Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

Some of the fighters gain their statuses in the battlefield, some in the test programmes, and some in the maintenance bays where crews fight against the jet more than anyone. The most terrible of the stories are usually similar: an attractive requirement, a hasty or ill-fitting design and tradeoffs...

The reason why the 1911-versus-polymer carry argument holds is because both designs address a different number of real problems. One medium is rewarding of deliberate manipulation, of paying attention to the relationships between parts, and a manual of arms constructed on the basis of safeties. The other is designed...

Submarines are designed to endure an environment that is punitive to any error: high pressure, minimal redundancy and emergencies that occur in narrow spaces and have no easy escape. Other boats were given their reputations not due to their slowness or obsolescence, but due to the most notable aspects...