A software update can now turn a soldier's tactical radio into a drone jammer. L3Harris's Wraith Shield detects FPV drones by their radio signals and disrupts them at the press of a button. defence-blog.com/l3harris-tur...

I prefer this place to the other one, but I don't have many followers here yet. Help me with the odd share if you like what I do. Ta.

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5205/1

🔗 A 2011 article from the Science & Technology Review publication of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discussing the use of their Persistics technology for real-time exploitation of huge video datasets, like those generated by ARGUS-IS. str.llnl.gov/sites/str/fi...

Perfect thread.

After the test, extremely competitive scientists from Los Alamos laboratory waggishly sent a framed photograph of the partially-destroyed tower to Livermore with a letter asking if the new laboratory would be so kind as to leave its future shot towers intact so that Los Alamos could reuse them.

My Space Review article this week is about NRO and the shuttle in the mid-1970s. NRO was dragged kicking and screaming onto shuttle. Newly-declassified documents from 1976 indicate what the NRO was thinking about doing with the shuttle. One possibility was mounting a covert sensor on every flight.

🧵 Esnault-Pelterie REP.1 (first flight in 1907) with lightweight seven-cylinder radial engine—both by Robert Esnault-Pelterie. Innovations included: internally braced wings, welded-steel-tubing-constructed enclosed airframe, stick and rudder flight control. 📷 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

This satellite mockup has been sitting behind a shed at a central California aviation museum for many years. But the museum did not know what it was. We now know that it was the fit-check boilerplate for the top secret FARRAH satellites. My article is here: thespacereview.com/article/5181/1

The first two images below are before and after photos of a “dinner party” (using mannequins dressed in clothing supplied by J.C. Penney Company) in one of the typical American wood-frame homes built at the proving ground to demonstrate the various effects of an atomic bomb at different distances.

"A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing takes off in support of Exercise Cold Response 26 at Ørland Air Base, Norway, March 9, 2026. […] (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Davis) " 📷📑 www.dvidshub.net/image/956080...

"A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft flies during Heritage Flight Training Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Feb. 28, 2026. […] (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Samantha Melecio)" 📷📑 www.dvidshub.net/image/956188...

I was watching this and thinking about how early digital image recording technologies left us with mostly low-quality photos/videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gRM...

📷 digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/896468

Great anecdote. 🔗📷 archive.org/details/air-...

🧵 A typical DEW Line Auxiliary radar station. "View of DEW Line radar station BAR-3, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada" Circa 1960 📷📑 www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/de...

Lockheed RC-121D Standard Aircraft Characteristics 🔗📷 archive.org/details/CCM-...

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5169/1

"A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. refuels an F-22A Raptor from the 49th Fighter Wing from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., in midair during a Combat Hammer mission during a two-week large-scale evaluation. …" 📷📑 www.acc.af.mil/News/Photos/...

1st Cavalry Division soldiers posing with T148E1 (3-round magazine, semi-automatic) and M79 (single-shot, break-action) grenade launchers at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1965. 📷 www.alamy.com/these-tough-...

Photos from 2017 PDU-5/B leaflet bomb air drops designed to test, among other things, safe separation from the external Heavy Stores Adapter Beam of the B-52 Stratofortress. Each such bomb carries about 60,000 leaflets. 🔗📷 www.af.mil/News/Article...

Oldie (2021) but goodie. "Behold The Naked Warplanes Of Tinker Air Force Base / With the depot maintenance mission for a number of big jets, Tinker AFB offers rare glimpses of what these planes look like without their paint." www.twz.com/43677/behold...

Christie's M1928

Two members of the Women's Voluntary Service make camouflage netting by tying strips of material to a large net, suspended from the ceiling in an old school building in London, 1943. IWM (D 17198), MoI Photo Division photographer

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What the heck is this? OK, its a DHC-2ZB Twin Beaver., but my question would be.. Why?

"Project Free Fall - United States Naval Ordnance Test Station Report On Tactical Air Weapons 1963" m.youtube.com/watch?v=gpPv...

