Priory_of_Sion

If by some events occur that lead to the current nations of the Mid East to collapse and new nations form to take their place, what could the map look like? Ethnic, religious, cultural, and linguistics could play a major role in creating new nations. Some Kurds, Assyrians, Turkemen, and other groups are looking for independent states. Yemen, Iraq, and Syria are loosely held together as is and the other nations in the region are not too stable. What do you guys think the Middle East should, not necessarily will, look like? 

Real Life. 

Both were suspected, it was just a matter of time until clear evidence proved these. The moons of the gas giants are certainly fascinating and are quite diverse and some, like these two, might harbor some sort of microbial extremophile lifeforms which would be very interesting. 

Here you can see one of the issues with FSW; the area behind the wings is in some pretty hairy, turbulent airflow which reduces the effectiveness of any control surfaces that live there.  For this reason, most FSW designs feature canards.  I'm not entirely sure what the rationale behind having both canards and tailplanes on the berkut is.

Here is a model of the F-18 using about the same colored smoke system for comparative purposes. 

I don't see quite as much messiness behind the wing.

I would think the tailwing wouldn't be too effective on a FSW plane but could still be somewhat useful as a elevator. Then again, I'm just a little smarter than Donward on this subject. 

Meh...

 

Planes. Planes. Planes. Planes.

 

Wait a tick...

 

 

 

Is that a redhead? Or a faded photo.

 

Doesn't matter to me.

 

Planes and redheads.

 

Don's interested is suddenly piqued.

How else was I suppose to get you to post in this thread? I don't know who she is, but she apparently was somehow involved with a FSW version of the F-16 which is pretty hot.

Spanwise airflow patterns on a FSW Mig-23 model. 

Detecting aircraft seems to be the major issue in air defense rather than the weapons themselves. AA missiles seem to do a pretty good job for every modern nation it seems at downing planes. I don't see the need for railguns to be used in such a role when they wouldn't solve a non-existent issue. 

Hmm, I never really questioned why FSW were not sought after until relatively recently. The wings trying to rip themselves off seems like a bit of a problem though. 

Not a Vampire, it's a sexy Sea Vixen...

Couple of USSR space posters. 

Ukrainian crowd-funded UGV.

We don't need more Clancy. We have enough already. Please. Stop.

The book Unspun is a very good little piece on BS and why people fall face first in it. Should be a mandatory read.

All German Tanks look pretentious.

Freaking Panther thinks it can go 200 km without its final drive falling to pieces. Hell. 

Apparently these are pics of the 2S35 "Koalitsiya"

British report on the S Tank. I really wish they had this in PDF instead of 168 different pictures. Still, renhenxue and sp15 seem to be pretty cool. It would be nice to get those dudes on here. 

Well there is a handy dandy means of determining which is the case, that being that words have meanings, and rhinocerous and nashorn refer to the same animal. Other than that it's tall boxy and grey which is the height of pretension, especially when it doesn't have the armor to be a box tank.

Tall is usually not a synonym for squat though, which is why I doubt it is talking about the Nashorn. 

Have you ever been to a Nashorn's book party or had to stand behind one at Starbuck's when it is ordering a coffee? Let me tell you where that tank destroyer can stick its Panzerabwehrkanone 43/1

I personally have never been invited to a Nashorn book party nor ever been to Starbucks. However I know that the Jagdpanzer IV is pretty squat and could very well be pretentious enough to be the "rhinoceros". I'm starting to think the Hetzer is too light. 

Err, why are you thinking Jagd 38T instead of nashorn?

Heavy, squat and pretentious looking? Seems like the average poster on the Off topic section.

The Nashorn doesn't come off as squat and pretentious. 

Yeah, that's just crazy. I wonder where he got it?

It probably was forgotten about in some shack after the war after being immobilized or destroyed. 

Also do you all think the vehicle being described is the Jagdpanzer 38(t)? The paper is from summer of '44. 

Anyone in the market for most of a Tiger? http://www.milweb.net/webvert/76378

I hope someone with actual sense buys it or see it donated to some museum. 

But, knowing that it is a Tiger, I know some lunatic is probably going to buy it in order to summon the ghost of Rommel. 

Arianism is weak. Basilideanism is where it's at. Abraxas is the all powerful being with 365 other archons under his control. Geez Gnosticism is crazy.

Would division into smaller states help stabilize the region?

The book on the Axis interpretation of America seems like a must have. I have read that the Germans had no understanding of America's size and scope and there was little analysis on their decision to declare war on the US.

Look what was published today.

Dr. Jonathan House on the Eastern Front. House makes a compelling point on why Stalin allied with Hitler. That is that the alliance freed the Soviets from having to worry about immediate conflict with the Germans while they would rebuild their military. It wasn't that Stalin wanted to align himself with Hitler, it is that Stalin needed to in order to create an army that could defeat Hitler when war eventually broke out. 

I'll post the rest of the series after I finish a paper for my classes. 

Here we go. 

Part 1C

Part 2A

Part 2B

Part 2C

Part 3A

Part 3B