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Excuse for what? What's the endgame there? A bombing campaign to force a regime change? Direct invasion? Track record is not exactly great in either. If.

Oh that's what it is called, cool. Not dissimilar to lorica segmentata.

Side note, but Romans did bit like this. The Gladii were (slightly) shorter than could have been made with available technology, because longer ones were not needed with their tactics. Cavalry, OTOH, had longer swords. Later, composition and tactics of the legions changed and longer swords were favoured. Actual dagger, coincidentally, seems to have been dropped at some point from standard equipment. Medieval armies for the most part were not equipped by Kings, people made to serve in them acquired best weapons they could afford.

In retrospect, concept of "common helicopter which can be modified to match everybody's individual specification" might seem somewhat self-contradictory. Manufacturer also seems to have been somewhat at loss with the project. Puzzling, as Eurocopter and Agusta have loads of helicopter experience.

Is there even anything under that? Methinks it's just a decoy, meant to attract Ukrainians throwing all their FPS drones at it believing it is some super-powerful breakthrough vehicle.

I don't know the details, but that was Saab's answer to inquiry whether EJ200 was an option for Gripen. I suppose there are some things unique for single engine mounting - for example, RD33 has a different version for single-engine use, RD93: gearbox is located differently at least. I don't think they would be anything insurmountable much less impossible for Eurojet, mind you, but it would mean more cost to the project in addition to modifying the airframe. Maybe it's noteworthy that even Mako was meant to use F404?

It would have been physically possible, whether it was actually done was another matter entirely (Heyerdahl sailed to American with an Egyptian reef boat, but few would suggest that ever happened). There were probably several accidental crossings, based upon historical anecdotes such as Japanese fishing boats drifting to North America, and Inuit canoes found on British Islands. It's possible some Carthagian or Japanese or Irish vessel got lost and drifted to New World, but even if they survived, they would have had made little impact and had no way to return.

EJ200 doesn't exist as a single engine version, so it would be substantial cost increase.

I think it's more like that the early aircraft were not very efficient way to deliver munitions at enemy frontline troops - compared to artillery - and much too valuable as recon platforms. Tactical bombing was done almost as soon as military aircraft became a reality (first instance 1911) but targets were typically rear area infrastructure like depots and troop camps. It's not like armies did not realize bombs could be dropped from aerial vehicles, indeed the whole practice was banned by treaties even before the aircraft capable of doing it existed.

Well that would take spotlight off from Prince Madoc... Legend of St Brendan's voyage is so fantastical it is impossible to say if it's based on any real trip. Nevertheless, Irish and Scottish monks are among the most underappreciated historical navigators. Sailing only small leather boats, reaching Faroes - and possibly even Iceland - before Vikings, is extremely impressive feat of seamanship.

Seems like nylon net of some sort. Probably just broke by combination of wind and sunlight.

Well, Americans also fluffed up copying MG151...

He probably wasn't too familiar with their other exploits, only referred their gun division...

A gun expert once described Hispano-Suiza as a "watchmaker company who never made guns suited for wartime use", and said that 20mm HS only became serviceable after years of engineering by Brits and Americans. Finnish experience on 20mm Hispano on Morane-Saulnier was fairly negative, and most of the MS 406 actually had a machinegun as centreline weapon. 1960s acquisition of 30mm Hispano-Suiza did not improve perception on the manufacturer...

What kept Greenland colonies going was walrus ivory. However, I have read that at some point, trade connections to East improved, resulting to Elephant ivory coming from Africa and India, and Mammoth ivory coming from Siberia, which made walrus ivory trade unprofitable. That may have led to Vikings gradually abandoning Greenland (although ultimate fate of the colonies is shrouded in mystery). Colonizing Markland and Vinland with Greenlandic and Icelandic population base, and very limited shipbuilding capability*, was probably not very realistic. *Greenlanders actually had to sail to North America for proper timber - must have been exciting journeys!