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So apparently the largest helicopter in the US arsenal doesn’t make the list in any form. They have been around since the mid 60s from the Alpha all the way to the Kilo (flight testing at Pax River). The CH-53E is a beast and the only heavy lift asset in the DOD.

Not even to scale? Tyler would not stand for this.

Vacuum tubes and mechanical gauges are highly resistant to EMP. The small yield of the weapons used against Japan also played a part. Russian jets, when inspected after the Cold War, were found to vacuum tube based avionics for this reason.pthe E-4b nightwatch uses some of these techniques to resist EMP.

EMP isn’t quite what TV drama makes it sound like. Fundamentally, it’s not really different from the disturbances we get during geomagnetic storms or solar storms, and the way it causes damage is by overloading circuits — it induces currents, basically. Failures can happen in several ways. First, a false signal can be…

I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour the Baikonur Cosmodrome about a decade ago, and visited the facilities where most of the R-7 boosters are prepped, integrated, and launched. One of the tour guides commented that it was an A-1 red letter day for the downrange Kazakh farmers when one of the strap-on…

There are two types of people in this world: people fond of the F15 and terrorists.