Thursday Night Edition, because yesterday was a very busy day at work, and watching the Steelers beat up on the Panthers is only interesting for so long.
Videos
Defense
- Farewell to thee, Prowler – Once, some years ago, visiting NSWC Crane, I saw a Prowler being decommissioned. Good times.
- Europe saving big on precision munitions with group buys – Alternate phrasing: Europe now underbuying precision munitions.
- Lima tank plant stays open for now
- US carrier leads a Japanese flotilla in exercises – But reader-san! Why would the peaceful Japanese who definitely aren’t building backdoor aircraft carriers want to gain experience operating aircraft carrier escorts?
- High-threat CAS isn’t actually going to work – DCS/Falcon 4 experience says ‘plausible’. It doesn’t take a lot of air defense before the old interdiction mission profile starts to look awfully tempting.
- Radar Basics, Part 1 and Part 2, and by ‘basics’ I mean 400-some slides.
- Popular Mechanics reports from the Zhuhai Air Show in China.
- Brigades with one week of supply independence? – I don’t believe it.
- Still don’t believe it
- Air Force cancels a $76 million contract with Boeing to upgrade E-3 radars
Technology
Sports
- The 2018 Old Glove Awards – The oldest players at each position in baseball this year.
History
- A new national monument honoring black soldiers in the Civil War – On point, as I am still working my way through Foote and Parvusimperator recently finished.
- John Gotti played Monopoly with real money – That is what the kids are calling (used to call?) a baller move. $3,000 buy-in for one of five seats at the table to fill the $15,000 Monopoly bank.
WIFI EMCON:
https://www.twpinc.com/wire-mesh-material/copper/rfi-shielding-mesh
The second link shows the attenuation. 20-30 dB reduction isn’t half bad, when you consider the signal strength was starting out in milliwatts. Granted installing that in the walls would run up quite the bill… (they also make stainless for windows!)