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(•) – The Lockheed Martin HC-130J Hercules The Combat King II is the U.S. Air Force's only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform and is flown by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). This C-130J variation specializes in tactical profiles and avoiding detection and recovery operations in austere environments. The HC-130J replaces HC-130P/Ns as the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. It is an extended-range version of the C-130J Hercules transport. Its mission is to rapidly deploy to execute combatant commander directed recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory for expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery operations to include airdrop, airland, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area ground refueling missions. When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian assistance operations, disaster response, security cooperation/aviation advisory, emergency aeromedical evacuation, and noncombatant evacuation operations.
Features
Modifications to the HC-130J have improved navigation, threat detection and countermeasures systems. The aircraft fleet has a fully-integrated inertial navigation and global positioning systems, and night vision goggle, or NVG, compatible interior and exterior lighting. It also has forward-looking infrared, radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications, and the ability to receive fuel inflight via a Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation (UARRSI).
The HC-130J can fly in the day; however, crews normally fly night at low to medium altitude levels in contested or sensitive environments, both over land or overwater. Crews use NVGs for tactical flight profiles to avoid detection to accomplish covert infiltration/exfiltration and transload operations. To enhance the probability of mission success and survivability near populated areas, crews employ tactics that include incorporating no external lighting or communications, and avoiding radar and weapons detection.
Drop zone objectives are done via personnel drops and equipment drops. Rescue bundles include illumination flares, marker smokes and rescue kits. Helicopter air-to-air refueling can be conducted at night, with blacked out communication with up to two simultaneous helicopters. Additionally, forward area refueling point operations can be executed to support a variety of joint and coalition partners.
Background
The HC-130J is a result of the HC/MC-130 recapitalization program and replaces Air Combat Command's aging HC-130P/N fleet as the dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. The 71st and 79th Rescue Squadrons in Air Combat Command, the 550th Special Operations Squadron in Air Education and Training Command, the 920th Rescue Group in Air Force Reserve Command and the 106th Rescue Wing, 129th RQW and 176th Wing in the Air National Guard will operate the aircraft.
First flight was 29 July 2010, and the aircraft will serve the many roles and missions of the HC-130P/Ns. It is a modified KC-130J aircraft designed to conduct personnel recovery missions, provide a command and control platform, in-flight-refuel helicopters and carry supplemental fuel for extending range or air refueling.
In April 2006, the personnel recovery mission was transferred back to Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, Va. From 2003 to 2006, the mission was under the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Previously, HC-130s were assigned to ACC from 1992 to 2003. They were first assigned to the Air Rescue Service as part of Military Airlift Command.
General Characteristics
Primary function: Fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform
Contractor: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Power Plant: Four Rolls Royce AE2100D3 turboprop engines
Thrust: 4,591 Propeller Shaft Horsepower, each engine
Wingspan: 132 feet, 7 inches (40.4 meters)
Length: 97 feet, 9 inches (29.57 meters)
Height: 38 feet, 9 inches (11.58 meters)
Operating Weight: 89,000 pounds (40,369 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 164,000 pounds (74,389 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 61,360 pounds (9,024 gallons)
Payload: 35,000 pounds (15,875 kilograms)
Speed: 316 knots indicated air speed at sea level
Range: beyond 4,000 miles (3,478 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 33,000 feet (10,000 meters)
Armament: countermeasures/flares, chaff
Basic Crew: Three officers (pilot, co-pilot, combat system officer) and two enlisted loadmasters
Unit Cost: $66 million (fiscal 2010 replacement cost)
Initial operating capability: 2013.
Finally got round to painting up the marker which comes with the XV25 box set. Now looking for inspiration for a couple more in preparation for an upcoming tournament
It occurred to me while lying in bed this morning, that I could use the cap from a microscope objective holder to mate a microsope objective lens with some sort of T-mount tube. It works!
The camera body is just for show, normally it would go on the camera that took the picture.
Still over French territory, we approach a ridge called Crêts de la Neige, with GVA airport, Geneva itself, the lake, Switzerland, the Salève, and the Alps (which are back in France) beyond. Mont Blanc rises above it all.
