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Well, here's something you don't see everyday....a brand new Fairbanks Morse diesel engine, under a shiny white plastic wrapper, being shipped out on a heavy duty eight axel center well flatcar. Even though Fairbanks Morse stopped making diesel locomotives years ago, their original customers for diesels; ship builders; still use them to make the floaty things go.
Though I should mention that the very first ever Fairbanks Morse diesel engine was used as a stationary power plant for electric power generation, something they still build diesels for today, including diesels designed to burn natural gas.
There were four of these cars all together in the yard, but this one was the only one in clear view to be photographed. The Fairbanks Morse factory is just a few miles south of Janesville in Beloit.
***UPDATE***
Found out that the load is a MAN 48/60 CR six cylinder diesel engine weighing 106 tons, and producing 7200 kW at 500 rpm. This was one of four, all coupled together in the yard.
From what I understand, the engines are all destined for use in the U.S Navy's new ESD / ESB ships, being built by NASSCO in San Diego, CA.
ESD = Expeditionary Transfer Dock
ESB = Expeditionary Mobile Base
They were formerly known as MLP's = Mobile Landing Platforms.
"The MLP ships will be powered by twin-screw, diesel-electric propulsion system integrating four MAN/B&W medium-speed diesel engines, 24MW diesel electric plant, and 2MW azimuthing bow thruster. The propulsion system provides a sustained speed of 15k and an endurance of more than 9,500nmi at 15k speed."
For more information on the MLP / ESB / ESD ships:
Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeditionary_Transfer_Dock
Naval Technology:
www.naval-technology.com/projects/mobile-landing-platform...
General Dynamics NASSCO:
ESB: www.nassco.com/products-and-services/usn-dc/ESB.html
ESD/MLP: www.nassco.com/products-and-services/usn-dc/MLP.html
Fairbanks-Morse MAN 48/60 CR diesel engine:
www.fairbanksmorse.com/engines/fm-man-48-60-cr/
The Railroad Series
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Union Pacific Railroad
Janesville, Wisconsin
Nikon D7000
Tamron 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 zoom
CI-WISC-JANE-2016-08-06-D7000-88
Explore: 2016.08.14
©2016, Contemplative Imaging, all rights reserved
Day 3 entry for Vignweek. Here I continue the adventures of the Sewer Babies. The entrance ramp folds up for transport, and it contains: a control room, gaming center, defense measures, kitchen, medical bay, and storage room.
Using the red bucket again gave me some flashbacks to ABS...
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In the aftermath of the Third Great War, the International Reclamation Mission was created by the new Global Federation to help clean up battlefields of psionic anomalies and rampant genetically engineered fungi and flora deployed by the warring nations.
Pressurised trucks, nicknamed "snails", provided a mobile base of operations and shelter against spore storms for Reclamation agents in the field. This was particularly vital due to the rudimentary nature of the agents' protective gear, which often left the face unprotected.
Most Reclamation Agents were soldiers of the last Great War. The poor conditions drove many to banditry or an early death. Much of the resentment was passed onto their children and grandchildren. The anger of these people rammed into dilapidated space stations and seemingly abandoned by the terrestrial elite, caused the First Space War to become almost inevitable.
Unfinished mobile tactical nuke launcher. I couldn't decide if the missiles should be inside a hanger and they deploy on rails or if they're exposed (to frighten their enemy into surrender?) I wanted a sci-fi, Terran Trade Authority take on the old Joe Rolling Thunder command center.
This pic is from a month ago, of a build that I started a month before that. It's stalled and gathering dust at the moment. I desperately wanted to return to Crimso Giger's Zorg theme this year but I'm having trouble lately with large builds; just can't seem to find the motivation to finish them. I guess it's just one of those down times or mental blocks that come and go.
It might get converted into something for Hibernia but I feel so unfocused at the moment. Strangely wanting to build something doesn't always equate to having the energy to build it. Maybe it's just a confidence thing.
This has been my project for a while now. When Jens Nygaard Knudson passed away Mark Stafford posted a very nice eulogy with pictures from a Brick Journal article. The info about Jens' life and just how powerful an impact he left on us through LEGO is very inspirational. Building this prototype theme he developed felt like a good way to show respect and appreciation for Jens" work. This is supposed to have been from 1987 and it's so great how many actual sets have roots in this prototype theme.
There's a lot that can't be seen in the pic but the challenge was filling in that space with really solid, good play featury kind of stuff. Unseen or fuzzy details absolutely had to be good because of being built by Jens Nygaard Knudson and also because I assume these were the models he used to convince the higher ups that his new space ideas were awesome and deserved support.
