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Orford Ness is a cuspate foreland shingle spit on the Suffolk coast in Great Britain, linked to the mainland at Aldeburgh and stretching along the coast to Orford and down to North Wier Point, opposite Shingle Street. It is divided from the mainland by the River Alde, and was formed by longshore drift along the coast. The material of the spit comes from places further north, such as Dunwich. Near the middle point of its length, at the foreland point or 'Ness', lies the Orfordness Lighthouse.
Orford Ness is Europe's largest vegetated shingle spit. It is approximately 10 miles (16 km) long, and the site covers a total area of approximately 2,230 acres (900 ha). Forty percent of this (890 acres) is shingle, 25 percent (556 acres) tidal rivers, mud flats, sand flats, and lagoons, eighteen percent (400 acres) grassland, and fifteen percent (330 acres) salt marsh.
The spit formed almost entirely of flint deposited by waves through the process of long-shore drift. The main influence on its formation has been storm waves throwing shingle over the top of the beach crest, where it is protected from ordinary wave action. Over time, this process leads to the formation of stable ridges of fine particles, and swails of coarser shingle.
The size and shape of the spit fluctuates over time. Estimated growth rates range from 64m per year in 1962 to 1967, to 183m per year in 1804 to 1812. Between 1812 and 1821, the total length fluctuated by 1.8 miles (2.9 km). As a result of the dynamically changing nature of the spit, the true age of its formation is unknown. However, before about 1200, Orford is thought to have been a port facing the open sea.
The peninsula was formerly administered by the Ministry of Defence, which conducted secret military tests during both world wars and the Cold War.
The site was selected as the location for the Orfordness Beacon, one of the earliest experiments in long-range radio navigation. The Beacon was set up in 1929 and used in the pre-war era. In the 1930s Orford Ness was the site of the first purpose built experiments on the defence system that would later be known as radar. Having proved the technology on Orford Ness Robert Watson-Watt and his team moved to nearby Bawdsey Manor and developed the Chain Home radar system in time for its vital role in the Battle of Britain.
The Atomic Weapons Research Establishment had a base on the site, used for environmental testing. When a laboratory test is conducted to determine the functional performance of a component or system under conditions that simulate the real environment in which the component or system is expected to operate. Many of the buildings from this time remain clearly visible from the quay at Orford, including the distinctive "pagodas". Whilst it is maintained that no fissile material was tested on the site, the very high explosive initiator charge was present and the buildings were designed to absorb any accidental explosion, allowing gases and other material to vent and dissipate in a directed or contained manner. In the event of a larger accident, the roofs were designed to collapse onto the building, sealing it with a lid of concrete.
In the late 1960s an experimental Anglo-American military over-the-horizon radar known as Cobra Mist was built on the peninsula. It closed in 1973, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s the site and building were re-used for the Orfordness transmitting station. This powerful mediumwave radio station - originally owned and run by the Foreign Office, then the BBC and, after privatization in the 1990s, a series of private companies - was best known for transmitting the BBC World Service in English around the clock to continental Europe on 648 kHz from September 1982 until March 2011. The station has been disused since May 2012.
Orford Ness is now owned by the National Trust and is open to the public under the name "Orford Ness National Nature Reserve", though access is strictly controlled to protect the fragile habitats and due to a residual danger to the public from the site's former use by the military. Access is therefore only available by the National Trust ferry from Orford Quay on designated open days.
The weapons and ammunition being turned in by civilians in Benghazi includes tank and rocket-propelled grenade rounds. The box next to the shells contained semtex - plastic explosives.
Barriss Offee and Ahsoka Tano embark upon an integral – and unsupervised – mission in “Weapons Factory,” an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS premiering at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT Friday, November 13 on Cartoon Network.
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The legendary Emerald Weapon from Final Fantasy VII... in Lego form! Made using Hero Factory/Bionicle parts.
These "weapons" are not used for actual fighting. They were used in ceremonies, as they are made from soft metals and highly decorated.
Developed by Hyperion Corp [a subsidiary of Tactis] in 2034, the CR21 SARW is a designated "anti-assault" SMG designed to deliver firepower, accuracy, and mobility in one small package. Because of the gun's projectile aerodynamics, the SARW is capable of firing at hypersonic speeds, making it the first compact weapon to break that barrier. Another advantage of the CR21 is that the enlarged stock functions as a recoil stabilizer, allowing maximum effect with minimum resistance from the weapon.
