“Hmm.. that plane looks familiar... That background looks familiar too... WAIT A MINUTE! THAT’S FREAKIN’ HERE!”

Blue Streak was a missile and the tests were British. Australia certainly thought about it and laid the foundation for a fast breeder nuclear plant but gave it up as a bad idea before it was finished.

You can trademark a box of rocks? I offer my superior alternate product “Large Tupperware Container of Rocks”

Paint it grey, stick some guns in its nose and a bomb rack in its guts and there you have it.

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Globally-recognised metric units measuring distance. You really should give them a try.

It’s a pretty groovy way to shorten logistic trains with energy falling from the sky like that. They were looking at integrating electric tactical vehicles a few years ago too.

Ukraine is a multicultural state and, yeah, some people identify as Russian rather than Ukrainian and joined the “totally not Russian” forces. That still does not make any of it legal. And the people are separate from the land otherwise you’d find little pockets of Germany all through Russia.

These little militias that have popped up, swastikas and all, remind me of the survivalist backwoods militias we used to hear about from the US in the nineties.

Wouldn’t you just put a heap of bouys in fixed locations, each chirping a unique pattern, and triangulate your position off them? You could use a high frequency noise that only has to propagate as far as the next buoy. The trick would be to get enough of them out there and getting them to hold fixed position in deep…

“If the map is accurate enough”

Darwin. That’s the Humpty Doo Hotel. Not quite my local but might be in the closet top ten.

Actually, I thought was a different pub. That’s the Humpty Doo hotel which is about fifteen kilometres away.

was back in the days of wooden barrels so it would probably be relatively flat anyway. The story is here: http://spitfiresite.com/2012/01/modification-xxx-beer-carrying-spitfires.html

Widely known here as “Sea-Hunt”

The pub in the first photo is down the road (ie, a hundred kilometres) from me...

I can imagine quite a few horror scenarios onboard an airplane. Looking outside your window and seeing fighter jets is definitely at the very top of that list.

You do know that China have and fly perfectly legally obtained Blackhawks, don’t you?

...yay?