I'm calling these guys R-Tron because the windscreen print has a big "R" with a white line going halfway across it. I think the R stands for lots of things like rapid, response, rescue, repair and possibly recovery. It's interesting because 3 of the 4 pods have distinctive prints. The mobile base pod has the "+" sign which should be a medical kind of hospital thing, the spaceship has a gloved hand gripping a line which could be a lifeline like hospital helicopters and then the mobile gantry has the same type of hand holding a wrench.
I'll focus on getting some videos uploaded of physical models to show the features. The colors will be off but at least the cool factor will still shine through! I'll start posting the Studio files on Bricklink as well once I'm sure the build is 100%.
Thanks for reading and looking!
Check out backoftheboxbuilds.com to find the instructions for all these builds. www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/brickjournal-i6-v2-p41-concept1/
(Here's a Studio file for the Rapid Response Ship)
(Here's a Studio file for the Mobile Gantry)
(Here's a Studio file for the Mobile Base)
(Here's a Studio file for the All Terrain Rescue Rover)
This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
You can watch a video showcasing all of the functions here: www.flickr.com/photos/186152771@N07/51467442155/
I'm done modeling these possibly! The All Terrain Rescue Rover was giving me so many issues but it was worth it. If I could only get the correct parts for one of these that would be the one I'd want. Second would be the Mobile Base for being completely beautiful and full of great play features. Third would be the Mobile Gantry: it is very fun and functional and quite essential to R-TRON operations. Fourth would be the Rapid Response Ship but it is still a very strong set!
It's really too bad that those support parts don't come in white. They would look so majestic. Black works though. Some of the other parts don't come in the correct color as well or are very scarce. The white cockpit pieces only came one in the Exploriens Starship so there are very few stores with more than one in stock.
The logo I threw together is not nice or final at all. It would be great to get something made with that "R" logo on the windscreens from the source picture. It's nice that the figure torsos are available since they are the Space Police I and Green Classic Space torsos.
Now I need to get some pics and videos of my ugly versions posted as soon as possible. I'll cook some more renders in the meantime and post some collages of various views for each set.
Thanks for the interest!
(Here's a Studio file for the Rapid Response Ship)
(Here's a Studio file for the Mobile Gantry)
(Here's a Studio file for the Mobile Base)
(Here's a Studio file for the All Terrain Rescue Rover)
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers
Minifigure: 2 Explorer, 1 pilot and 1 statue
Price: $50-70
Pieces: 333 (+1 new windscreen piece needed for cockpit)
Originally I was going to go with Kungfulegolover idea of doing a Helicrane, but instead went with a transport plane to use the cockpit piece (29114) that came in the Jungle Exploration site as I thought that would be a most fitting piece for the desert subtheme. Instead of there being 3 blade for the propeller, it’s using the retired (As it been last used in 2009) 2 blade.
The plane is based off a german cargo plane Junkers JU-52, which the pic I first saw is why I also added yellow, so it has some color to stand out.
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20 June 2021. San Jose, CA.
This unusual (possibly unique) Brutalist-style concrete tower was built in 1972 as relay station on the former AT&T Long Lines Terrestrial Microwave network, and is currently used to host cellular telephone and land-mobile base stations (I believe leased to American Tower). Note that the 114 foot tower tapers slightly toward the top, giving the the illusion of greater height when viewed from ground level. Equipment was housed in a semi-hardened bunker below ground and adjacent to the tower. The site was also used as part of the Long Lines L-Carrier buried coaxial cable network.
Note the large KS-15676 horn reflector antennas at the corners of the second level from the top. These antennas were mainstays of the Long Lines domestic network and could be seen on hilltop towers dotting the American landscape from coast-to-coast during the mid- and late- 20th century. KS-15676 horns are quite remarkable, both visually and technically. They can operate on multiple microwave bands with > 40dB return loss and have enough side isolation that relay stations could repeat on the same frequencies in different directions for receive and transmit with adjacent antennas on the same tower. At “hardened” facilities, the antennas could be equipped with “blast kits” designed (aspirationally) to withstand the pressure wave from a nearby nuclear explosion. A version of this antenna design (mounted on its side) was used as a radio telescope to make Penzias and Wilson's Nobel Prize-winning "big bang" background radiation measurements.
