Why are the F-111 aircraft buried literally? Couldn’t the government salvage the useful components?
All the usable electronics and hardware were removed and placed back in the Royal Australian Air Force supply chain. The engines were also removed and scrapped. The engines…
Without nuclear weapons during World War II, the United States would have been no match for Japan. Would the Japanese have driven the Americans back to Europe?
Without nuclear weapons there would be no Japanese people, or very few. Japan itself, would have looked like several chunks of bio-char. It’s that simple. American forces were…
What if the battleship Iowa was to hit the iceberg the same way the Titanic did, how much damage would it sustain?
One problem for your scenario is that any modern (for the time) Allied fast battleship (like Iowa, S Dakota, or North Carolina, and several RN battleships) had a…
Why can’t an F-15 land on a carrier?
We had an F-14 pilot on an exchange tour in my F-15 wing back in the mid 1980s. I would be willing to bet that in an emergency…
How did the Roman aqueducts not have dirty, bug-infested water in them?
Dirty and bug-infested by what standards? The Romans built over 200 aqueducts, 11 in Rome alone, one of which still works and supplies the fountains in Rome (but…
Do you think Donald Trump’s reign will end with bloodshed?
I am absolutely convinced it will. And its going to especially be bad for those on the right Less than 10,000 showed up for Trump’s military parade for…
Why has nobody built a rotating space craft to simulate gravity?
They have tried this exactly once, to prove the viability of the concept. The Gemini 11 mission joined two capsules together with a tether and maneuvered them into…
What happens if sugar is put in concrete?
One of my friends had this question in a BARC-2014 interview. The interviewer asked him “What if I threw my tea on the concrete.” See, that was an…
Can a military pilot really step in and help land a commercial plane if the pilot is incapacitated, or are there too many differences and security issues to consider?
People have strange ideas about how airplanes are flown. I am both a airline pilot and a military pilot. If I have a incapacitation issue in my cockpit,…
How come the US needs 11-12 nuclear aircraft carriers escorted by nuclear submarines?
The US military is tasked with keeping three carriers deployed at all times, usually with one in the Atlantic, one Pacific and one Middle East-ish. Believe it or…