military
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A Layman’s Appreciation of More Than Two Directions
My generation was the one to make the first Rainbow 6 game for PC. The kids nowadays would consider the graphics unacceptably cruddy, but it was a perfectly serious tactical shooter, as well as the FIRST or close to the first FPS where one hit with a bullet and you were dead, permanently. It simulated Continue reading
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The Preponderance of Russian Gimbal-less FLIR Systems
One rather interesting thing about Russian FLIR systems on their aircraft is that they tend to only point forwards, and that they do not tend to be the gimbal types used by western aerial platforms. The reason isn’t necessarily because of ‘Protected Gimbal Technology’ that the West is guarding jealously from Russia, but instead a Continue reading
Unsupported Speculation 