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judgemark45 · 24 days

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The Japanese destroyer Haruna at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She and her sister, Hiei, were the first modern Japanese warships to be built to possess a fleet aviation capability.

The Haruna class destroyers were built around a large hangar and flightdeck at their stern, permitting them to operate three large HSS-2 (A version of the HS-3) anti-submarine helicopters. The destroyers incorporated several features devoted to improving helicopter operation Including an active stabilization system as well as the Canadian "Bear Trap" landing aid. These permitted the Haruna class to operate helicopters in a variety of weather and sea conditions.

The anti-submarine helicopters were further supplemented by a single ASROC anti-submarine rocket launcher and two triple torpedo tubes aboard the destroyer.

Outside of the anti-submarine weaponry, the Haruna class carried a well-rounded armament. Two 5"/54 Mk 42 guns were carried along with two 20mm Phalanx CIWs. Finally the destroyers had a Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles system.

The two ships of the Haruna class entered service in 1973. They were followed by two more ships of the Shirane class in 1980, improved models of the Haruna design. Together, these destroyers represented the first steps of the Japanese Navy in reestablishing a ship-based marine aviation component. The lessons learned would later be applied to the Hyuga class helicopter destroyers and finally the Izumo class helicopter destroyers that are currently be reconfigured into full aircraft carriers.

The arrival of the larger, more capable helicopter destroyers removed the need for the Haruna class. They would be decommissioned in 2011 while the Shirane class followed in 2017.

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howtofightwrite · 9 months

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How big would an army of conscripts, armed with Dragunov pattern marksman rifles and iron sights, with between 1 and 3 magazines each, a radio headset that allows them to take orders on a platoon level (50 troops to be specific), and a single platoon artilleryman armed with an RPG-7 with 5 rockets, with assistance from a Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV (35mm autocannon, 7,62mm M240 pattern coaxial machine gun, tracked) and an aerial command/reconnaisance/attack/close air support aircraft, need to be to deal with an army of 1000 heavy pikemen, 50 elite knights, 200 heavy cavalry, 100 light cavalry and 200 longbowmen? The pikemen are armed with a pike and wear breastplates, pauldrons, gauntlets, a helm and chainmail. The heavy cavalry are armed with a heavy lance, a sword, cuirass and helm. Longbowmen use English yew bows and wear gambesons and a chainmail on the head. Light cavalry are armed with a spear, a short bow, and a small sword. The elite knights are armed with a heavy lance and a sword, and armoured in a full body suit of plate and horse barding, and they will move with the heavy cavalry.

Okay, so, for the record, you're not really supposed to use an SVD's iron sights. (SVD is short for “Dragunov Sniper Rifle,” so, these are formally called, “sniper rifles,” rather than just DMRs.) They were (supposed to be) issued with PSO-1 scopes. This can be a little amusing, because once you know what a PSO-1's range finder looks like, it's absolutely unmistakable, and you will see films and TV shows use them on other scopes. I bring this up, because the SVD has an effective range over 600 meters. (Specifications say it's good to almost 1.3km, but, that's very hopeful.)

However, with optics, those SVDs are going to massive out range any archer.

Your infantry have somewhere between 1k-3k packed rounds. So, if they were the only participants, they would need to be a little careful about ammo conservation. But, when you start factoring in the IFV, it doesn't matter.

This scenario isn't extraordinarily different from early battles in WWI. Where cavalry and infantry charged entrenched heavy machine gun fire, and were annihilated.

This is also a moment when the whole, “elite knight,” bit really doesn't matter. You have a minor noble, who spent almost their entire life training to be a better melee combatant. You put them in the best armor you've ever seen. And, then a bullet fired from a mass-produced sniper rifle, designed to be easily fabricated by anyone with a basic machine shop, and simple enough to be maintained by a barely literate conscript will drop them in less time than it takes to read this paragraph, before the knight even knows that someone is aiming at them.

I will say, this is a little bit of a weird combination, the Type 89 IFV, is a Japanese vehicle. The JSDF (to the best of my knowledge) has never used SVDs. These days, I think their DMR is the H&K 417. Until a few years ago, their primary infantry rifle was the Howa Type 89, which is basically a redesigned AR-18. Prior to that, they used the Howa Type 64, which was a 7.62mm battle rifle. (As far as I know, the Type 64 was domestically designed.)

The Russian/Soviet equivalent to the Type 89 IFV would be the BTR-80. As with the SVD, because it's a Romanized translation, BTR stands for, “armored carrier.” Somewhat obviously, these don't work particularly well if they're not maintained, or if the motor pool Sargent is stripping them for spare parts and siphoning gas to sell on the black market, because the government hasn't paid any of you in six months, but it's still going to have a fairly similar effect on those elite knights from the 11thcentury.

The 50 SVD rifles is weird. Full stop. It's a specialist weapon, not a general infantry weapon. In a situation like that, you'd expect to see conscripts armed with AKMs or AK74s, maybe a few SVDs and RPKs.

Now, if you were looking at a contemporary NATO unit from the 60s or 70s, then, yes, you would likely see battle rifles like the M14, FN FAL, or H&K G3. And, when you're describing using an SVD's iron sights, that's more how you have used one of those cold war era battle rifles. Also, while those rifles do have automatic settings, they're intended for semi-automatic fire.

If you're wondering why I'm not even addressing things like the areal support or the RPG, it's because they really don't matter that much. Areal reconnaissance means never having to wonder where the enemy forces are, but basically anything on this list except the RPG, could probably deal with all of the enemy forces on their own. Stacking them together would be absolutely devastating.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think you could use pretty much any modern IFV as a one-size-fits-all siege breaker if they're dealing with medieval forces.

When you're looking at modern military forces time traveling into the past, the biggest logistical issue is long term depletion of supplies. There isn't really a question of, “who's going to win? A guy with a rifle that's effective at a range of over a 1km, or 10 guys with pointy sticks. The issue is what happens in six months, or a year, when there's only three or four rounds left for that rifle on the planet, and, there won't be any more for another six hundred years.

-Starke

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drstonetrivia · 4 months

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Chapter 232 Trivia (Part 1)

This is it… The final chapter.

The Perseus and American planes get one final appearance, in color!

They must have landed a ways away from shore since Senku caught a fish, but the new Perseus isn't an aircraft carrier so how far did the plane fly?

I wonder if Charlotte is piloting it…

The choice of a land vs water return has historically depended on the geography of the country sending the rocket up: Russia has a lot of land, so the Soyuz capsules are made for land, and the US is surrounded by water so they've traditionally used that instead.

Since Treasure Island is an island, they opted for a water landing. Both types of landing have advantages and disadvantages, it just depends on which risks you'd rather take.

The Soyuz capsules Byakuya's team came down on are designed for both water and land, but because they don't have the same flotation devices that the Apollo ones have, they can't right themselves after landing. The capsules naturally float anyways.

In Senku's case, the top flotation devices weren't needed, but it's odd that the buoyancy ring was already inflated upon touchdown— wouldn't the impact make them burst, or flip the capsule upside down? It's also unusual that they'd exit before the recovery vehicle reached them.

Maybe they were worried about Ryusui-the-stowaway using up all the air inside so they decided to open it early?

We can't be sure of where they touched down since there's not enough landmass shown to identify anything, but given the celebration was held in Japan and the Perseus came to pick them up, it's a fair assumption that they landed in a similar area to the original Soyuz Six.

