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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

Ukens episode spilles inn på selveste St. Patricks Day 17. mars -  men helt uten Guinness og nyheter fra Irland. Imidlertid ser vi på en litt glemt Tupolev, en ny Yakovlev, Nye ruter på Jylland, oppkjøpsrykter i USA, Spirit er ute av Chapter 11 oh noen franskmenn vil lage flottører til ATR-72!. Velkommen ombord på flight 334!Tupolev Tu-334Kapringsflight 334: China Airlines Cargo 334AKTUELT:Russerne har testfløyet Superjet med russiske motorerNorwegian og Wizz Air fyller tomrommet etter Ryanair på BillundPositive Aviation vil bygge om ATR-72 til vannbomber på flottørerSpirit Airlines ute av konkurshjørnetUnited nekter for konkrete planer om oppkjøp av jetBlueGaruda og JAL i jount-venture

Episode: 1274 The Maxim Gorky, largest airplane of its time.  Today, Stalin builds a big airplane.

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Sembra uscito da un film sulla guerra fredda il bombardiere strategico russo Tu 95 che pochi giorni fa con un missile ipersonico Kalibr ha colpito Dnipro, città dell'Ucraina centrale. L'aereo faceva parte di un gruppo di 12 bombardieri strategici partiti da una base del Mar Caspio. Ma perché il riferimento alla guerra fredda: Ebbene perché il Tu 95 è un gigantesco velivolo ad elica, un quadrimotore, di fabbricazione sovietica, sviluppato negli anni cinquanta dalla Tupolev, entrato in servizio presso l'aviazione sovietica nel 1956 e tuttora operativo nelle Forze aerospaziali russe nella versione Tu-95MS.

When the Russia invasion of Ukraine resulted in the displacement of Jews from the region, Sophia Tupolev-Luz was just looking to help a few of her friends. That initial assistance has snowballed into serving over 15,000 people through co-founding The Reboot Startup Nation. Working with Israeli tech and startup companies, she and her nonprofit help find tech jobs for immigrants, making their transition to Israel easier. Host Steven Shalowitz sits down with Tupolev-Luz  to  discuss the origins of her nonprofit, the hurdles displaced immigrants face in Israel, and why it's so important to support them.

Christophe Hondelatte raconte l'année 1973 en puisant dans les archives d'Europe 1. Dans cet épisode : Picasso casse sa pipe; un Tupolev s'écrase au Bourget; le salon des arts ménagers recèle de trouvailles et les français voient des ovnis partout !

Le Forze armate di Kiev sono riuscite a colpire due basi in territorio russo usando i droni sovietici Tupolev 141 modificati. Attacchi di limitato valore militare, ma di alto valore simbolico.Fonti (titolo video - canale YouTube - data di pubblicazione):War in #Ukraine - Launch of the Tu-141 "Strizh" missile-type drone of the Ukrainian armed forces - InquizeX - 4 apr 2022; Tupolev Tu-141: The Old Soviet Man Likely Behind Attack On Russian Air Bases - Dung Tran Military - 6 dic 2022; Тu 141 - Andrii Kazmirchuk - 3 dic 2014;

Ieri diverse esplosioni hanno colpito due basi dell'aviazione militare all'interno del territorio russo e lontane dalla linea del fronte, in quello che sembra un attacco preventivo di Kiev contro i velivoli utilizzati da Mosca per colpire obiettivi strategici in Ucraina. Il ministero della Difesa russo ha confermato gli attacchi ammettendo danni a velivoli militari e ma dicendo di aver intercettato due droni ucraini. Le basi colpite sono quella di Engels-2 nella regione russa di Saratov, che ospita bombardieri Tupolev-95 responsabili degli attacchi con missili da crociera contro l'Ucraina, e la base di Dyagilevo vicino a Ryazan, una città a poco meno 240 chilometri da Mosca. Secondo i media russi, negli attacchi sono rimaste uccise tre persone, cinque invece i feriti a causa dell'esplosione di un camion di carburante. Facciamo il punto della situazione con Pietro Batacchi, direttore della Rivista Italiana Difesa. Dall'inizio della guerra WeWorld opera in Ucraina insieme a ChildFund Germania attraverso un approccio integrato in educazione, supporto psicosociale, assistenza in denaro, sicurezza alimentare, wash e salute. In questi mesi, gli interventi di emergenza hanno permesso di aiutare oltre 68 mila persone, soprattutto donne, bambini e bambine sfollati e persone bisognose a cui la ONG ha provveduto attraverso la fornitura di cibo, medicinali, kit medici e igienici e articoli di base, creando spazi sicuri, servizi educativi e campi ricreativi per i più piccoli nei centri di accoglienza in Ucraina e Moldavia. Ci colleghiamo con Marco Chiesara, presidente WeWorld reduce da una missione ad Irpin', ora attualmente a Kiev

Hey now!!! Welcome back to the club, where musical nerdary is KING!! This weeks chat is a cracker, as its James Parrish' turn in the hot seat.... Loads of ace stories and song choices, From Fugazi, Iron Maiden and the mighty Guided By Voices! As ever, have a listen to James' 5 incredible song choices by clicking on the link (and give the podcast a sweet 5 star review whilst you're over there) .... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ewIGasTrf1RNntOUaramh?si=I84dRk-uTWWCiuo6OJ-zwg&utm_source=copy-link --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/trackonesideonepodcast/support

Bienvenidos a este episodio en donde hoy tenemos un gran invitado, Carlos Olascoaga, quien nos comparte su experiencia en el ámbito aeroespacial, su trabajo en RUSIA, momentos gratos y difíciles que ha vivido. Egresado de Ingeniería en Mecatrónica del ITESM (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) Campus Santa Fe, Ciudad de México. Participó en campeonato FRC de Robótica en Estados Unidos representando a México con el equipo Tecbot reconocido por los ex presidentes Enrique Peña Nieto y Felipe Calderón, compitiendo con equipos de todo el mundo. Formó parte de Ford en el programa Ford Collage Graduate dedicado a jóvenes ingenieros o recién egresados ​​con la intención de rotar por diversas áreas de la ingeniería para tener un amplio conocimiento del desarrollo del producto automotriz. Participó en los programas F150, Mustang MachE, Bronco, Mkz, Fusion, Edge para la ingeniería de sistemas de Diseño y Liberación. Terminó su Maestría en Ingeniería de Naves Espaciales en el Instituto de Aviación de Moscú con honores en la tesis Módulo Pirámide Águila para la base lunar, diploma ruso rojo, el programa se basa en el programa espacial soviético y los últimos desarrollos espaciales rusos de Roscosmos y el Programa Espacial Soviético, Aeronaves Rusas tales como MIG, Sukhoi, Tupolev, CAE, CFD, dinámica de fluidos, resistencia de materiales, fabricación de ingeniería de sistemas espaciales. Candidato a Astronauta Analógico para SIRIUS 21, programa de 8 meses en Moscú, Rusia para Misión Lunar, con IMPBS, liderado por Roscosmos, NASA y otras agencias espaciales mundiales. Actualmente se desempeña como CEO de la startup Mayan Space para colaborar en el desarrollo de la nueva era espacial, creando tecnología e ingeniería que representa el talento de México y Latinoamérica en el campo STEM. Y mucho más!!

