Mahan-class destroyer USS Drayton (DD-366) was nicknamed "The Blue Beetle" after the ship was painted with the experimental Measure 1B "sapphire blue" camouflage scheme in 1941. The Drayton earned 11 battle stars during WWII.
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On July 4, 1937 she got underway to take part in the search for the lost aviator Amelia Earhart. Drayton was decommissioned 9 October 1945 and sold for scrap 20 December 1946.
More photos at Destroyer Archive
B83 Strategic Thermonuclear Bomb - Total parts = 6,519
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Parts not shown in photo are of course, classified.
The B83 is a variable-yield ("dial-a-yield") thermonuclear gravity bomb designed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the late 1970s that entered service in 1983...when we almost went to DEFCON 1. According to unclassified docs it has a maximum yield of 1.2 megatonnes of TNT and has been the most powerful nuclear weapon in the US nuclear arsenal since October 25, 2011 after retirement of the B53. Yes, it is still active in US stockpile. In 2022, the Biden administration announced plans to retire the B83. The B61-13 is planned to replace the B83. Both are designed to take out hardened bunkers, though it probably would only scratch Putin's bunker under a granite mountain and piss the bear off.
These 2 cars are the same size.
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The Ponzo illusion, first demonstrated by Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo in 1911, suggests that the way we judge an object’s size is highly dependent on its background.
2025.
In year 4 of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The speed of smell...
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FPVs, tethered drones could become formal Army programs in 2025
Judging from the number of people unable to differentiate AI-generated horseshit from reality, we're in for a long election season.
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CNN
"This is Connie Chung. Coming up at six o'clock - Moscow's in flames and missiles heading towards L.A. Plus, Bill Style's perspective and much more."
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1980 KNXT Gag Reel (@2:50)
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Deep state drawer 1 of 4:
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Bonus word: "cunctator" (17th century): a delayer; the person who always gets to a task just as it's being finished.
"The illusion that you can take in large numbers of people from a fundamentally different culture, without jeopardizing your own culture — and everything that depends on it — should have been dispelled by many counterproductive social consequences in Europe, even aside from the fatal dangers of terrorists.
Most refugees in the Middle East can be helped in the Middle East, and many Americans would undoubtedly be willing to financially help Muslim countries like Jordan or Egypt to care for these refugees in societies more compatible with their beliefs and values."
— Thomas Sowell
On July 4, 1937 she got underway to take part in the search for the lost aviator Amelia Earhart. Drayton was decommissioned 9 October 1945 and sold for scrap 20 December 1946.
More photos at Destroyer Archive
B83 Strategic Thermonuclear Bomb - Total parts = 6,519
Parts not shown in photo are of course, classified.
The B83 is a variable-yield ("dial-a-yield") thermonuclear gravity bomb designed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the late 1970s that entered service in 1983...when we almost went to DEFCON 1. According to unclassified docs it has a maximum yield of 1.2 megatonnes of TNT and has been the most powerful nuclear weapon in the US nuclear arsenal since October 25, 2011 after retirement of the B53. Yes, it is still active in US stockpile. In 2022, the Biden administration announced plans to retire the B83. The B61-13 is planned to replace the B83. Both are designed to take out hardened bunkers, though it probably would only scratch Putin's bunker under a granite mountain and piss the bear off.
These 2 cars are the same size.
The Ponzo illusion, first demonstrated by Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo in 1911, suggests that the way we judge an object’s size is highly dependent on its background.
2025.
In year 4 of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The speed of smell...
FPVs, tethered drones could become formal Army programs in 2025
Judging from the number of people unable to differentiate AI-generated horseshit from reality, we're in for a long election season.
CNN
"This is Connie Chung. Coming up at six o'clock - Moscow's in flames and missiles heading towards L.A. Plus, Bill Style's perspective and much more."
1980 KNXT Gag Reel (@2:50)
Deep state drawer 1 of 4:
Bonus word: "cunctator" (17th century): a delayer; the person who always gets to a task just as it's being finished.
"The illusion that you can take in large numbers of people from a fundamentally different culture, without jeopardizing your own culture — and everything that depends on it — should have been dispelled by many counterproductive social consequences in Europe, even aside from the fatal dangers of terrorists.
Most refugees in the Middle East can be helped in the Middle East, and many Americans would undoubtedly be willing to financially help Muslim countries like Jordan or Egypt to care for these refugees in societies more compatible with their beliefs and values."
— Thomas Sowell
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell