as in @?

Bernard,

If she's close enough - it depends on when Belgrano actually gets into range.

Mike

...That there was apparently a plan for ARA General Belgrano to charge the British forces at South Georgia during the recovery, on or about 25 Apr 82. Not sure yet why it didn't happen, but reflect on this - RN forces on site were HMS Antrim , HMS Plymouth , HMS Brilliant , and HMS Conqueror , suppo...

.... 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

Poohbah wrote: ↑Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:46 am I've got a perfect decoy. It weighs the same as an RV, has the same ballistic coefficient, and it generates nuclear yield at end of flight.

Poohbah,

...That's so crazy, it might just WORK!

Mike

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 ...

Yet 007 seems to have maintained a rather inconsistent trajectory of quality. If we ignore CR(1) then you have Dr No - which had some insanely Dr Who- ish sets but also a lot of glamour and fun, From Russia with Love, a surprisingly conventional spy story, then somebody hits the go button and we ge...

...A quick update to the story of Thomas Power - he was the airborne commander of the great firebomb raid on Tokyo, and there are accounts of him giving a gleeful play-by-play account on his bomber's radio, like it was a baseball game. And he also - at the very height of the Cuban Missile Crisis - s...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5xx ... D=ref_fark


Mike

...Brought a tear to my eye, it did.

Mike

....Quick update: Diedrich stood as Hutchinson entered the lobby, speaking a firm, “Good Morning, Sir. Your office is opened up and coffee’s on. I’ve taken the liberty of calling in the support staff; they’ll be here shortly. Would you like some breakfast? I can send a runner down to the chow hall i...

Thanks for the correction. Have not watched any of the Paramount Plus shows, although Lower Decks sounded like fun. Jem, Lower Decks is delightful insanity, although it could occasionally veer off into Seth McFarland territory. SNW is wonderful Trek, and in many ways pretty close to the MikeyVerse....

SKIPPER RED By Mike Kozlowski The warble of the communicator wasn’t loud at all; but in the darkened room it sounded like an explosion, and explosions tend to awaken one quickly. Almost thirty years of reflexes had Admiral Harold Hutchinson awakened very, very quickly as he rolled to his right and s...

[Regnum] A Tu-22M3 strategic missile carrier bomber crashed during a scheduled flight in the Irkutsk region. This was reported on April 2 by the Russian Defense Ministry. "On April 2, 2025, a Tu-22M3 aircraft crashed during a scheduled flight in the Irkutsk region. The crew of four ejected. As...

...In September '23, the USMC lost an F-35 over SC - about a hundred miles from me. The weather that day statewide was horrifying, and I wondered why the Marines were flying that day at all. And stranger still, the bird flew on for 11 minutes/65 NM before it finally decided to crash, fortunately in ...

...IIRC statistically, air shows have been pretty safe since the end of WWII, but when they happen they're doozies. Cleveland's National Air Show has had only two since '45, but they had repercussions afterwards - the loss of Bill Odom's P-51B Beguine in 1949 (my dad was in the stands when that happ...

Two planes collided during practice at a airshow. 2 pilots and one passenger ejected, apparently no one killed, one pilot is in hospital. https://x.com/DisrespectedThe/status/1905336151491178516 ...The passenger has quite the story now. Not only got the ride, but gets a tie from Martin-Baker. Mike

Glad everybody's okay....but my first thought at that pic was that somebody was filming a Pink Panther reboot.

Mike