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[Urwumpe]

They also had lots of such stuff popping up from the soil like mushrooms, if you annoyed them too much (and during the office hours)

Neutral Switzerland reveals its Cold War defences

The Menzingen base, positioned high on a hill above the town of Zug, acts as a showcase for military hardware, which was once primed to deal with the threat of the Cold War. After serving as an active missile base from 1968 to 1999, the Menzingen site reopened as a museum earlier this year and…

www.swissinfo.ch

 

[Notebook]

I didn't know the Bloodhound missile was exported?

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Bloodhound was also exported to Sweden, Australia( v1 only), Singapore and Switzerland (of course). It's unfortunate that it was not continually upgraded like some other systems of the era, and so was left behind.

 

[Notebook]

What a strange grouping. I could understand NATO countries and Australia. Must have been one of the few ground-air missiles we made, can't remember any others till the Rapier.

 

[Urwumpe]

Bloodhound was also exported to Sweden, Australia( v1 only), Singapore and Switzerland (of course). It's unfortunate that it was not continually upgraded like some other systems of the era, and so was left behind.

Well, it was made in Britain. It is initially a masterpiece and far ahead of its contemporary rivals. But then also too complex to update easily and eventually outnumbered by simpler, more robust technologies. Just look at other things made in Britain there... cars, motorcycles, battlecruisers ... they all didn't age well.

 

[Notebook]

Post War UK was skint and in a bit of a mess. Took decades for industry to get off a war footing. Then we started making real tat, beginning with cars and working downward.

 

[jedidia]

They also had lots of such stuff popping up from the soil like mushrooms, if you annoyed them too much (and during the office hours)

Neutral Switzerland reveals its Cold War defences

The Menzingen base, positioned high on a hill above the town of Zug, acts as a showcase for military hardware, which was once primed to deal with the threat of the Cold War. After serving as an active missile base from 1968 to 1999, the Menzingen site reopened as a museum earlier this year and…

www.swissinfo.ch

Ah, the bloodhound mid-range ground to air missiles. They were retired quite some time ago. One of the launch sites was like a 5 minute drive from my home. Loved hanging around the fences just looking at the rockets as a kid. Not that any of them ever launched, but hey, you might just get lucky...

Well, they're already in the process of building up their blue-water navy, with aircraft carriers and everything:

Ah, our pntooniers... Reminds me of the time a first lieutenant had the bright idea to hold an excercise by having his platoon ferry his private car over the lake I live at... while the storm warning was already going.
I think he might have been bribed by the military divers, who appreciated the interesting excercise of getting the car out from a depth of 30 meters...

 

[Evil_Onyx]

SeaCat was popular for refits of WW2 era ships as it was designed to fit on the same mount point as a Bofors 40mm emplacement. Bloodhound's down fall was its lack of mobility, and its Radar and ECCM which where ahead of the competition until the mid 1970's and then left behind in the 1980's. Considering Bloodhound was a 1950's design and lasted in its 2nd form till 1991 it lasted a long time, compared to SA-1(USSR) 1955–1982 and Nike Hercules 1958 -1988.

If you want a little read.
Air Defence - A History of United Kingdom Air Defence in the 20th Century

 

[Urwumpe]

Sea Cat was popular for refits of WW2 era ships as it was designed to fit on the same mount point as a Bofors 40mm emplacement. Bloodhound's down fall was its lack of mobility, and its Radar and ECCM which where ahead of the competition until the mid 1970's and then left behind in the 1980's. Considering Bloodhound was a 1950's design and lasted in its 2nd form till 1991 it lasted a long time, compared to SA-1(USSR) 1955–1982 and Nike Hercules 1958 -1988.

If you want a little read.
Air Defence - A History of United Kingdom Air Defence in the 20th Century

Well, that is exactly my point there. It was an unique, rather artistic solution for many problems that others solved easier later. Just look at the EE Lightning, as another example there. Great design, extreme performance - and did also not age well.

 

[Linguofreak]

Ah, our pntooniers... Reminds me of the time a first lieutenant had the bright idea to hold an excercise by having his platoon ferry his private car over the lake I live at... while the storm warning was already going.
I think he might have been bribed by the military divers, who appreciated the interesting excercise of getting the car out from a depth of 30 meters...

Sounds like something the USN would do:

 

[jedidia]

Ha. Most expensive ferry ever! ?

 

[Notebook]

Microsoft buys Fallout creator Bethesda for $7.5bn

Xbox's owner confirms it has bought the game developer ahead of the launch of the new Xbox console.

www.bbc.co.uk

Well that could be good...?

 

[Artlav]

It could be, if they rename it to Gazebo.

 

[Linguofreak]

Ha. Most expensive ferry ever! ?

Or the cheapest, given that the Navy already owned it:

They were rebasing the ship, IIRC from San Francisco to Seattle. That involves moving the effects of 5000 sailors and their families. Do you hire 5000 UHauls and pay for gas for the trucks and for all the personal vehicles to drive that distance, or do you take advantage of having a vessel with tons of cargo space that almost* never stops for gas.

Technically, it never* stops for gas at all, only for uranium, and that rarely.

**Well, actually it does stop for gas, because F-18s are thirsty beasts. It just never stops for its own gas.

 

[Linguofreak]

The first Grand Slam bomb dropped in WWII was supposedly dropped on a town called Bielefeld.

I guess the actual target remains classified, as everyone knows that Bielefeld does not exist.

 

[GLS]

Interesting
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...roadband-disruption-traced-to-old-tv-set.html

 

[Urwumpe]

The first Grand Slam bomb dropped in WWII was supposedly dropped on a town called Bielefeld.

I guess the actual target remains classified, as everyone knows that Bielefeld does not exist.

Many things stopped existing after a Grand Slam was dropped on them....

 

[jedidia]

I had surgery on my thumb today.
I know what's in the box now...

 

[Notebook]

Interesting
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...roadband-disruption-traced-to-old-tv-set.html

Its on another forum I frequent.

Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months

Switch that TV off! I can imagine certain contributors from this forum, refusing to acknowledge the request or responding to letters.

forums.digitalspy.com

Don't think they've got to the bottom of this yet.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

I passed all my HGV Theory tests, now I'm having to wait till November before I can start on the practical training. I could start next week but I would still have to wait till November for a Test, So I am going to wait. And that is assuming there is not any Covid-19 related shenanigans.