Potentially interesting MILITARY-related stuff

[blackwing94]

America BAD. China Good.

I think you're missing the point. Nature will always take advantage of an abundant host/food source. Something will always emerge to fill the gap. Humans are a very abundant host/food source. Nature doesn't care what your imagined nation boundaries are, or what form of social government you live in, or what religion or race you think you belong too. A new threat to humans can come from any corner of the globe. Don't make the mistake of equating a made up nation/boundary (that only exists in the minds of humans) with nature doing it's thing.

You're fighting a petty skirmish, and missing the true battle.

 

[Mushtang]

And the Europeans exported a whole host of diseases that virtually wiped out entire North and South American civilizations. Seems like tit for tat.

I think you're missing the point. Nature will always take advantage of an abundant host/food source. Something will always emerge to fill the gap. Humans are a very abundant host/food source. Nature doesn't care what your imagined nation boundaries are, or what form of social government you live in, or what religion or race you think you belong too. A new threat to humans can come from any corner of the globe. Don't make the mistake of equating a made up nation/boundary (that only exists in the minds of humans) with nature doing it's thing.

You're fighting a petty skirmish, and missing the true battle.

 

[Peartree]

I think you're missing the point. Nature will always take advantage of an abundant host/food source. Something will always emerge to fill the gap. Humans are a very abundant host/food source. Nature doesn't care what your imagined nation boundaries are, or what form of social government you live in, or what religion or race you think you belong too. A new threat to humans can come from any corner of the globe. Don't make the mistake of equating a made up nation/boundary (that only exists in the minds of humans) with nature doing it's thing.

You're fighting a petty skirmish, and missing the true battle.

Yup. Totally agree.

I'm not fighting anything.

 

[shockie]

Actually, you're implying that Europeans, (ie, white people) intentionally brought viruses to the poor people of color, indigenous peoples to commit genocide. That's revisionist history.

There is the false history that the US Calvary intentionally infected native Americans with smallpox from blankets, but that's a false narrative, never proven, because it never happened.

Whatever virus was brought from the old to the new world was by accident, ie natural causes. Back in the 1400 and 1500 hundreds, science didn't have any idea how viruses were transmitted from one person to another.

Unlike China,which intentionally infected America and the world in an act of asymmetrical warfare. Oops sorry about that America. My bad. This is the same country that has trans-shipped fentanyl into this country through the Mexican narco-state for the past ten years killing perhaps another million of your fellow American citizens.

Don't be an apologist for China's EVIL behavior.

 

[tim cubbedge]

Actually, you're implying that Europeans, (ie, white people) intentionally brought viruses to the poor people of color, indigenous peoples to commit genocide. That's revisionist history.

There is the false history that the US Calvary intentionally infected native Americans with smallpox from blankets, but that's a false narrative, never proven, because it never happened.

Whatever virus was brought from the old to the new world was by accident, ie natural causes. Back in the 1400 and 1500 hundreds, science didn't have any idea how viruses were transmitted from one person to another.

Unlike China,which intentionally infected America and the world in an act of asymmetrical warfare. Oops sorry about that America. My bad. This is the same country that has trans-shipped fentanyl into this country through the Mexican narco-state for the past ten years killing perhaps another million of your fellow American citizens.

Don't be an apologist for China's EVIL behavior.

Do you know what happened to the Lucayans?

 

[cwbullet]

Do you know what happened to the Lucayans?

This is a pretty good un biased acount:
https://www.tcmuseum.org/culture-history/lucayans/
I think it is important to look at the facts and avoid Hollywood Drama to deduce blame. It is a tragedy no less, but the intent is difficult to determine 200-400 years later.

 

[shockie]

Do you know what happened to the Lucayans?

What does genocide have to do with Europeans intentionally introducing viruses into the population.?

Genocide by one culture or another has been a regular occurrence on earth for hundreds or thousands of years.
It turns out that is one thing that human beings seem to be pretty good at.

There have been conquerors and the conqueued throughout history. Alexander the Great,Persia,Roman Empire,etc....

