The Mess

[Montegriffo]

10,000 torches lit in the moat at the Tower of London to commemorate 100 years since the end of the great war.
Will be lit every night for a week.

[TheReal_ND]

Yeah the war that broke Europe. You should keep those torches lit everyday.

[TheReal_ND]

High level suicide. Was it suicide or "suicide?" Let's find out.

[BjornP]

Guy wore glasses. Nerds wear glasses. Nerds get bullied. Bullied people get depressed. Depressed people kill themselves. #IRJurnalist

[Speaker to Animals]

[Speaker to Animals]

Holy. Fuck.

https://theaviationist.com/2019/01/07/i ... omTq8znC64


"Code 3 Canopy.."

[Speaker to Animals]

Wow.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... Gvf1DGZIe4

When Navy Rear Adm. Brian Fort stepped aboard the guided-missile destroyer Fitzgerald in the aftermath of the 2017 collision with a commercial cargo ship, everything was off.

Any warship would seem a little off after a catastrophe that claimed the lives of seven sailors, but this was different.

“It didn’t look right, smell right, sound right,” Fort said during a hearing last year for a Fitzgerald officer facing court-martial in the wake of the June 17, 2017, disaster.

After gazing at the gash in the hull through which gushed the seawater that drowned the Fitz’s dead, Fort and his team of investigators walked to the destroyer’s electronic nerve center, the combat information center everyone calls the “CIC.”

It hadn’t taken a direct hit from the bow of the Philippine-flagged ACX Crystal, but it was trashed nonetheless and smelled like urine.

He found a pee bottle that had tipped and spilled behind a large-screen display. Fort’s eyes started to take over for his nose, and he took it all in.

“There was debris everywhere,” Fort said under oath. “Food debris, food waste, uneaten food, half-eaten food, personal gear in the form of books, workout gear, workout bands, kettlebells, weightlifting equipment, the status boards had graffiti on them.”

“I’d never seen a CIC like that in my entire time in the Navy,” the surface warfare officer of more than 25 years recollected.

The more Fort looked, the worse it got: broken sensors that were reported for repairs but never fixed, schedule changes ordered by superiors high above the Fitz’s command triad that delayed crucial maintenance, taped-up radar controls and, worse, sailors who had no idea how to use the technology.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... at-hit-it/


It goes on to explain the crew didn't even know how to operate the radar package installed on the ship.

Remember, we are entering a dark age. This type of shit is going to become more common.

[Speaker to Animals]

From last summer..

https://www.navytimes.com/home/left-col ... ailroaded/

Affirmative action hire commanding CIC was supposed to be courts marshaled, but prosecutor recommended she avoid it, even though he decided she was negligent.

Something tells me they don't want the social justice rot to get out in the open.

[Hastur]

Russian engineering.

Detailed New Photos Of Russia's 'Hunter' Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26 ... r-analysis

Potemkin much?

[Speaker to Animals]

Actually looks beautiful.

Obviously not intended as a stealth drone fighter. I am not sure where the author is going with this piece.