“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.

V roce 1957 byl do flotily Československých aerolinií zařazen Tupolev Tu-104A. Bylo to první proudové letadlo u ČSA, které dosahoval rychlosti až 900 km/h. Z celkem šesti strojů se svého konce ovšem dožily pouze tři z nich. Byl tento převratný stroj nebezpečný a jak se s ním létalo do Indonésie? Svůj příběh vypráví veterán ČSA Stanislav "Epi" Epstein (92 let), který létal na DC-3, Il-14, Tu-104A, Tu-124, Tu-134A a Il-62.

The 1973 Paris airshow was supposed to be a really cool time to show off the new supersonic transport aircraft made by Tupolev and the new Concorde manufacturers. This event is a prime example of sometimes just playing it safe can mean that you end up safe and if you try to be too fancy with your demonstration and that might just end up bad for you. Listen on to hear exactly what happened at the 1973 Paris airshow. Like what you hear? Then consider giving the podcast Instagram a follow for more podcast and aviation related content the @ is whatwentwrong_podcast. Credits : The Flight Channel

This is episode 26 and we're focusing on one of the most conspiracy-theory speckled accidents in history, the October 1986 crash of a Tupolev TU-134 jetliner that was carrying Mozamibican president Samora Machel. 37 of the 43 aboard died. To say that the accident is shrouded in controversy is a bit like asking if Vladimir Putin thinks he's Catherine the Great. Affirm. This is one of those incidents where correlation does not prove causation unless of course you're prone to conspiracy theories. A lot that could go wrong during a flight did on the Tupolev that day and it led to the death of a man who was a symbol of post-colonial rebellion. This amplified the conspiracy theory avalanche of course and has driven folks into paroxysms of perpetual pontification. The plane deployed to transport Mozambique's president that October day was a Tupolev manufactured in 1980 – registration C9-CAA. It had flown about 1,100 flying hours since it rolled off the production line and had undergone its last major inspection in August 1984 in the Soviet Union. The number of flight crew on the deck was substantial and they were all Russian. The Tupolev operated with a crew of five, which on the night of 19th October 1986 included 48 year old Captain Yuri Viktorovich Novodran, co-pilot 29 year-old Igor Petrovish Kartamyshev, flight engineer 37 year-old Vladimir Novolesov, navigator 48 year-old Nikolaevich Kudryashov and 39 year-old radio operator Anatoly Shulipov. The crew was experienced in Africa aviation as had logged many landings at Maputo Airport both day and night. Judge Cecil Margo chaired the six member body and the hearings were public between January 20th and 26th 1987. He'd soon chair another investigation into the crash of South Afrcan Airways flight 295 in 1988 – the Heidelberg accident we heard about in an earlier episode. The Machel inquiry rapidly threw out any suggestion of a bomb causing the crash and found that the 37 degree turn was initiated by the navigator using the autopilot's Doppler navigation mode. That's crucial. He did so because he saw a VOR signal indicating that the aircraft had intercepted Maputo's VOR 45 degrees radial which is its compass direction from Maputo which the crew needed to intercept in order to approach to land on runway 23.

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Photo:  An earlier version:   A starboard-side view of a Soviet Tu-16 [Tupolev; superior aircraft] Badger-A tanker aircraft refueling a Badger-C strike aircraft in flight. From Soviet Military Power 1985. ("Satellite imagery appears to indicate China has begun serial production of a tanker aircraft based on its indigenous Xi'an Y-20 airlifter, filling a notable gap in the power projection capabilities of its air force.") PLA  Y-21 tanker vs Democracy.  Jonathan Ward @jonathandtward, author of China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-invites-taiwan-to-democracy-summit-in-likely-slap-at-china https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinas-use-of-refueling-aircraft-during-recent-taiwan-sortie-raises-concern

10 Tháng 11 Là Ngày Gì? Hôm Nay Là Ngày Sinh Của Nhà Soạn Nhạc Ennio Morricone SỰ KIỆN 1983 – Microsoft lần đầu phát hành hệ điều hành Windows 1.0, là phiên bản đầu tiên của dòng Microsoft Windows. 1958 - Viên kim cương Hy vọng được nhà buôn kim cương Harry Winston ở New York tặng cho Viện Smithsonian . 1989 - Người Đức bắt đầu phá bỏ Bức tường Berlin . Sinh 1790 – Jean René Constant Quoy, nhà động vật học và giải phẫu học người Pháp (m. 1869). 1888 - Andrei Tupolev , kỹ sư và nhà thiết kế người Nga, thành lập Công ty Tupolev (mất năm 1972) 1895 - Jack Northrop , doanh nhân người Mỹ, thành lập Northrop Corporation (mất năm 1981) 1919 - Mikhail Kalashnikov , tướng và kỹ sư người Nga, thiết kế AK-47 (mất năm 2013) 1999 - Kiernan Shipka , nữ diễn viên người Mỹ 1928 - Ennio Morricone , nghệ sĩ kèn, nhà soạn nhạc và nhạc trưởng người Ý Mất 2015 - Gene Amdahl , nhà khoa học máy tính, nhà vật lý và kỹ sư người Mỹ, thành lập Tập đoàn Amdahl (sinh năm 1922) Chương trình "Hôm nay ngày gì" hiện đã có mặt trên Youtube, Facebook và Spotify: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aweekmedia#chulalongkorn - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AWeekTV - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rC4CgZNV6tJpX2RIcbK0J - Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../h%C3%B4m-nay.../id1586073418 #aweektv #10thang11 #Microsoft #Smithsonian #Tupolev #NorthropCorporation #MikhailKalashnikov #EnnioMorricone #GeneAmdahl Các video đều thuộc quyền sở hữu của Adwell jsc (adwell.vn) , mọi hành động sử dụng lại nội dung của chúng tôi đều không được phép. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message

W 46 odcinku Majki gratulują Robowi Halfordowi wyjścia z poważnej choroby, komentują listę "niebezpiecznych zespołów" na FB,  smuteg Slayera z przedwczesnego zakończenia działalności, bolesny upadek Vincenta Neila, plejadę staruszków rocka na nowej płycie Ozzyego, społeczny manifest zespołu Voice of Baceprot z Indonezji, usunięcie postaci Corpsegrindera z WoW oraz durne pytanie Freda Dursta o nowy album.Wśród płyt m.in. Trivium, Hate, Tupolev, Spiritbox oraz African Imperial Wizard.Tematem głównym jest relacja z koncertów Maleńczuka oraz It Follows I Pale Path z którymi jest również wywiad.

