21st century

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For those interested, the Angry Planet (formerly War College) podcast has an extensive interview with Steve Jackson about his legendary Ogre game. https://play.acast.com/s/warcollege/sponsored-the-mega-tank-of-the-future Today’s episode is brought to you by Auroch Digital, makers of many fine...

What Hitler planned for German Railways had they won the war... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkuEP5iMRiM

Solar geoengineering — putting aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and reduce global warming — is not a fix-all for climate change but it could be one of several tools to manage climate risks. A growing body of research has explored the ability of solar geoengineering to reduce...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/12/08/helicopter-crashes-india-military-chief-board-seven-dead/ https://thehill.com/policy/international/india/584855-four-dead-in-crash-of-helicopter-carrying-indias-defense-chief RIP.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-first-military-base-on-africas-atlantic-coast-u-s-intelligence-finds-11638726327 Nothing to see here I'm sure.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blue-origin-sierra-space-orbital-reef-space-station-plans/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58778273 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58778274

Many air forces have aerobatics teams to show off and impress citizens. With the development of high performance combat drones it seems to me that it would make sense to design routines for them to show off as well. With drone aircraft, many constraints can be removed and some insane demos are...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/10/04/2236211/germany-unveils-worlds-first-commercial-plant-for-making-synthetic-kerosene

Some hilarious messages popping up on Twitter.....

https://apnews.com/article/united-states-seoul-south-korea-nuclear-weapons-north-korea-4a6c7e182e6d2283510e650353661454 North Korea has tested the Hwasong-8, a ballistic missile that utilizes a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). Here's the KCNA press release. Hypersonic Missile Newly Developed...

I love airliners in model form but loathe flying as a form of travel in real life. But I have been thinking in these Covid days which is the airline which sums up the coolness of the idea of airline travel. As a Brit Imperial Airways with its silver biplanes at Croydon airport or flying boats on...

One of the must have expensive toys of the mid 60s in the US and UK was the Johnny Seven One Man Army. Read what it was here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA Seems a bit far fetched, but at about the same time there was this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_63

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29985976 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09w8lz6 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/16/sir-clive-sinclair-inventor-early-pocket-calculator-transformed/...

The Economist's perspective. It devotes most space to looking at the political context. https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/09/15/australia-is-getting-nuclear-subs-with-american-and-british-help The new partnership also comes at an opportune time for Mr Biden. His withdrawal from Afghanistan...

In THIS THREAD, the re-equipment of the Red Arrows has been touched upon, so I thought it would be a good idea to break out a thread to discuss this subject. What should the Red Arrows use after the Hawks are retired? Should the Red Arrows continue after the Hawks are retired? cheers, Robin.

https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2021/09/03/italian-police-raid-drone-maker-over-alleged-chinese-takeover/ TLDR: Alpi Aviation, manufacturer of the Strix, which is used by Italian SF, was bought for an inflated price in 2018, by a Hong Kong based front company for two Chinese state owned...

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/uk-last-hovercraft-cmd/index.html Yet another topic I could have sworn we already had in one form or another.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/china-erases-billionaire-actress-zhao-wei-from-history/news-story/94100f6569377078cfeee411f5fc3538