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Who was that masked man? Hi-ho Silver! Away!

Disney officially dumping the sequel trilogy from official lore, and introducing the original trilogy and its music to Star Wars Land for the first time, as Kathleen Kennedy lets the door hit her on the way out. Kudos to Filoni for doing this before KK is out the door. View...

Vavrik sourced Intel on the LRAD well enough there seems no doubt the US has used it on multiple occasions. See the white paper he linked above. I still haven’t seen the source Richard found that there were American wounded though, I don’t doubt it. Reports are often inflated and some news...

I originally thought exactly what you are saying, but the guard actually makes a guess—bad one, granted—but he guesses at a rate of fire he thinks is high. He guesses 300 rpm. That’s why I noted assault rifles fire about 750 and SMGs about 1200. I don’t recall how much I explained about this...

Yeah, I was going to mention the sodium batteries as well. Indeed, these things take far too long to enter the market, and solutions like sodium that are supposed to be much cheaper end up costing the same or more because the market will carry that price. There’s no solution this side of...

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Wow. That was a good read. Thanks. So it looks like the American weapon is good out to 300m, albeit it would take much longer to have an effect at that range. I would never have guessed it was effective past 75m. Sounds like they had plenty of room to put just one on a chopper and blast...

Batteries age by growing “dendrites” off the anode, that eventually cause the battery to age and short out. So there is a huge difference between your year old battery and someone else’s 5 year old battery, both in lifetime left and how much charge it will hold. There is a new battery planned...

Looks like Caroline Levitt retweeted the original report above so in effect Trump is saying the story is true. Doesn’t make it true but looks that way.

It does sound like this though, last I looked at acoustic, the power requirements were insanely high, and there is no way to narrow the beam from 180* dispersal since it is a mechanical wave. Acoustic attenuates at a higher rate than distance squared because of absorption by anything with close...

Even with heavy efficiency losses in the fuel cell, hydrogen stores an immense energy by weight, and when you add the new solid state hydrogen storage it stores enormous energy by volume. Solid state storage is basically forcing hydrogen into a metallic lattice so that it is essentially stored...

I read it. Fuel cells do not produce mechanical motion. They generate electricity, so “fuel cell” and “diesel” is a contradiction. Hydrogen fuel cell cars, trucks, busses, would all have wondrous range, which is a key limiting factor for tanks; but storing and handling hydrogen is far too...

I got questions about the G11 in another forum, so just to be clear: the G11 was abandoned because the Cold War ended and the appetite for a new battle rifle and the funding that entails just dried up. US Army had put out this specification of extra ordinary rate of fire because they presumed...

I think I got it from Congressman John Fetterman’s Facebook page, but that is not much a sign of authenticity. There are a lot of people who post there. I think we’ll need to wait on verification. This has gone viral. The original post seems to have been on X, and is being circulated by...

No politics here. Keep it away. This is merely to note what happened in Caracas, because the reports from survivors really make it sound like Delta is bringing new gear to battle. Some would have thought it future gear. “Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn't hear anything...