Podcasts about Antonov

Can You Segway?Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.So exactly who was going to be sympathetic to their plight, who we cared about?Beyond my fevered dream of making a difference there was a pinch of reality. See, the Cabindans and the people of Zaire were both ethnic Bakongo and the Bakongo of Zaire had also once had their own, independent (until 1914) kingdom which was now part of Angola. The Bakongo were major factions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -(formerly for a short time known as the nation of Zaire, from here on out to be referred to as the DRC and in the running for the most fucked up place on the planet Earth, more on that later)- and Congo (the nation) yet a minority in Angola. Having an independent nation united along ethnic and linguistic lines made sense and could expect support from their confederates across international boundaries.The Liberation Air ForceThe Earth & Sky operated under one constant dilemma ~ when would Temujin make his return? Since they didn't know and it was their job to be prepared for the eventuality if it happened tomorrow, or a century down the line, they 'stockpiled', and 'stockpiled' and 'stockpiled'.That was why they maintained large horse herds and preserved the ancient arts of Asian bowyers, armoring and weapons-craft. That was why they created secret armories, and sulfur and saltpeter sites when musketry and cannons became the new ways of warfare. They secured sources of phosphates and petroleum when they became the new thing, and so on.All of this boiled over to me being shown yet again I worked with clever, creative and under-handed people. The Khanate came up with a plan for a 'Union' Air Force {Union? More on that later} within 24 hours, and it barely touched any of their existing resources. How did they accomplish this miracle? They had stockpiled and maintained earlier generation aircraft because they didn't know when Temujin would make his re-appearance.They'd also trained pilots and ground crews for those aircraft. As you might imagine, those people grew old just as their equipment did. In time, they went into the Earth & Sky's Inactive Reserves ~ the rank & file over the age of 45. You never were 'too old' to serve in some capacity though most combat-support related work ended at 67.When Temujin made his return and the E&S transformed into the Khanate, those people went to work bringing their lovingly cared for, aging equipment up to combat-alert readiness. If the frontline units were decimated, they would have to serve, despite the grim odds of their survival. It was the terrible acceptance the Chinese would simply possess so much more war-making material than they did.Well, the Khanate kicked the PRC's ass in a titanic ass-whooping no one (else) had seen coming, or would soon forget. Factory production and replacement of worn machines was in stride to have the Khanate's Air Force ready for the next round of warfare when the Cease-fire ended and the Reunification War resumed.Always a lower priority, the Khanate military leadership was considering deactivating dozens of these reserve unit when suddenly the (Mongolian) Ikh khaany khairt akh dáé (me) had this hare-brained scheme about helping rebels in Africa, West Africa, along the Gulf of Guinea coast/Atlantic Ocean, far, far away, and it couldn't look like the Khanate was directly involved.They barely knew where Angola was. They had to look up Cabinda to figure out precisely where that was. They brought in some of their 'reservist' air staff to this briefing and one of them, a woman (roughly a third of the E&S 'fighting'/non-frontline forces were female), knew what was going on. Why?She had studied the combat records and performance of the types of aircraft she'd have to utilize... back in the 1980's and 90's and Angola had been a war zone rife with Soviet (aka Khanate) material back then. Since she was both on the ball, bright and knew the score, the War Council put her in overall command. She knew what was expected of her and off she went, new staff in hand. She was 64 years old, yet as ready and willing to serve as any 20 year old believer in the Cause.Subtlety, scarcity and audacity were the watchwords of the day. The Khanate couldn't afford any of their front-line aircraft for this 'expedition'. They really couldn't afford any of their second-rate stuff either. Fortunately, they had some updated third-rate war-fighting gear still capable of putting up an impressive show in combat ~ providing they weren't going up against a top tier opponents.For the 'volunteers' of the Union Air Force, this could very likely to be a one-way trip. They all needed crash courses (not a word any air force loves, I know) in Portuguese though hastily provided iPhones with 'apps' to act as translators were deemed to be an adequate stop-gap measure. Besides, they were advised to avoid getting captured at all cost. The E&S couldn't afford the exposure. Given the opportunity ~ this assignment really was going above and beyond ~ not one of these forty-six to sixty-seven year olds backed out.No, they rolled out fifty of their antiquated aircraft, designs dating back to the 1950's through the mid-70's, and prepared them for the over 10,000 km journey to where they were 'needed most'. 118 pilots would go (72 active plus 46 replacements) along with 400 ground crew and an equally aged air defense battalion (so their air bases didn't get blown up). Security would be provided by 'outsiders' ~ allies already on the ground and whatever rebels could be scrounged up. After the initial insertion, the Indian Air Force would fly in supplies at night into the Cabinda City and Soyo Airports.The composition,14 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 jet fighters ~ though she entered service in 1959, these planes' electronics were late 20th century and she was a renowned dogfighter. 12 were the Mig-21-97 modernized variant and the other two were Mig-21 UM two-seater trainer variants which could double as reconnaissance fighters if needed.14 Sukhoi Su-22 jet fighter-bombers ~ the original design, called the Su-17, came out in 1970, the first 12 were variants with the 22M4 upgrade were an early-80's package. The other 2 were Su-22U two-seat trainers which, like their Mig-21 comrades, doubled as reconnaissance fighters. The Su-22M4's would be doing the majority of the ground attack missions for the Cabindans, though they could defend themselves in aerial combat if necessary.6 Sukhoi Su-24M2 supersonic attack aircraft ~ the first model rolled off the production lines in the Soviet Union back in 1974. By far the heaviest planes in the Cabindan Air Force, the Su-24M2's would act as their 'bomber force' as well as anti-ship deterrence.8 Mil Mi-24 VM combat helicopters ~ introduced in 1972 was still a lethal combat machine today. Unlike the NATO helicopter force, the Mi-24's did double duty as both attack helicopter and assault transports at the same time.4 Mil Mi-8 utility helicopters, first produced in 1967. Three would act as troop/cargo transports (Mi-8 TP) while the fourth was configured as a mobile hospital (the MI-17 1VA).4 Antonov An-26 turboprop aircraft, two to be used as tactical transports to bring in supplies by day and two specializing in electronic intelligence aka listening to what the enemy was up to. Though it entered production in 1969, many still remained flying today.2 Antonov An-71M AEW&C twin-jet engine aircraft. These were an old, abandoned Soviet design the Earth & Sky had continued working on primarily because the current (1970's) Russian Airborne Early Warning and Control bird had been both huge and rather ineffective ~ it couldn't easily identify low-flying planes in the ground clutter so it was mainly only good at sea. Since the E&S planned to mostly fight over the land,They kept working on the An-71 which was basically 1977's popular An-72 with some pertinent design modifications (placing the engines below the wings instead of above them as on the -72 being a big one). To solve their radar problem, they stole some from the Swedish tech firm Ericsson, which hadn't been foreseen to be a problem before now.See, the Russians in the post-Soviet era created a decent AEW&C craft the E&S gladly stole and copied the shit out of for their front line units and it was working quite nicely ~ the Beriev A-50, and wow, were the boys in the Kremlin pissed off about that these days. Whoops, or was that woot?Now, the Khanate was shipping two An-71's down to Cabinda and somewhere along the line someone just might get a 'feel' for the style of radar and jamming the Cabindans were using aka the Swedish stuff in those An-71's. The Erieye radar system could pick out individual planes at 280 miles. The over-all system could track 60 targets and plot out 10 intercepts simultaneously. NATO, they were not, but in sub-Saharan Africa, there were none better.Anyway, so why was any of this important?Why the old folks with their ancient machines? As revealed, since the Earth & Sky had no idea when Temüjin would return, they were constantly squirreling away equipment. World War 2 gave them unequaled access to Soviet military technology and training.Afterwards, under Josef Stalin's direction, thousands of Russian and German engineers and scientists were exiled to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan who were then snatched up (reportedly died in the gulags/trying to escape) and the E&S began building mirror factories modeled on the 'then current' Soviet production lines.So, by the early 1950's, the E&S was building, flying and maintaining Soviet-style Antonov, Beriev, Ilyushin, Myasishchev, Mikoyan-Gurevich, Sukhoi, Tupolev and Yakovlev airplanes. First in small numbers because their pool of pilots and specialists was so small.The E&S remedied this by creating both their own 'private' flight academies and technical schools. They protected their activities with the judicious use of bribes (they were remarkably successful with their economic endeavors on both side of the Iron Curtain) and murders (including the use of the Ghost Tigers).By 1960, the proto-Khanate had an air force. Through the next two decades they refined and altered their doctrine ~ moving away from the Soviet doctrine to a more pure combined-arms approach (the Soviets divided their air power into four separate arms ~ ADD (Long Range Aviation), FA (Front Aviation), MTA (Military Transport Aviation) and the V-PVO (Soviet Air Defenses ~ which controlled air interceptors).).It wasn't until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the various former SSR's that the E&S program really began to hit its stride. Still, while Russia faltered, China's PLAAF (Peoples' Liberation Army Air Force) began to take off. Since the Chinese could produce so much more, the E&S felt it had to keep those older planes and crews up to combat readiness. The younger field crews and pilots flew the newer models as they rolled off the secret production lines.Then the Unification War appeared suddenly, the E&S-turned Khanate Air Force skunked their PLAAF rivals due to two factors, a surprise attack on a strategic level and the fatal poisoning of their pilots and ground crews before they even got into the fight. For those Chinese craft not destroyed on the ground, the effects of Anthrax eroded their fighting edge. Comparable technology gave the Khanate their critical victory and Air Supremacy over the most important battlefields.What did this meant for those out-of-date air crews and pilots who had been training to a razor's edge for a month now? Their assignment had been to face down the Russians if they invaded. They would take their planes up into the fight even though this most likely would mean their deaths, but they had to try.When Operation Fun House put Russia in a position where she wasn't likely to jump on the Khanate, this mission's importance faded. The Russian Air Force was far more stretched than the Khanate's between her agitations in the Baltic and her commitments in the Manchurian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Georgian theaters.With more new planes rolling off the production lines, these reservist units began dropping down the fuel priority list, which meant lowering their flight times thus readiness. Only my hare-brained scheme had short-circuited their timely retirement. Had I realized I was getting people's grandparents killed, I would have probably made the same call anyway. We needed them.The KanateThe Khanate's #1 air superiority dogfighter was the Mig-35F. The #2 was the Mig-29. No one was openly discussing the Khanate's super-stealthy "Su-50", if that was what it was, because its existence 'might' suggest the Khanate also stole technology from the Indian defense industry, along with their laundry list of thefts from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the PRC, Russia and half of NATO.Her top multi-role fighters were the Su-47, Su-35S and Su-30SM. The Su-30 'Flanker-C/MK2/MKI were their 2nd team with plenty of 3rd team Su-27M's still flying combat missions as well.Strike fighters? There weren't enough Su-34's to go around yet, so the Su-25MS remained the Khanate's dedicated Close Air Assault model.Medium transport aircraft? The An-32RE and An-38. They had small, large and gargantuan transports as well.Bombers? The rather ancient jet-powered Tu-160M2's and Tu-22M2's as well as the even older yet still worthwhile turboprops ~ from 1956's ~ the Tu-95M S16.Helicopters? While they still flew updated variants of the Mil Mi-8/17 as military transports, the more optimized Kamov Ka-52 and Mil Mi-28 had replaced them in the assault role.Bizarrely, the Khanate had overrun several Chinese production lines of the aircraft frames and components ~ enough to complete fairly modern PLAAF (Peoples Liberation Army Air Force) FC-1 and J-10 (both are small multi-role fighter remarkably similar to the US F-16 with the FC-1 being the more advanced model, using shared Chinese-Pakistani technology and was designed for export,).They did have nearly two dozen to send, but they didn't have the pilots and ground crews trained to work with them, plus the FC-1 cost roughly $32 million which wasn't fundage any legitimate Cabindan rebels could get their hands on, much less $768 million (and that would just be for the planes, not the weeks' worth of fuel, parts and munitions necessary for what was forthcoming).Meanwhile, except for the An-26, which you could get for under $700,000 and the An-71, which were only rendered valuable via 'black market tech', none of the turboprop and jet aircraft the Khanate was sending were what any sane military would normally want. The helicopters were expensive ~ the 'new' models Mi-24's cost $32 million while the Mi-17's set you back $17 million. The one's heading to Cabinda didn't look 'new'.The Opposition:In contrast, the Angolan Air Force appeared far larger and more modern. Appearances can be deceptive, and they were. Sure, the models of Russian and Soviet-made aircraft they had in their inventory had the higher numbers ~ the Su-25, -27 and -30 ~ plus they had Mig-21bis's, Mig-23's and Su-22's, but things like training and up-keep didn't appear to be priorities for the Angolans.When you took into account the rampant corruption infecting all levels of Angolan government, the conscript nature of their military, the weakness of their technical educational system, the complexity of any modern combat aircraft and the reality that poor sods forced into being Air Force ground crewmen hardly made the most inspired technicians, or most diligent care-takers of their 'valuable' stockpiles (which their officers all too often sold on the black market anyway), things didn't just look bleak for the Angolan Air Force, they were a tsunami of cumulative factors heading them for an epic disaster.It wasn't only their enemies who derided their Air Force's lack of readiness. Their allies constantly scolded them about it too. Instead of trying to fix their current inventory, the Angolans kept shopping around for new stuff. Since 'new'-new aircraft was beyond what they wanted to spend (aka put too much of a dent in the money they were siphoning off to their private off-shore accounts), they bought 'used' gear from former Soviet states ~ Belarus, Russia and Ukraine ~ who sold them stuff they had left abandoned in revetments (open to the elements to slowly rot) on the cheap.To add to the insanity, the Angolans failed to keep up their maintenance agreements so their newly fixed high-tech machines often either couldn't fly, or flew without critical systems, like radar, avionics and even radios. Maybe that wasn't for the worst because after spending millions on these occasionally-mobile paperweights, the Angolans bought the least technologically advanced missile, gun and rocket systems they could get to put on these flying misfortunes.On the spread sheets, Angola had 18 Su-30K's, 18 Su-27, 12 Su-25's, 14 Su-22's, 22 Mig-23's, 23 Mig-21bis's and 6 Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano (a turboprop aircraft tailor-made for counter-insurgency operations), 105 helicopters with some combative ability and 21 planes with some airlift capacity. That equated to 81 either air superiority, or multi-role jet fighters versus the 12 Union Air Force (actually the Bakongo Uni o de Cabinda e Zaire, For as Armadas de Liberta  o, For a Area ~ Liberation Armed Forces, Air Force (BUCZ-FAL-FA) Mig-21-97's.It would seem lopsided except for the thousands of hours of flight experience the 'Unionists' enjoyed over their Angolan rivals. You also needed to take into account the long training and fanatic dedication of their ground crews to their pilots and their craft. Then you needed to take into account every Unionist aircraft, while an older airframe design, had updated (usually to the year 2000) technology lovingly cared for, as if the survival of their People demanded it.A second and even more critical factor was the element of surprise. At least the PRC and the PLAAF had contingencies for attacks from their neighbors in the forefront of their strategic planning. The Angolans? The only country with ANY air force in the vicinity was the Republic of South Africa (RSA) and they had ceased being a threat with the end of Apartheid and the rise of majority Black rule in that country nearly two decades earlier.In the pre-dawn hours of 'Union Independence Day', the FAL-FA was going to smash every Angolan Air base and air defense facility within 375 miles of Cabinda (the city). Every three hours after that, they would be hitting another target within their designated 'Exclusion Zone'. Yes, this 'Exclusion Zone' included a 'tiny' bit of DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) territory. The DRC didn't have an air force to challenge them though, so,Inside this 'Exclusion Zone', anything moving by sea, river, road, rail, or air without Unionist governmental approval was subject to attack, which would require neutral parties to acknowledge some semblance of a free and independent B U C Z. Worse for Angola, this 'Zone' included Angola's capital and its largest port, Luanda, plus four more of their ten largest urban centers. This could be an economic, military and humanitarian catastrophe if mishandled.The Angolan Army did not have significant anti-aircraft assets. Why would they? Remember, no one around them had much of an air force to worry about. The FAL-FA in turn could hit military convoys with TV-guided munitions 'beyond line of sight', rendering what they did have useless. It got worse for the Army after dark. The FAL-FA could and would fly at night whereas the average Angolan formation had Zip-Zero-Nadda night fighting capacity.Then geography added its own mountain of woes. As far as Cabinda was concerned, there was no direct land line to their border from Angola. Their coastal road only went as far as the port of Soyo where the Congo River hit the South Atlantic Ocean. Across that massive gap was the DRC where the road was not picked back up. Far up the coast was the DRC town of Muanda (with an airport) and though they did have a road which went north, it did not continue to the Cabindan border.Nope. To get at Cabinda from the south meant a long, torturous travel through northeastern Angola, into the heart of the DRC then entailed hooking west to some point 'close' to the Cabindan frontier before finally hoofing it overland through partially cleared farmland and jungle. Mind you, the DRC didn't have a native air force capable of protecting the Angolans in their territory so,In fact the only 'road' to Cabinda came from the Republic of Congo (Congo) to the north and even that was a twisted route along some really bad, swampy terrain. This had been the pathway of conquest the Angolans took 39 years earlier. The difference being the tiny bands of pro-independence Cabindan guerillas back then couldn't hold a candle to the Amazons fighting to free Cabinda this time around in numbers, zeal, training and up-to-date equipment.Next option ~ to come by sea. They would face a few, stiff problems, such as the FAL-FA having ship-killer missiles, the Angolan Navy not being able to defend them and the Unionists having no compunction to not strike Pointe-Noire in the 'not so neutral' Republic of the Congo if they somehow began unloading Angolan troops. It seemed the Republic of the Congo didn't have much of an Air Force either.Before you think the FAL-FA was biting off more than they could chew, Cabinda, the province, was shaped somewhat like the US State of Delaware, was half the size of Connecticut (Cabinda was 2,810 sq. mi. to Conn.'s 5,543 sq. mi.) and only the western 20% was relatively open countryside where the Angolan Army's only advantage ~ they possessed armed fighting vehicles while the 'Unionists' did not (at this stage of planning) ~ could hopefully come into play.Centered at their capital, Cabinda (City), jets could reach any point along their border within eight minutes. Helicopters could make it in fifteen. To be safe, some of the FAL-FA would base at the town of Belize which was in the northern upcountry and much tougher to get at with the added advantage the Angolans wouldn't be expecting the FAL-FA to be using the abandoned airfield there, at least initially.Where they afraid attacking Angolan troops in the DRC would invite war with the DRC? Sure, but letting the Angolans reach the border unscathed was worse. Besides, the DRC was in such a mess it needed 23,000 UN Peacekeepers within her borders just to keep the country from falling apart. Barring outside, read European, intervention, did "Democratically-elected since 2001" President (for Life) Joseph Kabila want the FAL-FA to start dropping bombs on his capital, Kinshasa, which was well within reach of all their aircraft?Congo (the country), to the north, wasn't being propped up by the UN, or anything else except ill intentions. In reality, it hardly had much of a military at all. Its officer corps was chosen for political reliability, not merit, or capability. Their technology was old Cold War stuff with little effort to update anything and, if you suspected corruption might be a problem across all spectrums of life, you would 'probably' be right about that too.If you suspected the current President had been in charge for a while, you would be correct again (1979-1992 then 2001- and the 'whoops' was when he accidently let his country experiment with democracy which led to two civil wars). If you suspected he was a life-long Communist (along with the Presidents of the DRC and Angola), you'd be right about that as well. Somehow their shared Marxist-Leninist-Communist ideology hadn't quite translated over to alleviating the grinding poverty in any of those countries despite their vast mineral wealth,At this point in the region's history, little Cabinda had everything to gain by striving for independence and the vast majority of 'warriors' who could possibly be sent against her had terribly little to gain fighting and dying trying to stop them from achieving her goal. After all, their lives weren't going to get any better and with the Amazons ability ~ nay willingness ~ to commit battlefield atrocities, those leaders were going to find it hard going to keep sending their men off to die.And then, it got even worse.See, what I had pointed out was there were two oil refineries in Angola, and neither was in Cabinda. Cabinda would need a refinery to start making good on their oil wealth ~ aka economically bribe off the Western economies already shaken over the Khanate's first round of aggressions.But wait! There was an oil refinery just across the Congo River from Cabinda ~ which meant it was attached to mainland Angola. That had to be a passel of impossible news, right?Nope. As I said earlier, it seemed