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KF-105 Assegai:
 
SPECIFICATIONS
Mass (empty): 9.020 t Mass fuelled): 19.120 t Mass (empty, rocket assisted): 48.270 t Mass (fuelled, rocket assisted): 59.470 t Mass (maximum takeoff weight): 70+ tonnes w/ rocket assist Unit cost: 38,839 w/o rocket assist Max speed (sea level): Mach 2.05 Max speed (altitude): Mach 2.70 Climb rate: 422 m/s Max altitude (engine flameout): 30 000 m Max altitude (apogee): 43 000 m Max range: global  
The KF-105 Assegai is a STOL/RATO-assist multirole interceptor/reconnaissance/strike aircraft. It achieves true multirole capability through a combination of thick, high ratio delta wings, six automatic/manual airbrakes, and rocket assisted takeoff. The Assegai utilizes twin turbo-ramjet engines to achieve the high speeds necessary for strategic bombing and reconnaissance missions, while maintaining good short-field performance and a high mission rate. The Assegai's space-age stability augmentation improves the handling characteristics of the aircraft beyond what is possible through aerodynamic means alone, and allows it to perform advanced maneuvers like Pugachev's Cobra, as well as to flip 180 degrees and thrust against the direction of motion, quickly changing direction to meet tactical needs.

The Assegai is also capable of using its external hardpoints as strategic heavy-lift assets, giving it true multi-role capability beyond what other airframes are capable of.
 

 
Engine Start:
 

 
Takeoff-to-zoom-climb-intercept:
 

 
Booster separation. The boosters separate before burnout, to ensure the safety of the aircraft.
 

 
The Assegai in a dive, reaching maximum speed. The airspeed of the Assegai is limited only by its structural integrity.
 

 
The Assegai performing an unpowered Pugachev's Cobra maneuver at very high altitude. Cobra maneuvers are possible at all airspeeds and altitudes.
 

 
The Assegai performing a short takeoff procedure:


 
The Assegai performing a heavy-lift takeoff. Weight at takeoff is 79 tonnes.


 
Required landing distance, full fuel load:


 
Performing a strike mission with two 6.5 tonne multipurpose missile bodies.
 

 
Low-altitude Pugachev's Cobra with 13t external ordnance. Note how the patented Flexi-Frame™ construction prevents structural damage during extreme maneuvers. The aircraft performed three such manuevers that flight, and landed safely.
 

 
Taking off with two air-to-surface and two air-to-satellite missiles:


 
With the Assegai, you can rain destruction upon your enemies, no matter how distant or peaceful they may be:


 
Choose the Assegai, the only multirole fighter made in all nine pronvinces.
 

And so begins the planetary rape. This marvel of industrial might is a true tour de force by kerbal science. Combining fuel cells, ore mining drills, and an ore processing module, this unit consumes roughly .12 units of fuel (for the fuel cells to produce electricity to power the drills and converter) to produce .9 units of fuel at a rate of about 1 ton of ore to 2 tons of fuel.
 

Wait, wait, wait.  It's a scansoriopterygid.  I checked a cladegram.  That means that the last common ancestor of living birds and this thing is more recent than the last common ancestor of microraptor gui and living birds.
 
That potentially means that the ancestors of Yi Qi were flighted, became arboreal and flightless, and then re-evolved a completely different form of flight.
 
Whiskey.  Tango.  Foxtrot.

Very sharp looking paint scheme.
 

 

 

Are the old camo patterns not as good, or something? Because they look rad.

More here and here.

Better photos of the T-15 rear.

 

 

Otters could kick your ass. Otters could kick anyone's ass. Otters kick crocodile ass all over the world

Found one.

 

 

Having everything go wrong and then the bears showing up is usually the punchline to my Alaska stories. No bears this adventure, sadly.
 
However, I am of the opinion that some of you all need to move up to Washington state. Parkland/Spanaway in particular.
 

Dunno if this gets tweaked in any of your mods, but in vanilla, the first battery you unlock (the one with the little glowing green bit) is massless and dragless.
 
Hope your computer is of stronk.

Steam's commitment to being the games delivery service the gaming community deserves, no more and no less is pretty admirable.

For those of you seeking dating advice, it seems the US Navy has just what you need.
 

Now for something completely different:
 

 
This is the Solaris infinite duration drone. With four electric motors (KAX), a gargantuan battery system and a bunch of solar panels stuck everywhere except the most obvious spot (too much bother), it is currently being tested to determine total flight time.
 
With luck, the results will never be in.
 
Update: Okay, so the Solaris is a failure on all counts. I'm going to try and fit more panels, wing and battery onto this bird and try again.

Boomerang 

 
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Hmm...

 
I know what that thing reminds me

 

I would love to.  Not tomorrow, I am fighting two deadlines right now, but soon.
 
It is interesting that your own theories on bullet effectiveness track closely those of the effectiveness of medieval weapons.  

Fuck it.  This became a multi-part article.  Part 1 is up.

I use that sentence all the time in a variety of contexts.  

Don't know if anyone here reads German/is interested, but as far as I can tell this is the original manual for the Leichttraktor: http://tanks.mod16.org/pdf/leichttraktor.pdf
 
Found in the national archives by accident while poking around a few of gigantic boxes of photonegatives on glass plates from the 20's and 30's. I think it's Heigl's (of Taschenbuch der Tanks fame) photo collection, at least most of the boxes are marked with his name. Don't know what to do with it, there's thousands of photos of interwar tanks, mostly from Britain and France, and I have no idea if they're rare or not.

We should see space X finally land a rocket tomorrow
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/

Dear [iNSERT NAME OF COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE HERE],
 
Congratulations!
Your company has been selected to partake in a competition to design an aircraft for the Republic of Kerbalia. The competition will be in the form of a fly-off, with entrant designs being assessed relative to each other and the current front-line multirole fighter of the Republic (specifications included in data pack attached hereto).
 
Should you choose to partake in this process, initial development funds of up to 40 000 Kerbalians will be made available to you. Technological limitations being what they are, the use of speculative engine designs (SABRE et al.) will not be accepted as a means of achieving competition goals.
 
The aircraft submitted must be of the multirole fighter type, with the ability to perform a variety of missions while still being able to outfight current aircraft on a 1-to-1 basis. Significant leeway will, however, provided as to the details of the design. If required, a flyable example of the current front-line aircraft will be provided for internal comparison.
 
Submissions must include, at minimum:
- A name and internal design number (a prototype designation number will be assigned)
- A full list of specifications
- A background and detailed description 
- One or more images of the submission
 
We wish you the best of luck with your undertakings in this regards.
 
Yours Sincerely,
 
Lotho Kerman
 
Head Company Wrangler,
Department of Defence,
Republic of Kerbalia 

T-14 with side skirts installed, photos from several angles, specially for Priory of Sion  .

 

Frontal videocameras?
 

 

That thing seems to me have rear-looking camera.
 
Via VK.
 
Koalitsiya-SV SPG.

Being lazy about translating that report, but have a T-72 in the meantime.
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32205289

Chieftain and chally have longitudinal engines, but no fuel stowed either side of them - that space is for the air cleaner and generator. Fuel stowage is all in the sponsons - because those run the entire length of chally, it gets an extra 150 gallons of it (~210 Vs ~360). AVDS-1790 normally has air cleaners outside the hull, of course, and no generator
 
 
 
You are correct. A good example: