E-7A won NATO's AEW&C procurement program. The contract with Boeing will be one of NATO's largest to date. A trivial price for ensuring that the Moskal Horde is terrorised by the notorious «Atomic Wedgie» for the remainder of the century (if they last that long).

ITT: spookplanes and the aesthetics thereof. awacs, elint, and so forth.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-wants-to-launch-large-drones-from-transit-vans/

Requirements of:

- Launching UAVs up to 125kg in weight at speeds of at least 60m/s (200 km/h)

- Minimal setup and manual operation by ideally one person and no more than three

-Operation in temperatures ranging from -20 to +55°C

-Functionality in day/night, gloved, and NVG conditions

-Deployment from vehicles such as a “large body Sprinter truck” or “regular Transit van”

-The full system must not exceed 275kg

post your projects. art, engineering, full bubba. any size any skill level.

>https://www.youtube.com/live/PpWQ_S-3EX0?feature=shared
If /k/ likes, this is the livestream of the cerimony for the end of the 2025 world tour of the training school ship Amerigo Vespucci, dubbed by the USS Independence (CVA-62) "the most beautiful ship in the world"

Which F-84 early concept do you like best?
>Kartveli wanted to just shove a jet into a P-47
>fuselage was literally too big
>forced to design slender toob plane instead, thus ending his streak of chonky fighters that started with the P-35

On May 2nd 1964, two Vietcong commandoes blew a hole in the hull of the escort carrier USNS Card while it was at anchor. It should be noted the ship was crewed and operated by civilians at this time, and this was a subterfuge operation.

Although the ship was later refloated and repaired, it is still the only US carrier vessel to have been damaged by enemy attack since WW2.

What ever happened to the Taiwanese mini-series covering the China's invasion? Everything online says it was supposed to be released on 4th June but I can't find anything, has China scrubbed it? The 17 minute trailer covering the hybrid war was great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnZdVG041Y

This is a thread about community libraries and mining an archive (which I'll be providing) of a dead board for some books and shit. See replies. ITT, post your recent finds and do/k/uments.

Anyone know any good place to download firearms primary sources in PDF form?

Already have Chinn's machine gun and Hatchers notebook. Looking for something similar about suppressors.

>The 44 WCF was standard for the “gun that won the West,” though it also was made in 38 WCF (first offered in 1879), 32 WCF (introduced in 1882) and .22 rimfire (1884), with a few special-order guns built in .22 extra long rimfire...
>...The Model 1873 .22 Rimfire Rifle was the first .22 caliber repeating rifle in America was introduced in 1884 and discontinued in 1904. Winchester sold a little more than 19,000 .22 caliber Model 1873s.
https://winchestercollector.org/models/model-1873/
Did they not shrink the receiver of the 1873 when they chambered it in .22 rimfire? why was it so unpopular? the colt lightning rifle in .22 longfire sold like 90,000 and was the most popular popular colt lighting receiver size outselling the .44-40 receiver size by like 100 units.
I can't find the first year they made the 1885 falling block in .22 rimfire, but I think this says there was an ad in a catalogue for a .22 rimfire 1885 in 1886
https://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1987-B57-Variations-of-the-Model-1885-Winchester.pdf
Other things that are funny
lever action .22s are way more popular than pump actions now, but after the .22 rimfire 1873 was discontinued in 1904, winchester didn't chamber another lever action in .22 rimfire until 1972.
according to wikipedia. marlin sold 2.2 million model 39a lever action .22s between 1922 and 2007. they don't sell them anymore, discontinuing them even before remmingshit went under. between 1890 and 1958 winchester pump 22s (the models 1890, 1906 and 62) sold more than 2.2 million units combined and they weren't the only pump game in town
the marlin model 60 semi auto sold 11 million units from 1960 until whenever marlin discontinued it.
Since the 90s a bunch of companies like henry started making .22 rimfire lever guns (they say they sold over 1 million units) and savage and winchester are now trying to undercut them with canadian and yuro made guns. and rossi, chiappa and heratage also make .22 levers