united states

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77qouYYkUY View: https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/2098428819451371800

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/01/general-dynamics-unveils-adx-vls-reloading-destroyer-tender/ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHXCl16O4hQ Earlier thread: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/ad-x.51042/

https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80-ieee-milestone https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80th-anniversary-weaving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

Assuming that this is not an ill-judged April Fools joke on the part of someone at the Daily Telegraph, this does not bode well at all for the survival of NATO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/01/donald-trump-strongly-considering-pulling-us-out-of-nato/

To start with, on a once again topical note from back in 1964: https://time.com/archive/6832099/nuclear-energy-ploughshare-canals/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

Via Slashdot: https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/09/diu-asks-industry-for-non-kinetic-tech-to-help-coast-guard-navy-disable-small-boats/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/movies/robert-redford-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU8.r74k.bah4mXuw4195&smid=url-share https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c07p8yle7pet https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/16/entertainment/robert-redford-death...

From last week: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/legendary-fighter-pilot-and-first-us-ace-of-the-vietnam-war-randy-duke-cunningham-passed-away/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/randy-duke-cunningham-vietnam-war-hero-convicted-accepting-125115035 Rest In Peace :(

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/today-in-aviation-history-captain-richard-s-steve-ritchie-becomes-the-first-u-s-air-force-ace-of-the-vietnam-war.html

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250826-the-soviet-artwork-that-spied-on-the-us

From the first link in the excerpt:

Though it might be more accurate to describe most of the OTV designs here as expendable payload busses, though in at least in some cases they will have cislunar capability. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-six-companies-to-provide-orbital-transfer-vehicle-studies/...

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15927291 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/photo/61261908

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-military-drug-cartels.html https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-directs-pentagon-prepare-military-options-drug-cartels/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07pdel9vyjo

REDSOD was an acronym for "Repetitive Explosion Device for SOil Displacement". The machine was effectively an internal combustion engine where gasoline was burned in a combustion chamber and then a valve would open causing the compressed air to rush out and blast the soil away. The first...

Just heard another starman has passed beyond the reach of mortal earth. Reaching for the stars in perpetuity. RIP, Sir.

Following discussion in the late 1980s whether the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) program should go for a traditional award to one airframe and propulsion manufacturer to build the actual X-30 test aircraft, or form a team among the remaining companies (McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics...

Howdy everybody, got a mystery for someone to solve. I found the following images on the history.navy.mil site by chance when doing research for my earlier Shinyo post, made elsewhere. I ended up with a bunch of photos of a mystery US naval craft, that according to the website, is only called...

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/exploration-and-innovation/navy-torpedoes.html It is interesting that among other things they don't really mention spar torpedoes.