Tobias Hengstmann ist krank. Mal wieder. Oberschschwester Sebastian Hengstmann misst stündlich (Finger im Po – Mexiko) die Temperatur. Und Heiko Herfurth wundert sich, warum die Tupolev mit ihm an Bord einfach nicht abheben will. h2ooo..! (@h2sooo_podcast) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos oder auf Facebook:(1) H2Sooo | Facebook oder per E-Mail an:info@h2sooo.de oderirgendetwas@h2sooo.de oder schreibt uns auf …Continue reading #32 Als William Shatner seinen Zapfen strich. Oder: Nichts reimt sich auf Domröse!

Vanté par Emmanuel Macron, l'hydrogène s'invite lundi 18 octobre 2021 à Paris. Les experts de la filière hydrogène se retrouveront au ministère de l'Économie et des Finances pour la Conférence nationale hydrogène renouvelable. Ce combustible – moins polluant que les carburants traditionnels – s'est vu doté d'une enveloppe de 7 milliards d'euros dans le plan France 2030 que le président Macron vient d'annoncer. C'est l'un de ses ministres, ancien pilote de jet et passionné d'avions, qui croit le plus aux transports à hydrogène. Et tout particulièrement à l'aviation : Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, ministre français chargé des Transports, est interrogé par Marina Mielczarek. RFI : Monsieur le ministre, vous dîtes qu'avec l'hydrogène, les choses avancent plus vite que vous et même que le monde n'auraient cru avant la crise sanitaire ?  Jean-Baptiste Djebbari : Absolument oui ! La pandémie a accéléré la volonté de l'Europe. On le voit dans l'aviation et aussi dans l'automobile. Aujourd'hui, on expérimente des avions hybrides, des avions électriques, des avions à hydrogène.     La France et l'Europe ont décidé d'un plan hydrogène avec d'autres carburants renouvelables. Mais tous restent très chers.  Vous avez raison, c'est pour cela qu'il faut soutenir la recherche pour faire baisser les coûts.   Comment baisser le prix des carburants moins polluants qui sont 3 à 10 fois plus chers que le fuel traditionnel ?   La filière a beaucoup d'options : la réutiliser les huiles consommées (restaurants, friteuses de cuisine...), on peut en mélanger jusqu'à 50% dans les carburants existants. Mais ils sont 3 fois plus chers. Il y a aussi des biocarburants à base de bois et de déchets végétaux et forestiers fermentés. Ceux là sont 5 fois plus chers. Quant aux carburants synthétiques, à base d'hydrogène et de CO2 recombinés, ils sont 10 fois pus chers.  Vous dîtes que faire voler un avion à l'hydrogène on sait faire, mais que l'enjeu est d'en faire voler des centaines !  Oui, il faut industrialiser ! La technologie existe déjà à petite échelle. Je le répète, le premier avion à hydrogène a volé en 1988. C'était un appareil russe, le Tupolev 155. On sait aujourd'hui faire voler des fusées à l'hydrogène.  Depuis deux ans, les industriels pétroliers ont pris conscience de l'enjeu. Comment les persuader d'intensifie leur collaboration avec les constructeurs ?  Pour faire baisser les prix, il faut trois choses. Que la France et l'Europe donnent de la visibilité. Que la production soit massive. Et que le prix du carbone soit suffisamment élevé pour que le secteur soit incité à utiliser des carburants propres.  Outre les biocarburants, les avionneurs disent qu'ils faudrait à l'échelle mondiale remplacer les appareils trop vieux, comme il en existe aux USA et sur le continent africain.   Oui ! C'est pour cela que la France table sur un investissement croisé entre le privé et les pouvoirs publics pour une coopération de  co-développement. Mais pour en revenir aux biocarburants, les idées fourmillent avec des projets adaptés aux ressources locales. Prenez l'exemple des Émirats-Unis où il y du biocarburant à base de salicornes.  Les statistiques du secteur aéroportuaire prévoient une forte croissance des vols notamment en Asie du sud-est et en Afrique.  C'est bien pour cela qu'il faut que nous arrivions à notre objectif de décarboner le transport aérien. L'Europe veut atteindre la neutralité carbone en 2050. En parallèle des biocarburants, il existe d'autres moyens d'économiser l'énergie : la réduction des routes du ciel entre deux destinations ; l'écopilotage des pilotes sur le tarmac et en plein vol, ou encore l'électrification aux abords des portes d'aéroports pour remplacer l'usage du carburant par le branchement électrique.  On vous sent passionné et enthousiasmé par le sujet ! Comment ne pas l'être ! Ce sont autant de défis pour notre jeunesse étudiante et entrepreneuriale qui a envie de s'investir pour y réussir !