I'm sure most people have noticed how Kohaku has fallen asleep on the stage and Stanley is going through a nicotine withdrawal/acting as if it was a proper military medal ceremony, but I doubt most people noticed that Ryusui is actually meant to be 7 cm taller than Stanley…

Everyone's asking who this girl is, but I genuinely think she's just a random extra person, unless Boichi decided to recolor Kohaku with brown hair just to throw us off one last time. Another guess is that she's the girl with glasses from the 1st light novel, but without glasses.

It appears the villager criteria has expanded even further past simply allowing outsiders— outer space is now fair game! Their new friend is officially a member of Ishigami Village!

The bar in the middle of the E is also missing in E=mc², which I guess is a pretty E-Z mistake to make haha!

(Since it's now c=mc² does that mean we can simplify to m=1/c? 🤔 )

The area reminds me of the DARPA expo in the national park rather than Corn City, so it may be a new town based around where the Americans had originally revived. It has a defensive wall which is unusual, so it may be a military research base or to protect against wolf attacks.

I'm also a little disappointed they opted for cars and roads rather than trains, especially leaving the town, since America is very well suited for a rail network.

This plane is unlikely to be the piston-type propeller plane that we saw earlier, but rather a turboprop: a propeller in front of a jet engine, Xeno's specialty. These types of engines are better for short flights (<480 km) because they're more efficient over short distances.

Because of the slower travel, they can handle shorter runways better, but I'm not sure that's much of a problem when landing on the ocean.

Traditional jets are better for long distances like, say, the 8,500 km journey Gen took to get from America to Japan.

Did Francois and Gen leave Suika at the airport!?

Gen could be talking about the old outfit design, or, because the leather didn't fully deteriorate in the 7.5 year time skip (we can see this from some of the other outfits), it could literally be the same outfit from the Stone Wars, but patched up a little.

I assume this was because Francois is a more important character, but they could have gotten Carlos, the driver by trade, to bring Gen to the wedding.

Though he probably didn't want to leave miss Luna alone…

Hair grows ~6in/15cm per year, and the average women's head size is 8.6in/21cm, so assuming Yuzuriha didn't cut too much off, her hair grew around 10.9 in/27.7cm, therefore 2 years have passed.

This isn't perfect because Mirai's hair didn't grow as long, but it's an estimate!

These people are Yuzuriha's parents (despite the father's striking resemblance to Taiju), since Taiju's parents are long dead.

Another shooting stance comparison! Stanley is obviously cool and using only one hand, but Yo is using two hands. The number of hands doesn't affect accuracy, but cops are generally trained to use two hands since it's more stable when firing consecutive bullets.

(Next part)

#trivia #dr stone #chapters #232

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usafphantom2 · 4 months

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#onthisday in 1941, flying from Fairey's Great West Aerodrome and with Flight Lieutenant Christopher Staniland at the controls, the Fairey Firefly prototype made its maiden flight.

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The Firefly was designed by Herbert Chaplin and his team to meet Air Ministry Specification N.5/40 which called for a two-seat reconnaissance fighter to replace the Fairey Fulmar. This new aircraft had increased firepower and speed over the Fulmar and 200 Fireflys were ordered on the 12th June 1940 and four production aircraft would be used for testing.

On the 22nd December 1941 flying from Fairey's Great West Aerodrome, and piloted by Fairey test pilot Flight Lieutenant Christopher Staniland, the Fairey Firefly made its maiden flight. A second Firefly flew the following year on the 4th June 1942. Tragedy then struck the project when on the 20th June 1942 the second prototype crashed killing the pilot Flight Lieutenant Staniland, this led to minor changes to the third aircraft before it flew two months later on the 26th August 1942. By the end of 1942 carrier trials on the new aircraft had been carried out aboard HMS Illustrious (87).

The Firefly Mk I was at first powered by the 1,730-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon IIB although during the aircraft's production run a number of changes were made, including the removal of a two man dinghy in the rear fuselage and the installation of the 1,990-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon XII engine. This gave the aircraft a top speed of 316 mph, range of 1,300 miles and a service ceiling of 28,000 ft. Armament was four 20mm cannons and either 2,000lb bombs or rocket projectiles.

On the 1st October 1943 the Firefly Mk I started to enter service with No. 1770 Naval Air Squadron, based first at RNAS Yeovilton before embarking on HMS Indefatigable (R10), being the first to receive this new aircraft. It would not be until nine months later on the 17th July 1944 when the Firefly would become operational, taking part in the attack against the German Battleship Tirpitz based in Norway, known as Operation Mascot, where they would provide air cover. The first aerial victory for the type was achieved by Lieutenant Dennis Levitt of No. 1770 Naval Air Squadron when on the 2nd January 1945 he shot down a Nakajima Ki-43 'Oscar'.

A number of Fireflys also had ASH radar installed in a pod under the engine and were known as the Firefly FR Mk I. With the installation of A.I Mk 10 radar and the fuselage increased by eighteen inches the Firefly NF Mk II night fighter appeared although all 37 Firefly NF Mk IIs were converted back to Firefly Mk I specification.

The Firefly Mk III was to be powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon 61 engine and only a prototype of this was produced during 1944 despite an order for 100 of the type placed. Instead thoughts turned to the Firefly Mk IV which featured a four-blade propeller, clipped wings and power supplied by the 2,100-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon 74 engine. With a top speed of 386 mph it was 70 mph faster than the Firefly Mk I, its range was 1,300 miles with a service ceiling of 31,900 ft. Armament consisted of four 20mm cannons and 2,000lb bombs or rocket projectiles. 160 Firefly Mk IVs would be produced but would not see service during the Second World War (1939 - 1945) with deliveries beginning in July 1946.

The Fairey Firefly Mk 5 followed and flew for the first time on the 12th December 1947. This was powered by the 2,245-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon 74 engine. Top speed was 386 mph, range 760 miles, its service ceiling was 31,900 ft. Armament was four 20mm cannons and either 4,000lb bombs or rocket projectiles. On the 23rd March 1949 the first production version of the Firefly AS.6 flew for the first time, the Firefly AS.6 and Firefly AS.7 featured a larger bulged canopy to house two radar operators. Powered by the same Griffon 74 engine as its predecessor its top speed, range and service ceiling were identical. Its armament was 4,000lb bombs or rocket projectiles. It would be No. 817 Royal Australian Naval Air Squadron, RNAS St Merryn who were first to be equipped with the Firefly AS.6 when they received theirs on the 25th April 1950.

Continuing development of the type led to the Firefly AS.7 which flew for the first time on the 22nd May 1951. Powered by the 1,925-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon 59 engine this would be the slowest Firefly variant with a top speed of 300 mph, range of 860 miles with a service ceiling of 25,500 ft, although most would end up as Firefly T. Mk 7 observer training aircraft.

The final two variants were the Firefly U.Mk 8 and Firefly U.Mk 9 which were both target drones.

By the time production ended 1,700 Fairey Fireflys had been built serving in a number of different roles including training and target tug roles and as well as seeing service during the Second World War the Firefly would also participate in the Korean War (1950 - 1953) and would serve with air forces around the world including the Royal Australian Navy's Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Dutch Naval Aviation Service.