The Long Lines Terrestrial Microwave network was decommissioned decades ago, but you can still find a fair number of vestigial KS-15676 horn antennas atop telephone buildings and towers from that era; there is often no safe and economical way to remove them. They measure 20 feet in height (from the top of the horn to the waveguide connection), 11 feet across at the top, and weigh approximately 3500 lbs. Tower structures were often constructed around them. Here, the original horn antennas have been removed from the topmost platform (and replaced with cellular telephone equipment), but they remain in place (with their waveguides disconnected) on the next lower platform.
Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/4.5), Cambo WRS-1600 camera, Phase One IQ4 150 digital back (@ ISO 50). 1/250 sec exposure.
No emulsions were harmed in the making if this image.
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An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 17, 2022) Marines attached to 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conduct a visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) exercise on small boats with Expeditionary Mobile Base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) as seen from forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18). New Orleans, part of Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, along with 31st MEU, is operating in U.S. 7th Fleet to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Desmond Parks)
Auto Salvamento e Extinção
Corpo de Bombeiros Militar do Distrito Federal
Base Móvel
Polícia Militar do Distrito Federal
Advanced Rescue/Firefighting Unit
Firefighters of Brasília City
Mobile Base
Military Police of Brasília City
Joshua Cole is the nameless agent working for every side, manipulating militaries across the planet to achieve his goals. Thanks to the vast wealth he's acquired throughout his long life of espionage, he's able to provide Aquaman's first team - the Others - with their mobile base of operations, code-named the Living Room! He is the only of his former teammates who never went into hiding.
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers
Minifigure: boss, 4 explorers, paleontologist and Mummy
Price: $70-100
Pieces: 560 (plus stringe)
Nowadays only D2C sets would pretty much exclusively use baseplates but I thought it being used in a normal retail set like this would be a bit of a change of things (using a 16 x 32 baseplate).
The first base started was obviously the pyramid, as it’s an easy thing to make and there isn’t really much to do with it besides adding traps… which is exactly what I put in with the coffin on the side, along with a place that holds jewels and gold.
With the vehicle I picked to go along with this are a helicopter and halftrack.
Honestly I saw this as a chance to bring in a mistika wing with the Helicopter. Now it may be a bit bigger but the inside does have Panel for support.
With the halftrack I thought it would be a good idea to use the 2 seat vehicle base (30149) as part of it. Itt have a lot of those curved slopes with stud notch to make some detail. It able to hold up supplice of 2 3x4 crate, contain a laptop, 2 brush, 2 water bottle, a water container, etc.
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As the grandson of the Operative and a skilled pilot, he flies the Others' mobile base of operations - the Living Room. I know you're probably thinking, "Gee Dustin, that sure does look a lot like Hal Jordan!" to which I say: h-how did you know my name..?
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers
Minifigure: 4 desert explorers and 2 paleontologist
Price: $100
Pieces: 897 (+1 new element needed for excavator)
Note: the treads cannot connect all the way in Stud.io.
The vehicle are pretty much based on Volcano Exploration Base (set 60124). The first thing I started making is the excavator, wanting to size it down for the truck and temple to look bigger. As this is smaller a new digger bucket piece is needed to fit with the size of it.
The truck and trailer pretty much have the same base as Volcano Base but the trailer have the base of the excavator. To make the truck a bit more different I added horns for decoration and an add-on armor as the fuel tank.
The playability is of the exploration team digger into the temple and retrieving the coffin, but there are traps within to keep an eye out for.
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The XL-15 enters the LEGO City!
This set wouldn’t have been on my radar if it wasn’t for the buzz about the Lightyear film’s director being AFOL Angus MacLane (check out his builds on Flickr!).
Evidently, he pushed for the in-film design to have a yellow transparent canopy, reminiscent of the Classic Space elements.
He also had an interesting spot on LEGOCon, worth a check out.
The build of this one and a cat seater spaceship is substantial! As a medium sized ship it checks most boxes for me: fits all accessories, swoosh-ability is there, has mobile base in form of laptop (stretch), and droid in the Catbot (also stretch). No escape pod/rover, which loses some points when compared to the medium builds of my ‘90s childhood.
But the elements and connections this set brings to the table blow anything from my childhood away. There are a few elements that are super obscure.
Color scheme for the spaceship is great, can’t miss with light blue, white, and black with that yellow canopy.
Also bonus points for extra head/hair elements for minifigs.
Less stellar for me were the minifigs. Buzz looks pretty good, but I’d prefer the dome over a normal helmet (I’m sure that’s a movie plot detail). The other figs have nice printing, but are pretty mute brown, like something out of a Star Wars set.
The shoulder pauldrons for all of them are cumbersome to range of motion.
The rocket launcher build doesn’t really work out to be held, but I do appreciate the built up weapon/scanning accessories.
