What Did I Say When I Said I Have Never Seen A Military Project Ever Successfully Killed?
Build F-136 Into Budget: House By Colin Clark Friday, July 31st, 2009 4:32 pm Posted in Air, Policy, Space Not only did the House Appropriations …
MI6 Spy Chief Exposed on Facebook
Pictures from the social networking Web site published in the Mail on Sunday newspaper show John Sawers posing with his children, wearing a Santa hat and playing Frisbee on a beach.
The paper said the information was posted by Sawers’ wife on her Facebook page. It included vacation photos, details about the couple’s three children and the location of their London home.
Intense Footage As Pilot Fights To Evade SAMs In Iraq.
Listen at the end as the pilots struggles against high G turns.
Army Colonel Eats Cake From Vietnam Era Ration Can
Army Colonel Tries Old Pound Cake July 25, 2009 Associated Press Forty years later, Henry A. Moak, Jr., still loves his pound cake. The Army …
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The Battle of Hattin, July 3rd- 4th, 1187 AD.
The loss of the Battle of Hattin was the beginning of the end of the hold the Crusaders would have in the Holy Land. By the end of 1187, Salahudin had reduced Crusaders strong holds to only a hand full.
President Obama Is A Black Belt At Inside Fighting.
The battles being fought in the appropriations committees are as ignored by our vaunted press corp as as are the rest of the important stories …
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No Combat Aircraft Has Ever Been Manufactured In Greater Numbers. The Russians Made 40,000 Polikarpov Po-2s.
Nikolai Polikarpov designed the Po-2 to replace the U-1 trainer but ended up making a plane that became a bomber, a fighter, a trainer, an …
The F-107 Ultra.
The F-107, a single seat supersonic nuclear bomber escort/fighter/interceptor, the last design of the Century series. It first flew in 1956, reaching Mach 1.3 on its maiden flight. Only three production models were made, but the first one suffered a crash landing that fortunately did not kill the test pilot.
Max Noe. Sergeant, United States Army. POW. Hero.
Max Noe was born in Uvalde, Texas in 1916 and he was raised in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. His family moved from Rio Hondo …
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Iowa Class Battleship USS Wisconson Fires 16 Inch Guns For The Last Time.
Imagine the hell on the receiving end. This was her last time firing the 16 inch guns, February 23, 1991, off the Eastern coast of …
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A Reminder That It Is Always Better To Give Than To Receive.
An M198 155mm howitzer delivers a ten round volley in Naray Afghanistan, 2008.
Sea Faring Laser To Be Tested For Small Boat Threats (Pirates, This Is Gonna Hurt)
A U.S. Navy plan to test a high-power laser against the small-boat threat to its warships provides the first real opportunity to transition electric lasers …
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StrategyPage
Found this new military blog called StrategyPage. It’s great. Lots of news and great discussion. And a humor section that is a photoshop artists’ dream.
The Soldier Who Hid From The Germans In a Woman’s Wardrobe For Four Years.
To avoid detection by the Germans, Trooper Patrick Fowler of the 11th Hussars hid inside a wardrobe behind enemy lines for nearly four years!
The Largest German Battleship Ever Built Was Brought Down By A Lowly Biplane
The Fairey Swordfish, A 20 Year Old 1930s Era Plane Was The Undoing of the Bismark