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myaoiboy · 4 months

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Rating All The Metal Gears By Hotness

No, not the characters. Yes, literally the Metal Gears. If I forgot any, let me know.

Metal Gear TX-55 - 4/10

This is just a lil guy. A friend, even. Reminiscent of a gonk droid from Star Wars. Sucks that he was made to do murdering. I can see where someone would find appeal, but not really for me.

Metal Gear D - 6/10

This one I can see. He got some depth to him. Kinda shiny. More smooth, less boxy. Kind of insectoid. In most franchises this would be like an 8, but it gets knocked down because of what comes later being so much sexier.

Also can I say that MG2's spriting? Mwah. Chef's kiss. So pretty. Didn't even read the intro the first time I started it up bc I was marveling at the pretty spritework. I fucking love good spritework, just find it so much more satisfying than equivalent-quality 3D art.

Metal Gear G - 2/10

Never actually completed or seen in game. Was supposed to be a smaller, mass produced version of D. Kinda sexy, loses points for being so fictional that it's only theoretical even in the games.

Metal Gear REX - 7/10

OOOO YEAH, NOW WE'RE TALKIN'!! SHINKAWA ERA BAYBEY!!! Man's got impeccable taste. He could make a literal slab of titanium look inviting.

Rex is not the sexiest Metal Gear to me, partly bc Otacon treats it like a son or a pet dog and I find a 25-yo's son-analogue to be offputting. BUT. I must concede. REX is the blueprint for all the sexy traits to come. He's got the hips. He's got the saunter. He's just a lil too brutalist for me.

Metal Gear RAY - 11/10

I know I have psychological problems because this thing's childbearing hips and murderous mandibles distract me during the boss fight.

Why is it so sexy?? What the fuck?? It's like mecha furrybait but specifically for people who are into garrus mass effect. Please tell me I'm not the only one, I'm pretty sure my boyfriend thinks I'm insane.

Arsenal Gear - 4/10

Basically just an aircraft carrier. I would say not fuckable but it DOES, canonically, have a digestive tract and asshole so like. Technically fuckable I think. But at what cost?

Honorable mention for making me deal with Raiden's daddy issues and fight the sexy mech in this thing's enormous rectum (damn near killed 'em).

Shagohod - 4/10

Not technically a metal gear. I can see the appeal, but it doesn't *quite* nail the drider-esque niche for me. It does get a bonus point for the way it moves being kinda sensual tho. Additional bonus point for being piloted by an evil fa-

Intercontinental Ballistic Metal Gear - 0/10

literally could not even find an image of this that wasn't completely dwarfed by the Saturn V rocket attached to it. Not really much to look at. If you've always wanted to fuck a Saturn V, I guess this would be a good way to get introduced.

Metal Gear RAXA - 2/10

Somehow managed to capture "first day of kindergarten" energy in a death machine. I could be convinced based on its behavior tho. Damn, Portable Ops kind of an L design-wise, huh?

Gekkos - 9.5/10

WHY DOES IT HAVE SQUISHABLE THIGHS?? SIR???

And the feet. Like, we gotta talk about the feet. Why? Why the toes? Why does it stomp on me with its weirdly well-defined toes??? Did they make this mech specifically to appeal to dinosaur foot fetishists? Why does it bleed? Why does it MOO???

Extremely fuckable to the point that it loses half a point purely because it *feels* like horny bait.

Dwarf Gekkos - 7.5/10

This is an object that feels like it was designed by and for lesbians. I have no notes. Slightly offputting only due to the odd number of hands but it IS the perfect number for some activities, so honestly that may be a plus.

Metal Gear Mk II/III - 1/10

Adorable. Not fuckable. This is a gopro with a personality. Not to be confused with the vampiric gopro with a personality from Ultrakill, V1. Literally just a baby.

Outer Haven - 5.5/10

Only technically a Metal Gear by virtue of technically being a stolen Arsenal Gear which is technically a Metal Gear. Gains .25 each for being the site of the infamous russian tuant

and whatever fucked up display of devoted homosexuality this is:

also additional bonus point for being piloted by an evil fa-

Pupa - 3/10

This is just the Shagohod but with an AI pod. -1 for being touched by Huey, but balanced out by the +1 from being made by Strangelove. Even if it IS creepy that she made her dead crush/girlfriend's psyche pilot it around.

Crysalis - 6/10

Not super sexy but it does fly and has a rail gun where one could feasibly conceptualize a dick. Kinda MILF-like (has mini-drones). Has a grappling hook, so could do bondage. Probably would, ngl.

Cocoon - 1/10

Pupa, but less sexy. I barely even remember this boss fight because the game became such a rush right around here, pushing you to the postgame/first ending.

Peace Walker - 7/10

Weird dog, functioning by sheer lesbian willpower. She is beauty, she is grace, she would probably rate a lot higher if my emulator didn't suck ass and make me angry every time I see her now, fuck that bitch.

Rage aside, who doesn't love killing their momgirlfriend and then reliving that multiple times throughout the course of a single game, culminating in her just straight up pulling a Virginia Woolf.

Metal Gear Zeke - 6/10

Really just nothing that special. Okay, wait, +2 for being piloted by an evil little girl in her panties for some fucking reason.

Also +1 for the sick ass boss fight.

Walker Gear(s) - 8/10

HERE we go!!! Hell Yeah Babey!!! Basically human sized! Has lil Fuckin' Roller Skates!!! Carries My Ammo! My Best Friend! (Okay, third best friend, after Quiet and DD)

Yeah Huey developed it but it gets WAY more bonus points for letting me manhandle him.

Sahelanthropus - 7/10

I can't deny the raw sex appeal of Sahelanthropus. Also, it's literally piloted by pubescent rage which is something I deeply resonate with ngl.

HOWEVER it DOES get docked points for uhhh

-getting strangelove killed

-making baby otacon a child soldier

-huey :/

Battle Gear - 0/10

Is there even a single frame of this entire thing? Especially without Huey??

negative 1 billion points for blue balling me in the late game, i want to ride this motherfucker right into the kgb outposts and let 'em have it for what they did to babygirl

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iwannakissasopwithcamel · 3 days

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Shamsher Interceptor - "Trusted Old Friend"

Role: Parasite Scout First Flight: 1582-83 Strengths: Agile Rocket-Carrier! Weaknesses: Acceleration, Firepower Inspiration: Caproni Ca.20 (1914)

Description:

In the lead-up to the Great War, trading anything but trinkets and garbage with Skyborn convoys was outright illegal in much of the world. This found many Skyborn convoys at their lowest point, making procuring aircraft quite nearly impossible.

The Skyborn and towns in Gotha soon developed a scheme: the towns would stage crashes, write off the engine, and sell the ‘scrap’ to the Skyborn. The government would replace the plane, the town would get paid, and the Skyborn could now build an aircraft. Their first designs resembled Arntwerke c-series the engines were taken from, but used traditional airship building techniques.

The Shamsher was the most common of these designs, protecting Skyborn convoys through the Great War with their pneumatic guns. Though obsolete, the Skyborn throw nothing away, and they have been adapted to carry rockets for use against pirate airships, grounder defences, and, sometimes, rival convoys.

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nooowestayandgetcaught · 11 months

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Fic: “Where The Flowers Grow”

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Fandom: SK8 THE INFINITY

Rating: T

Summary: In the middle of his break, Hiromi gets an unexpected visit from Manager Oka.