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10x Objective
Magnification when viewed full screen
27" Monitor: ~415x
24" Monitor: ~369x
iPhone 14 Pro: ~43x
Warhammer 40k Objective markers I made for my buddy Joe. A shrine, Fuel dump, holy flamer, foxhole and wounded novamarine
The objective of Cash for work (CfW) activities is to support the immediate recovery of communities affected by the conflict while encouraging the revitalization of the local economy and reinforcing social cohesion. Members of the community are selected following vulnerability criteria and gender equality and work for 20 days in large mixed groups in exchange of a payment. The works improve the environment of the whole population. Photo: Amanda Nero I IOM
Cappuccino framework & Objective-J language
I had a peek at the Cappuccino source yesterday of an Objective-J app using Cappuccino. It's an impressive piece of engineering. There is a new framework with a new language based on GNUstep. It is Open Sourced. You can download it, play with it. Hack code. And probably the best thing about it is, you can use it to build applications now.
Not next week or year. Right now!
Desktop Developers, developers, developers ...
From a developer perspective you can see the allure of learning just having to learn a new language. Everything is abstracted, HTML, CSS, even the individual browser Document Object Model or DOM. To create an application you can implement some specification you are given. Using the predefined controls (just like the desktop model) with the aid of a layout diagram. Bingo, an instant application that works on the Web. This work flow is the way a lot of desktop GUI based applications have been developed in the past and the present. Think Windows & Mac even Gtk. So for desktop developers having to brave the unknown & to learn more about the vagaries of things like DOM variation in browsers, HTTP and users on the Web using technologies like Cappuccino is a nice neat solution to a lot of hairy problems. Project managers also love it because if it is just one language (Objective-J) they can break it down into bits, farm it out to the cheapest source of coders. Get things done in a known amount of time.
Against the grain of the Web?
Then I read this article, "Cappuccino’s FlickrDemo in 45 lines of jQuery" and see a demonstration remarkably like the 280 flickr demo and think, why? The promise of "one size fits all" development model is working against the grain of the Web. How is this against the Web? Well for starters the basics of developing a Cappuccino application is bound up in a combination of predefined Web based controls and code. While there is separation of presentation and logic only software developers have a say. As a group Software developers left to their own devices are horrible in designing GUI applications without the help of others. You also loose the layering of technologies. The ability to upgrade, change or remove one layer of technology as you see fit. The developers of course have done this on purpose. Traded flexibility for simplicity. They have reduced the complexity of designing desktop like applications and distilled it back to code and controls. Good for building applications on time, budget. Bad for users.
Comparisons
You can see a side by side comparison of JQuery demo remarkably like the 280 flickr demo. Having said all this, Cappuccino is designed specifically for desktop applications to be delivered to users across the web. But loosing the advantages of well designed Web-Apps for this style of development (mono language & gui) is not a compelling enough reason to abandon current development practices.
For me anyway.
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Harvesting Objectives
Logging is, of course, the only way to implement
objectives that focus on the generation of revenue
from timber production. However, it is also a key step
in the development of other management goals. For
example, if you wish to create new forest stands,
whether they are single-species plantations or
mixed-species multi-age natural stands, harvesting is
generally necessary to create the appropriate site
conditions (available sunlight, reduced competitive
vegetation, bare mineral soil) for the establishment
and growth of new seedlings. The type and amount of
regeneration will significantly depend on the
harvesting method that is employed. Similarly,
harvesting is necessary if you want to alter stand
structure, shapes and boundaries to create desirable
aesthetic patterns.
Cautiously, Poppy makes her way to the facility's central laboratory complex, remaining alert for any sign of danger.
The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society. Some researchers believe the objective of the KGC was to annex a golden circle of territories in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for inclusion in the United States as slave states. Others suggest that the members proposed a separate confederation of slave states, with US states to align with others in the Caribbean circle.
Centering on Havana, this empire would be some 2,400 miles in diameter—hence the name Golden Circle. Leaders of the K.G.C. argued that their empire would have a virtual monopoly on the world’s supply of tobacco and sugar and perhaps cotton and have the strength to preserve slavery in the South from constant attacks by northern Abolitionists.
During the American Civil War, some Southern sympathizers in the Northern states such as Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, were accused of belonging to the Knights of the Golden Circle, and in some cases were imprisoned for their activities.
George W. L. Bickley, a Virginia-born doctor, editor, and "adventurer" who lived in Cincinnati, founded the association. Records of the K.G.C. convention held in 1860 state that the organization “originated at Lexington, Kentucky, on the fourth day of July 1854, by five gentlemen who came together on a call made by Gen. George Bickley….”
He organized the first castle, or local branch, in Cincinnati in 1854. Hounded by creditors, he left Cincinnati in the late 1850s and traveled through the East and South, promoting an expedition to Mexico. Following the Mexican-American War of 1846, the group's original goal was to provide a force to colonize the northern part of Mexico and the West Indies. This would extend pro-slavery interests.
