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1991 Soviet coup d’etat attempt by hard line communist party members against Gorbachev.
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So wait the hardliners held the building, or did the whites? The wiki article is confusing me.
IIRC the hardliners held the building and Yeltsin personally ordered the tanks to fire on it
guys, i dont want to pop anyone’s balloons, but those are the Tamanskiy Guard’s tanks shooting at the White House during the 1993 constitutional crisis
This was posted by the official Colombian Navy TikTok account.
Russian tank in Ukraine spotted with improvised armor.
This war is something fucking else.
Welcome back Hetzer! Glad to see you again fighting in the Ukrainian plains on the nazi side!
T-90 vs BMP-3
Or why battlefield awareness is important.
Russian Air Force, Sukhoi Su-34 attack jets deploying parachute-retarded BETAB-500 concrete-piercing bombs, also known as bunker busters.
Source.
I have an odd fascination with well made homebuilt firearms. From a craftsman view I enjoy the craftsmanship of them, and from a political stance it shows exactly how banning guns simply doesn't make them disappear.
Majority of these are from countries with extreme gun regulations like England, Brazil, Mexico and Australia.
It should also be noted that several of these are fully automatic.
Google "homemade machine gun" and you'll find countless more examples.
Chill, ATF. It's for educational purposes.
Pls no pew pew muh puppers, ty.
I know in America you need to have car insurance to drive around, we do so too in Colombia, it's called SOAT, which stands for obligatory insurance for traffic accidents, BUT:
Does yours only work to cover medical expenses in case of injuries like over here? Or does it also cover damage done to the car?
There’s varying levels of coverage. Some states have different requirements (my state is a bit of an oddball).
But these are all the options my company offers for my state (Michigan).
ACTUALLY it won't.
This is a solar flare and the earth's magnetic field shields us from it. This is something that happens regularly (you have already experienced this) and thanks to the electromagnetic field it gets directed away from us. It's pretty neat.
you underestimate speedrunning techs and their requirements
I'm pretty sure the absolute best speedrun time is the one where somebody got a random warp saving several seconds that was ultimately concluded to not be reproducible due to most likely being caused by a neutrino passing through exactly the right physical location in the RAM at the perfect moment. So yes, astrophysical phenomena do affect SM64 speedruns on a much higher level of sensitivity than you expect
I had to google this because it sounded fake but
close call
Thoughts on the ORP Piorun and it's escapades?
Charging the at the time largest and most powerful battleship in the world, the Bismarck, in what was essentially a tin can ship, and doing so while engaging with gunfire rather than the doctrinal torpedoes, just shows the balls of steel her polish crew possessed, and doing so while constantly messaging "I am a pole" to the Bismarck was the cherry on top.
This ship would have been right at home with Taffy 3, fighting alongside USS Johnston and USS Samuel B. Roberts.
Cancelled ships of WWII
Shortly before and during WWII, the U.S. Navy set about building a Fleet to meet the Axis head on and win. To due this, the Navy needed build a large number of ships, so it could effectively operate in both in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
By 1945, the war in the Atlantic and Pacific could be won with the ships already completed. So, starting in March, a number of ships were cancelled. The largest number were cancelled in August and shortly after the surrender of Japan. Final cancellations happened in 1946, as the military budget was being cutback.
Note: This list contains ships ordered or were intended to be completed during WWII but never completed/commissioned. It doesn't contain ships whose construction was suspended and completed at a later time.
Note: I have updated the list with some of the expected commission date.
Aircraft Carrier
Reprisal (CV-35), Essex Class, expected commission July 1946
Unnamed (CVB-44), Midway Class
Iwo Jima (CV-46), Essex Class, expected commission, expected commission November 1946
Unnamed (CV-50), Essex Class, expected commission December 1946
Unnamed (CV-51), Essex Class, expected commission July 1947
Unnamed (CV-52), Essex Class, expected commission October 1947
Unnamed (CV-53), Essex Class, expected commission September 1947
Unnamed (CV-54), Essex Class, expected commission July 1947
Unnamed (CV-55), Essex Class, expected commission November 1947
Unnamed (CVB-56), Midway Class, expected commission June 1947
Unnamed (CVB-57), Midway Class, expected commission November 1947
Battleship
Illinois (BB-65), Iowa Class, expected commission June 1947
Kentucky (BB-66), Iowa Class, expected commission September 1946
Note: see my other post on their cancellation, link.