the people of northern Angola were the same racial group as the Cabindans AND majority Catholic while the ruling clique wasn't part of their ethnic confederacy plus the farther south and east into Angola you went, the less Catholic it became.But it got better. This province was historically its own little independent kingdom (called the Kingdom of Kongo) to boot! It had been abolished by Portugal back in 1914.The 'good' news didn't end there. Now, it wasn't as if the leadership of Angola was spreading the wealth around to the People much anyway, but these northerners had been particularly left out of this Marxist version of 'Trickle Down' economics.How bad was this? This northwestern province ~ called Zaire ~ didn't have any railroads, or paved roads, linking it to the rest of the freaking country. The 'coastal road' entered the province, but about a third of the way up ran into this river, which they'd failed to bridge (you had to use a single track bridge farther to the northeast, if you can believe it). It wasn't even a big river. It was still an obstacle though.How did the Angolan government and military planned to get around? Why by air and sea, of course. Well, actually by air. Angola didn't have much of a merchant marine, or Navy, to make sealift a serious consideration. Within hours of the 'Union Declaration of Independence' anything flying anywhere north of the Luanda, the capital of Angola, would essentially be asking to be blown out of the sky.Along the border between Zaire province and the rest of Angola were precisely two chokepoints. By 'chokepoints', I meant places where a squad (10 trained, modernly-equipped troopers) could either see everything for miles & miles over pretty much empty space along a river valley and the only bridge separating Zaire province from the south, or overlook a ravine which the only road had to pass through because of otherwise bad-ass, broken terrain.Two.Zaire Province had roughly the same population as Cabinda ~ 600,000. Unlike Cabinda, which consisted of Cabinda City plus a few tiny towns and rugged jungles, Zaire had two cities ~ Soyo, with her seventy thousand souls plus the refinery at the mouth of the Congo River, and M'banza-Kongo, the historical capital of the Kingdom of Kongo, spiritual center of the Bakongo People (who included the Cabindans) and set up in the highlands strategically very reminiscent of Điện Biàn Phủ.Of Zaire's provincial towns, the only other strategic one was N'Zeto with her crappy Atlantic port facility and 2,230 meter grass airport. The town was the northern terminus of the National Road 100 ~ the Coastal Road. It terminated because of the Mebridege River. There wasn't a bridge at N'Zeto though there was a small one several miles upstream. N'Zeto was also where the road from provinces east of Zaire ended up, so you had to have N'Zeto ~ and that tiny bridge ~ to move troops overland anywhere else in Zaire Province.So you would think it would be easy for the Angolan Army to defend then, except of how the Amazons planned to operate. They would infiltrate the area first then 'rise up in rebellion'. Their problem was the scope of the operation had magnified in risk of exposure, duration and forces necessary for success.The serious issue before Saint Marie and the Host in Africa were the first two. They could actually move Amazons from Brazil and North America to bolster their numbers for the upcoming offensive. Even in the short-short term, equipment wouldn't be a serious problem. What the Amazons dreaded was being left in a protracted slugfest with the Angolan Army which the Condottieri could jump in on. The Amazons exceedingly preferred to strike first then vanish.There was reason to believe a tiny number could have stayed behind in Cabinda to help the locals prepare their military until they could defend themselves. They would need more than a hundred Amazons if Cabinda wanted to incorporate Zaire. The answer was to call back their newfound buddy, the Great Khan. While he didn't have much else he could spare (the Khanate was ramping up for their invasion of the Middle East after all, the Kurds needed the help), he had other allies he could call on.India couldn't help initially since they were supposed to supply the 'Peace-keepers' once a cease-fire had been arranged. That left Temujin with his solid ally, Vietnam, and his far shakier allies, the Republic of China and Japan.First off ~ Japan could not help, which meant they couldn't supply troops who might very well end up dead, or far worse, captured.. What they did have was a surplus of older equipment the ROC troops were familiar with, so while the ROC was gearing up for their own invasion of mainland China in February, they were willing to help the Chinese kill Angolans, off the books, of course.The ROC was sending fifteen hundred troops the Khanate's way to help in this West African adventure with the understanding they'd be coming home by year's end. With Vietnam adding over eight hundred of her own Special Forces, the Amazons had the tiny 'allied' army they could leave shielding Cabinda/Zaire once the first round of blood-letting was over.To be 'fair', the Republic of China and Vietnam asked for 'volunteers'. It wasn't like either country was going to declare war on Angola directly. Nearly a thousand members of Vietnam's elite 126th Regiment of the 5th Brigade (Đặc cáng bộ) took early retirement then misplaced their equipment as they went to update their visas and inoculations before heading out for the DRC (some would be slipping over the DRC/Cabindan border).On Taiwan, it was the men and women of the 602nd Air Cavalry Brigade, 871st Special Operations Group and 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion who felt the sudden desire to 'seek enlightenment elsewhere, preferably on another continent'.They too were off to the Democratic Republic of Congo, man that country was a mess and their border security wasn't worth writing home about, that's for damn sure, via multiple Southeast Asian nations. Besides, they were being issued fraudulently visas which showed them to be from the People's Republic of China, not the ROC/Taiwan. If they were captured, they were to pretend to "be working for a Communist Revolution inside Angola and thus to be setting all of Africa on fire!" aka be Mainland Chinese.There, in the DRC, these Chinese stumbled across, some Japanese. These folks hadn't retired. No. They were on an extended assignment for the UN's mission in, the DRC. OH! And look! They'd brought tons of surplus, outdated Japanese Self Defense Forces' equipment with them, and there just so happened to be some Taiwanese who had experience in using such equipment (both used US-style gear).And here was Colonel Yoshihiro Isami of the Chūō Sokuō Shūdan (Japan's Central Readiness Force) wondering why he and his hastily assembled team had just unloaded,18 Fuji/Bell AH-1S Cobra Attack helicopters,6 Kawasaki OH-6D Loach Scout helicopters,12 Fuji-Bell 204-B-2 Hiyodori Utility helicopters,6 Kawasaki/Boeing CH-47JA Chinook Transport helicopters and4 Mitsubishi M U-2L-1 Photo Reconnaissance Aircraft.Yep! 46 more aircraft for the FAL-FA!Oh, and if this wasn't 'bad enough', the Chinese hadn't come alone. They'd brought some old aircraft from their homes to aid in the upcoming struggle. Once more, these things were relics of the Cold War yet both capable fighting machines and, given the sorry state of the opposition, definitely quite deadly. A dozen F-5E Tiger 2000 configured primarily for air superiority plus two RF-5E Tigergazer for reconnaissance, pilots plus ground crews, of course.Thus, on the eve of battle, the FAL-FA had become a true threat. Sure, all of its planes (and half of its pilots) were pretty old, but they were combat-tested and in numbers and experience no other Sub-Saharan African nation could match.The Liberation Ground Forces:But wait, there was still the niggling little problem of what all those fellas were going to fight with once they were on the ground. Assault/Battle rifles, carbines, rifles, pistols, PDW, SMGs as bullets, grenades and RPG's were all terrifyingly easy to obtain. The coast of West Africa was hardly the Port of London as far as customs security went. They were going to need some bigger toys and their host nations were going to need all their native hardware for their upcoming battles at home.And it wasn't like you could advertise for used IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicles), APCs (armored personnel carriers) and tanks on e-Bay, Amazon.com, or Twitter. If something modern US, or NATO, was captured rolling around the beautiful Angolan countryside, shooting up hostile Angolans, all kinds of head would roll in all kinds of countries, unless the country,A) had an Executive Branch and Judiciary who wouldn't ask (or be answering) too many uncomfortable questions,B) wasn't all that vulnerable to international pressure,C) really needed the money and,D) didn't give a fuck their toys would soon be seen on BBC/CNN/Al Jazeera blowing the ever-living crap out of a ton of Africans aka doing what they were advertised to do and doing it very well in the hands of capable professionals.And politics was kind enough to hand the freedom-loving people of Cabinda & Zaire a winner, and it wasn't even from strangers, or at least people all that strange to their part of the Globe. If you would have no idea who to look for, you wouldn't be alone.That was the magic of the choice. See, the last three decades had seen the entire Globe take a colossal dump on them as a Nation and a People. They were highly unpopular for all sorts of things, such as Crimes Against Humanity and 'no', we were not talking about the Khanate.We would be talking about Република Србија / Republika Srbija aka Serbia aka the former Yugoslavia who had watched all their satellite minions (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia) slip away. Despite being reduced to a tiny fraction of their former selves thus fighting two incredibly brutal and bloody World Wars for nothing, Serbia insisted on maintaining a robust armaments industry.Mind you, they didn't make the very best stuff on the planet. That didn't stop them from trying though. Of equal importance was their geographic location and the above mentioned desire for some hard currency without asking too many questions. The geography was simple, you could move even heavy gear unnoticed from central Serbia to the Montenegrin port of Bar by rail and load them up on freighters and off to the Congo you went.The Serbians produced an APC called the BVP M-80A's which weren't blowing anyone's minds away when they started rolling off the production lines back in 1982, plus some over-eager types on the Serbian Army's payroll sweetened the deal by offering 'the rebels' some BVP M-80 KC's and a KB as well.Then they slathered on the sugary-sweet Maple syrup by upgrading a few of the M-80A's to BVP M-98A's. Why would they be so generous? The KC's and KB were the Command & Control variants, so that made sense (C = company & B = battalion commander). The -98A had never been tested in the field before and they were kind of curious how the new turrets (which was the major difference) would behave. 'Our' procurement agents didn't quibble. We needed the gear.Besides, these Slavic entrepreneurs gave them an inside track on some 'disarmed/mothballed' Czech (introduced in 1963) armored mobile ambulances and Polish BWP-1 (first rolled out in 1966) APC's which were either in, or could be quickly configured into, the support variants those ground-fighters would need. The 'disarmed' part was 'fixable', thanks to both the Serbians and Finland. The 'missing' basic weaponry was something the Serbians could replace with virtually identical equipment.It just kept getting better. Unknown to me at the time, the Finnish firm, Patria Hágglunds, had sold twenty-two of their 'most excellent' AMOS turrets ~ they are a twin 120 mm mortar system ~ then the deal fell through. Whoops! Should have guarded that warehouse better. Those bitches were on a cargo plane bound for Albania inside of six hours.The ammunition for them was rather unique. Thankfully, it was uniquely sold by the Swiss, who had no trouble selling it to Serbia, thank you very much! Twenty-two BWP-1's became mobile artillery for the Unionist freedom fighters, though I understood the ship ride with the Serbian and Chinese technicians was loads of fun as they struggled to figured out how to attach those state-of-the-art death-dealing turrets to those ancient contraptions.To compensate, the Serbians added (aka as long as our money was good) two Nora B-52 155 mm 52-calibre mobile artillery pieces and one battery of Orkan CER MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) for long-range artillery, two batteries of their Oganj 2000 ER MRLS for medium range carnage and six batteries of their M-94 MRLS for 'close support' as well. More field-testing new gear for the "freedom fighters" We also managed to 'purchase' ten M-84AS Main Battle tanks plus an M-84A1 armor recovery vehicle. It should have been twelve tanks, but two had 'loading issues'.Not to be deterred, our busy little procurement-beavers discovered four tanks no one was using, in neighboring Croatia. Why wasn't anyone immediately keen on their placement? They were two sets of prototypes, Croatia's improvements on the M-84; the M-95 Degman which was a 'failed redesign' and the M-84D, which was a vast up-grade for the M-84 line which had been sidelined by the 2008 Global economic collapse, after which the project stagnated.It seemed they were all in working order because late one night 'my people' exited a Croatian Army base with them, never to be seen again, until two weeks later when an intrepid news crew caught the distinctive form of the M-95 sending some sweet 125 mm loving the Angolan Army's way. Whoops yet again! At least they hit what they were aiming at and destroyed what they hit, right?By then, millions of other people would be going 'what the fuck?' right along with them as Cabinda's camouflage- and mask-wearing rebel army was laying the smack-down on the Angolans. That was okay; over a million 'free Cabindan Unionists' were in the same boat. Over a thousand Asians with their mostly-female militant translators were right there to prop up their 'Unionist Allies', but then they were the ones with the tanks, armored vehicles, planes and guns, so they were less worried than most.To pilot these tanks, APC, IFV and man this artillery, they had to go back to the Khanate. Sure enough, they had some old tankers used to crewing the T-72 from which the M-84's and -95 Degman were derived. They'd also need drivers for those BVP M-80A's and Polish BWP-1's and OT-64 SKOT's... who were, again, derived from old Soviet tech (just much better). The Serbian artillery was similar enough to Soviet stuff, but with enough new tech to make it 'more fun' for the reservists to 'figure out' how to use.More volunteers for the Liberation Armed Forces! More Apple sales, great apps and voice modulation software so that the vehicle commanders would be heard communicating in Portuguese if someone was eavesdropping. As a final offering the Turkish Navy spontaneously developed some plans to test their long range capabilities by going to, the South Atlantic.On the final leg they would have six frigates and two submarines, enough to give any navy in the region, which wasn't Brazil, something to think about. This was a show of force, not an actual threat though. If anyone called their bluff, the Khanate-Turkish forces would have to pull back. These were not assets my Brother, the Great Khan, could afford to gamble and lose.If someone didn't call that bluff, he was also sending two smaller, older corvettes and three even smaller, but newer, fast attack boats, a "gift" to the Unionists ASAP. The frigates would then race home, they had 'other' issues to deal with while the submarines would hang around for a bit. The naval gift was necessitated by the reality the Unionists would have to press their claim to their off-shore riches and that required a naval force Angola couldn't hope to counter.As things were developing, it was reckoned since a build-up of such momentous land and air power couldn't be disguised, it had to happen in a matter of days ~ four was decided to be the minimum amount of time. More than that and the government of the Democratic Republic might start asking far too many questions our hefty bribes and dubious paperwork couldn't cover. Less than that would leave the task forces launching operations with too little a chance of success.Our biggest advantage was audacity. The buildup would happen 100 km up the Congo River from Soyo, the primary target of the Southern Invasion, in the DRC's second largest port city, Boma. Though across the river was Angolan territory, there was nothing there. The city of roughly 160,000 would provide adequate cover for the initial stage of the invasion.There they grouped their vehicles & Khanate drivers with Amazon and Vietnamese combat teams. The Japanese were doing the same for their 'Chinese' counterparts for their helicopter-borne forces. Getting all their equipment in working order in the short time left was critical as was creating some level of unit dynamic. Things were chaotic. No one was happy. They were all going in anyway.What had gone wrong?While most children her age were texting their schoolmates, or tackling their homework, Aya Ruger ~ the alias of Nasusara Assiyaiá hamai ~ was getting briefings of her global, secret empire worth hundreds of billions and those of her equally nefarious compatriots. She received a very abbreviated version of what the Regents received, delivered by a member of Shawnee Arinniti's staff.When Aya hopped off her chair unexpectedly, everyone tensed. Her bodyguards' hands went to their sidearms and Lorraine (her sister by blood), also in the room on this occasion, stood and prepared to tackle her 'former' sibling to the ground if the situation escalated into an assassination attempt. No such attack was generated, so the security ratcheted down and the attendant returned her focus to her Queen. Aya paced four steps, turned and retraced her way then repeated the action three more times."How many people live in the combined areas?" she asked."The combined areas? Of Cabinda and Zaire?""Yes.""I," the woman referenced her material, "roughly 1.1 million.""What is the yearly value of the offshore oil and natural gas production?""Forty-nine billion, eighty hundred and sixty-seven million by our best estimates at this time,""How many live in Soyo City proper?""Roughly 70,000.""We take Soyo," she spoke in a small yet deliberate voice. "We take and hold Soyo as an independent city-state within the Cabindan-Zaire Union. From the maps it appears Soyo is a series of islands. It has a port and airport. It has an open border to an ocean with weaker neighbors all around.""What of the, Zairians?""Bakongo. As a people they are called the Bakongo," Aya looked up at the briefer. "We relocate those who need to work in Soyo into a new city, built at our expense, beyond the southernmost water barrier. The rest we pay to relocate elsewhere in Zaire, or Cabinda."By the looks of those around her, Aya realized she needed to further explain her decisions."This is more than some concrete home base for our People," she began patiently. "In the same way it gives our enemies a clearly delineated target to attack us, it is a statement to our allies we won't cut and run if things go truly bad.""In the same way it will provide us with diplomatic recognition beyond what tenuous handouts we are getting from Cáel Wakko Ishara's efforts through JIKIT. Also, it is a reminder we are not like the other Secret Societies in one fundamental way, we are not a business concern, or a religion. We are a People and people deserve some sort of homeland. We have gone for so long without.""But Soyo?" the aide protested. "We have no ties to it, and it backs up to, nothing.""Northern Turkey and southern Slovakia mean nothing to us now as well," Aya debated. "No place on Earth is any more precious than another. As for backing up to nothing, no. You are incorrect. It backs into a promise from our allies in the Earth & Sky that if we need support, they know where to park their planes and ships."Aya was surrounded with unhappy, disbelieving looks."The Great Khan is my mamētu meáeda," she reminded them, "and I have every reason to believe he completely grasps the concept's benefits and obligations."The looks confirmed 'but he's a man' to the tiny Queen."Aya, are you sure about this?" Lorraine was the first to break decorum."Absolutely. Do you know what he sent me when he was informed of my, ascension to the Queendom?""No," Lorraine admitted."We must go horse-riding sometime soon, Daughter of Cáel, Queen of the Amazons."More uncertain and unconvinced looks."He didn't congratulate me, or send any gifts. He could have and you would think he would have, but he didn't. He knew the hearts of me & my Atta and we weren't in the celebratory mood. No. The Great Khan sent one sentence which offered solace and quiet, atop a horse on a windswept bit of steppe."Nothing.Sigh. "I know this sounds Cáel-ish," Aya admitted, "but I strongly believe this is what we should do. We are giving the Cabindans and Bakongo in Zaire independence and the promise of a much better life than what they now face. We will be putting thousands of our sisters' lives on the line to accomplish this feat and well over two hundred million dollars.""What about governance of the city ~ Soyo?" the aide forged ahead."Amazon law," Aya didn't hesitate. "We will make allowances for the security forces of visiting dignitaries and specific allied personnel, but otherwise it will be one massive Amazon urban freehold.""I cannot imagine the Golden Mare, or the Regents, will be pleased," the attendant bowed her head."It is a matter of interconnectivity," Aya walked up and touched the woman's cheek with the back of her small hand. "We could liberate then abandon Cabinda with the hope a small band could help them keep their independence. Except we need the refinery at Soyo so the people of Cabinda can truly support that liberty.""So, we must keep Soyo and to keep Soyo, we must keep Zaire province. There is no other lesser border which makes strategic sense ~ a river, highlands, a massive river, an ocean ~ those are sustainable frontiers. You can't simply keep Soyo and not expect the enemy to strike and destroy that refinery, thus we must take Zaire province.""But the Bakongo of Zaire cannot defend themselves and will not be able to do so for at least a year, if not longer. That means we must do so, and for doing so, they will give us Soyo and we will be honest stewards of their oil wealth. We cannot expect any other power to defend this new Union and if we don't have a land stake we will be portrayed as mercenaries and expelled by hostile international forces.""So, for this project to have any chance of success, we must stay, fight and have an acknowledged presence, and if you can think of an alternative, please let me know," she exhaled."What if the Cabindans and Bakongo resist?""It is 'us', or the Angolans and they know how horrible the Angolans can be. Didn't you say the average person their lives on just $2 a day?""Yes.""We can do better than that," Aya insisted."How?" the aide persisted. "I mean, 'how in a way which will be quickly evident and meaningful?'""Oh," Aya's tiny brow furrowed. Her nose twitched as she rummaged through the vast storehouse of her brain."Get me in touch with William A. Miller, Director of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service. He should be able to help me navigate the pathways toward getting aid and advisors into those two provinces ASAP.""I'll let Katrina know," the attendant made the notation on her pad."No. Contact him directly," Aya intervened. "We established a, rapport when we met. I think he might responded positively to a chance to mentor me in foreign relations.""Really?" Lorraine's brows arched."Yes," Aya chirped."Are you sure, Nasusara?" the attendant stared. She used 'Nasusara' whenever she thought Aya had a 'horrible' idea instead of a merely a 'bad' one."Yes. He owes me. Last time we met I didn't shoot him.""Didn't?" the woman twitched."Yes. I drew down on him with my captured Chinese QSW-06. I didn't want to kill him, but I felt I was about to have to kill Deputy National Security Advisor Blinken and he was the only other person in the room both armed and capable of stopping me.""Why is he still alive?""Cáel Ishara saw through my distraction and then took my gun from me, asked for it actually," she shyly confessed."Would you have shot him?" the aide inquired."What do you think?" Aya smiled.And Then:So, given t

