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Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· 16d

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Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· 18d

Based on the earlier SMOCA (SOF/LIC Mission Oriented Combat Aircraft) design.

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· 18d

*Northrop SOFTA (Special Operations Forces Transport Aircraft)

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· 20d

@unavaleable.bsky.social This is incontestably DVcore

Elliot Page's head photoshopped into a picture of Mike Vining.

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· 24d

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· 28d

Looks pretty stagnant to me:

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Jul 13

"What's the modal LCL fan *like*?"

Gendo Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Jul 8

Even in an article about a movement that wants to reduce women to the status of livestock, Helen Lewis still can't resist making jibes about the userbase of Bluesky.

Wilson has one of the most unpleasant internet personas I've ever encountered, and I've been on Bluesky. (He did not reply to my request for an interview, which was a relief.)

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Jun 28

Is this good?

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Jun 26

The Illustrious class had these firing arcs at elevations above 10°. Bearing in mind these mountings are sunk into the deck, at that elevation the muzzles would barely be above the flight deck.

Aft group of 4.5" gun mountings on Victorious. Training arcs for all four twin 4.5" mountings are close to 360°, with training stops on for a small arc of traverse for each mounting.

Forward group of 4.5" gun mountings on Victorious. Training arcs for all four twin 4.5" mountings are close to 360°

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· May 22

$1950s/early 60s typical fighter jet design: mach 2+ capable subsonic on deck landing speed is a significant fraction of mach, probably runway requirement: interstate highway in the midwest without any turns in 200km frontal visibility: none (its a massive pile of stacked navigation and night targeting systems) payload: 2x rocket (optionally somewhat guided) gun with 12 (twelve) rounds of ammunition radar that at 5km will tell you "yep, there are definitely objects, maybe even planes, in the frontal hemisphere" turbojet made out of solid tungsten with 150 stages that convert fuel into black smoke (with a small byproduct of thrust) first gen ejection seat that shoots you out the side of the plane for no reason, will fail to deploy the parachute below 500 km/h and will snap your neck above 600 km/h navigation at night is just your regular instruments but coated in radium (jointly written shitpost from some years ago after a lengthy discussion about designs from that period) 6:39 PM May 5, 2026 34K Views$

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· May 20

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· May 14

Thank You
David Miliband
for your 2nd preference
vot for Yvette

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Apr 26

There's this bit from Volume 2 of the Hines Report:

I met General Kirshin for the first time at a conference on East-West security issues held at St. John's College, Cambridge University. At an informal meeting toward the end of the conference, General Kirshin and I became better acquainted and he answered some of my questions related to his work with General of the Army Makhmut Gareev and Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov.

I commented that Marshal Ogarkov impressed me as a very thoughtful, intelligent officer who had written a great deal of interesting articles and monographs. General Kirshin countered, almost dismissively, "on ne pisal, on podpisyval" (He didn't write these things, he signed them).

I asked then, that if Ogarkov had only signed these writings, who wrote them? Kirshin replied that the military theoretician and author behind Ogarkov for many years was General-Colonel Danilevich. Danilevich, he stressed, was a major military thinker and presence in the General Staff but not well known or widely published. He was well known, however within the General Staff. He said that Danilevich was retiring at the end of the year. I asked if Kirshin could arrange a meeting. He promised that he would.

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Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Apr 21

I thought it was an American coastal fort based on the gun shields for the 6-inch guns, and the wooden construction of the buildings, started flicking through the book, and stumble across this image at random.

Image with the caption "Barracks, Administration Building, and Officer's Quarters at Fort Columbia, Washington (Mike Berhow 2008)

The image shows the side of a hill, rising from left to right, with a number of timber buildings spanning the length of the picture, backgrounded by trees. On the foreground on the left side of the image, at the level of the photographer is a concrete structure, likely associated with fire control. All of the timber buildings have verandas running across the entire width of the front, the nearest building having a double storey veranda.

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Apr 17

You can clearly see the flared hull here, it gets wider above the waterline, across the entire length of the ship, the upper third of the hull, well above the waterline, has some tumblehome (pretty much all ships with LO shaping have this) but that doesn't make the hull a tumblehome hull.

Hull of the first FDI, Amiral Ronarc'h, showing a flared hull above the waterline (where the red anti-fouling paint is), with a distinct chine where the hull meets the tumblehome sides of the superstructure and forecastle. The chine is relatively straight throughout most of the length of the ship, curving down to and culminating slightly above the waterline as part of the wave piercing bow at the front quarter of the ship.

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Mar 15

No, apparently not

Fixed planes crashing at takeoff & landing from Midway.

Aircraft operating from the island's airfield were experiencing a variety of departure and arrival accidents entirely unrelated to enemy action — which is not the kind of attrition we want to be simulating. The runway logic has been corrected. Midway's air group can now take off and land without the field itself claiming more victims than the Japanese.

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Mar 11

No extra funnel needed, Manxman already had three, they were trying to look like the three-funneled Chacal class contre-torpilleur Leopard.

Diagram showing Manxman's visual modifications to look like a French Contre-torpilleur. This includes a painted on break of the forecastle (Manxman was flush decked), funnel caps, a voice pipe running fore and aft, raked masts and funnels, and curved stem and sloping stern.

Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast@scb250· Mar 3

The US Navy had plans in the late 80s for what was called the Long Range Conventional Strike Weapon, which would have had a propfan. Is this not a cruise missile?