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4.5 inches?!?! That’s, like, the size of a toothbrush!!?!!?

Mostly because the of the camo scheme

oh

we're screwed

nah, nothing compared to an SLR

"I'm a 54 year old man."

Biggest downgrade ever?

M16 in WW2 > M16 in cold War

Actually cannot be, that’d be from above

Good point

Photographed from a Canberra?

Truth is, we can bet there are plenty of big brains in US defence, particularly but not exclusively in the navy, who would have got this. But assume they weren’t consulted or listened to. It seems quite embarrassing

Or simply failure to ask anyone?

Should have subscribed to @mercoglianos.bsky.social videos

China tries, and does but not in the James Bond sense. More that we only know so much about their programs. America not really, not in the super-duper-XLUUV sense

Married Wei T Pong?

No way

Way over-spec in my view

I rest my case

Legacy MS Paint is a perfectly adequate digital art tool

MS Paint is a perfectly adequate digital art tool

Inspiring artworks

Excellent as always.

Page 6 is particularly significant.

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"SOVIET MILITARY CAPABILITIES S-100-18-85 BOX 1 OF 2," slide 9 of 40 [gallery]

Thousands of hours could be saved annually if only
the people who manufacture trousers and underpants *always* put the little flappy label at the back of the waistband.

Boeing Christens Second Extra-Large Orca Submarine Drone - Naval News The second Orca Extra Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) dubbed the XLE2 has been commissioned.

The US Navy now has 2 (two) extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicles (XLUUVs).

meanwhile China has at least 10 (likely more) including two much large XXLUUVs.

www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

June Saunders, Women's Royal Naval Service, stands on the fo'c'sle of her boat preparing to make fast. Official Admiralty photograph by Harold William John Tomlin, Plymouth, November 1944. Imperial War Museum: A 26516.

Women have always gone to sea and faced the sea's dangers. Women were in many of the naval losses chronicled here, and are numbered among the casualties. Remembering them, and all the women afloat and ashore whose lives are caught up with the sea, on this #InternationalWomensDay #NavalHistory

flast bottomed girls

Testing of the Ukrainian naval unmanned platform Magura V5 equipped with launchers for anti-air interceptor drones.

Operation Epic Folly?

A U.S. operation to seize Khrag Island would be a terrible idea. We will see I guess.

Ukraine Intensifies Strikes on Russian Naval Assets Across Black Sea Region - Naval News Ukraine have conducted a series of large-scale attacks on Russian Black Sea Fleet assets in recent weeks, striking targets in both occupied Crimea and the Novorossiysk naval base in successive operati...

Of great interest

Ukraine Intensifies Strikes on Russian Navy Assets Across Black Sea Region

www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...