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Amaryllis Spray…

Poinsettia Power Charge…

Jonquil Rocket…

Hiromi types frenziedly on his phone while chugging a can of sweet melon drink.

Yes… yes! These are all the perfect skate moves for his next beef!

An alarm sets off. Hiromi examines his phone-screen, resetting it. Only thirty minutes left of his break. He bites his sandwich, wolfing it. Parking in the alley usually keeps him out of sight from customers and the store's manager.

Ugh…

Hiromi's heart clenches up painfully.

Why… why, why did she have to love someone else…

His thought stutter a halt as a set of knuckles rap against Hiromi's car-window.

Manager Oka beams from the outside, waving cheerfully.

The lump of sandwich in his throat chokes him. Hiromi scrambles to get out, nearly barreling into the other man. "Y-You!" Hiromi bellows, raising a finger.

"Hiya," Manager Oka greets him, chuckling. "Sorry for catching you at a bad time. I, uh — well, I had your order."

"Oh," Hiromi grumbles, his cheeks pinkening. "Come around to the back."

He leads, hearing Manager Oka's footsteps steadily behind him.

"Wow," Manager Oka points out, nodding to the array of bluish-purple irises and snowdrops and yellow tsubaki in a garden-plot. "Did you plant them yourself?"

"Mhm! For special arrangements!" Hiromi says excitedly.

After a moment, he forces himself to scowl and deepen his voice.

"Give me the freakin' order…"

Unfazed, Manager Oka unzips the carrier-bag, presenting Shadow's new custom-made board. "I had trouble with your sketch you provided on the deck's concept art, so let me know if — " As Manager Oka helpfully goes on, Hiromi notices Shadow's personal design backgrounded in red chrysanthemums and several 'birds of paradise' flowers. " — I can redo any of the changes — "

"Did you research these flowers?" Hiromi demands, turning pinker than before.

"Hmm?" Manager Oka glances over the skateboard, nodding. "Sure I did."

"AAACK!"

Hiromi runs his fingers through his tuft of orange hair, nervously sweating.

Love?

Why would he use flowers meaning love and freedom and joy — AND LOVE?!

"Birds of paradise symbolize warmer climates, don't they?" Manager Oka points out, and Hiromi gawks. "Red chrysanthemums for the deep passion to your interests? Did I get that wrong or something?"

Hiromi nearly collapses, swaying, tugging his brown apron over his head.

"Erm… it's fine as it is…"

Manager Oka shrugs.

"Alright then," he says, zipping the skateboard in and passing the carrier-bag to Hiromi. "By the way, it's nice to see someone who embraces his masculinity — and at the same time, someone who isn't afraid to enjoy pretty flowers. That's the manliest thing I can think of." Manager Oka eyes him, grinning.

WHH — ?!

Hiromi drops his apron, gawking harder.

"You can surprise me where I work next time," Manager Oka offers, disappearing out the gate with a wink and another chuckle.

After a long, heart-pounding moment of silence, a blushing Hiromi returns in.

He woozily stares at the ceiling.

Hiromi's face beams.

Yes… yes!

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androidcharles · 1 year

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Alright, it's a little late but here we go. I just wanted to give a big ol' thanks to not only everyone who has been patient with me with the N.E.R.D. Arc, but also give a thanks to you guys for reading it as well! I'm happy that this AU I made up from a twisted fan theory that I thought of while I was bored in bed at night managed to amuse so many people and I hope that Charles and his antics continue to entertain you as I go into the next arc (which and don't quote me on this, might be premiering in about 2 weeks... or 2 and a half don't quote me on that though).

One thing that REALLY grinded at my gears unfortunately is the fact that I didn't really include much lore about the N.E.R.Ds in the story. Wendell essentially existed just to be killed off. Hell, he never even got a character design (Theodore will get one though, along w/ the androids, you just gotta wait...) Done in by his own hubris I suppose but for what reason? Well, instead of waiting for someone to ask, I suppose I can ramble about it under the read more. But for now, thanks for reading and see you guys in hopefully 2 (and a half) weeks for the next arc! This story is far from over. In fact, it's only just begun ;3c

The N.E.R.Ds got their start after Wendell Carrier, the CEO of Carrier Tech escaped government arrest after his products were revealed to sell information to criminal groups and other notorious criminals in order to help them gain access to important information from Carrier client. Carrier Tech's entire tech line include doorbells, security cameras, monitors, and even microphones to name a few.

Wendell ended up rustling up a few of the remaining Carrier Tech employees, including Theodore Lackey, who he appointed as his right hand after being impressed with his coding and hacking skills. Theodore thought that if the former CEO of Carrier Tech was impressed with his skills, surely this would help earn him some respect within the world right? After all, it was a step up from his menial job of being a middle manager and he wanted a bit more freedom.

The N.E.R.Ds all started about three months before the events of the main story itself, and of course, they managed to steal a bunch of high tech equipment under the radar of the government and most police forces. They built their fortress of nerditude, but for Wendell that wasn't enough. That's when Amelia came into the picture.

Amelia knew about the N.E.R.Ds through Arc Electric, who was a low ranking Toppat who worked in the weapons division, but often bothered communications because of their hacking knowledge. They managed to get in contact with Amelia, who was unfortunately one of the few Toppats who was left behind when the rocket launched. It was a good thing it was her though, because if it wasn't for her, things wouldn't have happened the way they did.

Amelia got to work contacting the N.E.R.Ds about helping the Toppat Clan escape from the Wall and freeing her fathers, Reginald Copperbottom and the Right Hand Man escape from the high security prison they were being held in. In doing this, Arc came across an interesting file... one of Charles Calvin.

After doing some digging, they found out that most of Charles' information was fake, he wasn't actually 24 years old, he was actually seven human years old and of course, an android. Not only that, but the rarest kind of android; an android built by Project SAI. Yep, there's that name again. This got Wendell intrigued, because he knew the tech for Project SAI was high tech, but he had no way to access it, since all records of Project SAI were destroyed and no one knows the original location of the Project SAI base.

So what does he do? He concocts a plot to kidnap Charles and erase his memories while stripping him of parts as well as having the rest of the N.E.R.Ds study him so they can figure out how he works or whatever. But after the previous N.E.R.D base is destroyed, they have to go to the back up base, which was basically their storage house.

If you remember the end of chapter one, Amelia manages to cut Wendell a deal; the all important Project SAI files, everything he might need to know (and than some) in exchange to leaving Charles the fuck alone. Wendell accepts this and this is the biggest mistake Amelia makes.

Right away, Wendell finds out that Project SAI managed to find a way to convert human consciousness into AI and intergrate into a compressed super computer, the android. So what does he do? He builds a clunkier version of one and manages to insert himself it. Why is this such a big deal? Most of this information will be revealed in the next arc, so shut up for a second.

But to sum it up, basically Wendell goes crazy and starts converting his foot soldiers into AIs. Most manage to escape, including Arc Electric, who in fear, manages to find the Toppat Manor thanks to tracing Amelia's signature and rejoins the Toppats for good.

And that's it. The N.E.R.Ds barely lasted because a man who was already corrupt became even more corrupt and than died of his own hubris. I mean, he was deleted really, but he died, so... you know.

Theodore is still out there though... who's rooting for him? XD

#the henry stickmin collection #charles calvin #katie's stick drawings #headcanon corner #more like lore corner but w/e the tag fits...#anyway THANK YOU! there will also prob be some side stories as well so to keep me from exploding #bookmark

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Daily Wrap Up July 20, 2022

Under the cut:

Russian missile strikes kill three in Kharkiv, including a 13-year-old boy

The EU accuses Russia of blackmail over gas supplies

Russia may seek to occupy more territory in Ukraine, says foreign minister Lavrov

The US will provide four more precision rocket systems to Ukraine

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense is going to hand over additional M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, as well as ammunition, to Ukraine

Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska asked the United States to send air defense systems to her country in an address to lawmakers in the US Congress in person in Washington, D.C.

“Russian missile strikes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv killed a 13-year-old boy as he waited at a bus stop on Wednesday, according to local officials.

Reuters photojournalists captured the boy’s father kneeling next to his covered body while holding his hand.

Rescue workers carried away another body on a stretcher and a nearby mosque was badly destroyed.

According to Oleh Synehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, three people were killed in Kharkiv on Wednesday – the teenager plus a man and a woman.

It was unclear if all three died at the bus stop together.

He said the dead teenager’s 15-year-old sister had also been wounded but did not give their names.”-via The Guardian

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“The European Union has set out emergency plans to reduce its gas use amid fears Russia could cut off its supply in winter.

It has proposed a voluntary target for countries to restrict its usage by 15% from August until March, accusing the Kremlin of weaponising gas exports.

“Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon,” the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said in a news conference.

“And therefore, in any event, whether it’s a partial, major cut-off of Russian gas or a total cut-off of Russian gas, Europe needs to be ready.”

She warned that almost half of member states were already affected by the reduced gas flow from Russia, which has fallen below 30% of the 2016-2021 average.

Under the plans, the EU would be able to make the cutback mandatory if there seemed a substantial risk of severe gas shortages.

The proposal needs to be approved by a majority of EU countries, with its diplomats set to discuss it on Friday.”-via The Guardian

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“Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has said that Moscow wants to permanently occupy broad swaths of southern Ukraine in the clearest signal yet that the Kremlin is preparing to launch a new round of annexations.

In televised remarks, Lavrov also said Russia may seek more territory along the frontlines in Ukraine, calling it a buffer against the Himars long-range rocket artillery provided by the US.

While Lavrov claimed Russia’s new territorial ambitions were driven by the course of the war, the initial invasion sought to occupy much of Ukraine’s south and capture the capital, Kyiv.

Despite that evidence, the Kremlin has maintained that it launched its attack to protect its proxy governments in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

“Now the geography is different,” Lavrov said, in a change of rhetoric from the Russian government. “It’s not just Donetsk and Luhansk, it’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and a number of other territories. And this is an ongoing process, consistent and insistent.”

His remarkswere also an admission that the invasion was designed as a war of conquest, despite early denials from the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, that Russia planned to occupy any new Ukrainian territory at all.

The Russian government has sought to integrate Donetsk and Luhansk by introducing the Russian rouble, Russian telecommunications networks and other infrastructure, and by crushing protests and local dissent.

John Kirby, spokesperson for the US national security council, said Russia was planning to annex more Ukrainian territory, possibly in September to coincide with regional elections.

“Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014,” he said, referring to when Russia annexed Crimea.

“The Russian government is reviewing detailed plans to purportedly annex a number of regions in Ukraine, including Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, all of Donetsk and Luhansk,” Kirby said on Tuesday, a day before Lavrov’s interview went public.

It was not clear what other territories Lavrov was referring to in his remarks.

In remarks to the RT editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, Lavrov also said Russia would seek more territory due to the western military aid to Ukraine, in particular the delivery of Himars missile systems that have destroyed a number of Russian military command posts.

“The west … in a desire to maximally exacerbate the situation have pumped Ukraine with more and more long-range weapons,” he said, citing a Ukrainian defence minister’s remarks that Ukraine was negotiating for munitions that could strike targets 300 km away. “That means our goal will be to move them back from the current line even further.

“Because we can’t allow that in that part of Ukraine which will be controlled by [Volodymyr] Zelenskiy or whoever replaces him, there were weapons that could present a direct threat to our territory.”

Russia has launched cruise missiles into Ukrainian cities far behind the frontlines. A recent attack on the western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia left 25 dead, including several children.”-via The Guardian

There’s more information in this article from Reuters.

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“The US will provide four more precision rocket systems to Ukraine to assist it in its fight against Russian forces, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, his Ukrainian counterpart requested Washington to send more M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), saying Kyiv’s forces have used them to destroy some 30 Russian command stations and ammunition depots so far.”-via The Guardian

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“The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense is going to hand over additional M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, as well as ammunition, to Ukraine.

"European Truth" writes about this in a statement from the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania.

"In the near future, Lithuania will provide Ukraine with additional military support - M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, which are very much needed by Ukraine, as well as ammunition necessary for the preparation of the reserve," said Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anushauskas at a meeting of the NATO Coordination Group for Ukraine Support.

He emphasized that thanks to the given or promised number of M113s, this armored vehicle is becoming a significant part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Lithuania contributes to this to a large extent.”-via Euro Integration (Ukrainian language source)

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“Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska asked the United States to send air defense systems to her country in an address to lawmakers in the US Congress on Wednesday in Washington, DC.

“Unfortunately the war is not over, the terror continues and I appeal to all of you, on behalf of those who were killed, on behalf of those people who lost their arms and legs, on behalf of those who are still alive and well, and those who wait for their families to come back from the front. I’m asking for something I would never want to ask, I am asking for weapons,” she told lawmakers. “Weapons that would not be used to wage a war on somebody else’s land but to protect one’s home and the right to wake up alive in that home. I’m asking for air defense systems in order for rockets not to kill children in their strollers,” Zelenska continued.

The Ukrainian first lady went on to say that she, like many Ukrainian mothers, craves a sense of normality and wishes they could give their children hope in the future.

“Will my son be able to return to his school in the fall, I don’t know, like millions of mothers in Ukraine. Will my daughter be able to go to university at the beginning of the academic year and experience normal student life? I cannot answer,” she said.

“We would have answers if we had air defense systems,” Zelenska added. Zelenska also thanked the United States for all the aid the country had already sent to Ukraine.

“The American people and American families, Congress and President Biden have already done a lot to help us to stand up to the enemy and protect millions of Ukrainians. We are grateful – really grateful – that the United States stands with us in this fight for our shared values of human life and independence,” she said.

“While Russia kills, America saves and you should know about it, we thank you for that,” Zelenska added.”-via CNN

#daily wrap up #ukraine #russia #war in ukraine #kharkiv #EU #US #lithuania

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Hi, before I explain my post, I want to say something important.

• What you see my blog has become a major overhaul. And despite the changes, I decided that my 2nd account will be now my artwork blog with a secret twist.

