Are American submarines the best in the world?
A Royal Navy (RN} submarine was paying a goodwill visit to Norfolk naval yard. It was due to arrive at a certain time, let’s say 2 in the…
Why do people still believe that tariffs are good for America?
I was in a meeting last week with 4 of my engineering functional managers. These are intelligent, educated men who can do math. They started talking about the…
Has the US ever reached Defcon 1? If so, how and why?
In her 2016 book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency, Annie Jacobsen describes such an incident. On October 5, 1960 the newly…
What is the best military aircraft that was never finished or used?
North American B-70 Valkyrie. It was a very large, very high altitude, and very fast, bomber that was developed into two prototypes that flew a lot of test…
Why did flat feet keep people from being drafted during Vietnam?
I avoided the draft by – – enlisting. After I was in the service an Army doctor informed me during a routine physical that I had “pes planus”…
Why didn’t Japan shoot down the US plane carrying the second atomic bomb for Nagasaki even after what happened at Hiroshima?
They couldn’t. As others answers note, by this point in the war, Japan was low on fuel, planes, and pilots. This means they had to be judicious with…
What ever happened to the officer that ignored the warning report of the imminent attack on Pearl Harbor?
That officer was Kermit Tyler. He received the report of aircraft approaching Pearl Harbor and told the privates reporting the radar images not to worry. To familiarize pursuit…
If a nuclear war happened, which place in the world would be nuked the most?
Many of these answers would be correct if this question was asked in 1987, but it’s 2017. And if in 2017 there is one place on Earth that’s…
How do SSBN submarines like the Ohio class receive orders when its job is to stay undetected underwater?
In the old days they would trail out a 5 nm cable antenna to pickup a one way EAM (emergency action message) via VLF/ELF through the seawater. The…
Do a growing number of Greenlanders want to join the US?
One of the issues that is circulating in Greenland is Guam. Greenlanders have taken note of Guam and how Guamanians are treated since their status would be essentially…