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It’s also a reference to a good game I had someone rather metal in mind. Melees between conventional, endoskeletal Terminators are a scenery-destroying utter bore because both combatants are effectively indestructible... not unlike medieval knights of the white plate era. I thought anout at least knocking some wires loose with something fairly low-tech.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3888428 Deputy chief of Baikonur assigned chief of Vostochnyi. Current chief of Vostochnyi assigned chief of Baikonur. Current chief of Baikonur quasi-demoted to oversee Zenit pad overhaul and Soyuz-5 development.

How much armour penetration and beyond-armour effect could a thoroughly modern, dedicated war hammer have?

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@Lo Var Lachland German DD T2-6 all have very interesting unique features, including turrets with unlimited rotation, 150 mm cannons, and, yeah, those nasty jouster torps.

German DDs with their forward-pointing single torp launchers set such situations up often. No mercy. No remorse.

Design rejected. NSWR firing destroyed airport on departure.

Your idea is bad because it doesn’t account for the 2024/2028 administration reverting to another Journey to Mars and requiring the LOP-G to become a staging ground for what used to be the DST. A Moon base would be less useful in that role, especially given how lunar ISRU isn't in the picture of most NASA DRAs. I think everyone in this thread has forgotten the context of the DSG proposal from a few years back: it was a compromise solution designed to adapt to differing requirements from differing administrations (while not properly committing to either goal). Never, never, never ever leave politics out of the picture.

Or after a Russian real estate company with a side business of car dealership. Or after an Italian newsreel producer... Hold Douglas’s beer, they were going to build a follow-up to the X-15 out of thorium.

Delivering real news is expensive and time-consuming, whereas the profit margins for news media are plummeting, so there’s no money to pay for serious sleuthing. Combine this with having to compete for shares and likes, and quality goes down the drain. Modern editorial policy favours speed and controversy; excessive pop-culture reporting is low-cost and satifies that. Unfortunately, bringing any outside money into play introduces the problem that whoever pays the piper calls the tune. [snip]?

Radiation may object.

Moscow air seems to do things. Like make you imagine a US-Russian lunar orbit station followed by, or even concurrent with, a Russian-ESA or all-Russian South Pole base.

Caterpillar treads. Probably to maximize load-bearing capacity.

*intense Pobeda flashbacks*

Well, that was semi-predictable. Anyway, my old write-up: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/6k1phl/vmf_cvs_not_entirely_a_joke_branch/

Someone’s projected so hard they might become a cinematographer.

The “Press F to Pay Respects” meme shall never die. On the day we thought it dead and gone... somebody’s going to press F.

A substitute seismic charge. The Russian Ryvok crew ferry has been spotted crawling out of the grave last week. Compounded with Roscosmos’s intent to provide a cislunar cargo vehicle, there might just be a chance.

I think all those years back Airbus did say that an all-economy would carry four figures, but that they were configuring it primarily for premium flights.

Well, I do come from a country where tickets to Vladivostok can be more expensive than tickets to SanFran.

Having schedule issues too? You left your redundant sarcasm detector behind.

I have a prediction. With only four carrier classes per branch, and the introduction of the rocket-touting shturmovik class, we’re in for a new CV branch.

That’s a rather unexpected trend. You’d think economies of scale on maintenance would favour the hub-and-spoke, while local routes would be under more pressure from terrestrial alternatives.

From what I understand, the “bunk” is the floor (deck?). The middle console retracts to make room for someone to fully stretch their legs.