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Apparently so. It seems unlikely these drone cages will be any more successful than the tank variations. twitter.com/MrFrantarelli/status/1770115036884697560 Do they dive with the cage on? If they can go 24 knots submerged, they must take down the...
by Drone Watch
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 12:28 PM PDT
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On Oct. 11, Russian military blogger Rybar reported that Ukraine had attacked and damaged the large Russian patrol ship Pavel Derzhavin. The attack reportedly damaged the ship’s rudder, preventing it from steering. A tug boat was sent out to rescue the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Can someone page Sean Connery’s son? Because it seems like the time to start casting a new movie about Russian submarines. Except this time the submarine’s story can probably be told in a one-minute commercial—a spectacular, flame-filled commercial. On...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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CNN reports that a portion of author Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of the man who made Twitter, the site now known as X, safe for antisemitism shows that Elon Musk had a direct hand in ...
by Mark Sumner
460 comments
on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 09:56 AM PDT
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Missing Titanic Billionaire Sub Search. Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons
by laloalcaraz
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on Wed Jun 21, 2023 at 12:35 PM PDT
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In a 2019 interview with Smithsonian Magazine, Stockton Rush, the “daredevil inventor” and “maverick CEO” of OceanGate, expressed his frustration about the limitations placed on the commercial submarine business. “There hasn’t been an injury in the...
by Mark Sumner
240 comments
on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 07:17 AM PDT
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First Female ‘Chief of the Boat’ Reports to Louisiana (Gold)
By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Heather C. Wamsley, Navy Public Affairs Support Element West Detachment Northwest
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by funguy2playwith
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on Wed Aug 31, 2022 at 09:18 AM PDT
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Modern history shows Australia’s Coalition Government is incapable of effective defence planning and military hardware procurement. The latest failed attempt to upgrade Australia’s submarines – which has wasted multiple billions of borrowed dollars and...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Sep 20, 2021 at 04:40 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Apr 23, 2021 at 08:56 PM PDT
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I was surfing Craigslist a few minutes ago, ran into this ad and had to share it. Now that the orange mouselini has been voted out of office, they’re really coming out of the woodwork. I just have this image of some guy sailing around on his...
by CaptWho
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on Fri Dec 04, 2020 at 01:09 PM PST
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First reported by the Daily Beast and now confirmed by the New York Times, Georgia Senator David Perdue (R) steered billions of spending towards submarine contracts and made a nice profit with the stocks of a submarine vendor at the same time. The...
by M247
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on Thu Nov 19, 2020 at 02:25 PM PST
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Given that the Republican Party has become the party of treason, even a right-leaning TV show like JAG might now be seen as “too liberal” because of its criticism of Russia, our Cold War foe turned unreliable ally turned saboteur of American democracy....
by Alonso del Arte
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on Thu Aug 13, 2020 at 04:35 PM PDT
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Greeting from New Hampshire. This is state number 34 for me. :) (Well, OK—there are ten or so other states that I have been in before but have not visited in the van yet.) I’ll be here just ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Aug 14, 2019 at 12:46 PM PDT
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Via Bloomberg,
Crew of Russian Nuclear Sub Prevented ‘Planetary Catastrophe,’ Officer Says
...The 14 sailors who died during a fire last week on a nuclear-powered Russian military submarine prevented a “planetary catastrophe,” a top naval...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jul 10, 2019 at 10:37 AM PDT
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Depending on where you live, the above photo can be known as many different things…
A submarine
A hero
A hoagie
A wedge
A grinder
A spukie
A blimpie
A Po Boy
A Zeppelin
Now some may argue that a Po Boy is a different...
by BFSkinner
59 comments
on Fri Nov 02, 2018 at 05:18 AM PDT
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With the successful Federal siege of Vicksburg, the naval “Anaconda” strategy was virtually complete: the Union Navy held nearly all of the major ports along the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts, ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Apr 11, 2018 at 11:56 AM PDT
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While staying in Boston, I wanted to do a day trip over to the US Submarine Force Museum, in nearby Groton CT. It turned out to be a bit of an adventure.
The drive to Groton was wonderfully scenic, ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Mon Jan 29, 2018 at 12:00 PM PST
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A little over a week ago, we were shocked at the news that Russia had rerouted all internet traffic of major sites like Google and Facebook by a Border Gateway Protocol attack. And this wasn’t their first BGP re-direct, either.
The security...
by Crashing Vor
160 comments
on Sat Dec 23, 2017 at 05:51 AM PST
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The Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. Today she is docked at the US Submarine Force Museum in Groton CT.
Some photos from a visit:
The ...
by Lenny Flank
29 comments
on Sat Sep 16, 2017 at 07:01 AM PDT
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Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it—I think it was Ronald Reagan who said that. If not, the point is clear enough. For over a century, Civil War historians have wondered what exactly happened to the famed Confederate submarine the...
by Walter Einenkel
29 comments
on Thu Aug 24, 2017 at 12:37 PM PDT
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