The SARW fires caseless 10.55mm depleted uranium high-explosive rounds. The depleted uranium shell contains a cyclotrimethylene-sulfuric liquid used to ensure high incendiary impact. Internal motors will automatically chamber a round, spraying it with a hypergolic explosive spray, which explains the weapon's rather violent barrel effect, to say the least..
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Oh, and if you've been wondering why my recent creations have been white and black, I really loved the new visual aesthetic with Total Recall, especially all the UFB stuff. Please view and comment!
I couldn't help noting with some amusement that this rule has been censored. It originally read, "Alcoholic beverages and weapons are prohibited." The phrase "and weapons" has been blocked out, not just on the sign but on every side along the trail's full 3.1 mile length. There's a story here, but I don't know what it is.
“Resolved: In response to the Crimea crisis, the United States should reassess the strategic rationale for not placing NATO’s tactical nuclear weapons into Central and Eastern European states.”
Featuring
Mr. Peter B. Doran, Director of Research, the Center for European Policy Analysis
and
Mr. Kingston Reif, Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
I decided to make my own Advent calendar about neo Black Falcon. I hope you will enjoy during 24 days !
For those collectors who wonder how parts mixups and interchanges lead to "mixmasters", here's a clue....
These await field salvage and refurbishment. Much of the collecting community is unaware of it, but barrel changes, refinish, and some fitting/adjustment was done RIGHT IN THE FIELD, almost as soon as the barrels cooled off.
For the baloney slingers who claim the M1907 had disappeared from front line units by the first quarter of 1945, this pile of recovered rifles (there are a few B.A.R.'s in the heap, too) all bear leather straps, and so did the B.A.R.'s.
Notice no '03 or '03A3 rifles in the pile. They saw little infantry use after 1942, albeit some ancillary units still owned some.
The carbines, of course, never had anything but 1" web straps.
Every fighting Marine and combat soldier I met from the period told me flat out: "Never saw a cloth sling in a combat outfit." Some said, "I saw some in training, stateside".
I wasn't there. But I tend to believe the verifiable, corroborated documentation and photos.
I don't accept anything from illiterate, uncredentialed blowhard loudmouthed creeps on what is commonly called the "Internut".
One such chat room commando showed a photo of an action in Cologne, Hodges First Army, in March of '45 (about this time), showing a web sling or two, claiming, "See? They were around early in the war!" I guess the dunce has never SEEN a calendar.
There's also a M1917A1 tripod over on the right, and beyond that, a couple of 1919A4 air-cooled Brownings.
The war in Europe was over less than sixty days after the shots the imbecile considered his "evidence". It is evidence, but not of use outside First Army, very early in the conflict, or GENERALLY in the field.
U.S.M.C. photograph.
Ruby Weapon from Final Fantasy VII. No relaxing in the Gold Saucer here! Just, intimidating monsters.
FORT STEWART, Ga., March 2nd, 2016 - Staff Sergeant Ricardo Blount participates in the M-4 Qualification during the 2016 Georgia National Guard Best Warrior Competition.
Georgia State Defense Force photo by Capt. Vadim Timchenko | Released
...at least, it will be once I get the software for the Canon 40D to install properly.
The lens is actually a telescope; a Tele Vue TV-60 refractor.
Update (October): I can confirm that the above combination fits (snugly!) into a Lowepro Flipside 300 backpack.
Soldiers complete a weapons qualification range as part of the III Corps Soldier and NCO of the Year competition at Fort Hood, Texas July 22.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kyle Smithwick, assigned to the 169th Security Forces Squadron, South Carolina Air National Guard, loads ammunition onto an M2 machine gun at Poinsett Electronic Combat Range, Sumter, S.C., Sept. 17, 2017. Heavy weapons familiarization is a yearly requirement for Security Forces Airmen and must also be completed before a deployment. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Jorge Intriago)
1/144 P-3B Finished as a U.S. Customs Service "slick."--weapons bay was cut out & built from scratch along with incerts for the cockpit & aft cabin.
Sgt. 1st Class Clay Rose, second from right, a platoon sergeant with 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, United States Division – Center, and a Ulysses, Kan., native, gives instruction on range and weapon safety to senior noncommissioned officers from the 1st Iraqi Federal Police Division, May 16, 2011 at Joint Security Station Loyalty, Iraq. Each shurta, or police officer, who participated in the range had the opportunity to fire weapon systems used by U.S. forces in Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Christopher Miles, 2nd AAB, 1st Inf. Div., USD-C)