The more you read about submarines, the more fascinating they get. Between the exotic propulsion systems, the insane sonar arrays, the gravimetric-assisted inertial navigation systems, and all of their low-observable technologies, they're the closest things in existence to the starship enterprise, and they make the…

It was the same up near my neck of the woods. My family used to go on vacation to Brunswick ME in the summers and I remember vividly how as a little kid I'd see the P-3 subchasers from the Brunswick NAS taking off and landing every 20 minutes or so to go scour the North Atlantic for boomers.

Between this and the Navy's open lust for the Advanced Super Hornet, how long do you reckon it'll be before Boeing throws together a frontal-aspect stealth optimized F-15E with new engines and avionics to dangle in front of the USAF? Think of it as a cheaper, more versatile american take on the Eurofighter Typhoon.

If all cabs were regulated the way London regulates theirs, using driver knowledge and skill as the barrier to entry/licensing, which encourages knowledgeable, professional, competent drivers, then we wouldn't ever really need Uber to begin with.

Imagine, for a second, an alternate universe where instead of wasting all that money on the Model 880, Convair had decided to update the XC-99 with the swept wings and all-jet powerplant from the YB-60. They could have had a jumbo-sized airliner for high-luxury or long-haul routes that could have beaten the 747 and…

That's why we'd be 100% better off with a large, relatively low-cost air force of frontal stealth-optimized F16s, F15s, F-18s, A-10s, AV-8Bs (and, heaven forbid, F-14s) with modernized avionics plus some B-52s and B-1Bs that could do 98% of what we need our aircraft to do for a lot less money and with a lot fewer…

"That's life" is just about the most fitting way you could put it. I've been through more than my fair share of extremely traumatic experiences, and I've dealt with courses, movies, books, etc dredging up some horrifically vivid memories, and it just sucks. But that's life in a nutshell, awful things happen do good…

Combine it with a piece on the TSR-2 and the Avro 730 for a "white paper victims" special!

In a weird twist of fate, today I had a rare sighting of the Boston-area TVR Griffith, which has to be one of only a tiny hand full of late-model TVRs that managed to make it stateside (John Travolta's Tuscan comes to mind). So here it is, in all of its 400+hp, no-traction control, no-ABS, tube-framed ultralight…

Someone in Lexington, MA has a metallic blue late 90s/early 00s TVR Griffith. Thats a rare enough car in the UK, but its totally surreal seeing it stateside.

Interesting fact: Soviet/Russian naval designs have historically made far more extensive use of (relatively simple) automation to keep crew complements down compared to American crew sizes, especially when it comes to submarines. The Soviet/Russian design philosophy essentially prioritized size and systems…

And yet congress cancelled the CG(X)...

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There's an alternate universe out there where BMW bought Saab in the midst of its bankruptcy (not that far-fetched since the new ones were going to use BMW engines).

The 2nd-generation 9-5, as a dyed-in-the-wool Saab guy it was heartbreaking to watch it all pan out. We a spent 2007-2009 gawking at test mules and eagerly awaiting the first all-new, mostly-Saab product in almost a decade. This was supposed to be the car that pulled Saab's sales out of the gutter and keep the…

The X-type wagon, a remarkable improvement over the middling original, and a handsome and practical little wagon in its own right. A shame then that it was outsold by the likes of Ferrari and Bentley.

You beat me to it

The problem with the SS is that the venn diagram of "People who want to spend $50k on a RWD performance sedan" and "People would even think of buying a car from a mass-market domestic manufacturer" has next to no overlap whatsoever.

GM. No question.

What's depressing is to see how something that feels so recent can look so dated.