Very nice set, strong suggest for the building experience and MOC possibilities!
I left off the red stripes off the wings. Does it look cleaner? Worse? Let me know
I’ll be looking at more contemporary LEGO sets that are bringing back Classic Space soon!
#LEGO #LegoLightyear #ClassicSpace #Lego76832 #LegoXL15 #76832 #LEGOSpace #XL15Spaceship #afol #legomania #LegoToyStory #LegoPhotography #LEGOSystem #Legoland #toyPhotography #LegoPics #toyPics #LegoCity #NeonLegoBricks #ToyNostalgia #LEGOSpaceship #ClassicLego #LegoSpaceMan #NeonBricks #LegoCatBot #NeoClassicSpace #LegoNuSpace #LegoXL15Spaceship
This is a forward mobile base that can carry freight arround and even land small ships for repairs and refuel. A newer version of this is under construction right now.
An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
Model of the Canadarm for Canadian Inventions display. In 1981, the first Canadian Remote Manipulator System, better known as the Canadarm, was delivered to NASA for use on the Space Shuttle. Built by SPAR Aerospace of Toronto, this robotic arm could deploy and capture satellites from the cargo bay of the Shuttle. This model depicts the SSRMS/SPDM as part of the Space Station Mobile Servicing System, a later enhancement that flies on the International Space Station.
I originally built a small arm to represent the Canadarm, as the image of this Canadian invention graces every new five dollar bill. But when we got the chance to build for the Community Window again, it was a great chance to build a model which spanned across the diagonal of the space. I used a bunch of truss pieces and built the mobile base. The astronaut has a Friends brush to clean the spaceship being docked. They're not mean to be particularly accurate, just enough to be recognizable: Someone I'm sure will point out the size of the SSRMS to the SPDM is completely out of scale.
History
The Shaolin Temple was 1st built around 495 AD by the Chinese emperor
Hsino Wen. It was in the great Shaolin Temple in the songshan mountains of central China that Buddharama, a sixth century Indian Monk first intro-duced Buddhism and a form of Mediation and fighting techniques. He introduced a form of breathing exercises based upon animal movements designed to strengthen and condition the body.
The art of Shaolin Kempo Karate has developed from numerous styles of
the martial arts including: SHAOLIN TEMPLE BOXING, JIU JITSU,KUNG FU, KEMPO, different styles of KARATE, as well as the secret
art of the WHITE TIGER (Chin Na). Each fighting system offers some-thing both unique and special, but each also has it's weaknesses that
make a fighter vulnerable. The ultimate in self defense lay not in one way or style of fighting but by the integration of these methods of fighting into one.
The Shaolin Kempo Karate fighting system is the only system that incor-
porates the movements of the original five animals: TIGER, LEOPARD,DRAGON, CRANE, and SNAKE. It is a system that promotes health and wisdom. Shaolin's theory of fighting is based upon effective multiple strikes off a powerful mobile base, with linear, angular and circular offensive and defensive motions with simultaneous manipulation of the opponent's upper and lower body masses. The art of Shaolin Kempo Karate with it's graceful movements for development of the internal energy & balance of the body's external strengths is the essence for producing a superior fighter. Shaolin Self Defense Centers believes by applying the physical and mental aspects of the martial arts into your personal lives, one will achieve harmony and balance.
From Wikipedia:
Trollstigen (or trollstigvegen; English: The troll path) is a serpentine mountain road and pass in Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the village of Valldal in Norddal Municipality. It is a popular tourist attraction due to its steep incline of 10% and eleven hairpin bends up a steep mountainside. During the top tourist season, about 2,500 vehicles pass daily. During the 2012 season, 161,421 vehicles traversed the route, compared to 155,230 vehicles during 2009.
The road is narrow with many sharp bends, and although several bends were widened during 2005 to 2012, vehicles over 12.4 metres (41 ft) long are prohibited from driving the road. During the 2011 and 2012 seasons, buses up to 13.1 metres (43 ft) were temporarily allowed as a trial. At the 700-metre (2,300 ft) plateau there is a car park and several viewing balconies overlooking the bends and the Stigfossen waterfall. Stigfossen falls 320 metres (1,050 ft) down the mountainside. The pass has an elevation of approximately 850 metres (2,790 ft).
Trollstigen is closed during late autumn and winter. A normal operating season stretches from mid-May to October, but may sometimes be shorter or longer due to weather conditions.
Trollstigen was opened on 31 July 1936, by King Haakon VII after eight years of construction.
