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):
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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…
CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019
More proof this is actually covert-martial-law!
Pandemics reveal the strangest things about how humans act.
Incomplete list of links to ‘real’ news media articles.
Remember the scene in Twelve Monkeys when the zoo animals were released in New York City? Now it seems the World Economic Forum is actually worried about animals taking over metro areas!
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During the Cold War it was known as Mikoyan & Gurevich, hence MiG.
MiG 21, NATO reporting name Fishbed/Lancer.
BULGARIA:
New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015. New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015.New […] Continue Reading…
This F4U-1 ‘Birdcage’ served with NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), for 1:1 scale wind tunnel testing, before being transferred to the U.S. Navy.
NACA photo, 18JUL1951.Photograph from July 1951, F4U-4B with NACA tail band. The retired Corsair was put to use by NACA to research […] Continue Reading…
CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019
Note that the U.S. CDC has stop issuing weekly influenza numbers, instead reporting confusing graphs and percentages. However, as of 17APR2020, the U.S. CDC’s daily CoViD-19 numbers say more than 33-thousand people in the U.S. have died, that includes 4-thousand “probable” but not confirmed cases.
From the Cholera Riots to the Coronavirus Revolts
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Covid-19 will lead […] Continue Reading…