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Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Sent 2 North Korean Prisoners of War to South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ukraine has sent two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, following months of consultations between Kyiv and Seoul after the soldiers were captured in Russia’s Kursk region in 2025. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry did not directly confirm Zelenskyy’s comments but said it…
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‘The Captain Was in the Shower’: The Royal Navy’s $1.5 Billion Nuclear Attack Submarine HMS Astute Ran Aground Off Skye 2 Months After Commissioning. The Crew Had No Chart, the Radar Off and No Binoculars
How a 2010 Submarine Accident Shows How Serious the Royal Navy’s Training and Leadership Has Declined: Britain’s Royal Navy once ruled the waves. Now, the legendary maritime service struggles to maintain its attack submarines. Take the October 2010 incident involving the HMS Astute (S119), one of the Royal Navy’s most…
My App Automatically Imports Your Shot Timer Data
I am very excited to release Armorer.app V. 1.8 today. The major focus for this update was making it faster to log what you shot. Armorer is the firearm maintenance app I built. It keeps a service log for every gun, tells you when a service interval is coming due,…
Russia Was 40 Percent Done With a Nimitz-Class Style Aircraft Carrier That Might Have Been 94,000-Tons and Had 4 Nuclear Reactors When It Was Scrapped
Summary and Key Points: When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk sat 40% complete at the Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv. Designed with four KN-3 reactors, two steam catapults, and a 68-aircraft air wing, the 1,054-foot ship would have been the largest the Soviet Navy…
1,000-Pound Bombs Made in 1953 Turned a 75,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal Fire Into a Catastrophe. 7 of the Korean War-Era Bombs Were Among the First to Detonate
Summary and Key Points: On July 29, 1967, an electrical surge on an F-4 Phantom fired a Zuni rocket 100 feet across the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal and into a parked A-4 Skyhawk. Four hundred gallons of jet fuel ignited, the first bomb cooked off 94…
A Rack of 500-Pound Bombs Blew a 22-by-18-Foot Hole in Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Beside a Tanker Holding 6,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel. She Was Back at Sea the Same Year
“Sir, the Enterprise is Burning”: How a Flight Deck Accident in 1969 Almost Caused an Environmental Disaster 70 Nautical Miles South of Hawaii: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. It set the precedent that defined every future American aircraft carrier. Commissioned on November 25, 1961,…
The US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Needed a New Stealth Fighter Badly to Compete with China: The New Boeing F/A-XX Is One Massive Upgrade
The Department of Defense has selected Boeing to manufacture the U.S. Navy’s newest fighter, the F/A-XX, edging out Northrop Grumman. The contract, valued at $20 billion, covers the procurement of “multiple” aircraft that the department specified would be used for testing “ground, airworthiness, systems, and weapons integration testing.” “The F/A-XX…