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THIS WEEK! We have another returning guest with Sergei Antonov, and once again we take a look at The Russian Empire. This time we take a look at what life was like in the Russian Empire. From the lowest serf to the Russian Soldier, To the Nobility, and the Russian Tsar. Find out all this, and much more. This week on "Well That Aged Well", with "Erlend Hedegart".Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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La chute du régime Assad en Syrie va-t-elle peser sur la stratégie russe en Afrique ? C'est la grande question qui se pose depuis dimanche en Afrique, notamment dans les pays alliés de la Russie comme la Centrafrique et les trois pays de l'Alliance des États du Sahel. La perte éventuelle des bases militaires russes en Syrie va-t-elle impacter le rayonnement stratégique de Moscou ? Et y a-t-il des bases de rechange pour les Russes ? Analyse du général Jérôme Pellistrandi, rédacteur en chef de la revue Défense nationale, au micro de RFI. RFI : En quoi les bases russes de Syrie sont-elles importantes pour les stratèges russes qui opèrent en Afrique ?Jérôme Pellistrandi : Alors, ces bases, il faut souligner qu'il y a donc à la fois des bases navales, donc en Méditerranée orientale, ce qui est extrêmement important pour Moscou, parce que Moscou, vous savez, ne dispose pas de cet accès aux mers chaudes. Il faut passer par le Bosphore et par la mer Noire, et donc les bases navales permettaient aux Russes de sillonner la Méditerranée, d'aller éventuellement en mer Rouge. Et donc c'était un point stratégique majeur. Et Moscou disposait aussi de bases aériennes en Syrie, qui lui permettaient d'être à la fois un acteur important dans la région, mais également d'être sur la voie vers l'Afrique, en particulier vers le Sahel. Donc, ces bases aériennes étaient très importantes dans la logistique russe et permettaient en fait aux Russes d'avoir ce point d'appui qui leur permettait de rayonner sur le Proche et Moyen-Orient et sur l'Afrique.Est-ce que les gros porteurs russes, les Antonov, les Iliouchine peuvent aller directement de Russie à Bangui ou à Bamako, ou est-ce qu'ils doivent faire une escale sur la route ?C'est loin pour les gros porteurs russes pour effectivement aller jusque Bamako ou à Niamey. Ces bases aériennes en Syrie permettaient en quelque sorte d'avoir une allonge supplémentaire vers l'Afrique, que ce soit par exemple le Soudan, que ça soit le Tchad, le Niger ou le Mali.Alors ce que vous appelez une allonge, c'est la possibilité pour les avions gros porteurs russes de ravitailler sur leurs bases de Syrie, c'est ça ?Oui, par exemple, c'étaient vraiment des plateformes extrêmement utiles qui permettaient de stocker du matériel, donc des plateformes on va dire multi usages pour l'armée russe. Et qui permettaient aussi aux militaires russes en quelque sorte de s'entraîner sur des populations civiles qui étaient à leur merci.Alors aujourd'hui, est-ce que vous pensez que les Russes vont être en mesure de conserver leur base navale de Tartous et leur base aérienne de Hmeimim ?C'est une question qui est sur la table. Est-ce que les nouvelles autorités syriennes accepteront moyennant contrepartie ? Au mieux, je pense que les Russes pourraient conserver la base navale parce que, sans cette base navale, ils ne peuvent plus être présents en Méditerranée orientale.Alors évidemment, les stratèges russes réfléchissent à des bases de repli. À quelles bases peuvent-ils penser ?Très sincèrement, il n'y a pas beaucoup de possibilités en dehors de la Libye. Donc la partie du maréchal Khalifa Haftar à l'Est, il y a bien sûr l'Algérie. Mais est-ce que l'Algérie voudra avoir une présence permanente de la Russie ? Donc on voit bien que l'échiquier stratégique russe dans cette partie du monde est en train de changer brutalement, sans pour autant que les Russes aient toutes les cartes en main.On peut donc imaginer une base navale russe à Tobrouk et une base aérienne russe à Benghazi, chez le maréchal Haftar ? Éventuellement. La seule chose, c'est que le maréchal Haftar est quelqu'un qui joue aussi sur tous les tableaux. Certes, il bénéficie de l'appui des Russes, mais il a aussi besoin que les Occidentaux, je pense aux États-Unis, la France, voire l'Égypte, le laissent tranquille. Et donc pour Moscou, le grand plan, qui consiste à se rapprocher des mers chaudes, est totalement remis en cause avec l'effondrement du régime de Bachar el-Assad.Alors il y a les conséquences stratégiques de la chute du régime Assad. Il y a aussi l'impact politique sur les alliés africains de la Russie. Quel peut être cet impact, ne serait-ce que d'un point de vue psychologique ?Ah ben, je pense que, sur le plan psychologique, certains membres des juntes doivent se poser des questions quant au soutien russe. Puisque on le voit bien dans le cadre de ce qui s'est passé en Syrie, la seule solution qu'a pu apporter Moscou, c'est l'exfiltration de la famille de Bachar el-Assad. Donc, on peut supposer que les juntes, qui ont un ton très agressif contre l'Occident, et je pense notamment contre la France, vont peut-être mettre, excusez-moi de l'expression, de l'eau dans leur vin, parce qu'on voit bien que Moscou n'est pas capable en fait de gérer plusieurs guerres simultanément. L'Ukraine accapare l'essentiel des capacités militaires de la Russie. Et donc il n'est pas dit que Moscou soit prêt à envoyer des centaines de mercenaires de ce qui était Wagner pour soutenir ces juntes. Donc, il risque d'y avoir une attitude plus prudente des juntes, parce que le soutien de Moscou, visiblement, il n'est plus du tout inconditionnel. Donc, on risque d'avoir beaucoup de nouvelles surprises en 2025 au Sahel avec peut-être des mouvements de rébellion qui vont profiter de l'occasion. Donc, il faut rester très vigilant sur ce qui va se passer au Sahel, dans les mois à venir.À lire aussiChute du régime en Syrie: quel avenir pour les bases russes, essentielles aux opérations en Afrique?

