BR is the Brewster XA-32, a dive bomber for the US Army.
13.03.2026 19:18
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BR is the Brewster XA-32, a dive bomber for the US Army.
Chemistry in current events: the connections between fertilizer, the Haber-Bosch process, and the Persian Gulf. Read this and your knowledge will exceed that of most of our current political leadership after only a few minutes of light work:
In the best tradition of Cold War fearmongering, the Range estimate is 50% too high.
Polikarpov I-16
Lockheed Martin F-21 fantasy
Pashinin I-21
Northrop Grumman B-21
Yes, that is it! Thank you
It makes me think of the Duke of Medina Sidonia writing a lengthy memorandum on why the operation he was told to command was a Bad Idea, and getting the reply “we have read your letter very carefully and do not dare to show it to the king”….
The Latecoère XIV — the massive wing (27% t/c ratio at the root) suggests a lack of confidence.
Latecoère XIV and its interesting nose. Spot the pilot’s seat at the very top of the picture.
So unfair to a manufacturer well known for its elegant engineering, harmonious design, and technical efficiency.
Alas the downside is that LLMs lend themselves very well to the creation of even more cruft clogging the system. It’s not going to be a long term solution to information management problems.
So far I find LLMs are a most useful as a compensatory mechanism. That is, information is now haphazardly scattered over innumerable Sharepoint and Teams sites, search is irretrievably broken, the flood of emails and messages has become uncontainable — but Copilot is able to find things…
On International Women’s Day, I’d like to lift up and celebrate Women Airforce Service Pilot, and my grandmother, Charley Lucier
Err… Have you seen Rutte recently?
There is actually one piece of music that I remember from further back, because for weeks and weeks we heard it every morning at breakfast. It was a march of some kind; played by a brass band; sounded triumphant and very flowery. I was never able to identify it. Must have been in the 1970s.
Mine would be this - in this version - an easy to remember one! youtu.be/WIZMq6kF5hc
Didn’t immediately want to ruin the fun!
TR Cody IV
BR Bay Super V
BL Kocherigin DI-6
TL Fokker M.7
Isn’t it a beauty?
CENTCOM might consider grabbing and holding only the islands in the straits and the coastal plain of Bandar Abbas? Short term it must be feasible. Long term the strategic situation and local geography look… very unfavourable. (Frankly it looks like a trap, but that wouldn’t stop Trump and Hegseth.)
Every single time a new outlet feels compelled to interview an unremarkable billionaire they should pause and ask themselves if there isn't an under-represented artist, scientist, activist, engineer, or academic actually doing useful/interesting things that's more deserving of your readership's time
I’m confident that when previous US and European governments decided to fight wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc., they were ALL warned of a higher risk of terrorist attacks, and they ALL decided to accept it. Trump is the common enemy of mankind — but only honestly admitting to commonplace callousness.
I believe that I can guarantee that you will *not* have guessed this potential antiviral mechanism or even thought about it before:
When leadership signals that it will not enforce serious RoE and openly endorses blind destruction, serious war crimes inevitably *will* happen. Such is the nature of mankind, alas. And like Rumsfeld before him, Hegseth will be fully responsible for them.
It is impossible to imagine Eisenhower saying he would fight “without mercy” even against the Nazis; nor would he have reveled in the thought of death and destruction.
He would have regarded it not only as deeply un-American but also beneath his dignity as a serious career soldier.
The need is for an anti-Netanyahu political movement — an anti-Israel political movement would be a mistake, or (probably a lot) worse. It might reflect how destructive the politics of Netanyahu are for the future of the state; but still there will be no change until a better path is opened.
Surveys of opinion in Iran are limited; but do suggest that anti-Israel policies have broad popular support. As can be expected after rounds of bombing and the destruction of Gaza.
The ayatollahs run a repressive dictatorship, but that isn’t necessarily indifferent to public opinion. Au contraire.
As part of an AI committee at my university, I spent this weekend trying out Claude (Opus 4.6) for writing, and I have to say, far beyond its hallucinations and the usual complaints, it is a baffling experience cognitively. I want to be more precise in my evaluation here than I usually am about AI.
Yes, in war bad things happen in abundance - but this smells like a major failure in staff work: Neglect to communicate the presence of US aircraft, failure to distribute IFF transponder codes, and/or a crew made to believe that they were in safe airspace.
Exactly. They will want a strongman who will open Iran for US business, not a democratic government that would inconveniently oppose neo-colonial exploitation.
Japanese admiral Yamamoto Isoroku studying a map aboard his flagship.
As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter
I enjoyed that one a lot, because of all its background on how French defence policy was made — confused and confusing — and how the fortresses interacted with the complex politics of the region in which they were built.
