APU intake?

All hail Kinja!

For sure.

There are of course cultural factors at play, but economic austerity and a weak democracy are ideal elements for the growth of an autocracy based on ideas of ethnic superiority, nationalism and former glories. This is by no means a uniquely Russian phenomenon and history is littered with examples. In hard times,…

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Putin did indeed work for the KGB for 16 years.

Extraordinary because given the issues with the program it is amazed the Navy is managing to operate two of them at the same time. :)

+1.

The Soviets also fiddled with this concept, in the form of the Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka.

Calculations suggested that the beam, if properly focused, could have killed a rabbit over a distance of 1,000 yards, but only if the rabbit stayed perfectly still for at least 5 minutes.

Baka also means "idiot", "stupid" and "fat".

Technically this kind of engine is called a "motorjet", since it uses a piston engine to drive the compressor. A turbojet uses the turbine stage(s) to drive the compressor.

Hideous but also ridiculously practical.

My thoughts exactly...

It falls in one direction first because the explosives were only placed in that half. When it has collapsed to a certain point the (relatively) intact other half starts "holding" the tower more upright, meaning the direction of collapse almost reverses.

This comment is the perfect epilogue for this epic article.

Those guys had balls.

On a side note, if you need to wash a down jacket or other such stuffed garment, the down will stick together (bad). This is solved in the dryer by throwing three tennis balls in with the jacket. They will "beat" the down and restore poofiness. It also makes an interesting noise.

Correct. Mandarin has four tones and Cantonese has six. What to English speakers might seem to be the same word can have up to four (or six) completely different meanings depending on tone. They are completely different words.

A dronly airport?