Atlas to Unimog.
The means to have any type of vehicle, wither it be a boat, aircraft, truck or other to have a double capability role is ever great advantage. Land and water ability, cuts out the need to depend on bridges, while aircraft do not need an airport or land, but can land and take off from water.
The next advantage is to have a truck capable of using the railway network to cross a country at speed and safer from hurting people or damaging the surface. I must admit that I have a limited knowledge to these types of vehicles, only knowing about the Atlas and the Unimog.
There are many more other Russian, American, Australian and Chinese types out there. Many vehicles (MAC, Ural, MAN) have as powerful an engines as a Locomotive, but these come to their own, when railway infustructure may not be available or defunct.
It is not just the movement of tanks and armour, artillery that the military use such vehicles.The need to move ICBM's and other missiles can be done quickly and smoothly. Civil uses,can be large cranes and buildings.
Showing posts with label Man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Man. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Thursday, 22 August 2013
The Sci-Fi, Reality. Part-One.
How much?
Humanity has progressed at a very fast pace in the last 150 years, what was written as pulp fiction eighty years ago has now become a reality. Man has gone into space, to the Moon, has built a Space station and is sending robotic probes to more than just the planets in our solar system.
We have massive ships and fast trains, Levitation railways, and automobiles that are both fast and comfortable. The Cell or Mobile phone now dominates our lives, we cannot live without them. Microwave cooking, Solar panels, computers, inter-active TV.
What we have developed now is amazing, but what will we have achieved in the next 150 years?
Humanity has progressed at a very fast pace in the last 150 years, what was written as pulp fiction eighty years ago has now become a reality. Man has gone into space, to the Moon, has built a Space station and is sending robotic probes to more than just the planets in our solar system.
We have massive ships and fast trains, Levitation railways, and automobiles that are both fast and comfortable. The Cell or Mobile phone now dominates our lives, we cannot live without them. Microwave cooking, Solar panels, computers, inter-active TV.
What we have developed now is amazing, but what will we have achieved in the next 150 years?
Thursday, 4 April 2013
China and N-Korea.
The Long March.
I did not plan for this to coincide with current events? My list was written last year and next years was composed in January this year.
We may today be on the verge of a nuclear war, it will be the first time since 1945 that a nuclear weapon has been deployed in a hostile action and millions of people are going to die because of it.
Both China and N-Korea have developed a series of ICMB (Inter-continental ballistic missiles) from former Soviet types, these rockets are the only ones that can catapult into space.
We do not really know what N-Korea has developed or improved on, but it is estimated that their ICBM's can reach to the Caspian Sea. So you can then work the rest out for yourself.
China has joined the space race by getting a man into orbit, while N-Korea has sent up a satellite which is kind of advanced for a backward nation? What is the next target, is it in space or is it in hitting the U.S.A over the north pole with a nuke?
Technology moves on and many nations are and will develop their own deterrents ans space programme's for good and bad. The U.S./Russian club is now coming to an end one way or the other, that the way it is with every machine ever invented and so it goes on.
I did not plan for this to coincide with current events? My list was written last year and next years was composed in January this year.
We may today be on the verge of a nuclear war, it will be the first time since 1945 that a nuclear weapon has been deployed in a hostile action and millions of people are going to die because of it.
Both China and N-Korea have developed a series of ICMB (Inter-continental ballistic missiles) from former Soviet types, these rockets are the only ones that can catapult into space.
We do not really know what N-Korea has developed or improved on, but it is estimated that their ICBM's can reach to the Caspian Sea. So you can then work the rest out for yourself.
China has joined the space race by getting a man into orbit, while N-Korea has sent up a satellite which is kind of advanced for a backward nation? What is the next target, is it in space or is it in hitting the U.S.A over the north pole with a nuke?
Technology moves on and many nations are and will develop their own deterrents ans space programme's for good and bad. The U.S./Russian club is now coming to an end one way or the other, that the way it is with every machine ever invented and so it goes on.
Friday, 3 February 2012
IOW Railways.
Isle of wight railways.
Over the years the Isle of Wight has become the retirement home for London Underground (LUL) ex-tube cars, as they are re-classified.
Currently they have had a repaint job to fit the Jurassic Park theme, but are they really pulling in the tourist crowds?
Many people believe that perhaps the re-introduction of steam trains would be a big money spinner, as they are on the Isle of Man, Welsh Mountain's and many other places across the UK.
Or is it a fitting re-use for these underground cars to be kept going here as they are?
Over the years the Isle of Wight has become the retirement home for London Underground (LUL) ex-tube cars, as they are re-classified.
Currently they have had a repaint job to fit the Jurassic Park theme, but are they really pulling in the tourist crowds?
Many people believe that perhaps the re-introduction of steam trains would be a big money spinner, as they are on the Isle of Man, Welsh Mountain's and many other places across the UK.
Or is it a fitting re-use for these underground cars to be kept going here as they are?
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