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The Nazi Antipodal Bomber

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Amy Shira Teitel, who write the Vintage Space blog over at Posci, covers the elusive Eugen Sänger  in her latest stab. Sänger was the uber-scary real life rocket genius (and member of the Nazi party and SS going back to 1933) who pitched his weaponized skip-glide vehicle first to his native Austrians, then to the Germans. This advanced rocket would have been able to bomb any city on earth within an hour after takeoff.  A raid from Germany to New York, landing in Japan, was on the table at one point…

Introducing Johnny Dronehunter: Defender of Privacy.

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And yes, I do believe that it is a production of Silencerco for their Salvo 12 line.

 

Study on 4th Generation Nuclear weapons

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Over at Cryptome I found a really neat 1997 Swiss study (translated from earlier Chinese and Russian works!) on future super weapons titled: “The physical principles of thermonuclear explosives, internal confinement fusion, and the quest of fourth generation nuclear weapons”

Sounds catchy right? (Go download it fools, its free!)

Well the first hundred pages or so is all background stuff from the 1930s to now-ish.

The really next-level stuff starts on page 103 (of 236) and includes discussion on theoretical subcritical and microfission explosives, transplutonic and super-heavy elements, antimatter (antimatter!) nuclear isomers, super-explosives and metallic hydrogen bombs, and so forth.

If nothing else, you sci-fi writers out there can have a ball with the possibilities. Remember, its best to be a Vulcan in the streets and a Klingon in the sheets

looks like a mushroom cloud

Bone Music

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Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, ingenious Russians began recording banned bootlegged jazz, boogie woogie and rock ‘n’ roll on exposed X-ray film salvaged from hospital waste bins and archives.

“Usually it was the Western music they wanted to copy,” says Sergei Khrushchev. “Before the tape recorders they used the X-ray film of bones and recorded music on the bones, bone music.”

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These were called ryobra in the CCCP– “Ribs” or Jazz Bones

“They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,” says author Anya von Bremzen.

“You’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet
citizens.”

More at NPR

House panel says nope on saving the A-10

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Even as five SF soldiers were killed in a suspected blue-on-blue incident involving close air support by the supersonic B-1B bomber this week , the House Appropriations Committee, headed by Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Kentucky, voted 23–13 against an amendment to the annual defense spending bill that would have preserved funding for the 283 USAF Cold War-era A-10 Warthog aircraft in fiscal 2015, which begins Oct. 1.

“Respectfully, let me stipulate at the onset that the A-10 Thunderbolt is a tremendous aircraft,” Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-New Jersey, who chairs the panel’s defense subcommittee, said before the vote. “It is, though, 30 to 40 years old … [and] close-air support is not the only mission the Air Force must be able to perform.”

In defending the decision to retire the A-10, Frelinghuysen said the F-16 fighter jet and the B-1 bomber can do what the A-10 does.

More here, sadly.

a10 warthog with one of everything

Outbreak: Visions of the Apocalypse is 99cents– limited time only

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FYI, “Outbreak: Visions of the Apocalypse” (which features an excerpt from Last Stand on Zombie Island) is on a 99 cent Kindle Countdown right now lasting for about the next 24hrs, going up to $1.99 after that.

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All profits go to charity gang and it includes a lot of good zombie stuff (besides my shit) Click HERE to support a good cause.

More Russian rebel gatt images, fresh from the Ukraine

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If you have been following along at home, you may have seen my earlier post on pro-Russian rebels (who have nothing officially to do with Moscow of course), and their right out of Sputnik armament choices.

Well here are two more, the first showing a rather halfway decent roadblock defended by a classic Tula SKS-45 rifle (although there appears to be a AK-74 in the rebel’s lap) and several (I guess they found a case that no one was keeping track of) single-use RPG-18 Mukha (Fly) anti-tank rockets, Moscow’s answer to the U.S. M72 LAWs. Then of course, in the second image, we see that, yes, Vladimir, their PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle (designed by Simonov a few years before the SKS) can still bring the heat.

Pro-Russian rebels stand next to newly dug trenches at a fortified front line rebel position near the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk May 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)

Pro-Russian rebels stand next to newly dug trenches at a fortified front line rebel position near the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk May 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)

A pro-Russian militant test-fires an anti-tank weapon preparing to fight against Ukrainian government troops at a checkpoint blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A pro-Russian militant test-fires an anti-tank weapon preparing to fight against Ukrainian government troops at a checkpoint blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

UN mulls over ban on Killer Robots!

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All this week the UN is going to have a summit to determine if ‘killer robots’ should be added to that body’s list of inhumane weapons systems.

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Of course the platforms in question are lethal autononmous weapons systems (LAWS) such as a better version of the Samsung SGR-1A and Raytheon’s Phalanx CIWS that are currently availible.

If they make progress, the UN could classify these and future systems as verbotten, much like they did with landmines and lasers. And of
course, if they do, no one will use them in war moving forward, right?

(Holds breath)

Anyway, Read the rest in my column at Guns.com

PS. I reached out to Skynet for comment and never heard back from them.

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