The Soviet Union detonated their first nuclear bomb in 1949, releasing 20 kilotons worth of an explosion and sparking the nuclear arms race. A weather reconnaissance mission confirmed that the Soviets did so and Klaus Fuchs was arrested for espionage, after passing blueprints for the Fat Man bomb that had been dropped on Japan. A common name in the podcast is Vannevar Bush. At this point he was the president of the Carnegie Institute and put together a panel to verify the findings. The Soviets were catching up to American science. Not only did they have a bomb but they also had new aircraft that were capable of dropping a bomb. People built bomb shelters, schools ran drills to teach students how to survive a nuclear blast and within a few years we'd moved on to the hydrogen bomb. And so the world lived in fear of nuclear fall-out. Radar had come along during World War II and we'd developed Ground Control of Intercept, an early radar network. But that wouldn't be enough to protect against this new threat. If one of these Soviet bombers, like the Tupolev 16 “Badger” were to come into American airspace, the prevailing thought was that we needed to shoot it down before the payload could be delivered. The Department of Defense started simulating what a nuclear war would look like. And they asked the Air Force to develop an air defense system. Given the great work done at MIT, much under the careful eye of Vannevar Bush, they reached out to George Valley, a professor in the Physics Department who had studied nuclear weapons. He also sat on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and toured some of the existing sites and took a survey of the US assets. He sent his findings and they eventually made their way to General Vandenberg, who assigned General Fairchild to assemble a committee which would become the Valley Committee, or more officially the Air Defense Systems Engineering Committee, or ADSEC. ADSEC dug in deeper and decided that we needed a large number of radar stations with a computer that could aggregate and then analyze data to detect enemy aircraft in real time. John Harrington had worked out how to convert radar into code and could send that over telephone lines. They just needed a computer that could crunch the data as it was received. And yet none of the computer companies at the time were able to do this kind of real time operation. We were still in a batch processing mainframe world. Jay Forrester at MIT was working on the idea of real-time computing. Just one problem, the Servomechanisms lab where he was working on Project Whirlwind for the Navy for flight simulation was over budget and while they'd developed plenty of ground-breaking technology, they needed more funding. So Forrester was added to ADSEC and added the ability to process the digital radar information. By the end of 1950, the team was able to complete successful tests of sending radar information to Whirlwind over the phone lines. Now it was time to get funding, which was proposed at $2 million a year to fund a lab. Given that Valley and Forrester were both at MIT, they decided it should be at MIT. Here, they saw a way to help push the electronics industry forward and the Navy's Chief Scientist Louis Ridenour knew that wherever that lab was built would become a the next scientific hotspot. The president at MIT at the time, James Killian, wasn't exactly jumping on the idea of MIT becoming an arm of the department of defense so put together 28 scientists to review the plans from ADSEC, which became Project Charles and threw their support to forming the new lab. They had measured twice and were ready to cut. There were already projects being run by the military during the arms buildup named after other places surrounding MIT so they picked Project Lincoln for the name of the project to Project Lincoln. They appointed F Wheeler Loomis as the director with a mission to design a defense system. As with all big projects, they broke it up into five small projects, or divisions; things like digital computers, aircraft control and warning, and communications. A sixth did the business administration for the five technical divisions and another delivered technical services as needed. They grew to over 300 people by the end of 1951 and over 1,300 in 1952. They moved offsite and built a new campus - thus establishing Lincoln Lab. By the end of 1953 they had written a memo called A Proposal for Air Defense System Evolution: The Technical Phase. This called for a net of radars to be set up that would track the trajectory of all aircraft in the US airspace and beyond. And to build communications to deploy the weapons that could destroy those aircraft. The Manhattan project had brought in the nuclear age but this project grew to be larger as now we had to protect ourselves from the potential devastation we wrought. We were firmly in the Cold War with America testing the hydrogen bomb in 52 and the Soviets doing so in 55. That was the same year the prototype of the AN/FSQ-7 to replace Whirlwind. To protect the nation from these bombs they would need 100s of radars, 24 centers to receive data, and 3 combat centers. They planned for direction centers to have a pair of AN/FSQ-7 computers, which were the Whirlwind evolved. That meant half a million lines of code which was by far the most ambitious software ever written. Forrester had developed magnetic-core memory for Whirlwind. That doubled the speed of the computer. They hired IBM to build the AN/FSQ-7 computers and from there we started to see commercial applications as well when IBM added it to the 704 mainframe in 1955. Stalin was running labor camps and purges. An estimated nine million people died in Gulags or from hunger. Chairman Mao visited Moscow in 1957, sparking the Great Leap Forward policy that saw 45 million people die. All in the name of building a utopian paradise. Americans were scared. And Stalin was distrustful of computers for any applications beyond scientific computing for the arms race. By contrast, people like Ken Olsen from Lincoln Lab left to found Digital Equipment Corporation and sell modular mini-computers on the mass market, with DEC eventually rising to be the number two computing company in the world. The project also needed software and so that was farmed out to Rand who would have over 500 programmers work on it. And a special display to watch planes as they were flying, which began as a Stromberg-Carlson Charactron cathode ray tube. IBM got to work building the 24 FSQ-7s, with each coming in at a whopping 250 tons and nearly 50,000 vacuum tubes - and of course that magnetic core memory. All this wasn't just theoretical. Given the proximity, they deployed the first net of around a dozen radars around Cape Cod as a prototype. They ran dedicated phone lines from Cambridge and built the first direction center, equipping it with an interactive display console that showed an x for each object being tracked, adding labels and then Robert Everett came up with the idea of a light gun that could be used as a pointing device, along with a keyboard, to control the computers from a terminal. They tested the Cape Cod installation in 1953 and added long range radars in Maine and New York by the end of 1954, working out bugs as they went. The Suffolk County Airfield in Long Island was added so Strategic Air Command could start running exercises for response teams. By the end of 1955 they put the system to the test and it passed all requirements from the Air Force. The radars detected the aircraft and were able to then control manned antiaircraft operations. By 1957 they were adding logic and capacity to the system, having fine tuned over a number of test runs until they got to a 100 percent interception rate. They were ready to build out the direction centers. The research and development phase was done - now it was time to produce an operational system. Western Electric built a network of radar and communication systems across Northern Canada that became known as the DEW line, short for Distant Early Warning. They added increasingly complicated radar, layers of protection, like Buckminster Fuller joining for a bit to develop a geodesic dome to protect the radars using fiberglass. They added radar to what looked like oil rigs around Texas, experimented with radar on planes and ships, and how to connect those back to the main system. By the end of 1957 the system was ready to move into production and integration with live weapons into the code and connections. This is where MIT was calling it done for their part of the program. Only problem is when the Air Force looked around for companies willing to take on such a large project, no one could. So MITRE corporation was spun out of Lincoln Labs pulling in people from a variety of other government contractors and continues on to this day working on national security, GPS, election integrity, and health care. They took the McChord airfare online as DC-12 in 1957, then Syracuse New York in 1958 and started phasing in automated response. Andrews, Dobbins, Geiger Field, Los Angeles Air Defense Sector, and others went online over the course of the next few years. The DEW line went operational in 1962, extending from Iceland to the Aleutians. By 1963, NORAD had a Combined Operations Center where the war room became reality. Burroughs eventually won a contract to deploy new D825 computers to form a system called BUIC II and with the rapidly changing release of new solid state technology those got replaced with a Hughes AN/TSQ-51. With the rise of Airborn Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), the ground systems started to slowly get dismantled in 1980, being phased out completely in 1984, the year after WarGames was released. In WarGames, Matthew Broderick plays David Lightman, a young hacker who happens upon a game. One Jon Von Neumann himself might have written as he applied Game Theory to the nuclear threat. Lightman almost starts World War III when he tries to play Global Thermonuclear War. He raises the level of DEFCON and so inspires a generation of hackers who founded conferences like DEFCON and to this day war dial, or war drive, or war whatever. The US spent countless tax money on advancing technology in the buildup for World War II and the years after. The Manhattan Project, Project Whirlwind, SAGE, and countless others saw increasing expenditures. Kennedy continued the trend in 1961 when he started the process of putting humans on the moon. And the unpopularity of the Vietnam war, which US soldiers had been dying in since 1959, caused a rollback of spending. The legacy of these massive projects was huge spending to advance the sciences required to produce each. The need for these computers in SAGE and other critical infrastructure to withstand a nuclear war led to ARPANET, which over time evolved into the Internet. The subsequent privatization of these projects, the rapid advancement in making chips, and the drop in costs while frequent doubling of speeds based on findings from each discipline finding their way into others then gave us personal computing and the modern era of PCs then mobile devices. But it all goes back to projects like ENIAC, Whirlwind, and SAGE. Here, we can see generations of computing evolve with each project. I'm frequently asked what's next in our field. It's impossible to know exactly. But we can look to mega projects, many of which are transportation related - and we can look at grants from the NSF. And DARPA and many major universities. Many of these produce new standards so we can also watch for new RFCs from the IETF. But the coolest tech is probably classified, so ask again in a few years! And we can look to what inspires - sometimes that's a perceived need, like thwarting nuclear war. Sometimes mapping human genomes isn't a need until we need to rapidly develop a vaccine. And sometimes, well… sometimes it's just returning to some sense of normalcy. Because we're all about ready for that. That might mean not being afraid of nuclear war as a society any longer. Or not being afraid to leave our homes. Or whatever the world throws at us next.

