An OS2U Kingfisher Making A Landing On The Water Near Florida, USA (1943)

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Could you compare the Stryker and BMP? Or just pros/cons?

Let’s compare the latest variants, the BMP-3 and the M3 Bradley:

BMP-3/Obyekt 688M 

Weight: 18.7 metric tonnes

Length: 7.14 meters

Width: 3.2 meters

Height: 2.4 meters

Crew: 3 (commander, gunner, driver) and 7 troopers (+ 2 additional seats)

Armor: Aluminium alloy and steel

Main armament: 100 mm gun/launcher 2A70 (able to fire shells or the 9M117 Bastion ATGM), 30 mm autocannon 2A72

Secondary armament: 3×7.62 mm PKT machine guns

Engine: UTD-29M diesel 500 hp with a power/weight 27 hp/tonne

Suspension: torsion bar

Operational range: 600 km 

Speed: 72 km/h on road, 45 km/h off-road 10 km/h in water.

M3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle

Weight: 23–28 metric tonnes

Length: 6.5 meters

Width: 3.2 meters

Height: 3 meters

Crew: 3 (commander, gunner, driver) and 2 passengers/troops

Armor: Steel and aluminum

Main armament: 25 mm M242 Chain Gun,dual TOW Anti-Tank Missile Launcher

Secondary armament: 7.62 mm M240C machine gun

Engine Cummins VTA-903600 hp with a power/weight 19.74 hp/tonne

Suspension: torsion bar

Operational range: 480 km

Speed: 66 km/h on road, 7.2 km/h on water

In everything but armor the BMP beats the Bradley, as she has much better weaponry, in the form of her 100mm gun, capable of both launching missiles (which are easy to reload from inside the vehicle) and conventional AT rounds, coupled with a powerful 30mm cannon, vs the Bradley’s 25mm chaingun, and her couple of TOW missiles, which have to be reloaded from the outside manually once expended.

But the Bradley has much better armor, capable of withstanding 30mm rounds all-around, and reactive armor capable of stopping RPG’s, BUT the BMP can also equip reactive armor, and thanks to her ability to mount the Shtora electro-optical active protection system, she’s effectively inmune to the TOW once equipped, contrary to the Bradley, which has to rely on her armor to defeat any AT missile. 

So, the BMP-3 wins, a much more modern design born from the ashes of the Afghan war, VS a committee-designed vehicle plagued with problems from her inception, that still, nevertheless proved her worth against Iraqi second-generation tanks and armor. 

An historic naval armada for our time….

WESTERN PACIFIC (Nov. 12, 2017) – For the first time in ten years, three United States Navy aircraft carriers – and their escorting carrier strike groups (cruisers, destroyers and submarines (not visible)) – are operating together in the far-Western Pacific….enroute the Sea of Japan for a show-of-force to threatening nuclear, biological and chemical weapons rogue-state North Korea (DPRK).

The American warships are accompanied by – and training with – naval forces from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) (South Korea).

The three American aircraft carrier strike groups, along with Japanese and South Korean warships….will transit from the Western Pacific Ocean along, roughly, the yellow-green track above….into the Sea of Japan….as a show of force against North Korea….over the next couple of days.

This is one of the greatest – and the most powerful – naval armadas ever assembled.

Those three United States Navy carrier strike groups are crewed by roughly 18,000 sailors and Marines….and account for around USD$50 Billion of military ships, aircraft and support resources.

The naval forces from Japan and South Korea are all state-of-the-art warships crewed by outstanding sailors.

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The three navies are working together as a team….in hopes of bringing about peace through strength….but ready for hostilities with strength and purpose.

A rational nation and its leadership would most likely get the message. But, don’t expect rationality out of North Korea nor its dictator, Kim Jong-un….

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>>CLICK any of the nine photos above to scroll/swipe through larger, high-resolution versions….and captioned details on each image….

>>Top photo: LTJG James Griffin, USN

>>Second photo: Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Anthony Rivera, USN

>>Third thru Sixth photos: LT Aaron B. Hicks, USN

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One-minute aerial video of the three American carriers in formal formation with their strike groups, and warships from Japan and South Korea….as the international armada approaches the Sea of Japan on 13 November 2017.

A nearly 5-minute version of the first video above….this one giving much more in-depth look at all the ships, aircraft and formations….from close-up and afar, 360-degrees around.

JAMES WHITE | DITA VON TEESE AND SCARLETT JOHANSSON | FLAUNT MAGAZINE | 2006 

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A german submarine ( U-576 ) sunk in 1942, has been found in North Carolina’s waters with the 44 crew members remains still inside it.

When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things:

- Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish)

- Words don’t change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese)

- We don’t live in some bizarre Beauty And The Beast world where we give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)

- Likewise, we don’t have have two different words for “they” because we don’t care whether “they” were male or female (Spanish, French)

- There’s no formal “you” because we don’t play mind games about whether or not we respect you (Spanish, German)

- We don’t alter the whole fucking language based on how much we respect you (Japanese)

- The letters and sounds might not be consistent, but at least we have letters, not just pictures (Mandarin)

- We don’t have a fucking stupid tense specifically for talking to two people because some idiot decided that a two-person tense was necessary (Arabic)

So yeah, I think we’re doing okay as a language

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