Photo collage of EC-2 conducting its first flight today. Posted by @CaptainSebastian on Weibo.
broadsword
Brigadier
Picture From Weibo @能量机动工作室
Honestly it's really...ugly I have to say
I really don't hope such thing exists!
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
It's so ugly you get double points towards your Ace status if you down one LOLPicture From Weibo @能量机动工作室
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Honestly it's really...ugly I have to say
I really don't hope such thing exists!
Yep, that is a butt ugly design for an airplane.
Destroyer "Choukai" Acquires Tomahawk Launch Capability
DDG-176 Choukai, currently dispatched to the United States, has successfully completed the necessary ship modifications and crew training, acquiring Tomahawk launch capability In the future, by around this summer, through live-fire tests and other means, it is planned to confirm the crew's proficiency and their ability to engage in actual missions. Additionally, deliveries of Tomahawk missiles have begun. The Ministry of Defense will continue to work toward the early establishment of stand-off defense capabilities.
The Ministry of Defense plans to procure up to 400 Tomahawks by the end of fiscal year 2027 and is proceeding with modifications so that other Aegis destroyers besides the Choukai can also be equipped with them.
DDG-176 Choukai, currently dispatched to the United States, has successfully completed the necessary ship modifications and crew training, acquiring Tomahawk launch capability In the future, by around this summer, through live-fire tests and other means, it is planned to confirm the crew's proficiency and their ability to engage in actual missions. Additionally, deliveries of Tomahawk missiles have begun. The Ministry of Defense will continue to work toward the early establishment of stand-off defense capabilities.
The Ministry of Defense plans to procure up to 400 Tomahawks by the end of fiscal year 2027 and is proceeding with modifications so that other Aegis destroyers besides the Choukai can also be equipped with them.
As a side note, Miyazaki's father ran a factory making glass canopies for Nakajimas and Mitsubishis.
Lethe
Captain
Miyazaki's fascination with aviation has certainly been a consistent theme in his work. The Wind Rises and Porco Rosso are the most direct in this regard, but it shows up more parenthetically in many of his other works too, as with Tombo's flying machine in Kiki's Delivery Service. The unfortunate truth, of course, is that Miyazaki's Caproni character is obviously incorrect: airplanes are tools for war (and for making money). How does one reconcile an appreciation for the romantic aspects of aviation, the aesthetics, ingenuity, organised accomplishment, and freedom from worldly constraints that they represent, with the reality of the basic horror of their enterprise when employed as intended, most starkly in the carnage of strategic bombing? I suspect this tension and dissonance is something that many enthusiasts in places such as this are familiar with. I know I am.