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I was in second grade when Challenger blew up. I remember it was only my second year in the united states, it was the 1st time I saw a launch. Like in many American schools it was watched on tv at my school because of the teacher Christa McAuliffe that was on board. There were going to be almost daily broadcast to class rooms from space by the teacher planned to get kids to be more interested in space and science. I loved planes and space ships as a kid (real things not just make believe) I knew by sight just about every major aircraft in the US,NATO and Warsaw pact arsenal. So as soon as the explosion happened I also knew that it was a catastrophic failure and when no chuets were seen a deadly one. I cried that night for those lives lost and for all the cool stuff I knew would not get to see that week. When I watched the last launch today it brought some of those memories flooding back realizing that those tired old birds were done for real this time. Hope they have a good ride home.

good read, don't see stuff like this on the news because it would take more then 2 minutes (the length of your average news story)

We cant even build a decent hybrid car, would hate to see the budget for a battery for a sub lol probably be more then a f35 engine

Only time on the whole trip I wished I had my SLR, shot this with my vacation 13.6 mp point and shoot sony, was hopping she (or if it was a Udaloy He) would come closer but it stayed off of us quite a bit. It did shadow us for about 20 minutes after we passed it. I joked with my wife they were probably running gunnery practice on us, she didn't laugh..

Was on a nice cruise (the leisure vacation kind) coming back to new york from Bermuda on Saturday when I see this pretty thing bouncing around in 50knt winds (luckily swells were pretty low but saw waves go over her bow a few times.) wondering if anybody knows who she might be.

1st comment if you haven't yet read the story in the link only do it if you want to feel sick in the morning, the "artist" should get slapped around by his dad if the poor guy is still alive having his son basically spit in his face (and of his nation) 2nd comment after Afghanistan and Iraq if the USA did not put in major work to make sure the UK (our truest and closest ally in the world) fought off Argentina and kept the Falklands British then I would feel that no other nation in the world would ever trust us at all.

possible tanker and supply rendezvous?

So its like gps tracker on a rental car, lol.

poor pilot that's allot of work for one guy, cant imagine the turning radius was improved with this modification...

Training off the coast of England, according to the article organized by the royal navy.

For a asw it looks mean.

Unfortunately with the quality of war movies lately it would probably star jean claud van dame and be on tnt or jammie fox and be a war/comedy.

So an old F-4 Launching Sparrows does not have to stay pointed at target post launch?

I could be wrong about this but if the programers wanted to go for a realistic (more even win/loss ratios) in air to air battle they may have taken a few steps to even the odds of human vs AI. For years the common tactic for a human when facing ai in air to air is fly in get in range launch and if fire is returned then turn and burn saving your fighters if they can get out of range while the simpleton ai fighters usually just head right for your missiles or engage afterburner and chase after you (heading for your missiles at an even faster speed). While a few human players play it more "realistic" (launch, maybe take some maneuvers but pretty much stay in range or continue heading towards the enemy). now if the designers took the majority of play (turn and burn) and decided to make it more fair they may have programed a decrease in the accuracy of human players air to air missiles while maintaining or increasing the lethality of enemy air to air. Just one possibility but I am not aware if anything was actually done. As far as sub attacks out of the blue happens all the time and if you had all your sensors off if the bugger has you on passive sonar from a few zones away he could have done a bearing launch and popped you, way to tell if it was bearing is if all 10 missiles went after the same ship then unless it was a carrier its about guaranteed it was a bearing only launch. But if the did tweak some things they may have gone too far, time will tell

Increased aircraft space, Or anti air weaponry would seem to be a better use of space for a unit to be operating closer to shore.

Sad.

Larry Bond Cold Choices

Most hillarious thing I have read this week is from that wike page about the HMS x1: The 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, of which Britain was a signatory, did not ban submarines but it did ban their use against merchant ships I think the treaties ending WWI and armament treaties after-wards are some of the biggest flops in modern history, its like everybody wanted to either stick their heads in the sand or really wanted wwII to happen because all of these treaties were for the most part pure crap.

cool way for a surface ship to avoid some antisurface missiles.

Wow that's a huge reduction in personnel, that's not going to help their unemployment rate either. 40% of their Challenger tanks no new nimrods no c130's 19 destroyer and frigates. Crap that's a small force.

Not very accurate in some things but a good fiction read: Ghost Force by Patrick Robinson covers a modern day invasion of Falklands by Argentina I enjoyed it enough to read in 4 sittings.

guess they took the planned attacks on Paris personal.

After America Red Dragon Rising Shadows of War And Finally got the last 3 books of the 6th fleet so I can read them back to back And it looks like Clancy is finally gotten off his ass and wrote a book on his own in the Ryan series (true its more spy then military but I will give it a read.)

It's an old joke in the USN that LST actually stands for Large Slow Target. U mean it doesn't?

Cool little documentary it looks like an old A model and would correspond with a 1985 scenario. As far as I can remember reading only a handful were ever given amphib capabilities but that part of the video is pretty funny looking, looks like the same amphib setup they tried to give tanks during the D-day assaults. I always taught of them more as tank destroyers then actual tanks but seems the classification went away after Korea so just about anything with a big gun and little or no troop capabilities and some armor was considered a tank.