“Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by, that here obedient to their laws, we lie.” – Simonides
More toxic masculinity.
Identify it…
Aging Europe
A Graveyard
Garden Island Ships’ Graveyard, Port Adelaide, Australia.
40 ships were left here, 25 of which are known to date from around 1909-1945.
Such ship graveyards have been known since ancient times and were used either to block off an area or to dismantle ships and take out everything that was still usable and reuse it. Ship’s graveyards exist all over the world and are still used today.
Enhanced Interrogation
“Soyjack” Torture Mask – a 200-year-old interrogation tool made of bronze – from Germany.
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Bullet Points:
** Russia is scrapping its flagship battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy—the largest nuclear-powered military vessel in the world—to the scrapyard, as the cost of maintenance and modernization is deemed too high, state media agency TASS reported this week.
** It comes as no surprise that the Democrats would get rid of debates for the 2024 Democrats running for President. Democrats and communists know that you don’t need debates when the election is in the bag. Why debate? What a waste of time. It was reported last week that the Dems don’t think they need a debate.
** Dick Levine – the poster child for the Biden regime.
** Encounters with illegal border crossers at the US-Mexico border surged dramatically in March compared to February, according to border officials. Combining illegal immigrant encounters between US Ports of Entry and foreigners processed at Ports of Entry, Border Patrol tallied 191,900 arrivals in March. That figure is up 23% over the February tally of 156,138.
** Why is NASA doling out equity funds? NASA’s fiscal year 2023 budget is $32.35 billion and it plans to spend a big chunk, about one-third or $10.42 billion, on the type of awards it wants to give more minorities via thousands of grants and contracts. That’s a lot of wasted free cheese. More here from Judicial Watch.
** Enough Said…
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Bronco for Sale…
Identify It:
Mack T1 40 mm Gun Motor Carriage
May I make a suggestion LL, disallow Surly to identify a aero plane, a tank, howitzers, mortars, cars, trucks, skateboards for at least one week a month? I realize it may cause Surly to continuously pop a circuit breaker until the week is over but allow some of us to show our google-fu…
Sorry. :(
don’t ever apologize for being that good!
It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it.
+1
Yeah, well, next he’ll be Id’ing Riverrider’s “special” photos…AI never sleeps.
Hahaha, I can see it now:
“That’s Paris Foxx, birth name Charlene Marie Prendergast of Kanakee, Illinois. Charlene is 28 years old and has a masters in social work from UI Champaign-Urbana but found modeling to be far more lucrative. Surprisingly for a girl who looks like that, her total body count is three (high school sweetheart Duane Peterson; college boyfriend Roger Lemieux; and current boyfriend Hendrik Eriksson, originally from Uppsala, whom she met while doing a semester abroad at Lund University in Sweden). She drives a red Ford F-150 and her shoe size is 8W/39 Euro. She enjoys the poetry of James Elroy Flecker and her secret vice is a fondness for Fleetwood Mac, but only the songs with Christine McVie vocals.”
THAT! Hah!….altho accurate as only AI can do, it sounds a little Playboy centerfold-ish…but yeah.
Was it the faintly creepy shoe-size thing that gave it away?
Somewhat, mostly the “Kanakee, Illinois” part…which brings up another point; seems those small town gals – willing to dress like Red Dirt Girls while wielding AR’s standing on the muddy Jeep fender – are everywhere and no young male noticed.
Oh yeah, misspelling. I meant Kankakee.
“no young male noticed”
Ah, well, here’s a Swedish Girl story. She went home over Christmas and while driving to an important interview got a flat. So in slushy winter, wearing her nice suit and heels (very atypical for her, always jeans and flats) she changed the tire on the margin of a busy road.
SG: People are much friendlier in the States! If it had happened here probably four different people would have stopped to help. Back home no one even paid attention.
MC: Älskling, HERE you’re an exotic 5’9” long-legged 119-pound Nordic blonde with big blue eyes. Back home that’s “another girl”.
For some reason my perfectly accurate observation was not well received.
I got up this morning and got online at 6:00 a.m. eastern standard daylight time. There was one comment on the blog and that was from Surly doing his identification trick.
You have to know what time LL posts, what time zone Surly is in, and have a powerful image search app at hand. Otherwise no way.
Or have a tap on LL’s home network, and watch his selections the night before. It’s like playing the “hangman” game when you can search the dictionary it’s using.
Q: ___u____q__
A: It’s “Albuquerque”!
https://tineye.com/
The man is even doing it over at my blog! The man is a super genius! I pray a radioactive spider or cockroach doesn’t bite him…
I thought that would either amuse or truly annoy you. The world wonders.