Montana (BB-67), Montana Class
Ohio (BB-68), Montana Class
Maine (BB-69), Montana Class
New Hampshire (BB-70), Montana Class
Louisiana (BB-71), Montana Class
Note: the Montana Class was ordered in 1940, but were delayed due to the need for more carriers and later cancelled when it became apparent carriers were the new capital ship. There are other reasons but it's better to do a separate post on them. They were originally expected to be commissioned between July and November 1945.
Cruiser
Buffalo (CL-84), Cleveland Class
Newark (CL-88), Cleveland Class
Note: these two were cancelled due to issues with the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.
Youngstown (CL-94), Cleveland Class, expected commission August 1946
Newark (CL-108), Fargo Class, expected commission April 1946.
New Haven (CL-109), Fargo Class, expected commission July 1946
Buffalo (CL-110), Fargo Class, expected commission August 1946
Wilmington (CL-111), Fargo Class, expected commission December 1946
Vallejo (CL-112), Fargo Class
Helena (CL-113), Fargo Class
Roanoke (CL-114), Fargo Class
Unnamed (CL-115), Fargo Class
Tallahassee (CL-116), Fargo Class, expected commission August 1946
Cheyenne (CL-117), Fargo Class, expected commission December 1946
Chattanooga (CL-118), Fargo Class, expected commission February 1947
Cambridge (CA-126), Oregon City Class, expected commission August 1946
Bridgeport (CA-127), Oregon City Class, expected commission September 1946
Kansas City (CA-128), Oregon City Class, expected commission December 1946
Tulsa (CA-129), Oregon City Class, expected commission April 1947
Norfolk (CA-137), Oregon City Class, expected commission June 1946
Scranton (CA-138), Oregon City Class, expected commission July 1946
Dallas (CA-140), Des Moines Class, expected commission March 1947
Unnamed (CA-141), Des Moines Class, expected commission April 1947.
Unnamed (CA-142), Des Moines Class, expected commission July 1947.
Unnamed (CA-143), Des Moines Class, expected commission November 1947.
Vallejo (CL-146), Worcester Class, expected commission February 1947
Gary (CL-147), Worcester Class, expected commission May 1947
Unnamed (CA-149), Des Moines Class, expected commission November 1947
Dallas (CA-150), Des Moines Class, expected commission July 1947
It is doubtful this cruiser would be named Dallas since CA-140 was also named Dallas.
Unnamed (CA-151), Des Moines Class, expected commission September 1947
Unnamed (CA-152), Des Moines Class, expected commission November 1947
Unnamed (CA-153), Des Moines Class, expected commission December 1947
CL-154 class
Unnamed (CL-154), CL-154 class, expected commission October 1947
Unnamed (CL-155), CL-154 class, expected commission December 1947
Unnamed (CL-156), CL-154 class, expected commission October 1947
Unnamed (CL-157), CL-154 class, expected commission November 1947
Unnamed (CL-158), CL-154 class, expected commission December 1947
Unnamed (CL-159), CL-154 class, expected commission October 1947
Note: this class of unnamed cruisers were to be anti-aircraft cruisers and the natural evolution of the Atlanta, Juneau and Worcester Classes. They were ordered in 1945 but never assigned names or laid down before being cancelled
Note: there were a further 8 Worcester Class cruisers planned but never ordered and don't have hull numbers assigned to them.
Large Cruiser
Hawaii (CB-3), Alaska Class, expected commission May 1946.
Note: she was nearly finished after the war but like Alaska and Guam, she didn't have purpose anymore. Several conversion proposal were drawn to use her but none were chosen.
Philippines (CB-4), Alaska Class
Puerto Rico (CB-5), Alaska Class
Samoa (CB-6), Alaska Class
Destroyer
Watson (DD-482), Fletcher Class
12 Allen M. Sumner Class destroyers
54 Gearing Class Destroyers
Escort Carrier
16 Commencement Bay Class Carriers
Submarine
62 Balao Class Submarines
51 Trench Class Submarines
It should be noted, a lot of the ships ordered in 1944 and 1945 were for Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of mainland Japan if they had not surrendered. But also, the massive building program was institute to overwhelmed the Axis with superior numbers, just like the Air Corps and Army did with aircraft and tanks.
source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source
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