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In today's digression we digress from the Road of Bones and discover just how wonderfully awesome Sergei Korolev was and marvel at his contribution to the world we know today. For all sorts of extras don't forget to check out the Destination: History website

In which the Soviet Union attempts to close its "Concorde gap" with the West by developing its own terrible supersonic passenger jet, and John is okay with pilots showing off as long as they're in a bar. Certificate #36689.

Det har blitt 27. april, det lysner der ute, Lollo & Bernie skal på Norgesturne og vi skal innom siste nytt om Flyr, DAT har sorte tall og vi skal en tur innom Afrika. Vi har også - på Teams - vært en tur på Luftfartsmuseet i Bodø og tatt en prat med Tore Bugge Pedersen. Velkommen ombord!Tupolev Tu-154AKTUELT:Flyr har fått koder!IATA: FS / ICAO: FOX / Callsign: GreenstarMichael O'Leary tror forretningsmarkedet er tilbake i 2022DAT med "overskudd" i kriseåret 2020AfrikanyheteneMango i rekonstruksjonGreen Africa har fått ATR-72 og skal få A220UKENS ANBEFALING:Drar du på sommerferie til Nord-Norge i år - legg turen innomNorsk Luftfartsmuseum i Bodø (og har du en ekstra CFM-56 så ta den med til Tore)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/flypodden. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dave Baker provides your monthly update of all the latest breaks, beats and bass in the world of “EDM”. Brought to you on the second Friday of every month. If you’re generally not a fan of this music you should really give this mix a listen as there are some amazing melodies and vocal performances in this set. This month we have 2 hours of top tunes for your workout, commute to work / school, or just to listen to at home. This episode is especially for dmsgrl who took the time to write an amazing review on Apple Podcasts. Massive thanks for your comments :) You can check out the following link for all episodes in this series: https://soundcloud.com/hothousehours/sets/dave-baker-edm-mixes 1. Own Reasons (Original Mix) - Paket [Empire Of Music Records] 2. Hurts So Good (Original Mix) - Huda Hudia, DJ Mondo, DJ30A [Kaleidoscope Music] 3. Tupolev 95 (Huda Hudia & DJ30A Remix) - The Darrow Chem Syndicate [Nipponeer Records] 4. You're Beautiful (2021 Mix) - Ondamike, DJ Fixx [Ravesta Records] 5. Oh Baby (Original Mix) - Mr. Alexander [Gigabeat Records] 6. Yo Mike! (VIP Mix) - DJ Magic Mike, Ondamike [Ravesta Records] 7. Follow Me (Breaks Mix) - Ondamike, DJ Shaolin [Ravesta Records] 8. Clothes Off (feat. Thayana Valle) (Extended Mix) - Thayana Valle, VINNE [SPINNIN' RECORDS] 9. NRG (Original Mix) - Lockdown [Deathproof Records] 10. Pum Pum (Extended Mix) - Sevenn, Showtek [Skink] 11. Bum Bum (Extended Mix) - Smack [Dharma (WMG)] 12. Dopamine (Extended Mix) - CloudNone [OH2 Records] 13. hiiigh feat. Daisy Guttridge (Extended Mix) - Tommy Trash [hau5trap] 14. Savoir Faire (Extended Mix) - Tony Romera, Damien N-Drix [SPRS] 15. I Want More (Extended Mix) - Marc Benjamin Future House Music] 16. Break Me Down feat. Able Faces (Extended Mix) - Melsen, Able Faces, Lulleaux [HEXAGON] 17. Problems feat. John K (Extended Mix) - Don Diablo, John K, JLV [HEXAGON] 18. I ain't perfect (Original Mix) - ChynaBull [DistroKid] 19. Playing With My Heart (Extended Version) - Karra, Besomorph [Virgin] 20. Hot N Cold (Extended Mix) - Moodygee, Klaas [You Love Dance] 21. Oh La La (feat. Mougleta) (Extended Mix) - Gabry Ponte, MOTi, Mougleta [SPINNIN' RECORDS] 22. Fly Away (Original Mix) - DJ Milentija, DJ Dave Dee, Terry Lex [Push On Music] 23. Decision feat. Mary Jensen (Original Mix) - PALASTIC, Mary Jensen [Selected.] 24. Savage (Extended Mix) - Aaron Pfeiffer, G3MINI (DE) [Virgin] 25. Miles to Go (Extended Mix) - Kaskade, Ella Vos [Monstercat] 26. Don't You Worry (Extended Mix) - Madism [SPINNIN' RECORDS] 27. The Love Songs (Extended Mix) - RØRY, Love Harder [Ultra] 28. Leave A Little Love (Extended Mix) - Alesso, Armin van Buuren [Armada Music] 29. New Love (Shane Codd Remix) - Diplo, Mark Ronson, Ellie Goulding, Silk City [Columbia (Sony)] 30. Addiction (feat. IIVES) (Extended Mix) - Futuristic Polar Bears, Angie Vu Ha, IIVES, Cuebrick [Maxximize] 31. Used To Love (Extended Mix) - Crystal Skies, Ekko [Enhanced Recordings] 32. Mountains (Club Mix) - Morell Brown, MrWhite, Gangi [TurnItUp Muzik] 33. Paralyzed (Extended Mix) - AXMO [Rave Culture] 34. Ninja (Extended Mix) - Justin Prime, Husman [Rave Culture] 35. Rumble Slow (Extended Mix) - Dada Life [Crash & Smile] 36. Classmate (Extended Mix) - Giuseppe Ottaviani [GO MUSIC] 37. In My Eyes (Original Mix) - Paul Skelton [Kinected Recordings]

Dass die Anwendung von Wasserstoff eine Möglichkeit zur Dekarbonisierung des Straßen-, Schienen- und Schiffsverkehrs darstellen kann, hat sich mittlerweile herumgesprochen - aber wie sieht es eigentlich mit dem Flugverkehr aus? Welche Rolle könnte Wasserstoff hier spielen? Und welche technischen Möglichkeiten gibt es überhaupt? Wir versuchen uns an einem Überblick.

El Tupolev SB fue un bombardero ligero bimotor soviético, uno de los aviones más avanzados de su tiempo y el más numeroso en la VVS en los años 30. Participó en la Guerra Civil Española donde se le llamó Katiuska, y también en el conflicto de Khalkhin Gol, la Guerra de Invierno y las primeras fases de la Segunda Guerra Mundial . En este segundo episodio y de la mano de Tofolo y Dani Caran de Casus Belli Podcast, repasaremos su historia operacional, desde la Guerra Civil española, las batallas en Khalkhin Gol, Europa o la Guerra de Invierno, hasta los días más duros de la Operación Barbarroja y los inicios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Más episodios: ivoox.com/podcast-motor-al-aire_sq_f1117313_1.html Contacto: motoryalairepodcast@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/motoryalaire Twitter: @motoryalaire Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Después de contaros la historia del desarrollo del bombardero rápido SB, toca hablar de los conflictos en los que actuó, desde la Guerra Civil Española en las FARE, hasta su ocaso en la 2GM defendiendo la URSS. Te lo cuenta 🛩️Tòfol Jordà y dirige 👨‍🚀Dani CarAn en este crossover con Motor y al Aire. ✈️Aviones-10 es un Spin off de ⭐Casus Belli Podcast ⭐Casus Belli Pódcast pertenece a la 🏭Factoría Casus Belli 👉En Twitter estamos como @casusbellipod @CasusBelliPod 👉En Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast 👉Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/aviones10 ⭐📧Quieres proponernos algo? También puedes escribirnos a 📧casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un 👍like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