⚠️NEW RULE! (W/ BIGGER TEXT!)⚠️

⚠️ SO PLEASE DO NOT SHARE MY 2nd ACCOUNT TO EVERYONE! THIS SECRECY BLOG OF MINE IS FOR CLOSES FRIENDS ONLY!⚠️

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Okay? Capiche? Make sense? Good, now back to the post…↓

#Onthisday: Jul 1st, 2017

Title: Cuteness Members - Lammy & Mr. Pickels

Here's my 1st artwork this 1st day of July, a two for one special artwork! 😁

Lammy 🐑 and Mr. Pickels 🥒, both newest members in Cuteness Defender. Both of them had become a "Newtype" due to gained a "Psycommu system"in their mind. Lammy's got the armored "Psycommu Rick Dom" (Now known as "Schnee Weiss" / "Snow White" in the official Gundam Side Story Manga), while her backup supporter Mr. Pickels rides the "Elmeth", both of which have built-in "Psycommu system". 🙂

Psycommu Rick Dom Lammy (Nickname: "White Sheep") Came from the real: MS-09R4 (MS-09RN) MS-09S Psycommu Rick Dom (a.k.a. Schnee Weiss [German translates to "Snow White")

Armament(s):

• Funnel Packs A Turtle Shell-alike device, this giant device is used to house Psycommu Rick Dom's Bits. While the Bits efficiency is unquestionable on the battlefield, this piece of equipment is also very bulky and heavy, thus making the Psycommu Rick Dom a bit less more agile compare to a standard model.

• Bits Bits are a type of mobile pod weapon that is equipped with a rocket thruster, verniers, a power generator, a single beam gun, and a receptor designed to work in conjunction with the Psycommu system. Their systems are designed to allow the bit an extended operating time independent of its carrier. The Psycommu system allowed the bits to receive commands via psycowaves from the pilot, thus allowing for control that is not interrupted by Minovsky particles. The beam gun with its own power generator allows the bit to conduct its own attacks. When multiple bits attack at once they can conduct all range attacks.

• Heat Saber The Psycommu Rick Dom's main close-quarter-combat weapon is a heat saber, this weapon bears a strong resemblance to the beam sabers used by Earth Federation mobile suits, however it still relies on the older technology of using thermal energy to superheat a metal blade, allowing it to melt through the armor of an enemy machine at high speed.

Optional Armament(s):

• Ex-T2-2 Beam Bazooka A new weapon developed near the end of the war and given to the Rick Dom. It is an experimental beam bazooka, and its use requires the Rick Dom's energy systems to be modified. The bazooka has its own internal reactor, rather than an E-cap, and is, essentially, a Battleship deck gun scaled down for mobile suit use. Due to using a reactor rather than an E-cap, the bazooka is capable of a single sustained blast or several short bursts, requiring a lengthy recharge period of approximately 10 minutes before it can be used again.

Special Equipment/Feature(s):

• Psycommu System Researchers discover that Newtypes emit powerful thought waves - similar to regular brainwaves, but not electrical in nature - which they call psycowaves. The researchers goes on to develop a mind-machine interface called the psycommu (psyco-communicator) system, which receives these thought waves and translates them into computer commands. Using this interface a Newtype can direct remote weapons and operate huge mobile armors by thought alone.

As for Mr. Pickels' "MAN-08 Elmeth": Link → [CLICK ME!]

Armament(s):

• (2x) Mega Particle Gun The Elmeth is equipped with a pair of mega particle guns that are set on a track, allowing them to elevate and depress. Unlike the beam rifles of mobile suits, the mega particles used in these guns are generated from Elmeth's powerful Minovsky fusion reactor, allowing for unlimited ammunition.

• Bits Bits are a type of remote weapon equipped with a rocket thruster, verniers, a power generator, a single beam gun, and a receptor designed to work with the Psycommu system. Their systems allow the bits to operate, attack and move independently of its carrier for an extended period of time. The Psycommu system allowed the bits to receive commands via psycowaves from the pilot, thus allowing for long-range control uninterrupted by Minovsky particles. When multiple bits attack at once from multiple angles, they can conduct all range attacks. The Elmeth is equipped with 12 bits, which are launched through a pair of hatches in the rear.

Special Equipment/Feature(s):

• Psycommu System

Lammy & Mr. Pickels - Happy Tree Friends © Mondo Media Armor & Mobile Armor ( Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait Of Young Comet & Mobile Suit Gundam 0079) - Gundam Series © SUNRISE, Sotsu, MBS

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the Soviet Buran was made in response to the US Space Shuttle, which itself was supposed to be the US only launch system after NASA's budget got cut after Apollo. So besides the civilian NASA programs, it was also designed to carry military payloads (mostly satellites but more aggressive uses like bombing were also discussed). The design of the Shuttle was never really great, but it was very much influenced by the US military requirements to land on military polar bases, fly speculative military missions, etc. that really put a lot of constrains on the design and it reduced its effectivness for civilian missions. The shuttle was designed to build a space station (in that, it succeeded) that could be used to build further missions to the Moon and Mars (never happened lmao) and carry satellites on the side. In the end, it just was a space station ferry and satellite carrier, and the US military got its own secret mini shuttle for them (X-37B3... yeah that thing exists, it's the only real "space ship" of the "US Space Force") so NASA was stuck with a sucky vehicle for decades, and it's still stuck with its legacy in the form of the SLS/Orion, which also sucks.

Meanwhile, the Soviets were scared that the USA was basically building a space bomber. And so, it quickly tried to make its own equivalent to the Shuttle, the Buran, with the same military uses on mind. In the way to that, they cancelled a lot of interesting projects, like a proposal for a manned lunar base (LEK lunar complex) and many other things. The Soviet Buran was a perfect copy of the US Shuttle, and so it was expensive and useless. It only had one crewed flight and was never used for anything, all the while the Soviets had an excellent rocket program with the Soyuz and Mir and all.

But the Buran had something better than the US Shuttle: its launcher, Energia, was incredibly powerful, and could have been made reusable (making the entire vehicle reusable, unlike the Shuttle) Such a rocket, if it had entered mass production, could have easily sent payloads to the Moon, not just the Buran. Space stations, moon bases... hell, why do you even need the Buran if you have a fleet of Energias? Such a rocket could have opened space.

And then the Soviet Union fell and that was another whole story.

But the Soyuz, designed in 1967 and riding on basically the same rocket that launched Yuri Gagarin to space in 1961, is still flying today, with more than 140 flights and counting.

(this isn't the whole story of it just a take on it, go read Astronautix.com for more info)

#I could write a LOT on the inescapable interconnection between the military industrial complex and space exploration #but that's for another day #it's kind of a huge topic and it also brings out my own internal contradictions (staunch pacifist and supporter of space exploration)#(which is an effort that from the start until today has been done with deep military purposes that often surpass the scientific ones)#cosas mias #space #buran #space shuttle

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Atomic Rockets is really hard on “airline” interior configuration for ships, which I think is dumb. by the time you have artificial gravity and inertial dampers and you can build the equivalent of SSTO aircraft carriers, you’re not worried about the internal configuration of your ship under normal acceleration--because being restricted to 1g acceleration or thereabouts in a single direction is having your ship be effectively crippled anyway. what you are going to want to do is maximize horizontal living space (fewer elevators), make cargo loading easier, and make entering and exiting the ship when it’s landed easier. obviously that last point applies strictly only to shuttlecraft and landable starships like the Intrepid-class, but i think that consideration will influence starship design generally. also this matters less with viewscreens, but having to lie on your back and look up to orient yourself in the direction of travel is kind of inconvenient and non-intuitive. the absurd luxury of spaceship design in softer SF settings means that not building your starships like apollo rockets is a minor tradeoff that makes sense for convenience’s sake.