A major tourist facility including a restaurant was completed in 2012. Several viewing platforms have been constructed and older constructions improved upon. Trollstigen (along with County Road 63) was officially opened as a national tourist route by the Minister of Transport and Communications on 16 June 2012. Trollstigen itself (and the alpine summits to the west) lies within the Trollstigen landscape protection area, while the alpine area east of Trollstigen, including the Trolltindene range, is part of Reinheimen National Park.
In the summer of 2005, the road was repaired and about 16 million kr was spent on protection against rockfall, making the road safer to drive on.
In June 2021, Telia Norge commissioned an eco-friendly mobile base station powered entirely by solar, wind and hydrogen, therefore providing mobile phone coverage at Trollstigen for the first time ever.
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers
Minifigure: Driver and Explorer
Price: $20
Pieces: 125
Sticker: 7 (desert logo on hood & both side door, lights on arch and egyptian symbols on book page and cover)
Do to the type of truck I picked for this with having some big pieces used to make it, the price to part get a pretty bad hit. Which I picked the classic america pickup truck with a hook in the back. With my idea for the vehicle, the Mudguard wouldn’t do, thus the arch pieces come to make the mudguard more thick. And do to this design choice, the lights would be stickers instead of tiles… 1001% didn’t forget them after the render.
This also come with a pillar with a Scarab Shield (93251), along with a crate filled with dynamite, boomerang and a book.
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When I got involved in this project, I'd only just built a six-wheeled military vehicle of my own design and on a visit to Ed and his wife Annie, it formed the basis for a quick sketch of a six-wheeled cargo/exploration vehicle. Ed and I both liked the look, but there were a few issues. Because it was going to carry some sort of mobile base and shouldn't be too high overall, the wheels that did the steering simultaneously had to be the drive wheels.
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers.
Minifigure: 1 Explorer
Price: $5
Pieces: 62
Sticker: 1 (Desert logo on the front slop printed)
Treasure: Jewel
This one was pretty quick as I already had an ATV design (made IRL) that was for a cancelled idea, and so I reused that for this. As you can see this ATV uses the Nexo Mech chest piece which I thought go pretty well with the grilled guard .
A small side build for this is sand for the Explorer to dig up jewels. It also comes with a scorpion for the guy to watch out for.
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Once the Tzar Dropship touches down, it can deploy an independent roving space station, which can act in a variety of roles including transmission hub, research base, or espionage center.
The XL-15 enters the LEGO City!
This set wouldn’t have been on my radar if it wasn’t for the buzz about the Lightyear film’s director being AFOL Angus MacLane (check out his builds on Flickr!).
Evidently, he pushed for the in-film design to have a yellow transparent canopy, reminiscent of the Classic Space elements.
He also had an interesting spot on LEGOCon, worth a check out.
The build of this one and a cat seater spaceship is substantial! As a medium sized ship it checks most boxes for me: fits all accessories, swoosh-ability is there, has mobile base in form of laptop (stretch), and droid in the Catbot (also stretch). No escape pod/rover, which loses some points when compared to the medium builds of my ‘90s childhood.
But the elements and connections this set brings to the table blow anything from my childhood away. There are a few elements that are super obscure.
Color scheme for the spaceship is great, can’t miss with light blue, white, and black with that yellow canopy.
Also bonus points for extra head/hair elements for minifigs.
Less stellar for me were the minifigs. Buzz looks pretty good, but I’d prefer the dome over a normal helmet (I’m sure that’s a movie plot detail). The other figs have nice printing, but are pretty mute brown, like something out of a Star Wars set.
The shoulder pauldrons for all of them are cumbersome to range of motion.
The rocket launcher build doesn’t really work out to be held, but I do appreciate the built up weapon/scanning accessories.
Very nice set, strong suggest for the building experience and MOC possibilities!
I left off the red stripes off the wings. Does it look cleaner? Worse? Let me know
I’ll be looking at more contemporary LEGO sets that are bringing back Classic Space soon!
#LEGO #LegoLightyear #ClassicSpace #Lego76832 #LegoXL15 #76832 #LEGOSpace #XL15Spaceship #afol #legomania #LegoToyStory #LegoPhotography #LEGOSystem #Legoland #toyPhotography #LegoPics #toyPics #LegoCity #NeonLegoBricks #ToyNostalgia #LEGOSpaceship #ClassicLego #LegoSpaceMan #NeonBricks #LegoCatBot #NeoClassicSpace #LegoNuSpace #LegoXL15Spaceship
I wonder why Flickr needs to become Instagram?? Am sure this was an inevitable choice to survive the latest Mobile Based Social Network flooding the globe. Also am sure Flickr may gather trillions of new users in this way. I hope this choice won't be a good reason for the Pro Account users to leave Flickr....
