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#WW2 #ships #USNavy #navy: Does anyone know the crew size for a US Navy 20mm Oerlikon AA gun including operators, trainers, loaders, etc.? Is it 2 where it's tight to 5?
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@TedCornwell 3/ How about some Leopard 2 cross-sections and cutaways? ↖️https://t.co/r65Yk0eHse. ↗️ https://t.co/MOi4KXkeng.↙️https://t.co/m7AbtXacuZ.↘️ https://t.co/qlJeR6GP7C.

Raymond Loewy, born in Paris, became America's most famous industrial designer. He took everyday objects and made them beautiful. Some were rather big, like the way he transformed stodgy locomotives with big stacks into things of immense streamlined beauty...

#USNavy #scubadiving #VietnamWar #Disaster #maps USS Oriskany ~7:28 am, October 26, 1966, a 27-lb. flare lights 250 others starting a devastating fire that destroys 3 aircraft, damages 3 more, injures 156 men and kills 44. That's just part of her fascinating story.

2/ these depictions are. The G10N Fugaku (Japanese for Mount Fuji), per https://t.co/TcLnYwK8KR, would have had 6 x 5,000 hp engines (!!!) later scaled back to 2,500 hp engines, 131' l x 207' w x 28' 8" h. Which other plane had 30,000 hp or even 15,000 hp at that time?

4/ PB2Y Coronado (first flight December 17, 1937) shared Consolidated B-24 Liberator DNA: same engines, tails and speed. 3x payload (12,000 lbs. vs. 4,000 lbs), but only 43% the range due to the hull's weight (empty weight: PB2Y's 40,850 lbs vs B-24's 36,500 lbs) and drag.

2/ The 1947 Short S.40 Shetland II DX171 G-AGVD was the unarmed 70-passenger version of the military S.35 Shetland I. One prototype built. It had a rounded nose and more windows. But mainly, enjoy the cutaways...

#avgeek #aviation #airtravel #RAF - Short S.35 Shetland I was Britain's largest plane with a 150' wingspan. Crew 11; one prototype DX166 G-ADUY marked "P" built. The original intent was long-range reconnaissance. But why such a large plane or crew or elevated cockpit? 1/

#B21 #B21Raider #USAF #STARWARS - Jabba the Hutt, no relation to Pizza the Hutt, is suing for the US Air Force and Northrop Grumman for impersonation. Rumor is Darth Vader might too! 🤣🤣🤣TY @space_osint! https://t.co/T7r4MEfzIz

2/ Russian, #USAF and other AEW&C aircraft are the equivalent of a big, unarmed, overweight guy high up in a tree who can direct soldiers spread out on the ground in a forest below, coordinating them and multiplying their effectiveness. The Beriev A-50 ↖️↗️↙️↘️ is no exception.