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[ipscgraz]

German King Tiger frontal sloped armour, 7.3 inch's thick.

 

[ipscgraz]

The Sknyliv air show disaster occurred on July 27, 2002, when a Ukrainian air force Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet crashed during an airshow in Lviv, Ukraine. The accident killed 77 people and injured 543, It is the deadliest air show accident in history.

 

[grabbers]

The surrender of German submarine U-889 to the Royal Canadian Navy near Shelburne, Nova Scotia May 13th 1945. Five days after wars end.

More on U-889.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

That after-surrender report is interesting reading. How bad do you have to piss off someone to be moved from S-Boot service to the Glorious Untersee fleet?

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Straddling the ghost of a horse... He knows what he's about - that hat has been wornfor many, many miles.

 

[ArmedGinger]

 

[ArmedGinger]

 

[ArmedGinger]

 

[fat tony]

 

[6GunJustice]

Forgive my ignorance, but that seems way over complicated ... too many things that could break or require tons of maintenance every flight at the least.

6Gun.

 

[Crisco 1]

 

[recce]

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Lost Lake?

 

[fat tony]

It was tried once on the xb36 and abandoned after one test flight, which was a failure. It also added 5600 lbs to the aircraft weight. The one test revealed it caused excessive noise and left a trail of parts behind the airplane. Supposedly Kegresse was involved.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

 

[grelmar]

Q: What has more combat flight hours over Ukraine than the SU-57?

A:

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

What's a box of twenty .303 go for these days?

 

[fat tony]

Caption transliterated from Russian:

Fort "Krasnaya Gorka." Canet cannon, southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. Year taken: 1992.

I cannot find them now, but a tourist took pics of a visit to one of these 152mm/45 batteries destroyed by evacuating Finn artillery units, and uploaded them about a decade ago. The Finns did a job on them.

The pic shows possible damage to the gun and pedestal. Maybe in Russian Karelia?

Jaeger platoon write up on these heavy guns:

https://jaegerplatoon.net/COASTAL_ARTILLERY2.htm

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

From Harold Skarrup:

Here is quite the selection of aircraft gathered together in one place. A Catalina, a Northrop Delta (Serial No. 672), coded YO-C of No. 8 (BR) Squadron, a Canadian Vickers Stranraer (Serial No. 909), coded QN-G of No. 5 (BR) Squadron, and a Fairchild Bolingbroke (Serial No. 717) of No. 5 (BR) Squadron, the only Mk. III built and fitted with floats.

 

[fat tony]

Karelia re-ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944


https://www.nortfort.ru/index_e/

Russian site with histories of the forts around the Finn - Russia border through history.

 

[ArmedGinger]

 

[257Wby]