*Here are a little bit of more "impressions" after using this App for 1 whole day.
The more I use this App, I noticed that this App is really a huge breakthrough in the way it brings back the same mood to explore the Flickr in the way we did in the early days. I'm not being negative to everything;) So, I've changed the title of this image.
A U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 (HMLA-369) conducts flight operations aboard the USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) ahead of Balikatan 22, off the coast of the Philippines, March 26, 2022. The Miguel Keith, a Lewis B. Puller-class Expeditionary Mobile Base Ship, is a highly flexible platform that provides logistics movement from sea to shore supporting a broad range of military operations. Balikatan, Tagalog for ‘shoulder-to-shoulder,’ is a longstanding bilateral exercise between the Philippines and the United States highlighting the deep-rooted partnership between both countries. Balikatan 22 is the 37th and largest-ever iteration of the exercise. BK22 coincides with the 75th anniversary of the U.S.-Philippine security cooperation and a shared commitment to advancing peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kallahan Morris)
This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
History of southern France WWII campaign history.army.mil/brochures/sfrance/sfrance.htm
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TypeTowed field artillery
Place of originUnited States
Service history
Used byUnited States
Italy
Australia
Greece
Austria
Japan
Jordan
South Korea
Republic of China
Turkey
Pakistan
Croatia
South Africa
United Kingdom
Yugoslavia
Netherlands
WarsWorld War II, Korean war, Cambodian Civil War, Croatian War of Independence
Production history
Designed1918–1938
ProducedOctober 1940–June 1945
No. built1,882
Specifications
MassTravel: 13,880 kg (30,600 lb)
LengthTravel: 11 m (36 ft 1 in)[1]
Barrel length6.97 m (22 ft 10 in) L/45
WidthTravel: 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in)[1]
HeightTravel: 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)[1]
Crew14
ShellSeparate loading charge and projectile[1]
Caliber155 mm (6.10 in)
BreechAsbury mechanism
RecoilHydro-pneumatic[1]
CarriageM1 Carriage
Elevation−2°/+65°
Traverse60°
Rate of fire40 rounds per hour
Muzzle velocity853 m/s (2,799 ft/s)
Maximum firing range23.7 km (14.7 mi)
The 155 mm gun M1 was a 155 millimeter caliber field gun developed and used by the United States military. Nicknamed "Long Tom" (an appellation with a long and storied history in U.S. field and naval artillery), it was produced in M1 and M2 variants, later known as the M59. Developed to replace the Canon de 155mm GPF, the gun was deployed as a heavy field weapon during World War II and the Korean War, and also classed as secondary armament for seacoast defense. The gun could fire a 100 lb (45 kg) shell to a maximum range of 14 mi (23 km), with an estimated accuracy life of 1,500 rounds.
The Long Tom was also adopted by a number of other nations, including the United Kingdom, Austria, Israel, and the Netherlands.
Development
Before entering World War I, the United States was poorly equipped with heavy artillery. To address this problem a number of foreign heavy artillery guns were adopted, including the Canon de 155 mm GPF. After the end of the war the Westervelt Board was convened to assess the artillery experience of the combatant powers and map out future directions for the US Army artillery. The conclusion of the board vis-a-vis heavy field artillery was that the French 155mm GPF should be adopted as the standard heavy field piece but further development work should occur to achieve a heavy field gun with a max. range of 25,000 yards, a vertical arc of fire from 0° to 65°, a projectile not exceeding 100 lbs and the capability to be mounted on a caterpillar mount or a rubber tired towed mounting.[2] A number of prototypes were produced in the 1920s and 1930s, but the projects were put on hold due to lack of funds. In 1938 the 155 mm gun T4 on carriage T2 was finally adopted as 155 mm gun M1 on carriage M1.[3]
155 mm gun M1
The new gun design used a barrel similar to the earlier 155 mm GPF, but with an Asbury mechanism that incorporated a vertically-hinged breech plug support. This type of breech used an interrupted-thread breech plug with a lock that opened and closed the breech by moving a single lever.[4] The ammunition for the 155 mm gun was "separate-loading", that is with the shell and the powder charge packaged, shipped and stored separately. The shell is lifted into position behind the breech and then rammed into the chamber to engage the shell's rotating band into the barrel rifling.[5]
Ramming the shell home is followed by loading a number of powder bags, as required for the desired range.[6] The powder charge could be loaded in up to seven charge settings. Once the powder is loaded, the breech plug is closed and locked, and a primer is placed in the breech plug's firing mechanism. After setting the elevation and azimuth, the gun is ready to fire. The firing mechanism is a device for initiating the ammunition primer. The primer then sets off the igniter which ignites the propelling charge of the ammunition. A continuous-pull lanyard first cocks the firing pin, then fires the primer when pulled.[7]
The gun was developed into M1A1 and M2 variants. After World War II, the United States Army re-organized, and the gun was re-designated as the M59.
