The Highest Altitude AA Guns Ever
SiegeMental
One of my favorite topics. Thought I had pretty well covered it, but he's got a lot of stuff I hadn't heard of.
I'm always amazed at how much heavy metal was produced during WW2. It doesn't seem like we are doing that anymore. We're probably spending more money on making stuff, but our money is only worth one percent of what it was back then, so that's not telling us much. We are building stuff like cars and trucks and trains, but I suspect it's mostly just to replace stuff that's worn out. We are building roads and buildings, but it seems like it's just incremental, we aren't engaged in any ginormous projects.
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https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/SGbull.htm
I was ADA in the late 70's Army. Chapparal/Vulcan short range air defense. Basically forward air field defense if the 1st. Cav deployed. We spent a lot of bad weather days with visual aircraft recognition flash cards. The Vulcans were an absolute hoot. Standing in the middle of six of those things on full rip was almost overwhelming.
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