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First Flight

Ok so, if you haven't heard of it before, KSP is this fun little game where you run a space program and try and launch spacecraft to other moons and planets in a scaled-down solar system. Despite being the first game I ever bought, I never really spent a significant amount of time playing it.

I figure it'd be fun to share my experience trying to play it, and talk a bit about rockets. I decided a good starting point for my game would be building a general-purpose, medium-sized launch vehicle for putting cargo and crew into orbit.

I decided to base it on the Zenit-2. The Zenit is a very interesting launch vehicle with quite a history, which I'd like to explore in a future post. Skipping past that, we get to the last variant: the 3SL. It was operated by a multinational (American, Russian, Norwegian, and Ukrainian) Company. The main body of the spacecraft was manufactured in Ukraine, while the engines and the upper stages came from Russia. Boeing provided the fairing and integrated the pieces. Finally, the Norwegians provided the launch infrastructure, which was by far the most unique part of the rocket. See, the company, named Sea Launch, unsurprisingly provided one of the only sea-based launch services while it was in operation.

The rocket was launched from a "self-propelled semi-submersible mobile spacecraft launch platform converted from a mobile drilling rig" called LP Odyssey. The whole thing looks like something out of a spy film, and it's honestly hard to believe this was a real thing. Because no one could be on the platform while it launched a rocket, it was paired with a combo rocket carrier/mission control center ship called Sea Launch Commander. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the ship in the beginning that is hijacked (Lemurian Star) is the same ship.

In the movie, it's launching the satellites that provide the targeting data for the hellicarriers which I think is pretty neat.

Here's my approximation of the rocket in KSP, during its first ascent. The bottom looks like four rockets but is actually a single large one called the RD-170. It's probably the most interesting part of the rocket as it represents the high water mark of soviet rocket engines.

If you're familiar with KSP, you might not remember there being an RD-170 equivalent, we have one because I'm running a heavily modded version of KSP. (Restock + Near Future + Utility Mods)

Here's the engine IRL. Pretty neat. The RD-170 has an even more interesting history than the Zenit booster it mounted on (it inherits many design elements from the soviet N1 moon rocket)

To get into orbit, you need to be traveling horizontally at about 2 kilometers per second. However, if you tried to achieve these speeds near the surface, all of your energy would quickly be lost through drag, so you first must ascend through the atmosphere before your upper stage turns horizontally and circularizes your orbit. If you need some more info I have attached an article from NASA explaining the whole thing in depth.

The rocket's payload, in this case, a satellite, is often not aerodynamically sound (and even if it was figuring safe flight profiles for each payload would become quite complex) so it's enclosed in an aerodynamic fairing. Popping it off to save weight once the rocket is out of the atmosphere is always the highlight of a launch. Real rocket fairings are typically two halves, to save weight and complexity, but I find having multi-part fairings more fun. If you look at the end of the rocket carefully, you'll notice the engine bells are moving around. This is because during ascent, one of the primary ways that the rocket controls itself is by making adjustments to the direction of its exhaust.

Here we see that the upper stage trying to circularize its orbit. Unlike the lower-stage engines, which are optimized for pure lifting capacity, the upper-stage has a much larger nozzle to propel the rocket more efficiently. You can see how the lack of atmosphere means that the plume can expand much more easily than in the lower stages where it was squeezed into a narrow jet. (ksp doesn't fully simulate this, but it ends up being right a lot of the time)

Unfortunately, the lowered thrust came back to bite me. Although the rocket had more than enough energy to reach the needed orbital velocity, it simply did not have the necessary thrust to reach those speeds before it began to reenter the atmosphere and burned up.

My second attempt used an engine with roughly twice the power output and was a lot more successful. The blue line represents the current trajectory of the rocket, while the orange line represents the rocket after the planned burn. I'd like to say I planned such a perfect circularization burn, but I actually used an external tool to do so.

Here we can see our rocket doing that injection burn, with the higher thrust engines. On real rockets, these burns can take a pretty significant amount of time

Here you can see the satellite getting deployed by the upper stage.

Typically after a satellite is put into orbit, each functional element is slowly deployed, then verified one by one. But since this is KSP, we can have fun with a one-button deployment sequence.

I'm going to take a moment here to say that Tumblr's 10mb limit on gifs is driving me nuts. I can't even use an external host cause the GIFs don't autoplay.

The main advantage of sea launch was you could launch anywhere on earth. This typically was used for an equatorial launch because the equator provides a minor speed boost and makes achieving any inclination easy. For pretty much every sea launch, these strengths were used to put a cable or telecom satellite in a geostationary orbit. This one isn't based on anything in particular, I just slapped it together based on the first satellite I found on google. The main advantage of sea launch was you could launch anywhere on earth. This typically was used for an equatorial launch because the equator provides a minor speed boost and makes achieving any inclination easy. For pretty much every sea launch, these strengths were used to put a cable or telecom satellite in a geostationary orbit. This one isn't based on anything in particular, I just slapped it together based on the first satellite I found on google. I guess the next step will be to put up some real telecom satellites.

#kerbal space program #energia #rd-180 #space #orbit

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Part #2: About Boeing

Boeing was founded in 1916 as Aero Products Company in Seattle, Washington. In 1917 it was renamed Boeing Airplane Company. Boeing built a reputation over the years for being a leader in safety and building quality aircraft. As their reputation grew, so did their market share. Boeing’s planes became a favorite of pilots to fly — they handled well, and they were designed in a way that they were easy to fly. Boeing’s mission statement as I could discern is “Lead on safety, quality, integrity and sustainability” and their vision is “Start with engineering excellence”.

Boeing had a proud culture of being engineer-driven. The engineers who were designing and building the planes had a lot of sway in the company. The direction the company took, the types of aircraft developed, everything was focused around engineers and engineering. They created commercial jets, military jets, military helicopters, and spacecraft. Boeing was the driving force behind the United States becoming a leader in the sky and in space.

Boeing is contracted to design and build seaplanes for the US Navy for WWI, the Model C. They order 50 of them for the war effort. Boeing is also contracted to build the MB-1 bomber. Over the next few years, Boeing receives contracts to build various military planes, while continuing to build their civilian seaplanes. Boeing’s planes are either drafted for military use during WWII from their commercial uses, or they are contracted to build military-specific planes — like the B-29 Superfortress bomber. This is the model that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The B-29 Bockscar dropped the bomb on Nagasaki.

In June of 1946, Boeing begins designing the B-52, one of the most notable bombers in their history. Having flown in multiple wars, as well as being one of the primary planes designed to carry nuclear weapons in the event of a global thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union. It is first completed in November of 1951.

Boeing started making commercial passenger jets in 1955 with the release of the 707 twin-jet, first delivered to Pan Am in 1958. The 707 was the first plane that was ordered by the Air Force specifically for use for the President and other high-ranking officials. The 707 was the first jet to be called “Air Force One”.

The Saturn V rocket is the only launch vehicle ever to have brought humans beyond low-earth orbit. This is the rocket that brought Neil Armstrong and all the other Apollo missions to the Moon. The Saturn V holds the record for the heaviest payload launched into space. The Saturn V was designed by Boeing. Even the Lunar Rover was designed by Boeing.