Carriage M1
The gun carriage provides a stable, yet mobile, base for the gun. The new split-trail carriage featured an eight-wheel integral two-axle bogie and a two-wheel limber that supported the trails for transport. The carriage was a two-piece design. The upper carriage included the side frames with trunnion bearings that supported the recoil mechanism that carried the gun cradle, slide and gun tube. The upper carriage also incorporated the elevating and azimuth gearing. The upper carriage pivoted in azimuth on the lower carriage. The lower carriage included the transport suspension and the split-trail that stabilized and absorbed recoil when the gun was fired.[8]
After the gun was placed in a firing position with the gun pointing in the desired direction, the trails were lowered to the ground and the limber was removed. The carriage wheels would then be raised using built-in ratcheting screw-jacks, lowering the gun carriage to the ground. Once on the ground, the limber-end of the trail legs were separated to form a wide "vee" with its apex at the center of the carriage pivot point. A recoil spade at the limber-end of each trail leg required a correctly positioned hole to be dug for the spade, which was attached to the trail end, to transmit the recoil from gun carriage through the trails and into the earth. This made the gun very stable and assisted its accuracy. The removable spades were transported in brackets on the trail legs.[9]
The carriage M1 and M2 were shared with the 8 inch Howitzer M1, differing only in the gun tube, sleigh, cradle, recoil and equilibrators, weight due to the heavier barrel.[10]
The carriage consists of a combination of the following major components:[11] Bottom carriage Top carriage
Firing support base Elevating mechanism
Trails Traversing mechanism
Retractable suspension system Gun support components
Axle Equilibrator[12]
Brakes Cradle (Connects gun assembly to the top carriage)
Wheels Recoil mechanism
Sleigh (Sliding support for the gun tube)
Gun tube
Specifications
Specifications from TM 9-350 Weight of gun (complete with breech mechanism) 9,595 lb (4,352 kg)
Weight of tube assembly (barrel) 9,190 lb (4,169 kg)
Length of tube 277.37 in (7.05 m)
Length of bore cal. 45 (274.6 in / 6.975m)
Length of rifling 230.57 in.
Powder pressure (normal pressure with maximum charge in a new gun) 40,000 psi (275,790 kPa)
Type of breechblock Interrupted screw
Weight of breech mechanism 405 lb (184 kg)
Type of firing mechanism continuous pull percussion hammer
Service
Long Tom at crew training in England
The Long Tom saw combat for the first time in the North African Campaign on December 24, 1942, with "A" Battery of the 36th Field Artillery Regiment. Eventually it equipped about 49 battalions, including 40 in the European Theater and 7 in the Pacific. It was used by several Marine defense battalions, notably during Operation Cartwheel in 1943.
The preferable prime mover was initially the Mack NO 6×6 7½ ton truck; from 1943 on it was supplemented by the tracked M4 High Speed Tractor.[13]
A small number of Long Tom guns were authorised for supply via lend lease channels, to the United Kingdom (184) and France (25).[14] The authorised establishment of British batteries (excluding training units), including four batteries from the Dominion of Newfoundland, totalled 88 guns.
Variants
Gun variants:
M1920 – prototype.
T4 – prototype.
M1 (1938) – first production variant, 20 built.
M1A1 (1941) – modified breech ring.
M1A1E1 – prototype with chromium-plated bore.
M1A1E3 – prototype with liquid cooling.
M2 Standard (1945) – with modified breech ring.
Carriage variants:
T2 – prototype.
M1 (1938).
M1A1 – refurbished T2 carriages.
M2 Standard
Limber variants:
M1 Standard (1938)
M5 Heavy (1945)
The gun was also mounted on a modified M4 medium tank chassis, in mount M13. The resulting vehicle was initially designated 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage T83 and eventually standardized as 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage M40.[15] 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage T79, based on T23 Medium Tank chassis, never advanced past proposal stage.[16] A portable "Panama mount" M1 was also provided.
