I think it’s hard to recreate the conditions that led to people like Hughes. You have to be with the times.

Gee thanks, I do realise I went off on a bit of a rant but it’s just borne out of frustration at all the false dawns on the subcontinent. The problem is even if there isn’t all out war, the constant diplomatic bickering and skirmishes at the border prevent ordinary folks from just getting on with their lives without…

An aircraft carrier?! the USS Wasp has deck issues with an F35 exhaust, a rocket launch would be like an acetylene torch right through the ship!

Someone should make a lovely coffee table book of all the 50s and 60s artwork of what the future of space and defence would look like. Wait, wtf, is that on an aircraft carrier?!?! I just noticed

Pretty sure it was in Bleach as well. Some baddie imagined it and someone powered up and chopped it in half with an axe because manga logic.

Yeah I was reading an Indian defence blog where a flight engineer was explaining that the Mi-26s are ludicrously expensive to run now they’re getting old and he basically ran some models to demonstrate how it compares with the chinooks the IAF just bought. Of course the Chinook doesn’t lift the same raw amount, but at…

Had to look that up.

Absolutely, what a terrible way to go. But yeah I can imagine that high up in the mountains, especially the Himalayas, in thin air like that, getting posted as a chopper pilot is a pretty tough gig.

A friend of mine works as an Army chopper pilot stationed out in Ladakh in the Himalayas. He always jokes about how it’s a given in their community that you could smash against a mountain and die at any time. He would say though that whenever the Mi-26 would get roped in for a supply run all the other off duty pilots…

this is ludicrously huge

1962 India gets trounced by China in a short border war. China tests nukes shortly after. India always intended to develop nukes after becoming independent but that defeat provides the impetus for an Indian bomb.

You only need to go back to the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks to know the last time the two countries were just moments away from far. The sad thing is the fact that to maintain their pre-eminence in Pakistani society the military, or at least the hard liner elements in it, must maintain the position that…

Kinda like what Citroen’s doing in their new Picasso

Different era indeed

The brunch scene where he strides up in his suit is still to this day what I hold as the epitomy of a well dressed gentleman.

A young Madonna must’ve been watching and getting ideas. Probably while in a geometry class..Wait, did I say young Madonna, she was already an adult then surely.

Is it weird that I still find her the most attractive Bond girl? and that name?! Bond’s reaction still holds true to this day

seen this beauty up close for the Skyfall premiere. Best lunch break outside the student union ever

IIRC Pakistan doesn’t have a “No first use policy”. That’s a bit worrying if you’re responsible for the security of the 1billion or so people next door.

Somewhere the ghost of Gamel Nasser must be pretty pleased if such an Egyptian push to be the forefront of the Arab Alliance were true