El Tupolev SB fue un bombardero ligero bimotor soviético, uno de los aviones más avanzados de su tiempo y el más numeroso en la VVS en los años 30. Participó en la Guerra Civil Española donde se le llamó Katiuska, y también en el conflicto de Khalkhin Gol, la Guerra de Invierno y las primeras fases de la Segunda Guerra Mundial . En este primer episodio y de la mano de Tofolo y Dani Caran de Casus Belli Podcast, repasaremos su evolución, desde las mesas de diseño hasta los cielos en llamas de los años 30. Más episodios: ivoox.com/podcast-motor-al-aire_sq_f1117313_1.html Contacto: motoryalairepodcast@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/motoryalaire Twitter: @motoryalaire Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

El Bombardero Rápido por excelencia de mitad de los 30 fue el Tupolev Skorostnoi Bombardirovschik, un aparato que demostró su valía en la Guerra Civil Española y en la Crisis de Jaljin Gol. Te lo cuenta 🛩️Tòfol Jordà y dirige 👨‍🚀Dani CarAn en este crossover con Motor y al Aire. ✈️Aviones-10 es un Spin off de ⭐Casus Belli Podcast ⭐Casus Belli Pódcast pertenece a la 🏭Factoría Casus Belli 👉En Twitter estamos como @casusbellipod @CasusBelliPod 👉En Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast 👉Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/aviones10 ⭐📧Quieres proponernos algo? También puedes escribirnos a 📧casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un 👍like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Raketa was created in 1961 in honour of the first cosmonaut in the world, Yuri Gagarin. With its moving parts all produced in the Factory, and with a design marked by the DNA of three centuries of Russian history, the Russian brand Raketa has acquired a strong reputation amongst worldwide collectors. The main sources of inspiration for the brand comes from heroic personalities and sensational achievements e.g. the Baikonur model has special features needed for space travel and was designed in collaboration with famous Russian cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev. The Factory has also collaborated with the great Russian aircraft constructors Sukhoi and Tupolev to develop watches for pilots. Some models have achieved iconic status and are prized by collectors around the world, such as the Polar model with a 24-hour movement specially designed in 1969 for Soviet arctic explorers. Raketa is one of the few brands in the world whose mechanical parts are all products within its own factory, including the spring (the beating heart) which is one of the most difficult parts to make. Each watch has no less than 242 separate components and manufacturing of one watch involves the work of 103 specialists, and 8201 separate manual operations. In this episode of the MenswearStyle Podcast we interview Raketa Watch Factory Managing Director David Henderson-Stewart about how he came to be involved within the horology  industry with no prior interest or knowledge of watches. David was attracted to the rich history of the Raketa brand and he had noticed his friend buying Soviet watches. He adopted the brand at a time when nobody was interested in it, describing Raketa as a "diamond sitting on the floor". Our host Peter Brooker and David also chat about the time and resources required to modernise a factory, the difficulty of making mechanical movements, making watches for cosmonauts, having a unique and "unconventional" brand identity, the emotional side of watchmaking, and the Russian tradition of gifting watches. Whilst we have your attention, be sure to sign up to our daily MenswearStyle newsletter here. We promise to only send you the good stuff.

Iniciamos neste episódio uma série sobre os programas espaciais dos Estados Unidos e da União Soviética. Vem com a gente, confira a pressurização do seu ambiente, vê se a Laika tá com o pote cheio porque hoje é dia de União Soviética no CG! Encontre neste episódio: - Pioneiros da aviação - Evolução de armamentos e perspectiva tecnológica - Engenheiros e cosmonautas: Tsiolkovsky, Korolev, Tupolev, Petlyakov, Laika, Titov, Tereshkova, Gagarin, Leonov, Savitskaya - Projetos Sputnik, Luna, Zenit, Venera, Voshkod, Soyuz e Buran Confira ainda: - First Orbit: https://youtu.be/RKs6ikmrLgg - If rockets were transparent: https://youtu.be/su9EVeHqizY - Curious Droid: https://youtu.be/u8CXyexO1IY O Clube dos Generais é Associado Amazon.com.br! Episódio em áudio e vídeo, consuma como preferir! Ainda não assina nosso canal no YouTube? Clique aqui: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWFugIiw6ExIFDIMK0zrx0Q?sub_confirmation=1 Ouça Podcasts - conteúdo interessante onde, como e quando você quiser! Assine o Clube dos Generais pelo seu aplicativo de podcasts favorito. Acompanhe as atividades do Clube dos Generais https://linktr.ee/ClubeDosGenerais #podcast #podcasting #clubedosgenerais #guerra #militar #educação #cavalaria #infantaria #marinha #Tsiolkovsky #Korolev #Tupolev #Petlyakov #Laika #Titov #Tereshkova #Gagarin #Leonov #Savitskaya #Sputnik #Luna #Zenit #Venera #Voshkod #Soyuz #Buran #CCCP #URSS #Putin --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clubedosgenerais/message

With no apparent mechanical or external cause found for the September 14, 2008 crash, investigators focus on the flight crew’s experience. Were they qualified and adequately trained to fly a Boeing... The latest in science, culture, and history from Smithsonian Channel.

We discuss ultra classified and forever classified material from cold war era up to now. In this podcast we discuss how Boeing and Airbus became supremes of Passenger plane manufacturing and conquered the airs. We also discuss commercial and private Space Industries such RosCosmos and SpaceX. This is Commercial War but it has geopolitical angel to it. Antonov and Tupolev demise has been also discussed. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

