If “Stranger Things” feels less like pure science fiction and more like a greatest-hits album of government bad decisions, that’s because, in part, it is.
Unlike a Demogorgon, the show didn’t jump onto our screens fully formed from the Upside Down. It crept out of the Pentagon’s file cabinet containing documented instances of Cold War paranoia, secret line items, questionable ethics, and experiments that really should have involved more oversight and fewer psychedelics.
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Key Points and Summary – China’s Type 003 Fujian has been commissioned, giving the PLAN its first CATOBAR aircraft carrier with electromagnetic catapults and a clear signal of intent.
-Now attention is shifting to the rumored Type 004: open-source indicators suggest China may be moving toward a nuclear-powered supercarrier designed for longer endurance and higher electrical margins.
China Aircraft Carrier. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
(September 24, 2021). The navy’s only forward deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) transits the South China Sea.
Key Points and Summary – The M551 Sheridan was America’s last true light tank: airdroppable, amphibious, and armed with a 152mm gun that could launch MGM-51 Shillelagh missiles.
-Fast and agile, it delivered bunker-busting HEAT, beehive, and canister rounds in Vietnam, then smashed roadblocks in Panama and led 82nd Airborne thrusts in Desert Storm.
M551 Sheridan Light Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
-But its thin aluminum armor, vulnerability to mines and RPGs, and volatile caseless ammunition were costly drawbacks.
-Built by Cadillac (1,662 produced), the four-man, 16.
Key Points and Summary – President Trump wants a new class of Trump-class “guided missile battleships,” but the case for them is unclear, and the timeline is, in one word, implausible.
-The proposed 35,000-ton BBGs would pack a headline-grabbing mix of railguns, hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, lasers, and a large VLS battery—yet several of those systems are immature or difficult to integrate quickly.
Trump-Class Battleship. Image Credit: White House.
War stems from division. It happens when there are problems we just can’t seem to solve. War is brutal, but every now and then, a little light shines through. The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of those seemingly impossible moments.
It all began when the entrenched British forces recognized the “Silent Night, Holy Night” Christmas carol coming from the German side. “Our boys said, ‘Let’s join in.’ So we joined in with the song,” Francis Sumpter told the History Channel.
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President Trump’s Monday announcement of the “Trump class battleship” made a splash, though the development timeline on them is unclear and, likely, far off. But another new ship may be closer to the fleet, according to a Navy announcement.
After a false start last year, the Navy has picked a design for the Medium Landing Ship, or LSM, a beach landing ship that the Marine Corps have long said is a vital component to its plan for a 21st Century island hopping campaign.
Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of RTX, has demonstrated its latest anti-jam Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing (APNT) technology.
The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) have placed an order with Rheinmetall for laser light modules (LLMs) for their new assault rifle.
On May 5, 1945, a quiet spring afternoon near Bly, Oregon, became a tragic moment in American history. Six innocent lives were lost when a Japanese balloon bomb (one of the mysterious Fu-Go weapons carried across the Pacific by the jet stream) detonated as a group of children and their minister’s wife approached it during a picnic.
Elsie Mitchell, along with children Edward Engen, Jay Gifford, Dick Patzke, Joan Patzke, and Sherman Shoemaker, were killed in the attack. They remain the only civilians on the U.S. mainland to die as a direct result of enemy action during World War II.
Greg Hadley, A&SF Mag.