Anastasia nos cuenta la historia de su relación con su padre. Él era ruso, estudió en Kazan y fue destinado a Kiev a trabajar en el Antonov, el avión más grande jamás construido, que fue destruido por los rusos en los primeros meses de la invasión. Anastasia nació en Kiev y fue la primera de su familia en recibir educación en ucraniano. La historia, y otras cosas, explica, la separaron de su padre hasta que falleció, solo, en Kiev, viendo canales de televisión rusos, mientras el resto de la familia se refugiaba en el oeste.'Diario de Ucrania' es un podcast que publicamos todos los miércoles en el que encontrarás el contexto necesario para entender lo que está pasando en la guerra tras la invasión rusa. Escuchamos a analistas, militares, periodistas, trabajadores humanitarios y a los ciudadanos ucranianos y rusos que sufren en primera persona este conflicto.Escuchar audio

Neste segundo episódio da série Fronteiras da Reportagem, dois personagens improváveis são apresentados ao público. Em ambas as histórias, eles viram as tropas russas passarem, mas o que aconteceu com cada um deles, e como eles ficaram depois, é completamente diferente.

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Anastasia nos cuenta la historia de su relación con su padre. Él era ruso, estudió en Kazan y fue destinado a Kiev a trabajar en el Antonov, el avión más grande jamás construido, que fue destruido por los rusos en los primeros meses de la invasión. Anastasia nació en Kiev y fue la primera de su familia en recibir educación en ucraniano. La historia, y otras cosas, explica, la separaron de su padre hasta que falleció, solo, en Kiev, viendo canales de televisión rusos, mientras el resto de la familia se refugiaba en el oeste.'Diario de Ucrania' es un podcast que publicamos todos los miércoles en el que encontrarás el contexto necesario para entender lo que está pasando en la guerra tras la invasión rusa. Escuchamos a analistas, militares, periodistas, trabajadores humanitarios y a los ciudadanos ucranianos y rusos que sufren en primera persona este conflicto.Escuchar audio

