Found this while trawling around the internet. Urban explorers "Exploring the Unbeaten Path" going through the decommissioned French warships, Aconit (F65), La Galissonnière (D638), Duguay-Trouin (D611), and the Colbert (C611) before they were scrapped. The explorations were posted to YouTube this m...
Very nice design. Quite similar to my imagined upgraded B-52, just missing the enclosed weapon pods, for decreased drag and radar cross section. The weapons pods would be: 1 large pod between the fuselage and inboard engines primarily for strike/surface attack munitions. And 1 smaller one where the ...
Last week the Portuguese-flagged RCGS Resolute (with only crew aboard) a small cruise ship specially reinforced for cruising in Arctic/Antarctic waters stopped in international waters off the Venezuelan island of La Tortuga to conduct some repairs on her engines. She was then approached by ANBV NAIG...
No one knows how to make the Mk7s anymore, plus the ordnance factory is long gone. The Mk7s consisted of (from inside to outside) a liner (with the chromed rifling), the A tube (the actual gun barrel), a jacket, and two reinforcing hoops, all nesting one inside the other. During WWII and Korea the l...