So the latest news freakout over Elon Musk buying twitter is that he is banning people impersonating him: Furious Elon Musk Pledges to Ban Anyone Who Changes Their Display Name to “Elon Musk” Twitter bans comedian Kathy Griffin for impersonating Elon Musk And so on. Lots of lefties are screeching that this means Musk…
The model AGM-86 Air Launch Cruise Missile began life as a decoy missile, sort of an updated “Quail.” it was decided that the decoy could carry a nuclear warhead, and thus provide a lot more service; this began its development as a cruise missile. As originally envisaged, it had to fit in the some bays…
White House VIOLATED ethics guidelines by deleting fat-checked tweet saying Biden had given American seniors the biggest boost in social security, watchdog group claims Short form: the White House proudly tweeted that Social Security recipients were going to get a big fat increase in their payments; this, the tweet claimed, was the result of…
I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to Queen Elizerbeth of Britainland’s funeral a while back, so I don’t know if this was the approach that was selected… but it should have been. @_richardparry_ Hi there just been working on trying to reduce wait times to view the Queen’s coffin at Westminster, let me…
An artists rendering of the Republic A-10 circa 1971. This is very nearly the final design, but it differs in details; the cockpit canopy is a little off, for instance.
The US Naval Institute press is having a 50% off sale on their in-print, in-stock books. Sale runs through December 31. https://www.usni.org/press/books If someone wanted to take this opportunity to buy me half-price copies of Friedman’s revised editions of U.S. Submarines Since 1945 and U.S. Aircraft Carriers, I would not object. P.S.…
Huh. But then… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHa2LyjUvuQ There are a lot of weird aspects to this story, a lot of apparent contradictions and inconsistencies. Most news stories that initially seem like a conspiracy theorists wet dream fall apart once the facts come out (witness virtually *every* story related to “racial justice” over the past five or more years);…
Somehow Biden seems to think that Americans don’t settle their differences with riots, but at the Battle Box. A Google Image Search for “Battle Box” turns up a weird assortment of Mall Ninja garbage and role playing game accessories.
So, yet another attempted political assassination attempt. Let’s watch the national news media fall all over themselves to report on this, shall we? Midterms horror as Republican candidate’s daughters, three and five, are almost KILLED after gunman opens fire at North Carolina home – where Democrat rival filmed campaign ad – with bullet landing close…
An Aerojet rendering, unfortunately not in color, of the Small ICBM (MGM-134 “Midgetman”) from the 80’s. This was a single-warhead missile meant specifically to be carried by and launched from an off-road truck/trailer capable of withstanding a reasonably nearby nuclear blast. The image hear focuses on the second stage; like all post-Minuteman US ICBM’s, the…
