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Thanks for this, Enrique. Hope to take it for a spin soon.

15 July 1815 Having been defeated at Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British aboard the HMS Bellerophon.

When I get time to review the suggested changes - and I have no reason to believe at this point that they aren't great (based on Grumble's extremely useful work) - they will be incorporated into the official version of the HCDB.

Congressional Researcher Thinks the Air Force Already Has a Secret Stealth Bomber (War is Boring blog)

Hehe, too true.

11 July 1798 The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is re-established, having been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War (from where it originates).

Book Review The Red Baron: The Graphic History of Richthofens Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI (Defense Media Network)

10 July 1985 The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, which had been campaigning against French nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific, is sunk by limpet mines in the harbor at Auckland, New Zealand, by operatives of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) in an operation codenamed Operation Satanique.

It was certainly noticed before, but just didn't have any impact on the scenario (other than to potentially confuse folks). The actual orders: The Nimitz is even further away from Bangkok than Diego Garcia.

US Navy's SM-6 and over-the-horizon fire control score intercepts at sea (Jane's)

Pentagon suspends F-35 contract negotiations until latest failure resolved (Jane's)

And it has since occurred to me that a C-2 would lack the range to fly direct from Bangkok to Diego Garcia.

Sounds really good. I should probably reinstall it, haven't played it in months.

9 July 1962 The Starfish Prime high altitude nuclear test is conducted, exploding a 1.4 megaton W49 thermonuclear warhead 400 km above the South Pacific and producing a much larger electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effect than expected.

Investigators Eye Third-Stage Turbine As F-35 Remains Grounded (Aviation Week) Sources: Engine ‘Definitely’ to Blame for June F-35 Fire (USNI News)

8 July 1947 Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information officer Walter Haut issues a press release stating that the 509th Operations Group had recovered a "flying disk" that had crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.

A comic about Soviet submarine service from the 1970s. Humor Northern Submarine Fleet

Thanks for contributing this, looking forward to more!

This.

7 July 1944 During the Battle of Saipan, nearly 4,300 Japanese soldiers are killed in the course of a Banzai charge against two battalions of US infantry, which lost 650 men. Related story: US survivors of WWII battle recall Saipan attack (Stars and Stripes)

I've been remiss in keeping up with updates to the F-35 story here, but this summarizes the most recent developments. U.S. grounds entire F-35 fleet pending engine inspections (Reuters)

4 July 1943 The largest tank battle in history, the Battle of Kursk, begins with a German armoured offensive codenamed Operation Citadel. Two weeks later, it would be the Soviet Army that was on the offensive.

3 July 1988 Iran Air Flight 655 is brought down over the Persian Gulf in an accidental engagement by the Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes. 290 people are killed.

Yah, Walleye is a big ole beast delivered by most older generation aircraft from an earlier era.

Tales of the unexpected: mystery remains over Central Europe ATC blackouts (Jane's) Reminds me of the cyber warfare operation that pre-empted our (Soviet) offensive during the Global Thunder MBX years ago.