"Shooting at SFENA 14 and SECAPEM S-90B targets" 📷 www.ebay.ie/itm/30090700...

Pratt & Whitney XA103 engine promotional material. 🎞️ www.rtx.com/news/2026/02...

Good reading. www.historynet.com/charlie-holl...

A 1983 article commenting on how the then-recent rebranding of the tri-service 2.75 Inch Rocket to 'HYDRA 70' (as in 70mm diameter) was an effort to differentiate the improved weapon from previous versions that had a reputation for » 🔗📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...

🧵 A General Electric Corporation two-million-volt X-Ray machine for testing Naval ammunition, reactor castings on atomic-powered naval vessels, etc at Naval Magazine, Port Chicago. 1957. 📷 www.ebay.com/itm/36412016...

🧵 In 1970, the US began low-rate production of the XM684 40mm HE grenade with XM596 VT (proximity) fuse. Pulling this off with a projected cost of then ~$5 per fuze for mass production was quite a technical achievement. 📷1 ia800408.us.archive.org/25/items/def... 📷2 books.google.gr/books?id=_10...

Latest 30x113mm Proximity Fused ammo: - Percussion-primed. XM914 / M914 (M230LF) · XM1211 High Explosive Proximity (HEP) · XM1223 Multi-Mode Proximity Airburst (MMPA) - Electrically-primed. M230 · XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive (APEX)

Many interesting details on RIM-116B Block 1 Rolling Airframe Missile guidance. For example, the body-fixed, single-plane RF interferometer has two forward-facing antennas (for target detection) and two rear-facing antennas (for rejecting launching-ship emissions). 🔗 apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

🧵 The Vought F7U-3 Cutlass carried air-to-air 'Mighty Mouse' 2.75” Folding Fin Aircraft Rockets in a conformal metal rocket pack (an easily attachable ventral container) mounted beneath the fuselage. 📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...

Northrop Grumman AN/ZPY-1 STARLite (Small Tactical Radar - Lightweight) Ku band, moving target indicator (MTI), and synthetic aperture radar (SAR). L-R: Antenna, LN-251 INS/GPS System, Electronics Assembly, Power Supply. 🔗 www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/m... 📷 www.dvidshub.net/image/947742...

"KADENA AB, JAPAN […] the radar dome of an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System during a visit to Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 13, 2026. […] (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman James Johnson)" 📷📑 www.dvidshub.net/image/948566...

"EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE […] 08.07.2025 / A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, California, departs for an evening test mission over the Mojave Desert. […] (Air Force photo by Todd Schannuth)" www.dvidshub.net/image/950573...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Vought Cutlass F7U-3, BuNo 129566, fitted with two large vertical fins/vanes/canards along the vertical plane in front of the cockpit during post-stall gyration investigation by the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, circa 1957. 🔗📷 archive.org/details/chan... 🔗 www.historynet.com/voughts-visi...

One of the Bellingcat Discord members has made Wordle, but for identifying warships keel-fawn.vercel.app

Exclusive: Budanov gave me a few insights into his new role at Zelensky's chief of staff.

Oleksa comes up with some really interesting photos every day. Today's shots of target tugs are very welcome, and rarely seen. Great follow.

Merry Christmas!

"Tsgt. Charles A. Barbier Of Wallace, La., Checking Gun Mount Bolt On A B-17, Waves To Msgt. George Grose Of Tallahassee, Fla., As He Rides By On A Unicycle. England. (U.S. Air Force Number K2400)" 📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/205002431...

Impressive images. "Interferometric synthetic aperture sonar images of the seafloor. (a) Wreck of a barge on a sediment substrate with boulders. (b) Offshore energy production infrastructure. » 🔗📷📑 tos.org/oceanography...

🧵 An MNV (Mine Neutralization Vehicle) of the AN/SLQ-48 MNS (Mine Neutralization System) on USS Avenger (MCM-1). 1988. 📷 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mi...