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The Trap is Sprung

BJames
Blue Sky Country said:
It took the US some time to recover from that huge sucker punch we received at Pearl Harbor and be technologically up to par with Imperial Japan and the Third Reich. Prior to Pearl Harbor, we had been WAY behind Japan and Germany technologically. At one point both of the Axis giants were enriching uranium fuel for future weapon development while we were still just carrying out university experiments with fissionables. The Mitsubishi Zero had been the apex fighter craft for a few years until we shot one down over Alaska in 1943 with great difficulty. That Zero crashed into the snow and was relatively undamaged, the US pilot managing to get a great lead on the enemy plane and hit it with a burst that mainly shredded the cockpit and Swiss-cheesing the occupant. From that one Zero, Northrop-Grumman reverse engineered the thing and produced the F6F Hellcat which surpassed the Zero in speed and maneuverability. From 1943 onward it was a direct straight line uphill climb for us. All of the top secret Tier 1 tech agencies like the Skunk Works and JPL, the holy of holies throughout the intense moments of the Cold War right up to this day, started during this time whose original missions were to capture and reverse engineer Axis tech.
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That’s not quite what happened how we got the zero. It was shot down by AA fire during an aerial attack on the PBY base in Dutch Harbor, AK. It crashed landed on the nearby island of Akutan, flipping over and killing the pilot. Passing Navy boats noticed it, reported to higher and the recovery effort began. The Japanese pilot was buried there for awhile until they dug him up and mailed him back home.

At the time Dutch was only a PBY base, no runway or land to build it on. P-40’s were on Fort Glenn, the next island down from the one Dutch harbor is on at the time of this specific attack. Though it’s only about a 15-20 minute flight, P-40’s were slow and weather often didn’t cooperate, by time the call came and they launched, the Japs were already gone. They had mastered the hit and run by then.

https://www.amazon.com/Kogas-Zero-Fighter-Changed-Alaska/dp/0929521560

https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Mile-War-Aleutians-Classic-Reprint/dp/0912006838/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O1jpydvu5iyAUD8yJwwF_yMbDmvzFnXS0iYdABIrkYATlhokAbw12uXn1UxzWlH0ZuX0e-YqdMOsQrhTHXv3z3anen-ET3-ocq9OxQ6is8KdA_7DgWIuOdtIRCDLbU6iIqYDP1z9VXPQUmkMqkkYuLz1NmD4y1w3Lt47vkOT848gQaDKLMglL6oEgNz5I7TtbPYcNyvnk1IpBM5BPbdoMQckSNlzFN_p5ZArLuoPYjQ.axLfDkA3pbJB8-gdYTJLMpPaw4YWZPgJU0j-K4OEGUk&dib_tag=se&hvbmt={BidMatchType}&hvdev=c&keywords=the+thousand+mile+war&qid=1749098773&s=books&sr=1-1

Two great reads on the war in the Aleutian’s.

It’s amazing how far ahead technologically the Japanese were comparatively. We didn’t figure out flush rivets on aircraft until Koga’s Zero for Christ sake…

Here’s a pic I took from one of the machine gun emplacements when I used to fly the Aleutians. That’s the entire town of Dutch Harbor and the US’s busiest fishing port.
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How and where to buy a 20 foot shipping container/connex box?

matthias
I called a local company that advertised online. Went down ,looked at a few containers. I chose a 40' one trip ,one set of doors, and 9 foot height.

The real issue isn't buying one it's getting it delivered. They can be heavy and the driver will need lots of room of they are using a roll off or tip trailer.

Also I painted mine to match the garage. Took 6 gallons of paint.
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Rifle Scopes March 5-42 Gen 2 PRS Edition

Onebadstang16
CK1.0 said:
A guy who shoots at my club (and who always has the latest Gucci shit lol) had the March when I was there the other day… Going back and forth between my ZCO527 and his March the glass was neck and neck, IDK if my eyes are good enough to even say which looked better but the March sure didn’t seem like any kind of a step down.

Since I’m fancy enough to afford one but maybe not quite two without getting in trouble (if I were to have to buy a backup), the only thing keeping me away now is the lack of US-based support.
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There are many optics companies that require optics to be sent back to outside of the US, for example kahles and theta go outside of the us for repair work.

March is also working with me to get some optics stateside to use as needed to support shooters who need an optic should they have an issue. Either way the best warranty is the one you don’t have to use and most optics at tier 1 level take weeks to repair regardless of where they end up going for said repair.
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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Blue Sky Country
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Fishing is merely one way they disguise their true activities, which is oceanic and submarine geography for military and tactical knowledge. Hegemony has always been the main and final goal of every Chinese superpower state throughout history. Unlimited hegemony with vast domains as far as military forces are able to conquer all under the rule of a mighty central bureaucracy. That is one reason we MUST have military and large scale industrial and demographic assets in space and on other planets in the Solar System as well, not just for power projection into space but to keep the pugnacious right here on Earth in line as well. It will be a fear-inducing activity to plan an invasion of another country when you know that country has colonies on Mars, around Jupiter, and on the Jovian moons and they can easily summon a warship patrolling the inner Asteroid Belt to swing by Earth and launch a precision kinetic strike from orbit on any irritation that gets too comfortable...
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