I think its time for people to concentrate on the here and now and the future and not on what happened 500 years ago. And then judging the past by today's woke values.

 

[cbwho]

Actually, you're implying that Europeans, (ie, white people) intentionally brought viruses to the poor people of color, indigenous peoples to commit genocide. That's revisionist history.

There is the false history that the US Calvary intentionally infected native Americans with smallpox from blankets, but that's a false narrative, never proven, because it never happened.

Whatever virus was brought from the old to the new world was by accident, ie natural causes. Back in the 1400 and 1500 hundreds, science didn't have any idea how viruses were transmitted from one person to another.

Unlike China,which intentionally infected America and the world in an act of asymmetrical warfare. Oops sorry about that America. My bad. This is the same country that has trans-shipped fentanyl into this country through the Mexican narco-state for the past ten years killing perhaps another million of your fellow American citizens.

Don't be an apologist for China's EVIL behavior.

What I find extremely annoying about "alternative fact" garbage is that it distracts from the true root causes. China didn't intentionally release this on the world.

However, it is true that the lack of modern hygienic practices in the meat markets caused these problems: Read this study from 2007 which warned of the coronavirus risk! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2176051/#!po=0.117371

I know it is fashionable by some to parrot the ramblings of a seditious illiterate idiot but may I suggest we listen to experts instead?

 

[Winston]

U2 Ops

 

[Winston]

Family Digs Up One-Ton Shell From the Battleship USS New Jersey
Fortunately, it was a dud, but it still packed 150 pounds of high explosive.
8 Jan 2021

https://www.popularmechanics.com/mi...-new-jersey-battleship-shell-found-in-vietnam
An unexploded 406mm Mk. 13 High Capacity shell fired from a 16"/50 cal Mark 7 gun of the Iowa-class USS New Jersey (BB-62) discovered in Quang Tri Province (Vietnam).

 

[Winston]

Stinger missiles with proximity fuzes destroy UAVs

 

[Winston]

A lot more going on there than I thought.

Testing at White Sands (Circa 1997)

This undated video documents the history and current activities of White Sands Missile Range at the time of the film. The label on the film indicates it was produced by WSMR's Public Affairs Office. A serial number on the label suggests it might have been released in 1997; the footage of the DC-XA failure on May 18, 1996 supports that suggestion.

 

[Winston]

Launch and other count-downs back then at Redstone Arsenal apparently went ...five, four, three, two, one, BLAST! That's what is heard in this excellent video anyway.

BTW, Redstone Arsenal has just been designated as the future Space Command HQ.

Vintage Technology circa 1956: Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal

Computer History Archives Project (film in great condition)

Vintage 1950’s technology: An excellent documentary on the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (“ABMA”), filmed at its headquarters at Redstone Arsenal, near Huntsville, Alabama. This full, unedited version, circa 1956, runs 28 mins. Various different types of technology are shown, including [and much more - W]:

-Redstone Missile launch; missile transports,
-Supersonic Wind Tunnel for Aerodynamic Testing
-Electronic testing equipment
-IBM computer equipment
-RCA model EMU Electron Microscope
-Spectrographic Analyzer; Lab equipment
-Oscilloscopes (Dumont model 274-A & others)
-High altitude pressure testing equipment
-IBM plug board programming panel
-Missile tracking and recording equipment
And others.

Also very nice vintage footage of life around Huntsville, Alabama, at that mid-1950’s time period.
Film courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) - ARC ID 2569626.

 

[Winston]

A B-47 crew member literally hung by his hands in an open bomb bay at 15,000 feet.

1958 Mars Bluff Nuclear Bomb Incident and the B-47



Modern aerial view with video of water filled crater:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/M...0010853cecefb9a!8m2!3d34.2009408!4d-79.657118
B-47 Stratojet Development and Operational Issues (excellent video)

By 1957, 1285 were deployed in 85 bomber wings! 2,032 were built, 21 still exist.