I am amused and amazed. I think your ability to identify and name esoteric trivia is truly epic!
“Election Debates” is just another cog in The Left’s Wheel of Destruction, including that “I broke my marriage vows” piece of deluded human debris now fostering evil onto children Levine. The last nail…Tucker left Fox. Predictable coming off the Dominion “settlement” smoke-n-mirrors propaganda charade because truth matters and The Left can’t handle the truth.
Remain independent and steer clear of Satan’s Minions…like we see escalating in large cities, rats eventually start eating each other.
Hey, Larry. If you’ve got the squeeze you should buy that Bronco. 2 crew and 6 passengers? Get some drop tanks and modify them for cargo carrying. Now that’s an executive transport! Beats that Swiss prop job hands down, and you can use it for your overseas businesses.
I couldn’t agree more. $2 M + Operational costs + Insurance. It’s far more affordable than a King Air.
According to combat reports, it was underpowered for the type of action it was used for. Its climb rate was inadequate for dealing with low altitude CAS in SEA. Apparently, a number of them were lost when they couldn’t outclimb rising terrain.
One other fault was is was unsurvivable in a ditching. No idea what the actual cause was, but multiple crews were lost attempting it.
Meet your maker in a Martin-Baker?
Not the OV-10A…it had the North American Aviation/Rockwell zero/zero LW-3B Seat. A wedge was mounted on top of each seat to punch through the top of the canopy. The observer could eject on his own, or the pilot could eject both himself and the observer. If both aircrew ejected at once, there was a slight delay between the ejection of the pilot and the ejection of the observer, and the seats were ejected to different sides of the centerline, to prevent collisions.
One of my buddies flew PAVE NAIL and FAC missions in the Bronco. He loved it. He never ditched it.
The US Navy became interested in the Bronco late in 1968, and in 1969 borrowed OV-10As from the Marines to form up squadron VA(L)-4, known as the “Black Ponies”. This was an attack unit, tasked with supporting US Navy river patrols and SEAL commando operations on the Mekong. The Black Ponies flew in two-ship groups, with one machine carrying a 20-millimeter gun pod, the other carrying a Minigun pod, and both carrying rockets.
if one of the engines was lost at airspeeds below 120 knots, the standard procedure was to punch out immediately. As the Bronco almost always operated at low altitudes, going into a dive to build up speed was not usually an option. The addition of heavy gunship ordnance made the power situation a problem.
By “ditching”, I was referring to actually doing a controlled crash landing into a water area. Ejecting was the default safe way to exit. I haven’t seen any data on off field, gear up type losses. The landing gear was WAY over-engineered. It could handle rougher landings than the crew could probably survive, I suspect. Unfortunately, it didn’t need to haul around that extra weight. They never operated off of unimproved fields, but the original design brief was to do that primarily. Be interesting to find out how much lighter it could be if a set of normal gear was swapped into it.
It is a neat aircraft, though. Certainly would turn heads if you show up for a meeting in that!
I’m guessing that the .mil never bothered to investigate the possibility of doing a major engine upgrade due to it’s short combat employment. As is typical, the size and weight ballooned from it’s initial design. IIRC, the wing wasn’t much over 20ft? It was intended to fit on a single lane “road” in a jungle canopy situation.
So Russia scraps an unmaintainable ship and the US commissions another LCS, hmmm.
I bow in the direction of Surly… More power to him! Re the OV-10, one of my pilots flew them in VAL-4 and loved them! He was looking for one to buy when he died of cancer a few years ago… sigh
MOSCOW, April 20 – RIA Novosti. The heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky is not planned to be decommissioned and scrapped, an informed source familiar with the situation in the field of naval planning told RIA Novosti. Earlier, a number of media reported that the issue of withdrawing “Peter the Great” from the combat strength of the fleet is being worked out, due to the fact that the experience of repairing the cruiser of the same class “Admiral Nakhimov” turned out to be very costly.
1/3rd of NASA’s budget on, ahem, woke charity? Wow, I hope the WWM is in that lucrative little loop.
I’m not, but I am willing to try.
Woke Charity. Smoke screen words for graft.
I saw a special on TV about a place in Bangladesh where they drive the ships right up onto the beach and an army of poor wretches swarm over it like piranhas tearing it apart piece by piece.
Those ships contain a lot of toxic material – barely noticed in Bangladesh.
The Kirov was only the largest nuclear surface combatant. They are dwarfed by CVNs, even DeGaulle.
Heck, Typhoons were about the same size, which is a lot more impressive, IMO.
-Kle.