30 April 2020 / 04:28 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Ordibehesht 1399/07 Ramadan 1441/08 Geng-Chen(4th) 4718
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) ordered Engineers from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Honolulu District, Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Marianas, Homeland Security, the territorial government of Guam, Guam Air National Guard and Guam Fire Department to find suitable locations for ‘Alternate Care […] Continue Reading…
30 April 2020 / 02:30 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Ordibehesht 1399/07 Ramadan 1441/08 Geng-Chen(4th) 4718
“The hospitals are packed. We still have flu season, we still have everyone else that goes to a hospital with a medical or an emergency surgical problem. That doesn’t go away during a crisis.”-Judith Persichilli, New Jersey Department of Health […] Continue Reading…
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:
Deutz BF6M […] Continue Reading…
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…
USA photo by First […] Continue Reading…