Stratojet: Meet Your Boeing B-47 - Restored Color - 1954

 

[Winston]

Air Force Museum Spectacular Drone Views of Experimental, Space, and Transports



Air Force Museum Cold War Gallery Drone's Eye View

 

[Winston]

How To Safely Defuse A WW2 Bomb | James May's Man Lab | Spark

Only at 3:30, 22:36, 48:00 -



Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery





366th CES EOD (Mountain Home AFB, ID) detonate explosives



I wondered why they were destroying the grenades. Bad lot? No shelf life limits. They are more expensive than they should be IMO. From the NSN seen in the video:

NSN 1330-01-563-0592

https://nationalstocknumber.info/national-stock-number/1330-01-563-0592
What are the historical prices recorded for this stock number?: Historical data shows pricing from $139.85 to $233.08.

Does NSN 1330-01-563-0592 have a shelf life?: No. There is no shelf life applicable for this NSN.

What NATO entities are users of this NSN?: Department Of The Army, Department Of The Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, Nadb (nato Ammunition Data Base), and Australia

The white things are in boxes marked with this company's name:

Titan Dynamics Systems, Inc

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/97988Z:US
Titan Dynamics Systems, Inc. engineers and manufactures military-related products. The Company manufactures and markets battlefield effects simulators which are used to simulate the flash, smoke, and sound of fired or exploding shells.

 

[Winston]

A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it.
How urban explorers uncovered the site—and the memory—of a covert Cold War–era accident.
January 5, 2021

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/lost-cia-spyplane-area51/
A-12s at Groom Lake:

 

[Johnly]

I remember reading Tom Mahood's account of his search efforts when they were first published. Unfortunately technology and available time were working against me. Flash forward to this weekend, using Google Maps, a keen eye, and time available by being stuck at home hiding from COVID I was able to locate the crash site using Ray Nixon's YouTube video

Walter Ray's Memorial is listed as being 37.25700, -114.351167, but if you look at Google Earth you can see what appears to be the plaque at 37.256810, -114.351250, these two locations are only 80 feet apart.

 

[Winston]

The Air Force’s New Report On Ballistic And Cruise Missiles Misses Its Target
According to a U.S. think tank, the Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat report is both inconsistent and contradictory.
21 Jan 2020

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...llistic-and-cruise-missiles-misses-its-target
China has significantly expanded its ballistic and cruise missile arsenal, including both nuclear and conventional types, in recent years. The addition of the DF-41 road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), DF-17 tipped with a hypersonic boost-glide vehicle, both of which you can read about here, and the growing importance of the DF-26 family are particularly notable examples of this.

The DF-41 is a road-mobile ICBM, first publicly displayed in October 2019. With an estimated range of around 9,300 miles, it is China’s longest-range strategic nuclear weapon and its service entry is clearly a significant development, although the first of these missiles were reportedly deployed operationally in 2017, with two brigades of them in service by the end of that year.

NASIC's report says that China also has “16+” road-mobile launchers for DF-31A and DF-31AG ICBMs, though FAS believes, based on its own open-source work, that the actual number is “probably twice that.” The NASIC report is also unclear on the warhead for the DF-31AG version, specifying one for the DF-31A variant, but “unknown” for the DF-31AG.

At the same time, the report curiously does not mention the two additional submarines that are being added to the Chinese SSBN fleet now. Last year, the Pentagon’s report on China’s ballistic missile arsenal noted that the People’s Liberation Army Navy had six Type 094 Jin class ballistic missile submarines, “four operational and two outfitting at Huludao Shipyard.” The Type 094 submarines are armed with the previous JL-2 SLBM, but reports have suggested that they could also carry JL-3s.

DF-41

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-41
The Dongfeng-41 (DF-41, CSS-X-10) ('East Wind-41') is a fourth-generation Chinese solid-fueled road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile operated by the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (formerly the Second Artillery Corps). DF-41 is the fourth and the latest generation of the Dongfeng series strategic missiles developed by China. The missile was officially unveiled at the China National Day military parade on October 1st, 2019.

