Recent content by Colin Parkinson

I got chastised for advocating for a "training gun", but here we are....

The big issue is those people may also be the holders of much of the corporate knowledge and some of the most productive workers.

This post should be a sticky somewhere.

I suspect that if we asked SK to refurbish our C3 fleet as part of winning the sub deal, they easily do it. They have some 1200 M101's is storage.

NEP for the UK army Sounds familiar

It was an odd time for interceptors, guns were quite limited in what they could do, but unguided rockets turned out to be a complete failure as well. It was realized that guided missiles were the way to go, but the technology was not yet really there. A good chunk of the expenses for the Arrow...

AI: Germany primarily produces its hydrogen domestically using fossil fuels (like natural gas) through steam-methane reforming. However, because the country plans to fully transition to green hydrogen for heavy industry and power, it aims to import 50% to 70% of its future hydrogen demand. [1...

Hooters offer breast reduction surgery to it's servers. Now it has to offer something else that is unique and since all the restaurants buy the same food selections from the same suppliers, that's going to be hard.

Thankfully both platforms will be good, the biggest impact to the CAF is timelines depending on who wins.

The technology is capable if properly done, but a lot of the components might not have been designed with that extreme in mind, hence the reason you buy some and run them in those conditions and see what breaks. On one mining job, we utterly destroyed our skidoos running them in minus 40 for a...

Many things are robust till they meet arctic conditions, coldsoaked metal breaks in ways a lot of designers did not plan for. That being said electrical motors can be very robust. That's why I would buy some outright and just use them hard in various conditions and see what breaks and how easy...

Not just video though, I recall statements by gunners and drone operators that good concealment and not firing when recce drones are in the area helps greatly, but all movement was risky as movement is so much easier to detect, even without dust or engine smoke. Speaking of concealment, this...

Saab: "We also have a bridge to sell you" https://www.nsnews.com/national-news/gripens-bound-for-ukraine-could-be-built-in-canada-saab-12342707

HMCS Chicken Coop, it's large enough to justify flying an ensign.

So many of the SP's I seen hit in Ukraine were on the move at the time. A battery on the move need Air Defense protection beyond it's own crews.