From Wikipedia On the night of 1 July 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance. All 69 passengers and crew aboard the Tupolev and the two crew members of the Boeing were killed. The official investigation by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (German: Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung, (BFU)) identified as the main cause of the collision a number of shortcomings on the part of the Swiss air traffic control service in charge of the sector involved, and also ambiguities in the procedures regarding the use of TCAS, the on-board aircraft collision avoidance system. A year and a half after the crash, on 24 February 2004, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the collision, was murdered in an apparent act of revenge by Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian citizen who had lost his wife and two children in the accident. Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 was a chartered flight from Moscow, Russia, to Barcelona, Spain, carrying sixty passengers and nine crew. Forty-five of the passengers were Russian schoolchildren from the city of Ufa in Bashkortostan on a school trip organised by the local UNESCO committee to the Costa Dorada area of Spain. Most of the parents of the children were high-ranking officials in Bashkortostan.[12] One of the fathers was the head of the local UNESCO committee. The aircraft, a Tupolev Tu-154M registered as RA-85816, was piloted by an experienced Russian crew: 52-year-old Captain Alexander Mihailovich Gross (Александр Михайлович Гросс) and 40-year-old First Officer Oleg Pavlovich Grigoriev (Олег Павлович Григорьев). The captain had more than 12,000 flight hours to his credit. Grigoriev, the chief pilot of Bashkirian Airlines, had 8,500 hours of flying experience and his task was to evaluate Captain Gross's performance throughout the flight. 41-year-old Murat Ahatovich Itkulov (Мурат Ахатович Иткулов), a seasoned pilot with close to 7,900 flight hours who was normally the first officer, did not officially serve on duty due to this being the captain's assessment flight. 50-year-old Sergei Gennadyevich Kharlov, a flight navigator with approximately 13,000 flight hours, and 37-year-old Flight Engineer Oleg Irikovich Valeev, who had almost 4,200 flight hours, joined the three pilots in the cockpit. DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757-23APF cargo aircraft registered as A9C-DHL, had originated in Bahrain and was being flown by two Bahrain-based pilots, 47-year-old British Captain Paul Phillips and 34-year-old Canadian First Officer Brant Campioni. Both pilots were very experienced — the captain had logged close to 12,000 flight hours and the first officer had accumulated more than 6,600 flight hours. At the time of the accident, the aircraft was en route from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium. The two aircraft were flying at flight level 360 (36,000 feet, 10,973 m) on a collision course. Despite being just inside the German border, the airspace was controlled from Zürich, Switzerland, by the private Swiss airspace control company Skyguide. The only air traffic controller handling the airspace, Peter Nielsen, was working two workstations at the same time. Partly due to the added workload, and partly due to delayed radar data, he did not realize the problem in time and thus failed to keep the aircraft at a safe distance from each other. Less than a minute before the accident he realised the danger and contacted Flight 2937, instructing the pilot to descend by a thousand feet to avoid collision with crossing traffic (Flight 611). Seconds after the Russian crew initiated the descent, their traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) instructed them to climb, while at about the same time the TCAS on Flight 611 instructed the pilots of that aircraft to descend. Had both aircraft followed those automated instructions, the collision would not have occurred. Flight 611's pilots on the Boeing jet followed the TCAS instructions and initiated a descent, but could not immediately inform Nielsen because the controller was dealing with Flight 2937. About eight seconds before the collision, Flight 611's descent rate was about 2,400 feet per minute (12 m/s), not quite as rapid as the 2,500 to 3,000 ft/min (13 to 15 m/s) range advised by that jet's TCAS; as for the Tupolev, the pilot disregarded his jet's TCAS instruction to climb, having already commenced his descent as instructed by the controller. Thus, both planes were now descending. Unaware of the TCAS-issued alerts, Nielsen repeated his instruction to Flight 2937 to descend, giving the Tupolev crew incorrect information as to the position of the DHL plane (telling them that the Boeing was to the right of the Tupolev when it was in fact to the left). The aircraft collided at 23:35:32 local time, at almost a right angle at an altitude of 34,890 feet (10,630 m), with the Boeing's vertical stabilizer slicing completely through Flight 2937's fuselage just ahead of the Tupolev's wings. The Tupolev broke into several pieces, scattering wreckage over a wide area. The nose section of the aircraft fell vertically, while the tail section with the engines continued, stalled, and fell. The crippled Boeing, now with 80% of its vertical stabilizer lost, struggled for a further seven kilomters (four miles) before crashing into a wooded area close to the village of Taisersdorf at a 70-degree downward angle. Each engine ended up several hundred meters away from the main wreckage, and the tail section was torn from the fuselage by trees just before impact. All 69 people on the Tupolev, and the two on board the Boeing, died.

Juan Gomez Ruiz 4 horas · !!! HOY EN NUEVA DIMENSIÓN !!! - INMORTALIDAD EN EGIPTO La antigua cultura egipcia daba una gran importancia al tránsito hacia los que llamaban 'el valle de juncos', o al más allá. ¿Creían realmente que podían ser inmortales? ¿como era ese 'valle de juncos' para los egipcios? ¿Estaban felices ante la muerte? Javi Pinna nos lleva al mundo inmortal del antiguo Egipto -CASO LIVOR El 7 de Mayo de 2018, seis aviones de diferentes compañías reportaron a las autoridades aéreas chilenas que se habían topado con varias luces extrañas en un punto oceánico llamado Livor. sus comunicaciones mientras observaban el fenómeno, quedaron registradas. - AVIONES MALDITOS La maldición del Tupolev 134, la leyenda de los vuelos 191, el fantasma de un avión en Argentina...El miedo a volar, pero también los sucesos extraños, han propiciado el surgimiento de historias y leyendas asociadas a algunos aviones. Os hablaremos de ellos - LOS GIGANTES DE COLORADO José Manuel García Bautista nos invita a viajar al Gran Cañón del Colorado (EE.UU) en busca de los extraños seres que aparecen en algunas antiguas pinturas. Según los relatos de los nativos. Unos gigantes blancos llegaron a ese lugar y se enfrentaron a ellos.

Juan Gomez Ruiz 4 horas · !!! HOY EN NUEVA DIMENSIÓN !!! - INMORTALIDAD EN EGIPTO La antigua cultura egipcia daba una gran importancia al tránsito hacia los que llamaban 'el valle de juncos', o al más allá. ¿Creían realmente que podían ser inmortales? ¿como era ese 'valle de juncos' para los egipcios? ¿Estaban felices ante la muerte? Javi Pinna nos lleva al mundo inmortal del antiguo Egipto -CASO LIVOR El 7 de Mayo de 2018, seis aviones de diferentes compañías reportaron a las autoridades aéreas chilenas que se habían topado con varias luces extrañas en un punto oceánico llamado Livor. sus comunicaciones mientras observaban el fenómeno, quedaron registradas. - AVIONES MALDITOS La maldición del Tupolev 134, la leyenda de los vuelos 191, el fantasma de un avión en Argentina...El miedo a volar, pero también los sucesos extraños, han propiciado el surgimiento de historias y leyendas asociadas a algunos aviones. Os hablaremos de ellos - LOS GIGANTES DE COLORADO José Manuel García Bautista nos invita a viajar al Gran Cañón del Colorado (EE.UU) en busca de los extraños seres que aparecen en algunas antiguas pinturas. Según los relatos de los nativos. Unos gigantes blancos llegaron a ese lugar y se enfrentaron a ellos.

