It’s from Russia Today, so, you know…
If the numbers are accurate, it’s not so much that CT created tens of thousands of brand-new felons as of January 1… they created hundreds of thousands of brand-new felons.
Citizen for a Really Safe Ashland. Deserving of your support!
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No, not some forgettable 1980’s cop-buddy show, but eleven silent minutes showing the Fat Man atom bomb being loaded aboard the B-29 Bockscar. Ends with some nukular whoopass on Nagasaki.
Impressive footage.
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Two illustrations from Fred Ordways “International Missile and Spacecraft Guide” from 1960 depict the Sidewinder missile without its iconic rollerons. The painting may simply be inaccurate or simplified, but the photo clearly depicts some other attempt at stabilizers. Unclear just what the mechanism is.
A diagram of the Sidewinder air-to-air missile, taken from an F-104A weapons system manual. Note that here it is labeled the GAR 8, an earlier designation from before being relisted as the AIM-9. Dates from early 1957.
A photo of the full-scale Zenith Star space-based laser experiment at the Martin-Mariette Titan plant near Denver, circa 1987.
Post-war US Army film showing US soldiers poking around with some captured German rocket vehicles: the Bachem Ba-349 (basically a manned surface-to-air missile) and the Ruhrstahl X-4, an air-to-air missile. The X-4 would have been difficult to use… wire guided like the modern TOW missile, the lone fighter pilot launching the missile would have to fly his plane while simultaneously steering the missile, using a Mark I Eyeball to track a visible flare.
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The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator, a 10 kilowatt solid-state laser mounted to a HEMT truck, successfully zapped 90 mortar shells and several UAVs. It did this over a span of several weeks, from November 18 to December 10, so it’s not clear just how fast this thing shoots and reloads. An operational system would upgrade to a 100-kilowatt laser.
Just a reminder…
After hiatus, I am again offering cyanotype blueprints of various aerospace subjects on paper. These include the V-2, the Saturn Ib and V, the NERVA nuclear rocket, the Super Hustler, and many more.What says “Merry Christmas” better than a gift of a hand-made, awesome-looking large format cyanotype blueprint of a launch vehicle or nuclear bombardment system?
See the complete list here:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/catalog/cyan.htm
And while I’m not at liberty to go into the specifics, I recently provided a number of these to a certain ongoing major TV series to be used as set dressing/props. The episodes will air sometime early next spring, I believe. They should look marvelous…