The missile reportedly has an operational range between 14,000 to 15,000 kilometres (8,700 to 9,300 mi). This makes it the second long-range missile in the world, second only to the Russian R-36M, which has a reported range of 16000 km. It is believed to have a top speed of Mach 25,[2] and to be capable of MIRV delivery (up to 10). The development of the MIRV technology is reported to be in response to the deployment of the United States national missile defense system which degrades China's nuclear deterrence capability.[8] The project started in 1986, and may now be coupled with the JL-2 program.

Though there have been reports that the DF-41 can carry 6 to 10 warheads, analysts think it most likely carries only three warheads, with the additional payload used for many penetration aids.

Richard Fisher, an expert on Asia-Pacific military affairs, says that a typical Second Artillery Corps unit has 6-12 missile launchers and may have an additional 6-12 "reload missiles", i.e. missiles to be launched after the first missile with which the launcher is equipped are launched, indicating 12-24 DF-41 missiles per unit. If a missile had 10 warheads, that would give a single SAC unit the capability to target the contiguous United States with 120-240 nuclear warheads.

The threat report:

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/...ISE MISSILE THREAT_FINAL_2OCT_REDUCEDFILE.PDF

 

[Winston]

Sukhoi Su-57

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-57
The Sukhoi Su-57 (Russian: Сухой Су-57; unconfirmed NATO reporting name: Felon)[11] is a stealth, single-seat, twin-engine multirole fifth-generation jet fighter being developed since 2002 for air superiority and attack operations.[12] The aircraft is the product of the PAK FA (Russian: ПАК ФА, short for: Перспективный авиационный комплекс фронтовой авиации, romanized: Perspektivny Aviatsionny Kompleks Frontovoy Aviatsii, lit. ''prospective aeronautical complex of front-line air forces''), a fifth-generation fighter programme of the Russian Air Force. Sukhoi's internal name for the aircraft is T-50. The Su-57 is the first aircraft in Russian military service to use stealth technology. Its maiden flight took place on 29 January 2010 and it entered service on 25 December 2020. The fighter is the world's fourth operational fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft after the F-22, F-35, and J-20.

According to Sukhoi Company, the fighter is designed to have supercruise, supermaneuverability, stealth, and advanced avionics to overcome the previous generation fighter aircraft as well as ground and naval defences.[13][14] The Su-57 is intended to succeed the MiG-29 and Su-27 in the Russian Air Force.[15]

The prototypes and initial production batch are to be delivered with a highly upgraded Lyulka AL-31 variant, the AL-41F1, as an interim powerplant, while an advanced clean-sheet design engine, currently designated the Izdeliye 30, is in final stages of development, expected to be available after mid-2020s.[16] The aircraft is expected to have a service life of up to 35 years.[17]

 

[Winston]

Russian Cruise Missile Spins Out Of Control Before Crashing Into Sea Near Launching Destroyer
Weapons trials for the newly modernized Udaloy class destroyer didn’t go entirely to plan.
APRIL 29, 2021

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...re-crashing-into-sea-near-launching-destroyer


Russian 3M-54 Kalibr cruise missile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M-54_Kalibr

 

[Winston]

Russia will leave the ISS soon and will be moving over to the Chinese station.

Not definite and they'd be moving from a Ferrari to a Ford Pinto by doing so and they know it. It is conjectured that they're looking for ISS consortium funding as well as playing politics in general.

 

[Funkworks]

When a land shark happens on water I guess it’s just a shark.

 

[Marc_G]

It seemed to go on and on, churning the water...

 

[Back_at_it]

More nose weight

 

[GlueckAuf]

Bless their Bolshevik hearts, Vlad's hopelessly corrupt defense industry shines again.

What's worse than buying your missiles from the lowest bidding contractor?

Buying them from the highest bribing contractor.

 

[DaHabes]

It looks like the wings that are supposed to pop out didn't. Those itty bitty fins on the tail are likely for vectoring, so without the wings, CG is behind CP. Looks just like Rocksim 2D flight sims for unstable rockets.

 

[teepot]

I was watching and wondering if it was going to hit the ship or it would detonate.

 

[Worsaer]

Translated from Russian... “Hmm, I wonder what this extra o-ring is for...”

 

[yorider]

That must be Vlad's new hypersonic doomsday weapon he's always bragging about.