Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau’s BTR-4 is a private venture that can be configured in many ways. The BTR-4 in this article is armed with a gun system similar to the BTR-3DA (30mm gun, 7.62mm gun, anti-tank missiles).
Yavoriv, Ukraine, a BTR-4E fires its 30mm gun. New York Army […] Continue Reading…
CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019
A U.S. Navy sailor conducts weather observations aboard USS Makin Island (LHD 8), 16APR2020, somewhere in the Eastern Pacific.
Incomplete list of links to academic/scientific studies or reports about the connection between diseases and weather:
U.S. EPA; Climate Change affecting people with existing health problems
A Sudden Change in Weather Affects Your Health
Could warmer weather help contain […] Continue Reading…
“This thing is so different from anything that we’ve ever done before that nobody’s going to touch it with a ten foot pole without somebody going out and flying it.”-Larry Loftin, NASA’s Langley Research Center
NASA photo, 1971.F-8A Bureau Number 141353/NASA tail number 810 with SuperCritical Wing (SCW) flies in its […] Continue Reading…
17MAR1996 rollout of Tu-144LL at Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia. A joint project between Russian Aeronautics Establishment, NASA, Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, Rockwell, and others.
NASA photo, 17MAR1996.LL stands for Letayuschaya Laboratoriya, which means Flying Laboratory. The intent was […] Continue Reading…
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s first wind tunnel, at Langley Field, Virginia, was an open-circuit wind tunnel completed in 1920. It was not ‘full scale’ and was a copy of a wind tunnel used in the United Kingdom. It was considered a failure because it could not replicate ‘scaled down wind’ due to […] Continue Reading…
BroneTransporteR=Armored Transporter
Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau’s BTR-3DA, upgraded BTR-3, entering service with Ukraine National Guard in 2017.
Ukraine, September 2017
One 30mm ZTM-1 cannon, a 7.62mm machine gun, fully automated anti-personnel grenade launcher and smoke grenade launchers, two anti-tank missiles.
Carries a commander, a gunner, a driver, and six infantry troops.
Quick video:
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On 13JUN2019, the Iraqi army unveiled a new tank; the al-Kafeel-1. Note that it uses an M2 .50 caliber machine gun in a remote controlled mount. Russian news sources say the tank is based on Iraq’s experience fighting Islamic extremists, and Iraq’s use of the M1A1M. It is strange that most ‘western’ news sources […] Continue Reading…
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BRDM-2
Tennessee Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Timothy Massey.T-84 during Independence Day, 24AUG2018.
Video, T-84 platoon Grafenwoehr, Germany, 2018 (no shooting until the end of the video):
Tennessee Army National Guard photo […] Continue Reading…
One of the jobs of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is to inspect foreign grown produce coming into the United States.
The CoViD-19 (CoronaVirus Disease-2019) response has revealed just how much U.S. grocery stores rely on foreign grown food. One reason for shortages of some food items in your local grocery store is the […] Continue Reading…