In 1967, the 737 was released. Nearly all airlines in the US were flying Boeing aircraft. Southwest is notable for exclusively flying the 737 — their entire fleet is solely Boeing 737 aircraft. From their inception in 1967, they have (with two exceptions) only ever flown the 737 family of jets. The exception was briefly flying 727 jets for short periods. In 2021, Southwest had a total order of 234 737 Max jets which was the largest single purchaser of the 737 Max.

“The Queen of the Skies” — The Boeing 747. This plane made it possible for normal people to travel by plane, and brought about the “Jet Age”. The 747 was the first jumbo-jet, it had 4 engines, it could make it across the ocean with ease, and it could hold an immense amount of passengers. The 747 was the first twin-aisle aircraft, making ingress and egress much easier than a single-aisle aircraft. The 747 is one of the safest airplanes when adjusted for seat count. A modified version of the 747 serves as Air Force 1 — the president’s plane. The 747 is also notable for carrying the Space Shuttle as the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

Boeing’s culture underwent a major shift in 1996. It merged with McDonnell Douglas — who was at the time another major manufacturer of aircraft. The more business-first-focused McDonnell Douglas President and CEO became the President and CEO of the newly merged company. One change that was brought about was moving the headquarters from Seattle (which was near the engineers) to Chicago. The goal of this was to create physical distance from those who may object to changes made by the executives. The new mandate was to design and build the planes more cheaply, get higher profit margins, and increase the share price. Everything else came second.

This was around the time that Airbus was gaining market share, and in some cases, selling better than Boeing. In 1990, Boeing had 80% of the passenger commercial jet market, and Airbus had less than 20%. 5 years later, Boeing had 50%, with Airbus taking 30%, and by 2003, Airbus had 52% of the commercial jet market. The loss of the market leadership drove even higher a push to reduce costs, and increase the speed at which planes are developed and built. This loss spurred the development of the 737 Max, and with the newly required speed and focus on profits, the problems that ensued.

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A new capability introduced by the AIM-54 was strictly linked to its radar: the AWG-9 had the unprecedented ability to track 24 targets and attack 6 of them simultaneously. Thanks to its weapons system the F-14 Tomcat was the first fighter in the world able to engage more aerial targets at the same time.

Designed in 1968 to take the place of the controversial F-111B, then under development for the Navy’s carrier fighter inventory, the F-14 Tomcat was designed with emphasis on close-in fighting “claws” along with standoff missile fighting.

Overall, the F-14 was without equal among Cold War’s Free World fighters. Six long-range AIM-54A Phoenix missiles could be guided against six separate threat aircraft at long range by the Tomcat’s AWG-9 weapons control system.

The AIM-54 was the biggest, the most lethal and had the longest range of any air-to-air missile in the world. The Phoenix introduced many new capabilities and fixed many limitations of the precedent missiles, such as those that affected the AIM-7 Sparrow.

How the F-14 Tomcat sharpened his teeth: the story of the six-on-six missile shot test

As explained by Rear Admiral Paul t. Gillcrist in his book Tomcat! The Grumman F-14 Story, the first innovation introduced by the AIM-54 was an impressive range of about 100 miles (160 km), a great improvement over the 15 miles of range possessed by the Sparrow: thanks to this characteristic in fact the Phoenix was the ideal weapon to respond to the threat posed by Soviet bombers and their cruise missiles. The second new capability introduced by the AIM-54 was strictly linked to its radar: the AWG-9 in fact had the unprecedented ability to track 24 targets and attack 6 of them simultaneously. Thanks to its weapons system the F-14 was the first fighter in the world able to engage more aerial targets at the same time. Again, the Phoenix was the first “fire and forget” missile, meaning that the Tomcat had not to keep its radar locked on the target during the flight of the AIM-54 towards it, a feature possible thanks to the small Phoenix radar, which guided the missile in the final stages of its flight. The fourth innovation introduced was the high resistance of the AIM-54 against counter measures, a very important characteristic in every modern air-to-air warfare environment.

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The most important shortcoming fixed by the Phoenix was instead the so called “end game:” actually any other missile after its rocket motor having burned out, started to lose speed quickly, leaving the target the chance to maneuver, lowering the probability of kill of the missile.

The “end game” performance of the Phoenix was dramatically increased thanks to its unique trajectory after the launch: in fact, since its rocket motor had better performances at high altitude, the AIM-54 climbed to 80,000 feet, at a speed between Mach 4 and Mach 5. After rocket motor burned-out the Phoenix started the descent, converting the altitude in velocity and maintaining its ability to turn against a maneuvering target.

To verify the effectiveness of the new Phoenix capabilities, an extensive test campaign was conducted between 1972 and November 1973: even if these tests resulted to be the most expensive series of air-to-air missile test firings in history, they were necessary not only to demonstrate the strength of the Tomcat weapons system, but also to determine the fate of the F-14 itself since it was built around the AIM-54 concept.

The aircraft that took part in the live missile firing programme were two: F-14A-15-GR, BuNo 157983 (the fourth Tomcat built) and F-14A-40-GR, BuNo 157988 (the ninth Tomcat built).

The AIM-54 launches from Tomcat started on Apr. 28, 1972 against a wide variety of (simulated) target types, such as cruise missiles, high altitudes bombers and fast maneuvering fighters. One shot also occurred from an extreme distance, when an F-14 engaged and shot down a target drone from a distance of 120 miles (193 km).

The final test was conducted on Nov. 21, 1973, when the so called six-on-six missile shot took place. That day Commander John R. “Smoke” Wilson Jr. and his Radar Intercept Office (RIO) Lieutenant Commander Jack Hawver, the crew who carried the whole Phoenix test campaign, took off from Point Mugu (where it was based the Pacific Missile Test Center, the former name of the current Naval Air Warfare Center) with their F-14 armed with a complete Phoenix load: four were on pallets in the semi-submerged wells in the underside of the fuselage and two more AIM-54s were mounted one on each wing station pylon. This time they had to launch their six missiles against six different targets simultaneously.

Once Wilson and Hawver reached 25,000 feet of altitude, they launched all six missiles over a period of 38 seconds. The targets against which the AIM-54s were launched were three QT-33s (the drone version of the old jet trainer), two aerial target BQM-34As and one BQM-34E. Wilson launched the first Phoenix, while Hawver launched missiles two through five, with the last AIM-54 launched again by Wilson. The missiles were in flight together under guidance from the fire control system in the Tomcat and four targets, which were simulating bombers (two QT-33s, one of the BQM-34As and the BQM-34E), were directly hit. The other BQM-34A experienced a failure at the flight control module which led the Phoenix radar to break lock, while the last AIM-54 missed the last QT-33 due to a failure of the Phoenix radar antenna.

As also the following video (which actually is the original six-on-six missile shot clip) shows, the test ended with a score of four direct hits, with one AIM-54 missing its target due to the BQM-34A avionics breakdown.

The six-on-six missile shot was considered a huge success, since demonstrated that both the F-14 Tomcat and the AIM-54 Phoenix missile were ready to enter active service.

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Dario Leone is an aviation, defense and military writer. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviation Geek Club” one of the world’s most read military aviation blogs. His writing has appeared in The National Interest and other news media. He has reported from Europe and flown Super Puma and Cougar helicopters with the Swiss Air Force.

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