early 21st century

The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland has passed away. May he rest in peace. :( Here a few of my favourite movies with him as an actor: The Dirty Dozen (1967) M*A*S*H (1970) The Eagle has Landed (1976) Eye of the Needle (1981) JFK (1991) Space Cowboys (2000) Sources...

The reason why I'm posting this is because there doesn't seem to be information regarding where the hulls were built. I'm not sure if the hulls were built in Romania then shipped to the Netherlands for assembly.

The Cold War in retrospect seems almost an oasis of reasonable behaviour. From 1945 to 1991 the US and Soviet Union only ratcheted up deliberately to threaten nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the October 1973 Arab Israel war. There were other occasions (notably Able...

Looks like a new 'ships of shame' report might be needed, MV Dali looses power leaving Baltimore, this ship suffered a loss of engine control leaving Charleston. While a big ship travelling at 15knots down a river looks stirring in a time of war, this is not that time. Thankfully all involved...

Back in 1984 the Reagan administration had faced up to the Soviet threat and produced a report for the public called "Soviet Military Power" which set out the Soviet arsenal and the US forces lined up against it. In 2024 the Biden administration has produced nothing similar setting out the...

Vladas Kensgaila was born on September 23, 1933 in the village Bikavėnai, in the Šilutė district of Lithuania. Vladas was very proud that this was also the year that his heroes Stephen Darius and Stasys Girėnas flew across the Atlantic (a landmark which would have a strong impact on his career...

I think post ww2 more ships have been damaged and sunk by mines than any other weapon Yet it’s barely talked about and most navies devote proportionally less resources to it What can be done to change that post ww2 ?

I am just trying to compile all domestic Japanese UAV programs in one place. Maybe I will add a bit more info on each as time goes on. I know for a fact I'm missing a lot of the early cold war programs, so any help there would be appreciated. FUJI/SUBARU Fuji-Vigilant 5000...

Oh dear. I'm glad that shop owner took it off my hands. :) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-66405711

Hi, in a conference proceedings book I found some interesting russian rocket projects (+ some history) at the beginning of the XXI century from these bureaus: SRC (Makayev) 1) the Volna, developed from RSM-50 SLBM (SS-N-18) 2) the Shtil, developed from the RSM-64 SLBM (SSS-N-23) 3) the...

https://www.defenseromania.ro/ultimele-zboruri-ale-mig-21-lancer-ale-romaniei-toate-drumurile-duc-la-bacau-zboruri-simultane-catre-bacau-ultima-misiune-a-mig-21_622607.html It was suposed at the end of the nineties to be an interim solution. Still, 20 years later, they still serve. View...

These are the variants of Taurus that i am aware of: Taurus KEPD 350: Standard version in service with Germany Spain and South Korea Taurus KEPD 150/Taurus L: A lighter variant of the in-service kinetic penetrator Taurus intended for Sweden to arm the Gripen. Taurus KEPD 150 SLM: Ship launched...

A YouTube series covering 'Numbers Stations' quasi-mysterious shortwave stations, which are widely suspected to be used by various intelligence agencies to contact agents in the field. This series is covering the stations one at a time. When they were more common (In the 1970 - 2000s) time...

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-first-propeller-with-11-blades

Well-known French journalist, author, pilot, THE voice of aerial meetings in France (La Ferté-Alais air show, Salon du Bourget air show, Paris Villaroche Air Legend and so on). He was 78 y.o.

Via Slashdot: https://www.quantamagazine.org/crucial-computer-program-for-particle-physics-at-risk-of-obsolescence-20221201/

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/20/1558240/hard-science-fiction-master-greg-bear-dies-at-age-71 Rest In Peace. :(

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/15/1815231/banking-giants-and-new-york-fed-start-12-week-digital-dollar-pilot https://u.today/us-banking-giants-start-digital-dollar-pilot...

RIP Frank https://robinsonheli.com/press-releases/helicopter-pioneer-frank-robinson-passes/?fbclid=IwAR1gXT23VVaZLR6XC3yQtWiI81tx8VaQFeU5S6iPIvUdbItPQI_dEpP0W1I As it is i fly R44 and 66 …was in Cologne for European Rotors this week so here my pics below All the best

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63612017 :( RIP.