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Richard M. Jones @wreckmasterjay.bsky.social · 1d

Can it really be twenty-five years ago since the news broke about a terrorist attack on a United States Navy warship?

#usnavy #usscole #cole #terroristattack #remembrance #unitedstatesnavy #lestweforget #yemen #defiance #anniversary #navalhistory #maritimehistory #warship

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2d

Not to mention that it makes the real horrors invisible. Which is AI's ultimate advantage for all the horrible people in the world. If everything can be fake, then nothing is true. Doubt is their best ally. Let's not participate in it.

Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 2d

My German grandmother, a war refugee, emigrated to Chicago. She learned how to speak English watching WGN.

When I visited we’d watch WGN every night. Never thought I’d see one of its producers brutalized & arrested by masked US govt thugs.

My mom & grandparents fled Germany bc of this same shit.

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 1d

We appreciate your devotion

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d

As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3d

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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Navy Records Society @navyrecords.bsky.social · 4d

Why did the Ark Royal Sink? – The Navy Records Society Members' Blog

On 14th nov 1941, Britain’s first modern fleet carrier was sunk after a torpedo attack by the German submarine U-81. Our member Paul Harrison explores records of the sinking.

#navyrecords #navalhistory #ww2

Why did the Ark Royal Sink? – The Navy Records Society

On 14th November 1941 HMS Ark Royal, Britain’s first modern fleet carrier, sank after a torpedo attack by the German submarine U-81. The following year, acclaimed war correspondent Sir Herbert…

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 3d

The accounts of survivors are fascinating:
HMS Ark Royal | Driven to destruction (Part 1 of 2)
youtu.be/KCOTP9R7-F4
HMS Ark Royal | 'She should not have been lost' (Part 2 of 2)
youtu.be/ABhEP1JkcQ8

HMS Ark Royal | Driven to destruction (Part 1 of 2)

YouTube video by Armoured Archivist

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 9d

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 9d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 9d

"We all like what we like and don't what we don't."

How many times have I had to explain on Twitter what I understood when I was 7 years old? 😅

In fact, I have far fewer problems about it here, which makes me think that the people who made the move are a bit least egocentric.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 10d

It's been a few years since I asked this question: what is your favorite Battlestar Galactica (the ship, not the show)? 👋

Battlestar Galactica from Battlestar Galactica (1978), replica

Battlestar Galactica from Battlestar Galactica (2003), replica

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 10d

Can't wait to buy it. And I mean that. I have a Fulmar-size hole in my collection of FAA combat aircraft and carrier library.

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, I did have a very nice Babylon 5 Omega destroyer model. But it was unable to stand against "Wife-with-duster"(TM). It's now in a dozen pieces in a box somewhere ...

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 10d

Heh, same.
I have only sunk my money into a handful of nice replicas.
Both Galacticas, Pegasus, An original Viper, A Viper MkII - and Sulaco.

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 10d

It's a hard call. But I'll go with the original.
She has an "old lady" feel about her. The tired old veteran that - thanks to her outmoded analogue technology - survived everything "modern" warfare could throw at her...
(No, I don't think Trump's idea of reactivating WW2 battleships is a good one!)

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 10d

Navigation and the need for a dedicated recon spotter.
The biggest problem for fleets before and during the war was not simply locating the enemy. It was also accurately reporting where it was. This needed math, and accurate observations along the way.
www.armouredcarriers.com/fairey-fulma...

Armoured Aircraft Carriers

Fairey Fulmar: An overview of the design considerations and evolution of the fleet fighter before and during World War II.

www.armouredcarriers.com

armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 10d

I wouldn't go so far as "dead end".
Just "slightly before and after its time"
Two seat strike aircraft became the norm from the 50s to the 90s ...

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 10d

I cannot understand why, but I just love these old jugs.
As an Aussie, we tend to go for "the underdog". But the Fulmar isn't even that. It's just plain old "good enough".

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 10d

Another day feeling like I'm going backwards. Still struggling with a new publisher for the Fulmar book. It will happen but getting the same kind of deal I originally signed up to is proving tougher than I thought. Here's a colour scheme you won't have seen before - N1854 in temperate land scheme

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 11d

My question is: Is talk of a navalised Fw190 (T) real or wishful thinking mythology?

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 11d

As I continue to answer the questions no one asked so you don’t have to…

Ever wondered what aircraft the proposed German aircraft carrier in #ww2 would have carried?

Look no further…

jerijerod14.substack.com/p/tragerflug...

#navalhistory

Trägerflugzeuge

Germany's proposed Carrier aircraft

jerijerod14.substack.com

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 11d

#OTD in 1942, during zig-zag maneuvers, ocean liner Queen Mary, carrying around 10,000 American soldiers, struck HMS Curacoa amidships at full speed, cutting the cruiser in half. 101 crew survived, 337 died. (The incident was not publicly reported during the war.) #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 13d

Incredible dimensions. (A 12,000-lb MC deep-penetration bomb. Bomber Command executive codeword "Tallboy". #WW2 #HISTORY)

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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 12d

President Trump discussed bringing back battleships.

Here is Ryan from Battleship New Jersey discussing 'How Quickly Could the Battleships Be Reactivated?

Hint: It takes longer than in the movie Battleship.

youtu.be/bI_6nUwnb2g?...

How Quickly Could the Battleships Be Reactivated?

YouTube video by Battleship New Jersey

youtu.be

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armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social · 14d

Working on a Memories of War edit focused on Seafires over Salerno. Sorting out the Order of Battle for Operation Avalanche's carrier units...
Also first (and abandoned) operation for the Barracuda I. Last operation for Albacore.

#NavalHistory #ww2 #History

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 17d

Enrico Cernuschi and Michele Gaetani will talk tonight about ‘secrets of the admiralty’ which will, I suspect, based on the files the asked me to copy for them, focus very much on how the British Admiralty gilded the lilly in regards to damage inflicted on Royal Navy vessels by the Regia Marina.

I Segreti dell'Ammiragliato - LIVE 75

YouTube video by Italian Military Archives_Storia Navale

www.youtube.com

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 17d

26th September 1939. The first British aerial victory of the Second World War was scored by a Blackburn Skua of 803 Naval Air Squadron from HMS Ark Royal. Though the type was primarily a dive bomber, it was armed with four wing guns and also served as an interim FAA fighter.
#NavalHistory
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Blackburn Skua about to land on HMS Ark Royal. The type operated as an interim fighter prior to the introduction of the Fairey Fulmar. It was hampered in this role by marginal performance.
📷 IWM (A 3792)

(Single radial-engined aircraft floating just above the arresting wires of a carrier)

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