Francesco Pala"L'ultimo viaggio di Lenin"Neri Pozzawww.neripozza.itAutunno 1942, Siberia. Il sergente Dorotov ha pianificato il viaggio in ogni dettaglio. L'automezzo, un camion di fabbricazione sovietica ZIS-6, abbandonato dall'Armata Rossa per una falla nel radiatore, partirà da Tjumen' e attraverserà una serie di centri urbani per sottrarsi alle insidie delle campagne che potrebbero celare agenti della controrivoluzione. In ogni città dovrebbe esserci un manipolo di uomini scelti, pronto a contenere i rischi. L'uso della violenza non è stato escluso a priori. Lo scopo, uno solo: sottrarre al controllo delle autorità sovietiche il corpo imbalsamato di Vladimir Il'ič Ul'janov, anche noto come Lenin, che è stato spostato in fretta e furia dalla capitale minacciata dall'invasione nazista. Insieme al sergente Dorotov ci sono il soldato semplice Antonov, reduce da una lobotomia per aver notato una certa mobilità nel venerabile cadavere, e Olga, una donna dagli occhi verdi e ostinati che sembrano suggerire a chi le sta intorno l'urgenza di un matrimonio per spegnere quell'impudenza nel suo sguardo. Dietro di loro, l'impetuosa avanzata della 4 a armata corazzata tedesca del generale Hoth. Alla fine del percorso, sulla mappa, una sola scritta: Itinerarium mentis in Lenin. È così che l'ascetica determinazione del sergente Dorotov conduce i suoi compagni in un pellegrinaggio fisico e mentale attraverso la Grande Russia, un'avventura del pensiero alla ricerca della moralità incorrotta, della totale integrità ideologica, dell'assenza dei guasti che hanno rovinato il socialismo. In altre parole, di un mondo utopico e perfetto. Uno in cui nemmeno la morte esista più. La Repubblica popolare di Leninesia.Francesco Pala, nato a Nuoro, professore di filosofia e storia, è stato direttore responsabile della rivista Giornale critico di storia delle idee. Studioso del pensiero postmoderno, ha pubblicato saggi dedicati a G. Deleuze, F. Nietzsche, B. Spinoza e P.P. Pasolini. Il suo ultimo romanzo, DDR-Dominio della resa (Bibliotheka), è del 2018. IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Welcome to Independent Americans. And welcome to March.  The weather is changing. It's warming up and spring is so close you can almost smell it. But instead you're probably smelling something different in the air. Something a lot less pleasant. It's a smell that's always been pervasive in Washington, DC and also on television and the airwaves. But in the last couple of years the smell has gotten out of control. It's everywhere. It comes out of random strangers at random times. You can't escape it. It's everywhere. It's bullshit. Whether it's a government shutdown, or America abandoning Ukraine, or two old men apparently nobody wants for President running for President, we are drowning in bullshit. And when you're drowning in bullshit, you've got to reach for the truth. And you're gonna get it in this episode. From Paul Rieckhoff on Nikki Haley dropping out, Biden being too old, Trump being too toxic, SecDef Austin being too slow, and much more. To include Ukraine.  Tim Mak (@timkmak) is a man on a mission to find the truth. Tim is an investigative journalist with a background in politics, national security, and emergency medicine. He's the author of a book about the inner workings of the NRA, titled 'Misfire.' and he's a former U.S. Army medic and EMT. His writing has been featured in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Politico Magazine, and the L.A. Times. And you can hear him regularly on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Politics Podcast. He's reported abroad from such places as Ukraine, South Sudan, Djibouti, Israel, Japan and Hong Kong. And now, he's launched his own new media venture called The Counteroffensive. He's taking people deep inside the war in Ukraine. And he joins host Paul Rieckhoff for a look behind the front lines at the people who are feeling abandoned and betrayed by America. It's a heavy dose of truth, but it's a lot better than the bullshit. If you like bullshit, this ain't your place. Every episode of Independent Americans hosted by Paul Rieckhoff is the truth beyond the headlines–and light to contrast the heat of other politics and news shows. It's content for the 49% of Americans that proudly call themselves independent. And it always delivers the Righteous Media 5 Is: independence, integrity, information, inspiration and impact. Always with a unique focus on national security, foreign affairs and military and veterans issues. This is another pod to help you stay vigilant. Because vigilance is the price of democracy. In these trying times especially, Independent Americans will continue to be your trusted place for independent news, politics, inspiration and hope.  -Join the movement. Hook into our exclusive Patreon community of Independent Americans. Get extra content, connect with guests, meet other Independent Americans, attend events, get merch discounts, and support this show that speaks truth to power.  - WATCH video of Paul and Tim's conversation on our YouTube channel here. -Join Paul in Austin, Texas this weekend on Saturday, March 9 at a free Independent Voters MeetUp during South By Southwest.  -Or also in Austin for SXSW on Tuesday for an Army Futures Command panel at for our 10AM panel:  POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH: ALTERNATIVE HELP FOR INVISIBLE INJURIES: https://dodxtech.com/schedule/ -Check the hashtag #LookForTheHelpers on social media. And share yours.  -Find us on social media or www.IndependentAmericans.us. And get cool IA and Righteous hats, t-shirts and other merch.  -Check out other powerful, independent Righteous podcasts like The Firefighters Podcast with Rob Serra, Uncle Montel - The OG of Weed and B Dorm.  Independent Americans is powered by Righteous Media. America's next great independent media company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investors and companies in the life science industry have been betting a lot of money over the last few years on a single idea: that computation will help us get a lot better at developing new drugs. But the word “computation” covers a pretty broad range of techniques. And the reason that there are dozens if not hundreds of computational drug discovery startups popping up is that everyone has their own hypothesis about what specific kind of computation is going to be the most powerful.For example, you might be convinced that the most important thing is to understand the physics of protein-protein interactions, at an atomic level. And so you would put your money into atomic-scale simulations that show how proteins fold or unfold to form different shapes under different conditions. Or you might think that it's more important to model proteins at the molecular scale, to make predictions about whether and how a particular drug molecule might dock with a target protein. Or you might think that it's smarter to try to model whole cells and see how different molecular pathways interact to affect different functions of the cell. Or you might not care about the details of physics- or chemistry-based models at all. In that case could just take a big generative AI model, similar to a large language model, and train it on huge amounts of unlabeled data about genes and proteins in diseases cells and healthy cells to see what kinds of predictions it comes up with.It's too early to say which of these computational approaches—and which level or scale of focus—is going to be the most fruitful. But maybe you don't have to choose. Maybe you can bet on all of these different ideas, all at once. Harry's guests this week are the CEO and CSO of a startup that's taking an all-of-the-above approach. It's called Deep Origin, and it was formed last year from the merger of two companies founded by theoretical chemist Garegin Papoian and software builder Michael Antonov. Antonov helped to found the virtual reality hardware company Oculus. After Facebook acquired Oculus, he got curious about longevity and how software could help untangle the trillions of gene-protein interactions that mediate health and disease. He founded a company called Formic Labs to dig into that problem, and last year the company changed its name to Deep Origin. Papoian, meanwhile, is a former academic scientist who's who also took the helm as CEO of his startup AI and who's interested in how to use software to model molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry. Recently Antonov and Papoian decided to join forces, and Biosim AI merged into Deep Origin. They say the company's philosophy is that physics-based modeling by itself won't be enough to build a powerful drug discovery engine. But neither will generative AI, which requires more training data than lab scientists will ever be able to provide. They think the only reasonable approach today is to combine the two, and use both physics and AI to try to get better at predicting which molecules could become effective drugs.Exactly how Antonov and Papoian came to their conclusion, and how that integration is playing out, was the main theme of this week's conversation. It's important stuff, because if Deep Origin is right, then a lot of other more specialized biotech and techbio startups could be going down the wrong path. For a full transcript of this episode, please visit our episode page at http://www.glorikian.com/podcast Please rate and review The Harry Glorikian Show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Here's how to do that on Apple Podcasts:1. Open the Podcasts app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. 2. Navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show podcast. You can find it by searching for it or selecting it from your library. Just note that you'll have to go to the series page which shows all the episodes, not just the page for a single episode.3. Scroll down to find the subhead titled "Ratings & Reviews."4. Under one of the highlighted reviews, select "Write a Review."5. Next, select a star rating at the top — you have the option of choosing between one and five stars. 6. Using the text box at the top, write a title for your review. Then, in the lower text box, write your review. Your review can be up to 300 words long.7. Once you've finished, select "Send" or "Save" in the top-right corner. 8. If you've never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed next to any reviews you leave from here on out. 9. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible.On Spotify, the process is similar. Open the Spotify app, navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show, tap the three dots, then tap "Rate Show." Thanks!

- Những mảnh vỡ của chiếc máy bay vận tải quân sự Antonov-32 – AN-32 của Không quân Ấn Độ bị mất tích cách đây hơn 7 năm vừa được tìm thấy ở ngoài khơi vùng biển phía Nam nước này. Chủ đề : Không quân Ấn Độ, tìm thấy máy bay mất tích, sau 7 năm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vov1tintuc/support

En el próximo capítulo de El Brieff, discutiremos temas de actualidad como la denuncia de Xóchitl Gálvez contra Claudia Sheinbaum y AMLO por desvío de recursos, el pacto político en Coahuila revelado por AMLO, la acusación de Sudáfrica contra Israel en la CIJ, la incautación de un petrolero por Irán, el aumento de la inflación en EE.UU., el liderazgo de China en energías renovables, la adquisición de Southwestern Energy por Chesapeake, el intercambio de liderazgo en valor de mercado entre Microsoft y Apple, los despidos en Google, la extensión de la vida útil de aviones Antonov en Rusia, y la salida de Bill Belichick de los Patriots.Apoya este podcast suscribiéndote a Brieffy y accede a todo nuestro contenido para líderes de negocios. Descarga nuestra app aquí. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Il est ici question de la levée des sanctions de la Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cédéao) réclamée par Niamey. L'évènement Niger détaille les arguments du président du tribunal de la Cour de justice de la Cédéao : la requête est jugée « irrecevable », notamment parce que ceux qui représentent actuellement l'état du Niger, sont des militaires qui ont pris le pouvoir par la force, et ne sont donc pas reconnus par la Cédéao et par tous les protocoles que le Niger a signés, a estimé la Cour de justice.Mouryyaniger de son côté parle du « blackout de la Cour de justice de la Cédéao sur le pays du général Tiani. Beaucoup de pères fondateurs de l'organisation communautaire régionale vont se remuer dans leur tombe », ajoute Mourrya qui pose la question : « Est-ce un devoir d'ingratitude de la part d'un organe judiciaire issu d'une institution régionale communautaire fondée à Abuja en 1975 par des militaires ayant tous pris le pouvoir d'État par la force dans leurs pays ? » Mouryyaniger ne cache pas son désaccord face à la décision de la Cour de justice de la Cédéao : « L'instance judiciaire de l'organisation régionale vient conforter la décision des chefs d'État pour davantage aggraver les sanctions sévères et illégales contre les populations que la justice communautaire n'examinera même plus. »Les pays de la région commentent la décision judiciaireC'est ainsi qu'Aujourd'hui au Faso rappelle que les avocats du Niger avaient « soulevé le fait que les sanctions étaient trop drastiques pour les populations à cause du manque de nourriture, médicament et électricité ». Le quotidien remarque aussi que cette décision de justice « intervient à trois jours d'un sommet de la Cédéao, au cours duquel, le plat de résistance sera Mali-Burkina-Niger, pays "putschés", lesquels avec l'Alliance des États du Sahel sont en train de vouloir s'émanciper de la Cédéao ».Le Niger, il en est encore question, avec le Mali, au sujet des liens fiscaux avec la France. Les deux pays ont en effet décidé de « rompre » ces liens fiscaux, annonce bamada.net. Le site d'information malien reprend leur argumentaire : « Les présidents de la transition, le colonel Assimi Goïta du Mali et le général Abdourahamane Tiani du Niger, ont pris cette décision afin de préserver les intérêts supérieurs de leurs peuples respectifs. Cette résolution, stipulent les autorités, s'inscrit dans la vision de renforcement de la souveraineté nationale et de préservation des intérêts économiques fondamentaux des deux pays. »« Langue de travail »Sahel Tribune se fait l'écho de la « redéfinition des langues officielles au Mali et au Burkina Faso. Le Burkina Faso écrit une nouvelle page de son histoire constitutionnelle en reléguant le français au statut de "langue de travail" ». Une décision approuvée avec enthousiasme par Sahel Tribune qui évoque « un virage audacieux. La nation s'apprête, ajoute le site d'information, à hisser les langues nationales au rang de langues officielles, marquant ainsi une révolution linguistique et institutionnelle ».RDC : élection présidentielle en ligne de mireMais pour mener à bien la préparation de ce scrutin, le 20 décembre, il faut des moyens. C'est ce que rappelle la commission électorale nationale indépendante (Céni), qui réclame des avions et des hélicoptères « pour le déploiement du matériel », nous dit actualité.cd.Le site d'information rappelle qu'à « pratiquement moins de deux semaines de la tenue des élections en RDC, la Ceni est encore à la recherche des moyens logistiques pour déployer des kits électoraux. Elle a lancé un appel urgent à l'endroit du chef de l'État Félix Tshisekedi pour solliciter quatre Antonov et dix hélicoptères ».

 October brings in MBA alumna Alla Antonov, to discuss her role as Principal Advisor, Commercial Strategy at the mining giant Rio Tinto. Alla specializes in Rio's borates market. Rio, though, is a global, diversified firm with many products and an interesting business structure of four distinct operational entities and a single commercial team, Alla's home, serving as its primary market interface for all products. This is a great business with competitive advantage and high returns to capital. A nice place to be for any firm but the question then becomes what are you going to do next? Rio Tinto isn't standing idle. They're innovating for efficiencies, embracing technology to lower environmental impacts and continuing to explore the world for the resources it needs. It's a good story and you should hear it.

In episode 189 of the Simple Flying podcast your hosts Jo and Tom discuss, Antonov An-225 work begins Huge widebody orders Qantas' sticky situation A busy week for Ryanair Air Peace demands Heathrow slots

Il primo atto del disegno criminale di Putin inizia qui. All'alba del 24 febbraio 2022 la fanteria aeromobile russa si paracaduta dagli elicotteri sull'aeroporto Antonov per impadronirsene.

In the second part of our mini series on "The Romanovs", Dynasty, we begin with the carve up of Poland, and the Reign of PaulI, (Pavel) To his assasination. And how there almost were a Russo-Franco alliance. To the takeover of Alexander I, and the Napoleonic wars, and his entry to Paris. Nicholas I and the Crimean War. All the way up to Nicholas II, and his assasination by the Bolsheviks in 1918. All this, and more. This week on "Well That Aged Well". With "Erlend Hedegart". Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is episode 36 and its icy cold out there - it's time to check out the incidents involving icing - starting with a short list and general description of the causes, then focusing on the two Aeroflot Atonovs accidents in 1971 and a design fault in the ATR-72. There's an unfortunately long list of commercial airliners lost due to icing, more than 540 accidents and events caused by aircraft icing by the late 1980s in the United States alone and most of these were fatal. Anti-icing and de-icing research can be traced back to the early 1930s and in 1948, two scientists, AG Preston and Calvin Blackman conducted the first successful iced flight experiment in which the drag coefficient increased by 81% when the wing was covered and the pilot reported the plane was almost beyond control. I'm not sure of what aircraft they used but the results were extraordinary. Other research by NASA on the DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft measured various conditions and ice shapes and their effect on aircraft thrust, landing flaps, and angle of attack. It's thought that the first recorded case of a commercial airplane accident caused by icing occurred on December 15, 1920 when a de Havilland DH.4 mail plane operated by the United States Post Office Department crashed near Belleville, Pennsylvania, in the USA due to ice accumulation on the wings and control surfaces.There was a happier end to another on 19th December 1946 where a Railway Air Service Douglas Dakota 3 stalled on take-off 1 km north-east of Northolt Airport in London. This was the case of the scheduled service to Glasgow Airport from London. Four crew and one passenger were on board .. Yes, you heard correctly, one passenger.So to matters more terminal if you excuse the extremely cheesy aviation pun. That be the highly unusual twin crashes of the Antonovs in 1971 both caused by ice accretion. ot Antonov An-12s crashed on approach to Surgut International Airport, just nine days apart. The crashes occurred under near-identical circumstances due to the aircraft type's lack of preparedness for flying in severe icing conditions. It's the formation of an ice ridge by water droplets beyond the ice protection system and one side anti-icing system that is likely to cause rolling and overturn according to research documents. A case in point of the ridge cause was an ATR-72 crash in 1994. At that time, the airplane was at a severe level of icing condition, and the co-effect of the electric heating de-icing system at the wing leading edge and the natural conditions formed an ice ridge on the second half of the wing, resulting in a negative pressure zone on the one side's aileron.

This week: We take a look at The Romanov Dynasty. In this two part mini series we begin with the rise of the Romanovs during the times of Troubles after Ivan The Terrible. (Ivan IV). Peter The Great was actually NOT the first Romanov on the throne. But there were two others before him. We take a look at what their work was like, and how they would lead the way to Peter The Great, and establish a stable dynasty. In part 1 of The Romanovs we take a look at the dynasty All the way from Mikhail Romanov to Catherine The Great. This week on "Well That Aged Well".Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's put it this way: - Former drummer - Had his small ad agency - Was an owner of a consumer magazine - Dramatist - Shot commercials - Made a feature that had a thearical release - Moved to LA from Russia - Worked as copywriter at a boutique ad agency in LA - Published a fantasy novel and sold 500,000 copies - Wrote several scripts for film/TV - Keep working to reach perfection IG/TW Handle (if any) IG: @andronovleonid LinkedIn or IMDB URL https://imdb.me/leonidandronov

Ludo Antonov, VP of Engineering @ WhatNot, shares how eng leaders can better operate from their organization's first principles. He defines the concept & what that looks like for WhatNot through their values of listening to customers, moving uncomfortably fast, and more – plus what happens when optimizing for one principle conflicts with another! We also cover Ludo's leadership journey, how he navigated the transition from a business model focused on discovery & matching to two-sided marketplaces, and challenges / lessons learned from working within the social, community, & marketplace space.ABOUT LUDO ANTONOVLudo (@ludo_antonov) is the Vice President of Engineering at Whatnot. He has an extensive background in building engineering teams at fast-growing startups including Hulu, Pinterest, and Lyft. He led the Pinterest Growth team as the company was going through hyper-growth up to IPO. Prior to joining Whatnot, he served as an engineering executive at Lyft, overseeing the company's core rideshare products including the rider, driver, marketplace, and growth organizations."That's one of the important parts is it allows for common language to fall back to whenever these problems actually happen because they tend to be more and more complex and take more and more nuance in order to get right and sometimes, especially like it's very powerful to take it back to first principles and say, 'How would we do this if we have to be ruthlessly prioritizing? Are we moving comfortably fast in thinking of our approach?' And then everyone understands because it's part of our vocabulary and it takes repetition to build that.”- Ludo Antonov   Join us at ELC Annual 2023!ELC Annual is our flagship conference for engineering leaders. You'll learn from experts in engineering and leadership, gain mentorship and support from like-minded professionals, expand your perspectives, build relationships across the tech industry, and leave with practical prove strategies.Join us this August 30-31 at the Fort Mason Center in San FranciscoFor tickets, head to https://sfelc.com/annual2023SHOW NOTES:Ludo provides a status update on recent milestones @ WhatNot (2:40)What operating from first principles looks like within an eng org (4:08)Strategies for going back to your founding leadership principles (6:35)Overcoming product challenges by leading through listening to your customers (8:34)How the eng team pivoted their approach based on that first principle (9:40)Deconstructing “moving uncomfortably fast” & its impact on operating systems (12:13)Incorporating first principles with WhatNot's international strategy (13:35)When optimizing for one value is in conflict with another (15:32)Frameworks that aid in ruthless prioritization (16:41)Assess impact, likelihood of success & effort during prioritization conversations (19:05)Lessons learned from building Pinterest that Ludo applied to WhatNot (19:57)Ludo's transition from discovery / matching to a two-sided marketplace (23:40)How Ludo applied two-sided marketplace elements to WhatNot (24:53)Working business model aspects into an engineering context (26:23)Ludo's favorite seller experiences (28:30)Engineering approaches to & impact on two-sided marketplaces (30:18)Recommendations for eng leaders operating in a new business model (31:57)Rapid fire questions (33:39)LINKS AND RESOURCESThe Upside of Stress - Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress—one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits.Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey A. Moore's bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets—now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

Anesthesiologist, Dr. Zach Antonov, joins the Glaucomfleckens to discuss their shared background in comedy, answers the burning question of if anesthesiologists mess with patients while they are under, what fears most patients have, and the cocktails it takes to keep people asleep and then wake them up.   — Want to Learn About Dr. Zach Antonov?  Check out his book: https://www.amazon.com/Watch-You-Sleep-Anesthesia-Restaurants-ebook/dp/B0B1362GGP?ref_=ast_author_mpb — We want to hear YOUR stories (and medical puns)! Shoot us an email and say hi! knockknockhi@human-content.com Can't get enough of us? Shucks. You can support the show on Patreon for early episode access, exclusive bonus shows, livestream hangouts, and much more! – www.patreon.com/glaucomflecken  -- A friendly reminder from the G's and Tarsus: If you want to learn more about Demodex Blepharitis, making an appointment with your eye doctor for an eyelid exam can help you know for sure. Visit EyelidCheck.com for more information. Independent Practice Partners is led by physicians with a proven track record of building successful practices from the ground up. And now, they want to help you do the same. If you're thinking about starting your own Independent practice and don't know where to start go to http://www.IPracticePartners.com. Independent Practice Partners ensures your practice doesn't just survive, but thrives!  Today's episode is brought to you by the Nuance Dragon Ambient Experience (DAX). It's like having a virtual Jonathan in your pocket. If you would like to learn more about DAX, check out http://nuance.com/discoverDAX and ask your provider for the DAX experience. Produced by Human Content Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm shaking things up and sharing one of my favorite recent episodes of Thoughts and Coffee. In this episode, I'm joined by exciting industry writer and former Managing Editor of Payload Space, Ryan Duffy, to talk space logistics. Ryan is passionate about bringing us the scoop on the future of logistics, from emerging tech to the final frontier, and I loved finding out more. So if you've ever wondered about the incredible world of space logistics, then this is the episode for you. We talked all about NASA's plans to start the first Gateway logistics mission later this year; we reflected on the stats that show the market is already expected to generate nearly $20 billion by 2040; and we explored the possible impact on GEO shipping due to the loss of Antonov planes. You need to stay updated on the rapidly evolving space logistics sector, so – get ready to launch!   IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:   [07.12] An introduction to Ryan Duffy and leading publication Payload Space, and an overview of space logistics. “Behind the scenes there's a lot of logistics, manufacturing, testing, integrating… there's a lot more than meets the eye when you see a shiny rocket launch!” [10.15] Sarah shares the responses to her question of the week, “what is the best supply chain management software,” and Ryan reflects on the software that's essential to space logistics right now. “Surprisingly, with space there's groundbreaking technology in science, but for a lot of missions it's still managed in a very analogue fashion, with pen and paper or Excel!” [13.03] Ryan explains GEO satellites and discusses a recent news article that details how a loss of Antonov planes may impact GEO shipping. [19.09] Sarah and Ryan discuss the news that NASA plans to start work on the first Gateway logistics mission this year. “The space industry loves to make logistical analogies – they're called orbital transfer vehicles… but it's tough to beat space trash truck!” [24.42] Ryan answers an audience question: “What innovative solutions are in space logistics right now?” and explains the current opportunities within the industry. [26.31] Ryan and Sarah discuss the research that indicates the space logistics market will generate $19.8 billion by 2040, and Ryan explains last-mile space logistics. [28.38] An update on what's coming up on Let's Talk Supply Chain.   RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED:   You can find out more about Payload Space over on their website, or you can connect with Ryan on LinkedIn. If you enjoyed this episode and want to hear more from ‘the best 30 minutes on a Tuesday,' check out Thoughts and Coffee – where the best industry players discuss breaking supply chain news over a good old cup of Joe! Check out our other podcasts HERE.

Buenos días desde La Habana, soy Yoani Sánchez y en el "cafecito informativo" de este jueves 13 de abril de 2023 tocaré estos temas: - ¿Elegir o aceptar? El proceso para nombrar al presidente y vicepresidente de la República - Mucha menos inversión en Educación y Salud que en turismo - 400 agentes españoles de viajes participarán en el desfile del 1 de Mayo en Cuba - La pandemia de influenza en la Cuba de 1918 Gracias por compartir este "cafecito informativo" y te espero para el programa de mañana. Puedes conocer más detalles de estas noticias en el diario https://www.14ymedio.com Los enlaces de hoy: En Cuba, los diputados no eligen al presidente de la República, votan por un candidato único https://enterate.link/opinion/Cuba-diputados-presidente-Republica-candidato_0_3512648709.html Cuba reclama a EE UU por haber dado el asilo al piloto que se fugó con un Antonov https://enterate.link/opinion/Cuba-diputados-presidente-Republica-candidato_0_3512648709.html En plena crisis energética, se va de Cuba una de las ocho centrales flotantes turcas https://enterate.link/cuba/energetica-Cuba-centrales-flotantes-turcas_0_3512648704.html "No se me ocurriría poner mis dólares en un banco cubano" https://enterate.link/economia/ocurriria-poner-dolares-banco-cubano_0_3512648708.html La española DIT Gestión llevará a 400 agentes de viajes a Cuba y al desfile del 1 de Mayo https://enterate.link/cuba/espanola-DIT-Gestion-Cuba-Mayo_0_3512648707.html Muere el escritor cubano Eduardo Heras León, "contrarrevolucionario" y leal a Fidel Castro https://enterate.link/cuba/Fallece-Eduardo-Heras-Fidel-Castro_0_3513248646.html El Centro para una Cuba Libre denuncia el uso de la emigración "como arma política" https://enterate.link/internacional/Centro-Cuba-Libre-emigracion-politica_0_3513248641.html La pandemia de influenza en la Cuba de 1918 https://enterate.link/eventos_culturales/otros/pandemia-influenza-Cuba_13_3511578809.html

Sejam bem-vindos ao milésimo octingentésimo octogésimo terceiro Spin de Notícias, o seu giro diário de informações científicas... em escala sub-atômica. E nesse Spin de Notícias falaremos sobre... História! *Este episódio, assim como tantos outros projetos vindouros, só foi possível por conta do Patronato do SciCast. Se você quiser mais episódios assim, contribua conosco!*

Sejam bem-vindos ao milésimo octingentésimo octogésimo terceiro Spin de Notícias, o seu giro diário de informações científicas... em escala sub-atômica. E nesse Spin de Notícias falaremos sobre... História! *Este episódio, assim como tantos outros projetos vindouros, só foi possível por conta do Patronato do SciCast. Se você quiser mais episódios assim, contribua conosco!*

НОВАЯ НОВОГОДНЯЯ КОРПОРАТИВКА 2023 ! СОСТАВЛЕНА ИЗ РУССКИХ ТРЕКОВ В РЕМИКСАХ ! КАЧАЙТЕ ,СЛУШАЙТЕ И ЗАРЯЖАЙТЕСЬ ПОЗИТИВОМ ! С НОВЫМ ГОДОМ , ДРУЗЬЯ ! 01.Дискотека Авария - Новогодняя (Denis Bravo Remix 2022) 02.Валерий Меладзе - Красиво (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 03.ХАБИБ - Тополиный пух (Silver Ace & Onix Remix) 04.Пропаганда - Яй я (Ayur Tsyrenov extended remix) 05.ANTONOV x MIRAZH, Dr.Luxe, Ivan ART - Ya Vspominayu (DJ Baur Mixshow) 06.Александр Шоуа & Непара - Другая Причина (DJ Prezzplay Remix) 07.DJ SMASH & NIVESTA - Позвони (Denis Bravo Remix) 08.ZIVERT, 3 DAYS OF RAIN x Ramirez, Anuchin, Killjoy - Vydyhai Life (DJ Baur Mixshow) 09.ANNA ASTI - Ночью на кухне (DJ Prezzplay & DJ Snickers Remix) 10.Люся Чеботина - Плакал голливуд (DJ Safiter Remix) 11.DJ Antonio & Ti - Девять хризантем (Ayur Tsyrenov extended remix) 12.Моя Мишель feat. Dose - Пташка (Chad Extended Mix) 13.MISTY - Сияй (Silver Ace & Onix Remix) 14.L.RUDENKO, M.KRAIMBRERY x Flame, Mamoru - Понарошку (DJ Baur Sax Edit) 15.Мичелз & Элона Миллер - Угонщица (DJ Prezzplay & DJ Snickers Remix) 16.Dabro - На часах ноль-ноль (MIKIS Love Don't Let Me Go Edit) 17.Клава Кока - Не со мной (Ayur Tsyrenov extended remix) 18.Иванушки Int. - Снегири (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 19.Юрий Шатунов - Детство (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 20.Milana Star & Chris Yank - Маленькие девочки (Silver Ace & Onix Remix) 21.Владимир Пресняков - Стюардесса по имени Жанна (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 22.Авиатор - Трава у дома (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 23.SEREBRO - Мало тебя (Index-1 Remix Extended) 24.Леша Свик - Ненормальная (Denis Bravo Remix) 25.Zivert - Смех и грех (Silver Ace & Onix Remix) 26.Reflex - Non stop (Ayur Tsyrenov extended remix) 27.Кар-Мэн - Сан-Франциско (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 28.Звери - Районы-кварталы (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 29.БИ-2 и Чичерина - Мой рок-н-ролл (Ayur Tsyrenov extended remix) 30.Рукки Вверх ! - 18 мне уже (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 31.Мираж - Музыка нас связала (Lavrushkin & Shakhov Remix) 32.Валерий Леонтьев - Дельтаплан (Ayur Tsyrenov extended remix) 33.GAYAZOV$ BROTHERS x S7ven, Tyro, Frost - Faina Deep House (DJ Baur Mixshow) 34.ABBA - Happy New year (Ayur Tsyrenov extended remix)

It's September 1985, and the SA Air Force and ground forces have already shot down two Russian helicopters and an Antonov transport plane. That was an attempt at slowing down an MPLA ground assault using it's PLAN troops against UNITA at Mavinga. If you remember, this was the Angolans Operation Second Congress. On the 29th September, 32 Battalion ground team near Cuito Cuanavale radio'd the SA Air Force operations of a helicopter formation that had just taken off, bound for the battle zone around Mavinga. This was a mixed formation, two Mi-8/17 transport choppers escorted by Mi-25 gunships. The Impalas were scrambled and headed at low altitude to the targets which were picked up along the Lomba River. The Russian helicopters were flying at 3000 feet AGL, and the Mi-8/17 formation was in a trailing echelon about 1000 meters apart. About a kilometer back, the two Mi-25s were flying in support and were also at 3000 feet. The first pair of Impalas launched their attack, and then the second with devastating consequences for the chopper pilots and crew. All four were shot down. A third pair of Impalas who were monitoring watched as two MiG-23 fighter jets approached at 200 feel AGL, then swept their wings back, accelerated and climbed out of sight. They preferred to avoid dogfighting the South Africans. ON first December 1985 operational order number 1/12/85 required 32 Battalion to inflict maximum damage on FAPLA personnel and equipment in the 3rd and 6th military regions by sustained bombardment. Easier said than done. The main targets were Cuito Caunavale and the airstrip at Menongue. There were also specific instructions to target the FAPLA force as soon as it began moving towards Jamba using the all-important Multiple Rocket Launchers or MRLs. 32 was warned not to let these fall into enemy hands. Colonel Eddie Viljoen commanded this part of the operation targeting Menongue, both the MRL troop along with Charlie Company, while Captain Daan van der Merwe led an MRL troop and Golf Company as they attacked Cuito Cuanavale. Ten years earlier 32 had deployed around Menongue during operation Savannah, now they were going back. On the 15 December four MRLs were flown to Rundu from Waterkloof Air Force Base and everything was set to roll on Christmas eve.

It's September 1985, and the SA Air Force and ground forces have already shot down two Russian helicopters and an Antonov transport plane. That was an attempt at slowing down an MPLA ground assault using it's PLAN troops against UNITA at Mavinga. If you remember, this was the Angolans Operation Second Congress. On the 29th September, 32 Battalion ground team near Cuito Cuanavale radio'd the SA Air Force operations of a helicopter formation that had just taken off, bound for the battle zone around Mavinga. This was a mixed formation, two Mi-8/17 transport choppers escorted by Mi-25 gunships. The Impalas were scrambled and headed at low altitude to the targets which were picked up along the Lomba River. The Russian helicopters were flying at 3000 feet AGL, and the Mi-8/17 formation was in a trailing echelon about 1000 meters apart. About a kilometer back, the two Mi-25s were flying in support and were also at 3000 feet. The first pair of Impalas launched their attack, and then the second with devastating consequences for the chopper pilots and crew. All four were shot down. A third pair of Impalas who were monitoring watched as two MiG-23 fighter jets approached at 200 feel AGL, then swept their wings back, accelerated and climbed out of sight. They preferred to avoid dogfighting the South Africans. ON first December 1985 operational order number 1/12/85 required 32 Battalion to inflict maximum damage on FAPLA personnel and equipment in the 3rd and 6th military regions by sustained bombardment. Easier said than done. The main targets were Cuito Caunavale and the airstrip at Menongue. There were also specific instructions to target the FAPLA force as soon as it began moving towards Jamba using the all-important Multiple Rocket Launchers or MRLs. 32 was warned not to let these fall into enemy hands. Colonel Eddie Viljoen commanded this part of the operation targeting Menongue, both the MRL troop along with Charlie Company, while Captain Daan van der Merwe led an MRL troop and Golf Company as they attacked Cuito Cuanavale. Ten years earlier 32 had deployed around Menongue during operation Savannah, now they were going back. On the 15 December four MRLs were flown to Rundu from Waterkloof Air Force Base and everything was set to roll on Christmas eve.

By mid-1985 air traffic between Lubango on the Atlantic coast and Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola had grown exponentially. Since the railway line running east had been rendered useless by UNITA, the MPLA was relying heavily on transport planes to get their logistics to the front. Daily flights of the Soviet Antonovs could be seen carrying troops and material to Menongue in support of the MPLA's war effort. This turned into a veritable flood of planes by late August when the MPLA launched their offensive against UNITA. As you heard last episode, the Russians and Cubans had tired of being forced into defensive positions by the South Africans and UNITA and had decided to launch a two pronged as part of Operation Second Congress. The initial thrust began to the east into the Cazombo salient, while a second thrust turned south east. The SA Air Force was then called in to help ferry UNITA troops as well as their own material in something that the South Africans called Operation Magneto. SA Air Force Mobile Air Operations Teams or MOATs were based at Cago Couthino and Cazombo and they guided the Hercules and Pumas in at night. That was to avoid being shot down by the MiGs which operated only during the day. It was thought that the final phase of the battle for South Africa had begun, at least that's how the hawks inside cabinet regarded this part of the Border War. The Recces moved into Angola in support of UNITA and their mission was to shoot down Antonov and other MPLA transport aircraft using captured Russian SA-9 missile systems. The Angolans were flying aggressive missions daily, resupplying FAPLA on the ground and conducting casevacs. The Mi-25 gunship helicopters, provided flushing fire, air-to-ground support, firing their 57mm rockets at possible UNITA targets, and sometimes, using their cannons. Watching these flights were the Recces and members of 32 Battalion seconded to UNITA. The SADF was monitoring the Angolan army radio and picked up that many of the helicopter flights were used to ferry the all-important Soviet and Cuban advisors around the battle zones. The Angolan push called Second Congress now presented an opportunity for some score settling – Pretoria had always regarded the Soviet presence as a perversion, warning the Russians that playing around in South Africa's back yard would have consquences.

By mid-1985 air traffic between Lubango on the Atlantic coast and Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola had grown exponentially. Since the railway line running east had been rendered useless by UNITA, the MPLA was relying heavily on transport planes to get their logistics to the front. Daily flights of the Soviet Antonovs could be seen carrying troops and material to Menongue in support of the MPLA's war effort. This turned into a veritable flood of planes by late August when the MPLA launched their offensive against UNITA. As you heard last episode, the Russians and Cubans had tired of being forced into defensive positions by the South Africans and UNITA and had decided to launch a two pronged as part of Operation Second Congress. The initial thrust began to the east into the Cazombo salient, while a second thrust turned south east. The SA Air Force was then called in to help ferry UNITA troops as well as their own material in something that the South Africans called Operation Magneto. SA Air Force Mobile Air Operations Teams or MOATs were based at Cago Couthino and Cazombo and they guided the Hercules and Pumas in at night. That was to avoid being shot down by the MiGs which operated only during the day. It was thought that the final phase of the battle for South Africa had begun, at least that's how the hawks inside cabinet regarded this part of the Border War. The Recces moved into Angola in support of UNITA and their mission was to shoot down Antonov and other MPLA transport aircraft using captured Russian SA-9 missile systems. The Angolans were flying aggressive missions daily, resupplying FAPLA on the ground and conducting casevacs. The Mi-25 gunship helicopters, provided flushing fire, air-to-ground support, firing their 57mm rockets at possible UNITA targets, and sometimes, using their cannons. Watching these flights were the Recces and members of 32 Battalion seconded to UNITA. The SADF was monitoring the Angolan army radio and picked up that many of the helicopter flights were used to ferry the all-important Soviet and Cuban advisors around the battle zones. The Angolan push called Second Congress now presented an opportunity for some score settling – Pretoria had always regarded the Soviet presence as a perversion, warning the Russians that playing around in South Africa's back yard would have consquences.

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Buenos días, soy Yoani Sánchez y en el "cafecito informativo" de este viernes 11 de noviembre de 2022 comentaré estos temas: - La Seguridad del Estado detiene a la madre de la niña muerta en Bahía Honda - Cuba pagó más en septiembre por el pollo de EE UU - Pese a la crisis del turismo, Meliá abrirán más hoteles - Un filme independiente cubano gana premio a Mejor película en Festival de La Habana en NY Gracias por compartir este "cafecito informativo" y te espero para el programa del lunes. Puedes conocer más detalles de estas noticias en el diario https://www.14ymedio.com Los enlaces de hoy: EE UU pide a Cuba que libere "incondicionalmente" a todos los presos políticos https://enterate.link/cuba/EE-UU-Cuba-incondicionalmente-politicos_0_3420857892.html Pese a la crisis del turismo, Meliá e Iberostar abrirán más hoteles en 2023 https://enterate.link/economia/Pese-Melia-Iberostar-hoteles-Cuba_0_3421457821.html Al piloto que llegó a Florida en una Antonov le bastaron 12 días para planear su fuga https://enterate.link/cuba/cubano-Florida-Antonov-bastaron-planear_0_3420857889.html La Seguridad del Estado detiene a la madre de la niña muerta en la lancha de Bahía Honda https://enterate.link/cuba/Seguridad-detiene-lancha-Bahia-Honda_0_3420857895.html Cuba informa a los inversores de que pagará sus deudas "paulatinamente" https://enterate.link/economia/Expocuba-deuda-Unilever-zonas_especiales-empresas_estadounidenses-Camara_de_Comercio_0_3420857885.html La tragedia de una balsera cubana que vio morir a su bebé de once meses https://enterate.link/internacional/tragedia-balsera-cubana-morir-bebe-once-meses_0_3420857893.html El premio a Mejor película en el Festival de La Habana en NY va a un filme independiente cubano https://enterate.link/cultura/Mejor-Festival-Habana-NY-independiente_0_3421457823.html

MidJourney v4 es increíble / Stable Diffusion en el iPhone / Despidos masivos en Facebook / Empiezan las devoluciones de Stadia / Volkswagen confirma la gigafábrica en España / Twitter lía las verificaciones Patrocinador: BluaU de Sanitas es el nuevo complemento digital del seguro médico de Sanitas que incorpora la más alta tecnología para ayudarte en el cuidado de tu salud y la de tu familia. — BluaU lanza Cuida Tu Mente, un nuevo servicio que se centra en la prevención como en el tratamiento de posibles problemas psicológicos en nuestra familia. — Descubre más en BluaU.es MidJourney v4 es increíble / Stable Diffusion en el iPhone / Despidos masivos en Facebook / Empiezan las devoluciones de Stadia / Volkswagen confirma la gigafábrica en España / Twitter lía las verificaciones