In early 1862, Radical Republicans in the Senate suggested that former president Franklin Pierce, who was greatly critical of the Lincoln administration's war policies, was an active member of the Knights of the Golden Circle. In an angry letter to Seward, Pierce denied that he knew anything about the KGC, and demanded that his letter be made public.
Appealing to the Confederacy's friends in the North and border states, the Order spread to Kentucky as well as the southern parts of such Union states as Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri. It became strongest among Copperheads, some of whom felt that the Civil War was a mistake. Some supported slavery and others were worried about the power of the federal government.
In late 1863, the KGC reorganized as the Order of American Knights. In 1864, it became the Order of the Sons of Liberty, with the Ohio politician Clement L. Vallandigham, most prominent of the Copperheads, as its supreme commander. In most areas only a minority of its membership was radical enough to discourage enlistments, resist the draft, and shield deserters. The KGC held numerous peace meetings.
Like many other secretive societies, the K.G.C. had an elaborate ritual with codes, signs, and passwords, and complicated plans for its military and governing operations.
Victory by the Union in the Civil War destroyed the cause for which the K.G.C. had been created and, therefore, ended its life. Bickley, who served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army before being arrested as a spy in Indiana in July 1863 and held until October1865, died in August 1867. Reports of K.G.C. activity circulated for a few more years, but there is no dependable evidence that the organization survived the war in any meaningful way.
10x Objective
HD Video, focus stacked
I need to work to get top light in with the 40x objective. There is only a small working distance. There are objectives with extra working distance which might be the key, or using something of a ring flash around the objective.
Compare with this snapshot from one of Gene's images:
gigapan.org/conversations/212096/
Compare with the Charles Krebs' 'wing scales from a Salamis parhassus' image on this page:
www.krebsmicro.com/obj_bellows/index.html
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Similar to this Charles Krebs' image:
1. H&K OICW Program
During the 80's, 90's and 2000's, there was a US Program called "OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon)".
It was intended to provide Infantry with an "Integrated Weapon System", consisting of 2 Blocks:
- the "KE (Kinetic Energy) Module", being a 5.56 STANAG Compatible "Assault Rifle" that could be eventually detached from the System to be operated independently;
- the "HE (High Explosive) Module", being a Magazine-Fed "Air Burst Grenade Launcher".
This Weapon System proved to be 5 Times more Effective than the Regular "Assault Rifle + Underbarrel Grenade Launcher" Combination!
After many Tests, the H&K OICW was however cancelled, due to some Issues related to the HE Module - since 25mm Air Burst Grenades are less powerful than 40mm Standard Grenades - ;
moreover, the Success of Modular Weapon Systems (which feature Accessory Rails) greatly contributed to the Definitive Abandon of the Project.
Even if, actually, an Air Burst Grenade Launcher - derived from the Program - is currently being developed to be deployed as a Support Weapon: the H&K XM25.
Also, the South Korean Version of the OICW is currently fielded: the Daewoo K11.
It is very similar to the OICW, and uses 5.56mm NATO Magazines (Assault Rifle) and 20mm ABG Magazines (Grenade Launcher).
2. H&K/Herstal OICW II Program
Let's suppose this Future Scenario: "Thirty years passed from the Cancellation of the OICW Project, during which many Modular Weapon Systems - in particular: the Colt M4A1, the Remington ACR and the Herstal SCAR - are widely used and adopted as Standard Issues Assault Rifles...
What's the next Step? Often, we need to look to the Past to see the Future!
And so are thinking 2 of the most popular Weapon Industries: the Heckler&Koch and the Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal.
With their new "OICW II"!
It can be defined as an "OMWS (Objective Modular Weapon System, or Objective MWS)", which merges both the OICW and Modular Weapon Systems into a single Package!
How?
2.1 Statistics
It is formed by 2 Weapon Categories, and divided into 4 Interchangeable Blocks (2 more than the former OICW):
1. The "Assault Modules":
- the "Light Assault Module" (a Light Assault Rifle with Integrated Accessory Rails, chambered for the Standard 5.56mm NATO Caliber, just like the HK416 and the SCAR-L);
- the "Heavy Assault Module" (a Heavy Assault Rifle with Integrated Accessory Rails, chambered for the Standard 7.62mm NATO Caliber, just like the HK417 and the SCAR-H);
2. The "Special Modules":
- the "Close Combat Module" (a Magazine-Fed Semi-Auto Shotgun, chambered for the Standard 12 Gauge);
- the "Launcher Module" (a Magazine-Fed Air Burst Grenade Launcher, chambered for the 25mm ABG Caliber).