Michael, Rob and Peter are happily reunited just in time to talk about 3D printers, Advent calendars, Russian aerospace company Tupolev and anything else that isn't the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Stasera saranno ospiti di Karmadillo Il Conte (nome d'arte di Manuele Crimi) e il suo collega Vito Bulla (in arte Tupolev o V. Spooner), per una puntata tutta musicale in occasione dell'uscita del loro primo disco.- Conte https://open.spotify.com/artist/2k99MEfn6581vvMdoDxax6?si=5vzn1jFcTVOqAKSdpSchHg- V. Spooner https://open.spotify.com/artist/4qkmtOIEuKVhfY3jJhGmNn?si=4KIKaHhZSp-TmW29Kw70vQ

Tupolev Post World War II Airliner Projects by AeroSociety Podcast

Tupolev honey!...that's all i got

Et si c’était dans ce cube de béton au bord de la mer Noire qu’était véritablement née la House… Gina X, Dixie Yure, St Michel, Exploded view et tous ceux qui ont fait vibrer le dancing mythique de Tchenomoretz…

On February 26th, WIRED's security reporter Andy Greenberg received an email from Sophia Tupolev, the head of communications at the security firm Beame.io, saying she'd found a security issue on WIRED.com. Tupolev's company had discovered sensitive data in the source code on many pages on our site, including obfuscated, "hashed" passwords and email addresses for current and former WIRED writers. We corrected the problem right away.

Russia's actions in the Crimea and Ukraine, and the modernising of its armed forces at home, are causing anxiety in the High North. Current tensions in East-West relations threaten to jeopardise the fragile stability of the region. In Oslo, defence has been high on the government's agenda with increased spending on the Norwegian Armed Forces proposed for 2017-2020. Are we entering a new Cold War? It is a vexed question, as defence expert Mats Berdal discovers when he canvasses opinions in Oslo, Moscow, Brussels, London and US. (Photo: President Vladimir Putin holds a replica Tupolev-160 strategic bomber jet at the at the Olenogorsk military airport, near Murmansk, 2005. Credit: Vladimir Rodionov/AFP/Getty Images)

Wondering why your favorite trail is locked up now?  Can't figure out why the off-roading that Americans have always done is suddenly verboten and frowned upon?  Can't stand the tree-hugging watermelon environmentalist elitists who seem to keep taking away the freedoms you hold dear?  Well, have we got a show for you - a bit of a glimpse into the behavior (and the names) of people and companies that are standing athwart history in an frighteningly expansive effort to use greenthink and green excuses and green behavior to undermine your red, white and blue. From Sally Jewell, creepy statist CEO of REI who's now the head of the US Interior Department (and who's never met a road she didn't want to block) to companies like Sierra Nevada and Anheiser Busch, the Garage Hour goons go through why these footpath zealot regressed-Earth elitists believe taking away your trail access is good (often because it's bad), and a little bit about the logic they piss on while digging your rights' grave.  Hmmmm, these flat-foreheaded freaks in the federal government sure seem to waste a lot of resources while taking away yours... Don't worry - it's still a Garage Hour.  There's shotguns and trench guns, .45 Phil calling out Skull & Bones and calling President Selfie Stick a wussie, there's fighter jets and Russian bombers, tanks and the Homer Tax, rock and roll, Crag Maxwell attempts to strangle a wind turbine, Dirty Dave calls out every Marine he can find, and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort realizes that he still has Ministry's Psalm 69 on cassette. If you're prefer the high-res M4A version of this episode, just dig up the same date without the "MP3" tag in the title.

Wondering why your favorite trail is locked up now?  Can't figure out why the off-roading that Americans have always done is suddenly verboten and frowned upon?  Can't stand the tree-hugging watermelon environmentalist elitists who seem to keep taking away the freedoms you hold dear?  Well, have we got a show for you - a bit of a glimpse into the behavior (and the names) of people and companies that are standing athwart history in an frighteningly expansive effort to use greenthink and green excuses and green behavior to undermine your red, white and blue. From Sally Jewell, creepy statist CEO of REI who's now the head of the US Interior Department (and who's never met a road she didn't want to block) to companies like Sierra Nevada and Anheiser Busch, the Garage Hour goons go through why these footpath zealot regressed-Earth elitists believe taking away your trail access is good (often because it's bad), and a little bit about the logic they piss on while digging your rights' grave.  Hmmmm, these flat-foreheaded freaks in the federal government sure seem to waste a lot of resources while taking away yours... Don't worry - it's still a Garage Hour.  There's shotguns and trench guns, .45 Phil calling out Skull & Bones and calling President Selfie Stick a wussie, there's fighter jets and Russian bombers, tanks and the Homer Tax, rock and roll, Crag Maxwell attempts to strangle a wind turbine, Dirty Dave calls out every Marine he can find, and Hostus Maximus Justin Fort realizes that he still has Ministry's Psalm 69 on cassette. If you're prefer the low-fi MP3 version of this episode, just dig up the same date with the "MP3" tag in the title.

Mike Spencer Bown - 193 countries Mike is a true traveler and explorer, who over a twenty plus year time period has traveled to every country in the world. Mike shared with me some incredible travel tales, including a road trip with a nun in a war-torn, African country.   Mike has been on the road for over twenty years, exploring and discovering the remote corners of our planet.  He travels slow and espouses a simpler lifestyle with all of his belongings in one bag.     More about Mike Spencer Bown:   Born in: Canada Passports from: Canada Favorite travel book:  I like old Jack Vance fantasy travel books such as The Dying Earth and Cugel’s Saga.  Also, early travel accounts such as the First Footsteps in East Africa.   Favorite travel site:   I’m kinda old school, not a big user of the internet. I don’t travel with electronics, not even a phone or camera. Must carry: Mosquito net, a Swiss Army knife, Flagyl (for Giardia) and Coartem ( for Malaria).  I bring a collared shirt for embassy visits.  I also bring an outfit similar to what an NGO or U.N. inspector would wear, including clipboard for impersonating officials to get past roadblocks. And finally a journals for writing in. Favorite food: Any kind of exotic fruit or fish. Favorite drink:  Soursop juice.  Chinese whisky with ‘special’ herbs. Favorite Airline:  The cheaper the better. For example, I liked those old Tupolev flying in Iran. Favorite Hotel:  I like to find one that used to be the best hotel in the city, but say, in the 1920s, and nothing has been done to upgrade or refurbish it, so it's a charming semi-ruin, in the $5 to $10 a night range. Facebook   mike.s.bown       About Counting Countries Counting Countries is the only podcast to bring you the stories from the dedicated few who’ve spent their lives on the singular quest of traveling to every country in the world. Less people have traveled to every country in the world than have been to outer space. Theme music for this podcast is Demeter’s Dance, written, performed, and provided by Mundi. About GlobalGaz Ric Gazarian is the host of Counting Countries. He is the author of three books: Hit The Road: India, 7000 KM To Go, and Photos From Chernobyl.  He is the producer of two travel documentaries: Hit The Road: India and Hit The Road: Cambodia.   Ric is also on his own quest to visit every country in the world. You can see where he has traveled so far and keep up with his journey at GlobalGaz.com How Many Countries Are There? Well… that depends on who you ask! The United Nations states that there are 193 member states. The British Foreign and Commonwealth office states that there are 225 countries and territories. The Century Club states that there are 324 sovereign nations, territories, enclaves, and islands. The Most Traveled Person states that there are 875 unique parts of the world. The Best Traveled states that there are 1281 unique places in the world. Me? My goal is the 193 countries that are recognized by the UN, but I am sure I will visit some other places along the way. Disclaimer: I will earn a fee if you order from Amazon/Agoda.

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