Yeah, time team is great. They take a field next to a highway, or someone’s back yard, then dig up the most amazing things. Ok, so usually just foundations of buildings, broken pottery, sometimes coins etc. But it’s still amazing to think that beneath the banal soil of so many parts of modern day Great Britain lies…

It is interesting that the only others making crucibal steel at this time were the Indians. Still, is it not extremely unlikely that it would move from there to Northern Europe at this time, bypasing all other nations, many of them trading far & wide?
It must be so difficult studying these things, with so few records…

It’s much easier to find on a sword. Slap the blade near the pommel, watch the vibrations on the blade, the sweet spot - point/centre of percussion - is the bit 1/2 - 2/3’s of the way down the sword, which isn’t vibrating.

Tomorrow the ship should pop flares when the -24 is 5 sec off. Then we can watch the driver shit himself on camera.

Amen! I’m very excited by the potential of this airframe & can’t wait to see both where the technology goes next & civillian versions.

NOTAR apparently manoeuvers like a pig too. That aside, yeah 2 rotors is heavier, but they save weight with fixed blades. The greatly simplified rotors these days weigh far less than they do in the current generation of choppers.

The Raider isn’t a competitor with the V-280, it’s gonna go nuts in the civillian market & hopefully fund a big brother - which WILL compete head on with the V-280.

Since the BUFFs are gonna be there anyway, why not send one of them on the next bear intercept? Show em what a real bomber looks like.

NEVER!

Atlantis

Gorgeous.

Illegal base? Hmmm... Who can they complain to if we capture them once they’re nearly finished? What? We stole your illegal bases? The ones which don’t exist?

So is this thing gonna effect my iPhone warranty?

You HAD to bring up canning the Nimrod, you bastard! These are NOT tears, I have something in my eye!

Damn I’m gonna miss the EA-6. I’ve loved that thing since I was a kid & even made a model of it as a teenager. I’ve also loved AEA mission too for some reason. It’s always struck me as just as core a mission as CAP & strike. It’s another battlefield everyone plays on, so why don’t more people see think they should try…

Lol? “USSR doubled down on dogfighting & the US went for long range radar shots.”

I accept you’re not trying to troll, but your post is inaccurate from the start. When it gets to this line it becomes too much. The Russians have better BVR missiles than us too. More types, longer ranges, more seeker head variety. Like…

My old man owned a 635CSI for a couple of years. Sure do miss it.

Best Choices:
Austere base: RAAF Curtin. Single paved runway, ~2 miles long. Could be expanded easily. A few tin hangars, probably not designed for heavy bombers but I don’t know how big they are. Housing & administration buildings not far from runway, no idea the state they are in but it’s a base so they’d at least be…

Amen brother.

Don’t forget, there are 2 austere bases in the north west which are long, paved runways but with no permanent facilities. They’d also be an excellent choice, with some negatives being: 1. It’ll cost a lot to get them up & running & keep them that way. 2. It drags overflight over Borneo, which has a few big cities with…