Ammunition
The gun utilized separate loading, bagged charge ammunition. The propelling charge consisted of base (9.23 kg) and increment (4.69 kg). The data in the table below is for supercharge (base and increment).
Projectiles.[15][17][18] Type Model Weight Filler Muzzle velocity Range
APBC/HE AP M112 Shell 45.36 kg (100.0 lb) Explosive D 2746 ft/s (837 m/s) 24,075 yds (22,014 m)
HE HE M101 Shell 42.96 kg (94.7 lb) TNT 2800 ft/s (853 m/s) 25,714 yds (23,513 m)
Smoke WP M104 Shell 44.53 kg (98.2 lb) White phosphorus (WP) 2800 ft/s (853 m/s) 25,940 yds (23,720 m)
Smoke FS M104 Shell Sulfur trioxide in chlorosulfonic acid 2800 ft/s (853 m/s) 25,940 yds (23,720 m)
Chemical H M104 Shell Mustard gas, 5.3 kg (12 lb) 2800 ft/s (853 m/s) 25,940 yds (23,720 m)
Dummy Dummy Mk I Projectile – – –
Dummy Dummy M7 Projectile 43.09 kg (95.0 lb) – – –
Armor penetration, mm[15][19][20]
Distance
Ammunition 457 m
(500 yd) 914 m
(1,000 yd) 1,371 m
(1,500 yd)
AP M112 Shell (homogeneous armor, meet angle 30°) 160 152
AP M112 Shell (face hardened armor, meet angle 30°) 135 130
AP M112 Shell (homogeneous armor, meet angle 0°) 193 191 183
Concrete penetration, mm[15]
Ammunition 914 m (1,000 yd) 4,572 m (5,000 yd)
HE M101 Shell (meet angle 0°) 2,011 1,402
Different methods of measurement were used in different countries / periods. Therefore, direct comparison is often impossible.
Today I spent the majority of 4 hours ripping boards, measuring, fitting, sanding, boring holes, and assembling this mobile base for my table saw. Another one was also completed for my band saw. With the assistance of my wife and daughter, we lifted this up and placed it on the mobile base and now I can move it from the garage to a more spacious area (like the front of the garage) to work on wood projects.
This was purchased at Harbor Freight in Michigan City, Indiana. While the instructions were not as clearly written as I would like them, I was able to make adaptations and complete the project. Clean up of sawdust, etc., took about an hour.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 17, 2022) Marines attached to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) use radios to communicate with Marines from 31st MEU on small boats and a SH-60 Seahawk helicopter while watching from a Scout Sniper Observation Telescope (left center), and image stabilizing binoculars (right center) on forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) during a visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) exercise with the Expeditionary Mobile Base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5). New Orleans, part of Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, along with 31st MEU, is operating in U.S. 7th Fleet to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Desmond Parks)
Shado Mobile 1 & Shado Mobile Control.
Seen at a secret Shado holding base awaiting deployment.
Product Enterprise diecast models. Diorama home made.
Inspired by the TV series UFO by Gerry Anderson.
The XL-15 enters the LEGO City!
This set wouldn’t have been on my radar if it wasn’t for the buzz about the Lightyear film’s director being AFOL Angus MacLane (check out his builds on Flickr!).
Evidently, he pushed for the in-film design to have a yellow transparent canopy, reminiscent of the Classic Space elements.
He also had an interesting spot on LEGOCon, worth a check out.
The build of this one and a cat seater spaceship is substantial! As a medium sized ship it checks most boxes for me: fits all accessories, swoosh-ability is there, has mobile base in form of laptop (stretch), and droid in the Catbot (also stretch). No escape pod/rover, which loses some points when compared to the medium builds of my ‘90s childhood.
But the elements and connections this set brings to the table blow anything from my childhood away. There are a few elements that are super obscure.
Color scheme for the spaceship is great, can’t miss with light blue, white, and black with that yellow canopy.
Also bonus points for extra head/hair elements for minifigs.
Less stellar for me were the minifigs. Buzz looks pretty good, but I’d prefer the dome over a normal helmet (I’m sure that’s a movie plot detail). The other figs have nice printing, but are pretty mute brown, like something out of a Star Wars set.
The shoulder pauldrons for all of them are cumbersome to range of motion.
The rocket launcher build doesn’t really work out to be held, but I do appreciate the built up weapon/scanning accessories.
Very nice set, strong suggest for the building experience and MOC possibilities!
I left off the red stripes off the wings. Does it look cleaner? Worse? Let me know
I’ll be looking at more contemporary LEGO sets that are bringing back Classic Space soon!
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