All the Modules can be actually operated "Individually"; also, each Module can be converted to other Calibers, upon Soldier and Mission Requirements.
However, only 2 Modules can be assembled at once, and - at the moment - they CANNOT be of the same Category!
2.2 Configurations
Here are shown all the Available and Possible Combinations:
- "Light Assault Module" + "Launcher Module" (here shown);
- "Heavy Assault Module" + "Launcher Module" (www.flickr.com/photos/83834370@N02/7807202166/in/photostream);
- "Light Assault Module" + "Close Combat Module" (www.flickr.com/photos/83834370@N02/7807212206/in/photostream);
- "Heavy Assault Module" + "Close Combat Module" (www.flickr.com/photos/83834370@N02/7807218678/in/photostream).
The 1st and the 4th Combinations are the most Recommended, since they allow the Operator to use the OICW II also while Prone - since the Magazine Bottoms are located at the same Height - .
The objective of CfW activities is to support the immediate recovery of communities affected by the conflict while encouraging the revitalization of the local economy and reinforcing social cohesion. Members of the community are selected following vulnerability criteria and gender equality and work for 20 days in large mixed groups in exchange of a payment. The works improve the environment of the whole population. Photo: Amanda Nero I IOM
Pentax F*300 4.5 disassembly
Then unscrew the whole objective assembly to access the aperture assembly see 'pic 2' dis assembled. the front part of the picture is the front objective, keep it aside- this part disassembly will not be discussed.
camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
objective: Zeiss Planar 80mm
light: 2 continuous light lamp with 50x70cm soft box
light meter: Sekonic L-308B reading the incident light
exposure: f5,6 - 1/60
film: Kodak Tmax 400
film developing: Pyrocat-HD 1+1+100 - 20C° - 15 min
agitation: first-half minutes continuously, then 5 second every half minute
fixer: Kodak Tmax Fixier
scanner: Epson Perfection 4990 Photo
This Management by Objectives explanation diagram originally appeared at idoinfotech.com/71/management/management-by-objectives-mb...
Objective: Out and About, HDR Photo
Camera mode: I was in Aperture Priority to be able to choose my aperture without having to care about the shutter speed.
ISO: I chose ISO 100 in order to reduce the shutter speed.
Focal Length: My picture has been taken in 28mm because I wanted the whole shed and the grey sky.
Aperture: My aperture was f/29 in order to have as much details as possible in focus.
Shutter Speed: My shutter speed was set automatically to 1/10.
Objective 3: Elements and Principles of Design
Texture: With this HDR Picture, I wanted to highlight the grass, the wood of the shed and the clouds.
Colour: I darkened the highlights and brightened the shadows in order to highlight the orange of the wood, the green of the grass and the white of the gravel.
Space: There is no negative space because I wanted a lot of details in this HDR.
Balance: Even though, the shed is on the left of the picture. The house is directed to the right.
Emphasis: The house is placed on the third line of the Rule of Third.
Objective 4: Lighting
I took this picture outside and waited until the sun had a good position so the shadow is not directly on the shed but towards the side of it.
Objective 5: Post Production
I took seven pictures with seven different exposures (-3.0 to +3.0) merge them to HDR with Photoshop. Then I changed the highlights, shadows, contrast, saturation, vibrance, clarity, sharpening and post-cropping vignetting in Lightroom 4.
Objective 6: Critique
Expert Group Meeting for Least Developed Countries: Way forward on the WTO Ministerial Decision on preferential rules of origin
The objective was to discuss and brainstorm on the following topics:
- How to provide an overview of the status of preferential rules of origin and the value of the Ministerial decision on the preferential rules of origin: can we move on?
- How to provide a detailed information on the challenges in drafting preferential rules of origin, a possible UNCTAD methodology and the certification requirements related to origin?
The various options and modalities to bring forward the focus on the other issues that may be relevant in dynamic LDC agenda like trade facilitation and what are the overall prospects of an LDC package in Bali and beyond.
The final outcome of the meeting will assist UNCTAD and LDCs to identify future areas of activities and studies to be undertaken.
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Tennessee Army National Guard, advance towards an objective utilizing cover from their M2A2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle during Decisive Action Rotation 18-07 at Fort Irwin, California, May 10, 2018. Decisive Action Rotations at the National Training Center ensure units remain versatile, responsive, and consistently available for current and future contingencies. (U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Brooke Davis, Operations Group, National Training Center)