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@memechaotic The Notorious D.I.K.

Have fun.

[Podcast] *Anti-aviación o el desarrollo de la artillería antiaérea* con @hawat y @knktlw blog.sandglasspatrol.com/podcast-anti-a…

@Barphbie0 The interbredical brothers.

Degameth

Un invento decisivo en la II Guerra Mundial. 📡🛩️ John Turton Randall, nacido #TalDíaComoHoy de 1905, coinventó el magnetrón de cavidad, base del radar moderno y portátil. Además, ¡fue clave para algo tan cotidiano como los hornos microondas! 👉forohistorico.coit.es/index.php/pers…

The size of things Human vs MiG-31's "Zaslon" radar (antenna) 📸📡

The more you read about the Second World War, the more American media depictions from the era grate on your sensibilities.

Arado Ar 196 floatplanes serving with III./KG 100 flying in support of German landing forces during the Battle of Leros in late 1943

Me, when someone says Julius Caesar is their favorite Roman emperor.

@Variety Rest in Peace Chuck. 🙏🙏

Si MacArthur siguiera vivo, le daba.

Peazo diorama!!!

The most unhinged commission I did: the "everyone is so mean to mee" BMP-2 #army #panzer #military

Strait of hormuz right now

A 2.5-second rocket flight that heralded decades of discovery in space! Today marks 100 years since the first successful test of a liquid-fueled rocket. Robert H. Goddard's achievement would have appeared unimpressive by most measures: His rocket flew just 41 feet in the air, landing in a nearby cabbage patch. Liquid-propelled rocketry has been the backbone of spaceflight ever since. 📷 by Esther Goddard on March 16, 1926 (Clark University Archive)

The Secret Orbiting Machine Gun of the Cold War. In 1974, the Soviet Union launched Salyut 3, officially a civilian research station. In reality, it was the first operational module of the highly classified Almaz military program. Paranoid that American astronauts might attempt to board and hijack their orbiting outposts, Soviet engineers secretly mounted a modified 23mm R-23M aircraft autocannon on the exterior of the station, creating the world’s first armed spacecraft. Firing a gun in the vacuum of space presented massive engineering challenges. Because the cannon was fixed directly to the hull, the entire station had to be rotated to aim at a target. The brutal recoil could easily tear the outpost apart or spin it dangerously out of orbit. To counteract the violent kickback, engineers synchronized the cannon’s firing with the station’s thrusters, igniting them at the exact millisecond the gun discharged to keep Salyut 3 stable. As the station reached the end of its operational life in January 1975, ground control decided to test their orbital artillery. Once the cosmonauts had safely returned to Earth, they locked onto a designated target and fired a burst of shells. The test was a complete success. Shortly afterward, Salyut 3 was deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere, taking the physical evidence of the world’s only known space cannon with it.

You knew a movie would be good when you saw these studio logos.

A very happy 15th of March to one and all.

@BCERLegacy @JamesLucasIT Castle of Koenisberg and, after being demolished, the House of the Soviets in the same place.

@hawat @JamesLucasIT Konigsburg and ???

Name a bigger downgrade

[Podcast] Ataque estadounidense a Irán en marzo de 2026 con @hawat @knktlw @JoseM_SGP blog.sandglasspatrol.com/podcast-ataque…