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Feb 262010
A while back I saw this “Sargeant” missile in the parking lot of an Army-Navy store. I have doubts about whether much – if anything – on it is actual Sargeant hardware, or if it’s entirely fake. The fins, for example, were wood.
Feb 202010
Now available is a 40-page PDF file of a US Army training manual, TC 23-3, “To Catch A Tank: Big Game Hunting Made Easy.” Published in 1972, this “comic book style” manual illustrates tactics that infantry can use to take down enemy tanks, both in the wild (largely forests) and in cities.
<>This manual was scanned at high rez and digitally “cleaned” to make it the be all that it can be.
Since this was a small-format publication (still, it’s 26 megabytes), it comes with a small-format price. You can download MN1, “To Catch A Tank,” for only $2.50.
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I have about half a dozen of these small “comic book” manuals, but I’m on the lookout for more. If you have any you’d be willing to loan, rent or sell, let me know.
Feb 152010
One of the lesser known rocket projects from WWII Germany is the MF-5. I’ve found very little about this two-stage missile over the years… a mention in Ordway’s “International Missile and Spacecraft Guide” and a few drawings found buried in the NASM archive more than a decade ago.
According to Ordway, the “Nutcracker” was developed for the German Navy by Rheinmetall-Borsig at Marienfelde-Berlin. It was intended for use against low-flying aircraft. It was the fifth of the “Marine Flak” series; work began on it in July 1944, but was stopped in September. A Telefunken Kogge system was used for radio-remote control… but left unexplained was exactly how the missile was tracked. If it was meant for launch specifically from submarines, then presumably that means it was meant for underwater launch, in which case only a periscope would be available to track both the missile and the target… which seems a dubious prospect.
Length according to the drawing was 3238 mm, span over the main wing, 1290 mm. Other data from Ordway:
Weight: 473 pounds
Warhead: 25 pounds
Velocity: 536 mph
First stage thrust: 1,040 lbs for 0.9 seconds
Second stage thrust: 510 pounds for 10 seconds
Feb 132010
Victory for father who stabbed axe thug to protect family
Kenneth Blight, 51, walked free from the Appeal Court after the country’s most senior judge threw out an application from the Attorney General to increase his original sentence.
Baroness Scotland QC pursued the father-of-three after he was given a two-year suspended jail term for stabbing drug-crazed teenager Andrew Nelson in a bid to protect his partner and children in their home.
She argued the original sentence was ‘unduly lenient’.
But in a stinging judgment that could signal greater rights for homeowners to protect themselves from intruders, her application was dismissed by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge.
The real question is why was Mr. Blight convicted of any crime in the first place, since he manifestly did not commit a crime.
Feb 122010
No, not Branigan.
Boeing 747 uses laser to destroy missile
A U.S. military aircraft, equipped with an airborne laser device, successfully shot down a test missile in the sky off the central California coast Thursday night.
The high-energy laser, mounted on the nose of a modified Boeing 747-400F, was focused on the missile target during its boosting phase. The laser beam burned a hole in the side of the missile.
It was the first time that a laser weapon has engaged and destroyed an in-flight ballistic missile, and is the first time that any system has accomplished destroyed a missile as it was in its boosting phase.
There is a video of the test at the link. It takes several seconds to destroy the missile, the laser tracking it the whole time. it’s not like sci-fi, sadly.
Feb 112010
A DAD who cut a thug’s ear off with a Samurai sword has been cleared by a jury
Builder David Fullard, 46, leapt into action as the brute and a pal forced their way into his home and threatened to rape his girlfriend and kill his sons.
He grabbed the antique sword and sliced off the left lug of the yob – named Michael SEVERS.
Prosecutors said Mr Fullard went too far for self-defence and charged him with unlawful wounding. He faced up to EIGHT YEARS in jail.
A jury took less than 50 minutes to acquit him at Hull Crown Court.
Now, to fire the prosecutors for dereliction of duty, and put them on trial for corruption and crimes against humanity.
Someone breaks into your home and threatens your family, if getting their ears lopped off is all that happens to ’em, they should consider themselves fortunate. If they threaten to rape your girl, I as a jurist would have a hard time convicting you of anything, no matter how medieval you got on their asses. “They were going to hurt my girl” should be a universally recognized legal defence along the lines of “They needed killin’,” but more abruptly “case-closed-worthy.”
Sadly, the stoy isn’t entirely full of win. There’s this:
Yesterday the two jobless thugs got six-month suspended sentences and 100 hours of community service after admitting affray.
Oy.
Feb 012010
So far there have been Aircraft Documents, Aircraft Drawings, Spacecraft Documents, Spacecraft Drawings, Aerospace Projects Review and Justo Miranda’s “Reichdreams” series. I will soon be doing much the same with a few military manuals and general non-aerospace historical documents that might be of interest. I have a half dozen or so small-format “comic book” style instructional manuals on things such as anti-tank warfare and using your Vulcan anti-aircraft cannon that I will be making available. Since these are pretty small items, the prices will be appropriately small… maybe two bucks.
<> If you have anything along these lines just taking up space that you’d be interested in loaning, renting or selling to me (or if you know of a source for such), let me know what you have.
Jan 292010
Remember, we don’t need the F-22, because it’s an obsolete throwback to the Cold War. Anyone who thinks that the US should have advanced warplanes is clearly a paranoid warmongering reactionary.
Many more photos and vids available on this thread:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,9186.0.html
Jan 282010
Justo Miranda’s “Unknown!” volume 4 is now available for download. This issue includes 60 pages of technical illustrations with 1/72, 1/24 and 1/5 scale drawings and English text. The Unknown! series is at the bottom of this page:
http://www.up-ship.com/blog/drawndoc/rd/rd.htm
*Horten Ho XIII B German supersonic delta fighter
*Henschel P.75 German canard-pusher heavy fighter, *”Einpersonenfluggerät” German flying belt
*”Panzerblitz I” German antitank airborne rocket series
*Curtiss-Wright P-248-01 (CW-21B “Demon” + Allison engine)
*Twin-engined variant of Curtiss P.40, Davis “Manta fighter” (twin boom airframe)
*Davis “Manta fighter” (conventional airframe)
*Kawanishi “Baika” model 1 (detachable undercarriage)
*Kawanishi “Baika” model 2 (submarine launched variant)
*Kawanishi “Baika” model 3 (air launched variant)
*Blackburn B-37 “Firebrand” Mk I & Mk II British naval fighter
*Fiat G.50V, G.52 & G.53 in line engined variants
*French flying guns in WWII : MAC 34, Oerlikon FFS, HS.7, HS.9 & HS.404
*French baby fighters Potez 230, Roussel R.30 & Bloch 700/720
Unknown #4 can be purchased for download for $16.
