Shore Leave

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I saw this on Youtube and thought it was cute... The song, "Virgin's High" is the theme to anime called Sky Girls, so it seems appropriate that someone used it as the soundtrack for images of the Japanese Air Force. Sky Girls actually contains some pretty good flying scenes, although some of the tactics employed against the giant tentacled horrors are rather bizarre. What is not bizarre is that, when monsters attack, and exotic technology is Earth's only hope, it is completely reasonable to have the priceless prototypes armed and piloted by Japanese schoolgirls. Everyone knows that's just common sense! Here's the actual opening of the anime, in case an…

The truth about assault weapons

Supposed to be loosely based on the K-129. Keeping expectations low ...

Part One

Please join us next week on IRC for a Harpoon discussion. We hope to have one of these periodically in the future, especially if you and your friends show up! http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?/calendar/event/5-harpoon-irc-chat/

As my available time decreases I'll be pushing for all of you to make better and better issue reports. Here is a fantastic article on the topic. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000029.html I'm still not happy with the Issue Tracker here and still have a couple hundred issues to revive from the old forum format but the contents of a good issue report remain the same as they have for over a decade. Thanks all, with luck there will be a nice new stable beta for HC posted tonight in large part in response to an issue report posted last week.

Not idea about this: http://www.hauntedship.com/

And not, it's not a tecno-thriller ... http://www.amazon.com/Cthulhu-Unbound-3-ebook/dp/B009O3XFBA

NORAD is tracking Santa

Can anyone suggest some good harpoon flavoured novels? Would anyone recommend these authors? Michael DiMercurio Joe Buff Jeff Edwards

I may be just blind, has the donation button disappeared with the new appearance? Don

The Plan to Nuke the Moon (Intercepts blog, DefenseNews)

Catalogue this under frickin' awesome, please ... From Daily Mail

Not political intention here, the link is only because shows a funny cartoon of a Ticonderoga-class CG. I think we can post other similar things on this thread: http://theothermccain.com/2012/06/11/ticonderoga-classy/

From Microgame Design Group [excerpt] And a review of the game over at Foreign Policy [excerpt]

The Russian Navy's sail training ship Kruzenshtern is visiting our harbor this week. Haven't found time to get downtown for a closer look or pics, so this will have to do ... I understand that she is one of the larger 'tall ships' still around.

Very useful site ... if you have lots of cash .... http://www.cannonsuperstore.com/missiles.html (a AA-2c/AA-2-2/K-13R training round, I think).

A trivia question for all of you out there... What 1961 movie features the F 346 Flora of the Royal Danish Navy? Hint: A line from the move is "There is no reason to be afraid. The military has everything in hand." (This, of course, pretty much guarantees that everything will go pear-shaped almost immediately.)

I think Bob Hope had it right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k