Search results

Dear God, I remember that. I was in the USAF in the 90's in Europe, and everyone was cheering "History's gone!" when Clinton was elected POTUS and everyone naively assumed the world would be a bright shining utopia going forward, they bought that selling point hook, line and sinker, and woe to...

Was the plane piloted by Wil E Coyote? MEEP MEEP!!

Indeed...still, needs more gun. 😜

Yeah, i just saw that, that ship in the photo was originally called Slava, then changed to MOSVKA in 2000, the Soviets...er Russians having a rather annoying habit of renaming their vessels.

I actually like the brute appearance of the Slava class including MOSVKA with the armament layout for its size. 16 Sandbox missiles ready to shoot along with 64 Grumble SAMS and everything else.

Some of the Soviet Naval vessels of the Cold War certainly had a very brute yet functional appearance to them, the Kirovs and Slavas especially. The missile complements they carried were no joke.

I wish the Zumwalts looked scary in a good way. As they are they're probably one of the biggest floating money pits the Navy ever wasted money on. Personally I think if they wanted to go with coastal vessels they should have revisited the Pegasus hydrofoil design, modified it as needed and...

I know the Iowa-class battleships have been mentioned, and each is a legend in it's own right, but special recognition needs to be given to the Mighty 'Mo, BB-63 herself.

Just an additional note to Operation Ten-Go, the Japanese Army Air Force tried to make their contribution to the effort by launching an attack on the US Navy task force at Okinawa. 115 aircraft were sent, many of them kamikazes, but succeeded in only damaging one battleship, one carrier and one...

Or you could say, the Bofors 40mm autocannon, which is still in use today, is essentially the 1911 or Ma Deuce, whichever you prefer, of the autocannon world. :)

While the film in itself isn't bad, it didn't show much of, nor of the fate of the other ships that were tasked alongside Yamato in Operation Ten-Go. The U.S. launched nearly 400 aircraft (almost equivalent of all the aircraft waves of the Pear Harbor attack, ironically), and for the loss of...