Buenos días desde La Habana, soy Yoani Sánchez y en el "cafecito informativo" de este martes 8 de noviembre de 2022 comentaré estos temas: - ¿Hay gente que pasa hambre en Cuba? - Inician un censo de "generadores eléctricos" para comprar combustible - La inflación alcanzó un 58% en un año en Cuba - Presentación de 'El sueño inconcluso' Gracias por compartir este "cafecito informativo" y te espero para el programa de mañana. Puedes conocer más detalles de estas noticias en el diario https://www.14ymedio.com Los enlaces de hoy: La inflación alcanzó un 58% en un año en Cuba mientras el peso se devaluó un 56% https://enterate.link/economia/inflacion-alcanzo-Cuba-peso-devaluo_0_3419658004.html "Los inspectores vigilan la venta de tomate en Cuba como si fuera cola de langosta" https://enterate.link/cuba/inspectores-vigilan-tomate-Cuba-langosta_0_3419058071.html Sin reservación en hoteles ya no se podrá acceder a varios cayos cubanos https://enterate.link/cuba/reservacion-hoteles-acceder-varios-cubanos_0_3419058064.html Dos altas funcionarias de EE UU viajarán a La Habana para una reunión sobre migración https://enterate.link/internacional/funcionarias-EE-UU-Habana-migracion_0_3419058072.html El piloto cubano que llegó a EE UU con un Antonov seguirá en prisión https://enterate.link/internacional/EE-UU-Antonov-retrasos-Fiscalia_0_3419058070.html Después de un intento frustrado de salida, Andy Cruz vuela a Dominicana https://enterate.link/deportes/Andy_Cruz-deja-Cuba-Mercedes_Benz-Dominicana-Isuzu_0_3419058067.html Cinco fallecidos en un accidente de tránsito en Moa https://enterate.link/sociedad/fallecidos-accidente-transito-Moa_0_3419658001.html "Los inspectores vigilan la venta de tomate en Cuba como si fuera cola de langosta" https://enterate.link/cuba/inspectores-vigilan-tomate-Cuba-langosta_0_3419058071.html Presentación de 'El sueño inconcluso' https://enterate.link/eventos_culturales/libros/Presentacion-sueno-inconcluso_13_3415588408.html

A translator and spy turned international arms dealer, Viktor Bout is to be part of a proposed prisoner swap between the US and Russia for the return of Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.Griner was found guilty on drug smuggling charges by a Russian court, and convicted to 9 years in a penal colony after 1 milligram of cannabis oil, prescribed by her American doctor, was found in her vaping pen in her luggage in Moscow. The charges are obviously a political play by Putin in response to Ukraine sanctions. If you like our content, please become a patron to get our extra premium episodes every month, as well as our public episodes ad-free. 1 Trevor Reed, a former marine who was also imprisoned in Russia after allegedly attacking a policeman, another Kremlin fabricated story, was recently released in a successful prisoner swap and he said that Brittney Griner will experience "serious threats" to her health if she is sent to a labor camp. Moscow asked for a second Russian to be added to the mix for this proposed swap, an FSB agent, Vadim Krasikov, a Russian spy / murderer, who was convicted in Germany for carrying out a killing on behalf of Russia, an act the judges called “state terrorism.” It is hard to separate fact from fiction in Bout's resume. He's believed to have been born in 1967 in then-Soviet Tajikistan. He studied as a linguist at  Moscow-based Soviet Military Institute for Foreign Languages, a training school for officers, diplomats, and in many cases, spies. He learned Portuguese and he then started his career with the Red Army as a translator in Angola. 2 When the Soviet Union broke up, arms were scattered across the 15 new nations created by the dissolution, especially Bulgaria. These countries had neither the money to pay an army nor the infrastructure to keep the weapons they'd inherited. Viktor saw an opportunity. He assembled a fleet of ex-Soviet cargo planes, massive Antonov and Ilyushin aircraft, and began shipping arms and other goods all over the world. He set up a freight charter in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and soon became the inspiration for Lord of War, an exceptional movie featuring Eamonn Walker, Nicholas Cage, Jared Leto and Ethan Hawke. Bout kept company with African warlords and dictators such as Jean-Pierre Bemba, Masavenya and Jonas Savimbi. After 9/11, the US needed scapegoats and Bout fit the bill. By entrapment, he was captured in Bangkok, Thailand and extradited to the US where he was convicted of aiding terrorists. The judge's opinion coincides with ours: “Until DEA went after Bout, he had not committed a crime chargeable in an American court in all his years as an arms dealer. And but for the DEA approach made through this determined sting operation, there is no reason to believe that Bout would have ever committed the charges brought against him.” 3, 4 Merchant of Death DubiMiter – 9.5 1. Mike Eckel. Merchant Of Death. Lord Of War. The McDonald's Of Arms Trafficking: Who Is Viktor Bout?. Radio Free Europe. August 2022. ⇤2. The Notorious Mr. Bout. Market Road Films. January 2014. ⇤3. Benjamin Weiser and Colin Moynihan. Conduit to Arms Sting, a Star Witness Apologizes for His Crimes. New York Times. May 2012. ⇤4. United States of America v. Viktor Bout. International Crimes Database. February 2012. ⇤

Fedor Antonov Fedor is the CEO and co-founder of Anisoprint, a Luxembourg-based startup that develops and manufactures 3D printers for producing carbon fiber reinforced composites. Key topics in this conversation include: Why composites haven't lived up to their potential for mobility applications Structural design in nature Specific strength and space elevators What it takes to fully utilize the benefits of composite materials, starting with design Anisoprint's Continuous Fiber Coextrusion technology in their 3D printers Links: Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/FedorAntonov https://www.linkedin.com/in/fedor-antonov/ https://anisoprint.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/anisoprint/ Fedor Antonov - Bio Fedor Antonov Fedor is the CEO and co-founder of Anisoprint, a Luxembourg-based startup that develops and manufactures 3D printers for producing carbon fiber reinforced composites. He holds a Ph.D. in Fundamental Mechanics and has authored 16 scientific publications and 5 patents. Fedor is a former research fellow in the Institute of Mechanics at Moscow State University, and former Research Scientist for the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. He is both a scientist by heart but also a visionary thinker and passionate about the future of manufacturing. Fedor brings over a decade of academic and industrial experience in design and optimization of composites. Anisoprint – Company description Anisoprint is a deep tech startup and the only 3D printing OEM based in Luxembourg today. We've developed 3D printers, materials (carbon, basalt) and software for manufacturing anisoprinted composite parts: stronger, lighter and cheaper than metal or non-optimized composites. Our patented Continuous Fiber Coextrusion (CFC) technology is used in aerospace, engineering, mobility, and many other areas to produce functional parts while cutting costs and increasing productivity. Anisoprinted parts are incredibly strong can actually replace metal parts in some applications. Anisoprinting is already applied at BMW, Schunk Carbon Technology, Airbus, Brightlands Materials Center, Technical University of Munich, Bauhaus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, etc. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, effective, and accessible mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/ brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/ Edison Manufacturing: At Edison Manufacturing, our specialty is building and assembling highly complex mobility products in annual quantities of ten to tens of thousands utilizing an agile, robust, and capital-light approach.

It's finally time to talk about the final two episodes of Stranger Things season 4!In episode 8:: Vecna shows Nancy a vision of the future where Hawkins is torn apart by rifts before releasing her. The group determines Vecna needs four gates to enact his plan; Max offers to lure Vecna into possessing her so the others can attack him while he is distracted. Eleven, using her powers, learns of this plan and gets Owens to arrange transit to Hawkins. However, Brenner secures Owens and traps Eleven, insisting she needs to complete her training. Eleven realizes that Brenner had been using her for years to try to recover Henry from the Upside Down. Sullivan and his forces arrive at the site and kill all the staff; Brenner flees with Eleven but is shot himself. Eleven takes out Sullivan's vehicles just as Mike's group arrives. She refuses to forgive Brenner before he dies. In Russia, Hopper, Joyce, Murray, Yuri, and Antonov escape the base after discovering several more creatures from the Upside Down, as well as a shadowy fragment of the Mind Flayer, under study at the prison.In episode 9:: The group enacts their plan: Max, Lucas and Erica go to the Creel House while Steve, Nancy and Robin go to its Upside Down counterpart to attack Vecna, with the bats being drawn away by Dustin and Eddie. Eddie sacrifices himself in the process. Eleven's group creates an isolation tank for her to enter Max's mind and fight Vecna. However, Vecna overwhelms her and possesses Max, revealing to Eleven that he has controlled the Upside Down ever since she sent him there. Mike professes his love to Eleven, giving her the strength to break Vecna's control over Max, but Max dies from her injuries. Hopper, Joyce and Murray reenter the prison and kill the remaining Demogorgons, weakening Vecna. Steve, Robin and Nancy set Vecna's physical form ablaze and shoot him, apparently killing him. Eleven uses her powers to resurrect Max, but the latter's brief death allows Vecna's gates to open and tear through Hawkins. Two days later, the town is recovering from an "earthquake". Everyone unites, while Max remains comatose. Will senses Vecna is still alive, and the Upside Down begins invading Hawkins.Be sure to check out this week's sponsor at FEALS.COM/IJDHTF and get 50% off your first order!

Dalším hostem Leteckého Podcastu je Pavel Mašata, Dispečer Řízení Provozu Ploch (ŘPP). Učil se automechanikem, ale skončil na letišti, kde 20 let koordinoval ty nejdůležitější vládní lety včetně Air Force One.

Aerovía entrevista al piloto Jesús Sagastuy, miembro de la Junta Directiva del Aeroclub de Vitoria. Escucha la entrevista completa en el capítulo 75 de Aerovía.

Aerovía regresa tras el parón de Semana Santa con un capítulo especial dedicado íntegramente al Antonov An-225 Mriya, uno de los aviones más emblemáticos de la historia que quedó destruido en los primeros días de la invasión rusa de Ucrania. ¿Qué recuerdan de este avión icónico quienes tuvieron el privilegio de verlo en primera persona? En este monográfico repasamos la historia del avión y recordamos sus dos últimas visitas a España: la que tuvo lugar en el aeropuerto de Vitoria en 2010 (con Jesús Sagastuy, piloto y miembro de la Junta Directiva del Aeroclub de Vitoria) y la de la base aérea de Torrejón en 2015, de la mano del ingeniero y spotter Jorge Guardia. En el tramo final, escuchamos también el recuerdo sobre este avión que llega desde América Latina. En concreto, desde Chile, con Ricardo Delpiano, analista y director de Contenidos del medio aeronáutico Aero-naves, y con Gustavo Martínez, spotter y miembro de la Asociación Spotters Chile. Resumen de contenidos: 0:01 – Presentación del capítulo. 1:29 – Adiós a las mascarillas en los vuelos en Estados Unidos. 4:05 – Antonov An-225, el sueño que destrozó la guerra. 7:45 – El An-225 en el inicio de la guerra de Ucrania: la batalla de Hostómel. 12:52 – Sobrevolando el An-225 en Vitoria. Con Jesús Sagastuy. 18:38 – Un avión sin lujos. Con Jesús Sagastuy. 27:06 – La tristeza de los aerotrastornados. Con Jesús Sagastuy. 35:15 – Una foto inolvidable: el An-225 en Torrejón. Con Jorge Guardia. 42:38 – El sueño del spotter: cazar el Antonov en vuelo. Con Jorge Guardia. 49:50 – Los seis minutos de tensa espera. Con Jorge Guardia. 1:00:00 – El recuerdo del An-225 en Chile. Con Ricardo Delpiano y Gustavo Martínez. No te pierdas el capítulo 75 de Aerovía: ‘Especial: Antonov An-225 Mriya, el sueño destruido por la guerra'.

“Quando começa a guerra, a primeira vítima é a verdade”. A frase foi dita pelo ex-senador americano, Hiram Johnson, durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Cento e cinco anos depois, o Comandante Lito recebe a russa Dasha, que reflete como este conflito de narrativas também está presente na invasão da Ucrânia. Dasha está no Brasil há mais de uma década, evidente em seu português fluente. Com o seu marido, produz conteúdo para o canal “Wally e Dasha - Pensando Alto” onde contam as diferenças (e semelhanças) culturais entre os dois países. Nesta cabine legitimamente internacional, Lito ainda aprende a pronunciar corretamente os clássicos da aviação soviética como “Antonov”, “Tupolev”, “Ilyushin” e “Aeroflot”. E as histórias de aviação não terminam por aí: Dasha é filha de um submarinista que serviu na Crimeia. Por isso, teve a oportunidade de voar num AN-22. Como sua família continua na Rússia, Dasha está habituada com rotas longas. Falando nisso, ela relembra a trajetória da sua bisavó que viveu a Revolução Russa, a 2ª Guerra Mundial e o fim da URSS. Na rota de notícias, a suposta volta da ITA, companhias russas estão proibidas de divulgar informações, operação policial na Aeroflot e vaquinha online para a Ucrânia comprar caças.

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Don't let the progressives regress your success: it's a brand new Garage Hour, complete with 16-Volt, Sepultura and Metallica, plus why your new Maverick, Mustang and Blazer still ain't an El Camino, plus the upside of a Samurai still being a Jimny (ladder-frame, bitches!).  Because cars have trannies, not are. While we're at it, we've got some gearhead reasoning for you: electrocardiograms for high-school sports, lessons in the Second Amendment for the tyrants at CNN, and Ammo Inc's provisioning of Ukraine's fighters (because bullets!).

Pedro Loos faz Ciência Todo Dia. Por isso, o Comandante Lito promoveu o copiloto a comandante em apenas um episódio. Apesar de ser o convidado mais jovem da temporada, Pedro é o que nos levou a viagem mais distante do solo, até o limite entre a atmosfera terrestre e o espaço exterior. Prepare-se para um papo com método científico, estatísticas diferentes, importância do medo, voos em gravidade zero e suborbitais. Pode ser que você fique um pouco em crise existencial ao descobrir que estamos viajando no tempo. Na rota de notícias, os impactos do conflito na Ucrânia na aviação mundial, com destaque para os ataques ao Antonov 225 Mriya.