"Hey, it's Nialls from the Nanny!!"

Given the secrecy of submarine operations, I wonder if Moscow thinks they've rumbled the Yanks, the Yanks think it's the British, the British think it's the French, the French think it's the Chinese.

Googled it - found this which says that access to Nickel was the problem. May not be the whole picture (the jet was a poorer design than the British version) but they have a lot of numbers and stuff.

LOL @ "parachute practice". Good points also.

This plane was in my Big Book of Military Aircraft that I used to obsess over as a kid but there wasn't any information about it. Given it's general shape and configuration though, I kinda marked it as being of a similar ilk to the Caproni Campini N.1 (which was also supplied with an irritatingly small amount of…

A veeerry different approach to the P-80 Shooting Star (hmmm... Another "fireball"-type name...) of the same year. Any real benefits to this design over the P-80?

the hazy recollection I have in relation to the Junkers Jumo 004 (the engine of the ME262) was they did have a small amount of decent alloys and used them to make the 004A engines ("hey, that worked.. Nice!") and then had to go to the lower value steel for the actual production engines, the 004Bs.

I don't care if they're a POS, I want one.

It would be absolutely terrifying to be on a beach with that headed towards you; and knowing that has no brakes.

came to post this. Slow clap instead.

looks like a pretty bog standard "motivational speech" to me. Confront them, shame them (question their manhood), threaten to withdraw support, challenge them and act like you don't expect to be impressed while hoping they'll take it onboard and carry out your advice. Saw it often.

Rodney McKay...

I take it those Draken planes are a private company who do agressor training but seeing the RNZAF logo on a corporate-marked is a bit of a surprised. I imagine the white-starred Mig-15 is one of theirs too.

Damn... well they sure missed the point, didn't they?

Shit.

i do sincerely hope that's a dummy charge with a live charge at the bottom of the hole otherwise that is just silly.

In five years, I threw a grand total of one grenade and I was astounded at the regimentation of it all. The fact that the range is so very scared of anyone screwing up (granted - consequences) that they removed any natural traits of the thrower. I can throw a ball pretty accurately but the lead-up to a live grenade…

War Plan Grey.

Dear America,

'tis pretty cool.