@cdrsalamander Amusingly enough the type of firearms legally available to French citizens without licensing, pre-1900 and not using metallic cartridges.
This is your annual reminder that, in addition to the Spruance DD, the Ticonderoga CG were designed to armed with an 8" gun, the MK-71.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Starting to wonder if there is a market for a new "dumb car" or light truck; No connectivity, No performance metrics recording, just start, go and stop.
I rise once again to state that Fincantieri is not responsible for the dog’s breakfast that was the Constellation Class process.
This is all in the lap of NAVSEA and OPNAV. Full stop.
As I wrote at the time, the 57mm part of the selection process, clearly done due to LCS program backwash, was an indicator that the same people, processes, etc that begat that disgrace were not purged.
Uniformed and civilian leadership post selection of the FREMM design failed their Navy and their nation due to their institutional failure to understand the larger picture.
What made the British Empire the dominate naval and commercial force in the world was not controlling all the land masses on the globe, but controlling the key maritime chokepoints.
English Channel, Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Cape of Good Hope, Aden, Hormuz & Singapore.
We are learning that lesson again today, as maritime chokepoints are now being contested.
This is your reminder of the great circle routes that ICBM would take to hit the center of the USA from: Iran (Red); Purple (Pakistani) [NB: these are also the routes from most of the Russian ICBM fields]; Russia (Yellow); PRC (Orange); NORK (White). Adjust actual launch sites and actual targets as needed. You can do this yourself on GoogleEarth.
Greenland is the shield for North America from most of the worst places in the world. To have it under utilized as such has always been a threat to the USA since the invention of intercontinental bombers and missiles.
This is by far an exceptional net good. Well meaning people can argue about how we got here, but we got here. No one else made it happen.
Even before the 9/11 attacks, Col. Richard "Rick" Rescorla was a decorated war hero with a Silver Star from his actions in Vietnam.
25 years ago today, Rescorla saved 2,687 people and paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Here’s how it happened. 🧵
Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
@DocStrangelove2 I use an algaecide that alters my pools surface tension. Wasps land, can't float, drown. From 10+ wasps nests around pool last year to zero.
SCOOP: Justice Dept. plans activating long-dormant maritime war court to streamline capture of Iranian oil tankers as US prizes. Legally uncertain plan intended to bolster blockade of Iran.
A feature of 1700s naval combat, prize courts set to return. https://t.co/K8gBrQZiwM