George V.

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"In late March 1945, King George V and Howe [battleships] were sent to the Pacific with other Royal Navy vessels as a separate group to function with the U.S. Navy's Task Force 57. On 4 May 1945, King George V and Howe led a forty-five-minute bombardment of Japanese air facilities in the Ryukyu Islands. King George V fired her guns in anger for the last time in a night bombardment of Hamamatsu on 29 July and 30 July 1945. Duke of York and Anson were also dispatched to the Pacific, but arrived too late to participate in hostilities."

Thanks here to the outstanding Internet web site isegoria.net for the idea.

Yet one more instance of British contribution to the war in the Pacific during the Second World War.

Naval gunfire, Japanese targets ashore.Think British contribution as outside of Malaya and the China-Burma-India [CBI] area of operations. DIRECT STRIKE AGAINST THE JAPANESE HOME ISLANDS!

See the wiki entry, the naval gunfire shore bombardment of the Japanese home islands at the most latter stages of World War Two.

"During the last weeks of World War II, warships of the United States Navy, the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy bombarded industrial and military facilities in Japan."

95 % of all military worthy targets in Japan within naval gunfire range of battleships cruising close to shore.

See prior blog entry the topic British involvement in the Pacific theater, the Japanese home islands the target:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/07/cc-i.html

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Toxics.

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"The workers I represented were suffering from serious illnesses they believed were caused by repeated exposure to the burning of highly toxic materials at Area 51, and the government certainly didn’t want questions asked about that. Two of the workers — Robert Frost and Wally Kasza — have since died. The likely cause of their deaths was as outrageous as it was unnecessary." - - J. Turley.

The op-ed from the LA Times courtesy the esteemed law professor and attorney Jonathon Turley commenting on Area 51.

"Op-Ed: Area 51 holds secrets, all right, but they don’t involve UFOs and aliens"

More Area 51 stuff! 

"Testing of the tissues from workers showed chemicals that were unknown to doctors."

Read the entire article. The group contemplating the "storming" of Area 51 in search of space aliens [and finding none] the danger not only from plutonium poisoning but also from toxic substances the nature of which UNKNOWN to the medical profession.

See previous blog entries as relevant to Area 51:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/08/storm.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/07/project-57.html

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CCM Mk1.

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Listen up US Navy and ship spotters! The future is now and the future is itty-bitty. Smurfs!

"itty-bitty - - adjective Informal: very small; tiny."

From the Internet web site Zero Hedge and the article by Tyler Durden

"Ship Observer Photographs Navy's New Stealth Boat"

"Two US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) stealth boats were spotted by a ship observer at a Japanese port last week who posted the images onto social media, reported Defense Blog."

Stealth vessels to be used primarily by [naval commando type units?] and indeed like a PT boat of yore.

"CCM Mk1 is the newest stealth boat to enter USSOCOM's fleet. The vessel's primary mission will be 'to provide small-caliber gunfire support, infiltrate and exfiltrate Special Operation Forces, conduct VBSS (visit, board, search, and seizure), special reconnaissance, coastal patrol and interdiction, counter-terrorism operations, and FID (Foreign Internal Defense)'"

Further: "The vessel measures 60-feet [20 meters] and features a bullet-resistant hull. It's powered two turbocharged diesel engines that can propel the boat up to 40 mph [sixty-four kilometers per hour]".

Those BIG BUCK [$$] warships you can build only a few of them now as budget constraints are so great. So go with little. Swarm tactics and all that. Think from a long time ago the French naval concept of Jeune Ecole?

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Tory.

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See the wiki entry for Project Pluto. American atomic powered cruise missile circa 1960's. Project never got off the ground literally so. The Tory American reactor however tested albeit in a very limited way.

Consider Pluto within context of the most recent Russian missile failure and the apparent release of radioactivity.

Radioactive releases previously detected on repeated occasions not from the Mayak atomic processing plant but from the Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile?

IT CAN REASONABLY BE INFERRED THAT THE RUSSIAN MISSILE AS EXPLODED WAS THE ANALOG OF THE AMERICAN PLUTO?

As extracted from that wiki entry:

"The principle behind the nuclear ramjet was [is] relatively simple: motion of the vehicle pushed air in through the front of the vehicle (ram effect), a nuclear reactor heated the air, and then the hot air expanded at high speed out through a nozzle at the back, providing thrust."

