After 67 years, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine is still afloat, and heading for a $36-million (estimated) refurbishment, so it can continue its job as the U.S. Submarine Force Museum’s centerpiece.
15OCT2021, USN photo […] Continue Reading…
30 November 2021 (14:54-UTC-07 Tango 06) 09 Azar 1400/24 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1443/26 Ji-Hai (10th month) 4719
I recently got a notice from the car insurance company I use (which is the cheapest I could find) and it stated that my eleven years old used car (I’m the second owner) is now “undervalued” and to meet […] Continue Reading…
24 November 2021 (15:36-UTC-07 Tango 06) 03 Azar 1400/18 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1443/20 Ji-Hai (10th month) 4719
Incomplete list of links and videos to the latest rebellions in the United States regarding federal Pandemic mandates:
New survey of college students in the Northeastern part of the U.S. reveals that one-third are ignorant of college/university Pandemic mandates!
Court cases […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Army began reducing its inventory of M551 Sheridans in 1978, remaining Sheridans were relegated to the role of ‘bad guy’ for war games, being modified to look like various types of Soviet tanks for […] Continue Reading…
Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, highly incomplete list of videos and links to news/government agency reports as of 23 November 2021:
U.S. Military Assistance Group photo by Captain Pawel Puczko.On 28OCT2021, the U.S. military (taxpayers) handed the Philippine Coast Guard Special Operations Force a training/storage facility valued […] Continue Reading…
The M551 Sheridan was not considered a main battle tank, it was officially a Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle, beginning service with the U.S. Army in 1967.
Before the U.S. Army could get its hands on a real Mil 24 Hind-D, it had to ‘fake it’ using the old UH-1H (improved D model) Iroquois (Huey). The Huey-Hind was also known as […] Continue Reading…
Contrary to what ‘western’/NATO military analysts try to promulgate, the Moskva/Leningrad were not attempts at building an aircraft carrier (Even several recent U.S. publications still call them failed attempts at building aircraft carriers!), and they were not strictly helicopter carriers, they were dedicated anti-submarine ships that carried a lot of anti-submarine helicopters. The official […] Continue Reading…
Kamov 25, NATO reporting name Hormone, was developed in the late 1950s, first flight in April 1963, production from 1965 to 1977, numerous variants with the main variant being anti-submarine.
February or March 1972, Ka-25 shows-off for the crew of the USS Springfield (CLG-7), Mediterranean Sea, silent U.S. Navy (USN) film:
February or […] Continue Reading…
United States Ship Avenger (MCM-1) was the lead ship in a class of ‘mine sweepers’, the MCM stood for Mine Counter-Measure. Built and launched at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, construction began 03JUN1983, commissioned on 12SEP1987.
A total of 14 MCMs were built between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Apparently, as […] Continue Reading…