DDE

Yandex describes yesterday's "slight-plus-then-minus" as 'sleet'.

Proton-M/Olymp-K, launch nominal, snooper on its way to GSO. https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/8748 They're using a slightly newer "Luch-5X" cover designation.

1936 Soviets had a little bit of trouble with physics and thought that the ideal way to land the nascent VDV's armored support was by using water as a cushion. The little T-37 was not particularly amphibious afterwards:

Cyberpunk 2077. What kind of a glitch is this? Most visible on the guy's shoulder, but also his sleeves.

#SpaceWealth tho

(February 5)

Leningrad zoo carried out an "escaped tiger" drill with a pretend tiger and a pretend tranq dart. Pretend tiger:

Roscosmos posts a new trailer for Challenge, thinking no-one will notice the release has slid back from April 12 to April 20. https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/8686

The surplus arms market is getting out of hand.

N° 7–2023: Loss of flight VV22: Independent Enquiry Commission announces conclusions https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Loss_of_flight_VV22_Independent_Enquiry_Commission_announces_conclusions

BMP-3 wants a word

Spent about three hours persuing Moscow's new subway ring. Including a slight trip to and fro along the radial, I must've clocked in about 80 km. Looks like I'm really missing long train rides in my life. P.S. Saw at least a dozen people were doing the same thing I was, plus at least one guy vlogging in English

Soviet/Russian tanks are the only ones to (still) have the gunner to the left of the gun, and the commander to the right. Originally, this was the normal arrangement, because the small guns of early tanks would be elevated and traversed by the gunner's muscle power alone, and would have a shoulder stock and a pistol grip, so naturally the gunner would be on the left. Problems began when turrets got big enough to require mechanised, hand-cranked traverse, which would naturally end up near the left hand... and a full rotation would involve 40-80 turns of the crank, which quickly became a problem for the non-dominant hand. Britain's Vickers just moved the cranks, but the Italians tried to fix this by moving the gunner to the right. The US then got in on the game with the T6 medium tank, the proto-Sherman with a cast hull; US WWII heavy and medium tanks all shared this improved layout, and the benefit made itself really felt as the loader found it a lot easier to handle the increasingly heavy shells. Light tanks were a bit of a mess - in the Stuart, the horizontal traverse would be on the right and operated by the commander, and the new seating arrangement wouldn't be "canonized" until the early 1950s. The Germans and the British would follow soon afterwards. The Soviets, meanwhile, were ahead in adopting electric-powered traverse - others would adopt hydraulic traverse, and with a significant delay; this greatly negated the issue with hand fatigue. The newer seating arrangement was duly noted - what's with thousands of lend-lease Shermans - and loader convenience mattered as the Soviets were already ramping up to 100 mm and 122 mm guns, but attempts to copy it were mainly bundled into Grabin's tank gun projects and would not luck out. The issue would last unaddressed long enough for autoloaders to make it go away, and so T-64/72/80/90 retain a de facto archaic seating arrangement.

No. With the exception of Typhoons and Boreis, the Soviet-Russian lineage of SLBMs is UDMH-NTO with some past research into Alumizine and ClF5. And judging by some relatively recent noises, Makeyev have been making a push for any Borei successor to be liquid-fuelled.

Well, without a substitute to the rather risky environment of the Black Sea, their project is dead in the water.

Powerpoint, 2016 Autodesk, 2021 And that's a positive outcome by the standards of this thread

Adygea - few details available for now, though, but it definitely looks like a Strizh or Reys https://t.me/muratkumpilov/4229 No details on today's bogey above Saint Petersburg. Belgorod shootdowns were small and slow UAVs. Edit: and the one in Kolomna was a propeller-powered UJ-22.

Yes, I can see the similarities to coverage of defense affairs by the Russian press just from the tone. They're gushing over what seems to be a mere study paper...

LOL at the Mk 1 Cockpit on the wing.

Provocative title is provocative: China aims to launch nearly 13,000 satellites to ‘suppress’ Elon Musk’s Starlink, researchers say The satellite constellation is likely to be launched quickly to prevent SpaceX from hogging ‘low-orbit resources’, according to PLA space scientists The project, code-named ‘GW’, would provide internet services and could be used to spy on rival networks and carry out anti-Starlink missions, paper says https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3211438/china-aims-launch-nearly-13000-satellites-suppress-elon-musks-starlink-researchers-say

Docking at 04:01 MSK https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/8589 So that by the time the bosses wake up they've already fled over the Canadian border /s

OK, I've also developed a minor mod addiction... And of course it's mainly about oil and gas. You may laugh at your leisure.

Well, you're looking at Boeing's competitor to the F-35B, so no arrestor wires.

The Marauder is some sort of a Swiss Army Knife, VTOL, wing-in-ground super-modular attacker / ASW / AEW / transport. Judging by their other ship design concepts, they must've really, really liked the Independence-class.

So, I think the British design firm AvPro has had some some influence on the Command and Conquer and Ace Combat folks... As well as any other military nerd in the 2000s. Just a reminder that they weren't sci-fi illistrators, they thought they were predicting the future. EXINT passenger pods was actually something that reached mockup stage. You get VTOL, and you get VTOL, and the C-130 successor gets VTOL! Now I'm not saying it's aliens...