"The proposed use for nuclear-powered ramjets would be to power a cruise missile . . . In order to reach ramjet speed, it would be launched from the ground by a cluster of conventional rocket boosters. Once it reached cruising altitude and was far away from populated areas, the nuclear reactor would be made critical . . . After delivering all its warheads, the missile could then spend weeks flying over populated areas at low altitudes, causing tremendous ground damage with its shock wave and fallout. When it finally lost enough power to fly, and crash-landed, the engine would have a good chance of spewing deadly radiation for months to come."

CONVENTIONAL ROCKET BOOSTERS TO GET THE MISSILE UP-TO-SPEED FOR THE "RAM EFFECT" TO OCCUR AND BEFORE THE REACTOR TURNS ON. LIQUID-FUELED BOOSTERS PRESUMABLY.

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Holy Cross.

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From the Sheldon Adelson Internet web site Israel Hayom this article the content of which is frankly a surprise to me.

Poles collaborating with the German, WW2?

Generally it is conceded that Poland was THE ONLY Nazi occupied nation during WW2 that did not have a collaborationist government.

"Poland honors underground group that collaborated with Nazis"

"Children of resistance members respond to honor for Holy Cross Mountains Brigade, which fought both Germans and Soviets"

Holy Cross Mountains Brigade accused of collaboration with the German? 

"The Holy Cross Mountains Brigade . . . was a tactical unit of the National Armed Forces . . . one of the Polish underground military organizations during World War II. It did not obey orders to merge with the Home Army in 1944 and was a part of the Military Organization Lizard Union faction"

COLLABORATIONIST'S BUT NOT IN THE ORDINARY SENSE OF THE WORD. FOUGHT POLISH COMMUNISTS AND RED PARTISANS OF WHATEVER NATIONALITY. DENYING THE AUTHORITY OF THE POLISH GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE.

HOLY CROSS MORE ANTI-COMMUNIST THAN PRO-NAZI!

Read from the wiki accusations of collaboration.

I guess the devoted reader to the blog will have decide this one for themselves.

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Lost.

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Considering that the Space Race of the 1960's was inextricably linked to military missile technology and that astronauts/cosmonauts were military personnel consider this blog entry to be more than borderline germane.

Also consider within context of the most recent Russian military missile failure accompanied by a spew of nuclear radiation.

The "Lost Cosmonaut" as is deemed. Soviet female cosmonaut lost during re-entry? Burned to a crisp evidently. And all concealed from the world. And as is reputed only one a number of Soviet manned space failures.

Back in the days of the old Soviet Union automobiles did not collide, aircraft did not fall out of the sky, ships did not sink, trains did not run off the track. And surely manned space missions did not fail!

AND IF DISASTER OCCURRED HIDDEN FROM THE WHOLE WORLD AND LABELED TOP SECRET!

Here is what is believed to be the actual recording of a Soviet woman cosmonaut perishing during re-entry.

Tapes of Soviet cosmonauts courtesy the Italian Judica-Cordiglia brothers. Operating an amateur radio listening station, monitoring frequencies as used by the Soviet space program.

AUTHENTICITY OF THESE RECORDINGS QUESTIONED.

Given the fact the Soviets only announced a successful launch and recovery of a mission into outer space only after might reasonably allow a person to infer there were failures and deaths of cosmonauts. Truth probably concealed and always will be. I am sure someone knows the truth but they are not saying and never will.

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Tight-Lipped.

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“'As a result of the accident at the military firing range in Arkhangelsk region during liquid reactive propulsion system tests, five employees of the state corporation Rosatom were killed,' the company said. Three military and civilian specialists remain in serious condition, but their injuries are 'not life-threatening.'”

From the Russian Internet outlet RT [Russian Times] we have a more definitive and accurate account of the missile disaster with apparent release of atomic radiation worrisome.

Rosatom again! 

"Experimental ‘isotope & liquid-propellant’ engine blast kills 5 Russian nuclear experts – Rosatom"

"Five staff of Russia’s nuclear corporation Rosatom were killed and three suffered serious burns in the blast during a test of a liquid-propellant engine that resulted in a brief spike of radiation around the military testing site."

"The Rosatom engineering and technical team was working on the 'isotope power source' for a propulsion system on Thursday, when the accident happened. The blast caused a background radiation spike, which quickly returned back to normal."

A liquid-fueled missile with some sort of  atomic "boost"? Never heard of such a thing.

See previous related blog entries:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/08/lockdown.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/08/panic.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/08/low-yield.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/08/mayak.html

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